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A70520	The last speech & behaviour of William, late Lord Russel, upon the scaffold in Lincolns-Inne-Fields, a little before his execution, on Saturday, July 21, 1683 being condemned for high-treason in conspiring the death of the King, and the subversion of the government &c. : together with the paper delivered by him to the sheriffs, and signed with his own hand : also the last speeches, behaviour, and prayers of Capt. Thomas Walcot, John Rouse Gent., & William Hone, joyner, a little before their execution at Tyburn, on Friday the 20th of July, 1683, being condemned for hihg-treason in conspiring &c.	Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.; Rouse, John, d. 1683.; Hone, William, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing L504; ESTC R9946	28,404	20

I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to embrue my hands in his blood but was so generous as to undertake the Charging his Guards whilst others did it and to the end another might do it Truly I will appeal to all that know me whether they believe me so much an Idiot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the Kings Guards whilst another Killed him as to Kill him with my own hands But however by their Swearing against me they have secured their own Lives and Estates and made my Blood the price of theirs I confess I was so unfortunate and unhappy as to be invited by Colonel Rumsey one of the Witnesses against me to some meetings where some things were discoursed of in order to the asserting our Liberties and Properties which we looked upon to be violated and invaded But it was he and Mr. West and some Gentlemen that are fled who were the great promoters of those Meetings I was near a quarter of a year ill of the Gout and during that time Mr. West often visited me and still his discourse would be concerning Lopping the Swo Sparks That was the word he used meaning the King and the Duke and proposed it might be done at a Play This was his frequent discourse for he said Then they would dye in their Calling it was his very Expression He bought Arms to do it with without any direction of mine I never saw the Arms nor I never saw the men that were to do it though they said they had fifty imployed to that end I told several of them That the Killing the King would carry such a blemish and slain with it as would descend to posterity that I had Eight Children that I was loath should be blemished with it and withal I was confident the Duke of Monmouth would revenge his Fathers Blood if it were but to vindicate himself from having any hand in it Mr. West presently told me that the Duke of Monmouth did not refuse to give an Engagement that he would not punish those that should kill the King And now I desire to forgive all the World from the very bottom of my heart and I pray God of his mercy from my heart to forgive them even Mr. Shepherd who delivered me up who promised to carry me into Holland but instead of that he brought me into the condition wherein I now am I do desire with all my heart to forgive the Witnesses and withall do earnestly beg that they may be observed that some remarks may be set upon them whether their End be Peace and that they die the common Death of all men Certainly though it be the Law of the Land I ought to die and the King may justly and reasonably put me to death for being in those Meetings where a War was debated yet I think these men are guilty of my Bloud that were as deep in as I and have betrayed me and taken in away Then in the next place I beg leave Mr. Sheriff to speak one short word of Advice to my Friends that hath been often given to me though I was not so fortunate and so happy as to take it and that is That they would neither hear any man speak nor speak themselves that which they would not have repeated for there is no such thing as Faith in man to man whatever there is in man to God either the Tears of a Wife or a Family of little helpless Children something or other will tempt and provoke men to betray one another When God hath a Work to do he will not want Instruments for he can make them nor will he want a way to do it for he can contrive it and bring it to pass And I do most heartily desire and my earnest Prayer to the Almighty is That this may be the last Bloud spilt upon this account I know Acts of Indulgence and Mercy in the King would make him much easier in his Government and would make his People sit much easier under it and that the Lord may encline his heart to Mercy ought to be the Prayer of every good man What hath happened and what hath been the present occasion of our Calamity I suppose every man knows what Provocations have been on the one hand Fears and Necessities Jealousies and Sufferings of the other I will not intermeddle with resolving to use my utmost endeavour to make that Peace and reconciliation with my God which is impossible for me to make with men and to make it my hearty Prayer to the Great God before whom I am in little time to appear That he would stench this Issue of Bloud and find out some other way to preserve these Kingdoms in Unity and Peace to the Honour and Glory of his Great Name and the eternal Comfort of his People One word Mr. Sheriff I desire leave to speak as to Ireland because the King prest it hard upon me and several people have been with me about Ireland how far Ireland was concerned in this matter I do aver here as in the presence of God before whom I am now going to appear That I do not know an English-man nor Protestant in Ireland engaged in it What I did know was onely of one Scotish Gentleman in the North and the King knows it but he says he does not believe it For they that were concerned I was never in any of their Councils I never saw any of those Lords but the Duke of Monmouth and that was I believe above six months ago I never saw nor spoke with one Lord onely my Lord Howard I heard my Lord Howard say That they did not value Ireland for it must follow England I have not more to say Mr. Sheriff but truly you will do an act of a great deal of Charity if you will prevail with the King for an Act of Indulgence and Liberty to his People I think so and so the Lord have mercy upon me Dr. Cartwright You blame them for that which is their Vertue and not their Crime That they have been Witnesses for the King Walcot I was not for contriving the Death of the King if you 'll believe me Dr. Cartwright You blame them for betraying of you in Contriving the War upon which the death of the King must have followed if your Treason had gone forward for else you could not have defended your self from that Justice to which he hath brought you and therefore you to lay that as a Crime upon your Witnesses is indeed very strange Walcot Sir I think it was but reasonable that I should suffer that is due from Justice and reasonable by the Law but these men they did not come in against me till they did it to save themselves Dr. Cartwright Better late than never a man had better save his Soul and Body too than die as now you do for Crimes that ought to make every good mans heart relent and therefore

those that are Professors of the Protestant Religion and particularly Coffee-Houses where it is very well known too much time is spent and Families and Wives and Children suffer too much I pray God the People may take notice of it and lay it to Heart that spend their time so thinking it is but a Penny and a Penny and so discourse of State-Affairs as if so be they were Gods Counsellors in the Government of the World running from the Coffee-House to the Tavern and from the Tavern to the Coffee-House which hath been the Debauchery of this Age and so bring them into this Dilemma to discourse of those Things neither pleasing to God nor the King nor themselves but their Prejudice The Profanation of the Sabbath-Day is commonly discourst of in this place God forgive me for not observing it as I should I pray God those that follow me may be more careful of their Duty to God and Man for the good of themselves their Souls and their Families those that are young especially and coming up that they may chiefly mind their Concerns for Eternity and that they would pay their Duty and Homage to the King and those that God has set over them and not neglect that great Command to pray for the King and all that are in Authority Being asked if they had any thing more to say They said No. Mr. Ordinary then prayed with them and sung a Psalm and then they desired to pray themselves which was granted Captain Walcot's Prayer O Lord our God Thou art the God of present help in time of Trouble a God that hast promised to be with thy People in the Fire and in the Water O Lord we pray thee that thou wilt afford thy presence to thy poor suffering Servants at this time that thou wilt enable us to pray with Faith to trust in thee to be in expectation and hope of Mercy from thee O Lord thy Servant that speaketh doth confess that the Iniquities at his heels have justly overtaken him that just and righteous art thou in all thy Judgments that he hath reason to bear thy Indignation because he hath sinned O Lord we beg even for thy Son Christ Jesus's sake that our sins may not be brought to our remembrance in order to our despondency or discouragement or our despairing in thy Mercy but rather O Lord in order to an assurance that our great God hath pardoned and forgiven them in the Blood of his Son O do thou bath each of our Souls in that Fountain set open for Sin and for Vncleanness Give us O Lord inward Spiritual strength from thy self and give us cause to bless thy Name for inward supporting Graces for inward assistances O let us find an increase of spiritual strength let us be assured that our Sins are done away and let us also be assured that our Names are written in the Book of Life and let it be such an assurance as may be matter of joy and rejoycing to our Souls O do thou enable every one of us from the inward evidence of thy Spirit to say with thy Servant Job That we know and are assured that our Redeemer lives O do thou give us such an assurance of an Interest in thee that we may be inabled in deed in reality and in truth to say that we have run our race and we have finished our course with Joy O let us now receive the fruit of those many Petitions that we have put up unto thee O let us now find the Spirit influencing our Hearts to a yielding patience and a thorow subjection to the Will of God let us find thy Spirit assuring us that we are thine O let us have stronger Evidences of thy Love stronger Testimonies of thy Affection O give us some inward Tastes of those heavenly Joys that we hope through the Mercy of Jesus Christ in a little time to have a more full Fruition of O Lord do thou speak peace to every one of our Consciences enable us to take hold of thy Strength that thou may'st make Peace with us and let us not be discouraged O Lord since we have a High-Priest that can be touched with our Infirmities let us with Boldness have Access to the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and Grace to help in time of need O take away the Sting and Terror that is in Death in any one of us by assuring us of our Interest in thee by assuring us that our Names are recorded in the Book of Life tho we lye under a Sentence of Death from Man we beg that we may have a Sentence of Life eternal from our God and tho we meet thee O Lord in a Field of Blood we beg that thou wilt come to meet with us in a Field of Mercy O Lord extend thy Mercy thou Lord whose Compassions faileth not cause the Bowels of thy tender pity to yearn with Compassion towards us enable every one of us O Lord to die believing in Jesus Christ to die hoping in his Mercy to die relying upon him for Justification for Sanctification and for Adoption O Lord though we have been Prodigals we desire to return to our Fathers House where there is Bread enough O enable us to come unto thee as Children to their Parents O let our Prayers be offer'd with so much Fervour in Christ Jesus that thou may'st think it reasonable to assure us of thy Love O let the Intercession of Jesus Christ be accepted O Lord we beg that he may be our Advocate if our Advocate be our Judge certainly we cannot miscarry O let Jesus Christ be the Hope of every one of our Souls and Lord let not our Hope be like that of the Hypocrite but let our Faith be built upon the Rock of Ages and let us not fail from the apprehension of Affliction and Punishment from men Yet O Lord do thou so order our Hearts and our Spirits aright that thou may'st be the Lot of our Inheritance and our Portion for ever O do thou interest us in thy self Lord carry on thy own Work We desire to come unto thee that we may have life Lord help us Lord put to thy helping Hand Lord teach us truly to leave no Sin unrepented of in any one of our Hearts And O Lord we beg that with us thou wilt give us leave to recommend unto thy Care our poor Wives and Children Thou hast promised to be the Father of the Fatherless and the Husband of the Widdow and thou hast commanded us to cast the Care of them upon thee O do thou make Provision for them deal kindly with them imprint thy own Image upon them and enable them to bear this severe stroke with Patience O Lord stand by and support them let their Ways be found so pleasing and acceptable unto thee that thou may'st think it reasonable to make all their Enemies at Peace Lord interest them in thy Love and do thou favour them with thy Mercies and loving Kindnesses O

Lord we also beseech thee in the behalf of these poor Kingdoms wherein we are that thou wilt be merciful to them prevent Divisions among them heal all their Breaches compose their Differences make all that are thine of one Heart and Mind in the things of thee our God And Lord if it be thy Will do thou rule in the Heart of the King that he may rule and reign for thee and for the good of thy Church and people Lord favour us with thy mercy assure us of thy love stand by us in the difficult hour take us into thine own Care cause thy Angels to attend us to convey our Souls as soon as they are divided from our Bodies into Abraham's Bosom into the Paradice of our God And Lord we beg that thou wilt be with us with thy extraordinary Presence helping us to trust in thee doing for us beyond what our narrow Hearts are able to ask or think All which we beg for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ in whom O Lord this little time do thou give us Hearts to give thee all Glory Honour and Praise nom and for evermore Amen Sweet Jesus Amen HONE's Prayer GLorious Lord our God thou art the God of the whole Creation and the God that created the Heavens and the Earth in six days by thy power we stand here before thee Lord help us to be looking up unto Jesus Christ who is exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance to Israel and Remission of sins Now Lord for thy mercies sake we would be helped to say That Power that raised up Christ from the dead that is able to raise up our poor Souls before thee from Death to Life O Lord for thy mercies sake wash all our Souls in the Bloud of Jesus Christ which speaketh better things than that of Abel and Lord for thy mercies sake pardon all our sins from our first our Original sins and our sins of Sabbath-breaking and our sins of Transgression and the sin for which we are condemn'd O Lord pardon it and let us not go out of the World with one sin hid in our Souls For thy mercies sake pardon all our sins and Lord do thou preserve this Nation and put it into the heart of the King to be merciful and to rule in Truth and Righteousness And for thy mercies sake rule the Affairs of this Nation and help to rule and govern all things for the government of our Souls and our Spirits for thy mercies sake and help us that with joy we may be received into Glory into the eternal Habitations for Christ is sent into the World to that purpose to save sinners of whom we are chief And Lord for thy mercies sake let me have a true belief in Jesus Christ aright to be looking up unto him for Life and for Salvation Oh that we might perish if we perish and be found doing thy will to the utmost of our power Lord accept of us and help us and be with us this little time we shall be in this world All which we beg for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom be Glory with the Kingdom both now and for evermore Mr. ROVS's Prayer O Lord our God who art nearer to each and every one of us than we are to our selves It is not all the Confessions to men in the world were it confessed by the Tongues of Angels those glorious Spirits above that can avail any thing with the great God against whom we have sinned or that can procure pardon for the least transgression which deserves eternal wrath And therefore for the Sins that we have been guilty of either against the first or the second Table either against God as our Creator Christ as our Redeemer or the Holy and Blessed Spirit as our Sanctifier the sins that we have committed against thy holy Church and that Faith that I hope we die in the belief of the sins that we have been guilty of against our Neighbours upon one account and another the sins that we have been guilty of against our Governours and Rulers to whom thou hast obliged us under manifold obligations both as Men and Christians the sins that we have been guilty of in our several places Relations and Capacities whatsoever whatever have been their Circumstances and their Aggravations the least whereof deserves everlasting death without the Merits of Jesus for all those greater or lesser sins whether that original sin we brought into the world with us that source and fountain and foundation of all other sins those actual sins and transgressions against any of those that thou hast set over us or those that have been equal with us those relation-sins as Husband and Wife as Master and Servant in every relation and capacity Lord forgive them and wash them away in the blood of the Lamb of God that stands at the right hand of the Majesty on high And because we have no worthiness of our own to recommend us to thee therefore we beg thee for thy Sons sake to fetch arguments from thy self Our righteousness is as filthy rags and the best of us are as a menstruous cloath Fetch Arguments from the riches of thy grace from the goodness of thy nature from the multitude of thy mercies from the blood of thy Son from that blessed eternal intercession that we hope he is making for us and for all that belong to the election of Grace and shall be brought to glory Remember thy Churches hasten the fulfilling of thy promises the accomplishing of thy prophesies through the world the downfal of the man of sin and the destruction of all thy true Churches implacable enemies Lord hasten the day of the calling the Jews and the fulness of the Gentiles put an end to Wars and rumours of Wars let the desire of all Nations come Dwell in these Three Nations be a wall of fire round about them prevent any kind of Insurrection at home all manner of Invasion from abroad let those that tarry behind enjoy peace and truth and righteousness Dwell in and reign in the heart of the King Lord bless and prosper him in his Person give him a long a prosperous and an happy Reign Good Father we pray thee let him live here with a flourishing Crown upon his head till thou in thy due time shalt receive him to an eternal Crown hereafter Bless him in his Royal Family and Relations in his Royal Brother Bless him in his Royal Consort make the King a Nursing Father and the Queen a Nursing Mother Confound all hatred malice and envy all evil speaking every thing that is contrary to sound Doctrine and give thy people that live under him to shew that dutifulness and respect as becomes Christians and as becomes Loyal Subjects Bless the Clergy by whatsoever Names or Titles distinguished make them sound in their Doctrine and make them useful and unblameable in their Lives and Conversations Help them to mind the Souls committed to their charge and help them to do their duty that they may be able to say behold here are we and the Children whom thou hast given us Now Lord bless all the Nation from the highest to the lowest from the Prince to the Peasant of all sorts ranks and degrees Give Loyalty towards our dread Sovereign who is a merciful and gracious Prince whom thou hast set as thy Vicegerent to Reign over us who can do nothing but what is just and equal before thee to whom he must give an account of all his Transactions even to thee the King of Kings And Lord grant peace and love and unity one among another and the practical observation of thy holy day and those duties that relate to God and Man Grant that those that follow after us may take particular Example by us We must needs acknowledge and smite upon our thighs that we in Justice are brought hither that we have nothing to do but to condemn our selves and justifie the Justice of the Land and to pray God to bless his Majesty to Reign in these Nations and those that shall succeed him upon the Throne All which we beg upon the account of our Lord Jesus Christ who was dead and behold he lives to whom with thy self and eternal Spirit we desire to ascribe as is due all honour praise and glory everlasting Amen There was these Lines more in the Paper delivered by Captain Walcot than what you have before seen AS to Ireland I am very inclinable to believe could I have charged any body there with being ingaged in the matter for which I suffer I might have had my Life but by the blessing of God I will charge no man wrongfully no not to save my Life and these being some of the last words I am to speak I do aver I knew not an Englishman or Protestant in Ireland any way ingaged in it Besides I was told they that were mostly concerned did not value Ireland and said it must of course follow England Something I heard of one Gentleman in the North and whether it be true or false I will not determine FINIS