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
as also of their never having such Hopes since the Dayes of Q. Mary with the like Rhetorical Flowers Mr. Coleman being then found Guilty upon the account of his Letters for my Lord Chief Justice told him as I already mention'd †That the Cause hung not on the Matter he insisted upon to wit on the Consult of August which Oates pretends him to be at He was next day Condemned at the same Bar where he declar'd with all the Execrations imaginable That he told the House of Commons all that he knew of this Business That he never heard of Proposition or knew of any to Supplant the King or Government by Invasion Disturbance or the like That he thought 't is true by Liberty of Corscience Popery might come in and that every Body is bound to wish all People of the Religion be professes with much more to the same Purpose Then being carryed back to Prison where his Wife had only private Admittance he was on Tuesday the Third of December brought to Tyburn where he made the following Speech Mr. Coleman's Speech IT is now expected I should speak and make some Discovery of a very great Plot I know not whether I shall have the good Fortune to be believed better now than formerly if so I do here solemnly declare upon the words of a Dying Man I know nothing of it And as for the raising of Sedition Subverting the Government stirring up the People to Rebellion altering the known Laws and Contriving the Death of the King I am wholly Ignorant of it Nor did ever I think to advance that Religion which People think I am so Zealous of hereby I thank God I am of it and declare I dye of it nor do I think it prejudicial to King or Government But though I am as I said a Roman Catholick and have been so for many Years yet I Renounce that Doctrine which some say the Remish Church doth usher in to promote their Interest That Kings may be Murder'd and the like I say I abominate it Here Mr. Coleman being interrupted by being told that if he had any thing to say by way of Confession or Contrition for the Fact he might proceed otherwise it was unseasonable to go on and spend time with such like Expressions Mr. Coleman then reply'd No! But he thought it was expected then being told to the contrary he concluded with these few words following I do say I had no intention to subvert the Government or to act any thing contrary to Law but what every Man of a contrary Religion would do in a peaceable manner if he could And if I may be believ'd the Witness that Swore against me did me wrong and that Witnesses that swore He was with me in Sommerset-House-Gallery upon the words of a Dying Man I never saw his Face before Being afterwards ask'd if he knew any thing of the Death of Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey He also declared on the words of a Dying Man he knew nothing of it Concerning Mr. Ireland Grove and Pickering WIth these three Mr. White the Provincial and Mr. Fenwick Procurator of Saint Omer's held up their Hands at the Old Baily on the Seventeenth of December and though they were charg'd home by Oates yet Bedlow had so little against the said Mr. White and Fenwick that after a Tryal of several Hours they were for want of two Witnesses as the Law requires in Treason remanded to Newgate where we will leave them till by and by being now only to treat of the others Oates then not only repeats the beforementioned April Consult at the White-Horse-Tavern his comming over with Sir John Warner Sir Thomas Preston Fa. Williams Nevil Hildesley and others his lying close in the time of the said Consult at Groves's when as the Prisoners attest that he was then actually at Saint Omers but he further deposes that Mr. Ireland was caballing in Mr. Fenwicks Chamber about a Fortnight or ten Days in August and that the said Mr. Ireland gave him particularly on the first or second of September twenty Shillings Then He sayes that two Jesuits were sent into Scotland to stir up the Presbiterians there That at the aforesaid April meeting there was a formal Resolve drawn up by Mico their Secretary signed by at least Forty and entered into a Book or Register That Grove and Pickering should go on with their Attempt to Kill the King and that the first should have 1500 l. and the other 30000. Masses That it was to be done by long Pistols something shorter than Carbines and that the Bullets were Silver which Grove said he would champ that the wound might be uncureable That Pickering had mist an opportunity in the preceding March by reason his Flint was loose for which he underwent a Penance of twenty or thirty stroakes with a Discipline That the Duke was also to be deposed if he were not vigorous for the Cause That he saw in their Entry book that Sir George Wakeman had accepted of 15000. l. to poyson the King if the others fail'd That he perus'd the Entry-book of the Peter-pence which Grove and Smith had gathered That Grove told him that he fir'd Southwark and that his the said Oates's business of comming now over was to Kill Doctor Tongue for Translating the Jesuits Morals Bedlow being called acknowledges the Entry-book and adds that Mr. Langhorn was the Register That the Earl of Shaftsbury the Duke of Buckingham the Earl of Ossory and Duke of Ormond were to be kill'd That Mr. Ireland was at Mr. Hartcourts Chamber in the latter end of August where it was agreed the other Plot not succeeding Coniers should go with Pickering and Grove to New-Market to kill the King in his Morning-walk there That Pickering Grove were also present in the said Chamber that his Brother James Bedlow heard him often talking of the Prisoners and as one acquainted with Priests and that he brought him as the said James attested Fifty and Sixty pòunds at a time from the Jesuits The Charge was solemnly deny'd by them all and besides their own constant Loyalty they alledg'd that of their respective Relations who had been great Sufferers both in their Lives and Fortunes for the King and Pickering as to his particular protested he never Shot off a Pistol in his Life which by his very mine and looks seem'd not very improbable to the Spectators Then Mr. Ireland after Answers to the several other particulars affirm'd That he was constantly out of London from the third of August till above a week after the beginning of September which he prov'd by three Witnesses got together by chance by his Sister He also urg'd that he had Witnesses that there were more Witnesses but that he and the rest were kept so strict that they were not permitted to send for any body nay that he was
themselves they struk at the root for Hill desired that Prance's Testimony might not stand good against them for he urg'd that the said Prance had deny'd all not only before the King as Mr. Chiffins attested but before the Council as Captain Richardson acknowledged to which Lord C. J. answered That no body did believe Prance's denyal because his Discovery was so particular Mr. Atturney said That whilst he was a Papist and not sure of his Pardon he was t is true under disturbances and fears yet no sooneâ— return'd he to Prison but he desir'd the Captain to carry him back to his Majesty offering to make good his first Confession which gave several of the Auditory but small satisfaction considering that a â—oâ—ler whose interest it was to further the Plot might easily if the thing were true at the sight of a Prison obtain such a promise besides not a few knew how he had been us'd and what Crys were heard where he lay for many days together as Mrs. Hill urg'd But Prance's own reason for his Recantation seem'd yet odder for he said it was out of apprehension of his Trade as fearing to lose the Queens Employment and the Catholicks which was the most of his business and also because he had no Pardon The Prisoners plea being over rul'd and Prance his Testimony adjudg'd good Hill calls for his Masters Niece Mrs. Broadstreet who look't after the house as also the Maid in his behalf the sum of whose Testimony was this That he was a trusty servant that he never kept ill hours and alwayes came in by Eight of the Clock that he could not go out afterwards because the Maid did lock up the doors and that they were still up till Eleven That he was at home on Saturday night when Sir E. Godfrey was kill'd and on the Wednesday night when carried away That their House and staires were so little that it was impossible that any thing could be brought in or out without their knowledge that the room where the body is said to have lain was not only over against the Dining-room but a room that had the Key in it alwayes and that every day they went often into it for something or other and that the foot-boys staid there when any body visited the young Lady Nay the Servant Maid whom judge Wild commended as wary in what she said attested that she call'd in every day at the door of that Chamber and was the last up every night Prance his main reply having first declared That he laid nothing to their Charge was That Mrs. Broadstreet had said before the Duke of Monmouth that there were Six or Seven Keys and consequently he would have it that Hill might go out But whether the Court thought it improbable that any Door should have so many Keys or that they took the young Ladies Word who said There was but one Key to that which fasten'd the Door they never sent to the Duke or question'd Sir Robert Southwel about it And whereas Prance also tax't Mrs. Broadstreet of saying That Hill was gone from them before Sir Edmond's Death 't was cleerly prov'd that said Hill was then there not only by his former Examinations where he sayes He was then treating with his Landlord about his New House and that he did not go to it till about a Week or a Fortnight after but also by the Testimony of Daniel Gray who positively affirm'd That he came not to it till the 22d of October After this Hill call'd on Mr. Archbold a Gentleman of the Life-guard who said That his Taylor being at Hills he went thither and being ask't What News he told them How Prance was taken about Sir E. Godfrey's Murther whereupon Hill Reply'd He was glad of it wishing them all taken and that next Morning the said Hill was taken out of his Bed This Mr. Ravenscroft confirm'd adding That Hill's Wife told him the same Night That the Neighbors spoke strangely of it but that her Husband did defy Prance and all his Works From which Hill inferr'd his Innocence since he might as every Body also acknowledg'd have escap'd if he pleased nor could he doubt had he been Guilty but that he would be empeach'd and question'd Green also call'd for his Landlord Warrier and his Wife being both Protestants and the Man attested That Green came in on Saturday night the 12th of October at Seven and went not from them till after Ten. Upon this Home-Evidence the Judge askt him How long after Sir Edmond's Murther he began to Recollect he answer'd a Month after Green being in Prison and that he remembred the Time particularly because Green had not bin at his House but Fourteen Dayes before he was Apprehended 'T was reply'd That Green was then in Prison about the Oaths That it was the 24 th of December before he was secur'd upon the score of the Murther And that he the said Warrier had told Captain Richardson that he and his Wife could do Green no Good To this he answered He call'd it not then to Memory though he had since done it by his Work and the time Green came to his House for he had been a Lodger there not above Fourteen or Fifteen Dayes in all And besides He never knew him out after Nine in his Life The Woman also affirmed the same with many Particulars but calling the Day Saturday Fortnight after Michaelmass and Michaelmass being on a Sunday this in Rigour was the 19 th of October so that their Testimony was rejected whenas the Woman it seems meant only by the Expression a bare Fortnight after Michaelmass for otherwise Saturday the 19 th being the Day after Fryday the 18 th which she expresly said was the time when her Milk Woman told her of the finding of Sir Edm. Godfrey's Body she must have known That what she had to say was nothing to Green's purpose After this Berry calls his Maid who witness't That on the 16 th of October or Night when Sir Edm. Godfrey was said to be carryed away her Master came Home from Bowls at the Dusk of the Evening That he was not out an Hour all Night after That he lay within her Chamber and that she went to Bed about Twelve But that which surpriz'd People most was the Testimony of the Three Centinels who Watcht that Night from Seven till Four in the Morning at the great Gate of Sommerset-House through which the Body was affirm'd to be carryed in the Sedan for they attested and their Corporal was also with them that there came in no Sedan besides that which stands there every Night but that none ever went out during their respective Watches it being impossible for any to pass-by or for the Gate to be open'd without their Knowledge nor did they Drink one drop whil'st they Watch'd nor stir'd a Pike's Length
particulars of that grand Meeting as aforesaid But this home Charge came to nothing because there were no Witnesses ready to prove it viva voce for as to the Print though publisht by the Chief Justice it was refus'd since a man was not as Mr. Justice Pemberton Answer'd to be Convicted by a History The Prisoner urged again the Record of the Lords House which could shew that Bedlow had there sworn that he had no persons more to accuse either in or out of the House than those he had already mention'd so that He Mr. Langhorn not being one of them the said Bedlow must be perjur'd but this was deny'd him as was also the hearing of Witnesses to prove that Bedlow had own'd in Mr. Reading's Tryal that he had formerly minc't his Evidence against Mr. Whitebread which was plain perjury since he then swore to speak the whole Truth as well as nothing but Truth Mr. Langhorn though he thought he had hard measure patiently acquiest for he was a very quiet and modest man and then the Court called the Witnesses that proved in the preceding Tryal Oates's being here in April but all of them in some material thing or other varied from their former Depositions for Walker the Minister finding it necessary to advance in his computation about the time when he drew Oates the next morning within the Scheme of his Knowledge as he worded it in the former Tryal tells us now that he believes it was in April and towards the middle of it though in the said former Tryal he made it every whit as likely to be in the latter end of March and yet half April could not then serve you see Oates his turn But Cicily Mayo on the contrary finding it as necessary to shorten her time will have it That it was a matter of a fortnight before Whitsuntide as she remembers when she saw Oates at the Doctor 's yet before she not only depos'd That it was the week before Whit suntide or May the 19 but that he came again to them a week after As for the Doctor or Knight himself who was to assure the Court that his servants told him of Oates his visits he now tells us that he was then sick in the Countrey whereas before he swears in these words At that time says he that they have given in Evidence I was abroad as my business leads me often abroad into the Countrey and then he add's a little after that upon the visit of a Gentleman he fell ill in which time Oates was gone but upon his Recovery to wit in June or July He came to enquire for Dr. Tongue So that if the said Doctor or Knight were sick and out of Town from February to Whitsun week or latter end of May as his Coach-man and He both now depose what becomes of his Boy Page's Testimony that remembred the day before Oates to have been at his Masters in the beginning of May because his said Master had a Patient in I slington Sick of a Feavor nay what shall be thought of the said Doctor himself who to vouch the Boy and to satisfy the Jury swore then that that Patient of his was Aldram Milvers daughter when as here we find him not in the Country about his business but under the Care of Doctor Needham and to be a Patient himself by his own Confession for a great many weeks together The School-Master's also shewd that he understood his business for having well consider'd Mr. Gavans late Inferences he swore at present only that it was on the first Munday in May to the best for sooth of his Remembrance and as he takes it which are expressions far different from the words Yes I do when the Judge askt him if he swere positively and directly As for Clay the old Priest he was confronted by Mr. Charles Howard the Duke of Norfolks Brother who was only examin'd though his wife and two servants were also present to attest That Oates was never with them after April 77 till July 78. Nor were these the sole witnesses that were past by for it had often happened thus both in this and the Jesuits Tryal there being above 30 who never came to their Examinations either for want of hearing or of being called Now because Mr. Howard fear'd his Testimony in Court might be alter'd by the Writers of the Tryal he gave the following account to several of his friends under his own hand one of which came accidentally into mine Nay he sent one to Oates himself to the end no foul play might be us'd with him An Account of what the Honourable Charles Howard said at the old Baily June 14. 1679. As he attest's under his own hand June 14. 1679. AT the Old Baily I'was examin'd how long I had been acquainted with Mr. Oates and at what times I had seen him I answered That I had bin acquainted with him two years or something more That I did see him in Arundel House in April 1677. That upon the Fifth day of May following my Son Charles died and that I have another Son living That after that time I did not see Dr. Oates until the third day of July 1678. That after the said Third of July Mr. Clay did see Dr. Oates with me at Arundel House in my Chamber and not before in my sight but how many times I do not remember That possibly Mr. Clay might see Dr. Oates before I did but as to that I could say nothing Charles Howard Besides it must be remembred that Mr. Howard above a moneth before had bin examin'd by a Committee of the Lords about this business in the presence of Clay and Oates where he satisfy'd their Lordships so well by the time of his Son Charles's Death who had as he told the said Lords bin Examin'd or posed by Oates in April 77 and by many other Circumstances concerning the whole matter that Clay himself confest he might be mistaken in time and that since Mr. Howard who had a better memory than he sayd Oates was not at his House in April 78. he would no longer gainsay it or words to that purpose Mr. Langhorn being found Guilty was Condemned with the five Jesuits that very day and on the Fourteenth of July he was drawn to Tyburn where he publickly declar'd his Innocence as appears by the following Speech which he left written under his own hand Mr. Langhorns's written Speech and Prologue IN regard I could not foresee whether I should be permitted to speak at my Death so as to make a publick Declaration of my Innocence and Loyalty as a Christian ought to do considering likewise that if it should be permitted unto me it would be more advisable for me rather to prepare before hand and set down in writing the very words in which I should make my Declaration than to trust my memory with them to the end that the same may
of the Mine had the promise of Secrecy bin valid must have discover'd his Complices nay we find in the said Treatise that he hufft in the beginning like a Scaevola and declar'd he would confess nothing laying all the blame upon himself which the wise Lords of the Counsel laught at knowing that the Gentleman being in Hold they would for all his Bravadoes find presently and so it happen'd the depth of the whole Intrigue 'T was the knowledg of this I mean that in a discover'd Treason there is no Reliance on Oaths that made Winter with both tâ—e Wrights upon Fawkes his Apprehension post out of town as he confessâ—s they did for had they not bin desperate and without further hopes of secrecy and faith they would never have run to seven or eight Gentlemen suppos'd then in Armes who had now up against them both King and Kingdom to their own particular knowledg Nor coul'd Tresham himself escape you see though he still continued as How tells us about the Court that he might thereby seem wholy free and innocent In fine their own Declarations were such that the Publisher of the Proceedings against them in the very Epistle say's That Justice pass'd on the several CONFESIONS of all the Capital Offenders which they openly CONFES'D and confirm'd at their Arraignments in the hearing of multitudes of People And by the way be pleased to remember that no Catholick ever denied this Treason only some question whether Protestant History it self dos not shew us that Cecil to ruin the Party drew those fiery men into it by his subtil Tricks and Artifices This one would think were more than enough to show you how you are by ill men deceiv'd and we abus'd but because no present Pretence shall be left untoucht I will speak a word of the two Examples which our weak Enemies deem so strong and pertinent to prove this Calumny The first is of one Curphy an Irish Papist who being condemn'd they say in his Countrey for Burglary deny'd it with great Asseverations at his Execution but the Rope by chance breaking before he was quite dead he thankt God confessing the Fact and then in spight of the Sheriffs great Intercession was again hanged by the Judge's special Order and Command The next is of the before mention'd Tresham who protested as they will have it in writing upon his Salvation and this just before his death That he had not seen Garnet in 16 years whereas Garnet and Mrs Vaux did both confess that they had been often since that time together As to Curphy then though truly I know not why any Christian or Pagan should be responsible for every Atheist or Libertine of his Proâ—ession give me leave to ask first how our Adversaries can think this so Nicking a Blow for since they themselves must acknowledge him already to have been an impudent Lyar and an ill man why may it not be as possible nay as probable also and then how is the Argument convincing that seeing he could not save his Life by asserting a TRVTH he now hop'd to work on the Judge by attacking him with a LYE on the other hand for the denying of a Fact to death never pleases him that gave sentence especially if the Evidence be in the least questionable nor was the said Curphy's Expectations it seems wholy frustrated since the Sheriff and others did as you see earnestly intercede for him Now for Tresham the Case is plain and at most but a poor simple womans Project and Mr. Att. Cook cannot but confess it in the aforesaid Speech for there he tell 's us That Tresham's wife understanding with great Concerâ—ment that he had confest all against Garnet got him a little before his death even when he could not WRITE himself to dictate the PROTESTATION to her servant so that 't is no wonder since the meer changing of a Word nay a Figure might do it if there were an Error as to the number of years in question But my Lords and Gent if both the Examples were as our Adversaries would have them what Resemblance or Analogy has the Action I beseech you of a single man once in a Century to Twelve that dyed together who were not only free from the least matter or Circumstance that could make them suspected besides the Testimony of most nefarious Persons but had also LIFE add PREFERMENT offer'd them upon their bare CONFESSION Besides do they that thus charge us think their Religion so harmless or us so ignorant that we can show no Precedents against them of this nature Certainly we can and as I suppose much more to the purpose Nay witnest also by Protestants themselves For does not first that most learned New-Gate-Divine declare in the before mention'd Treatise That in his late Experience as Ordinary there he knew some Malefactors condemn'd for Murther and Burglary to have gone out of the World with a Notorious asserting their Integrity although they had twice or thrice confest to him with some seeming remorse that theywere justly condemn'd for the said Crimes so that here Reader we have not only Protestant Penitents denying the truth at their death but a Protestant Confessarius revealing secrets and such another or one at least very like him Hind the famous Robber met with at Worcester being there convicted and hang'd by the evidence of his spiritual Guide But what do you think of a far more eminent Example to wit that of my Lord Castle haven who as all the Writers of King Charles's Reign will tell you was after a Netorious ill life Charg'd and condemn'd at last for prostituting his Daughter in Law for holding his own Wife whilst his servant forc'd her and lastly for Sodomy it self and yet though these Crimes were proved by several plain Circumstances by his wife and daughters Testimony and lastly by Brodway and Patrick his abus'd Patizans who were both hang'd for the facts and own'd the Committing of them to the last he at his Execution most solemnly deny'd all dying as Sanderson affirms not only a true Protestant but assisted also by his Chaplain's to wit the Dean of St Paul's and Doctor Wickham Thus then you see besides the former evident and unanswerable Reasons that we are not only free from this Imputation our selves but that the Protestant Doctrine is guilty of it if the Actions of some few men are sufficient to determine and adjudge the Point In fine then was it not very pertinently askt by the Author of the New Plot That seeing the Councel of Trent has positively declar'd No Absolution available which is not preceded by Detestation of the sin committed and seeing it is impossible freely to do a thing and at the same time to detest it how could it be imagin'd that the late executed Catholicks should hope for any benefit by such an Absolution as is pretended or be thought with the least appearance of Reason to make use of so wretched