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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01781	A brief history of the memorable passages and transactions, that have attended the life, and untimely death, of the unfortunate Sir John Johnstoun, who was executed at Tyburn, on the 23d. of December 1690 for stealing Mistress Mary Wharton. Together with his behaviour in prison, and what he wrote there, touching the matter for which he dyed: with his pious exhortations, and dying expressions, &c. With a short elogie, / written by an impartial hand, upon this melancholly occasion.	Johnston, John, Sir, d. 1690.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4598C; ESTC R176241	6,107	22

they have for bringing me to this untimely End On Fryday Morning being the day she was taken way about ten of the Clock Captain Campbel and Mr. Montgomery came to my Lodging with a Haunch of Venison I asked them what they were going to do Mr. Montgomery told me it was to treat Maddam Biarly and the rest of the young Ladies And that he would have Captain Campbel Married to one of them this night And asked me if I would go and be a Witness to it I told him it must be by consent or I would have nothing to do with it He told him that if he did not procure her consent he would not meddle with it And so we parted he desiring me to come and meet him at six of the Clock at a Coffie-house near his Lodging which I did and met Captain Campbel there and sometimes afterwards Mr. Montgomry came and called us to the door and told us The Business was done About 8 of the Clock Madam Biarly's Coach came by and they went all away Captain Campbel called a Coach and Six Horses and bid us go in and ordeted the Coach-man to drive after her Coach and stop in Great Queens street When she was put into the Coach as I am a Dying Man and now receive the Sacrament I could perceive no discomposure in her at all For after some time spent by Mr. Campbel in his Amours she began to talk of my Lord Argyle and told us that she had seen some of his Children at Ham that he was Married to the Dutches of Lauderdales Daughter and asked him if he were the second Brother Upon some Discourse which I do not well remember she gave him here hand that she would marry him This good Humour continued still with her so that when the Parson desired her to say the Words after him she spake with so Audible a Voice that the People in the Room heard her louder than the Minister After the Ceremony was over it was observed that her Wedding-Ring was too bigg Her Husband told her he would change it to morrow She said No it is not Lucky to change a Wedding-Ring At Supper there was nothing to be observved but an equal Satisfaction between both When it was asked her whether she inclined to Bed she freely consented The next morning when we came and asked them how they rested she in particular answered Very Well About 10 of the Clock Mr. Montgomery asked her if she would go to Mr. Pontac's to Dinner she said With all her Heart Where we went and stayed till 4 in the Afternoon and the House full of People Then we went to our Lodgings and played at Cards till half an hour after 9 Then she went to Bed with all the seeming pleasantness imaginable This is the Truth and no more as I am a Dyng Man Neither truely was it ever my intention or design to be a Witness of any thing that would look like a Force Neither indeed was there any occasion for it she being so very frank and free of her self to the Marriage I forgot to tell you I desired her in the Coach not to be afraid of any thing for I told her there should be nothing of Force imposed upon her she told me she was not at all afraid of that she wrote likewayes to her Aunt freely a Letter Desiring she might not be troubled for her for she was very well with her Husband Captain Campbel c. And in this he persevered upon his frequent taking the Sacrament And at the time of Execution he likewayes wrote a Letter to shew a Christian Temper wherein he expressed himself heartily willing freely to forgive those that had injured him intreating and requesting his Friends to rest satisfied c. During his continuance in Prison after Condemnation he sent for several Eminent Divines to assist him with Consolation and Comfort and to prepare him for another World Appearing wholly to set himself about the Great Work he had to do in making sure his Peace for an Eternal Consolation He was oft in Meditations and Prayers expressing his own vileness and unworthiness for the sins he had committed against GOD through the frailty of Youth and the corruption of Nature Earnestly begging that he might be throughly washed and cleansed in the Blood of JESUS CHRIST that so his pollutions being done away he might at the end of his Life enter into one more Glorious and so he continued to wean himself from worldly things and fix his thoughts upon everlasting Joyes and have his eyes up to the Place whither he hoped he was hastening He shewed a very even Temper and Disposition and received the Counsel and Cordial Advice that was given him with much heed and attention and made all manner of visible Improvement of it receiving the Notice that he must prepare for Execution with great mildness and less concern than was expected upon the approach of such mellancholy News On Tuesday morning about eleven of the Clock he was put into a Mourning Coach and followed by a Herse to bring back the Body he was attended by two worthy Divines and was so far from fear of death that before he came out of the prison he blessed God that his Mind was so well satisfied and by the Grace of God he was so prepared to die that if a Reptive should come it would do him an injury rather than a kindness And when he came to the place of Execution one of his friends by the Coach side told him that he then came from the King and no Reprive could be obtained for him at which he did not in the least seem moved being come out of the Coach and standing in a Cart he made a very long speech to the people mostly relating to the Circumstances that attend the unhappy Accident that had occasioned his coming thither in all the Matterial points agreeing with what is mentioned in his Letter And then came to his Exhortaion in these or as near as could be taken like words His Pious Exhortations and dying Expressions c. Gentlemen I Must now exhort you to be carefull for the Salvation of your own precious Souls Gentlemen He that has been a bred Souldier has not perhaps Lived so strick to the Rules of Christianity as some other Men. I confess I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and have done those things which I ought not to have done But however Let me intreat you that you would remember your Latter end I pray God that none of you all may come to an Vntimely End yet remember that you must come to an end your time must have a period I bless God my Life and Conversation has not been so odious and obnoxious to the World nor I hope in the Sight of God but that I have Confidence in his Mercy and I hope that these Divines have been with me can justifie that there is nothing that hath come from me but what hath proceeded from a true and penitent Heart And I begg that you would offer up your Prayers to the Throne of Grace for me because no man can say he does not bear the Prayers of the Righteous for GOD hides all men to pray and not to faint Well Gentlemen He that made Heaven and Earth keep and defend you from all Misfortunes from the power of death and hell and then you need not fear for Christ is able to save to the uttermost all that come to him Therefore offer up Prayer not only for your selves but for me who am a dying Man Having said thus much the Ministers prayed with him then he prayed to himself and read two prayers in a book called A form of prayers for Prisoners then read the 15 and the 103 Psalms and having prayed again he put on his cap and took his last leave of the Spectators in a most humble manner recommending them to the Protection of Almighty GOD desiring the concurrence of their prayers to the last breath and after he had given the sign to be turned of the Cart in the midst of Prayer pious Ejaculations drew away and left his Soul to the arms of his Merciful Redeemer Few eyes that beheld the sad spectacle refraining from tears to see a Gantleman so untimely cut off in the prime and strength of his days being cut down His body was put into the Conffin and conveyed away in the herse and the next day he was Interred Thus Reader have we given you a brief Account of the matterial Circum stances that have attended the Life of this Gentleman to his Unfortunate Grave recommending to the perpetual and serious Consideration of either Sex they may pray God to keep them from such misfortunes Amen A short ELOGIE by an impartial Hand on the untimely Fall of Sir John Johnston WHat melancholly thoughts should now arise Here sighs suffice not this requires wet eyes Years are the least of Tribute we can pay When in the prime of Life Life 's snatcht away Ah! Johnstoun thou art gone misfortunes hand Has brake the Glass and seatter'd thy frail Sand Grim Death an envy'd Triumph has obtain'd A too too early Conquest he has gain'd So have I seen a blushing Rose look gay And scatter'd sweets in Focus's fragrant way When suddenly a blastring Wind hereaves Her of her Glory withering her Leaves What made thee haste to an untimely date I was friendship that deserv'd a better fate But here 's the Comfort Heaven perhaps decreed That you from Earth should this hard way be freed Rather then by Disease or lingring pain And in full vigour storm the Starry plain Break through the Azure Battlements by Prayer The Valiant by force are seated there Your pious end did you a Souldier show To fight for Heaven as well as Earth below Go then unenvy'd to the Realms above Ne'er more to fall a Sacrifice to Love Love there Refin'd remains no better seed Do's mix its Corn to rear a bainful weed That like wild Gourds do's in the Pot crowd Death To make what shou'd give Life expell our breath Epitaph REader consider e're you Censure pass Tho' Death untimely break this brittle Glass Pitty at least must make you drop a tear When such misfortune on Earth's Stage appear Say humane frailty brought him to his end And in condoling shew your self a Friend FINIS