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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

of it So that I need not I think say more For the King I do sincerely pray for Him and wish well to Him and to the Nation That they may be happy in one another that he may be indeed the Defender of the Faith That the Protestant Religion and the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom may be preserved and flourish under His Government and that He in His Person may be happy both here and hereafter As for the share I had in the Prosecution of the Popish Plot I take God to witness That I proceeded in it in the Sincerity of my Heart being then really convinced as I am still that there was a Conspiracy against the King the Nation and the Protestant Religion And I likewise profess That I never knew any thing either directly or indirectly of any Practice with the Witnesses which I look upon as so horrid a thing that I could never have endured it For I thank God Falshood and Cruelty were never in my Nature but always the farthest from it imaginable I did believe and do still That Popery is breaking in upon the Nation and that those who advance it will stop at nothing to carry on their Design I am heartily sorry that so many Protestants give their helping Hand to it But I hope God will preserve the Protestant Religion and this Nation though I am afraid it will fall under very great Tryals and very sharp Sufferings And indeed the Impiety and Profaneness that abounds and appears so scandalously bare-fac'd every-where gives to just reason to fear the worst things which can befall a People I pray God prevent it and give those who have shewn Concern for the Publick Good and who have appear'd Hearty for the true Interest of the Nation and the Protestant Religion Grace to live so that they may not cast a Reproach on that which they endeavour to advance which God knows has often given me many sad Thoughts And I hope such of my Friends as may think they are touch'd by this will not take what I say in ill part but endeavour to amend their ways and live suitable to the Rules of the true Reformed Religion which is the only thing can administer true Comfort at the latter End and revive a Man when he comes to Die. As for my present Condition I bless God I have no repining in my heart at it I know for my Sins I have deserved much worse at the Hands of God So that I chearfully submit to so small a Punishment as the being taken off a few Years sooner and the being made a Spectacle to the World. I do freely forgive all the World particularly those concerned in taking away my Life and I desire and conjure my Friends to think of no Revenge but to submit to the Holy Will of God into whose Hands I resign my self entirely But to look back a little I cannot but give some touch about the Bill of Exclusion and shew the Reasons of my appearing in that Business which in short is this That I thought the Nation was in such danger of Popery and that the Expectation of a Popish Successor as I have said in Parliament put the King's Life likewise in such danger that I saw no way so effectual to secure both as such a Bill As to the Limitations which were proposed if they were sincerely offered and had pass'd into a Law the Duke then would have been excluded from the power of a King and the Government quite altered and little more than the Name of a King left So I could not see either Sin or Fault in the one when all People were willing to admit of the other but thought it better to have a King with his Prerogative and the Nation easie and safe under him than a King without it which must have bred perpetual Jealousies and a continual Struggle All this I say only to justifie my self and not to enflame others Though I cannot but think my Earnestness in that Matter has had no small Influence in my present Sufferings But I have now done with this World and am going to a Kingdom which cannot be moved And as to the conspiring to seize the Guards which is the Crime for which I am condemned and which was made a constructive Treason for taking away the King's Life to bring it within the Statute of Edward the 3d. I shall give this true and clear Account I never was at Mr. Shepheard's with that Company but once and there was no undertaking then of securing or seizing the Guards nor none appointed to view or examine them Some Discourse there was of the Feasibleness of it and several times by accident in general Discourse elsewhere I have heard it mention'd as a thing might easily be done but never consented to as fit to be done And I remember particularly at my Lord Shaftsbury's there being some general Discourse of this kind I immediately flew out and exclaim'd against it and ask'd If the thing succeeded what must be done next but massacring the Guards and killing them in cold blood Which I lookt upon as so detestable a thing and so like a Popish Practice that I could not but abhor it And at the same time the Duke of Monmouth took me by the hand and told me very kindly My Lord I see you and I are of a Temper Did you ever hear so horrid a thing And I must needs do him that Justice to declare That I never observed in him but an Abhorrence to all base things As to my going to Mr. Shepheard's I went with an intent to taste Sherry for he had promised to reserve for me the next very good Piece he met with when I went out of Town and if he recollects he may remember I ask'd him about it and he went and fetch'd a Bottle but when I tasted it I said 't was hot in the Mouth and desired that whenever he met with a choice Piece he would keep it for me which he promised I enlarge the more upon this because Sir George Gefferies insinuated to the Jury as if I had made a Story about going thither but I never said that was the only Reason And I will now truly and plainly add the rest I was the day before this Meeting come to Town for two or three days as I had done once or twice before having a very near and dear Relation lying in a very languishing and desperate Condition And the Duke of Monmouth came to me and told me He was extremely glad I was come to Town for my Lord Shaftsbury and son e hot Men would undo us all How so my Lord said I Why answered he they 'll certainly do some disorderly thing o ● other if great Care be not taken and therefore for God's sake use your Endeavours with your Friends to prevent any thing of this kind He told me there would be Company at Mr. Shepheard's that Night and desired me to be at home in the Evening and he

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

would call me which he did And when I came into the Room I saw Mr. Rumsey by the Chimney though he swears he came in after and there were things said by some with much more Heat than Judgment which I did sufficiently disapprove and yet for these things I stand condemned But I thank God my part was sincere and well meant It is I know inferred from hence and was pressed to me that I was acquainted with these Heats and ill Designs and did not discover them But this is but Misprision of Treason at most So I die innocent of the Crime I stand condemn'd for and I hope no body will imagine that so mean a Thought could enter into me as to go about to save my self by accusing others The part that some have acted lately of that kind has not been such as to invite me to love Life at such a rate As for the Sentence of Death passed upon me I cannot but think it a very hard one For nothing was sworn against me whether true or false I will not now examine but some Discourses about making some Stirs And this is not levying War against the King which is Treason by the Statute of Edward the Third and not the Consulting and Discoursing about it which was all that was witnessed against me But by a a strange Fetch the Design of Seizing the Guards was construed a Design of Killing the King and so I was in that cast And now I have truly and sincerely told what my part was in that which cannot be more than a bare Misprison and yet I am condemned as guilty of a Design of killing the King. I pray God lay not this to the charge neither of the King's Counsel nor Judges nor Sheriffs nor Jury And for the Witnesses I pity them and with them well I shall not reckon up the Particulars wherein they did me wrong I had rather their own Consciences should do that to which and the Mercies of God I leave them Only I still averr That what I said of my not hearing Col. Rumsey deliver any Message from my Lord Shaftsbury was true for I always detested Lying though never so much to my advantage And I hope none will be so unjust and uncharitable as to think I would venture on it in these my last Words for which I am so soon to give an Account to the Great God the Searcher of Hearts and Judge of all Things From the time of chusing Sheriffs I concluded the Heat in that Matter would produce something of this kind and I am not much surprized to find it fall upon me And I wish what is done to me may put a stop and satiate some Peoples Revenge and that no more innocent Blood be shed for I must and do still look upon mine as such since I know I was guilty of no Treason and therefore I would not betray my Innocence by Flight of which I do not I thank God yet repent though much pressed to it how fatal soever it may have seem'd to have proved to me for I look upon my Death in this manner I thank God with other eyes than the World does I know I said but little at the Trial and I suppose it looks more like Innocence than Guilt I was also advis'd not to confess Matter of Fact plainly since that must certainly have brought me within the guilt of Misprision And being thus restrained from dealing franky and openly I chose rather to say little than to depart from that Ingenuity that by the Grace of God I had carried along with me in the former part of my Life and so could easier be silent and leave the whole Matter to the Conscience of the Jury than to make the last and solemnest part of my Life so different from the Course of it as the using little Tricks and Evasions must have been Nor did I ever pretend to a great readiness in Speaking I wish those Gentlemen of the Law who have it would make more Conscience in the use of it and not run Men down and by Strains and Fetches impose on easie and willing Juries to the ruine of innocent Men For to kill by Forms and Subtilties of Law is the worst sort of Murther But I wish the Rage of hot Men and the Partialities of Juries may be stopp'd with my Blood which I would offer up with so much the more Joy if I thought I should be the last were to suffer in such a way Since my Sentence I have had but few Thoughts but Preparatory ones for Death Yet the Importunity of my Friends and particularly of the Best and Dearest Wife in the World prevailed with me to Sign Petitions and make an Address for my Life To which I was very averse For I thank God though in all respects I have lived one of the happiest and contented'st Men of the World for now very near fourteen years yet I am so willing to leave all that it was not without Difficulty that I did any thing for the saving of my Life that was Begging But I was willing to let my Friends see what Power they had over me and that I was not Obstinate nor Sullen but would do any thing that an honest Man could do for their Satisfaction Which was the only Motive that sway'd or had any weight with me And now to sum up all As I never had any Design against the King's Life or the Life of any Man whatsoever so I never was in any Contrivance of altering the Government What the Heats Wickedness Passions and Vanities of other Men have occasioned I ought not to be answerable for nor could I repress them though I now suffer for them But the Will of the Lord be done into whose Hands I commend my Spirit and trust that thou O most Merciful Father hast forgiven me all my Transgressions the Sins of my Youth and all the Errors of my Life and that Thou wilt not lay my secret Sins and Ignorances to my Charges but wilt graciously support me during that small part of my Time now before me and assist me in my last Moments and not leave me then to be disorder'd by Fear or any other Temptation but make the Light of thy Countenance to shine upon me for Thou art my Sun and my Shield And as Thou supportest me by thy Grace so I hope thou wilt hereafter Crown me with Glory and receive me into the Fellowship of Angels and Saints in that blessed Inheritance purchased for me by my most merciful Redeemer who is I trust at thy Right-hand preparing a place for me and is ready to receive me into whose Hands I commend my Spirit The very Copy of a Paper delivered to the Sheriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-Hill on Friday December 7. 1683. By Algernon Sidney Esq before his Execution there Men Brethren and Fathers Friends Countrymen and Strangers IT may be expected that I should now say some Great Matters unto you but the Rigour of the Season