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A37137	The dying speeches of several excellent persons, who suffered for their zeal against popery, and arbitrary government viz. I. Mr. Stephen Colledg, at Oxford, August 31, 1681, II. The Lord Russel in Lincolns-Inn-fields, July 21, 1683, III. Col. Sidney, on Tower-Hill, December 7, 1683, IV. Col. Rumbald,	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681.; Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Rumbold, Richard, 1622?-1685.; Lisle, Alice, 1614?-1685.; Cornish, Henry, d. 1685.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.	1689 (1689)	Wing D2957; ESTC R3148	29,338	40

Presbyterians are worse than the Papists God doth know that what I say I speak freely from my Heart I have found many among them truly serving God and so I have of all the rest that have come into my company Men without any manner of design but to serve God serve his Majesty and keep their Liberties and Properties Men that I am certain are not of vicious Lives I found no Dammers or those kind of People among them or at least few of them To his Son Kissing him several times with great passion Dear Child Farewel the Lord have mercy upon thee Good people let me have your prayers to God Almighty to receive my Soul. And then he Prayed And as soon as he had done spake as followeth The Lord have Mercy upon my Enemies and I beseech you good people who ever you are and the whole World that I have offended to forgive me whom ever I have offended in word or deed I ask every Mans pardon and I forgive the World with all my Soul all the Injuries I have received and I beseech God Almighty forgive those poor Wretches who have cast away their Souls or at least endangered them to ruine this Body of mine I beseech God that they may have a sight of their Sins and that they may find Mercy at his hands Let my Blood speak the Justice of my Cause I have done And God have Mercy upon you all To Mr. Crosthwait Pray Sir my Service to Dr. Hall and Dr. Reynall and thank them for all their Kindnesses to me I thank you Sir for your Kindness The Lord bless you all Mr. Sheriff God be with you God be with you all good People The Executioner Ketch desired his pardon And he said I do forgive you The Lord have mercy on my Soul. The SPEECH of the late Lord RUSSEL to the Sheriffs Together with the PAPER delivered by him to them at the Place of Execution on July 21. 1683. Mr. Sheriff I Expected the Noise would be such that I could not be very well heard I was never fond of much Speaking much less now Therefore I have set down in this Paper all that I think fit to leave behind me God knows how far I was always from Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government and I still pray for the preservation of both and of the Protestant Religion I am told that Captain Walcot has said some things concerning my knowledg of the Plot I know not whether the Report is true or not I hope it is not For to my knowledg I never saw him or spake with him in my whole Life and in the Words of a dying Man I profess I know of no Plot either against the King's Life or the Government But I have now done with this World and am going to a better I forgive all the World and I thank God I die in Charity with all Men and I wish all sincere Protestants may love one another and not make way for Popery by their Animosities The PAPER deliver'd to the SHERIFFS I Thank God I find my self so composed and prepared for Death and my Thoughts so fixed on another World that I hope in God I am now quite weaned from setting my Heart on this Yet I cannot forbear spending some time now in setting down in Writing a fuller Account of my Condition to be left behind me than I 'll venture to say at the place of Execution in the Noise and Clutter that is like to be there I bless God heartily for those many Blessings which he in his infinite Mercy has bestowed upon me through the whole Course of my Life That I was born of worthy good Parents and had the Advantages of a Religious Education which I have often thank'd God very heartily for and look'd upon as an invaluable Blessing For even when I minded it least it still hung about me and gave me checks and has now for many Years so influenced and possessed me that I feel the happy Effects of it in this my Extremity in which I have been so wonderfully I thank God supported that neither my Imprisonmenr nor the Fear of Death have been able to discompose me to any degree but on the contrary I have found the Assurances of the Love and Mercy of God in and through my blessed Redeemer in whom only I trust and I do not question but that I am going to partake of that Fulness of Joy which is in his presence the hopes whereof does so wonderfully delight me that I reckon this as the happiest time of my Life tho others may look upon it as the saddest I have lived and now die of the Reformed Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England tho I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heights of many People I wish with all my Soul all our unhappy Differences were removed and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the Danger of Popery as to lay aside their Heats and agree against the Common Enemy and that the Churchmen would be less severe and the Dissenters less scrupulous For I think Bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad but much more now For Popery I look on it as an Idolatrous and Bloody Religion and therefore thought my self bound in my Station to do all I could against it And by that I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to my self and so powerful Ones that I have been now for some time expecting the worst And blessed be God I fall by the Ax and not by the Fiery Tryal Yet whatever Apprehensions I had of Popery and of my own severe and heavy share I was like to have under it when it should prevail I never had a Thought of doing any thing against it basely or inhumanly but what could well consist with the Christian Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom And I thank God I have examin'd all my actings in that Matter with so great Care that I can appeal to God Almighty who knows my Heart that I went on Sincerely without being moved either by Passion By-End or Ill-Design I have always loved my Country much more than my Life and never had any Design of changing the Government which I value and look upon as one of the best Governments in the World and would always have been ready to venture my Life for the preserving of it and would have suffered any Extremity rather than have consented to any Design to take away the King's Life Neither ever-had Man the Impudence to propose so base and barbarous a thing to me And I look upon it as a very unhappy and uneasy part of my present Condition That in my Indictment there should be so much as mention of so vile a Fact tho nothing in the least was said to prove any such Matter but the contrary by the Lord Howard Neither does any Body I am consident believe the least

to Death Suffered a Jury to be packed by the King's Solicitors and the Under-Sheriff Admit of Jury-men who are not Freeholders Receive such Evidence as is above-mentioned Refuse a Copy of an Indictment or to Suffer the Statute of 46. Ed. 3. to be read that doth expresly Enact it should in no Case be denied unto any Man upon any occasion whatsoever Over-rule the most important Points of Law without hearing And whereas the Stat. 25. Ed. 3. upon which they said I should be Tried doth Reserve unto the Parliament all Constructions to be made in Points of Treason They could assume unto themselves not only a Power to make Constructions but such Constructions as neither agree with Law Reason or Common Sense By these means I am brought to this Place The Lord forgive these Practices and avert the Evils that threaten the Nation from them The Lord sanctify these my Sufferings unto me and tho I fall as a Sacrifice unto Idols suffer not Idolatry to be Established in this Land. Bless thy People and save them Defend thy own Cause and defend those that defend it Stir up such as are Faint Direct those that are willing confirm those that Waver Give Wisdom and Integrity unto all Order all things so as may most redound unto thine own Glory Grant that I may Die glorifying Thee for all thy Mercies and that at the last Thou hast permitted me to be Singled out as a Witness of thy Truth and even by the Confession of my Opposers for that OLD CAUSE in which I was from my Youth engaged and for which thou hast Often and Wonderfully declared thy Self The Last Speech of Col. Richard Rumbold at the Market-Cross of Edinburgh with several things that passed at his Tryal 26 June 1685. ABout Eleven of the Clock he was brought from the Castle of Edinburgh to the Justices Court in a great Chair on Mens Shoulders where at first he was asked some Questions most of which he answer'd with Silence at last said He humbly conceived It was not necessary for him to add to his own Accusation since he was not ignorant they had enough already to do his Business and therefore he did not design to fret his Conscience at that time with Answering Questions After which his Libel being read the Court proceeded in usual manner first asking him If he had any thing to say for himself before the Jury closed His Answer was He owned it all saving that part of having Designed the King's Death and desired all present to believe the words of a Dying Man he never directly nor indirectly intended such a Villany that he abhorred the very thoughts of it and that he blessed God he had that Reputation in the World that he knew none that had the Impudence to ask him the Question and he detested the thoughts of such an Action and he hoped all good People would believe him which was the only way he had to clear himself and he was sure that this Truth should be one day made manifest to all Men. He was again asked If he had any Exception against the Jury He answered No but wished them to do as God and their Consciences directed them Then they withdrew and returned their Verdict in half an hour and brought him in Guilty The Sentence followed For him to be taken from that Place to the next Room and from thence to be Drawn on a Hurdle betwixt Two and Four of the Clock to the Cross of Edinburgh the Place of Execution and there to be Hang'd Drawn and Quartered He received his Sentenc with an undaunted Courage and Chearfulness Afterwards he was delivered into the Town-Magistrates Hands they brought to him two of their Divines and offered him their Assistance upon the Scaffold which he altogether refused telling them That if they had any good Wishes for him he desired they would spend them in their own Closets and leave him now to seek God in his own Way He had several Offers of the same kind by others which he put off in like manner He was most serious and fervent in Prayers the few hours he lived as the Sentinels observed who were present all the while The Hour being come he was brought to the Place of Execution where he saluted the People on all sides of the Scaffold and after having refreshed himself with a Cordial out of his Pocket he was supported by two Men while he spoke to the People in these words Gentlemen and Brethren It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die and after Death to Judgment and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done and seeing the Lord is pleased in this manner to take me to himself I confess something hard to Flesh and Blood yet blessed be his Name who hath made me not only Willing but Thankful for his honouring me to lay down the Life he gave for his Name in which were every Hair in this Head and Beard of mine a Life I should joyfully sacrifice them for it as I do this And Providence having brought me hither I thick it most necessary to clear my self of some Aspersions laid on my Name and first That I should have had so horrid an Intention of Destroying the King and his Brother Here he repeated what he had said before to the Justices on this Subject It was also laid to my Charge That I was Antimonarchical It was ever my Thoughts That Kingly Government was the best of all Justly Executed I mean such as by our ancient Laws that is a King and a Legal Free Chosen Parliament The King having as I conceive Power enough to make him Great the People also as much Property as to make them Happy they being as it were contracted to one another And who will deny me that this was not the Just Constituted Government of our Nation How absurd is it then for Men of Sense to maintain That though the one Party of this Contract breaketh all Conditions the other should be obliged to perform their Part No this Error is contrary to the Law of God the Law of Nations and the Law of Reason But as Pride hath been the Bait the Devil hath catched most by ever since the Creation so it continues to this day with us Pride caused our first Parents to fall from the blessed Estate wherein they were created they aiming to be Higher and Wiser than God allowed which brought an everlasting Curse on them and their Posterity It was Pride caused God to Drown the Old World. And it was Nimrod's Pride in building Babel that caused that heavy Curse of Division of Tongues to be spread among us as it is at this day One of the greatest Afflictions the Church of God groaneth under That there should be so many Divisions during their Pilgrimage here but this is their Comfort that the Day draweth near whereas there is but One Shepheard there shall

THE Dying Speeches OF Several Excellent PERSONS WHO Suffered for their Zeal against Popery and Arbitrary Government VIZ. I. Mr. Stephen Colledg at Oxford August 31. 1681. II. The Lord Russel in Lincolns-Inn-Fields July 21. 1683. III. Col. Sidney on Tower-Hill December 7. 1683. IV. Col. Rumbald at Edinburgh June 26. 1685. V. The Lady Lisle at Winchester in September 1685. VI. Alderman Cornish in Cheapside Octob. 23. 1685. VII Capt. Walcot at Tyburn in July 20. 1683. LONDON Printed in the Year 1689. TO THE READER THO some of these Speeches were Printed some Years since and generally received by all sorts of People with great Concern but being in loose Sheets they are not so well preserved therefore I have thought fit to Collect them together that so they may be often Reviewed and that the Present and Future may with Abhorrency behold the Iniquity of the late Violent Times when so many Excellent Persons were destroyed by Forms and Subtilties of Law and Scribere est agere was brought in for an Evidence as in the Case of Col. Sydney when no other could be found And whereas the Business of the Ry-House Plot has been received by some as an Article of Faith and a smooth History of it has been imposed on the Nation therefore I thought good to add Colonel Rumbald's Speech to undeceive the World by which it is evident if we may believe the Dying words of a good Man that was a meer Sham-Contrivance to bring an Odium on Protestants It has been always the Practice of the Papists to make Sham-Plots to render Protestants odious and to hide the foulness of their own Real Plots of which this Nation has had sufficient Experience especially in their late Damnable Plot. For when it was clearly proved on them that they Conspired against the Life of the late King and our Government they presently Contrived to cast that Wickedness on Protestants and too many of our easie Church-men were impos'd on to believeit But through the Goodness of God and the Auspicious Arrival of the Prince of Orange the Eyes of the Nation are opened and now we hope we have an Opportunity to be Delivered if our Sins prevent not from the Plots and Tyranny of the Church of Rome Which God in his Infinite Mercy grant Amen The Speech and Carriage of STEPHEN COLLEDGE at Oxford before the the Castle on Wednesday August 31 1681. Taken exactly from his own Mouth at the place of Execution Mr. High-Sheriff MR. Colledge it is desired for the Satisfaction of the World because you have profest your self a Protestant that you would tell what Judgment you are of Colledge Dear People dear Protestants and dear Country-men I have been accused and convicted for Treason the Laws adjudg me to this Death and I come hither willingly to submit to it I pray God forgive all those Persons that had any hand in it I do declare to you whatever hath been said of me I was never a Papist or ever that way inclinꝰd they have done me wrong I was ever a Protestant I was born a Protestant I have lived so and so by the Grace of God I will die of the Church of England according to the best Reformation of the Church from all Idolatry from all Superstition or any thing that is contrary to the Gospel of our Blessed Lord and Saviour I do declare I was never in any Popish Service Prayers or Devotions in my Life save one time about some 17 or 18 Years ago as near as I remember I was out of a Curiosity one Afternoon at St. James's Chappel the Queen's Chappel at St. James's except that one time I never did hear any Popish Service any thing of the Church of Rome Mass or Prayers or any thing else private or publick I know you expect that I should say something as to what I die for It hath been charged upon me when I was apprehended brought before the Council some of the Council the Secretary and my Lord Killingworth and Mr. Seymour they told me there was Treason sworn against me truly they surprized me when they said so For of all things in the World I thought my self as free from that as any Man. I asked them if any Man living had the confidence to swear Treason against me They said several three or four as I remember Then they told me It was sworn against me That I had a Design to pull the King out of White-hall and to serve him as his Father was served or to that purpose the Logger-head his Father or that kind of Language I did deny it then and do now deny it upon my Death I never was in any manner of Plot in my days neither one way nor another never knew any such Persons nor ever had such Communication with any Man hitherto I know of no Plot in the World but the Popish Plot and that every Man may know as much as I if I had had such a Design as these Men have sworn against me to have seized his Majesty either at London or this place at Oxford I take God to Witness as I am a dying Man and upon the Terms of my Salvation I know not any one Man upon the Face of the Earth that would have stood by me and how likely it was that I should do such a thing my self let the whole World judg Dugdale swears That I spoke Treason to him Treasonable words in the Coffee-house and in the Barbers-shop by the Angel He could not pretend to see me any where else but it is false and a very unlikely thing that I should speak Treason to him I must confess I was in his company at the Coffee-house and that Barbers-shop before I went out of Town but there could be no communication between us for he was writing at one end of the Room and eating a piece of Bread and I lighted a Pipe of Tobacco at the other end and took it till Sir Tho. Player and Sir Rob. Clayton came to me and we went to my Lord Lovelace's out of Town that night So when they came we took Horse and went out of Town with the rest For my part I can't sum up my Witnesses I was under most strange Circumstances as ever any Man was I was kept Prisoner so close in the Tower that I could have no conversation with any though I was certain the Popish Lords had it every day there but I could have none I could not tell the Witnesses that were to swear against me I could not tell what it was they swore against me for I could have no Copy of the Indictment nor no way possible to make any preparation to make my defence as I ought to have done and might have done by Law. I had no liberty to do any thing as I am as dying Man. And as to what Dugdale Smith Turbervill and Heins swore against me they did swear such Treason that nothing but a mad Man would ever have trusted any Body with

turn you need not tye me at all I shall not stir from you for I thank God I am not afraid to die As he was going out he said Farewel Newgate Farewel all my Fellow-Prisoners here the Lord comfort you the Lord be with you all The Substance of Alderman Cornish's Speech at the Place of Execution Octob. 23. 1685. taken by one of his Servants I Am come here this day Condemned to die but God is my Witness the Crimes laid to my Charge were falsely and maliciously sworn against me by the Witnesses for I never was at any Consult nor any Meeting where Matters against the Government were discours'd of I never heard nor read any Declaration nor ever acted wilfully any thing against the Government I confess through the Justice of God my private Sins have brought me to this Infamous End yea it were just with God not only to deprive me eternally of his Presence but to condemn me to Eternal Torments but through Christ I hope to be eternally Blessed Yet as to the Crimes for which I suffer on the Words of a dying Man I am altogether Innocent I bless God I was from my younger Years brought up in and have for some Years continued a Protestant in the Communion of the Church of England in which Communion I now die I have often partaken in the Ordinances the blessed Effects and Comfort thereof I now feel in this my Agony I bless God I was born under a Government in the Constitution of which I did ever acquiesce and in which I was once a Member at which time I did according to the best of my Understanding Here be was interrupted by the Sheriff I bless God I was born in a Land of Light where the Gospel hath been Preach'd in Power and Purity He might have brought me forth in a Land of Darkness and Ignorance but blessed be God for Jesus Christ. Then he intreated the Sheriff to Intercede with his Majesty to be kind to his poor Wife and Children The Sheriff promised him to wait on his Majesty the next day about it He replied Mr. Sheriff I thank you the Lord reward you a thousand-fold the Lord put it into the Hearts of you to be kind to the Widdows and Fatherless it is your Duty The Lord put it into the Hearts of all good People to Pray for me More could not be taken by reason of the Noise of the People and Interruption of one of the Sheriffs The SPEECH of Captain WALCOT on Friday the 20th of July 1683. THIS great Concourse of People do not only come here to see me Die but also to hear what I shall say and because I would not be Reproached and thought to be an Atheist when I am gone I have two or three words to speak for my Religion I do believe in Three Persons and one God and I expect and hope to be Saved by the Merits and Righteousness of his Son Christ Jesus without the hope of an advantage by any Merits or Righteousness of my own And I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God that They were not written according to the will of Man but holy Men of God writ them as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost I believe that these Scriptures ought to be the Rule of our Faith and the method of our Worshipping of God I believe that as Christ is the Head of his Church so he is their Law-giver That it is not in the power of any Council or Conclave of Cardinals or any Power upon Earth whatsoever to set up the Precepts and Traditions of Men and to make them of equal validity with the Word of God. I believe it was not because the Jews rejected and Crucified Christ that he rejected them but because they rejected his Word which appears by the Three thousand that God by one Sermon of Peter's converted they being prickt in their hearts and touched in their Consciences cried out Men and Brethren what shall we do And they were that day added to the Church It was certainly because the Jews rejected the Word and Gospel of Christ that the things were hid from their Eyes which belonged to their peace It is a dreadful thing to reject the Word of God and it is a dreadful thing to live in a sinful course of Life till God withdraws his Spirit from us For it is said It shall not always strive with Man. Death is the wages of Sin. I believe had not Adam sinned he and we his Posterity had not died Death is said to be the King of Terrours but it is only so to those that are terrified with a Terrifying Conscience that have the Arrows of the Almighty sticking in them from convictions of great Guilt and see no hopes of Mercy have no assurance of Pardon but those that are Christ's he takes away the Terrour and Horrour and Sting of Death he enables them to say with Paul To me to live is Christ and to die is Gain He enables not only to get unto Christ but into Christ and so they have Communion and Fellowship with the Father and the Son. It is no hard matter to get the Notions of the Promises of the Gospel into our Heads but unless the Lord is pleased to apply them to our Hearts we cannot believe Except we be in Christ as branches in the Vine we are not Christians indeed It was the Case of poor Francis Spira he was certainly a knowing Man but notwithstanding he had not Faith to apply the Promises Christ hath said that he that believes in him though he were dead yet shall he live and he that lives and believes in him shall never die So if we be able to apply the Promises by the Spirit of God we may have comfort through Faith But then Faith is the gift of God and Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and receiving it in the love of God. I shall not be tedious Mr. Sheriff I shall be very short Mr. Sheriff Take your own time Walcot As to the present occasion of my Death I do neither blame the Judges nor the Jury nor the King's Counsel I only blame some Men that in reality and in truth were deeper concerned and more engaged than I that came in as Witnesses against me who Swore me out of my Life to save their own and who for fear they should not do it effectually contrived that That I will appeal to you all whether there be a probability in it or not For they said I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to imbrue my hands in his Blood but was so generous as to undertake the Charging his Guards whilst others did it and to the end another might do it Truly I will appeal to all that know me whether they believe me so much an Ideot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the King's Guards whilst another Killed