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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

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 Adventure in the West his Letter to King James his 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 LONDON Printed by J. Bradford at the Bible in Fetter-Lane The Protestant Martyrs Or The Bloody Assizes c. THE most Illustrious Prince James Duke of Monmouth is not for the Illustriousness of his Descent inferiour unto any Prince in Europe being descended from the Loins of the most Renowned Monarch King Charles the Second and also his Eldest Son By which Royal Extraction he is descended from the incomparably wise and vertuous Prince the Royal Martyr Charles the first and his Illustrious Consort Henrietta Maria de Bourbon Daughter of the Great King Henry the Fourth of France From which two ancient and Illustrious stocks he was ingrafted into all the Royal Families of Europe and hath concentred in his Princely Veins some of their Royal Blood being thereby allied to all those great Personages that are of the most high and Illustrious Quality in Europe viz. James Duke of York William of Nassaw Prince of Orange the Lady Madamoiselle Queen of Spain and her Sister Madame de Valois Daughter of the Duke of Oleance and the late Princess Henrietta also to Charles Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine His Highness Rupert Lewis the fourteenth King of France now reigning and many other Princes and Potentates of Europe which is abundantly sufficient to demonstrate the Nobility of his Birth and the Illustriousness of his Extraction But to render him yet more Eminent it pleased his Royal Father to dignifie him with severel Magnificient Titles and to confer upon him the several Great Offices following vz. Duke of Monmouth and Bucclugh Earl of Doucaster and Dalkeith Lord Scott of Tindale Whinchester and Askdale Lord Great Chamberlain of Scotland Lord Lieutenant of the East-Riding of Yorkshire Governour of his Majesties Town and Cittadel of Kingstone upon Hull Chief Justice in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests Chaces Parks and Warrens on the South-side of the River of Trent Lord General of all his Majesties Land-forces Captain of his Majesties Life-Guards of Horse Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Master of the Horse to his Majesty one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the most noble Oder of the Garter All which Places he discharged with so much Honour and Fidelity that the most inveterare and implacable of his Enemies notwithstanding all their noise and clamour against him were not able to produce one single instance wherein he acted otherwise Besides his honour at home he had likewise been highly honoured abroad by having the Honour to command an Army in Flanders as Lieutenant-General under the French King whose continual success and numerous Victories in Flanders may be chiefly attributed to the Conduct and Valour of the Great Monmouth He was born at Rotterdam April 9. in the year 1649. in the very heat of our unnatural Broils About the year 1656. his Mother was sent a Prisoner to the Tower of London as appears by a Warrant from the Protector July 12. 1656. to Barkstead then Lieutenant of the Tower whereby he discharged Mrs. Lucy Barlow from her Imprisonment The Officers found a Grant when she was apprehended signed Charlet R. by which she had an Anuity or yearly Pensiod of five thousand Livres granted to her for her Life with an Assurance to better the same when it should please God to restore him to his Kingdom and it was subscribed by his Majesties command Edward Nicholas During her abode about London the Cavilears as the Loyalists were then call'd carried themselves towards her with a profound Reverence and awful Respect treating her 〈…〉 Person serving her on the Knee An English Nurse was provided 〈…〉 and both for privacy Lodged at the House of Mr. Claes Ghysen a Merchant living at Schiedam about a Mile from Rotterdam his Mother lodging at the same time at the House of Mrs. Harvey Mother to the famous Doctor Harvey and lived in abundance of Pomp and Splendor having a Gentleman and other Servants to attend her Some time after he had been there at Nurse his Mother being desirous to see him took her Gentleman with her who at a place where she called by the Way to to pay a Visit desired to be excused for some small time from attending on her till he had dispatched some extraordinary Business which he pretended promising to return again immediately and having obtained her Permission away he went but like an ungrateful and treacherous Villain repaired immediately to Mr. Ghysens at Schiedam where the Princely Babe was nursed and pretending to be sent for that purpose to his Mother carried him and the Nurse both away His Lady waited his coming with abundance of patience but at length Night drawing on and no Gentleman appearing she began to suspect her self to be abused whereupon a Gentleman offering to wait on her thither she presently posted away and being arrived and finding her Son gone I want Words wherewith to express her grief and surprize she rent her Apparel tore the Hair from off her Head and with whole showers of Tears bewailed the greatness of her Loss and the deplorableness of her Condition yet suffered not Grief to prevail so far as to make her uncapable of endeavouring to Right her self whereupon she presently gave order for the providing Horses which being ready she presently posted away to Maesland-Sluce riding all Night she suspected that he was carried thither in order to be transported to England there having been some inquiry made after him she arrived there early in the Morning just as the Sieur Newport one of the Lords of the State and the Maesland were taking Boat for the Hague those that were with her advised her to make her Application to him as the likelieft Person to assist her telling her that he could English whereupon she addressed her self to him in that Languish discovering to him the Condition of her self and Son and the Relation they stood in to the King of England with the Circumstances of his stealing away and pulling out a handful of Gold If Money will do it said she I will spare for no Charges imploring his help and assistance for the recovery of that Royal Treasure this occasioned abundance of People flocking about them to learn the occasion of her Address wherefore he advised her to go into some House and make no noise about it lest she thereby

Necks To which he replied With all his Heart and then Sung with such Heavealy Joy that many present said it both broke and rejoyc'd their Hearts In the midst of which he clos'd his Eyes on a vain World Sept. 30th 1685. The next was one William Jenkin Condemn'd at the Bloody Assize at Dorchester Sept. the 29th at Night After he had heard he must die the next Day he was exceedingly compos'd and chearful expressing his Satisfaction in the Will of God. He us'd many Excellent Speeches before and at his Death Among the rest he said This manner of Death hath been the most terrible thing in the World to my Thoughts but I bess God now am I neither afraid nor asham'd to die When the Sheriff came to perform his Execution he was still as Compo●'d as ever and had the same Chearfulness and Serenity of Mind in taking Leave of his Friends and likewise in the Sledge insomuch that some of his Friends who had before Censur'd him thinking he had been unmindful of his Death by being so Chearful now profess'd they were rather Astonish'd to see so young a Man leave the World and go through Death as he did We come now to the most moving Scene of this horrid and barbarous Tragedy in the Death of the Lady Lisle above 80 Years of Age for only Corresponding with one Nelthrope and Dr. Hicks for which she was Beheaded at Winchester Her Speech made at her Execution is as follows The Last Speech of the Lady Alicia Lisle GEntlemen Friends and Neighbours it may be expected that I should say something at my Death and in order thereunto I shall acquaint you That my Birth and Education was both near this Place and that my Parents instructed me in the Fear of God and I now die of the Reformed Protestant Religion That if ever Popery should return into this Nation it would be a very great and severe Judgment That I die in Expectation of the Pardon of all my Sins and of Acceptance with God the Father by the imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ he being the end of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believes I thank God through Jesus Christ that I do depart unto the Blood of Sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel God hav●ng made this Chastisement an Ordinance to my Soul. I did once as little expect to come to this Place on this Occasion as any Person in this Place or Nation therefore let all learn not to be High-minded but fear The Lord is a Soveraign and will take what way he sees best to glorifie himself in and by his poor Creatures and I do humbly desire to submit to his Will praying to him That I may possess my Soul in Patience The Crime that was laid to my Charge was for Entertaining a Nonconformist Minister and others i● my House the said Minister being sworn to have been in the late Duke of Monmouth's Army but I have been told That if I had de●ied them it would not at all have affected me I have no Excuse but Surprize and Fear which I believe my Jury must make use of to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have been also told That the Court did use to be of Counsel for the Prisoner but instead of Advice I had Evidence against me from thence which though it were only by hear-say might possibly affect my Jury my Defence being but such as might be expected from a weak Woman but such as it was I did not bear it repeated again to the Jury which as I have been informed is usual in such C●ses However I forgive all the World and therein all those that have done me wrong and in ●●●ticular I forgive Colonel Penruddock although he told me that he could have taken these Men before they c●me to my House And I do likewise forgive him who desired to be taken away from the Grand Jury to the Petty Jury that he might be the more nearly concerned in my Death As to what may be objected in reference to my Conviction that I gave it under my Hand that I had Discoursed with Nelthrop that could be no Evidence against me being after my Conviction and Sentence I do acknowledge His Majesty's Favour in Revoking my Sentence I pray God to preserve him that he may long Reign in Mercy as well as Justice and that he may Reign in Peace and that the Protestant Religion may flourish under him I also return Thanks to Gd and the Reverend Clergy that assisted me in my Imprisonment ALICIA LISLE One Mrs. Graunt was the next that suffered in this Cause it was for harbouring one Burton his Wife and Family for which she was Sentenced to be Burnt and was accordingly so Executed on the 23d of October 1685. at which time she left her Murderers the following Memorial Mrs. Graunt's Speech written the Day before her Sufferings NOT knowing whether I should be suffered or able because of Weaknesses that are upon me through my hard and close Imprisonment to speak at the Place of Execution I writ these few Lines to signifie That I am well reconciled to the Way of my God towards me though it be in Ways I looked not for and by terrible Things yet in Righteousness having given me Life he ought to have the disposing of it when and how he pleases to call for it and I desire to offer up my All to him it being but my reasonable Service and also the first Terms that Jesus Christ offers that he that will be his Disciple must forsake all and follow him and therefore let none think hard or be discouraged at what hath happened unto me for he doth nothing without Cause in all he hath done to us he being holy in all his Ways and righteous in all his Works and 't is but my Lot in common with poor desolate Sion at this Day Neither do I find in my Heart the least Regret for what I have done in the Service of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ in succouring and securing any of his poor Sufferers that have shewed Favour in his righteous Cause Which Cause though now it be fallen and trampled upon as if it had not been anointed yet it shall revive and God will plead it at another Rate than ever he hath done yet and reckon with all its Opposers and malicious Haters and therefore let all that love and fear him not omit the least Duty that comes to Hand or lies before them knowing that now it hath need of them and expects they shall serve him And I desire to bless his holy Name that he hath made me useful in my Generation to the Comfort and Relief of many Desolate Ones and the Blessing of those that are ready to perish has come upon me and being helpt to make the Heart of the Widow to sing And I bless his holy Name that in all this together with what I was charged with I can approve my Heart to him that