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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

his Judgments or Mercies reclaim them that they shed no more innocent Blood There is not a Man of them that I know of that ever heard me say or do any bit of Treason in my Life This is the first I may not say it is but almost the Twentieth Sham-Plot that they have endeavoured to put upon the Nation to delude the People and put off their own Damnable Plot. This is not the first but I think the sixteenth or seventeenth I pray God that my Blood may be the last I pray God defend every Man's Blood and all Protestants in England from the Hands of these bloody Papists by whose means I die this Death And if they shall go on in this Nature I hope the Good God will open every Man's Eyes to see it before he feels it And I beseech you if you have any love for your King your Country and the Protestants unite together if you are Protestants I pray God those that deserve the Name let them be called how they will either Dissenters or Church of England Men that they may unite together like Men like Christians against the Common Foe who will spare neither the one side nor the other but beat you one against another like two Pitchers the last that stands they will certainly destroy if they can This is my Sense and God is my Witness I speak my Conscience I do not know Mr. Sheriff whether there be any thing else I have to say or no we have a good God and I beseech every Man that hears me this day for we live in a sinful Age good People and it behoves every one of you it cannot be long before all that look upon me in this Condition must lie down in the Dust and God knows must come into an Eternal State either for Mercy or for Judgment I beseech you in the Name of God he is a God of Mercy and a God of Patience and Long-suffering that you would break off your Sins by Repentance and serve a good God who must be your Friend at last or else you are lost to Eternity O Lord how ungrateful Wretches are we that have a God of such infinite Mercy and Goodness that affords us our Life our Health and a thousand Mercies every day and we like ungrateful People not deserving the Name of Men or Christians live riotous Lives in Debauchery and Swearing in Malice and the Lord knows how many Evils I beseech God that I may be this day a Means in the Hand of God to bring some of their Souls over to him I beseech you remember what I say indeed I do not know I have been so strangely used since I have been a Prisoner what to say being brought from one Affliction to another that my Body is worn out and my Memory and Intellects have failed me much to what they were I cannot remember what I have to say more but that the Lord Jesus Christ would bless my Country and preserve it from Popery and in mercy bless his Majesty Good God be merciful to him make him an Instrument in thy Hand to defend his Protestant Subjects Lord in mercy defend him from his Enemies Good God bless this People good Lord continue the Gospel of Jesus Christ thy Gospel in its purity to us and our Posterity as long as the Sun and Moon endure O Lord save all that call upon thee be merciful to all thy Servants all thy People that put their trust in thee good Lord deliver them from the Hand of their Enemies good God let their Lives and Bodies and Souls be all precious in thy sight O merci-God put a stop to these most wicked Conspiracies of thy Enemies and the Nation 's Enemies the Papists Let no more Protestant Blood be shed but this of mine I beseech thee O my God. O Lord look upon me O Lord bless me O good God receive me into thy blessed Presence by Jesus Christ my alone Saviour and Redeemer in whom alone I put my trust for Salvation It is thee O God that I trust in thou Righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth All Popery all Pardons all Popes and Priests all Dispensations I disown and will not go out of the World with a Lie in my Mouth From the sincerity of my Heart I declare again that what I have said to you is the very Sentiments of my Soul as God shall have Mercy upon me and to the best of my knowledg I desire the Prayers of you good People while I am here and once more I beseech you to think upon Eternity every one of you that hear me this day The Lord turn your Hearts and Souls if you have been wicked Livers if you do live wicked Lives the Lord in Mercy convert you and shew you your Danger for I as little thought to come to this as any Man that hears me this day and I bless God I have no more deserved it from the Hands of Men than the Child that sucks at his Mothers Breast I bless my God for it and do say I have been a Sinner against my God and he hath learn'd me Grace ever since I have been a Prisoner I bless my God for a Prison I bless my God for Afflictions I bless my God that ever I was restrained for I never knew my self till he had taken me out of the World. Therefore you that have your Liberties and Time and precious Opportunities be up and be doing for God and for your Souls every one of you To his Son. Where is my dear Child Mr. Sheriff I made one Request to you and you gave me an imperfect Answer You said you were of the best Reform ●d Church in the World the Church of England according to the best Reformation in the World I desire you for the Satisfaction of the World to declare what Church that is Whether Presbyterian or Independent or the Church of England or what Colledge Good Mr. Sheriff for your satisfaction For twenty Years and above I was under the Presbyterian Ministry till his Majesty's Restauration then I was conformable to the Church of England when that was restored and so continued till such time as I saw persecution upon the Dissenting People and very undue things done to their Meeting-places then I went among them to know what kind of People those were And I do take God to Witness since that time I have used their Meetings viz. the Presbyterians others very seldom and the Church of England I did hear Dr. Tillotson not above three weeks before I was taken I heard the Church of England as frequently as I heard the Dissenters and never had any Prejudice God is my Witness against either but always heartily desired that they might unite and be Lovers and Friends and had no prejudice against any Man and truly I am afraid that it is not for the Nation 's Good that there should be such Heart-burnings between them That some of the Church of England will preach that the

be but One Sheepfold It was therefore in the Defence of this Party in their Just Rights and Liberties against Popery and Slavery At which words they Beat the Drums To which he said They need not trouble themselves for he should say no more of his Mind on that Subject since they were so disingenuous as to interrupt a Dying Man only to assure the People he adhered to the True Protestant Religion detesting the erroneous Opinions of many that called themselves so and I Die this day in the Defence of the ancient Laws and Liberties of these Nations And though God for Reasons best known to himself hath not seen it sit to honour Us as to make Us the Instruments for the Deliverance of his People yet as I have Lived so I Die in the Faith that he will speedily arise for the Deliverance of his Church and People And I desire all of you to prepare for this with speed I may say This is a deluded Generation vail'd with Ignorance that though Popery and Slavery be riding in upon them do not perceive it though I am sure there was no Man born marked of God above another for none comes into the world with a Saddle on his Back neither any Booted and Spurr'd to Ride to him not but that I am well satisfied that God hate wisely ordered different Stations for Men in the World as I have already said Kings having as much Power as to make them Great and the People as much Property as to make them Happy And to conclude I shall only add my Wishes for the Salvation of all Men who were created for that end After ending these words he prayed most fervently near three quarters of an hour freely forgiving all Men even his greatest Enemies begging most earnestly for the Deliverance of Sion from all her Persecutors particularly praying for London Edinburgh and Dublin from which the Streams run that Rule God's People in these three Nations Being asked some hours before his Execution If he thought not his Sentence Dreadful He answered He wished he had a Limb for every Town in Christendom The Last Speech of Madam LISLE Beheaded at Winchester in September 1685. Gentlemen Friends and Neighbours IT may be expected that I should say something at my Death my Birth and Education being near this place My Parents instructed me in the Fear of God and I now Die of the Reformed Religion always being instructed in that Belief that if Popery should return into this Nation it would be a great Judgment I Die in Expectation of Pardon of my Sins and Acceptation with the Father by the imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ He being the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth I thank God through Christ Jesus I depart under the Blood of Sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel God having made this Chastisement an Ordinance to my Soul. I did as little expect to come to this place on ●his Occasion as any Person in this Nation therefore let all learn not to be High-minded but Fear The Lord is a Sovereign and will take what way he seeth best to Glorifie himself by his poor Creatures therefore I humbly desire to submit to his Will praying of him That in Patience I may possess my Soul. The Crime was my Entertaining a Non-Conformist Minister which is since sworn to have been in the Duke of Monmouth's Army I am told if I had not denied them it would not have affected me I have no Excuse but Surprize and Fear which I believe my Jury must make use of to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have been told That the Court ought to be Counsel for the Prisoner Instead of Advice there was Evidence given from thence which though it was but Hear-say might possibly affect my Jury My Defence was such as might be expected from a weak Woman but such as it was I never heard it repeated again to the Jury But I forgive all Persons that have wronged me and I desire that God will do so likewise I forgive Col. Penruddock although he told me He could have taken those Men before they came to my House As to what may be expected for my Conviction That I gave it under my Hand that I discours'd with Nelthrop that could be no Evidence to the Court or Jury it being after my Conviction and Sentence I acknowledge His Majesty's Favour in Revoking my Sentence and I pray God he may long Reign in Mercy as well as Justice and that he may Reign in Peace and that the True Religion may Flourish under him Two things I have omitted to say which is That I forgive him that desired to be taken from the Grand Jury and put upon the Petty Jury that he might be the more nearly concerned in my Death And return humble Thanks to God and the Reverend Clergy that assisted me in my Imprisonment Sept. 85. Alicia Lisle Some Passages of Henry Cornish Esq before his Sufferings COming into the Press-yard and seeing the Halter in the Officers Hand he said Is this for me The Officer answer'd Yes he replied Blessed be God and Kissed it and after said O blessed be God for Newgate I have enjoyed God ever since I came within these Walls and blessed be God who hath made me fit to die I am now going to that God that will not be mocked to that God that will not be imposed upon to that God that knows the Innocency of his poor Creature And a little after he said Never did any poor Creature come unto God with greater Confidence in his Mercy and Assurance of Acceptation with him through Jesus Christ than I do but it is through Jesus Christ for there is no other way of coming to God but by him to find acceptance with him there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby we can be saved but the Name of Jesus Then speaking to the Officers he said Labour every one of you to be fit to die I was not fit to Die my self till I came in hither but O blessed be God he hath made me fit to die and hath made we willing to die In a few moments I shall have the Fruition of the Blessed Jesus and that not for a day but for ever I am going to the Kingdom of God where I shall enjoy the presence of God the Father and of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit and of all the Holy Angels I am going to the general Assembly of the First-born and of the Spirits of just Men made perfect O that God should ever do so much for me O that God should concern himself so much for the good of poor Creatures for their Salvation blessed be his Name For this was the design of God from all Eternity to give his only Son to die for poor miserable Sinners Then the Officers going to tye his Hands he said What must I be tyed then Well a brown Thred might have served the