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A80317	The Confession and execution of the five prisoners that suffered at Tyburn on Wednesday the 23rd of January 1677/8 at which time were executed William King, Henry Claiton, and William Hare, [brace] for several robberies on the highway, Robert Motley, for burglary and felony, and Benj. Smith [brace] for treason, clipping the kings coin : with their behaviour in Newgate, and the substance of two sermons preached to them the Sunday before their death.		1678 (1678)	Wing C5747B; ESTC R205231	2,792	8

THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION Of the Five Prisoners that suffered at TYBURN On Wednesday the 23d of January 1677 8. At which time were Executed William King Henry Claiton and William Hare For several Robberies on the Highway Robert Motly For Burglary and Felony AND Benj. Smith For Treason Clipping the Kings Coin WITH Their Behaviour in Newgate and the substance of two Sermons Preached to them the Sunday before their Death This may be Printed Ro. L'Estrange London Printed for D. M. 1677. The Confession and Execution of the Prisoners that suffered at Tyburn on Wednesday the 23d of Jan. 1677 8. 'T Was observ'd by the Court this last Sessions that it has rarely been known so many should be convicted of Crimes deserving Death out of so small a Kalendar or when the number of Prisoners has been so few there being no less than Thirteen persons seven men and six women that received sentence of Death for their r●spective Capital Offences But of the women two after Judgement pleaded their Bellies in respit of Execution and by a Jury of Matrons were found Quick with Childe Another condemned for murdering her Bastard-Infant died in Goal the next day after Sentence It being supposed that by going abroad immediately after her Delivery upon the unnatural designe of exposing her Childe as she did in the streets she might catch Cold which together with the dejection of her Spirits might hasten her End and prevent an Ignominious by an untimely death Others by the mercy of Authority were Reprieved in hopes of future Amendment of their Lives but Five this day were carried to the fatal place of Execution of whom two were the Highway-men taken at Whetstone and the rest before-mentioned in the Title-page That is to say William King and Henry Claiton for a robbery on the Road done in Berk-shire but the things being taken about them render'd them liable to be tried for the Felony in Middlesex and appearing to the Court to be a Robbery in another County excluded them from Clergy The Goods they took were only two Silver Powder-Boxes c. of no great value but it was well known they had been notoriously concerned in such Villanies near twenty Robberies lying upon them and violent suspitions of some Murders The next was William Hare for a like Robbery on the High-way only he followed the mischievous Trade on Foot and indeed these generally are more cruel and dangerous than the other He was Indicted the Ses●●ons before for a Crime of the same nature but got off Robert Motly had been often in Newgate and Mercy shewed him Once transported on a Pardon but returned before the time in the Condition thereof specified was expired whereby he forfeited his Life yet not content takes the old course and being now taken in a Burglary was cut off as an incorrigible Offender Benjamin Smith had for some time been a person of ill Life and of late had taken upon him to be a Solicitor for naughty people he was now Convicted for Clipping of Money To fit them for this great and terrible Change great pains and care was taken by several Ministers and particularly by that sober Divine whose office it more peculiarly is who on the Sunday before their Execution preach'd two very Pathetical and Christian Sermons to them To go about to repeat them here were to wrong that Gentleman whose affectionate and powerful Eloquence cannot without losing much of its force and beauty be express'd in any words but his own But the purport and substance was to this effect Taking for his Text in the forenoon that suitable Portion of Scripture Psalm 90 vers 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath From thence he shewed That all unregenerate men and in their natural state lay under the wrath of God and obnoxious to all the dreadful Curses pronounced in the Holy Scriptures both in relation to their bodies and souls Which Divine wrath though in it self so terrible and weighty that it is as well Inexpressible as Intollerable he endeavour'd to shadow forth by certain apt Comparisons and Arguments à minore ad majus If the wrath of a King be as the roaring of a Lion which makes all tremble that hear it who shall be able to withstand the displeasure of the King of kings If God's withdrawing the Light of his Countenance and visiting his Saints with Chastizements in Love be so insupportable to their spirits with what Horrours and Astonishments must the Wicked be confounded when he makes bare his Arm to take Vengeance upon them for their long continued and oft repeated Transgressions He further told them That the Extremity of this Wrath was when God for a punishment of sin gave persons up to sin without Remorse That hardness of heart with blindness of mind was the greatest Plague could be i●fl●cted upon poor creatures Since not onely their days but their hours now were numbred being but a few minutes on this side Eternal Destruction he advis'd them seriously and suddenly with all their might to set upon this great and most important business of working out their salvation with fear and trembling not to flatter themselves with delusive hopes of longer Life nor murder their Souls by pretending to die with a Roman Courage For alas who could contend with Omnipotence or what Resolution can abide Everlasting Burnings David as valiant as any yet under a sence of his sins thought it no effeminacy of spirit to water his couch with his tears The true Penitent is the onely H●ro who subdues Principalities and Powers and yet lays him low in the presence of his offended M●ker whose breath abaseth the mightiest Conquerours and sweepeth away the Proud and Obstinate with sudden and Everlasting Destruction Therefore he p●ssron●tely charged them as they would avoid the dreadful wrath of God the fierceness of which he had in some part represented to them That they would every one with broken hearts and bended knees confess their sins and give Glory to God and loathing themselves and their past actions flie to the Throne of Grace and the Blood of the Lamb for Mercy and Pardon For having first search'd their ulcerated hearts like a prudent Soul-Physician he in the afternoon began to pour in the Balm of Gilead quitting Mount Sinai for Mount Sion and leading them from the terrors of the Law to the glad tidings of the Gospel even to the Blessed Jesus who deli●ers us from wrath to come 〈◊〉 p●aying his infinite Love and Mercy to penitent sinners and pressing them forthwith to kiss the Son with a kiss of Homage and Obedience of Love and Loyalty lest his wrath be kindled and they perish everlastingly c. During the Sermons and other acts of Devotion the Condemned Prisoners in general behaved themselves with extraordinary Sobriety and Attention the Tears oftentimes in abundance gushing forth Nor was their Deportment less becoming afterwards desiring the Prayers earnestly of such as came to visit them The Highway-men confessed several Robberies by them committed but refused to discover any of their Companions And the most resolute was an old Malefactor in Burglaries Felonies c. who before at the Bar when he received Sentence being told by the Court that he must not expect any Pardon surlily answered Why I do not ask you for any do I This person appeared the most unconcerned and stupidly insensible of his condition refusing to answer any questions relating to his spiritual State or enter into any serious Conversation The rest were much more mollified and at the place of Execution acknowledg'd that they died justly begging pardon first of God and next of all persons whom they had wronged Professing that Sloath Pride Lust and Ill Company had been the sole occasioners of their ignominious end And therefore defired all to take Warning and Example by them And to live honestly industriously and uprightly in the several lawful Trades or Professions wherein Providence hath placed them The neglecting and abandoning of which for a loose extravagant course of Life they declared was the original Cause of their Ruine FINIS