in Christ reconciling himself unto the world not imputing their trespasses He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness oâ— God in him Blessed be thy Name that thou hast sent thy holy Child Jesus to be the propitiation not only for our sins but for the sins of the whole world He hath suffered the just for the unjust that he might bring us unto God O do thou therefore help thy poor servants before thee and all thy children Give us to see the removal of eternal death by the death of the Lord Jesus Let us see thee at peace with us and justifying of us through thy grace All have sinned and come short of thy glory but being justified through the redemption of Christ Jesus whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation for the sins of the whole world Thou hast promised that whosoever believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ thy grace thy mercy thy love shall not perish but have everlasting life and thou hast given to thy poor servant exceeding great and precious promises and by thy own spirit bringing home these promises given him to believe the Records thou hast given of thy Son which beareth witness that God is reconciled to him and well pleased with him in Christ Jesus and given him eternal life And seeing thou hast bid his soul in Jesus Christ when he shall appear then shall we appear with him in glory and be made like to our Lord Jesus Christ By the same power that thou raisest up Jesus Christ from the dead by the same power thou art able to subdue all things There is nothing impossible with God what ever thou hast promised shall be performed Heaven and Earth shall pass away but one title of thy word shall not fail And therefore blessed be thy Name that thou hast revealed these things to thy poor and unworthy Creature that thou art his God and Father that thou wilt never leave him nor forsake him and thou hast hid his life in Christ and wrote his name in the Book of the Lord Jesus Christ and he rejoyceth that he knows he is his who is the onely true God Knows thou art well pleased with him and justified him freely from all his sins accepted him in and through the Lord Jesus Christ O therefore dear Father do thou receive his soul according to thy promise that he may be thine and thou his God O blessed Father do thou be pleased to do good to all thy people And now dear Father take care of our families be thou a Husband to our yoke-fellows a Father to the Fatherless Do them good abundantly above what we are able to ask or think and what is wanting and lost by our removal do thou hand out to them thy mercy and grace and move the hearts of the children of men to do them good Be thou their God help them and provide for them Seal up thy loving kindness to them not only for this life but for the life to come Do good to our Magistrates thou who hast the hearts of all men make such as are about them men fearing God and hating covetousness that may judge for God that he may have glory O be pleased to let his Majesty Rule and Reign in righteousness let his Throne be established in Righteousness and reveal the choicest of thy blessings to His poor soul manifest Christ Jesus and him crucified to him and give Him to see the most precious blood of Christ cleansing him from all sins Bind up his soul in the bundle of everlasting life Crown Him with a Crown of Righteousness as well as with an earthly Crown Let him be a Nursing Father and Nursing Mother indeed to this Nation that He may hate the evil door and be a praise to them that do well Dâ— good to every one of us O help us that we may first seek the Kingdom of God First believe in God and then honour our King First fear God and serve him and then give to Cesar that which is Cesars Give unto the King that which is the Kings Give Him all obedience to live quietly in all godliness and honesty And now O Lord do thou take away that spirit of emulation and strife and malice From whence comes wars come they not from our lusts The Lord remove pride preiudice and malice from us and cause us to love one another The Lord teach every one in their places to walk continually to the glory and praise of God that we professing the name of Christians may be enabled to walk humbly and meekly to do good to walk uprightly and to love mercy and then certainly we may expect that blessing that God hath promised to them that believe in him which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Mr. Stubb's Prayer PRecious and eternal Lord God in thy presence O Lord are we and in the presence of thy Son and of thy holy Angels and in the presence of the great multitude that now is beholding us poor objects poor worms poor dust and ashes and truly Lord we were not able to lift up our heads this day except thou didst come in by thy mighty Power O Lord â—elp us to see the Heavens opened this day and that the Arms of our Christ may be opened to receive our poor souls O Lord we are bidding farewel to the world 〈…〉 enjoyments 〈◊〉 to every thing and now Lord we are going home to thy dear and 〈…〉 forth our souls and enlarge our hearts after thee that we may be in pursuit of our God our souls long for the Lord as the Hart longs or pantâ— after the water brooke Lord appear in this hour this is a great Tryal that thy poor creatures are brought to Now come and smile upon thy poor worms O that thou wouldest communicate thy self unto us the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon our precious souls be a precious God to us and 〈…〉 Father thou hast not left poor souls in the dark in such an hour as this O that thou wouldst communicately thy self unto us we are now departing and dying good Father we pray thee that we may have the spiritual life communicated to 〈◊〉 Look in mercy upon every heart here in thy presence O that their souls may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ thou hast given Christ to dye for us whilst creatures here thy blood is able to wash and make me clean O there is no spot no dye but the blood of Jesus is able to take it away O Lord help us that we may dye in the love of Jesus Christ And good Lord we desire that thou wouldst look in mercy upon him that in the Officer Execution of those poor worms and as he is to wash his 〈◊〉 our blood O Lord wash his Soul in the blood of the Lamb of God Father thou knowest we desire the good of his â—oul we forgive him and we desire to forgive every one And dear Lord we desire thee to look upon the King communicate the riches of thy mercy unto his Majesty we desire his Soul may be saved thou hast the hearts of all Kings in thy hand draw forth his heart that he may love those things that pleaseth thee and love them that thou lovest let him be established in righteousness and let Justice and Judgment run down the streets of England â— a mighty stream We pray thee to 〈◊〉 forth our Souls to pray for every Relation beget love in all sorts of people thâ—â— they may live the life of love that when they depart this life they may enjoy the blessed Comforter the Lord Jesus Christ And dear Lord thou or 〈…〉 to give us a â—ast of thy love this day Lord thou hast given us a pardon blessed be thy Majesty for it thou hast given us a reprieve for our Souls we are delivered from death to life we hope when we depart this world we shall enjoy those blessed manâ—â—ons to all eternity And gracious Father we desire to bless thee for that civility we have had from those that have been Officers here Lord make it up to them and we desire to bless thee for it O the riches and the height of the grace of God and the love of Jesus Christ to poor sinners We may see that thou 〈◊〉 be pleased to look in mercy upon thâ—â— poor 〈◊〉 O that thou wouldst unite their hearts in love together O that there might not be any more 〈◊〉 or luâ—â—ed unite their hearts in love and obedience that they may fear God honour the King that they may desire in all righteousness and holiâ—est to do those things that are according to thy mind and will And gracious Father thou canst not abide Hypocrites the Lord cause Souls to love holiness and the power of godliness that they may not shrowd themselves under the profession when there is no reality Look in mercy upon all the Churches of Jesus Christ communicate thy mercy and love to them be pleased to be with 〈◊〉 this day and go along with us O that we may bless that with our Souls and all that is within us Be with us and do for us more than we are able to ask or think upon the account of Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased to whom be all praise and glory now and for ever Amen After which their Caps being severally pulled over their faces and after some private Ejaculations the Executioner caused the Cart to be drawn away and after they had hanged a while they were severally Headed and Quartered according to their Sentence and theâ—e Heads and Quarters conveyed in a Basket to Newgate to be disposed of at the Kings pleasure Which he was graciously pleased thus to dispose of Their several Quarters to be Buried which was accordingly done on Saturday-night December 27. Their Heads to be set on several Poles Two on the one Tower-Hill and two on the other as neer the Tower as may be FINIS
afraid I will not speak any evil of them Magistracy is an Ordinance of God and the end of Magistracy is for the punishment of evil-doers and the praise of them that do well and for this purpose I do desire that the Lord will give to the supreme Magistrate here on earth wisdom and understanding a wise Council a Council fearing God and hating covetousness that they may study to exalt the Throne of the King in righteousness and truth O that we may all praise the Lord for deliverance out of condemnation and I say it is the duty of all the Subjects of the Kings Majesty in all his Kingdoms and Dominions to live peaceably and to pray for the Kings Majesty Prayers and intercessions ought to be made for all men especially for Kings and Governours for this very end and purpose that thereby we may live in all quietness godliness honesty and justice and to this very end the Lord bless our Magistracy give them Counsel and Wisdom that they may love them that love the Lord and hate them that hate the Lord. After Gibbs had done speaking then Stubbs began who went over all the particulars of his Tryal at large to which for brevities sake we refer you only saith he as followeth Friends and Country-men IT is true and I must confess my sin in the presence of God and did ask mercy of the King that I was in the company when I did hear wicked and Treasonable words spoken and I being ignorant and not knowing the Law did not discover what I did hear As to my Judgment truly I desire to own what the Scriptures own I shall speak of that place in the Hebrews which is the command of Christ I desire the Churches and people every one to live the life of Faith and love one another I am confident it would be a means of abundance of comfort here in the Nation there is a kind of heart-burning and rising one against another you are so and so throw dirt one against the other it is our and your duty still to be studying to live in love and bear with one another not be angry destroy and fight one with another O that we might live that life of love that God has commanded then we may expect the presence of God to be with us surely God hath a great Judgment against his own people for not loving one another Phillips Mr. Sheriff I Have only one word to speak before I go to my Prayers that is Here I see some Gentlemen present that are in the capacity that I was in as a Souldier I say be faithful to your trust and beg of God that you may stand fast and not dishonour God nor be disobedient to the King when the Fifth-monarchy-men were up I was free and willing to lay down my life for the interest of the Nation and did venture as much as any young man in London Therefore good friends have a care I am now brought to suffer it is true I was guilty of concealing it I desire your Prayers that now as we are going to the State of Eternity from whence there is no redemption I humbly beseech you as Christians and friends that you would seek earnestly to God that now he may receive our souls into everlasting rest and happiness which he has been pleased to bestow on them that love him and fear him and the Lord knows my heart I speak it in his presence that had the King been pleased to shew mercy to me I should have been a faithful and true Subject to him all my days but seeing it is the righteous hand of God that now I am come to this untimely death I desire you to lift up your Hearts and Souls to God with me that when my soul shall leave this body that the Lord Jesus Christ may with his everlasting arms receive me to glory There is no redemption after death we shall either go to eternal woe or eternal happiness therefore good friends I desire you to look up to God that when my Soul departs it may be received to glory Mr. Phillips his Prayer O Eternal Lord God thou that art the great Creator of Mankind and thou that formedst him in the womb hear thy poor and sinful creature now he is coming to make his last approaches to thy Throne O that thou wouldst be pleased to look down in mercy upon my Soul O Lord that thou wouldst be pleased now to take my soul and wash it and hath it in the blood of Jesus Christ who hath died and risen again for me O that now I could see the heavens opened and Jesus Christ ready to receive my soul Be pleased O Lord to look upon me in thy tender mercy and compassion and as thou hast said thou dost not delight in the death of a sinner therefore good Lord look down upon my poor soul and receive me into the everlasting mansions which Jesus Christ is gone before to prepare for all them that love thee O Lord we are now going I hope to an estate of happiness where we shall sin and sorrow no more but where we shall ever reign with Jesus Christ O Lord had we not some hopes had we not some sight of the Lord Jesus Christ made known to our souls we durst not appear before thee this day we durst not stand before thee in thy presence O that thou wouldest more and more manifest thy gracious presence with me that thou wouldest uphold me to take the bitter cup and drink it freely O Lord I desire to come unto thee I have been a great sinner before thee but Jesus Christ has died is risen and is now at the right hand of his Father making intercession for us And good Lord as thou hast commanded us to come unto thee and to believe in thee and hast said thou wilt in no wise cast off the soul that comes unto thee in confidence of that hope I desire to fix my soul upon thee before I go hence and be no more Bow down the heavens O Lord and hear the request of the poor soul before thee and I beseech thee for Christ his sake as thou wouldst forgive me so freely forgive all that have done evil against me Be pleased to let the Kings Majesty reign in righteousness and holiness put a spirit of power and might in his soul and let him see wherein the stability of his Crown lies in following Righteousness and Justice and Judgment and preserving of that Truth that is made known to him out of the book of the Lord. Come down Lord to his soul and let him see wherein is his hope and O that he may at last liâ—e and reign with Jesus Christ for evermore Good Lord look upon me I am coming unto thee these are my last words O that thou wouldest be pleased to receive us this day that we may dine with thee in Paradise make known thy everlasting kindness to my soul before I go hence
Standen John Worth John Rigby Leonard Staples And several Witnesses being called there appeared William Hill Edward Riggâ— Tyler Godolphin Bonfoy and several others who being all sworn were directed up to the Grand-Jury After some hours examination of the Witnesses and consultation the Grand-Jury returned the Indictment Billa vera Clerk of the Peace You good men of the City of London summoned to appear here this day to enquire between our Soveraign Lord the King and the Prisoners that are and shall be at the Bar answer to your Names as you shall be called every one at their first Call upon pain and peril that shall fall thereon Good men of the Ward of c. Serjeant Glyn Sergeant Maynard His Majesties Serjeants at Law Sir Jeoffry Palmer Attorney-General Sir Heneage Finch His Majesties Sollicitor Serjeant Keeling His Majesties Serjeant Sir Edward Turnor taking their places in Court the Prisoners were commanded to be set to the Bar. Clerk of the Peace Thomas Tonge hold up thy hand George Phillips hold up thy hand Francis Stubbs hold up thy hand James Hinde hold up thy hand John Sallers hold up thy hand and Nathaniel Gibbs hold up thy hand Which they severally doing their Indictment was read the substance whereof is as followeth viz. YOU the Prisoners that were last called to the Bar stand Indicted in London by the Names of Thomas Tonge late of London Distiller George Phillips late of London Yeoman Francis Stubbs late of London Cheese-monger James Hind late of London Gunner John Sallers late of London Compass-maker and Nathaniel Gibbs late of London Felt-maker for that you six together with divers others particularly in the Indictment mentioned and others not yet taken as false Traytors to the Illustrious Serene and most Excellent Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. minding and with all their force intending the Peace and Tranquillity of this Kingdom of England to disturb and our said Soveraign Lord the King to death and final destruction to bring and put the 31. day of October in the Fourteenth year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second Traiterously did compass imagine and Intend the killing of our said Soveraign Lord the King and the antient Government of this Kingdom of England to change as in the Indictment more particularly was mentioned What sayest thou Thomas Tonge art thou guilty of this High-Treason in manner and form as thou standest Indicted or not guilty Tonge Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be Tryed Tonge By God and my Countrey Clerk What sayest thou George Phillips art thou guilty c. Phill. I am guilty in hearing and not discovering of it Clerk Art thou guilty of this High-Treason whereof thou standect Indicted Phill. I am guilty but not in manner and form as I stand Indicted I have heard the words as I formely confessed to Sir Richard Brown not guilty as to the manner and form Clerk How wilt thou be Tryed Phill. By God and my Countrey Clerk How sayest thou Francis Stubbs art thou guilty c. Stub Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be Tryed Stub By God and my Countrey Clerk What sayest thou James Hind art thou guilty c. Hind kneeling down and discovering much penitency answered I am guilty and humbly beg mercy of His Majesty Court Record his Confession Clerk How sayest thou John Sallers art thou guilty c. Sall. Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be Tryed Sall. By God and the Countrey Clerk How sayest thou Nathaniel Gibbs art thou guilty c. Gibbs Not guilty Cler. How wilt thou be Tryed Gibbs By God and the Countrey Court Carry up Hind to the Gaole And the rest standing at the Bar silence was commanded Cler. Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs John Sallers and Nathaniel Gibbs You the Prisoners that were last called to the Bar those men that you shall hear called are to pass upon Tryal for your several Lives and Deaths if you or any of you will challenge them or any of them you must challenge them when they come to the Book to be Sworn before they be Sworn Edmond Butler Tonge I challenge him but afterwards admitted him Clerk Edmund Butler Clement Punge George Dixon Samuel Pain John Bagnal John Gourney William Gayler Ralph Silverton William Dudley Joseph Drake John Peake and Robert Morrice were severally Sworn in this manner Lay your hand on the Book look upon the Prisoners You shall well and truly try and true deliverance make between our Soveraign Lord the King and the Prisoners at the Bar whom you shall have in charge according to your Evidence So help you God Clerk Count these Cryer Edmond Butler Cryer one Clement Punge two c. Twelve good men and true stand together and hear your Evidence Clerk Cryer make Proclamation Cryer O Yes If any one can inform my Lords the Kings Justices the Kings Serjeants or the Kings Attorney before this Inquest be taken let them come forth and they shall be heard for now the Prisoners stand at the Bar upon their Deliverance and all others that are bound by Recognizance to give Evidence against any of the Prisoners at the Bar come forth and give Evidence or else you forfeit your Recognizance and all manner of persons that were summoned upon the Jury and have not yet been Sworn they are discharged and may depart the Court. Clerk Tho. Tonge Hold up thy Hand and so to the rest of them at the Bar. You of the Jury Look upon the Prisoners and hearken to their Cause you shall understand that they stand Indicted in London by the Names of Tho. Tonge late of c. and so as in the Indictment aforementioned who together with James Hind who stands Convicted by his own Confession and the rest also aforementioned and so reads the Indictment again Upon which Indictment they have been Arraigned thereunto have severally pleaded Not guilty for their Trial have put themselves upon God the Countrey which Countrey you are Your Charge is to enquire whether they be guilty of the High-Treason in manner and form as they stand Indicted or not guilty If you find that they or any of them are guilty you shall enquire what Goods Chattels Lands and Tenements they or any of them had at the time of committing the said Treason or at any time sithence If you find that they are not guilty you shall enquire whether they or any of them did flee for it if you find that they fled for it you shall enquire of their Goods and Chattels c. as if you had found them guilty If you find that they are not guilty nor that they did flee say so and no more and hear your Evidence Sir Edw. Turner MAy it please your Lordships and you Gentlemen that are Sworn of this Jury the Five Prisoners at the Bar by the names of T. Tonge G. Phillips F. Stubbs
not reflect upon his Majesty or the present Government which they all promised not to do and thanked him for his civility and then Phillips began in manner following Friends and Country-men I Am come this day to pay that great debt that I owe to Nature it is a work that had need be well done for it is but once to be done My hope is now above and for what I now come to suffer for my own part I bless God in whose presence I now speak as a dying man I had not any murderous thought against the King but I have prayed for him and wished that he might Live and Reign and long Reign in Righteousness and that God would make his Crown a Crown of Righteousness upon his Head and bless him in his Government so that he may not know any of these occasions more For my part I have ventured my life for his Majesty it was far from my heart to do any thing of that nature The Lord receive my soul I freely forgive all men as I hope to be forgiven of God I never did act any thing but only this which was my ignorance of the Laws that I did not discover it And I was justly found guilty for not discovering I have done Mr. Sheriff but hope after my Brethren have spoken we may have liberty to call upon the Lord. Vnder-Sher It will not be denied you Then Mr. Tonge began in this manner Friends and Countrey-men YOu see me here a dying man I have sometimes been in some mens company where I have heard them contriving the business for which I am condemned to die and that which led me to joyn with them was this I was and had been sometimes in the Army and I have looked upon this Cause to be good As for his Majesty the Lord bless him and prosper him and put it into his heart that he may be a Nursing-Father indeed to this Country Vnder-Sher Have you any more to say you may speak Tonge I have nothing more And then Gibbs proceeded and said COuntry-men and Friends and I hope Christians and the last consideration is that that makes me the more free to speak to you we all profess to own God and Jesus Christ to be our Saviour our Redeemer our Sanctifier and giver of and bestower upon us Eternal Life this should excite our Souls to love one another and upon the account of Gods love that God has so loved us as to give Jesus Christ to reconcile us sinners to God we ought to love one another it is his great command Truly as to the Cause for which I am brought here God the great Judge of Heaven and Earth before whom I stand knows that in the place where I have lived I behaved my self as an obedient Subject and when there was an Insurrection by the Fifth-monarchy-men I went out in my own person though I had Servants as well as others purely out of affection to his Majesty knowing that in the peace of his Government I should have peace and so I went out hazarded my life and continued out till all was quiet I was at a Neighbours house drinking of a cup of Beer on Tuesday night in the Kitchin alone save only the man of the house and the maid these men came in one Hill and Riggs that are the witnesses against me there was Riggs and Hill and this Stubbs and one Beazely and I being alone in the Kitchin they asked for one Gibbs the people of the house told me there were some Gentlemen would speak with me I wished them to direct them to me and they came to me and through the ignorance of the Law which it seems runs thus If any words treasonable against his Majesty is spoken it is Treason to conceal it So thus I have given you in part the cause of my being here Hereupon information was given to the Kings Majesty that I should say there would be a Rising and that Alhallows-eve was the time that there were Arms sent into the Country and that Ludlow was to be General and this was charged upon me by the Kings Majesty when I came before him to be examined and upon Hills and Rigg's Oath I was sent to the Tower and kept a long time a Prisoner examined three or four times over by the Lords of his Majesties Council I have one word more as touching my Judgment I am reputed in the world to be one of those that is called by the name of Anabaptist a name of derision and scorn One is an Anabaptist one an Independant one a Presbyterian one this and one that and one the other who gave these nick-names to Christians There is but one God one Lord Jesus one Baptism one Hope of Glory How comes the Body of Christ or the Members of Christ to be called these nick-names But now as I am one that do profess Faith in God through the Lord Jesus Christ and do stand before you all and before the Lord I know no other God but the Eternal and Living God that hath made the World and that Rules and Reigns and disposes all his Creatures I do believe in this God he has been gracious to me a poor sinner and to all poor sinners that when we by reason of sin had forfeited our mercies and were under wrath and everlasting destruction and must perish for ever that God did out of his rich grace and tender mercies give his only begotten Son according to his promise to be the blessing of God to the poor Gentiles according as the Scripture did declare the Scripture forseeing that God would justifie the Heathens through Faith preached before the Gospel to Abraham saying In thee shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed he speaks not of the natural seed of Abraham but of Christ so that all the blessings that God did convey to the sinful world is by the means of Jesus Christ whom God in the fulness of time did send his Son born of a woman to redeem poor sinners under the Law and herein was the great grace and mercy of God towards all sinners that he was so gracious to send his beloved Son out of his own bosom to take our natures upon him who were defiled and cursed and condemned and separated from God I say Jesus Christ took our natures upon him and for this very end to do the will of his heavenly Father Lo it is written in the volume of thy book I come to do thy will O God and it was his meat and drink to do his will and what was that but that we might be sanctified through â—â—e offerâ— up of the body of Jesus Christ for our sins to tread the winepress of his Fathers wra and to endure the cross and bear all our sins in his own body that made his soul heavy unto death he was a surety for us and our sins and for our sakes the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all and he hath born