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order_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	2,290	5	9.6825	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43096	A narrative, being a true relation of what discourse passed between Dr. Hawkins and Edward Fitz-Harys, Esq., late prisoner in the tower with the manner of taking his confession.	Hawkins, Francis, 1628-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1173; ESTC R569	13,856	13

A NARRATIVE BEING A TRUE RELATION Of what Discourse passed between D R. HAWKINS AND Edward Fitz-Harys Esq Late Prisoner in the TOWER With the Manner of taking His CONFESSION Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Samuel Carr. 1681. TO THE READER THere will need no other Apology for the exposing of these Papers than the Command and Warrant of the following Order of Council for their Publication At the Court at Whitehall This 2d day of July 1681. By the King 's Most Excellent Majesty And the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council IT was this day Ordered by His Majesty in Council That the Confession of Edward Fitz-Harys this day delivered by Dr. Hawkins to the Board and here read be And it is hereby Ordered to be forthwith Printed and Published And the said Dr. Hawkins is desired to take care to see the same done And likewise to cause to be Printed and Published a Narrative of what Communication he had with the said Fitz-Harys upon that Subject Phil. Loyd Now as I did not at the first intermeddle with Mr. Fitz-Harys but by Order so neither have I done any thing in the business concerning him without a sufficient Authority for what I did And it will appear likewise that I have put it off as long as I could till now at length the unreasonable Clamours and Calumnies of ill minded men have render'd it absolutely necessary as well for the vindication of Common Justice as of my particular Duty As to the truth of what I now deliver and the Confession of Mr. Fitz-Harys formerly Published I do here Solemnly Declare unto the World upon the word of a Minister of the Gospel that it is a Candid and Impartial Report of what I had from his own Tongue and Pen as his own voluntary Act without any Art or Inducement of mine Directly or Indirectly to draw it from him And as I have made a Conscience of keeping my self exactly to the Truth in this Relation without any injury to the Memory of the Dead so I have done all I could on the other side to spare the Names of the Living separating the Fact from the Persons Reflected upon in the Story my business being only to communicate the substance of the Discourses I had with Mr. Fitz-Harys But as I have upon a point of tenderness left only spaces for instead of mentioning several Names concerned in this Narrative I shall be ready to discharge my self upon my Oath in that particular also when ever required by a Lawful Authority so to do A TRUE RELATION OF THE Occasion of Dr. Hawkins's going to Mr. Fitz-Harys late Prisoner in the Tower Sentenced to dye and since Executed at Tyburn of the manner of taking his Confession and of all that passed between Fitz-Harys and him UPon Friday the 17th of June about Four a Clock in the Afternoon I received Orders from Captain Cheek Lieutenant of the Tower to go to Mr. Fitz-Harys who as Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower had before inform'd me seem'd to be disturbed in his mind and was very troublesome to his Warders and those about him As I entered his Room he Saluted me and said I was welcome to a Poor Prisoner and if I would come and see him now and then it would be a great comfort to him in his sad condition Sir said I I shall be ready to do all that becomes me and will do you all the Service I can Then Mr. Fitz-Harys began to complain of some hard usage in that his Wife and Friends were not permitted to come to him whereas it was he said the only Favour he beg'd of the Court after Sentence was passed that his Wife and Friends might have liberty to see him but said he I hear my Wife is in Custody and not one Friend of mine can come near me this troubles me extreamly and makes me restless in my mind and so uneasy to my Keepers I desired him to have patience and said I durst assure him the Lieutenant of the Tower would not deny him any Favour the Court had granted him Then he desired we might be alone but I told him I had no Orders to be in private with him He spoke to one of the Warders to go to the Lieutenant of the Tower to know his mind in it and the Messenger return'd presently with leave for us to be as private as we would so the Keepers withdrew Then I lay'd before him the danger of his condition and the indispensable necessity of doing all that lay in his power to make his Peace with God that he must needs discharge his Conscience and give the World satisfaction before he dyed He answered he had already done all that he could he was heartily sorry for all the sins he had committed and he hoped God would have Mercy upon him I told him I would Pray for him and was come to profer him my assistance He thanked me and desired me to assist him with my Prayers Then he began to relate how he came to fall into that great misfortune he was in he told me how he had lived abroad and his Fortune being small after his return into England he took upon him an Imployment which he said was much against his inclinations but he must do something to live his Father lost his Estate in Ireland which was the Ruine of their Family and he most unfortunatly took upon him to find out Libellers against the King which led him into the company of Ill men and had brought him to that condition Would you said I hazard your Life only to live You should have brought down your Mind to your Fortune and endeavoured to have been content with your condition for nothing runneth Gentlemen into ill Courses like a mind above their condition I need not ask your Religion I suppose you are a Papist He answered he was brought up in the Roman Catholique Religion yet never had a good Opinion of the Jesuits for they are said he an Order of Men who for their meddling with Government are ill thought of in all parts of the World Their Principles said I do strangely influence their minds to be tampering with Government the Pope's Supremacy of which they are the great upholders must needs interfeir with the Power of the Civil Magistrate and to keep up the Authority of their Church they will ever be lessening the Power of Princes but while they so contend for a Superiority over Kings they bring a disparagement upon their Religion for any Opinion in Religion that encourages the Subject to attempt against his Prince's either Person or Government is False and Antichristian He went on and said he ever held the Bond of Allegiance Indissoluble and had Subscribed that Position that no Power either Spiritual or Temporal could dispense with the Duty of Allegiance I asked him whether he had ever taken the Oaths and he answered he quitted a Lieutenants Commission because he refused to take them Yet he said he was in