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death_n	eternal_a	sin_n	temporal_a	8,837	5	8.6794	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31231	The compendium, or, A short view of the late tryals in relation to the present plot against His Majesty and government with the speeches of those that have been executed : as also an humble address, at the close, to all the worthy patriots of this once flourishing and happy kingdom.	Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing C1241; ESTC R5075	90,527	89

and Protestation and every part thereof in the Plain and Ordinary Sense wherein the same stands Written as they are commonly understood by English Protestants and the Courts of Justice of England without any Evasion or Equivocation or Delusion or Mental Reservation whatsoever And without any Dispensation or Pardon or Absolution already granted to me for this or any other purpose by the Pope or any other Power Authority or Person whatsoever Or without any hope expectation or desire of any such Dispensation and without thinking or believing that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man or absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any other Person or persons or Power or Authority whatsoever should dispence with Or take upon him or them to dispence with or Annul the same Or declare that it was or is or ought to be Null or Void in part or in the whole from the beginning or otherwise howsoever Having made this Declaration and Protestation in the most plain Terms that I can possibly imagin to express my sincere Loyalty and Innocency and the clear intention of my Soul I leave it to the Judgment of all Good and Charitable persons whether they will believe what is here in this manner affirmed and sworn by me in my present Circumstances or what is sworn by my Accusers I do now farther declare That I die a member though an unworthy one of that Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church of Christ mentioned in the Three Holy and publick Creeds of which Church our Lord Jesus Christ is the Invisible Head of Influence to illuminate guide protect and govern it by his Holy Spirit and Grace and of which Church the Bishop of Rome as the Successor of St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles is the visible Head of Government and Unity I take it to be clear That my Religion is the sole cause which moved my Accusers to charge me with the Crime for which upon their Evidence I am adjudged to die and that my being of that Religion which I here prosess was the only ground which could give them any hope to be believed or which could move my Ju●●y to believe the Evidence of such men I have had not only a Pardon but also great Advantages as to preferments and Estates offered unto me since this Judgment was against me in case I would have forsaken my Religion and owned my self guilty of the Crime charged against me and charged the same Crimes upon others But blessed be my God who by his Grace hath preserved me from yeilding to those Temptations and strengthened me rather to choose this death than to stain my Soul with sin and to charge others against truth with Crimes of which I do not know that any person is guilty Having said what concerns me to say as to my self I now humbly beseech God to bless the Kings Majesty with all temporal and eternal Blessings and to preserve Him and His Government from all Treasons and Traitors whatsoever and that his Majesty may never fall into such hands as His Royal Father of Glorious Memory fell into I also humbly beseeh thee O God to give true Repentance and Pardon to all my Enemies and most particularly to the said Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe and to all who have been any ways accessary to the taking away of my Life and the shedding of my Innocent Blood or to the preventing the King's Mercy from being extended unto me and likewise to all those who rejoyced at the Judgment given against me or at the Execution of the said Judgment and to all those who are or shall be so unchristianly uncharitable as to disbelieve and to refuse to give credit unto my now Protestations And I beseech thee O my God to bless this whole Nation and not to lay the guilt of my Blood unto the charge of this Nation or of any other particular person or persons of this Nation Unite all O my God unto thee and thy Church by true Faith Hope and Charity for thy mercies sake And for all those who have shewed Charity to me I humbly beg O my Jesus that thou wilt reward them with all Blessings both temporal and eternal 13 July 1679. R. Langhorn Mr. Langhorns's Speech at the time of Execution WHen the Hangman was putting the Rope over his Head he took it into his hands and kissed it Afterwards He said I would gladly speak to Mr. Sheriff HOW who coming up to him he addressed himself thus Mr. Sheriff I having some doubt whether I should be suffered to speak in relation to my Innocency and Loyalty I did for that Reason prepare what I had to say and what I intended to say in Writing and it is delivered into your hands Mr. Sheriff and therefore for the particular and precise Words and Expressions I do refer my self to that and I hope you will be so just to my Memory that you will permit it to be seen I shall therefore make only a short Preface and I do declare in the Presence of the Eternal God and as I hope to be saved by the Merits and Death of my dear Jesus That I am not Guilty directly or indirectly of any Crime that was sworn against me I do not speak this to Arraign the Court of Publick Justice either Judges or Jury but those Men that did swear it and the Jury had liberty to believe or not believe as they pleased And I do like wise say with the same Averrment That I did never in my Life see any Commission or Patent or any Writing or any other Thing under the hand of Johannes Paulus de Oliva c. S. Nor under no other Hand L. No nor under any other Hand of any Commission or Patents for the Raising of an Army or any Thing else against the King S. What was the Patent for for Nothing L. I never saw any nor do I believe there was any And whereas I have read in a Narrative that I sent a Commission by my Son to the Lord Arundel of Warder and that I delive'rd another to the Lord Petre or Petres with my own hands I take God to Witness that I never knew him in my life or ever to my knowledge saw the face of that Lord nor did I send or know of any thing that was sent to my Lord Arundel of Warder of that nature S. Shorten your business you have Mr. Langhorn and your Party so many ways to Equivocate and after Absolution you may say any thing L. I refer my self to that Paper I gave you Mr. Sheriff S. I think it is not fit to be Printed I will do you no wrong L. I do not think you will S. You have already printed a Paper or some body for you L. Sir I did not Print it and it was done without any Direction or Permission of mine The Lord preserve his Majesty from all manner of Treason and preserve Him from falling into such Hands as His Royal Father

or believe nor can as a Catholick believe that it is lawful upon any occasion or pretence whatsoever to design or contrive the Death of His Majesty or any hurt to his Person but on the contrary all are bound to obey defend and preserve his Sacred Person to the utmost of their power And I do moreover declare that this is the true and plain sence of my Soul in the sight of him who knows the Secrets of my Heart and as I hope to see his blessed Face without any Equivocation or mental Reservation This is all I have to say concerning the matter of my Condemnation that which remains for me now to do is to recommend my Soul into the hands of my blessed Redeemer by whose only Merit and Passion I hope for Salvation Mr. Hartcourt's speech THE words of dying persons have been always esteem'd as of greatest Authority because uttered then when shortly after they are to be cited before the high Tribunal of Almighty God This gives me hopes that mine may be look'd upon as such therefore I do here declare in the presence of Almighty God the whole Court of Heaven and this numerous Assembly that as I hope by the Merits and Passion of my Lord and sweet Saviour JESUS CHRIST for Eternal Bliss I am as innocent as the Child unborn of any thing laid to my charge and for which I am here to die Sher. How Or Sir Edmund-Bury Godfry's Death Hartcourt Or Sir Edmund-Bury Godfry's Death Sher. How Did not you Write that Letter concerning the Dispatch of Sir Edmund Bury Godfry Harcourt No Sir These are the Words of a dying man I would not do it for a Thousand Worlds Sher. How How have you lived Harcourt I have lived like a Man of repute all my life and never was before the Face of a Judge till my Tryal No man can accuse me I have from my Youth been bred up in the Education of my Duty towards God and Man Harcourt And I do utterly abhor and detest that abominable false Doctrine laid to our charge that we can have Licenses to commit Perjury or any sin to advantage our cause being expresly against the Doctrine of St. Paul saying Non sunt facienda mala ut eveniant bona Evil is not to be done that good may come thereof And therefore we hold it in all cases unlawful to Kill or Murder any person whatsoever much more our lawful King now Reigning whose personal and Temporal Dominions we are ready to defend with our Lives and Fortunes against any Opponent whatsoever none excepted I forgive all that have contriv'd my Death and humbly beg pardon of Almighty God for them And I ask pardon of all the World I pray God bless His Majesty and grant him a prosperous Reign The like I wish to his Royal Consort the best of Queens I humbly beg the Prayers of all those who are in the Communion of the Roman Church if any such be present Mr. Turner's Speech BEing now good People very near my End and summon'd by a violent Death to appear before God's Tribunal there to render an account of all my thoughts words and actions before a just Judge I conceive I am bound in Conscience to do my self that Justice as to declare upon Oath my Innocence from the horrid Crime of Treason with which I am falsely accused And I esteem it a Duty I owe to Christian Charity to publish to the World before my death all that I know in this point concerning those Catholicks I have conversed with since the first noise of the Plot desiring from the bottom of my heart that the whole Truth may appear that Innocence may be clear'd to the great Glory of God and the Peace and Welfare of the King and Country As to my self I call God to VVitness that I was never in my whole life present at any Consult or Meeting of the Jesuits where any Oath of Secrecy was taken or the Sacrament as a Bond of secresy either by me or any one of them to conceal any Plot against His Sacred Majesty nor was I ever present at any Meeting or Consult of theirs where any proposal was made or Resolve taken or signed either by me or any of them for taking away the Life of our dread Soveraign an impiety of such a nature that had I been present at any such Meeting I should have been bound by the Laws of God and by the Principles of my Religion and by God's Grace would have acted accordingly to have dicovered such a devilish Treason to the civil Magistrate to the end they might have been brought to condign punishment I was so far good people from being in September last at a Consult of the Jesuits at Tixall in Mr. Ewer's Chamber that I vow to God as I hope for Salvation I never was so much as once that year at Tixall my Lord Astons House 'T is true I was at the Congregation of the Jesuits held on the 24 th of April was twelve month but in that meeting as I hope to be saved we meddled not with State Affairs but only treated about the Concerns of our Province which is usually done by us without offence to temporal Princes every third Year all the VVorld over Sheriff How You do only Justify your selves here We will not believe a word that you say Spend your time in Prayer and we will not think our time too long I am good People as free from the Treason I am accused of as the Child that is unborn and being innocent I never accused my self in Confession of any thing that I am charged with Certainly if I had been conscious to my self of any Guilt in this kind I should not so franckly and freely as I did of my own accord have presented my self before the Kings Most Honourable Privy Council As for those Catholicks which I have conversed with since the noise of the Plot I protest before God in the words of a dying Man that I never heard any one of them either Priest or Layman express to me the least knowledg of any Plot that was then on foot amongst the Catholicks against the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the advancing the Catholick Religion I die a Roman Catholick and humbly beg the Prayers of such for my happy passage into a better Life I have been of that Religion above Thirty years and now give God Almighty infinite thanks for calling me by his holy Grace to the knowledge of this Truth notwithstanding the prejudice of my former Education God of his infinite Goodness bless the King and all the Royal Family and grant his Majesty a prosperous Reign here and a Crown of Glory hereafter God in his mercy forgive all those which have falsely accused me or have had any hand in my Death I forgive them from the bottom of my heart as I hope my self for forgiveness at the Hands of God Mr. Turner's Prayer O GOD who hast Created me to a supernatural end to