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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55186	The last speech of Mr. Oliver Plunket, titular Primate of Ireland who was executed at Tyburn on Friday the 1st of this instant July, 1681 written by his own hand.	Plunket, Oliver, Saint, 1629-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2626; ESTC R8422	5,464	4

The Last SPEECH OF Mr. Oliver Plunket Titular PRIMATE of IRELAND Who was Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 1st of this instant July 1681. Written by his own Hand I Have some few days past abided my Tryal at the Kings-Bench and now very soon I must hold up my Hand at the King of King's Bench and appear before a Judge who cannot be deceived by False Witnesses or Corrupted Allegations For he knoweth the secrets of Hearts Neither can he deceive any or give an Unjust Sentence or be Mislead by respects of persons He being all goodness and a most just Judge will infallibly decree an eternal Reward for all good works and Condign punishment for the smallest Transgression against his Commandments Which being a most certain and undoubted Truth it would be a wicked Act and contrary to my perpetual welfare that I should now by declaring any thing contrary to Truth commit a detestable sin for which within a very short time I must receive Sentence of Everlasting Damnation after which there is no Reprieve or hope of Pardon I will therefore Confess the Truth without any Equivocation and make use of the words according to their accustomed signification assuring you moreover that I am of that certain perswasion that no Power not only upon Earth but also in Heaven can dispence with me or give me leave to make a False Protestation And I protest upon the word of a Dying man and as I hope for Salvation at the Hands of the Supream Judge that I will declare the Naked Truth with all Candor and Sincerity And that my Affairs may be the better known to all the World 'T is to be observed that I have been Accused in Ireland of Treason and Praemunire and that there I was Arraigned and brought to my Tryal but the Prosecutors men of Flagitious and Infamous Lives perceiving that I had Records and Witnesses who would Evidently convince them and clearly shew my Innocency and their wickedness they voluntarily absented themselves and came to this City to procure that I should be brought hither to my Tryal where the Crimes objected were not committed where the Jury did not know me or the Qualities of my Accusers and were not informed of several other Circumstances conducing to a Fair Tryal Here after six Months Close Imprisonment or there abouts I was brought to the Bar the third of May and Arraigned for a Crime for which I was before Arraigned in Ireland A strange Resolution a rare Fact of which you will hardly find a Precedent these five hundred years past But whereas my Witnesses and Records were in Ireland the Lord Chief Justice gave me five weeks time to get them brought hither But by reason of the uncertainty of the Seas of Wind and Weather and of the difficulty of getting Copies of Records and bringing many Witnesses from several Counties in Ireland and for many other Impediments of which Affidavit was made I could not at the end of the five weeks get the Records and Witnesses brought hither I therefore begged for twelve days more that I might be in a readiness for my Tryal which the Lord Chief Justice denyed and so I was brought to my Tryal and exposed as it were with my Hands Tyed to those Merciless Perjurors who did aim at my Life by Accusing me of these following points First That I have sent Letters by one Nial O Neale who was my Page to Monsieur Baldeschi the Pope 's Secretary to the Bishop of Aix and to Principe Colonna that they might Sollicit Forraign Powers to Invade Ireland and also to have sent Letters to Cardinal Bullion to the same effect Secondly To have imployed Captain Con O Neale to the French King for Succour Thirdly To have Levied and Exacted Moneys from the Clergy of Ireland to bring in the French and to maintain seventy thousand men Fourthly To have had in a readiness seventy thousand men and Lists made of them and to have given Directions to one Frier Duffy to make a List of 250 men in the Parish of Foghart in the County of Lowth Fifthly To have Surrounded all the Forts and Harbours of Ireland and to have fixed upon Carlingford as a fit Harbour for the Frenches Landing Sixthly To have had several Councils and Meetings where there was Money alloted for Introducing the French Finally that a Meeting in the County of Monaghan some 10 or 12 years past where there were 300 Gentlemen of three several Counties to wit Monaghan Cavan and Armagh whom I did exhort to take Arms to recover their Estates To the first I answer that Nial O Neale was never my Servant or Page and that I never sent Letter or Letters by him to Monsieur Baldeschi or the Bishop of Aix or to Principe Colonna And I say that the English Translation of that pretended Letter produced by the Frier Macmoyer is a meer invention of his and never Penned by me or its Original either in English Latin Italian or any other Language I affirm moreover that I never wrote Letter or Letters to Cardinal Bullion or any of the French Kings Ministers neither did any who was in that Court either speak to me or write to me directly or indirectly of any Plot or Conspiracy against my King or Country Farther I Vow that I never sent Agent or Agents to Rome or to any other Court about any Civil or Temporal Affairs And 't is well known for it is a Precept publickly Printed that Clergy-men living in Countries where the Government is not of Roman Catholicks are commanded by Rome not to write to Rome concerning any Civil or Temporal Affairs And I do aver that I never received Letter or Letters from the Pope or from any other of his Ministers making the least mention of any such matters So that the Friers Macmoyer and Duffy Swore most Falsly as to such Letter or Letters Agent or Agents To the second I say that I never employed Capt. Con O Neal to the French King or to any of his Ministers and that I never wrote to him or received Letters from him and that I never saw him but once nor ever spoke to him to the best of my remembrance ten words and as for his being in Charlemount or Dungannon I never saw him in them Towns or knew of his being in those places So that as to Con O Neale Fryer Mack Moyer's Depositions are most false To the third I say that I never Levyed any Money for a Plot or Conspiracy for bringing in Spaniards or French neither did I ever receive any upon that account from Priests or Fryers as Priest Mac-Clave and Fryer Duffy most untruly asserted I assure you that I never received from any Clergy-man in Ireland but what was due to me by ancient custom for my maintenance and what my Predecessors these hundred years past were wont to receive nay I received less than many of them And if all what the Catholick-Clergy of Ireland get in the year were put in