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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84969	A full and true account of the penitent behaviour, last dying words, & execution of Mr. Edmund Allen, gent. who was condemned at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, for abusing his ... wife by cruelly beating her ... and inhumanely poysoning of her ... : with a relation of the reprieve of Mr. Richard Buttler, who was likewise order'd to be executed ... on Friday, the 19th of ... July, 1695 : vvith Mr. Allen's last words, &c.		1695 (1695)	Wing F2308B; ESTC R42322	2,756	2

A Full and True ACCOUNT of the Penitent BEHAVIOUR Last Dying Words Execution OF Mr. Edmund Allen Gent. Who was Condemned at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily for Abusing his Loving and Tender VVife by Cruelly Beating her several Times with a Bull 's Pizzle and last of all most Barbarously and Inhumanely Poysoning of her by giving her White Mercury which he unhappily mixt with Rasberry Gelly With a RELATION of The REPRIEVE of Mr. Richard Buttler who was likewise Order'd to be Executed with the said Allen On Friday the 19th of this Instant July 1695. VVith Mr. Allen's last VVords c. IT is sad to consider that no Fatal Examples of the JUSTICE of GOD and Man can deter some sort of People from Rushing on them to their Destruction Not only to the certain Destruction of their Bodies as being cut off from the Society of Men but to the great and eminent Hazard of their Pretious and Immortal Souls which are more Valuable than a Thousand Worlds Our Blessed Saviour tell us There 's nothing can be given in Exchange for a Soul when lost Then how cautious ought we to be by all ways of Virtue and Religion to secure so Inestimable a Jewel And since the Time that is here given us to spend well is the Talent we are to Improve to make us everlastingly Happy or by not Improveing it Miserable for ever we ought to be Circumspect about it This may suffice for Admonition and Cantion but now we come nearer to the Purpose EDMUND ALLEN was well Educated and of good Parentage but gave himself over when he came to Years to such Company as made him for the future forget himself in pursuing those Virtuous Ways he was brought up to Before he had Settled himself well in the World he fell into the Company of Lewd-Women yet being at last weary of such a proffligate Course of Life or else wanting Mony to Support it he bethought himself of Marriage and indeed in this he had the good Fortune to get the Good-Will of one that brought him a considerable Portion some say about Fifteen-Hundred Pounds present and more upon the Death of Relations A while they lived together quietly but some Lewd-Women finding an Oppurtunity to draw him off and set him against her his as we may truly term it Dissembled Love turned into Hatred he used her very grievously and because he thought this ill Usage not A●fliction enough to a Tender-Heart having spent most of the Mony he had with her and willing to live still in Splendour he reported himself a Widower and going to a Young-Gentlewoman one Frances Artis he so insinuated himself into her Favour that she had a good liking of him without the Consent of her Friends and rashly gave herself away with a considerable Fortune so that it is agreed on he had 3000l by his Wives and his Relations But the matter being discovered he was Prosecuted at Suffolk Assizes for Poligamy or Marrying a second Wife the former being Alive where he escap'd by his Clergy but this was no Warning to this to be deplored Sinner for being desirous to proceed further in the State of Matrimony he beat the said Frances Allen as now we must call her frequently in a most miserable Manner sometimes with a Bull 's Pizzle at other times with a Horse-Whip and one time by this cursed means making her Miscarry he would not suffer those Women that offered their Neighbourly Assistance to come near her in her doleful Condition But her Heart not breaking with such violent Usage as it is thought he expected it would he considered of other more destructive Ways for comeing home from some Lewd Women where it is supposed this poor Innocent Creatures Destruction was Plotted he seemed more Kind than usual which the good Natured Woman taking to be real and that as he told her he had Repented him of his former Follies and Extravagancies and intended to turn a good Husband she seemed Over-joyed at the supposed Reformation but alass it proved Fatal to her for treating her with some Rasberry-Gelly or Cakes he treacherously mixed Poison supposed to be Sublimated Mercury in them which soon after put her into a violent Heat and flying to her Brain caused Dis-rest and Uneasiness of which she mightily complaining he pretending to be very Officrous immediately fetched a Dose of Opium which finished the wicked design of her Death though being taxed he said it was only Poppy-Water he gave her This with many other Circumstances relating to the Murther of his Wife being proved against him at the Old-Baily and he making but a slender Defence for himself was found Guilty of wilful Murther and on the 6th Instant received Sentence of Death Being return'd to Newgate he grew very Melancholy His Thoughts were taken up with Sadness and a deep Reflection on his former mis-spent Life As soon as he was in the Prison he Retired himself as much as the Conveniency would permit some of his Friends came to him advising him To betake himself to a serious Repentance to humble himself before God for his many Sins and to Implore Pardon and Forgiveness for them not to bear himself up with hopes of Life in this World seeing it was uncertain but to use the Time allowed him in a sincere Repentance to wash off the Stains that polluted his Soul These and the like Perswasions touched his Conscience with Remorse and drew Tears from his Eyes so that he desired them to Pray for him That God in his infinite Mercy would consider him a Poor Sinful Creature whose many Sins had provoked him in Justice to bring him to this perril of Death Shame and Disgrace Praying by himself and desiring to be prayed for which was accordingly perform'd The Ministers that vifited him desiring him to have in his Mind the Words of the Prophet David viz. From Blood Guiltiness Deliver me O God! He Confessed his Sins were very great and grieveous Imploring God in this his great Extremity not to lay them to his Charge but to take away his stony Heart and give him a Heart of Flesh that he might be touched with a sense of his Rebellion against him in breaking his Commandments and sining against that Grace that was once given him to lead him into the way of all Truth and upright Walking in this his Pilgrimage on Earth On the Two Sabbath Days that happened during his Respite he behaved himself with extraordinary Devotion being very attentive to the Expressions of the Promises of God in Mercies offered by God to poor Repenting Sinners Yet notwithstanding this at some times flattered himself with Hopes of Life especially when he found he was Reprieved for Seven Days As for Richard Butler who went with him in Order to his Execution he to outward Appearance seem'd not in the least Penitent having I suppose some Hopes of a Reprieve or Pardon But from Newgate to Knibbs's Pound being near that Place where he received a Reprieve he all along bore a Chearful Countenance speaking freely to all the Spectators and often bitterly inveighing the Person who swore against him c. But to return to Mr. Allen On Friday the 19th Instant he was conveyed privately in a Coach to Tyburn where there was a great deal of Assiduity used as to his Eternal Concerns not only by the Reverend Ordinary but also by another most Reverend Divine After he was Tyed up in the Cart he greatly bewailed his former mispent Life desiring others to be warned by his unhappy end He Prayed and was Prayed with and according to all outward Appearance mad● a very Penitent End tho' he had lived a Wicked Life so the Cart being drawn away his Soul was committed to the Hands of his Merciful Creator and Redeemer Whose ways with Mankind are Unsearchable and whose Mercies towards Penitent Sinners are Unlimited FINIS LONDON Printed for J. Williams near Charing-Cross 1695