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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63971	The Protestant Martyrs: or, The bloody assizes Giving an account of the lives, tryals, and dying speeches, of all those eminent Protestants that suffered in the west of England, by the sentence of that bloody and cruel Judge Jefferies; being in all 251 persons, besides what were hang'd and destroyed in cold blood. Containing also, the life and death of James Duke of Monmouth; his birth and education; his actions both at home and abroad; his unfortunate sentence, execution and dying-words upon the scaffold: with a true copy of the paper he left behind him. And many other curious remarks worth the reader's observation.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3382AA; ESTC R220942	22,249	20

have heard of your Repentance for the Treason and Bloodshed which hath been committed Mon. I die very Penitent Assist My Lord it is fit to be particular and considering the Publick Evil you have done you ought to do as much Good now as possibly you can by a Publick Acknowledgment Mon. What I have thought fit to say of Publick Affairs is in a Paper which I have Signed I refer to my Paper Assist My Lord there is nothing in that Paper about Resistance and you ought to be particular in your Repentance and to have it well grounded God give you True Repentance Mon. I die very Penitent and die with great Chearfulness for I know I shall go to God. Assist My Lord you must go to God in his own way Sir be sure you be truly Penitent and ask Forgiveness of God for the many you have wronged Mon. I am sorry for every one I have wronged I forgive every Body I have had many Enemies I forgive them all Assist Sir your Acknowledgment ought to be particular Mon. I am to die pray my Lord I refer to my Paper Assist They are but a few Words that we desire We only desire an Answer to this Point Mon. I can Bless God that he hath given me so much Grace that for these two Years last past I have had a Life unlike to my former Course and in which I have been happy Assist Sir was there no Ill in these two Years In these Years these great Evils have happened and the giving Publick Satisfaction is a necessary part of Repentance be pleased to own a Detestation of your REBELLION Mon. I beg your Lordship that you would stick to my Paper Assist My Lord as I said before there is nothing in your Paper about the Doctrine of Non-resistance Mon. I Repent of all things that a true Christian ought to Repent of I am to die pray my Lord Assist Then my Lord we can only recommend you to the Mercy of God but we cannot Pray with that Chearfulness and Encouragement as we should if you had made a particular Acknowledgment Mon. God be praised I have Encouragement enough in my self I die with a clear Conscience I have wronged no Man. Assist How Sir no Man Have you not been Guilty of Invasion and of much Blood which hath been shed and it may be of the Loss of many Souls that followed you You must needs have wronged a great many Mon. I do Sir own that and am sorry for it Ass Give it the true Name Sir and call it Rebellion Mon. What Name you please Sir I am sorry for Invading the Kingdom and for the Blood that has been shed and for the Souls which may have been lost by my means I am sorry it ever happened Mr. Sher. Vandeput He says he is sorry for Invading the Kingdom Ass We have nothing to add but to renew the frequent Exhortations we have made to you to give some Satisfaction for the Publick Injuries to the Kingdom There have been a great many Lives lost by this Resistance of your Lawful Prince Mon. What I have done has been very ill and I wish with all my Heart it had never been I never was a Man that delighted in Blood I was very far from it I was as cautious in this as any Man was the Almighty God knows how I now die with all the Joyfulness in the World. Ass God grant you may Sir God give you true Repentance Mon. If I had not True Repentance I shonld not so easily have been without the sear of Dying I shall die like a Lamb. Ass Much may come from Natural Courage Mon. I do not attribute it to my own Nature for I am fearful as other Men are but I have now no fear as you may see by my Face but there is something within me that does it for I am sure I shall go to God. Ass My Lord be sure upon good Grounds do you Repent you of all your Sins known or unknown confessed or not confessed of all the Sins which might proceed from Error in Judgment Mon. In general for all I do with all my Soul. Ass God Almighty of his Infinite Mercy forgive you Here are great Numbers of Spectators here are the Sheriffs they represent the Great City and in speaking to them you speak to the Great City make some Satisfaction by owning your Crime be●ore them He was exhorted to Pray for the King and was asked whether he did not desire to send some Dutiful Message to His Majesty and to recommend his Wife and Children to His Maiesty's Favour Mon. What harm have they done Do it if you please I pray for him and for all Men. Ass At his Undressing My Lord you have been bred a Soldier you will do a generous Christian thing if you please to speak to the Soldiers and say That here you stand a sad Example of Rebellion and en reat them and the People to be Loyal and Obedient to the King. Mon. I have said I will make no Speeches I will make no Speeches I am come to die Ass My Lord Ten Words will be enough M. Then calling his Servant and giving him something like a Tooth-pick Case Here said he give this to the Person to whom you are to deliver the other things To the Executioner Here are six Guinea's for you pray do your Business well Don't serve me as you did my Lord Russel I have heard you struck him three or four times Here to his Servant take these remaining Guinea's and give them to him if he does his Work well Exec. I hope I shall Mon. If you strike me twice I cannot promise you not to stir During his Undressing and standing towards the Block were used divers Ejaculations and much of the 51st Psalm and particularly Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness O God Thou God c. Then he lay down and soon after he raised himself upon his Elbow and said to the Executioner Prithee let me feel the Ax. He felt the Edge and said I fear it is not sharp enough Execut. It is sharp enough and heavy enough Then he lay down again During this space many pious Ejaculatious were used by those who assisted him with great Fervency God accept your Repentance God accept your Repentance God accept your imperfect Repentance My Lord God accept your Repentance God Almighty shew his Omnipotent Mercy up on you Father into thy Hands we commend his Spirit c. Lord Jesus receive his Soul. A Brief Abstract of the Paper left behind him I Repent in general of all my Sins and am more particularly concern'd for what Blood hath been spilt on my Account and the rather seeing the issue is such as I sear will prove of Fatal Consequence to the Reformed Protestant Religion Instead of being counted Factious and Rebellious the very opposing of Popery and Arbitrary Power now arising and appearing plain enough would sufficiently have protected my Cause besides several other most heinous and

I have done his Will tho' it does cross Man's Will and the Scriptures that satisfie me are Isa 16. 4. Hide the Outcasts bexray not him that wandereth And Obad. 13 14. Thou shouldst not have given up those of his that escape in the Day of his Distress But Man says You shall give them up or you shall dye for it Now who to obey judge ye So that I have Cause to rejoyce and be exceeding glad in that I suffer for Righteousness sake and that I am accounted worthy to suffer for Well doing and that God has accepted any Service from me which has been done in Sincerity tho' mixed with manifold Infirmities which he hath been pleased for Christ's sake to cover and forgive And now as concerning my Fact as it is called alas it was but a little one and might well become a Prince to forgive but he that sh ws no Mercy shall find none And I may say of it in the Language of Jonathan I did but taste a little Honey and lo I must die for it I d●d but relieve an unworthy poor distressed Family and lo I must dye for it Well I desire in the Lamb-like Gospel-Spirit to forgive all that are concerned and to say Lord lay it not their Charge but I fear he will not Nay I believe when he comes to make Inquisition for Blood it will be found at the Door of the furious Judge who because I could not remember Things through my Dauntedness at Burton's Wife 's and Daughter's Vileness and my Ignorance took Advantage thereat and would not hear me when I had called to mind that which I am sure would have invalidated their Evidence tho' he granted something of the same Nature to another yet denyed it to me My Blood will also be found at the Door of the unrighteous Jury who found me Guilty upon the single Oath of an out-lawed Man for there was none but his Oath about the Money who is no legal Witness though he be pardoned his Out-lawry cannot be recalled and also the Law requires two Witnesses in point of Life And then about my going with him to the Place mentioned 't was by his own Words before he was Out-lawed for 't was two Months after his absconding and tho' in a Proclamation yet not High Treason as I have heard so that I am clearly murdered by you And also Bloody Mr. A. who has so insatiably hunted after my Life and though it is no Profit tlo him through the ill Will he bore me left no Stone unturned as I have ground to believe till he brought it to this and shewed favour to Burton who ought to have dyed for his own Fault and not bought his Life with mine and Capt. R. who is cruel and severe to all under my Circumstances and did at that time without all Mercy or Pity hasten my Sentence and held up my Hand that it might be given all which together with the Great One of all by whose Power all these and a Multitude more of Cruelties are done I do heartily and freely forgive as against me but as it is done in an implacable Mind agaigst the Lord Christ and his righteous Cause and Followers I leave it to him who is the Avenger of all such Wrongs who will tread upon Princes as upon Mortar and be terrible to the Kings of the Earth And know this also that though ye are seemingly fixt and because of the Power in your Hand are writing out your Violence and dealing with a despight●ul Hand because of the old and new Hatrred by impovering and every way distressing those you have got under you yet unless you can secure Jesus Christ and all his Holy Angels you shall never do your Business nor your Hands accomplish your Enterprizes for he will be upon you e'er you are aware and therefore O that you would be wise instructect and learn is the Desire of her that finds no Mercy from you Elizabeth Graunt The Earl of Argyle WE must now take a Step over into Scotland that poor Country which has been harass'd and tired for these many Years to render them perfect Slaves that they might help to enslave England to prevent which and secure the Protestant Religion which 't was grown impossible to do but by Arms this good Lord embarkt from Holland about the same Time with the Duke and arrived in Scotland with what Forces he could make to which were added some others who joined him which after several Marches and Counter-marches were at length led into a Boggy sort of a Place on Pretence or with Intention to bring him off from the other Army then upon the Heels of 'em where they lost one another dispersed and shifted for themselves the Earl being taken by a Country-man and brought to Edinburgh where he suffered for his former unpardondable Crime requiring Care should be taken of the Protestant Religion and explaining his taking the Test conformable thereto for the Legality of which he ha● the Hands of the most eminent Lawyers about the City He suffered at Edinburgh the 30th of June 1685. His Speech has a great deal of Piety and Religion nor will it be any Disgrace to say 't was more like a Sermon 'T is as follows The Earl of Argyle's last Speech June 30. 1685. JOB tells us Man that is born of a Woman is of few Days and full of Trouble and I am a clear instance of it I shall not say thing of my Sentence or Escape about three years and a half ago nor of my Return lest I may thereby give Offence or be too tedious Only being to end my Days in your Presence I shall as some of my last Words assert the Truth of the Matter of Fact and the Sincerity of my Intentions and Professions that are published That which I intend mainly now to say is To express my humble and I thank God chearful Submission to his Divine Will and my Willingness to forgive all Men even my Enemies and I am heartily well sati●fied there is no more Blood spilt and I shall wish the Stream may stop at me And that if it please God as to Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6. Not by Might nor by Power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I know Afflictions spring not out of the Dust God did wonderfully deliver and provide for me and has now by his special Providence brought me to this Place and I hope none will either insult or stumble at it seeing they ought not for God Almighty does all Things well for Good and holy Ends tho' we not always understand it Love and Hatred is not known by what is before us Eccles 9. 1. 8. 11 12 13. Afflictions are not only foretold but promised to Christians and are not only tolerable but desirable We ought to have a deep Reverence and Fear of God's Displeasure but withal a Hope and Dependance on him for a blessed Issue in Compliance with his Will for God chastens his own to