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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63966	A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing T3380; ESTC R23782	258,533	487

Heldore an Irishman who was contemporary with me in Dublin concerning Conformity which he much endeavour'd to persuade me to I urg'd the severity of the forementioned Conditions against it and after some Debates and Reasons with him I told him I did believe they were contrived and designed on purpose to prevent our Publick Preaching and to keep us out of the Church To which he ingenuously reply'd He judged it was so For said he a Bishop in Ireland whose Name I have forgot told me the very same But though I could not wade through and conquer this Difficulty yet I censure not those that did it and I believe after all the hottest Disputes and most vehement Debates and violent Contests between Conformist and Non-conformist there are of both Parties will be glorified in Heaven hereafter According to the 29th Article of the Church of England a visible Church is a Congregation of Faithful Men in the which the pure Word of God is preached the Sacraments of the Lord duly administred according to Christ's Ordinance and all those things that of neccessity are requisite and necessary to Salvation so with such a Church have I held the most intimate Communion and with such did I live could hold it I would not therefore be so incorporated with any Church as to exclude me from and render me uncapable of holding Communion with other Churches I was never strongly bound up to any form of Ecclesiastical Government but that under which a pure and undefiled Religion doth flourish and that which contains and really practises Holiness and advances the Kingdom of God in the World that can I approve of and willingly live under were I to live I did approve of the ancient and present form of Civil Government English Monarchy I am fully satisfy'd with and do also declare that it is not warrantable for any Subject to take up Arms against and resist their lawful Soveraigns and rightful Princes and therefore had I not been convinced by several things that I have read and heard to believe that the late D. of Monmouth was the Legitimate Son of his Father Charles the Second I had never gone into his Army judging that without this I could not be freed from the guilt of Rebellion which I always resolved to keep my self clear from And tho' his Father deny'd he was marry'd to his Mother I thought it might be answer'd with this That Kings and Princes for State reasons often cannot be fathomed by their Subjects affirming and denying things which otherwise they would not do and make even their natural Affections to truckle and stoop thereto I exhort all to abhor all Treasonable Plots and pretences of all Rebellion with the highest Detestation and to take the plain Text of Sacred Scripture to walk by in honouring and obeying and living in subjection to rightful Kings and not readily to receive or suddenly to be impress'd with evil Reports and Defamations of them also not ra●hly to be Propagators of the same I desire God to forgive all mine Enemies and to give me an heart to forgive them which are many some mighty an● all most malicious Particularly Barter of Lisnel who bet●ayed me ●nd proved such a Tr●ytor to James D. of Monmouth his old and in●ima●e Friend I am grievously affl●cted that I should prove the occasion of the gre●t Sufferings of so many Persons and Families But this h●th fallen under the Just and Wise orde●ing of Divine Providence as David's going to Abime●ech when he proved the occasion of the D●ath of a●l the Persons Men Women and Children in the City But who shall say unto God What doest thou The care of my most dear Wife and a great many Children I cast upon God who I hope will be better than the best of Husbands unto her and the best of Fathers unto them God knows how just and legal Right my Wife hath unto her Estate to him therefore I commit her to defend her from the violence and oppression of men particularly from a most inhumane and unnatural Broth●r But no wonder if he will lay violent h●nd● upon his Sisters Estate that hath so often laid them on his own Father I die a deeply humbled self-judging and self-condemning Sinner loathing and abhorring my many an● great Iniquities and my self for them earnestly desiring full Redemption from the bonds of Corruption under which I have groaned so many years longing for a most perfect Conformity to the most holy and glorious God the only infinite pure Being thirsting for a permit diffusion of his Grace through all the Powers and Faculties of my Soul panting after pe●f●ct spiritual Life and Liberty and a consummate Love to my dearest Jesus who is an All comprehensive Good and to be satisfied with his Love for ever A Vigorous and vehement Zeal for the Protestant Religion with a Belief I had of the Dukes Legitimacy hath involved me in this ignominious D●ath yet blessed be God that by sincere Repentance and true Faith in the Blood of Jesus there is p●ssage from it to a glorious eternal Life and from these bitter ●orrows to the fulnes● of sweetest Joys that are in his Presence and from these sharp bodily pains to those most pure pleasures that are at his Right hand for evermore And blessed be God that such a death as this cannot prevent and hinder Christ's changing of my vile Body and fashioning it like his Glorious Body in the general Resurrection day I am now going into that World where many dark things shall be made perfectly manifest and clear and many doubtful things fully resolved and a plenary satisfaction given concerning them all Disputes and mistakes concerning Treason Rebellion and Schism shall be at an end and cease for ever many things that are innoc●nt lawful and laudable which have foul Marks and b●ack Characters stampt and fix'd upon 'em here they shall be perfectly purified and fully cleansed from there where at one view more shall be known of them than by all wrangling Debates and eager Disputes or by reading all Polemical Books concerning them here I greatly deplore and bewail the greedy Appetite and insatiable Thirst that Professing Protestants have ●fter the Blood of their Brethren and the high pleasure they take in the effusion thereo● But what will not Men do when they are either Judicially blinded or their secular worldly Interest insensibly insinuates and winds it self into their Religion is so twisted and incorporated with it that it animates and acts it is the Life and Soul the vital Form and Power and made wholly subservient thereunto I bless God for all my Sufferings and particularly for this last for the benefit and fruit of it by God's sanctifying of them to me have been great hereby I have been effectually convinced of the Vanity of the World and my own sinfulness by nature and practice and to see that to be sin which I never saw before and to be more throughly humbled for what I know to be sin

and Cane on the Bank near him and his own Sword run through him on purpose to perswade the world he had kill'd himself Very politickly making choice of a place to lay him where they might both think he wou'd be sometime conceal'd and near where he had been seen walking the same day if the Affidavits to this purpose in Sir R's Book may be reposed upon All this Mr. Prance swe●rs upon the Trial of his Murtherers with whom he acknowledges he had several Consults before at the Plow Alehouse and other places concerning it Whose Evidence is confirm'd not only by innumerable other Circumstances but Mr. Bedlow's Confession who was to have been present at the Action had not Remorse of Conscience hinder'd him having been engag'd by the Conspirators for a great Reward and was afterwards to have a considerable part of it for carrying off the Body which he swears he saw in the very Room whither Prance says 't was remov'd on the Monday night But even here too he fail'd 'em So 't was done without his Assistance in the manner before described And very sure no doubt the great Plotters thought they had now made their Business for we are not to fancy these little Villains attempted such an Action of their own impulse the great Spring we had before in Dugdales Story of Coleman from whence those large Sums must proceed which Bedlow mentions Now I say they thought the Business was as sure as the Jews had made the Sepulchre having seal'd all the mouths of the Parties concern'd with Oaths and Sacraments Solemnities commonly abus'd by their Party to the foulest Villanies But neither that nor the darkness of the night nor the distance of places cou'd hinder the Divine Justice from looking through and discovering the Villains concern'd and bringing 'em to Punishments worthy their Wickedness The manner thus His Body being found by some who accidentally walk'd that way and generally suspected from his former discourses and many probabilities that he was murder'd by the Papists the King issued out a Proclamation with a promise of Indempnity and 500 l. reward to any who wou'd discover it On this Mr. Bedlow writ a Letter to the Secretary from the Country concerning his Knowledge of something considerable in that matter and being sent for up to Town reveal'd whate're he knew of the Business And a little after Prance being accidentally seiz'd by a Constable and then in the House of Lords Lobby was known by Mr. Bedlow having seen his Face on that Monday night when at the same time they saw the Body who on Examination discover'd also what his share was in the Murther And tho' he afterwards denied it for fear of losing his Trade and such other Motives as he himself confest yet in a quarter of an hour he returned again to his first Evidence But the most difficult Task will be what yet remains the clearing those Objections and some of 'em plausible ones and which have led away too many well-meaning men against the Truth of this recited Evidence as well as some Insinuations spread abroad and made the most of to perswade the World this worthy Gentleman was guilty of his own Death But here it can't be expected that a private Person who has not the advantages of Sir Roger to have Warrants from two K's and all Persons and Papers before him relating to that Business and who had Wit great and Honesty little enough to pick out and leave in what was for his turn that such an one shou'd be able to go through so many hundred pages as his Book consists of and answer every Particular therein 'T will be satisfaction enough to any rational man to touch some of the Plots and Fetches made use of from one time to another to wash the Blackamoor white and clear the Papists from this Villany To answer the main Objections against the Evidence and bring some corroborating Circumstances for the truth on 't And lastly To shew Sir Edmond cou'd not murther himself in that place and manner as is pretended The first of the Methods they used to sham off this Murther was by early Reports they spread about even before his Body was found That he had kill'd himself Now this Sir Roger himself can scarce have Brow enough to affirm was done by the Brothers to save the Estate since 't was a very odd way certainly to do that by letting the World openly know that he was a Self-murtherer That such Reports were spread we shall by and by prove and that from Sir Roger 's own Book without the trouble of consulting the Paper-Office and who got by 't who shou'd do 't whose Interest was 't to do 't but the Papists altho' the particular Authors may be unknown Among the many Evidences of his Death being known at so many distant places before 't was publick here there are two come up exactly to the matter in hand The first which was recited by the Reverend Dean of Bangor now Bishop of St. Asaph in his Funeral Sermon and which it seems he had of one Mr. Angus who the same day Sir Edmond was found about Five a clock on Primrose-Hill being in Mr. Chiswell's Shop in St. Paul's Church-yard about One or Two there was a Person unknown to him past by and clapping him on the shoulder ask'd him If he heard the News that Sir E.B.G. was found dead with his own Sword run through him The second is of Mr. Goldsborough Clerk of the House of Commons who being in a Barber's Shop on Tuesday morning while he was missing a person came in open-mouth'd That Sir E. B. G. was found and being ask'd where reply'd He had kill'd himself upon Primrose-Hill where upon Thursday following in the evening the Body was indeed discover'd The second considerable Attempt made the same way was by one Magrath an Irishman the famous Celiers who foretold both the Prince of Wales and a great many more after him the Jesuits in Newgate and others who pretended to prove Sir E. B. G. hang'd himself and his Clerk Moor cut him down But being examin'd at the Council-Board it prov'd only a malicious and false Contrivance 'T will be very well worth the while to remark that Mrs. Mary Gibbons was one of the persons deeply engaged in this design among so much other good Company and that Mrs. Mary Gibbons is one of the main Evidences Sir Roger makes use of in his Book Tho' this Sham was then so thin laid and this person so well known that even Farewell and Pain were asham'd to make use of either in their Letters to Prance on this Subject but protest very solemnly That none of those neither Celiers the Newgate Priests nor Mrs. Mary Gibbons or other Papists or popishly affected knew any thing of the matter but were all Strangers to it When this Contrivance was found out by all the World to be as very a Sham as Celiers being with Child in Newgate or some Body else in