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A63278 A true account of a late horrid conspiracy to betray Holland to the French And of the trial, confession, condemnation and execution of Jacob Martinet sheriff of the town of Sluys, and Cornelius Reolands master of the ship call'd the Argle of Amsterdam, who were executed for the said conspiracy the sixth of this instant May, 1690. Done off of the Dutch copy. 1690 (1690) Wing T2328; ESTC R220914 6,172 12

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and I beg God's forgiveness and your forgiveness for it and am willing to dye for it as I justly deserve I must say I did for some Months resist the Offers that were made me by the unhappy man that is gone before me but at length my Wants prevail'd with me to accept what I thought would rid me out of them This I do not say to excuse my self in the least God forbid I should And as I consented to betray this Town so I did promise to do another Villany which indeed I forgot to tell my Judges at my Trial and it was to see if I could prevail with any Captains of Ships to betray their Ships to the French for which I was to receive Money from the French Secretary of War to give to those Captains I hope your Displeasure against me for so Villainous Designs will end when I have satisfied Justice with my Blood I earnestly beg the assistance of your Prayers for me in this my Agony and I commit my Soul to God hoping to be saved by the Merits of Christ my Redeemer Having delivered himself thus and heard the Minister that waited on him pray and having pray'd himself he was just going to be turn'd off when pulling up the Handkerchief that was over his Eyes he said Good People there is one thing my Conscience obliges me to tell you with my last Breath and it 's this I am affraid there are a great many such Designs in hand up and down this Country like this for which I suffer and I wish there may be some effectual means to prevent them for I assure you the French Agents are very busie every where and they spare no money to obtain their Ends I have no more to say but again beg earnestly the Assistance of your Prayers And I commit my Soul to God Having thus said he was turned over the Ladder and his Body afterwards by order of the Magistrates was given to his Friends to be buried Thus we have one sad Example more of the ill Effects of the French Money towards our Country and Common-wealth but we hope God will disappoint all their Designs and bring their Accomplices to just Punishment FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THe Memoires of Monsieur Deageant Containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richelieu To which is added a particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair which happened the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original Reflections upon a Form of Prayer lately set forth for the Jacobites of the Church of England And of an Abhorrence rendred by the late King to some of our Dissenting Bishops upon his present Majesties Landing The New Nonconformist Or Dr. Sherlock's Case in Preaching after a Deprivation incurr'd by the Express Words of a Statute Fairly Stared and Examined With short Reflections upon Mr. Cook 's Sermon'● February the 2 d. 1689-90 which was Licens'd by the Arch-Bishop's Chaplain The Anatomy of a Jacobite-Tory In a Dialogue between Whig and Tory Occasioned by the Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary A true Narrative of the Murders Cruelties and Oppressions Perpetrated on the Protestants in Ireland by the late King James's Agents since his Arrival there Published for the Information of the Jacobites that Endeavour his Return again All these are to be Sold by R. Baldwin in the Old-Baily