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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95087	The true narrative of the confession and execution of Francis Nicholson who was executed this present Wednesday, being the 27th of this instant October, 1680. And hang'd up in chains at Hownslow-Heath, for murthering of one John Dimbleby at Hampton-Court this being his own true confession both to the Ordinary of Newgate, and several other ministers and others who came to him whilst he continued in prison, and have hereunto subscribed their names to attest the truth of this relation.	Nicholson, Francis, d. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2777B; ESTC R230448	4,932	4

of Sins and been cast into Hell torments for ever but that God spared me and gave me time to repent and offered me the blessed means and helps that I have found here in Prison I confess it is Gods great mercy to me by means of those worthy Ministers that have visited me to assist teach counsel and comfort me in the way of peace and reconciliation with God through Christ in which I have found a great change in me and hope of mercy I confess that it is a great mercy and favour to me to move the heart of the Recorder and others that have given me so long time of repentance after the sentence of Death passed upom me before my Execution too methinks I find my heart dayly more and more humbled my sorrow for my Sins to encrease and my hopes of mercy and pardon of my sins and of the salvation of my Soul move more lively in me And I thank the Lord that by his providence and grace he hath under this sad dispensation of Death brought my mind into a willing and hearty submission to his Will I am not troubled that I must die in submission to Gods providence I do not much desire to live any longer only to settle my peace with God hoping when I die through Gods mercy to enjoy Life Eternal through Jesus Christ my Saviour It is not Life in this World nor any thing of this Life that I wrastle with God for I thank God I hang loose to all Worldly things But it is the mercy of God to my Soul and the blood of Christ to wash away my sins and to save my Soul that I labour for peace of Conscience and Eternal Life that I earnestly seek for Oh my sins my Sins these are my sorrows therefore I beg unto God day and night in the dark Dungeon where I lie in Fetters of Iron what ever the Lord doth with me in this Life and what ever I suffer that my sins may be pardoned and that my poor sinful soul may be saved and I do hope to find mercy from God who hath promised mercy to those that confess their sins and repent and call upon him and though my sins are very great yet my comfort is that his mercies abound more and are greater than my sins and the mercies of God towards me aad his great working upon me since I have been condemned makes me also to hope that the Lord intends in mercy to save me though I have been so great a sinner I do spend my time in my dismal Dungeon I thank God in much prayer in which I find great Comfort from God to my Soul and sequestring my thoughts from the things of this world that I may more comfortably injoy God I desire all young men to take warning by me that you may not bring the wrath of God upon you in the like Judgment that I am under or some other as dreadful or more bitter Had I been Dutiful to my Parents I had not needed to have taken such desperate Courses as I have done Had I kept the Sabbath holy I had not fallen in such lewd profane company as have brought me to this miserable end Had I not been drunk I had not committed this horrid Murder And had I refrained ill company I had not lain under so great temptations to Sin Had I had grace and wisdom I might have lived as comfortably and as happily as others of my degree Had I been dutiful to a careful Mother or obedient to a good Master I had not come to this sad end but might have lived to have seen happy days I pray God I may be a warning to all Children to teach them duty to their Parents to all Apprentices to teach them to mind first their duty to God and then the Business they are intrusted by their Masters And to all young Men to take heed of ill Company such as delight to Sin To all Sabbath-breakers to amend and turn to God lest he leave them to Satan and they fall into some dreadful Sin And to all Drunkards whose sin therein maketh them Slaves to Satan to commit any desperate wickedness that he tempts them to This is truly my Confession witness my Hand Francis Nichollson Witness H. Walker Minister Richard Paxton Richard Hawker Officers The Confession of Francis Nicholson to Mr. Samuel Smith Ordinary of Newgate in relation to his Murthering of John Dimbleby FRancis Nicholson declared voluntarily and at several times to me Mr. Samuel Smith Ordinary of Newgate and to divers other persons then present that he the said Nicholson was not hired by the Person Arraigned with him to commit the said Murther as he persisted to affirm at his Trial but the said Asseveration was his meer contrivance to lessen his own Crime And farther did Relate that he had never thought of the Coachman had not the man at the T●y at Hampton-Court asked him the question when he was before the Justice whether or no the Coachman was not concerned with him saying surely some body must set him on to do it and thinking thereby to clear himself was the only reason of his charging of the Coachman with that bloody Act. Whereupon I Samuel Smith told him that he ought to send for the Person he had so wronged and to beg his Pardon which since he hath done After the Discovery of such a false Aspersion I ask'd the said Nicholson what moved him to murther the person he said that having drank hard one Night in Company he wisht that God would damn him if he did not try to kill a Man and affirmed from that very time for a fortnight together the Devil did so haunt him that he had no rest in his mind by the Tempters urging him to make good his Vow for otherwise he would be certainly Damned He said that it was indifferent to him whom he killed so he killed some Body to ease his mind That he watcht an opportunity to kill the person at Hampton-Court but his heart failed him several times yet being left to himself by God for his wicked imprecation or wish he was so hurried on by the Devil to effect that Murthe● that he could not withstand it for he declared to me several times that it neither proceeded from any Grudg or Malice nor hope of Gain yet after he had killed the Man he searcht his Pockets and took out a Watch also he said to me that this troubles his Conscience very much that he killed the Man on a sudden and so dying without prepatation he knows not in what state or Condition his Soul is in Ita Testor Samuel Smith LONDON Printed by D. Mallet 1680.