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A45670	The last words of a dying penitent being an exact account of the passages, proceedings, and reasons on which was grounded the first suspicion of his being concerned in the bloody, inhumane murder of Dr. Clinch, on the 4th of January 1691, between the hours of nine and eleven, with a brief observation on what was sworn by most of the witnesses against him, for which he was executed on the 15th on April 1692 ... / written with his own hand after condemnation, Hen. Harrison.	Harrison, Henry, d. 1692.	1692 (1692)	Wing H892; ESTC R3657	20,951	33

some Body else would not let her meddle in such a dangerous Business God forgive her she did my Business and God forgive them that put her upon it As to that Person who swore I said I was but just come out of Kent and had been out of Town a Fortnight or three Weeks God forgive him I leave it to his own Conscience and pray to God that he would reform his Course of Life I do not say this as a Reflection God forbid I should but rather as an Exhortation that if he reads this he may repent himself of the Wrongs done me And as for the Person who swore against me of my being at his Lodgings exactly at 9 a Clock which was the occasion of my unhappy Death being false for it was at 8 which I convinced him of in Prison upon Circumstances God Almighty pardon him and lay it to his Heart that he may truly repent himself and withal let him remember the Bond He knows my meaning I have writ these Remarks upon my Tryal which will be insignificant to Strangers for they will be scarcely understood by any but the Parties concerned who have falsly sworn against me And God in his due time touch their Hearts that they may sincerely repent themselves and I freely forgive them as I hope God in his Infinite Mercy will do me at the last Day Amen I have one thing to add That after my Condemnation the next day a most scandalous Pamphlet came out Entituled An Impartial Account of the Notorious Wicked Life of Captain Harrison One Passage in it I must take Notice of which is this My Rascally Behaviour towards the Duke of Monmouth when he suffered on Tower Hill I thank my God no one could be more sorry than my self for his unhappy end As to the rest of it being so scandalous that all my Friends Gentlemen and Acquaintance know to the contrary But it is hard that for the Lucre of a Penny a Man dares write so many Lies but God forgive them that did it for he would have writ the same upon his own Brother upon the like Occasion I have writ this chiefly for my Relations Friends and Acquaintance who I do not fear but that they will believe me And as for the rest of the World I leave it to them to judge as they please till it shall please God to bring to Light this black Deed of Darkness which he certainly will at his good appointed time Not our Will but his be done And now to conclude The greatest thing that grieves me as to this World is My Relations but let this be their Comfort as well as my Happiness That I am Wronged and that I am Innocent and I do heartily beg of God to forgive those that falsly Swore against me and more particularly that Person who was the first Author of the Suspicion For I do bless the day wherein I was falsly Accused for by that means I was brought to a sight of my former Sins and do acknowledge it is God's Justice and just Judgment for which I give Praise to his Holy Name that I have this time to bewail and repent my self of all my Sins begging Pardon of all those I have any ways wrong'd forgiving heartily every one that has wronged me even those I do most heartily forgive who are the occasion of my Death as I hope God will forgive me and receive me unto his Everlasting Kingdom through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ his only Son my Lord and Saviour Amen Comfortable Sayings in the Holy Scripture on which I rely and put my Confidence and Trust in through Jesus Christ my Saviour At the first opening of the Holy Bible after the lying down upon the Ground in the Condemned Hole after being found Guilty ISAIAH III. ARise shine for the light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people but the Lord shall rise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee for in my wrath I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee glory to be to thee for this thy comfort O Lord. PSALM LXXI 3. Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man vers 6 I am become as a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee vers 9 For my enemies speak agianst me and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him Vers 10 Go not far from me O God my God haste thee to help me Vers 23 My Lips be fain when I sing unto thee and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered O God I faithfully trust in thee to deliver me and believe thou wilt not forsake me but that thou wilt in this my Trouble make haste to help me MATTHEW XI 28. Come unto me all you that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest O Lord I confess I am heavy loaden with my Sins but I trust in thee that thou wilt ease me and that thou wilt give Rest to my Sick Sinful Soul O cleanse it with the precious Blood of my Saviour MATTHEW XVII 11. For the Son of Man is come to save that which was lost c. O Jesus Christ my Saviour I firmly believe thou wilt save me for I was lost to thee but now am found thanks be to God my Saviour 1 TIMOTH I. 15. This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners Glory be to thee O God I heartily believe 〈◊〉 and that thou camest to save Sinners and me the greatest of Sinners Now into thy Hands I commend my Sp●●●t Mr. Harrison's Letter to his Friend Dear Cousin NOw accept of any hearty thanks for all your and your Wife's Services and loving Kindnesses and God Almighty reward you I am now preparing my self for another World and do heartily forgive all my Enemies There were four of my Witnesses that did not appear one Mr. White and his Wife the Maid of the House where I was and one Mrs. Fairlace let not God lay my Blood to their Charge and God forgive all those that swore falsly against me And whether before my Execution or after God is pleased to bring to Light this Murder I am sure he will do it then the World will know my Wrongs In the mean Time I resign my Soul and Body to him who is a just God and by this Means will bring me to himself This Affliction is a great one and more than Human Nature can bear but I trust in him that he will not lay more on me than he will give me the Grace if his Holy Spirit to undergo and indeed I look upon it as a Fatherly Chastisement for whom he loves he chastises For if I had my Deserts he might have taken me in the midst of all my Sins and have rewarded me with the Punishment of the everlasting Prison Hell prepared for all impenitent Sinners but I hope he will give me the Grace of his Holy Spirit to repent my self of all my Sins which I have and do and shall with the Help of him with an Humble Lowly and Obedient Heart and not in the least Cloak or Dissemble them before my Heavenly Father who gave up his only begotten Son to die for Sinners and me the greatest And I hope he will give me his Grace to follow his Example who was falsly Accused Condemned and suffered a shameful Death upon the Cross I being now falsly accused and to suffer a shameful Death at which Time I sincerely and heartily beg of him to support me which I trust in God he will humbly begging Pardon and confessing the Sins I have been guilty of Now one thing I beg of you for Christ his sake That you will take it from me a dying Man without the least Hopes of Pardon here from any Mortal Man That I am Innocent Clear and Free in Thought Word and Deed of this Bloody Barbarous unheard of Murther the which several Times I have protested to you my Innocence and for which I do suffer surely knowing and certainly believing no Salvation can be had from Almighty God the Searcher of Hearts to any one who at the Hour of Death dies with a Lie in his Mouth therefore desire your Prayers for me being really Innocent and all other good Christians Prayers That God Almighty will be pleased to bring to Light this Bloody Deed not when we would have him but at his own appointed Time not our Will but his be done And I beg of you let me see you for I have desired That you and Cosen C and a Divine or two and no Body else may come to me for I will not now Discourse any Persons relating to Worldly Affairs but what may tend for the Salvation of my poor Soul So recommending you to God I rest The most Wronged Man the most Unhappy Man as to this World yet one of the most Happy Men through Christ my Saviour in whom I trust for my Eternal Salvation HEN. HARRISON FINIS

got in to be Trustee he got her to sign a Deed particularly a Covenant in the Deed was to this or like effect That after the Death of Mrs. Vauricke and her 4 Children the Estate to come to him and his Heirs Upon which I often used to say That he designed to break the Widdows Heart and Starve the Children that the Estate might come to him and his Son Now Row being Trustee and also having a Deed from the Dr. for which he was glad he domineered and ranted about saying That he had Houses in Buckingham Court and kept the poor Woman under that she durst not do any thing neither could she by reason of his being Trustee and also having that Deed from the Dr. But now I knowing the abuses done the poor Woman and that she could never get him to come to any Account she applied her self to me again to right her if I could by any means Upon which I went to Mr. Fairbeard and told him what had past and that Mr. Row was an ill man and that we could never get him to come to any Account as he promised he would do in his hearing at Sir Francis Child's Shop he being then present Mr. Fairbeard said he could not believe it for Mr. Row was a man of Credit and Reputation and as he told him he was an Attorny of the Common-Pleas I made answer that he was no such man but an Impostor and a Cheat whereupon he advised me to go to Mr. Cooke the Prothonotary at the Temple and search whether he was an Attorney of the Common-Pleas or no and if he was not I should take a Summons from my Lord Chief Justice and he would come and justifie he own'd himself to be an Attorney of the Common-Pleas and so by that means have him turned out from being Trustee Now I finding him not to be so I did take out a Summons from my Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and Mr. Row meeting me according to the Summons desired me to let him alone and he would come to an Account and deliver up his Trust and do any thing else I would have him and this he promised before Mr. Hales of the Temple an Attorny of the Common Pleas but for 3 weeks or a month after we could neither see nor hear of him till one came and informed us that he was to be a Witness in Westminster-Hall and there we had a Summons from my Lord Chief Justice Holt to appear before him which was done And being before my Lord we had a small hearing of the Cause as I may call it for we had there Mr. Lloyd of the Temple our Counsel and my Lord hearing what was alledged against him told him that he was an ill man and said thus to Row You are a fine Fellow to be a Trustee My Lord finding that he was a Trustee made in Chancery advised us to make an end and spoke thus to Mr. Lloyd As you are her Counsel let Mr. Row take another and make an end for the poor Woman will be ruined or to this effect Mr. Row readily answer'd he would and that he would bring Mr. H. any one may judge the meaning of that The time and place being appointed Mr. Lloyd the Widow and my self went there where we met Mr. Row and 2 or 3 Fellows of his Gang but no Mr. H. was there Mr. Row said what should I have Counsel I can do my business my self Mr. Lloyd told him he was not to argue the Case with him but Mr. H. and they two were to make an end if they could agree whereupon Mr. Lloyd was angry with him and went away So that he was then upon the Hide and Seek again putting us every day to great Expences for he did not care to part with his Trusteeship And for us to come to my Lord Chief Justice again would put the Widow to more Charges and that my Lord could do nothing in it because he was a Trustee in Chancery Now what to do we could not tell but we then petitioned the Lords Commissioners and Mr. Serjeant Tremayne our Counsel Upon hearing what was alledged against the said Mr. Row the Lord Commissioner Rawlinson said it was the most barbarous Case he ever heard Pray note That Row was to appear that day but durst not knowing the Villany that he had committed whereupon by an Order of Court a Messenger was ordered to take Mr. Row into Custody the Petition and Orders ought to be inserted here but that my little time I have to live ought to be otherwise employed Now after the Messenger was awarded against him he absconded himself from his Dwelling-house and all other places he then used so that the Messenger of the Chancery Mr. Bush and my self daily hunting after him for near the space of a month but could not take him Pray observe here that this was in April 1691. and also observe that from Christmas before till that time Mr. Row daily and hourly threatned to seise her Goods and take possession and she did leave her House for fear of it for some little time expecting to be relieved by the Lords Commissioners but she left her Children and Maid in possession Now Row by force entred without any manner of Law for he turned the Children out of Doors and sold the Bed from under them and took the rest of the Goods that were in the House Now is the time that Dr. Clinch's Name comes to be mentioned and I beg of you observe I will make it as clear as I can and speak nothing but the Truth to the best of my Knowledg and as I hope to see God in Glory Now when Mr. Row had turned the poor Fatherless Children out of Doors c. Then the Widow applied her self to the Dr. and told him what had past and wondered why he would not keep the Security in his own hands but make it over to Row Said she to the Dr. I dare trust you with all I have in the World I am now using endeavours to get Row turned out of his Trusteeship and bring him to an Account for the money he owes me and the Goods he has wronged me of for he twice robbed the House of the Locks Keys and Bolts under pretence of his being Trustee I hope no body can call it any thing else but Robbery when she owed him nothing but he was in her Debt 50 l. or thereabouts and she could not take the Law of him because he was her Trustee So that the Widow solicited the Dr. several times with a great many Prayers and Supplications to stand her Friend till such time as he was righted in Chancery And now was the time that Row applied himself to the Dr. and insinuated himself so far into the Doctors favour as to make him believe that it was all false and that he was the wronged man and that she owed him a great deal of moneys and withall told him that it was not