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An Account of the execution and last dying speeches of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon who were executed (the one for murthering his wife and the other for high-treason) on Kenington-Common in the county of Surry, the 19th of March, 1687 : together with a true coppy of a paper left by Tho. Watson in order to be published and recommended by him at the place of execution to the spectators as the real sense of what he further designed or intended to say or leave at his going out of this world &c. ...
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Desires and uncleanness O Lord pardon all those sins and irregular Actions by which I entered into Debts further than my necessity required or I was able to pay Let not my Creditors suffer by my sins Lord reward all their Kindnesses into their Bosomes and make them recompence where I cannot Lord I beseech thee pay my Debts in Blessings to them and theirs Lord pardon all my Rashness and Passion for when I should have been meek gentle humble and merciful patiently bearing all the injuries done unto me as my Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ did alas I have for one inconsiderable word broak into open Rage and Passion harbouring mischief in my heart nay at last they brought me to the inhumane and cruel Murther even of her that ought to have been as dear unto me as my own Life although she was unkind to me I ought to have loved her instructing reproving and restraining her with all meekness and gentleness and long suffering praying for her and not to have been rash and passionate against her moreover wickedly to destroy her and as much as in me lay to raise out the very Image of God Deliver me O Lord from Blood Guiltiness thou that art my Saviour and my Tongue shall sing of thy Righteousness wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sins Turn thy Face from my sins and blot out all my misdoings make me a new heart and renew a right spirit within me the Remembrance of my sins is grievous the Burthen of them intollerable O Lord I beseech thee give me a due sense of my sins the baseness and vileness of all my doings and misdeeds that I may hate them worse than that Death I expect shortly to suffer Give me a Godly sorrow that may work Repentance never to be repented of Give me unfeigned purposes of amendment of Life though I may justly think they are too late to find Acceptance with thee therefore with fear and a great sense of my own unworthiness with a sorrowful heart and true sence of my sins I look up unto thee for Mercy that had Mercy on the Penitent Thief at the last hour thou that art Mercy it self give me some small hopes of Mercy good Lord cast me not quite out of thy sight for Jesus Christ's saâ—e who gave himself for us to redeem us from all Iniquities I confess 't is a beginning of Mercy and an earnest I have to hope for more that hast made me sensible of my sins to a degree of hating them and to resolve against them that I have a love and desire to a Godly Life I confess thou had'st just cause to leave me to my self and permit me to commit so horrid a Fact O Lord I know thou canst bring good out of evil and I beseech thee to let this be a means of bringing me to Repentance and then I shall have infinite cause to Bless thee for suffering of Justice to take hold of me and put a stop to my further sinning against thee let me take shame to my self by open confessing my Crime and earnestly admonishing all to be warned by my Example to cease betimes to do evil and learn to do well O! that I might Glorifie thee in my Latter End till I receive my deserved punishment give me Grace to spend my time bewailing my sins in and humbling my self before thee for them and hating them with a perfect hatred and in calling other Offendors to Repentance I beseech thee to inable me thus to spend my time Grant me to tast of thy Mercy and take from me the fear of Death Give me Grace to work out my Salvation with fear and trembling to use all diligence to make my Calling and Election sure so that when my Soul is seperated from my Body that thou Blessed Jesus wilt receive it into thy Protection and have Mercy upon me O Lord God according to thy loving kindness according to thy tender Mercys blot out my Transgressions wash me throughly from mine Iniquity and cleanse me from my sins for I acknowledge my Transgressions and my Sins are ever before me against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou might be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest for behold I was shapen in Iniquitie and in sin my Mother concieved me but thou shalt make me to know wisdom Purge me with Hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than Snow Make me to hear of joy and gladness that the Bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce hide thy Face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me cast me not away from thy presents and take not thy Holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy Salvation and uphold me with thy Spirit then will I teach Transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness O God thou God of my Salvation and my Tongue shall sing aloud of thy Righteousness O Lord open thou my Lips and my Mouth shall shew forth thy Praises for thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thee thou delightest not in Burnt-Offerings the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite heart O God Thou wilt not dispise do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion Build thou the walls of Jerusalem let me make my Calling and Election sure and when my soul departeth from my body then O Blessed Lord receive it into the hands of thy Mercy These and whatsoever else thou seest needful for me I Beg in the Name and for the sake of Jesus Christ concluding these my imperfect Prayers in saying as he himself hath Taught us Our Father c. Written by me Thomas VVatson with my own Hand in the Marshalsea Prison And is my desire it may be made publick WE the Persons who have subscribed the Papers mentioned to be left by Thomas VVatson do testifie of our own Knowledge that they were Written by the said Thomas VVatson and signed with his own Hand it being his desire they should be Printed and Published Joshua Ettry Jonah Bullock Judith Granger This may be Printed R. M. March the 21st 1687. London Printed by D. Mallet for G. P. MDCLXXXVII
An ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION And Last Dying SPEECHES Of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon Who where Executed the one for Murthering his Wife and the other for High-Treason on Kenington-Common in the County of Surry the 19th of March 1687. Together with a True Coppy of a Paper left by Tho. Watson in order to be Published and and Recommended by him at the place of Execution to the Spectators as the real Sense of what he further designed or intended to say or leave at his going out of this World c. Being Written with his own Hand in the Marshalsea Prison OF the four Persons who Received Sentence of Death at the last Lenten-Assizes held at St. Margarets-Hill in Southwark for the County of Surry two received a Gracious Reprieve and the other two viz. Thomas Watson Condemned for Killing Mary Watson his Wife by giving her a Mortal Wound with his Bionet and Thomas Geurdon for Clipping and Defacing the Currant Coin of this Kingdom were this 19th of March 1687. Conveyed to Kennington Common the place appointed for their Execution the First in a Cart and the Latter on a Sledge where being arrived about Eleven of the Clock in the Morning Gourdon was taken out of the Sledge and put into the Cart where Watson was and being both of them Tyed up in the usual manner Watson after he had delivered the Books he had brought with him together with his Hat Cravat and some other things of the like Nature to his Friends who attended in a Coach was asked if he intended to say any thing to the People in Relation to the Circumstances he was under who replyed he designed to say something as he hoped for the good of the Spectators who came to be Witnesses of his unhappy End and thereupon having declared that he had left the particulars of what he intended to say in Writing with a Woman a Friend of his in order to be Printed for the General Good and Satisfaction of the publick he proceeded in this manner I Beseech you good People who come to see my shameful and Ignominious End and Death which I little expected one day to come too that you would take warning and not give way to Passion which many times makes Men do what they least design for when a Man is inraged the Devil many times prevails against him with his Temptations As for my part I did no more design to Act the Crime for which I suffer than to do hurt to my own Heart but what I did I did out of a sudden Rashness and I hope in Christ Jesus I shall find Pardon for it After this he told the Minister and the under Sheriff c. that what else he thought convenient to make publick as afore-said he had left in the hands of his Friend with a desire it should be Printed and Published and repeated the same with a loud Voice to the People that came to be Spectators of his unhappy End appearing very sensible of his Offence which was observed by his many Expressions of the Detestation and Abhorrence he conceived thereat and earnest desires that God would of his infinite Mercy be pleased to forgive and pardon him for so offending Thomas Gourdon being desired to declare himself as to what he stood Condemned said that many before him had been brought to the like Death he he was to undergo for the like Crimes that he stood charged withall but his Wishes and earnest Desires were that he might be the last and that he trusted in Jesus Christ that he should find a Pardon for his sins and thereupon fell to praying sometimes with an audible voice and at other times to himself then the Minister who attended this business prayed with them a considerable time after which being demanded if they had any thing more to say in order to the easement or disburthening of their minds they answering they had nothing more to say to the people whereupon the Executioner having orders to drive away the Cart they were turned off After the Bodys had hung the space of half an hour or somewhat more they were taken down and delivered to their Friends who attended with two Coffins in order to dispose of them according to their discression The true Coppy under Thomas Watson's own hand and Written by him in Prison take as followeth AFter my condemnation having a true Sense of my sad Estate I bitterly lamented my sins and loathed my self for them especially as they were against a Good and Gracious God According to Psal 31.4 and 15.4 I was deeply sensible of and grieved for the Corruption of my heart from whence my actual sins did proceed According to Psal 51.5 I Mourned over my Back slidings because God was thereby dishonoured I found it hard to believe yet I resolved I would call upon God and relye upon the Merrits of Christ alone for Salvation saying if I perish I will perish at the Fountain of Mercy I was much in a little time in Dutys yet I professed to my self I saw the insufficiency of them to justifie or save me as in Phil. 3.9 I made choice of Christ before all before Life it self According to Phil. 3.8 I longed for the Morning when I was to Die because I desired to be with Christ According to Phil. 1.23 I greatly loved God because much was forgiven me According to Luk. 7.47 and said though I should fail before him yet I would trust in him I loved the Company of Gods people and professed I would rather be with them in Prison with Bread and Water than with the ungodly at liberty with the greatest Dainties According to the 1 Joh. 3.14 I Besought God that he would ever give me a heart to think it better to be in Chains and brought to Dye than to go on in sin I was broken and melted for my sins when those that came to visit me were gone from me and not in their presence yet this was sometimes my trouble least God should loose the Glory he had wrought in me I Weep'd for joy at the time when I conceived that God loved me forasmuch as I was not sinning against him as others were and I my self had formerly done for I found and tasted more sweetness in the ways of God and in praying and mourning for forgiveness of my sin than ever I found in the committing of them I counted sin to be worse than Death or Hell I looked upon the loss of God more than the torments of the latter and feared it more nay I praised God because in the Grave I should sin no more and thus I comforted my self in misery advising all to Watch and Pray that they might not enter into Temptation and be guilty of the like sins which I had committed but prayed that my fellow Convicts might recieve the like Consolation my Repentance had wrought in me Written by me Thomas Watson with my own Hand in the Marshalsea After I had thus far improved my time I