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Animadversions upon the speech of William (late) Viscount Stafford on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, immediately before his execution, upon Wednesday, December, 1680 : plainly laying open the falacy of all his asseverations of his innocency : published to prevent the deceiving of Protestants.
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and as Innocent in the Judgment of many others But on the other hand if his Lordship or those executed before him had been so ingenuous to have confessed what they knew of this Hellish Plot they had broke the Neck of their own Design which seems dearer to them than their Lives or any other Concerns they had encouraged others of the Conspirators to have followed their Leaders herein and so the Plot had been wholly dissected and Popery it self in danger to be rendred odious to the whole Christian World and for ever hereafter to be abhorred and renounced by all that own the Christian Name as utterly repugnant to Christianity and to be abhorred by Mankind as that which bids Defiance to Humanity it self Having thus sufficiently answered those Passages in his Speech that assert his Innocency come we next to his false Commendation and Character of their Church In the third Paragraph saith he I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it teacheth nothing but the right worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to all Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant with the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected that the Church holds that Sovereign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope may by their Subjects be Deposed and Murdered as to the Murder of Princes I have been taught as a matter of Faith in the Catholick Faith that such Doctrinâ— is Diabolical Horrid and Detestable and contrary to the Law of Godâ— Nature and Nations and as such from my heart I renounce and abominate it As for the Doctrine of Deposing of Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as Able and Learned as they have writ against it but it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any Point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare that it is my True and Real Iudgment that the same Doctrine of Deposing Kings is contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom Injurious to Soveraign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of His Majesty's Subjects Impious and Damnable That their Church teacheth the contrary to the right Worship of God and Obedience to Kings is very easie to prove But it is a Work that hath been so often done already that here we shall wave it To come then to the nice Point viz. the King-killing Doctrine This is a Charge upon them of so horrid a nature that I do not wonder that they all use their utmost endeavours to perswade the World that they hold no such Doctrine That Mariana held it Gavan himself owned Sanctarelius his Book was a little more favourable to Kings than Mariana's and yet this was printed at Rome and approved by Mutius Viâ—ellescus the General of the Jesuits Ribadinera Scribanius under the name of Bonarscius Becanus Oresterus do partly praise and partly defend Mariana And wherein doth Emanuel Sâ— come short of Mariana in that particular or Becanus in his English Controvorsies which are approved of not only by divers Bishops but by the Provincial Jesuits of Portugal and Germany Yea a whole Vniversity approves of it To which add Fa. Campian who may be in stead of all he declares That all the Jesuits spread far and wide through the whole World have entred into a League to 〈…〉 they despair of effecting it so long as one Jesuit remains in the World In Epist ad Concâ—l Reg. Angl. p. 22. The Church of Rome doth declare that the Pope hath power to depose Kings especially for Heresie This is not only the Opinion of all sorts of their Authors but is especially determined by their Popes and the Decrees of General Councils They do also declare that Kings being Deposed any one may kill them at least by the Pope's Order For this we have the declared Sense of the whole Body of the Jesuits in France than whom 〈…〉 Society in any part of the World were more favourable to Kings in an Apology for their Doctrine on this Subject to Henry the Fourth yet there they declare in the words 〈…〉 to the Doctrine of Aquanis 〈…〉 and others That a 〈…〉 Authority may be killed by any one Now there is none of them who have the use of Reason will deny but a King deposed by the Pope is such a Tyrant a meer Usurper without such a just Title and therefore they cannot deny but it is their Doctrineâ—â— That a King Deposed by the Pope may be killed by any one In the Seventh and Sixteenth Paragraphs he prays for the King acknowledging him His Lawful King and Soveraign and denying that any Power on Earth can Legally allow him or any Body else to lift up a Hand against his Legaâ—â—uthority and then Praying for him that he may enjoy all Happiness in this World and the World to come He would undoubtedly have it thought that he had no design to kill the King who can pray for his prosperous Reign But it need not seem strange that any of them should Equivocate in their way of Praying since their Church allows of plain Lyes in their publick Liturgies which divers of their own Authors express themselves sensible of To give one instance of this in Fâ— Garnet he composed some Prayers for the good Success of the Powder Plot which he used amongst his Party and being charged with it answered like such a Jesuit He said He made not those Prayers with that meaning that the thing might fall out according to the mind of the Conspirators but rather cross to their desires that so the Safety of King and Kingdom might be provided for So that when he prayed for the Ruin of the King and Kingdom his meaning was that they might be preserved and prosper So when any of this sort of Men I mean Romish Zealots pray for the King 's prosperous Reign why may not their meaning be his utter Destruction For this is altogether as likely as the other One thing is observable that in his Prayer for the King he twice comes in with the word Legal So in the sixth Paragraph He would discover if he knew of an Illegal Dangerous Plot. But the Question will here be what he means by Legal and Illegal By their Principles if the King be Excommunicated his Authority is not Legal and therefore the Plot against him not Illegal This Artifice though the thing be false in it self yet it may be innocently asserted by him His Temper at Death was none of the most Christianlike for he could not forbear though he pretendedly forgave them villifying the Witnesses against him by calling them Perjured Fellows But what better can be expected from such Men. And he seems designedly to intimate that his Tryal was Illegal by this subtil Insinuation I shall say little to my Tryal and whether it were all according to the known Law I am too much a Party to say much of it If it were not so God forgive him or them that were the Cause of it Certainly never Man had a more Honourable Just and Legal Tryal and consequently less Cause for such a Malicious Insinuation To conclude We have great reason to believe that this Speech was contrived for the promoting of their grand Plot upon which as a true Be-Jesuited Zealot his Heart was so much set the Catholick Interest being so deeply concerned in it that the thoughts of Death could not divert him Now if we are found so Weak and Fragile as to believe these fraudulent Expressions of this Lord and others that were Executed before him against so much Rational Evidence then their Work is in a manner done and they will do more at their Deaths by putting out our Eyes than they could in all their Lives We cannot in Justice Reason or Charity believe them against Such Evidence who think they may Lawfully deceive us when dying and apprehend it to be the great Interest of their Cause so to do FINIS LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin near the Bull in the Old Baly 1680.
ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM LATE Viscount Stafford ON THE SCAFFOLD ON TOWER-HILL Immediately before his Execution upon Wednesday December 1680. Plainly laying open the FALACY of all HIS ASSEVERATIONS OF HIS INNOCENCY Published to prevent the deceiving of Protestants The Second Edition with Additions London Printed for Richard Baldwin in Ball Court near the Black Bull in the Old-baily MDCLXXXI THE PREFACE THere having been such a multitude of these Speeches Printed and published my self having seen no fewer then four several sorts viz. Two in a half sheet one in a whole sheet and one in two sheets and the Vulgar being so apt to be deceived it was thought highly necessary to send abroad some Animadversions upon them How they are done I leave others to Judge and satisfie my self with the honesty of my intentions which were the undeceiving of those who so easily believed dying mens words without considering their principles That the Church of Rome allows those of her Communion to say what is false yea to Swear what is false and this when they say and Swear to others that they do nei speak nor swear falsely nor use any Equivocation or Mental Reservation I have fully proved in the following Papers from their own approved Authors I have also proved that they allow the denying what it most true and assenting what is most false with the most dreadful and solemnest Oaths and Imprecations and that they may without any scruple endeavour to deceive others by the use of such falsness as at other times so even when they are dying It will be needless here to give any account of his deportment upon the Scaffold there being a Paper published relating all the circumstances of it only two or three Passages out of that Paper we will take leave to transcribe After his Speech which he read out of a Paper and after Prayer in English and Lat in standing up he spake these words I beseech thee God not to avenge my Innocent Blood upon any man in the whole Kingdom no not against those who by their Perjuries have brought me here for I profess before Almighty God that I never combined against the Kings life nor any bodies else but whatever I did was only to procure Liberty for the Protestant Dissenters and the Romish Religion And as for the Duke of York I do here declare upon my Salvation I know of no Design that he ever had against the King but hath ever behaved himself as a Loving Loyal Brother ought to do so now upon my Salvation I have said true all that I have said I pray God bless the King and bless you all especially the Kings Loyal Subjects for I know you have a good and Gracious King as ever Reigned God forgive me my sins I forgive all the world even those Fellows that brought me here and I pray God send them no worse Punishment then to tell the Truth and so God bless you all Then a Minister telling him he had disowned the Indulgences of the Romish Church he passionately replyed I do say that the Church of Rome allows no Indulgences for Murder Lying c. And whatever I have said is true and being asked if he had receiv'd no Absolution answered I have received none at all I shall not stuff this Preface with any Animadversions on these Passages having done it on the like in the Book it self to which I refer the Reader and then if unprejudiced leave him to judge whether any Credit is to be given to the Dying words of this sort of men ADVERTISEMENT There is published a Large Broad-side engraven on a Copper Plate entituled The popish Damnable plot against our Religion and Liberties in several of its Branches lively delineated with an account of the manner of the Excecution of William Late Viscount Stafford in Tower-hill price 4d sold by Richard Baldwin in the Old-baily ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE LAST SPEECH OF William Viscount Stafford WHO WAS BEHEADED ON TOWER-HILL FOR HIGH TREASON In Conspiring the Death of the King c. on Wednesday December 29th 1680. DYing mens words are generally much regarded and Protestants who make Conscience of their own words and count it a Horrid Crime to speak otherwise than they think when they are dying may be ready to take the measures of others by themselves and to Judge those guiltless who when they are dying assert their Innocency with the highest asseverations But they will find very great reason to alter their opinion if they take but due notice how very clear the Evidence was by which this miserable Lord was cast and if withal they do but fully understand the Popish Principles which destroy all confidence in their words living and dying Fully to convince Protestants my design shall be to prove that by the common Doctrine receiv'd amongst them they are furnished with expedients whereby they may deny what is most true and affirm what is most notoriously false and that with the most solmn Oaths or dreadfullest Imprecations and yet neither lie nor be forsworn nor any way sin in the least degree and this they may do even when dying Their main artifice is that which they call Mental Equivocation because of a double sense in some proposition partly exprest and partly referv'd in their minds so that a thing may be true in their own sense by vertue of this Mental Reservation but false in the sense of all that hear it The use of this is allowed by all sorts of Papists and perticularly the Jesuits it is an Art more dear to them and oftener used by them then any other fraudulent art whatever because this fraud is more easie less discernable and the advantage of it admirable and therefore no wonder that they do not decline it at Trials in Courts of Judicature No nor when they are dying and approaching the Tribunial of the Great Judge tho truth and sincerity is then if every necessary But this our Poor deceased Lord hath more pertinent instances of those of his Principles and Circumstances to encourage him with Oaths and Asseverations to assert a falshood and deny the Truth To instance in their Practises Father Garnet Whitebreads Predecessor in Office and Practices and one concerned in the Gunpowder Plot was notoriously guilty herein for he denied that by solemn Oaths and Impretations before the Lords Commissioners which was afterwards proved upon him and his only Plea for himself was this Doctrine of Equivocation So likewise Tresham another of the Powder Plotters said that Garnet was privy to the Treason but afterwards just before his death took it upon his Salvation that he had accused Garnet wrongfully and that he had not seen him of sixteen years before and so dyed But this his Protestation and Oath was soon after proved notoriously false yea Garnet himself confessed that within sixteen years he had seen him many times whereupon being asked what be thought of Treshams dying Oath and Protestation he answered Possibly Tresham meant to