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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24822	An Account of the behaviour, dying speeches, and execution of Mr. John Murphey, for high treason, and William May, John Sparcks, William Bishop, James Lewis, and Adam Foresith for robbery, piracy and felony, at the execution-dock on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1696		1696 (1696)	Wing A244; ESTC R1200	2,064	2

AN ACCOUNT Of the Behaviour Dying Speeches and Execution of Mr. John Murphey for High-Treason and William May John Sparcks William Bishop James Lewis and Adam Foresith for Robbery Piracy and Felony at the Execution-Dock On Wednesday the 25th of November 1696. Licensed according to Order TO give my Reader first a short Account of the particular Crimes that brought these Unhappy Criminals to their untimely End These five last Pyrates are some of the Crew of the Famous or rather Infamous Captain Every that committed those crying and bloody Cruelties in the East-Indies upon the Coast of Persia and the Kingdom of the Great Mogol these most Barbarous and Inhumane Wretches having first run away with one of his Majesties Men of War call'd the Charles and dismissed all that innocent part of the Ships Crew that refused to engage in their desperate Designs immediately set out as Pyrares make their common Prey upon Friends and Foes and rob all Mankind Accordingly they perpetrated those unheard of Barbarities as such plundering and rifling all the Vessels they met with Ravishing and Deflowering the Virgins and Women and then turning them out naked to starve upon shore amongst Rocks and Desarts But above all nothing was so horrid as their Surprizing a Ship of the King of the Indies where they first took away an infinite Treasure most inhumanely Ravisht a Young Princess and the test of her Female Train and afterwards left the Ship disarm'd and disabled floating as a wreck upon the Sea with near a 1000 Souls on Board thereby exposed to inevitable Starving This unparallel'd Outrage greatly prejudiced the Honourable East India Company the Grand Mogul demanding Satisfaction of them for this Depreduction and Villany After publick Proclamation made for their Apprehension several of them were accordingly taken and William May Joseph Dawson John Sparcks William Bishop and James Lewis were brought upon their Tryals on the 19th of October before the Honourable Sir Charles Hedges Judge of the High Court of Admiralty together with the Lord Chef Justice Holt c. At which time notwithstanding Joseph Dawson frankly and candidly acknowledge his Crimes and pleaded Guilty however the sway much to Admitation whither out of Tenderness in relation to not full enough Evidence or what other unknown Reason acquited them Nevertheless they were afterwards brought upon a new Tryal and such full and ample Testimony came against them as that they received the just Sentence of Death and this suffered accordingly Capt. Vaughan and John Murphey though their Crimes were much of the same Nature viz. For their Rapiness upon the Seas yet their Arraignment lay higher viz. For no less a Crime then Treason as that being N●tive Subj●cts to the King contrary to their Allegiance they had join'd w●●● our French Enemies and committed Hostilities upon the Subjects of England Upon their Tryals it appeared that Captain Vaughan had received a Com … from the French King as Captain of a Privateer and that he with oth●●●●val Forces had attacqued and taken his Majesties Ship the Diamand 〈…〉 and carried her Price into France for which Fact both he and Murp●●● received Sentence of Death as Guilty of High Treason After their Tryals and Conviction though they appear'd very resolute before yet upon the certainty of their approaching Death they behaved themselves with a little more modesty and some signs of a good preparation for another World They received the Favour of a considerable Time to prepare for Death and being this 25th of November all convey'd Murphey being drawn on a Sledge to the Execution Dock between the Hours of three and four they were all Executed Captain Vaughan only being Respited from the present Execution to Suffer at Tyburn Murphey appeared the most undaunted though to give them their due they seem'd to be all Masters of as much Courage as was possible at the sight of so infamous a Death before their Eyes Murphey being an Irishman and a strong Zealot for the late King and the French Interest seem'd to have little Regret against his Cause which he seem'd to adhere to to the last but rather maimed the Misfortunes of his Life and other private Sins which he thought might in a high measure bring him to this fatal End as judging those Errours of his wicked Life more capital then the Crime for which he dyed William May was much inclined to Penitence and exprest some sense of his shameful End and of the more shameful Crimes that brought him to that ignominious Death John Sparcks likewise exprest a due sense of his wicked Life in particular to the most horrid Barbarities that he had committed which though upon the Persons of Heathens and Insidels such as the foremention'd poor Indians so inhumanly rifled and treated so unmercifully declaring that his Eyes were now open to his Crimes and that he justly suffer'd Death for such Inhumanity much more then his Injustice and Robbery in Stealing and Running away with one of his Majesties Ships which was of the two his lesser concern William Bishop said but little but own'd himself as deep a sinner as the others and that his three years Roving upon the Seas was now a very Melancholy Thought to his Soul and so much the more to consider the Brutality of his Crimes as being one of a more Barbarous Crew than the Generality of Offenders of that kind Adam Foresah was very Penitent and truly own'd that besides the Guilt of his Offences and the present capital Punishment his Wicked Life attended with the many Hardships and Hazards he had undergone in his Robberies was little less than a Punishment for wickedness let it prosper never somuch brings great many troubles and afflictions along with it James Lewis acknowledged his many Transgressions and particularly the Offence for which they all dyed In fine they had all the Favour at the place of Execution of giving them time to offer up their necessary Prayers to Almighty God and then all suffer'd according to their Sentence London Printed for T. Crownfield in Cheap-side 1696.