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city_n	honourable_a	sir_n	william_n	5,877	4	9.0905	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60549	The true account of the behaviour and confessions of the condemned criminals in Newgate viz. Samuel Presby, Richard Hooker, Edward Linsy, Robert Nichols, Thomas Crompton, Mary Fisher, Thomas Gardner, Richard Jones, Katharine Brown, Matthew Morgan, Mary Collwood, Ann Davis : of which Samuel Presby, Richard Hooker, Thomas Crompton, were executed at Tyburn, and Edward Linsy on Tower-hill : as also Henry Cornish (who was executed in Cheapside) and Elizabeth Gaunt, was likewise executed October 23d, 1685, she being burnt for high-treason, at Tyburn.	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1685 (1685)	Wing S4202; ESTC R492267	6,203	4

endeavour what lay in them that they might obtain of God the carrying on of their Convictions to a perfect work of Conversion Therefore I enquired of them what grounds they had to believe that God was reconciled to them in Christ I assured them that as the Enmity betwixt him and Sinners is mutual so he expected that they should be reconciled to him in casting away their rebellious dispositions as they desire he should be at peace with them in pardoning the guilt of their Sins that the chief Blessing of his Free-grace consisted in turning them from the love of all Iniquity that Christ may be formed in their hearts as the hope of glory This lively hope they could not have unless they were conformed to the power of his Death and Resurrection in dying to the indulgence of their Lusts and in being quickned to the life of Holiness Upon this they were desirous to be farther directed by me how they might proceed safely to hope for a blessed Eternity I told them they must be willing ingenuously and sincerely to declare what their former course of life had been and that the review of their Sins must be with as bitter a detestation as they had committed them with delight that so they might leave some publick Testimony of the truth of their Repentance because their Crimes had been so Notorious Hereupon Edwand Linsy Condemned for Feloniously deserting the Service of the King after he had taken Pay said that he was heartily sorry for his Crime and all other Sins whereby he had provoked God to leave him to such Disloyalty I told him that it was a great Crime to withdraw himself from the Service of His Majesty and that he could not have any pretence for it But this Disloyalty was founded on the breach of his Vow and Covenant made to and with Christ at his Baptism he had not fulfilled that Sacramental Oath wherein he engaged to forsake the Devil and all his Works that he might become Christ's faithful Servant and Soldier to his lifes end Neither can any man be truly Loyal to his earthly Sovereign who is not faithfully obedient to his heavenly Father and Almighty Redeemer Richard Hooker was not so affected and penitent for his Crime as he ought to have been Samuel Presby was formerly burnt in the hand yet took no warning and gave but a slender account of any remorse for his Sin Henry Cornish late Alderman of London was Indicted for High-Treason in conspiring the death of the late King with other Traytors to raise a Rebellion in order to subvert the Government was upon a full Evidence brought in Guilty who is to be executed in Cheapside facing King 〈◊〉 near Guildhall Also Mrs. Gaunt for harbouring and assisting several of the Rebels that were in the West was Convicted of High-Treason and Executed accordingly at Tyburn Mrs Elizabeth Gaunt was very morose and obstinate and would not admit the Ordinary to convince her of her great Crime nor to pray with her About Nine of the Clock in the morning those Prisoners Convicted of High-Treason were drawn in Sleds the others in Carts to the several places of Execution who seemed very penitent all the way they went Mr. Ordinary praying with them After which they exhorted the Spectators to take warning by their untimely End of the Effects of Sin Then they prayed earnestly by themselves desiring the People to pray for them after which they were all Executed Dated this 23d of October 1685. Samuel Smith Ordinary This may be Printed 1685. R.L.S. ☞ These are to give Notice to all Persons That the true Account of the whole Tryals of Henry Cornish John Fernly William Ring and Elizabeth Gaunt at the Sessions held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly pursuant to an Order Granted by the Right Honourable Sir James Smith Lord Mayor of the City of London will be Printed and Published by George Croom London Printed by G. Croom at the Blue-Ball in Thames-street over against Baynards Castle 1685.