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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44663	A letter from my Lord Howard of Escrick, to his friend together with his protestation, at his receiving the blessed Communion in the Tower, on July the third, 1681.	Howard of Escrick, William Howard, Baron, 1626?-1694.	1681 (1681)	Wing H3012; ESTC R4788	2,647	6

A LETTER FROM MY Lord HOWARD OF ESCRICK To his FRIEND TOGETHER With his PROTESTATION at his Receiving the Blessed Communion in the TOWER on July the Third 1681. I Have not without very great amazement observed some passages relating to the Tryal and Execution of Mr. Fitz-Harris There are two times in which my Charity does oblige me to think men especially such who stile themselves Christians dare not speak any thing in the least deviating from truth to wit When they are near their appearance before the Tribunal of the great Judg of Heaven and Earth Or at their approach to Gods Holy Table Upon the first Account I have laboured much with my self to give Credit to what some Gentlemen of the Romish Perswasion have asserted of their Innocency in the very Article of Death But on the other side when I consider the Principles of men under that Character which allow nothing to be sin that is for the good of Holy Church and withall am morally certain of a Conformity in practise to such principles I hope they will not be offended if I declare my self to be still under the Temptation of Infidelity manger all their round and daring self-justifications I have known Highway-men under sentence in Newgate confessing then their Crimes and seemingly penitent under their guilt yet on a sudden with the Halter about their necks have to the surprisal of the by-standers who have been privy to their Confessions affirmed themselves wholly guiltless as to the matters for which they suffer'd and yet they dyed in the Roman Catholick Religion Which also was the Case of a Woman lately Burnt in Smithfield for Coyning Such Instances as these render all that they say of little validity with me On the other hand I reckon my self very much obliged to the belief of a Sacramental Oath or Protestation when made by one whose Principles will not allow the least grain of Equivocation either with God or man and whose Honour and Quality whose Behaviour and Conversation strongly do assert the Credibility of their Testimony And this I take to be the Case of this Honourable Peer who in many particulars to my own knowledge has been falsly and slanderously misrepresented to the undistinguishing and Credulous Multitude In order to my further satisfaction having heard that his late partaking at the Holy Table of God was attended with some notable Declaration I procured a friend present at the Administration whose memory would not reach to such a particular Account as both he and I could wish to write to my Lord desiring him to communicate what he there so solemnly asserted The following Letter and Protestation was sent for the satisfaction of his friend who has been pleased to make it known to some others And I beg his Lordships pardon if without his privity or leave I take a course to make it more known as Really judging it to be highly serviceable to the Protestant Interest SIR TOWER July 5th 1681. I Have great reason to thank you for your Christian Endeavours to deliver the world so many of them as do yet continue under a deception from those mistakes which some publick proceedings may perhaps have begot in the minds of divers concerning that Libel for which Fitz-Harris lately suffered I have always thought and have every day more and more cause to think that those who seem to be most possest with a jealousie of me in relation to that scurrilous as well as Treasonable Pamphlet have the least need of any Arguments either Religious or Rational to convince them of the contrary It is not to them therefore that I direct this Protestation but I very well know that there may be some I hope they are very few who by false representations and bold assertions may have been surprised into some belief of what has been so impudently sworn by those two persons these may perhaps upon good reasons be as willing to lay down their prejudice To such I confess I would be willing to give all the satisfaction I can and if this Protestation made so solemnly under such sacred tyes of Religion of which you were an Eye and Ear-Witness may in any degree conduce to that end I should be glad it might be improved by you as far as it will prevail to that purpose I have therefore here sent it inclosed and can assure you that although I dare not undertake to avow this to be literally the same which I made upon that solemn occasion yet I will avow it to be the same in substance and as near to the words as my memory can retain or recollect a thing of this nature which was never in my own thoughts brought into any premeditated form I resign it up to you to do what you please with it being well assured that you will do that and nothing but that which may best answer a design both of Religion and Prudence I am in great sincerity Your very Faithful Affectionate Friend to Serve you HOWARD A Protestation made by the Lord Howard immediately before his Receiving the Sacrament on Sunday July the Third 1681. KNowing what Surmises and Discourses there have been of late concerning my being the principal Author or at least an Accessory to that Treasonable Libel for which Mr. Fitz-Harris was lately Condemned and Executed which I have several times denied with great solemnity both in publick and in private And being now through the goodness of God approaching to this holy Ordinance I think it a necessary piece of Justice which I owe not only to my self but to the Religion I profess to make this Protestation viz. I had neither directly nor indirectly mediately or immediately by my self nor by any other any hand or was in any way privy or consenting to or knowing of the said Libel or any part thereof or had any notice conjecture suspicion or imagination that the said Fitz-Harris or any other person did purpose or intend to make frame or compose the said Libel or any part thereof or any other Libel whatsoever in defamation of the King his Royal Ancestors or Government until such time as I heard that the said Fitz-Harris was apprehended and committed to Prison for the same And I further protest that I never saw nor heard the said Libel or any part thereof read or recited or did know the connexion of any two words of it before I heard the same read by the Kings Attorney General in the House of Lords in the Parliament Conven'd at Oxford And Lastly I do protest That I never was in that House in Shandois-Street where the said Fitz-Harris was taken and where his Wife was soon after brought to Bed save only once in the Company of a Lady whom I desir'd to go along with me at the earnest request of the said Mrs. Fitz-Harris exprest in a Letter brought to me at my own House whilst I was at Dinner which in point of time was a week or more after the said Fitz-Harris was in Prison for the said Libel According to the truth or falshood of which Protestation and of every part of it in its natural and genuine Construction I do desire to be made partaker or not partaker of the benefit of my blessed Saviours death which I am now about to commemorate in this Holy Sacrament If any person question the Truth of this Protestation I am informed that the Minister before whom it was made was a Reverend Divine of this City viz. Mr. Timothy Hall Minister of Allhallows-Staining in Mark-Lane who I believe will attest the Truth of it to any enquiring person LONDON Printed by Robert Roberts 1681.