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prince_n	england_n	king_n	wales_n	9,030	5	10.3396	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70447	The last speech of Mr. David Lewis, priest of the Society of Jesus, who was executed as a priest only, at Uske in Monmouth-shire, on the 27th day of August, anno Domini 1679	Lewis, David, Saint, 1617-1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1836; ESTC R16096	4,675	4

THE Last SPEECH OF Mr. David Lewis Priest of the Society of Jesus who was Executed as a Priest only at Vske in Monmouth-shire on the 27th day of August Anno Domini 1679. HEre is a numerous Assembly I see the Great Saviour of the World save every Soul of you all I believe you are here met not only to see a Fellow-native die but also with expectation to hear a dying Fellow-native speak If you expected it not at least I intended it I hope the favour will not be denied me it being a favour so freely granted to several late dying persons in London it self I shall endeavour to speak inoffensively I hope the same favour will not be denied me Let none of you suffer as a Murderer or a Thief but if as a Christian let him not be ashamed St. Peters words in his 1. Ep. Chap. 4. Ver. 15 16. I hope by Gods Holy Spirit now whispered to my memory and that to my abundant Consolation for I suffer not as a Murderer Thief or such like Malefactor but as a Christian and therefore am not ashamed I distinguish two sorts of Life on Earth Life-moral and Life-natural Life-moral is that by which we live with good Repute in the Esteem of other Men of Integrity Life-natural is that by which we breath in the first sort or kind I thank God I have suffered lately and exceedingly when maliciously falsely and most injuriously I was branded for a publick Cheat Vid. Epilogue to Caesar Borgia a Tragedy written by Nat. Lee. in Pamphlet in Ballad on Stage and that in the Head City of the Kingdom yea and over the whole Nation to the huge and great detriment of my good Name which I always was as tender of as the other I am now quitting The Pamphletical Story believe my dying words had no truth in it neither to Substance nor Circumstance of the thing a Story so false that I could have easily defied the Face that had attempted to justifie it to my Face so sordid a Business a Story so ridiculous that I wonder how any sober Christian at least who knew me could as much as incline to believe so open an Improbability who that Protestant young Man there mention'd was I know not who that Popish young Woman who the Father dead a year and a half before what County what Parish where all transacted I know not none of all these there particularized and when in the face of the Country at last Lent Assizes I vindicated my Innocency herein to the satisfaction of the then Judge himself why appeared not there then some one to make good the Charge and disable my Defence but none of this offer'd a plain demonstration to all Candid Minds the whole was a meer fiction of some malicious person against me God forgive them or him I heartily do How forward my Endeavours always have been to my power to relieve the Poor and not directly to defraud them Impartial Neighbours that know me can tell you besides this during my nine months Imprisonment several foul and false Aspersions were cast out against me and that by those unto whom for full thirty years I had been charitably serviceable God forgive them I heartily do yet notwithstanding all these Calumniations I hope I still retain the Character of an Honest Man amongst Gentlemen of Worth with whom I conversed and with all Neighbours of Honesly with and amongst whom I lived And now I am parting with the other Life by which I breath behold that within these few Moments of Time is to unbreath me but why thus sledg'd to this Country Tyburne why this so untimely Death of mine have patience and I 'le tell you not for any plotting I assure you and what I shall now say as to that God is my Witness I shall speak without any Equivocation Mental Reservation or Palliation of Truth whatsoever By all that is Sacred in Heaven and Earth I here solemnly protest that I am as innocent from any Plot whatever against His Majesties Person or Government as the Infant that left the Mothers Womb but yesterday neither did I ever hear or know any thing directly or indirectly of any such Plot till publick fame had spread it over the Country between Michaelmas and All-Saints day last This is true as God shall judge and save my Soul neither was there any guilt of any such black Crime found in me by Mr. Oates Mr. Bedloe Mr. Dugdale and Mr. Prance when by them I was strictly examined on that Point last May in Newgate London nay had I had the least knowledge or hint of such Plot I had been as zealously nimble in the discovery of it as any the most Loyal Subject His Majesty hath in His three Kingdoms wherefore when I am dead and gone if some malevolent give out I lose my Life for Plotting by Charity strive to disingage him of his mistake do that Right to my dead Ashes I was never taught that Doctrine of King-killing from my Soul I detest and abhor it as execrable and directly opposite to the Principles of the Religion I profess what that is you shall know by and by it being the positive definition of the Councel of Constance That it is damnable for any Subject or private person or any Subjects in Councel joyned to murder his or their Lawful King or Prince or use any publick or clandestine Conspiration against Him though the said King or Prince were a Turk Apostate Persecutor yea or a Tyrant in Government Never tell me of Clement the Murderer of Henry the 3d of France never tell me of Ravilliacke Murderer of Henry the 4th of France they did so but wickedly they did so and for it they were punished to severity as Malefactors and for it to this very day are stigmatized by all Roman Catholicks for very Miscreants and Villains I hope you will not charge the whole Roman Catholick Body with the Villanies of some few Desperadoes by that Rule all Christianity must be answerable for the Treason of Judas for my part I always loved my King I always honoured His Person and I daily prayed for His Prosperty and now with all unfained Cordiality I say it God bless my Gracious King and Lawful Prince Charles the Second King of England and Prince of Wales God bless Him Temporally and Eternally God preserve Him from all His real Enemies God direct Him in all His Councils that may tend to the greater Glory of the same Great God and whatever late Plot hath been or is the Father of Lights bring it to light the Contrivers of it and the Actors in it that such may be brought to their condign punishment and Innocence preserved But why again this untimely Death my Religion is the Roman Catholick Religion in it I have lived above these forty years in it I now die and so fixedly die that if all the good things in this World were offered me to renounce it all should not move me one