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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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