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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65974	The tryal and execution of Father Henry Garnet, superior provincial of the Jesuits in England for the powder-treason collected by Roger Widdrington, a Roman Catholick, and by him addressed unto Pope Paul the Fifth, printed in Latin 1616 in his appendix to his Humble Supplication, p. 124, and thence translated. Now published to make it further evident, that it is no new thing for Jesuits to curse and ban, to justifie a lie.; Humillima supplicatio. Appendix. English. Selections	Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2087; ESTC R22947	8,090	8

had ask'd the Advice and known the mind of their Superiour that is Father Garnet especially in a matter so weighty and so dangerous to their Society as this might prove At length Father Garnet being much moved by the Speeches of the Earl of Northampton and the Earl of Salisbury brake forth into these words That he had done more than he could form any just excuse for And wish I had never known the Business of this Powder-Treason and at last he humbly besought God and the King that the other Catholicks might not fare the worse for his sake Out of these and many other Arguments which for brevity sake I mention not it seems to be plain that the Jury and the Lord Chief Justice to whom it belongs to pronounce Sentence of Life or Death might deservedly think that Father Garnet having had notice of the Treason and that out of Confession and yet not revealed it and seeing it was his own fault that he had not particular notice of it that so he might have revealed it and since that to make it appear that he had particular notice of it in Confession only there is nothing but his own simple Assertion to which in this matter credit ought not to be given especially seeing he was before convicted of perjury was if not a Counsellor of and Consenter to yet at least privy to that Treason which he did not reveal and therefore according to the Ancient Laws of England Guilty of High-Treason Wherefore all the Arguments and Proofs of what had been said and done together with Father Garnet's Answers being heard and referred unto the Jury's Verdict who brought him in Guilty of the Charge laid against him The Lord Chief Justice pronounced this Sentence against him that he should be drawn hanged and quartered Then the Earl of Salisbury ask'd Father Garnet if he had any more to say To which he Answered No my Lord but I humbly beseech your Lordships to recommend my Life unto the King at whose command I am most ready to die or to live and do him service And these things were transacted in the publick Tryal of Father Garnet at his Arraignment which I have recited faithfully though perhaps not all in the same Order wherein they were done But of what passed at his Execution this is the Sum which follows Being brought to the Place of Execution and having ascended the Scaffold which was set up on purpose Sir Henry Mountague Recorder of the City of London being commanded by the King to be there present asked Father Garnet if he had any thing to impart to the People that stood about him telling him that it was no time now to dissemble since his Crimes were manifest unto all and therefore if he pleased he might testifie to all what he thought concerning his own Condition and his Crimes for he should have free leave if he had any thing to say Father Garnet answered that his voyce was so low and his strength so spent that if he should speak to the People he could not be heard But to those that stood by him on the Scaffold he said that it was a wicked Plot and the Design was so horrid that if it had taken effect he could not but have detested it from his very soul adding that he only knew of it in general from Catesby and yet herein he had offended that he had concealed it and neglected to prevent it but what he knew particularly of it he said he had heard it only under the Seal of Confession But the Recorder admonished him that he would remember these four things the King had by him in writing signed by Father Garnet's own hand viz. 1. That Greenwel or Tesmond had signified the matter to him not as a sin but as that which he before was acquainted with and to the intent that he might ask his advice about it 2. That Catesby and Tesmond came to him that they might be confirmed in their wicked undertaking 3. That Tesmond and he had a good while after had a Conference in Essex concerning the Particulars of the Gun-Powder-Treason 4. That Tesmond had asked Father Garnet who was to be Protector of the Kingdom and Father Garnet answered him That was to be respited till the matter was done and ever These things shew that these wickednesses were known to you otherwise than by Confession and these things are under your own hand Father Garnet answered whatsoever is under my hand is true and because he had not discovered to his Majesty what he knew Sentence of death had justly been passed on him and he begg'd pardon of his Majesty for it Then said Father Garnet I am come hither on this day which is the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross to put an end to all the Crosses which I have suffered in my Life You are not ignorant of the cause of my suffering I confess I have offended against the King and am sorry for it so far as I was guilty of the Plot viz. in concealing it and for this I humbly beseech his Majesty to forgive me The Plot against the King and Kingdom was bloody and such as if it had been Executed I should have detested with all my heart and soul And truly I am very much grieved and troubled that Catholicks should ever undertake so horrid and cruel a wickedness Then turning from the People to them that stood about him he made an Apology for the Lady Anne Vaux and as concerning the Pope's Briefs and Edmund Bainhem's going beyond Sea and the Powder-Plot he referred himself to his Arraignment and his Confessions for whatsoever he had confest and given under his hand was true And then preparing himself for death he kneeled down at the Ladder's foot by which he was to ascend the Gallows and asked if he might pray and how long it was answered that he might pray as long as he would and that none should interrupt him When he had risen up again The Recorder observing by his Gesture that he was discomposed by earnest expectation of a Pardon bid him not to deceive himself and his own soul for he was brought thither to die and die he must withal requiring him that he would not Equivocate now with his last Breath but if he knew any thing that might be prejudicial to the King or Kingdom that he would declare it Father Garnet answered This is no time to Equivocate how far forth it 's lawful to Equivocate and when I have already declared my Opinion elsewhere but now I do not Equivocate and I know no more than I have confessed Being now upon the Gallows he used these words I recommend my self to all good Catholicks and I pray God to protect the King's Majesty the Queen the Royal Issue and the Lords of the Privy Council whom I salute most officiously and with whom I am sorry that I should dissemble But I did not think they had had those Proofs against me which they had until they produced them For then I thought it a greater honour to confess than before to have accused my self As for my Brother Tesmond I wish that the Truth may appear for false rumours would fasten more upon him than he is guilty of I had never accused him had I not thought he had been got out of danger I pray God the Catholicks may not fare the worse for my sake and I exhort them all that they never have any hand in such Treasons and Rebellions against the King Then signing himself with the sign of the Cross and commending himself to the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin the Ladder being turn'd he ended his Life And all this most blessed Father was transacted not in secret hugger-mugger but openly and as it were upon the Stage partly at his Publick Tryal in the Chamber of London before five Illustrious Earls who were commissioned to judge in the Case and who had for their Assessers besides the Lord Mayor of London three Chief Judges of the Kingdom and in the presence of an almost infinite number of men among whom many were Roman Catholicks partly at his Execution in the midst of the City before the gate of St. Pauls to which also there was a great conflux of People assembled So that your Holiness if you should doubt of the truth of any thing here related and will not give credit to so great a multitude of Protestants who it 's no way likely should speak falsly in a thing so Publick and concerning which they might easily be convinced of falshood if any were by so many Roman Catholicks who were present both at the Tryal and Execution yet by those Roman Catholicks themselves who were not Conspirators but are much grieved that those Fathers should have an hand in so horrid a wickedness because of the great detriment and scandals which from thence have befallen the Catholick Religion While they are yet alive you may easily be informed of the very truth of the several Particulars which I have related which I my self have heard from Catholicks themselves who were present at the Transactions FINIS