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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28857	Boteler's case being an impartial narrative of the tryal, & penitent behaviour of Master UUilliam Boteler, executed September 10th at Chelmsford, about the murder of Capt. Wade : with the substance of a sermon preached on that occasion, and his last speech faithfully taken.	Boteler, William, d. 1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing B3805; ESTC R43063	16,063	48

grounds who knows that his Redeemer liveth without this the Flower of Nature shrinks and droops at the sight of a chilly Grave For when others brave it their unconcernedness is the effect only of stupidity or a feaverish Passion let them but consider it in cool blood and they shall be ready with the Emperour Adrian in a fit of trembling and perplexity to cry out O Animula vagula blandula Hospes Comesque Corporis Quae nunc abibis in Loca Pallidula rigida nudula Nec ut soles dabis joces On the contrary here you might behold a staid and even Resolution equally void of womanish fear or Hectorly impudence that shew'd a due consideration of the weighty Errand he was going about that upon true measures he could bear with the difficulties of the way out of a sense and comfortable prospect of his Journeys end And now too might you see the most marble-hearted Spectators in all the numerous croud to melt at their Eyes and compassion to seize the most obdurate breasts Being arriv'd at the place where he was to suffer he mounted two or three rounds of the Ladder and thence with a modest look and chearful voice spake as follows The last Confession or Speech of Mr. Boteler at place of Execution Gentlemen I Have very great reason to believe that I shall die here with as little pity and as much malice as ever any did but I beg of you to hear the words of a dying man who within a few minutes must go out of this World In the first place as to the thing I suffer for I am very well satisfied and am content to die believing that I die justly and righitously by the Law of the Land but as touching the murder of Mr. Wade I am not guilty Parsons came to me and desired me to go to Mr. Wade to tell him that he was in such a place and would speak with him which I was loath for to do but upon his perswasions I went to him This Captain Wade I never had any malice or envy in my heart against in my life nor any provocation from him But as I said I went to him and told him that Parsons was resolved not to put up the affront he had given him I told him also that Parsons was in a Field in such a place I said Sir I am sorry that Parsons hath any thing against you that he is so enrag'd He desired me to go with him to the Field and shew him where Parsons was for he would go to him But I was unwilling to go with him and more than once desired him to let me be gone that I might not be concern'd one way or other desiring him likewise to forbear or at least defer meeting to see if a reconciliation might not be had and if afterwards Parsons would fight with Seconds I would serve him rather than Parsons But he would needs have me go forth of his House with him so I walk'd with him a little way and then I said Fare ye well Sir God bless you And he said God bless thee honest Will and so we parted I do declare that I never saw them near one another nor any Sword drawn If any thing lies upon my Conscience it is this and I have laid it before the Lord with humility and am satisfied that God hath pardon'd it through the Merits of Christ That I should be an occasion to bring him out of his house whereby he came to his end I do declare That Parsons told me both before and when he was come to London that he did believe the Captain was not dead But I have very justly deserved a greater death than this by my many sins that I have committed against God and I do desire that my fall may be to the saving of many a man here My wickedness was great I was come to meer Atheisme I did not beleive there was a God but liv'd in continuual practice of sin going to bed prophaning of his holy Name and rising again with curses in my mouth let all that hear me this day repent and not forget the Lord that made them I was educated like a Gentleman as many do know and very well brought up as to Religion but I had left all that and kept bad company and was drawn in only as you have heard but you see he that did the fact is escaped and I must dye Now I desire that every one that lives and sees me here may take example by me who am going out of this world within a few minutes there is never a one here but does provoke the Almighty every minute to cut him off were not his mercies infinite and I can freely lose this life confessing I have deserved an eternal death yet I believe through the merits of my dear Saviour that he will receive me immediately into glory Now there is another aspersion that is cast upon me that I was a High-way Robber and I do declare that I never had any such design never was of any gang to that purpose nor ever saw any man robb'd that I remember in all my life As touching the bloody coat that people judge I did the Act in I do declare that it was done by my being let blood and that six or seven weeks before the murder was committed as many Gentlemen can witness nor had I that coat on then Another thing I would clear that was cast upon me which is that I was a Roman Catholick But I do declare that I am not but am a Protestant and of the Church of England though one of the least and worst thereof Now I have done and leave it to you whether you will beleive the words of a dying man or no for how could I expect to be saved if I should go out of the world with a lye in my mouth I pray God of Heaven freely to forgive Parsons that hath brought me to this and to give him to consider what he hath done and grant him repentance for it and to have mercy on his soul But though I dye I am confident that he will clear my innocency but I find that I was so little believed that people thought I would say any thing to save my life And now I desire you all to joyn with me in Prayer to Almighty God to forgive me my sins to have mercy upon me and to save my soul So he kneeled down to Prayer and prayed very affectionately humbly and enlargedly with much brokenness of heart and such pathetical expressions that being not exactly taken it would be injurious to represent them with the least variation from his own words then a Minister went to Prayer with him and after he had prayed to God again in few words he then rise up and said The God of Heaven bless you all and when he was on the Ladder he said The Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me then the Hangman asking him to forgive him he answered