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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47835	Considerations upon a printed sheet entituled 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.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing L1230; ESTC R7414	30,363	54

but one step of Massacring the Guards Or cutting their Throats in their Beds which the Paper says My Lord Abhorr'd it for being so like a Popish Practice A Presbyterian Practice would not have done a miss neither in This Place if a body had had the Murder of the Late King Montross The Arch-bishop of St. Andrews c. in his thought But shall any man at last be so Weak as to swallow it that Did you ever hear so Horrid a Thing was only an Exclamation upon a General and Accidental Discourse All the Rest went down well enough till it came to the Cut-Throat-part of it And that was the Point that Startled them The Doing of the Bus'ness either in a Brave Generous Way Head to Head or with Cap in Hand And a Complement of Loyalty and Respect to Desire his Majesty in These Dangerous Times to sign a Demise of his Three Kingdoms to the Vse of the Councel of Six Or to a Band of Associators for the Security of his Sacred Person and the Protestant Religion I do not find by any thing I see yet that the Men of Honour if the Paper-Writer might have had his Will would have Boggl'd at such a way of Proceeding But the doing of the Thing Basely was the Business And the Scruple that was made was upon a Point of Bravery not Conscience But to Continue the Story As to my going to Mr. Shepheards I went with an Intention to taste Sherry for he had promised me 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 askt him about it and he went and fetcht 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 Jefferies 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 By this Paragraph the Reader is to be held in hand that my Lords BUSINESS to Mr. Shepheards was to taste Sherry And the Paper goes about to Refresh Mr. Shepheard's Memory by such and such Tokens the Word is with an Intention to taste Sherry which in common Speech does fairly insinuate as if the Tasting of Sherry had been the chief End of his going Whereas supposing that to be in his Intention it might be nevertheless yet the least part of his Bus'ness And further the Author of this Paper has not thought fit to give us any Sort of Light what his Bus'ness was Nay Mr. Shepheard on the other hand swears that it was a Meeting by Appointment and that there was nothing of the Sherry-Story in the Case My Lord however made use of this Suggestion at his Tryal and Sir George Jefferies Reflecting upon it to the Jury this Paper undertakes the Excusing of One shift with Another The Tasting of Sherry was One Reason though not the only Reason But we are now to Expect a True and Plain Account of 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 some Hot men would undo us all How so My Lord said I Why answered he they 'l certainly do some Disorderly thing or 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. Shepheards that night and desired me to be at home in the Evening and he 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 Iudgment which I did sufficiently Disapprove and yet for these Things I stand Condemned But I thank God my Part was syncere and well meant It is I know inferred from hence and was pressed to me that I was acquainted with those Heats and Ill Designs and did not Discover them but this is but Misprision of Treason at most So I dye Innocent of the Crime I stand Condemned for c. Here 's a short Account of my Lords coming twice or thrice to Town and that he had a Dear Relation lying sick here But whether he came upon a Visit or upon the Bus'ness in Question the Paper says Nothing The Duke of Monmouth Complains to him as above of my Lord Shaftsbury and Other Hot Headed Men that would spoyl all this Implyes my Lords being Antecedently privy to the matter in hand for he takes the hint immediately How to my Lord says he without needing to Enquire either What Men or what Bus'ness The Answer was no more in Effect then This. There are a Company of mad Fellows that will out-run the Constable they will be shewing themselves too soon and make some Bedlam Attempt or other before we are ready for 'em and then we are All ruin'd So that it was not the Design it self but as This Paper Represents it the rash and imprudent Manage that was taken Check at And now follows the Meeting at Mr. Shepheards which this Paper calls Company as if it were a chance Company not a Meeting But Mr Shepheard speaks of it as a Set Company And Mr. Rumsey was likewise appointed to meet there My Lords Contradicting Mr. Rumsey in a Circumstance without any Exception to him upon the main looks like a tacit Admittance of the rest of his Evidence The Paper speaks further of things that were said by some with more Heat than Iudgment but neither says who spake them nor what the things were but 't is Probable they were Treason by my Lords Disapproval of them And it would have been well if his Lordship had at least told the things though without naming the Persons It is Remarkable that the words are with much more HEAT than JUDGMENT If it had been with much more Heat then Honesty my Lords Disapproval would have Reflected upon the Cause but with much more Heat then Iudgment strikes only upon the Indiscretion The Paper thinks it hard that My Lord should be Condemn'd for the things which he Disapproved whereas my Lord was Condemn'd for Meeting Consulting Agreeing to Raise an Insurrection c. And it is the Law that Pronounces the Sentence My Lords Part it seems was Sincere and well meant 'T is a thousand pitties his Lordship was not better Enformed for People under a Mistake may do the worst things in the world with Good Meaning And then methinks Heats and Ill Designs are too soft a way