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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95093	The true narrative of the confession and execution of the seven prisoners at Tyburn on Wednesday the 24th. of this instant October 1683 Viz. Charles Butler, who was drawn, and hang'd for high-treason John Quarles, John Smith, Mary Phelps, Charles Dod, Hugh Jones, Edward Williams, for murther, felonies, burglaries, and divers other crimes. And also a particular account of their several facts, and where committed.		1683 (1683)	Wing T2780D; ESTC R230449	3,242	4

THE TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION of the seven Prisoners AT TYBURN On Wednesday the 24th of this Instant October 1683. Viz. Charles Butler who was Drawn and Hang'd for High-Treason John Quarles John Smith Mary Phelps Charles Dod Hugh Jones Edward Williams For Murther Felonies Burglaries and divers other crimes And also a particular Account of their several Facts and where Committed Every Sessions produces the reiterated Effects of abused Grace and notwithstanding his most sacred Majesties continued Clemency to the most Notorious Offenders almost even to a Miracle yet such is the obdurate Resolutions of many wretched and miserable Transgressors as to continue in their Diabolical Practices till it becomes an Act of Necessity for the Sword of Justice to cut off all such as dead Branches lest the most delightful Tree of Community should become wither'd and of no use in the Garden of this present world I will not insist on the particular Crimes of many of the present sufferers which his Majesties Transendent Charity ' and Mercy hath covered in times past a and indeed in those virtues daily Experience manifests him to be the true Image He represents and it may be as truly said his Mercy is above all his Judgments and at this very Instant time many have been restored to Life in hopes of their Repentance and Amendment who had forfeited all that this present world is sensible of to the Justice of the Law and those whose wicked inclinations may inc●●… them to such Courses as end in nothing but Death and Destruction in this World besides the danger they are in by provoking God to Anger and Justice and become Liable to Eternal Death in the World to come I will mention such of their Crimes only for which they now lie under a Sentence of Death and this very day are to pay their Lives as a satisfaction to the Good Government they have so often most wickedly and unjustly abused that they may be an Example of Terror to all evil doers who by this may pray to God to send them his Grace that they may be incliend to live a more honest and Christian-like Life and thereby avoid the Shames and Miseries that they bring upon themselves their Families and Relations Charles Butler under a Judgment of High-Treason for Clipping Fileing and Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom was drawn upon a Sled to the place of Execution he confessed that which induced him to this Course of Life was a design to inrich himself sooner then he could b● an honest Course of Life but with an Admonition to all people that it was in vain to go on in such kind of unlawful ways and that though they did prosper for some time they must expect Justice to seize them at last though they might continue in it undiscovered for some time that those ways might to appearance seem very pleasant in the sight of those which began to undertake in that of unlawful gain that he had employed that trouble and care in honest endeavours might he is now sensible have been to him as great profit in the End Mary Phelps was the Wife of a Baker by Trade who has the report of an honest careful industrious Man She is under a Judgment for the Murder of John-Charlton in Covent-Garden and has lived a very suspicious and wicked kind of life in the Apprehension of most of her Neighbours she confessed in general that she had been a great sinner and acknowledged the justice of the Proceedings against her Life and submitted her self to the hands of the Law The Innocent Man that was inhumanly Murthered by her procurement has left behind him a careful Mother and severa● small Children that received a Competent Maintenance from the honest industrious Endeavours of the Deceased it being a Character that most of his Neighbours give him and no doubt will contribute to the induceing of good minded people to lend their Christian Aid to the destressed Widdow and Fatherless Children that are by this cruel Murther exposed to the want of those helps which in his life time they received from his daily Labors Charles Dod Edward Williams and Hugh Jones were all three Executed at Tybourn the oldest of them scarce having seen 20 years yet some of them have been convicted at least four or five times of Crimes much of the same Nature with this which they have now suffered for they shewed great Penitence and confessed that they had followed this way of living ever since that they were seven years old that they had deserved death several years ago advising all young men to study honest ways of living and to carry themselves Dutifully and Obediently to their Parents and Masters the want of which was a great cause of bringing them to this their shameful End They confessed they had been instrumental in Debauching a great many young men who were the children of honest parents that lived in good Credit in the City And prayed if any of them were Spectators of their shameful end they would thereby be Admonished to forsake all their leiud Aquaintance that are the abettors and encourgers of those Vice that brought them to be made the publick Spectacle of Justice And prayed that they would submit themselves to the care of their honest Parents whom they had too long abused and that they would make it their endeavours to restore a just satisfaction to all such persons as they knew were injured by them and that they would apply themselves to God in continual prayer to enable them by his grace to withstand the wicked temptations of the Devil the vain lusts of the Flesh and all other allurements of this World John Smith was under a judgment of Death for a Felony and Burglary upon the House of the Right Honourable the Earl of Lindsey and stealing thence Goods Plates and other things of a great value some of the Apparrel of the Covntess of Lindsey being found upon him he confessed he had been a Notorious Offender and commended the Justice of the Court in the proceedings of his Tryal He has been an old Offender though but a young man and it 's reported the Thieves and Pickpockets themselves were amazed at the impudent Methods he took in the Management of his Viloanies Admonishing all people to forbear the practice of such Vilence that were against the Laws of God and Man and desired all people that were there present to pray for him having hopes of finding mercy where he was going though the Crimes he was guilty of were of too deep a Dye to be washed away in this world with any other thing but his Blood yet he hoped that of his Saviours would cleanse him from all Corruption and thanked the Ordinary for the great pains and services he had done him since the time of his Condemnation John Quarles was under judgment of Death for a Felony and Burglary to the value of between threescore and fourscore pounds he confessed he had been an Offender for many years past and that the longer had Acted in his ungodly way of Life the less he was sensible of the wickedness he acted declared he was heartily sorrowful for the injuries he had done to all people and he hoped that they would if any were there present joyn with him in their prayers to God to bestow his mercy on him in the world to come 〈◊〉 being very willing to resign his Life which he had justly forfeited and hoped that if any were present that had followed such like Courses that they would be warned by his shameful end to forbear their wicked practices and to sin no more lest a worse thing befall them He confessed he had Received Grace and Mercy no less then four times having had the benefit of his Clergy twice and his Majesties Gracious Pardon of Transportation as many times acknowledging that he might have lived plentifully well by his labours in a lawful way being a Goldsmith by Trade But that the wicked lusts of the flesh and the vanities of this world so far prevailed upon him as to slight and set light esteem of all just means of honest living and acknowledged he had drawn too many others into the same wicked practices of which some had payed their blood as a just satisfaction for the wrongs and injuries they had done Mr. Ordinary having prayed with them and admonished them of the Judgment they were suddenly to appear before where no secrets were hid advised them to make a clear and a full Confession of all their crimes which they might hitherto Conceal and that with such Submission Confession and Repentance God might be pleased to shew forth the fullness of his mercy and appear a mighty Deliverer to them in this time of their of their great Necessity and pronounced the Blessing and took his leave of them and immediately the Executioner did his Office Mr. Butler being Requested by the Ordinary to speak what he knew concerning the Fire in the Temple his Answer was that upon the Words of a dying Man and as he expected Mercy from the Almighty he was so much a stranger to it as the Infant at his Mothers Breast and he himself lost above threescore pounds Entered according to order London Printed by E Mallet 1683.