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A63966	A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing T3380; ESTC R23782	258,533	487

that seek the ruine of their Parents that begot them and brought them forth or them that lay violent hands upon themselves dashing out their own Brains cutting their own Throats hanging and drawing themselves ripping up their own Bellies tearing out their own Bowels they being in different senses Children and Members of that Body Politick they design and attempt the Destruction of and when I know not how long the Duration and Continuance of these things shall be or a Conclusion or End by God shall be put thereto who by Divine and Unerring Wisdom governs the World why shall my Soul be unwilling to take its flight into the unseen and eternal World Where no sullied sordid or impious thing most incongruous and unbecoming Nature shall be seen and found and where I shall behold no narrow conclusive contracted Soul there habitually preferring their private before a publick good but all most unanimously and equally center in one common universal good and where the sighs and groans and cries of the afflicted and persecuted shall be heard no more for ever I earnestly exhort all most highly to prize and value Time and diligently improve it for Eternity to be wise seriously and seasonably to consider of their latter End for by the irrepealable and irreversible Law of Heaven we must all die yet we know not how where or when Live with your Souls full of solicitude and care with a most deep concernedness and most diligent industriousness whilst you have time and opportunity and the means of Grace Health and Strength make sure of these two great things viz. 1. What merits for you a Right and Title to Eternal Life and Glory and the future unchangeable Blessedness as the Redeemers most precious Blood and Righteousness that thereby a real Application and Imputation may be unto you by sincere Believing 2. That that which makes you qualified Subjects for it is the great work of Regeneration wrought in your Souls being renewed in the Spirit of your Minds the Divine Nature being imprest upon them repairing of the depraved Image of God in you th●t being transformed into his own likeness thereby in the World you may mind an● savour more the things of the Spirit than the things of the Flesh Celestial and Heavenly more than Terrestrial and Earthly Superiour more than inferiour things And therewith have a holy Life and Conversation conjoyned that results and springs from the same as Fruit from the Root and Acts from the Habits Let all in order thereto seriously consider these few Texts of sacred Scripture let them predominately possess you let them be deeply and indelibly Transcribed upon your Souls let them be assimilated thereunto and made the written Epistles the lively Pictures thereof Matth. 5.8 20. Blessed be the pure in heart for they shall see God Vers. 20. For I say unto you except your Righteousness exceed the Righ●eousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven John 3.3 Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God c. Gal. 5.19 20 to 23. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery c. James 1.18 Of his own Will begat he us with the Word of Truth that we should be a kind of fi●st fruits of his Creatures 1 Pet. 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant Mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Vers. 13. Wherefore gird up the loyns of your Minds c. Colos. 3.1 2. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things that are above Set your affections on things above not c. Gal. 5.24 And they that are Christs have crucified the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts c. Eph. 2.1 And you hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins Rev. 20.6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on such the second Death hath no power Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no Condemnation c. 1 Pet. 1.15 But as he that hath called you is holy so be ye c. Vers. 23. Being born again not of corruptible Seed c. Psal. 4.3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself c. I shall mention now no more the whole Bible abounds with these Texts with what a Renovation and Change of our Carnal and Corrupt Hearts and Natures there must be with Holiness of Life and Conversation before we can be capable of a future and blessed Immortality and of inheriting the Kingdom of God for ever and ever Amen A Letter written by Mr. John Hicks Octob. 5. the day before his Death My Dear Nephew I Am yet in the Land of the Living though in the Mouth of Death I have been concern'd for you next to my own Children before I die I thought fit 〈◊〉 write two or three Lines to you a● a Manifestation of my great Love to you I earnestly desire the welfar of you here and to Eternity hereafter next to my own Wife and Children you will want me when I am gone but I hope the Lord will take care of you make it your business to walk with him to serve him faithfully flee youthful Lusts and Remember your Creator in the days of your Youth be deeply concern'd to have your Heart and Nature chang'd and an interest in Christ secur'd unto you Death comes suddenly you know not when where nor how you shall die Let time therefore be most precious to you fill it up with Work and Duty Live by faith more than by sense and this will stand by you when you come to ●ie Seek the things which are above and set your Affections upon them have your Conversation in Heaven whilst you are upon Ea●th When you see your Parents give my dear Love to them and their Children the Lord grant that we may meet in his everlasting Kingdom When you see any of your Cousins give my dear Love to them and be not asham'd of my Sufferings I wrote last Saturday was a Seven-night to my Brother George but whether he is at London or Worcester I know not I wrote to him to desire him to Petition the King that some Favour and Mercy might be shewed me if he thought fit Things that are made to aggravate my Crime I am clear from as that I perswaded the Duke of Monmouth to assume the Title of King at Taunton when I was not there with him or in Thirteen days after he came into England and that I rode to and fro in the West to perswade People to go in to his Army when I was in the East and ca●● from thence to hi● in the West but my Non-conformity cuts me and obstructs the

immediately well Armed as many as we were entered the Town Friday the whole day was spent in Listing of Men which flock'd to us so fast that we could scarce tend them with Arms. The like on Saturday also and then about ten of the Clock at night 300 of our Men were sent to Bridport about six English Miles off to Storm that Town betimes in the Morning which we did accordingly taking many Prisoners out of their Lodgings and had not our Soldiers been a little too eager of Plunder we had made a good day● work on 't but there lying about a Wood some of the Kings Forces we were forced to retreat losing three or four Men and killing several of theirs and taking Eight Prisoners this was the first Action which he had Sunday also was spent in Listing and Monday Morning but in the Afternoon we marched out of Lime for Axminster a little Town four Miles off our Party was near 2000 Foot and 300 Horse though we Landed not full an hundred Men and all these in the space of four days About two Miles from Lime we espied the Duke of Albermarle with about 4000 Men designing that Night to quart●r in the same Town which we had news of in the way yet we marched on in good order and came into the Town lined all Hedges Planted our Field-Pieces and expected nothing more than that we should give 'em battel they being not an English Mile from the Town they made towards us as soon as they heard that we were there but the Duke of Albermarle finding his Men to be all Militia-Men of the County of Devonshire and that they had no stomach to fight against Monmouth Retreated when he came within a quarter of an English Mile of the Town He came from Exon with these Forces intending to lay a siege against Lime presuming we could not be ready in so short a time but finding us so well prepared to receive him he wisely retired his Men being in great disorde● and confusion supposing we had pursued them which was Debated but the Du●e said it was not his business to fight yet till his Men had been a little Disciplin'd but rather to make up into the Country as fast as possible to meet his Friends not questioning but there would have been in several parts of the Kingdom some Action on the News of his Success But this in the end prov'd fatal to us for had we but follow'd them we had had all their Arms several more men and might have march'd in two days with little or no opposition to the very Gates of Exon the County-Troops resolving not to fight us and several came to us that Night with their Arms. But missing this opportunity we march'd on for Taunton Lodging at several small Towns by the way which still-received us as kindly as possible and all the way met with the loud Acclamations of the Country praying God to succeed our Arms. Thursday we came to Taunton about twenty Mile from Lime To give a particular Account of our Reception here would be too tedious the Streets throng'd with People we could scarce enter all endeavouring to manifest their Joy at his coming and their Houses Doors and Streets garnished with green Boughs Herbs and Flowers all the Emblems of Prosperity The next day Twenty six young Gentlewoman Virgins with Colours ready made at the charge of the Townsmen presented them to his Grace the Captain of them went before with a Naked Sword in one hand and a small curious Bible in the other which she presented also making a short Speech at which the Duke was ex●remely satisfied and assured her He came now in the Field with a design to defend the Truths contained therein and to Seal it with his Blood if there shou'd be any occasion for it Nothing now could content the Country but he must be proclaimed King which he seemed exceeding averse to and really I am of Opinion from his very heart They said The Reason why the Gentry of England ●oved not was because he came on a Common-wealth-Principle This being the Cry of all the Army he was forced to yield to it and accordingly Saturday Morning he was Proclaimed In the Afternoon came out three PROCLAMATIONS one setting a Sum of Mony on the Kings Head as he had done before by the other The Second Declaring the Parliament of England A Seditious Assembly and if they did not separate before the end of June to give Power and Authority to any that would attempt to lay hold of them as Rebels and Traytors The Third To declare the Duke of Albermarle a Traytor who now lay within six Miles of us having had time to Rally his Men if he laid not down his Arms forthwith a Message also was sent to command him but he sent word That he was a Subject to JAMES the Second the late Kings Brother and that he knew no other Lord. We tarried here till Sunday Morning and then march'd fot Bridgewater seven Miles from thence We were now between four and five thousand Men and had we not wanted Arms could have made above ten thousand We were received here as in other places but did little more than Read our Declaration which we did also in all other Towns the Magistrates standing by in their Gowns and likewise our Proclamation and so march'd forward for Glassenbury from Glassenbury design'd for Bristol three days March from that Place designing to Attaque it Accordingly we arrived at Canshum Bridge a little Town three Miles English from Bristol intending to enter next morning the Duke of Beauford being there with a Garrison of about Four Thousand Men being he●e lodg'd in the Town we were on a sudden Alarm'd with the noise of the Approach of the Enemy being in no small Confusion on this unsuspected News The Duke sent one up the Tower to see whether he could discover them marching as soon as he came up he saw them at the very entrance into the Town fighting with our Men. Here we had a small Skirmish our Men being in the Fields adjoyning to the Town refreshing themselves but it lasted not long for before he could bring word they were fled being not above sixty Horse-Men They did us mischief killed and wounded above Twenty Men whereas we killed none of theirs only took four Prisoners and their Horses and wounded my Lord Newburg that it was thought mortal they came thither thinking it had been their own Forces and had not our undisciplin'd Fellows been a little too eager and suffer'd 'em to come a little farther on they would have enter'd the Town and we must have had every man of them their Infantry was following but on their Return came not forward These Forces being so near and Bristol being so well mann'd also the Duke was loth to pass the Bridge for Bristol though some Gentlemen that came over with us and were prescribed upon the account of the former Plot being Bristol men and knew the

hearts of the Townsmen begg'd him heartily to proceed towards it offering themselves to go in the Head of them into the Town by some private ways which they knew assuring him They Would make no Resistance but could not perswade him which had we been Possessors of we could not have wanted Mony nor Arms the only things needful for us in that Juncture for had we but had Arms I am perswaded we had by this time had at the least twenty thousand Men and it would not then have been difficult for us to have march'd to London with the Recuit of Bristol the King not being able to make 7000 Men for the gaining of so many Kingdoms But God saw it not fit for us and over-ruled our Consultations to our own ruin for this was in the top of our prosperity and yet all the while not a Gentleman more than went over with us came to our assistance So we march'd on to Bath we lay before it in the Afternoon and sent in our Trumpeter to demand the Town but they refused to give us Entrance having a strong Garison it being a stout People and a strong place Having no mind to spend time in laying Sieges we march'd on that day to a little Town called Phillips-Norton and there lay that night being now Sunday the 26 th of June Old-Style Saturday Morning preparing for Frome We were drawing out our Baggage for our March and on a sudden were alarmed with the appearance of the Enemy who had entred the Town and had lined all the Hedges and began to fire on us Here he began the briskest Rencounter we yet had and for an hour or more we had a brisk Skirmish but at last we beat them back killing about thirty which lay in the place and we lost about ten in all and a few wounded They retreating with their whole Army pitched within a mile of the Town and we went out also and pitched near them but out of Musket-shot playing Cannon one on another for some hours they killed us but one man all the while but with ours we did great execution having the advantage of the ground so at last they retreated and I have been told lost some hundreds of men in the Bat●el both killed and wounded So we marched on for Frome a Town where we were as beloved as at Taunton where we wanted for nothing but Arms which were by a Stratagem taken from them a few days before our entrance Here came the unexpected News of Argyle's being defeated and likewise of the advance of the Kings Forces from London with considerable Baggage and thirty Field-Pieces On this News tog●ther with our want of Mony and Arms not seeing which way to avoid these Forces we were at a stand and not a little non-plus'd 'T was at last agreed on that we that came with the Duke should get good Horses that Night and so for Pool a little Sea-Port Town not far off where we were to seize a Sip and set forth for Holland again leaving our Infantry to the mercy of the Country This was much like that Resolution of the Hollanders in the time of the Civil War with Spain being as we then were in despair of making better Terms and not daring to enter Salisbury Plain because their Horse being so much better than ours their Men being all Disciplin'd ours not we could not face them in so plain and open a Country so that we retreated backward in the mean time resolving to see what London would do having a good opportunity offered them The Souldiers being call'd forth and not two thousand Men to be had for their defence if they had but attempted any thing this disheartned our Men and several of them coming home to their own Country having felt by experience the hardships of War withdrew from us We came well back again to Bridgewater and were received with wonted Love we arrived here on Friday the 3 d of July and resolved here to fortifie so as to hold our ground till we heard from London Saturday in the Afternoon news was brought of the Approach of the Kings Forces within a Mile and a half of the Town where they had encamped the Duke went up into the Tower and there took a view of them and seeing them so careless and their Horse at some distance from the Army in a little Town the Infantry being in Sedge Moore He called a Council on it and it was concluded on that we should fall on them in the dead of the Night accordingly having a Guide to conduct us on in a private way we march'd out at about 11 of the Clock in the night and about one fell on them in their Tents There was a Ditch between us and the Guide promised to conduct 'em over an easie fordable place but our Men seeing the Enemy just before them ran furiously on and lost the Guide so that while they endeavoured to recover over that place the Enemy got on their Legs and put themselves in Order and now began as fierce a Battel as perhaps ever was fought in England in so short a time our Foot fought as well as ever Foot fought but not a Horse came up had our Horse but assisted we must have beaten them out of the Field But our Horses would not stand at the noise of Drums and Guns so that we soon lost two of our Pi●ces of Ordnance and we had but four in all and then but one more in the Field our Foot flung most of their Shot over so that the Men for the most part were killed in the Rear and that run but the Front stood still and had we done as much execution in the Front as we did in the Rear the day had been our own but God would not have it their time was not yet come By this time their Horses came up and having six or eight hundred good disciplin'd Men well mounted and well arm'd ours neither our Foot having shot away all their Ammunition and our Baggage being not then in the Field they were forced to retreat being all in confusion Having no Mony left and our Party thus unexpactedly repulsed the Duke seeing he could not hold it any longer fled with my Lord Gray The Duke's Party was said to be about three thousand Foot and a thousand Horse we had more at least five thousand Men and Horse but not well Arm'd yet in the Field 'T is said we lost not above three hundred and they Foot but after when we were routed in our retreat lost a vast many more though they pursued not in some hours after The most remarkable Persons that were taken in this total Rout were Colonel Holmes Major Perrot the Constable of Crookborn and Mr. Williams Servant to the late Duke of Monmouth After the Field was clear of the Dukes Men the Earl of Feversham marched with five hundred Foot and a Party of Horse and Dragoons to Bridgwater where he found the Dukes Forces that were

left there fled and dispersed into several Places When his Lordship having left these Men in the Town under the Command of Colonel Kirk and hearing the late Duke of Monmouth was fled with about Fifty Horse the greatest number of the Dukes Men that were left together he sent out divers Parties in pursuit of him and others that fled the Field When on the 7th of July about five in the Morning some of the Lord Lumly's Men seized the Lord Gray and another Person near Holt-Lodge in Dorsetshire four Miles from the West of Ringwood and the said Lord Lumly making further enquiry among the Cotts was informed by one Anna Ferrant that two men went over a Hedge proving to be the Out-bounds of many Inclosures some of which were overgrown with Fern others with Pease and Oats but Guards being set upon the Avenues after divers attempts to escape the Brandenburgh one of the Parties observed to enter the Ground was taken on the 8th of July about five in the morning who confessing he departed from the late Duke of Monmouth about One of the Clock that morning in the Out-bounds diligent search was made when about Eleven of the Clock the same morning he was found by one Henry Parking hid in a Ditch covered with Fern who calling others to assist him the said late Duke was in the end taken and together with the Lord Gray and the Brandenburgh with a strong Guard brought by easie Journies to Whitehall where they arrived on the 13th of July and after some examination were committed to the Tower when on Wednesday the 15th of July the late Duke of Monmouth pursuant to a Warrant signed for his Execution upon his Attaindure of High Treason was delivered to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex about Ten in the Morning and conducted to a Scaffold erected on Tower-Hill where after about half an hours continuance he laying down his head had it stricken off by the Executioner the which together with his Body being put into a Coffin covered with Velvet were carried away in a Velvet-covered Hearse in order to his Interment After the Duke was beheaded many Prisoners taken and those that fled by Parcels up and down secured in divers Goals in order to their Prosecution as was said according to Law which was the occasion of this great Mans shewing his parts at that degree as he did no one else fit to be made a Tool for such a Bloody Tragedy as he acted He went not only Judge but had a breviate under King James his hand to command what Troops he pleased to attend his Commands from place to place And was Lieutenant General as well as Judge and he gave daily the Word and Orders for going the Rounds c. and Ordered what party of Troops he pleased to attend him When Major C d who commanded the first Regiment of Guards the Dragoons who were as his Life-Guard when at the head of the Troop following Jeffreys from Somersetshire to Wiltshire in order for London after the Assizes the Major asked Jeff●eys If there would be any favour shewn to one Mr. Speake who was not the Speake intended Jeffreys said No his Family owed a Life he should die for his Name-sake because one of the Family and Name was guilty of being in the Action but was escaped and therefore this being his Brother should die Jeffreys demanded of the Major how many he thought there was killed by the Souldiers He replyed 1000. Quoth Jeffreys I believe I have condemn'd at many as that my self 'T is to be remembred that the Fellow call'd Tory Tom at Wells for his dirty Sauciness was sent to the Guard by this Major when presently this Tory Tom Petitioned some Persons to intercede with the Major and sent the Major a Letter desiring his Liberty for that if he or any one should give Tory Tom an ill word to Judge Jeffreys the Judge would hang him right or wrong with the rest of the Pr●soners or condemn him at least so upon his submission the Major discharg'd him and did not leave him to the mercy of his own Tory Judge The Tryals in the West were deferred for some time after the Fatal Blow given to the D. of Monmouth on Tower-Hill which was the 15 th of July following because of my Lords being at Tunbridg but the latter end of August he with a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer assisted with four other Judges set forward with a Party of Horse he being made by special Commission their General The first place he came at was Winchester where were divers Prisoners on suspicion but here began the Tragedy for the Lady Lisle was there Arraigned for High-Treason in harbouring Mr. Hicks and Mr. Nelthrope that had been concerned with the Duke the Lady being on her Tryal the Jury were dissatisfied once and again but my Lords Threats and other Managery so disposed the Jury that at last they brought the Lady in Guilty on which he pronounced the Sentence of Death on her as usual in such Cases but she had the favour of being Beheaded their other Prisoners were carried to Salisbury and this was the most remarkable thing at that Assizes From thence they set forward for Salisbury where were many Prisoners that had been pick'd up and down the Country then in the Goal the which with those that were brought from Winton were ordered to be carried to Dorchester there not being Evidence enough to accomplish what was then designed by my Lord so that little of moment passed there but to pursue the matter proceeds from thence to Dorchester where he with his Assistants Gown-men and Sword-men arrived on the 3 d. of September on which day being Thursday the Commission was read Friday morning was an excellent Sermon Preached before their Lordships by a worthy Divine Chaplain to a worthy Person of that Country much tending to Mercy It was observed that while my Lord Chief Justice was at Church in Prayers as well as at Sermon he was seen to laugh which was so unbecoming a Person in his Character that ought in so weighty an Affair as he was then entering upon to have been more serious and have craved the help and assistance of God Almighty The Sermon being over their Lordships repaired to the Court which by order of the Lord Chief Justice was hung with Red Cloth a Colour suitable to such a succeeding bloody Tragedy being accompanied by a numerous Company of the Gentry of that County as well as the Flower of the Neighbouring Counties of Somerset and Devonshire and then proceeded to give his Charge in which Charge by reason of the Severity of his Sentiments and Positions laid down to make discoveries of all such as were Abettors Aidors or Assisters to the late Duke of Monmouth on pain of High Treason which was a great Surprize to all the Auditors and so vehemently urged and so passionately expressed as seemed rather the Language of a Romish Inquisitor than a Protestant Judge