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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29466	A brief narrative of that stupendious [sic] tragedie late intended to be acted by the satanical saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the king's most excellent majesty : also, an impartial account of the indictment, arraignment, tryal [sic], and condemnation of Thomas Tonge, George Phillips, Francis Stubbs, James Hind, John Sallers, and Nathaniel Gibbs, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, London, Decemb. 11, 1662 ; together with the confessions, speeches, and prayers of George Phillips, Thomas Tonge, Nathaniel Gibbs, Francis Stubbs, at the place of execution, on Munday, Decemb. 22, 1662. / exactly taken in short-hand characters, by the same person that wrote the late king's judges tryals.	Hill, William, fl. 1662.; Tonge, Thomas, d. 1662.; Phillips, George, d. 1662.; Stubbs, Francis, d. 1662.; Sallers, John, d. ca. 1662.; Gibbs, Nathaniel, d. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4611; ESTC R32577	58,554	95

Gibbs were according to a late Sentence drawn on two Hurdles viz. Tonge and Phillips in one and Stubbs and Gibbs in the other to the common place of Execution at Tyborn Where being come they were received into a Cart under the Gallows and the Executioner desiring them severally to forgive him they all declared they did freely forgive him and all their enemies and did severally salute each other with this Phrase Welcome Brother and to one another said We are now lanching into the deep They being all tied up Phillips gave the Executioner a small sum of money and the rest directed the Executioner to take out of their pockets a small parcel of money as their gift to him and Phillips afterwards bended a Six-pence and presented it to a friend of his Mr. Stroud and a Shilling likewise bended to one Mr. Clark Then the Under-Sheriff of Middlesex acquainted them they had all free liberty to speak provided they did not reflect upon his Majesty or the present Government which they all promised not to do and thanked him for his civility and then Phillips began in manner following Friends and Countrey-men I Am come this day to pay that great debt that I owe to Nature it is a work that had need be well done for it is but once to be done My hope is now above and for what I now come to suffer for my own part I bless God in whose presence I now speak as a dying man I had not any murderous thought against the King but I have prayed for him and wished that he might Live and Reign and long Reign in Righteousness and that God would make his Crown a Crown of Righteousness upon his Head and bless him in his Government so that he may not know any of these occasions more For my part I have ventured my life for his Majesty it was far from my heart to do any thing of that nature The Lord receive my soul. I freely forgive all men as I hope to be forgiven of God I never did act any thing but onely this which was my ignorance of the Laws that I did not discover it and I was justly found Guilty for not discovering I have done Mr. Sheriff but hope after my Brethren have spoken we may have liberty to call upon the Lord. Vnd. Sher. It will not be denied you Then Mr. Tonge began in this manner Friends and Countrey-men YOu see me here a dying man I have sometimes been in some mens company where I have heard them contriving the business for which I am condemned to die and that which led me to joyn with them was this I was and had been sometimes in the Army and I have looked upon this Cause to be good As for his Majesty the Lord bless him and prosper him and put it into his heart that He may be a Nursing-Father indeed to this Countrey Vnd. Sher. Have you any more to say you may speak Tonge I have nothing more And then Gibbs proceeded and said COuntreymen and Friends and I hope Christians and the last consideration is that that makes me the more free to speak to you we all profess to own God and Jesus Christ to be our Saviour our Redeemer our Sanctifier and giver of and bestower upon us Eternal Life this should excite our Souls to love one another and upon the account of Gods love that God has so loved us as to give Jesus Christ to reconcile us sinners to God we ought to love one another it is his great command Truly as to the Cause for which I am brought here God the great Judge of Heaven and Earth before whom I stand knows that in the place where I have lived I behaved my self as an obedient Subject and when there was an Insurrection by the Fifth-Monarchy men I went out in my own person though I had Servants as well as others purely out of affection to His Majesty knowing that in the peace of His Government I should have peace and so I went out hazarded my Life and continued out till all was quiet I was at a neighbors house drinking of a cup of Beer on Tuesday night in the Kitching alone save onely the man of the house and the maid these men came in one Hill and Riggs that are the witnesses against me there was Riggs and Hills and this Stubbs and on Beazeley and I being alone in the Kitchin they asked for one Gibbs the people of the house told me there were some Gentlemen would speak with me I wished them to direct them to me and they came to me and through the ignorance of the Law which it seems runs thus If any words treasonable against his Majesty is spoken it is Treason to conceal it so thus I have given you in part the cause of my being here Hereupon information was given to the Kings Majesty that I should say there would be a Rising and that Al-hollows Eve was the time that there were arms sent into the Countrey and that Ludlow was to be General and this was charged upon me by the Kings Majesty when I came before him to be examined and upon Hills and Rigg's Oath I was sent to the Tower and kept a long time a Prisoner examined three or four times over by the Lords of his Majesties Council I have one word more As touching my Judgement I am reputed in the world to be one of those that is called by the name of Anabaptist a name of dirision and scorn One is an Anabaptist one an Independent one a Presbyterian one this and one that and one the other who gave these nick-names to Christians There is but one God one Lord Jesus one Baptism one Hope of Glory How comes the Body of Christ or the Members of Christ to be called these nick-names But now as I am one that do profess Faith in God through the Lord Jesus Christ and do stand before you all and before the Lord I know no other God but the Eternal and Living God that hath made the World and that Rules and Raigns and disposes all his Creatures I do believe in this God he has been gracious to me a poor sinner to all poor sinners that when we by reason of sin had forfeited all our mercies and were under wrath and everlasting destruction and must perish for ever that God did out of his rich grace and tender mercies give his onely begotten Son according to his promise to be the blessing of God to the poor Gentiles according as the Scripture did declare the Scriprure foreseeing that God would justifie the heathens through faith preached before the Gospel to Abraham saying In thee shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed he spe●ks not of the natural seed of Abraham but of Christ so that all the blessings that God did convey to the sinful world is by the means of Jesus Christ whom God in the fulness of time did send his Son born of a woman to redeem