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A29466	A brief narrative of that stupendious [sic] tragedie late intended to be acted by the satanical saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the king's most excellent majesty : also, an impartial account of the indictment, arraignment, tryal [sic], and condemnation of Thomas Tonge, George Phillips, Francis Stubbs, James Hind, John Sallers, and Nathaniel Gibbs, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, London, Decemb. 11, 1662 ; together with the confessions, speeches, and prayers of George Phillips, Thomas Tonge, Nathaniel Gibbs, Francis Stubbs, at the place of execution, on Munday, Decemb. 22, 1662. / exactly taken in short-hand characters, by the same person that wrote the late king's judges tryals.	Hill, William, fl. 1662.; Tonge, Thomas, d. 1662.; Phillips, George, d. 1662.; Stubbs, Francis, d. 1662.; Sallers, John, d. ca. 1662.; Gibbs, Nathaniel, d. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4611; ESTC R32577	58,554	95

Brown from whom I received full instruction every night On Tuesday Sir Richard Brown and Sir Iohn Robinson ordered me to go along with the Soldiers to take Riggs Hind Tonge Stubbs c. White the Cane man who were all apprehended accordingly William Hill An Impartial Narrative of the Indictment Arraignment Tryal and Sentence of Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs James Hind John Sallers and Nathaniel Gibbs at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily London Decemb. 11. 1662. THe Commission of Oyer and Terminer being read and Proclamation made the Grand Jury were sworn whose Names are Arthur Iourdan Iohn Freestone Thomas Fawson Thomas Coney George Compere Isaac Rutter Chr. Rigby Rowland Steed William Standen Iohn Worth Iohn Rigby Leonard Staples And several Witnesses being called there appeared William Hill Edward Riggs Tyler Godolphin Bonfoy and several others who being all sworn were directed up to the Grand Jury After some hours examination of the Witnesses and consultation the Grand Jury returned the Indictment Billa vera Clerk of the Peace You good men of the City of London summoned to appear here this day to enquire between our Soveraign Lord the King and the Prisoners that are and shall be at the Bar answer to your Names as you shall be called every one at their first Call upon pain and peril that shall fall thereon Good men of the Ward of c. Serjeant Glyn Serjeant Maynard His Majesty's Serjeants at Law Sir Ieoffry Palmer Attorney General Sir Heneage Finch His Majesty's Solicitor Serjeant Keeling His Majesty's Serjeant Sir Edward Turnor taking their places in Court The Prisoners were commanded to be set to the Bar. Clerk of the Peace Thomas Tonge hold up thy hand George Phillips hold up thy hand Francis Stubbs hold up thy hand Iames Hinde hold up thy hand Iohn Sallers hold up thy hand and Nathaniel Gibbs hold up thy hand Which they severally doing their Indictment was read the substance whereof is as followeth Viz. YOu the Prisoners that were last called to the Bar stand indicted in London by the names of Thomas Tonge late of London Distiller George Phillips late of London Yeoman Francis Stubbs late of London Cheese-monger Iames Hind late of London Gunner Iohn Sallers late of London Compass-maker and Nathaniel Gibbs late of London Felt-maker for that you six together with divers others particularly in the Indictment mentioned and others not yet taken as false Traytors to the Illustrious Serene and most Excellent Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defendor of the Faith c. minding and with all their force intending the Pea●● and Tranquillity of this Kingdom of England to disturb and our said Soveraign Lord the King to death and final destruction to bring and put the 31 th day of October in the Fourteenth year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second traiterously did compass imagine and intend the killing of our said Soveraign Lord the King and the ancient Government of this Kingdom of England to change as in the Indictment more particularly was mentioned What sayest thou Thomas Tonge art thou guilty of this High Treason in manner and form as thou standest iudicted or not guilty Tonge Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be tried Tonge By God and my Countrey Clerk What saist thou George Phillips art thou guilty c Phill. I am guilty in hearing and not discovering of it Clerk Art thou guilty of this High Treason whereof thou standest indicted Phill. I am guilty but not in manner and form as I stand indicted I have heard the words as I formerly confessed to Sir Richard Brown not guilty as to the manner and form Clerk How wilt thou be tried Phill. By God and my Countrey Clerk How sayest thou Francis Stubbs art thou guilty c Stub Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be tried Stub By God and my Countrey Clerk What sayest thou Iames Hind art thou guilty c Hind kneeling down and discovering much penitency answered I am guilty and humbly beg Mercy of His Majesty Court Record his Confession Clerk How sayest thou Iohn Sallers art thou guilty c Sall. Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be tried Sall. By God and the Countrey Clerk How sayest thou Nathaniel Gibbs art thou guilty c Gibbs Not guilty Cler. How wilt thou be tried Gibbs By God and the Countrey Court Carry up Hind to the Gaole And the rest standing at the Bar silence was commanded Cler. Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs Iohn Sallers and Nathaniel Gibbs You the Prisoners that were last called to the Bar those men that you shall hear called are to pass upon trial for your several lives and deaths if you or any of you will challenge them or any of them you must challenge them when they come to the Book to be sworn before they be sworn Edmund Butler Tonge I challenge him but afterwards admitted him Clerk Edmond Butler Clement Punge George Dixon Samuel Paine Iohn Bagnal Iohn Gourney William Gayler Ralph Silverton William Dudley Ioseph Drake Iohn Peake and Robert Morrice were severally sworn in this manner Lay your hand on the Book look upon the Prisoner You shall well and truely try and true deliverance make between our Soveraign Lord the King and the Prisoners at the Bar whom you shall have in charge according to your Evidence So help you God Clerk Count these Cryer Edmund Butler Cryer one Clement Punge two c. Twelve good men and true stand together and hear your Evidence Clerk Cryer make Proclamation Cryer O Yes If any one can inform my Lords the Kings Justices the Kings Serjeants or the Kings Attorney before this Inquest be taken let them come forth and they shall be heard for now the Prisoners stand at the Bar upon their Deliverance and all others that are bound by Recognizance to give Evidence against any of the Prisoners at the Bar come forth and give Evidence or else you forfeit your Recognizance and all manner of persons that were summoned upon the Jury and have not yet been sworn they are discharged and may depart the Court. Clerk Tho. Tonge Hold up thy hand and so to the rest of them at the Bar You of the Jury Look upon the Prisoners and hearken to their Cause you shall understand that they stand indicted in London by the names of Tho. Tonge late of c. and so as in the Indictment aforementioned who together with Iames Hind who stands convicted by his own confession and the rest also aforementioned and so reads the Indictment again Upon which Indictment they have been Arraigned and thereunto have severally pleaded Not Guilty and for their Trial have put themselves upon God and the Country which Country you are Your charge is to enquire whether they be guilty of the High Treason in manner and form as they stand Indicted or not guilty If you finde that they or any of them are guilty you shall

the Congregational Churches and they were not fully agreed but now they were come all to an Agreement and the work would be done in a short time that all things were now near ready both in Country and City and that a Frigat or more would revolt from the King to them Not long after the said Riggs carried him the said Phillips to the house of one Tonge an old Army Captain but now a Seller of Tobacco and Strong-water in Tower-Ditch where he heard Tonge say unto Riggs that he had been at Windsor-Castle and had made a Captain two Serjeants and a Gunner to be of their Party and that they had undertaken to deliver up the said Castle to that Party which were now to Rise to which Riggs replyed you have done well and further said I am now going to surprise two Castles in Kent one of them as this Deponent remembreth was to be Deale Castle and this he would and could do for that he had some correspondence therein and much acquaintance near where he formerly used to Preach And further saith That Tonge asked Riggs who should lead the men that were to Rise and who Commanded in chief to which Riggs replyed that Ludlow was appointed for that work He further saith That he asked Riggs and Tonge how this business might be carried on with safety and secrecy Riggs told him that there was a Council of Six which managed the Design who sat but one day in a place and would not be spoken with but by the Agitators of each County who were imployed by them to and fro in this work to prepare and make ready all Parties in the several Counties and that these Six were of several Congregations and Opinions to the end that all Parties might unite And further saith That one Wade or some such name whom he heard Riggs and Tonge say was a Ship-Chandler in East-Smithfield did furnish powder to carry on this Design in whose Company he once was and heard himself say as much which said person he believes he knows when he seeth him again He also saith That Riggs told him all the Congregational Churches were now agreed to joyn in this Design And that Riggs and Tonge desired this Examinant to furnish what Men Arms he could which he saith he never intended to do it though they earnestly requested it of him onely he saith in some things he was too faulty which he prayeth pardon for which was in sending word to the several Meetings on Sunday last that the Trained-Bands were coming to seise them upon which the chiefest of them made their escape before the Souldiers arrival and that he being deluded by their fair Speeches did promise to give them the Word when the general Rising was to be In which Rising all the Churches aforesaid promised to joyn and the Fifth Monarchy-Men to lead the Van And further saith That Riggs told him they had a Declaration ready to fling among the People against Bishops and Common-Prayer and that Liberty of Conscience was held forth therein But first before this Declaration they would Seise on the Kings Person and that then their Declaration would take with the People And also saith That one Capt. Baker one Bradley and Tonge were privy to all these Transactions which were debated by them in his presence and that the said Baker came afterwards to this Examinant and discoursed all the aforesaid particulars and incited him to help on with the work and told him their Arms and Powder was distributed and that a Porter which was formerly a Souldier carried the Powder to several Places in a Sack And further saith That Riggs told him they had divers Friends both in London the Country who had and would help them to Money and that all their Friends were now ready in all Countries waiting onely for the day when they were to Act and that the Treasure in the Guild-Hall was likewise to be seised And that the said Riggs also told him That they intended to Surprize the Tower which they could easily do having some therein that would assist and this was to be put in Execution in some Evening when Sir Iohn Robinson came home late by following close after his Coach with a Party of men which should lie ready for that purpose George Phillips Sir William Morice and Sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretaries of State sworn Sir William Morice I have had intelligence and several advertisements from several parts of the Kingdom that there was a Design of Rising and an Insurrection that it was the general expectation and common discourse of the discontented and disaffected party nay it was likewise preached about that the Papists had a Design to rise and cut the throats of the Protestants I had four or five Letters to that effect sent and brought me and these Rumours were spread to excite others to joyn with these Sir Henry Bennet Divers Letters of mine were to the same effect that there was an Insurrection intended at that time and calling upon one another to be ready at that time Sir Iohn Talbot Sworn Sir Iohn Talbot I suppose that the Evidence that I can give in relation to the Prisoners is onely the consequences of this report which they had rumoured about the Papists Massacring the Protestants the consequence was this that it made a very great disturbance in Worcester-shire and Warwick-shire insomuch that many Gentlemen that lived in the Country in very good repute came under a very great suspicion of all their Neighbours and the Lieutenants wrote to one another to secure many there was Guards set to satisfie the fears of the Country Fryday night which the rising should have been on they would not intrust the Catholicks to be in Arms but other Voluntiers Mr. Hodges Sworn Mr. Hodges In Dorset-shire the 23. of October last there was a discovery made by some of the Town of an intention of a general rising and some of the Town were engaged in it one Mr. Harvey a Justice of the Peace examined divers Persons four that were privy to it were sent to the Goal and an express sent to Mr. Secretary Morrice Sir Iohn Weld the younger gave such an account of Shrewsbury Stubbs My Lord the occasion of my going that Fryday night was by Mr. Hill and Mr. Riggs suggesting Papists rising I was never known to be a Plotter I had not gone forth that night but only by their perswasions I never heard of any Arms but only the rumours of the people Sallers I would fain know of Mr. Riggs what number of Arms I told him was delivered Riggs I know not the number Major Thomas Bonfoy at his desire was Sworn Major Bonfoy I do not remember that I ever saw Phillips face but I did understand it was his custom to come to the Exchange to insinuate himself into my Officers making merry with them and endeavouring to get the word and I believe it was his common practise Phillips He may remember I came on

Foreman Clerk of the Peace Set up Thomas Tong to the Barr Thomas Tong hold up thy hand look upon him Masters How say you is he guilty of the Treason whereof he stands indicted or not guilty Jury Guilty Clerk of Newgate Look to him Keeper Clerk of the Peace What Goods and Chattels Jury None Clerk of the Peace George Phillips to the Bar How say you is he guilty of the high Treason whereof he stands indicted or not guilty Jury Guilty Clerk of Newgate Look to him Keeper Clerk of the Peace What Goods and Chattels Jury None Clerk of the Peace Francis Stubbs to the Bar How say you is he guilty of the high Treason whereof he stands indicted or not guilty Jury Guilty Clerk of Newgate Look to him Keeper Clerk of the Peace What Goods and Chattels Jury None Clerk of the Peace Iohn Sallers to the Bar How say you is he guilty of the high Treason whereof he stands indicted or not guilty Jury Guilty Clerk of Newgate Look to him Keeper Clerk of the Peace What Goods and Chattels Jury None Clerk of the Peace Nathaniel Gibbs to the Bar How say you is he guilty of the high Treason whereof he stands indicted or not Guilty Jury Guilty Clerk of Newgate Look to him Keeper Clerk of the Peace What Goods and Chattels Jury None Clerk of the Peace Hearken to your Verdict as the Court hath recorded it You say that Thomas Tong is guilty of the Treason whereof he stands indicted and so all the rest And you say that they nor any of them had any Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements at the time of committing the said Treason or at any time sithence to your knowledge and this you say all Jury Yes Clerk of the Peace Thomas Tong hold up thy hand thou hast been indicted of high Treason thou has thereunto pleaded not guilty and for thy Tryal hast put thy self upon God and the Country and the Country hath found thee guilty what hast thou to say for thy self why the Court should not proceed to Judgment and thereupon award execution of thee according to the Law Tong. I pray mercy from the King I cry for mercy from the King Clerk of Newgate Tye him up Executioner Clerk of the Peace George Phillips hold up thy hand thou art in the same case that Thomas Tong is what canst thou say c. Phillips kneeled down and said I pray the mercy of the King and the Honourable Bench. Clerk of Newgate Tye him up Executioner Clerk of the Peace Francis Stubs hold up thy hand thou art in the same case the two last Prisoners before thee are what canst thou say c. Stubbs I begg mercy I was meerly drawn in Clerk of Newgate Tye him up Executioner Clerk of the Peace Iohn Sallers hold up thy hand Thou art c. what canst thou say c. Sallers I would intreat this Honourable Bench to consider my condition and what my charge is I delivered no arms if I had known where they had been I would have discovered them I begg mercy from the King and this honourable Bench. Clerk of Newgate Tye him up Executioner Clerk of the Peace Nathaniel Gibbs hold up thy hand Thou art c. What canst thou say c. Gibbs And please this honourable Bench I have something to say I am innocent as to my Conscience of acting any thing treasonable against his Majesty the Lord forgive the witnesses I beg the mercy of the King Clerk of Newgate Tye him up Executioner Clerk of the Peace Iames Hind hold up thy hand Thou art guilty of the Treason whereof thou standest indicted by thy own Confession what canst thou say c. Hind I have nothing to say but humbly beg the mercy of the King Clerk of Newgate Tye him up Executioner Cryer O yes my Lords the Kings Justices command all manner of persons to keep silence while judgment is in giving upon pain of imprisonment Sir Robert Foster Thomas Tong George Phillips Francis Stubbs Iames Hind Iohn Saller and Nathaniel Gibbs you six Prisoners at the Bar you have been here indicted for one of the greatest crimes that can be committed upon earth as to this world against God our King and your Country and against every good body that is in this land for that capital sin of high Treason which is a sin inexpiable and indeed hath no equal sin as to this world upon this you have severally been arraigned and have severally except one pleaded not guilty and put your selves upon God and the Country for your tryals and your Country have found you guilty for the five that are found guilty I must say that in you I find little remorse little sense of your sin for the little man there Hind he hath much shewed his penitency The manner and circumstances of this most men here believe this did not originally arise from your particular selves it must be put into you by some others you speak as if you desired mercy where was your mercy that would have destroyed King and Country and massacred many millions of souls no respect of any person but your own Fellows I speak this that you may be the more sensible of your own Crime that you may truly out of the remorse of conscience be sorry for your sin you know very well the old councel and it is a good one Fear God and honour the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Medling with them that are given to change has brought too much mischief already to this Nation and if you will commit the same sin you must receive the same punishment for happy is he that by other mens harms takes heed I shall not spend long time with you but if you will as much as you can discover the Actors herein you will do God the King and your Country good service It remains that the Court proceed to Judgment and therefore you six the one by his own confession and other five by conviction of Law the Judgement of this Court is That you be conveyed back to the place from whence you came and from thence to be drawn upon an Hurdle to the place of Execution and there you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive shall be cut down and your privy Members to be cut off your Entralls to be taken out of your Body and you living the same to be burnt before your eies and your head to be cut off your body to be divided into four quarters and your head and quarters to be disposed of at the pleasure of the Kings Majesty And God have mercy upon your Souls FINIS THE CONFESSIONS Speeches AND PRAYERS OF George Phillips Thomas Tonge Nathaniel Gibbs Francis Stubbs At the Place of Execution on Monday Decemb. 22. 1662. The Manner of Conveying the Prisoners to the Place of Execution and their Behavior there before they began to Speak THe 22. Decemb. Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs and Nathaniel

that are in the truth instruct them and you may recover them out of the claws of the Divel Are you Christians and have the light of God in your souls O then strengthen your brethren do not give them nick-names and abuse them that 's not the way Christ teaches another lesson That if thine enemy hunger you should feed them and if he be a thirsty give him drink we should pray to the Lord that he would turn those that be out of his way into the right way Vndersheriff You know we must be all subject to Government every Congregation must not have a Ruler their meetings are prohibited by good Authority and because they will not be obedient to good Government Gibbs I do not say that every Congregation must have a Ruler and I hope I speak the words of sobriety I hope you will put a charitable construction upon what I say As to the Magistrates I have a word or two Vndersheriff Speak well of them Gibbs Be not afraid I will not speak any evil of them Magistracy is an ordinance of God and the end of Magistracy is for the punishment of evil-doers and the praise of them that do well and for this purpose I do desire that the Lord would give to the supreme Magistate here on earth wisdom and understanding a wise Council a Council fearing God and hating covetousness that they may study to exalt the Throne of the King in righteousness and truth O that we may all praise the Lord for deliverance out of condemnation and I say it is the duty of all the subjects of the Kings Majesty in all his Kingdoms and Dominions to live peaceably and to pray for the Kings Majesty Prayers and intercessions ought to be made for all men especially for Kings and Governours for this very end and purpose that thereby we may live in all quietness godliness honesty and Justice and to this very end the Lord bless our Magistracy give them council and wisdom that they may love them that love the Lord and hate them that hate the Lord. After Gibbs had done speaking then Stubs began who went over all the particulars of his Trial at large to which for brevities sake we refer you only saith he as followeth Friends and Country-men IT is true and I must confess my sin in the presence of God and did ask mercy of the King that I was in the company when I did hear wicked and treasonable words spoken and I being ignorant and not knowing the Law did not discover what I did hear As to my judgement truly I desire to own that the Scriptures own I shall speak of that place in the Hebrews which is the command of Christ I desire the Churches and the people every one to live the life of faith and love one another I am confident it would be a means of abundance of comfort here in the Nation there is a kind of heart-burning and rising one against another you are so and so throw dirt one against the other it is our and your duty still to be studying to live in love and bear one with another not be angry destroy and fight one with another O that we might live that life of love that God had commanded then we may expect the presence of God to be with us surely God hath a great judgment against his own people for not loving one another Phillips Mr. Sheriff I have only one word to speak before I go to my Prayers that is Here I see some Gentlemen present that are in the capacity that I was in as a Soldier I say be faithful to your trust and beg of God that you may stand fast and not dishonour God nor be disobedient to the King when the Fifth-monarchy men were up I was free and willing to lay down my life for the interest of the Nation and did venture it as much as any young man in London Therefore good friends have a care I am now brought to suffer it is true I was guilty of concealing it I desire your Prayers that now as we are going to the state of eternity from whence there is no redemption I humbly beseech you as Christians friends That you would seek earnestly to God that now he may receive our souls into everlasting rest and happiness which he has been pleased to bestow on them that love him and fear him and the Lord knows my heart I speak it in his presence that had the King been pleased to shew mercy to me I should have been a faithful and true subject to him all my daies but seeing it is the righteous hand of God that now I am come to this untimely death I desire you to lift up your hearts and souls to God with me that when my soul shall leave this body that the Lord Jesus Christ may with his everlasting arms receive me to glory There is no redemption after death we shall either go to eternal woe or eternal happiness therefore good friends I desire you to look up to God that when my soul departs it may be received to glory Mr. Phillips his Prayer O Eternal Lord God thou that art the great Creator of Man-kind and thou that formedst him in the womb hear thy poor and sinful creature now he is coming to make his last approaches to thy throne O that thou wouldst be pleased to look down in mercy upon my Soul O Lord that thou wouldst be pleased now to take my soul and wash it and bathe it in the blood of Iesus Christ who hath died and risen again for me O that now I could see the heavens opened and Iesus Christ ready to receive my soul Be pleased O Lord to look upon me in thy ten●er mercie and compassion and as thou hast said thou dost not delight in the death of a sinner therefore good Lord look down upon my poor soul and receive me into the everlasting mansions which Iesus Christ is gone before to prepare for all them that love thee O Lord we are now going I hope to an estate of happiness where we shall sin and sorrow no more but where we shall ever reign with Iesus Christ. O Lord had we not some hopes had we not some sight of the Lord Iesus Christ made known to our souls we durst not appear before thee this day we durst not stand before thee in thy presence O that thou wouldest more and more manifest thy gracious presence with me that thou wouldst uphold me to take this bitter cup drink it freely O Lord I desire to come unto thee I have been a great sinner before thee but Iesus Christ has died is risen and is now at the right hand of his Father making intercession for us And good Lord as thou hast commanded us to come unto thee and to believe in thee and hast said thou wilt in no wise cast off the soul that comes unto thee in confidence of that hope I desire to fix my soul upon

concerning Declarations Hil. The Declaration was ready Stubbs acquainted us against Popery and Monopolies for Liberty of Conscience and a Free Common-wealth Finch Any thing of the Popish Massacre Hil. Yes I had this Paper of them a Copy of a Letter Sir R. Foster How many Copies of that Letter were to be dispersed in the City Hil. About Five thousand Sir Ieoffry Palmer These things were to be dispersed to possess the people that the Papists about that time would Massacre the Protestants that so they might draw all against that Party to joyn with them a brave colour when in truth there was no such thing but onely to carry on their design of killing the King and altering the Government The Letter was read by the Clerk and follows in his verbis SIR OUt of the respect which I bear to you in particular and to the Protestant Party in General I give you notice of this Passage About a fortnight since a woman which you must be ignorant where who had it from a Correspondent of the Papists that they intend to make use of their Army which all the World sees they have provided against Al-hallows Eve next It was thought good therefore in as prudent way as may be to give notice to our Friends in remote Parts that they may do what piety to God Loyalty to their Prince Love to their Country and self-preservation should direct them Sir I call the Eternal God to witness that this is not to Trepan to put a Trick upon you but a sober Truth And also Communicated to a Justice of the Peace and by him to the Privy Council and what the issue of it is I have not heard I hope you will inquire and tell us From Yexford in Suffolk Octob. 31. 1662. Serj. Keeling Do you Mr. Hill remember any discourse of the way of taking Whitehall Name who were there and who spoke Hill There was Hind and one Captain Browne a Shooe-maker in the Strand and some other persons Counc Was Stubbs there Hill Not at this discourse but we talked of taking Whitehall at Stubbs's house when a Sea-Captain was there that was to go to Saranam and Stubbs invited him to stay at home to assist them who was to come down with a Party by Charing-Cross and another Party to come up by the Cock-pit and to kill my Lord Duke of Albemarle and to slay ●ir Richard Brown in the City and the Party in the City to keep a Drum beating c. And Tonge said That their main care must be to keep down Sir Richard Brown and the Trained Bands or else they should never be able to stand Council What concerning the Privy Garden way Hill They discoursed concerning the getting down the Door and the Wall and so get the sooner to Whitehall Council What was Stubbs's opinion at that communication Hill His was at Black-friars the last Tuesday night before they were taken this Stubbs Thomas and Gibbs Court Which Gibbs Hill This black Gibbs at the Bar they discoursed that they would be sure to make an end of Kings Princes and Dukes that they might have a Free State and troubled no more with any such kinde of persons neither Lawn Sleeves nor Circinglers Council Do you remember that Stubbs proposed any other way to Whitehall Hill No Sir Maynard Did they say what Number was provided ten or twenty thousand Hill Stubbs assured us that there was a great party in East-smithfield right for the work and had their Arms. Couucil What imployment had Sallers about delivering the Arms Hill He said the Arms were delivered out at Cruched-friers about six hundred and that forty of their Friends went away last night for lack of Arms that within two or three days there would be more Council Did he name a Magazine Hill Yes the Magazine in Crutched-friers Council Did you know any thing touching the discovery of the Word and by whom Hill No Sir but I understood that Tonge was assured by Phillips that Phillips would get him the Word that very night that they intended the Insurrection Council What was propounded if they had taken the King what would they do Hill He should have the same Quarter as Ludlow was to have Court Who said that Hill Stubbs and Gibbs and Tonge Council That 's three of the Prisoners at the Bar Lord have mercy upon us Council Were you not acquainted of a Council of Six Hill Yes they named some at a venture but they believed some of them were of the Six That they met not twice in a place sometimes here and sometimes in another place Council Who did they name Hill Colonel Danvers Phillips Nye the Minister Lockyer and one Cole of Southhampton that these Four were part of the Six Council What discourse touching the distance of place where they engaged any Hill Forty miles about the Town Council Did Tonge tell you that Strange had lodg'd any Horse Hill He said he had taken out the Horse that were provided for a time but Gibbs and Stubbs at Black-friers assured us of the Horse coming into the Town the night before Council Did Tonge tell you of any Back Breasts Blunderbusses Hill Not he Sir It was talked of that night at the Black-friers Council What did you hear concerning sending into Dorsetshire to spread Rumours there Hill That they had four hundred of their Friends there that they were sure of and several Cases of Pistols sent down by the Carrier Court Who said that Hill I know not what particular person but at that Meeting and in that company Council Who was present Hill Gibbs and Stubbs Council None of the rest Was Tonge or Phillips there Hill No Sir Council Did you hear of any other Countrey either Kent or Worcestershire or Derby or Leicestershire Hill Tonge informed us of the faithfulness of Col. Kendrick in Kent to bring him some Arms. Court If the Prisoners will ask him any Questions they may Sallers Friends all that here are present I did ever abhor such an action Ask him whether he did hear me speak those words that I should say that there was Arms delivered out and that forty went away lacking and in one or two days there would be more which words I never did speak in my life or any such thing onely what I heard from Wapshot as Wapshot declared to my Lord Mayor he told me to whom I appeal It 's true meeting with that Wapshot says he we hear there will be a Rising and there are some Arms delivered out said I I would advise you to have a care of such a business Sir Orl. Bridgeman I would not interrupt you you will be admitted to make your defence afterwards but if you will ask him any Question Sallers My Lord I shall come to that Wapshot told me there were Arms delivered but further told me he knew not of the certainty of these things that at night he should go to a house where he should know I bid him have a care At

thee before I go hence and be no more Bow down the heavens O Lord and hear the requests of the poor soul before thee and I beseech thee for Christ his sake as thou wouldst forgive me so freely forgive all men that have done evil against me Be pleased to let the Kings Majestie reign in righteousness and holiness put a spirit of power and might in his soul and let him see wherein the stability of his Crown lies in following Righteousness Iustice and Iudgement and preserving of that Truth that is made known to him out of the book of the Lord. Come down Lord to his Soul and let him see wherein is his hope and O that he may at last live and reign with Iesus Christ for evermore Good Lord look upon me I am coming unto thee these are my last words O that thou wouldst be pleased to receive us this day that we may dine with thee in Paradise make known thy everlasting kindness to my soul before I go hence and be no more that I may receive that comfort and satisfaction which I have longed and looked for Lord my hope is in thee thou wilt not fail them that put their trust in thee in thee is my trust and confidence if I perish I will perish at the feet of Iesus Christ. O that thou wouldst humble me and seal up the pardon of my sins before I go hence and let thy Son Iesus Christ manifest his gracious presence with me and cloath me with that wedding garment of his righteousness and then take me into his arms and present me to his Father O that thou wouldst be pleased to strengthen and uphold me under this great stroke which thou hast been pleased to inflict upon me I kiss the rod receive it thankefully from thy hand I had been undone to all eternity hadst thou not afflicted me blessed be thy Name that thou hast been pleased to send Iesus Christ upon him I depend upon him I cast my confidence who is the rock of ages and never failed any that came to him Hear me and answer me and do for me and all thy Churches people abundantly above what I can ask or think and all for the sake of the Lord Iesus Christ to whom with thy self and thy holy Spirit be all honour power and praise henceforth and for evermore Amen Mr. Tong his Prayer O Most glorious and eternal Lord God thou that hast created the heavens and the earth and formedst of dust us thy poor creatures to which we are now returning Lord I beseech thee speak peace to my poor soul lift up the light of thy countenance upon me and let me see in thee and through faith in thy dear Son Iesus Christ that I am in covenant with thee and reconciled to thee Holy Lord I beseech thee let me see thy dear Son Iesus Christ sitting at thy right hand reconciling of me to thy self Let me finde my soul washed in the blood of the Covenant of thy dear Son Iesus Christ. Seal a pardon to me thy poor creature O Lord one smile of thy countenance is worth all the world blessed be thy name that thou hast supported me hitherto Lord God I beseech thee finish thy good work thou hast begun in me and go along with me and strengthen and uphold me to drink of this bitter cup. Be with me to the end Remember the Governours of this Nation O that thou wouldst showr down upon the King and Council thy mercies as thou showrest down rain on the ground that they may rule for thee and those that fear thy name may live in happiness and peace under thee for the sake of thy dear Son Iesus Christ. O Lord we pray thee remember all thy People and be good to them and deliver them out of all their troubles and speak peace to them and let them know thou wilt deliver them Keep me to the end and uphold me by thy right hand and so receive me with joy for the sake of thy dear Son Iesus Christ to whom be all honour and power henceforward and for evermore Amen Mr. Gibbs his Prayer O Eternal everliving and everloving God who art a reconciled and loving Father unto thy poor unworthy Creatures before thee and unto all the children whom thou hast called to believe in thee O Lord this is no small priviledge that sinful dust and ashes mortal worms should have to do and to deal with so holy and infinite a God as thou art to make requests unto thee considering the vast disproportion that there is between thee and poor sinners Thou art of purer eyes then to behold any unclean thing in thy presence O Lord. We our selves are nothing but polluted rags and fountains of uncleanness from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot all the faculties of the soul and members of the body are all members of unrighteousness Were it not therefore that thou hast been pleased to give us good hopes and found out a way to hold communion with us which is through the Lord Jesus in whom thou art well pleased in whom thou hast spoke forgiveness of sins to our souls we durst not now stand before thee but thou hast promised that though our sins are as scarlet thou wilt make them as white as snow and though they be as crimson thou wilt make them as wool Thou hast opened a fountain of free-grace and eternal mercy for poor sinners that through the blood of the Lord Jesus they may receive remission forgiveness cleansing and purging from all their sins Thou hast laid an all-sufficient help upon him who is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him We have nothing of our selves to bring unto God but sins to pardon and unclean souls to purge Thou hast been pleased to give thy Son and together with him freely to give us all things Thou hast given thy poor servant before thee faith that has brought salvation to his soul Thou hast saved him by thy free-grace not of works but through the mercies and blood of Jesus Christ and hast sprinkled the vertue of the blood of Christ in his conscience in the belief of the truth as it is in Jesus O blessed be thy Name that sent him to seek and to save us from condemnation who is risen with healing in his wings and hast set Christ before us that we should behold him that our sins have pierced Certainly great was that disease that needed such a medicine that nothing could expiate and take away our sins and blot out the hand-writing that was against us but the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ as of a Lamb without spot he is now become our peace who has made peace for us through the blood of that his Cross and has made twain one in himself Jew and Gentile He was delivered up for our offences and rose again for our justification We in the knowledge of him being justified by faith

his countenance upon our precious souls be a precious God to us and a dear and loving Father thou hast not left poor souls in the dark in such an hour as this O that thou wouldest communicate thy self unto us we are now departing and dying good Father we pray thee that we may have the spiritual life communicated to our souls Look in mercy upon every heart here in thy presence O that their Souls may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ thou hast given Christ to die for us whilst creatures here thy blood is able to wash and make me clean O there is no spot no dye but the blood of Jesus is able to take it away O Lord help us that we may die in the love of Jesus Christ And good Lord we desire that thou would look in mercy upon him that is the Officer and Executioner of these poor worms and as he is to wash his hands in our blood O Lord wash his soul in the blood of the Lamb of God Father thou knowest we desire the good of his soul we forgive him and we desire to forgive every one And dear Lord we desire thee to look upon the King communicate the riches of thy mercy unto his Majesty we desire his soul may be saved thou hast the hearts of all Kings in thy hand draw forth his heart that he may love those things that pleaseth thee and love them which thou lovest Let him be established in righteousness and let Justice and Judgment run down the streets of England as a mighty stream We pray thee to carry forth our souls to pray for every Relation beget Love in all sorts of people that they may live the life of Love that when they depart this life they may enjoy the blessed Comforter the Lord Jesus Christ. And dear Lord thou art pleased to give us a taste of thy love this day Lord thou hast given us a pardon blessed be thy Majesty for it thou hast given us a reprieve for our souls we are delivered from death to life we hope when we depart this world we shall meet them with Jesus Christ we shall enjoy those blessed Mansions to all eternity And gracious Father we desire to bless thee for that civility we have had from those that have been Officers here Lord make it up to them And we desire to bless thee for it O the riches and the heigth of the grace of God and the love of Jesus Christ to poor sinners We may see that thou wouldst be pleased to look in mercy upon this poor Nation O that thou wouldst unite their hearts in love together O that there might not be any more differences or hatred Unite their hearts in love and obedience that they may fear God honour the King that they may desire in all righteousness and holiness to do those things that are according to thy mind and will And gracious Father thou canst not abide Hypocrites the Lord cause souls to love holiness and the power of godliness that they may not shrowd themselves under the profession when there is reality Look in mercy upon all the Churches of Jesus Christ communicate thy mercy and love to them be pleased to be with us this day and go along with us O that we may bless thee with our souls and all that is within us Be with us and do for us more then we are able to ask or think upon the account of Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased to whom be all praise and glory now and for ever Amen AFterwhich their Caps being severally pulled over their Faces and after some private ejaculations the Executioner caused the Cart to be drawn away and after they had hanged a while they were severally headed and quartered according to their Sentence and their heads and quarters conveyed in a Basket to Newgate to be disposed of at the Kings pleasure Which he was graciously pleased thus to dispose of Their several Quarters to be buried which was accordingly done on Saturday-night December 27. Their heads to be set up on several Poles Two on the one Tower-hill and two on the other as neer the Tower as may be FINIS