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A25455 Animadversions upon the speech of William (late) Viscount Stafford on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, immediately before his execution, upon Wednesday, December, 1680 : plainly laying open the falacy of all his asseverations of his innocency : published to prevent the deceiving of Protestants. 1681 (1681) Wing A3208A; ESTC R33119 7,759 14

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ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM LATE Viscount Stafford ON THE SCAFFOLD ON TOWER-HILL Immediately before his Execution upon Wednesday December 1680. Plainly laying open the FALACY of all HIS ASSEVERATIONS OF HIS INNOCENCY Published to prevent the deceiving of Protestants The Second Edition with Additions London Printed for Richard Baldwin in Ball Court near the Black Bull in the Old-baily MDCLXXXI THE PREFACE THere having been such a multitude of these Speeches Printed and published my self having seen no fewer then four several sorts viz. Two in a half sheet one in a whole sheet and one in two sheets and the Vulgar being so apt to be deceived it was thought highly necessary to send abroad some Animadversions upon them How they are done I leave others to Judge and satisfie my self with the honesty of my intentions which were the undeceiving of those who so easily believed dying mens words without considering their principles That the Church of Rome allows those of her Communion to say what is false yea to Swear what is false and this when they say and Swear to others that they do nei speak nor swear falsely nor use any Equivocation or Mental Reservation I have fully proved in the following Papers from their own approved Authors I have also proved that they allow the denying what it most true and assenting what is most false with the most dreadful and solemnest Oaths and Imprecations and that they may without any scruple endeavour to deceive others by the use of such falsness as at other times so even when they are dying It will be needless here to give any account of his deportment upon the Scaffold there being a Paper published relating all the circumstances of it only two or three Passages out of that Paper we will take leave to transcribe After his Speech which he read out of a Paper and after Prayer in English and Lat in standing up he spake these words I beseech thee God not to avenge my Innocent Blood upon any man in the whole Kingdom no not against those who by their Perjuries have brought me here for I profess before Almighty God that I never combined against the Kings life nor any bodies else but whatever I did was only to procure Liberty for the Protestant Dissenters and the Romish Religion And as for the Duke of York I do here declare upon my Salvation I know of no Design that he ever had against the King but hath ever behaved himself as a Loving Loyal Brother ought to do so now upon my Salvation I have said true all that I have said I pray God bless the King and bless you all especially the Kings Loyal Subjects for I know you have a good and Gracious King as ever Reigned God forgive me my sins I forgive all the world even those Fellows that brought me here and I pray God send them no worse Punishment then to tell the Truth and so God bless you all Then a Minister telling him he had disowned the Indulgences of the Romish Church he passionately replyed I do say that the Church of Rome allows no Indulgences for Murder Lying c. And whatever I have said is true and being asked if he had receiv'd no Absolution answered I have received none at all I shall not stuff this Preface with any Animadversions on these Passages having done it on the like in the Book it self to which I refer the Reader and then if unprejudiced leave him to judge whether any Credit is to be given to the Dying words of this sort of men ADVERTISEMENT There is published a Large Broad-side engraven on a Copper Plate entituled The popish Damnable plot against our Religion and Liberties in several of its Branches lively delineated with an account of the manner of the Excecution of William Late Viscount Stafford in Tower-hill price 4d sold by Richard Baldwin in the Old-baily ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE LAST SPEECH OF William Viscount Stafford WHO WAS BEHEADED ON TOWER-HILL FOR HIGH TREASON In Conspiring the Death of the King c. on Wednesday December 29th 1680. DYing mens words are generally much regarded and Protestants who make Conscience of their own words and count it a Horrid Crime to speak otherwise than they think when they are dying may be ready to take the measures of others by themselves and to Judge those guiltless who when they are dying assert their Innocency with the highest asseverations But they will find very great reason to alter their opinion if they take but due notice how very clear the Evidence was by which this miserable Lord was cast and if withal they do but fully understand the Popish Principles which destroy all confidence in their words living and dying Fully to convince Protestants my design shall be to prove that by the common Doctrine receiv'd amongst them they are furnished with expedients whereby they may deny what is most true and affirm what is most notoriously false and that with the most solmn Oaths or dreadfullest Imprecations and yet neither lie nor be forsworn nor any way sin in the least degree and this they may do even when dying Their main artifice is that which they call Mental Equivocation because of a double sense in some proposition partly exprest and partly referv'd in their minds so that a thing may be true in their own sense by vertue of this Mental Reservation but false in the sense of all that hear it The use of this is allowed by all sorts of Papists and perticularly the Jesuits it is an Art more dear to them and oftener used by them then any other fraudulent art whatever because this fraud is more easie less discernable and the advantage of it admirable and therefore no wonder that they do not decline it at Trials in Courts of Judicature No nor when they are dying and approaching the Tribunial of the Great Judge tho truth and sincerity is then if every necessary But this our Poor deceased Lord hath more pertinent instances of those of his Principles and Circumstances to encourage him with Oaths and Asseverations to assert a falshood and deny the Truth To instance in their Practises Father Garnet Whitebreads Predecessor in Office and Practices and one concerned in the Gunpowder Plot was notoriously guilty herein for he denied that by solemn Oaths and Impretations before the Lords Commissioners which was afterwards proved upon him and his only Plea for himself was this Doctrine of Equivocation So likewise Tresham another of the Powder Plotters said that Garnet was privy to the Treason but afterwards just before his death took it upon his Salvation that he had accused Garnet wrongfully and that he had not seen him of sixteen years before and so dyed But this his Protestation and Oath was soon after proved notoriously false yea Garnet himself confessed that within sixteen years he had seen him many times whereupon being asked what be thought of Treshams dying Oath and Protestation he answered Possibly Tresham meant to