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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

turn you need not tye me at all I shall not stir from you for I thank God I am not afraid to die As he was going out he said Farewel Newgate Farewel all my Fellow-Prisoners here the Lord comfort you the Lord be with you all The Substance of Alderman Cornish's Speech at the Place of Execution Octob. 23. 1685. taken by one of his Servants I Am come here this day Condemned to die but God is my Witness the Crimes laid to my Charge were falsely and maliciously sworn against me by the Witnesses for I never was at any Consult nor any Meeting where Matters against the Government were discours'd of I never heard nor read any Declaration nor ever acted wilfully any thing against the Government I confess through the Justice of God my private Sins have brought me to this Infamous End yea it were just with God not only to deprive me eternally of his Presence but to condemn me to Eternal Torments but through Christ I hope to be eternally Blessed Yet as to the Crimes for which I suffer on the Words of a dying Man I am altogether Innocent I bless God I was from my younger Years brought up in and have for some Years continued a Protestant in the Communion of the Church of England in which Communion I now die I have often partaken in the Ordinances the blessed Effects and Comfort thereof I now feel in this my Agony I bless God I was born under a Government in the Constitution of which I did ever acquiesce and in which I was once a Member at which time I did according to the best of my Understanding Here be was interrupted by the Sheriff I bless God I was born in a Land of Light where the Gospel hath been Preach'd in Power and Purity He might have brought me forth in a Land of Darkness and Ignorance but blessed be God for Jesus Christ. Then he intreated the Sheriff to Intercede with his Majesty to be kind to his poor Wife and Children The Sheriff promised him to wait on his Majesty the next day about it He replied Mr. Sheriff I thank you the Lord reward you a thousand-fold the Lord put it into the Hearts of you to be kind to the Widdows and Fatherless it is your Duty The Lord put it into the Hearts of all good People to Pray for me More could not be taken by reason of the Noise of the People and Interruption of one of the Sheriffs The SPEECH of Captain WALCOT on Friday the 20th of July 1683. THIS great Concourse of People do not only come here to see me Die but also to hear what I shall say and because I would not be Reproached and thought to be an Atheist when I am gone I have two or three words to speak for my Religion I do believe in Three Persons and one God and I expect and hope to be Saved by the Merits and Righteousness of his Son Christ Jesus without the hope of an advantage by any Merits or Righteousness of my own And I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God that They were not written according to the will of Man but holy Men of God writ them as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost I believe that these Scriptures ought to be the Rule of our Faith and the method of our Worshipping of God I believe that as Christ is the Head of his Church so he is their Law-giver That it is not in the power of any Council or Conclave of Cardinals or any Power upon Earth whatsoever to set up the Precepts and Traditions of Men and to make them of equal validity with the Word of God. I believe it was not because the Jews rejected and Crucified Christ that he rejected them but because they rejected his Word which appears by the Three thousand that God by one Sermon of Peter's converted they being prickt in their hearts and touched in their Consciences cried out Men and Brethren what shall we do And they were that day added to the Church It was certainly because the Jews rejected the Word and Gospel of Christ that the things were hid from their Eyes which belonged to their peace It is a dreadful thing to reject the Word of God and it is a dreadful thing to live in a sinful course of Life till God withdraws his Spirit from us For it is said It shall not always strive with Man. Death is the wages of Sin. I believe had not Adam sinned he and we his Posterity had not died Death is said to be the King of Terrours but it is only so to those that are terrified with a Terrifying Conscience that have the Arrows of the Almighty sticking in them from convictions of great Guilt and see no hopes of Mercy have no assurance of Pardon but those that are Christ's he takes away the Terrour and Horrour and Sting of Death he enables them to say with Paul To me to live is Christ and to die is Gain He enables not only to get unto Christ but into Christ and so they have Communion and Fellowship with the Father and the Son. It is no hard matter to get the Notions of the Promises of the Gospel into our Heads but unless the Lord is pleased to apply them to our Hearts we cannot believe Except we be in Christ as branches in the Vine we are not Christians indeed It was the Case of poor Francis Spira he was certainly a knowing Man but notwithstanding he had not Faith to apply the Promises Christ hath said that he that believes in him though he were dead yet shall he live and he that lives and believes in him shall never die So if we be able to apply the Promises by the Spirit of God we may have comfort through Faith But then Faith is the gift of God and Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and receiving it in the love of God. I shall not be tedious Mr. Sheriff I shall be very short Mr. Sheriff Take your own time Walcot As to the present occasion of my Death I do neither blame the Judges nor the Jury nor the King's Counsel I only blame some Men that in reality and in truth were deeper concerned and more engaged than I that came in as Witnesses against me who Swore me out of my Life to save their own and who for fear they should not do it effectually contrived that That I will appeal to you all whether there be a probability in it or not For they said I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to imbrue my hands in his Blood but was so generous as to undertake the Charging his Guards whilst others did it and to the end another might do it Truly I will appeal to all that know me whether they believe me so much an Ideot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the King's Guards whilst another Killed

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 at Edinburgh June 26. 1685. V. The Lady Lisle at Winchester in September 1685. VI. Alderman Cornish in Cheapside Octob. 23. 1685. VII Capt. Walcot at Tyburn in July 20. 1683. LONDON Printed in the Year 1689. TO THE READER THO some of these Speeches were Printed some Years since and generally received by all sorts of People with great Concern but being in loose Sheets they are not so well preserved therefore I have thought fit to Collect them together that so they may be often Reviewed and that the Present and Future may with Abhorrency behold the Iniquity of the late Violent Times when so many Excellent Persons were destroyed by Forms and Subtilties of Law and Scribere est agere was brought in for an Evidence as in the Case of Col. Sydney when no other could be found And whereas the Business of the Ry-House Plot has been received by some as an Article of Faith and a smooth History of it has been imposed on the Nation therefore I thought good to add Colonel Rumbald's Speech to undeceive the World by which it is evident if we may believe the Dying words of a good Man that was a meer Sham-Contrivance to bring an Odium on Protestants It has been always the Practice of the Papists to make Sham-Plots to render Protestants odious and to hide the foulness of their own Real Plots of which this Nation has had sufficient Experience especially in their late Damnable Plot. For when it was clearly proved on them that they Conspired against the Life of the late King and our Government they presently Contrived to cast that Wickedness on Protestants and too many of our easie Church-men were impos'd on to believeit But through the Goodness of God and the Auspicious Arrival of the Prince of Orange the Eyes of the Nation are opened and now we hope we have an Opportunity to be Delivered if our Sins prevent not from the Plots and Tyranny of the Church of Rome Which God in his Infinite Mercy grant Amen The Speech and Carriage of STEPHEN COLLEDGE at Oxford before the the Castle on Wednesday August 31 1681. Taken exactly from his own Mouth at the place of Execution Mr. High-Sheriff MR. Colledge it is desired for the Satisfaction of the World because you have profest your self a Protestant that you would tell what Judgment you are of Colledge Dear People dear Protestants and dear Country-men I have been accused and convicted for Treason the Laws adjudg me to this Death and I come hither willingly to submit to it I pray God forgive all those Persons that had any hand in it I do declare to you whatever hath been said of me I was never a Papist or ever that way inclinꝰd they have done me wrong I was ever a Protestant I was born a Protestant I have lived so and so by the Grace of God I will die of the Church of England according to the best Reformation of the Church from all Idolatry from all Superstition or any thing that is contrary to the Gospel of our Blessed Lord and Saviour I do declare I was never in any Popish Service Prayers or Devotions in my Life save one time about some 17 or 18 Years ago as near as I remember I was out of a Curiosity one Afternoon at St. James's Chappel the Queen's Chappel at St. James's except that one time I never did hear any Popish Service any thing of the Church of Rome Mass or Prayers or any thing else private or publick I know you expect that I should say something as to what I die for It hath been charged upon me when I was apprehended brought before the Council some of the Council the Secretary and my Lord Killingworth and Mr. Seymour they told me there was Treason sworn against me truly they surprized me when they said so For of all things in the World I thought my self as free from that as any Man. I asked them if any Man living had the confidence to swear Treason against me They said several three or four as I remember Then they told me It was sworn against me That I had a Design to pull the King out of White-hall and to serve him as his Father was served or to that purpose the Logger-head his Father or that kind of Language I did deny it then and do now deny it upon my Death I never was in any manner of Plot in my days neither one way nor another never knew any such Persons nor ever had such Communication with any Man hitherto I know of no Plot in the World but the Popish Plot and that every Man may know as much as I if I had had such a Design as these Men have sworn against me to have seized his Majesty either at London or this place at Oxford I take God to Witness as I am a dying Man and upon the Terms of my Salvation I know not any one Man upon the Face of the Earth that would have stood by me and how likely it was that I should do such a thing my self let the whole World judg Dugdale swears That I spoke Treason to him Treasonable words in the Coffee-house and in the Barbers-shop by the Angel He could not pretend to see me any where else but it is false and a very unlikely thing that I should speak Treason to him I must confess I was in his company at the Coffee-house and that Barbers-shop before I went out of Town but there could be no communication between us for he was writing at one end of the Room and eating a piece of Bread and I lighted a Pipe of Tobacco at the other end and took it till Sir Tho. Player and Sir Rob. Clayton came to me and we went to my Lord Lovelace's out of Town that night So when they came we took Horse and went out of Town with the rest For my part I can't sum up my Witnesses I was under most strange Circumstances as ever any Man was I was kept Prisoner so close in the Tower that I could have no conversation with any though I was certain the Popish Lords had it every day there but I could have none I could not tell the Witnesses that were to swear against me I could not tell what it was they swore against me for I could have no Copy of the Indictment nor no way possible to make any preparation to make my defence as I ought to have done and might have done by Law. I had no liberty to do any thing as I am as dying Man. And as to what Dugdale Smith Turbervill and Heins swore against me they did swear such Treason that nothing but a mad Man would ever have trusted any Body with

his Judgments or Mercies reclaim them that they shed no more innocent Blood There is not a Man of them that I know of that ever heard me say or do any bit of Treason in my Life This is the first I may not say it is but almost the Twentieth Sham-Plot that they have endeavoured to put upon the Nation to delude the People and put off their own Damnable Plot. This is not the first but I think the sixteenth or seventeenth I pray God that my Blood may be the last I pray God defend every Man's Blood and all Protestants in England from the Hands of these bloody Papists by whose means I die this Death And if they shall go on in this Nature I hope the Good God will open every Man's Eyes to see it before he feels it And I beseech you if you have any love for your King your Country and the Protestants unite together if you are Protestants I pray God those that deserve the Name let them be called how they will either Dissenters or Church of England Men that they may unite together like Men like Christians against the Common Foe who will spare neither the one side nor the other but beat you one against another like two Pitchers the last that stands they will certainly destroy if they can This is my Sense and God is my Witness I speak my Conscience I do not know Mr. Sheriff whether there be any thing else I have to say or no we have a good God and I beseech every Man that hears me this day for we live in a sinful Age good People and it behoves every one of you it cannot be long before all that look upon me in this Condition must lie down in the Dust and God knows must come into an Eternal State either for Mercy or for Judgment I beseech you in the Name of God he is a God of Mercy and a God of Patience and Long-suffering that you would break off your Sins by Repentance and serve a good God who must be your Friend at last or else you are lost to Eternity O Lord how ungrateful Wretches are we that have a God of such infinite Mercy and Goodness that affords us our Life our Health and a thousand Mercies every day and we like ungrateful People not deserving the Name of Men or Christians live riotous Lives in Debauchery and Swearing in Malice and the Lord knows how many Evils I beseech God that I may be this day a Means in the Hand of God to bring some of their Souls over to him I beseech you remember what I say indeed I do not know I have been so strangely used since I have been a Prisoner what to say being brought from one Affliction to another that my Body is worn out and my Memory and Intellects have failed me much to what they were I cannot remember what I have to say more but that the Lord Jesus Christ would bless my Country and preserve it from Popery and in mercy bless his Majesty Good God be merciful to him make him an Instrument in thy Hand to defend his Protestant Subjects Lord in mercy defend him from his Enemies Good God bless this People good Lord continue the Gospel of Jesus Christ thy Gospel in its purity to us and our Posterity as long as the Sun and Moon endure O Lord save all that call upon thee be merciful to all thy Servants all thy People that put their trust in thee good Lord deliver them from the Hand of their Enemies good God let their Lives and Bodies and Souls be all precious in thy sight O merci-God put a stop to these most wicked Conspiracies of thy Enemies and the Nation 's Enemies the Papists Let no more Protestant Blood be shed but this of mine I beseech thee O my God. O Lord look upon me O Lord bless me O good God receive me into thy blessed Presence by Jesus Christ my alone Saviour and Redeemer in whom alone I put my trust for Salvation It is thee O God that I trust in thou Righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth All Popery all Pardons all Popes and Priests all Dispensations I disown and will not go out of the World with a Lie in my Mouth From the sincerity of my Heart I declare again that what I have said to you is the very Sentiments of my Soul as God shall have Mercy upon me and to the best of my knowledg I desire the Prayers of you good People while I am here and once more I beseech you to think upon Eternity every one of you that hear me this day The Lord turn your Hearts and Souls if you have been wicked Livers if you do live wicked Lives the Lord in Mercy convert you and shew you your Danger for I as little thought to come to this as any Man that hears me this day and I bless God I have no more deserved it from the Hands of Men than the Child that sucks at his Mothers Breast I bless my God for it and do say I have been a Sinner against my God and he hath learn'd me Grace ever since I have been a Prisoner I bless my God for a Prison I bless my God for Afflictions I bless my God that ever I was restrained for I never knew my self till he had taken me out of the World. Therefore you that have your Liberties and Time and precious Opportunities be up and be doing for God and for your Souls every one of you To his Son. Where is my dear Child Mr. Sheriff I made one Request to you and you gave me an imperfect Answer You said you were of the best Reform ●d Church in the World the Church of England according to the best Reformation in the World I desire you for the Satisfaction of the World to declare what Church that is Whether Presbyterian or Independent or the Church of England or what Colledge Good Mr. Sheriff for your satisfaction For twenty Years and above I was under the Presbyterian Ministry till his Majesty's Restauration then I was conformable to the Church of England when that was restored and so continued till such time as I saw persecution upon the Dissenting People and very undue things done to their Meeting-places then I went among them to know what kind of People those were And I do take God to Witness since that time I have used their Meetings viz. the Presbyterians others very seldom and the Church of England I did hear Dr. Tillotson not above three weeks before I was taken I heard the Church of England as frequently as I heard the Dissenters and never had any Prejudice God is my Witness against either but always heartily desired that they might unite and be Lovers and Friends and had no prejudice against any Man and truly I am afraid that it is not for the Nation 's Good that there should be such Heart-burnings between them That some of the Church of England will preach that the