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prince_n	great_a	king_n	orange_n	3,164	5	10.0228	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40604	A full answer paragraph by paragraph, to Sir John Fenwick's paper given to the sheriffs, January the 28th, 1696/7 at the place of execution on Tower-Hill by a true son of the Church of England, as establish'd by law.	True son of the Church of England.; Fenwick, John, Sir, 1645?-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing F2339; ESTC R23318	8,463	26

gave any particular Consent to the Invasion as fasly Sworn against him c. And must say this in their behalfs That the Pen-men of this Speech are not so altogether to be credited in their Veracity of the Charge of Perjury against the Witnesses when they are so very loose in that point even upon Sir John himself and have had the Misfortune so shamefully to prevaricate ev'n with Contradictions themselves in the very Declaration of his Innocence I also call God to Witness That I received the Knowledge of what is contain'd in those Papers that I gave to a great Man that came to me in the Tower both from Letters and Messages that came from France and he told me when I read them to him that the Prince of Orange had been acquainted with most of those things before I cannot so well penetrate into the full depth of this Paragraph by reason it seems to stand in a Darker Light being somewhat obscurer then the other part of his Paper Yet thus far it appears that the matters contain'd in those Papers we may suppose to be some part of a Confession in order to lay hold of the Royal Mercy made to the Noble Peer sent to the Tower to Examin him and given him in Writing to be transmitted to the King the Authority of which he declares he received from France Whether this was any trifling Discovery I will not determine though it looks like such by reason the Noble Peer made answer it was no more than the King knew before Here I shall make one Remark viz That Sir John keeps up to his high Professions for King James when he dares not so much as give King William the Title of King though in the Words from another Man's Mouth when he tells you that this great Man should answer him that the Prince of Orange had been acquainted with those things before What other Confessions Sir John pretended to make afterwards viz. Such as that of accusing so many of the Firmest and most Eminent Friends of the Crown as ntended more for an Amuzement to the whole Government than an Ingenuous Discovery Possibly all that Knowledge might likewise come from a French Mint too for nothing hardly of an English Face would have a Front hard enough for such a Forgery however we dare not suppose that to be the Contents of those Papers in the Tower for then the Great Man would not have answered That the King was acquainted with them before For that Confession look'd more like a Gorgon then a Discovery fo far from any former Acquaintance of the Kings that I suppose it never saw Light before Sir John and his Prompters thrust its Dowdy Face into the World I might have expected Mercy from that Prince because I was Instrumental in saving his Life For when about April Ninety five an Attempt against him came to my Knowledg I did partly by Disswasions and partly by Delays prevent that Design which I suppose was the Reason that the last Villanous Project was concealed from me In this Paragraph he makes a kind of Mordecai's Plea for receiving of mercy from King William for here he confesses himself entrusted with a Design formed against King William of no less Villany than some Clandestine Attempts upon the King's Life which he partly by disswasions and partly by delays prevented and thereby as he tells you saved the King's Life We must here observe that a Person even of that great Honour and Character as Sir John Fenwick was nevertheless judged that proper Confident and Counsel-keeper to the Ruffian Party as to be made privy to so Black a Design as Assassination it self Nay it further appears that he tacitly confesses himself to be an Actor and a Leader in it for otherwise without his privity how could he disswade or without his own actual Leading Hand or at least Commanding Power in it how could he delay it What Truth or what Merits soever there may be in this Narrative of his secret Service to the King I will not judge but if any such good Service were really done 't is a sign that he has had that Tenderness for the Actors in it as much Remorse as he says he has had for the Act it self viz. in preventing it that from that day to this he has wholly conceal'd the Plotters though at last he has declared the Plot. And this Aversion of his to a base Design he supposes was the Reason why the late Villaous Project was conceal'd from him Very likely for that or other Reasons it might be conceal'd from him for I hear not of any thing of the last Assassination laid to his Charge But all this clears not his Innocence from the Invasion for that by the whole Party in general even by the tenderest Scrupler of Honour amongst them was reputed a more Manly more Heroick and more Warrantable Undertaking If there be any Persons whom I have injur'd in Word or Deed I heartily pray their Pardon and beg of God to pardon those who have injur'd me particularly those who with great Zeal have sought my Life and brought the Guilt of my Innocent Blood upon the Nation no Treason being proved upon me His hearty begging Pardon of all whom he had injur'd in Word or Deed and his begging God to pardon those who had any wise injur'd him is a very good Christian Acknowledgment and would be infinitely both to his own Glory and his Ghostly Guides if his whole Paper had been all of a piece with it 'T is true when he more particularly mentions those who as he says with great Zeal sought his Life there perhaps he might be somewhat mistaken for that Zeal might possibly savour more of a Loyal Warmth for the King's Preservation and publick Justice against his Enemies than any great Heat or Animosity against the Person of Sir John Fenwick and his Judges are so well satisfied in the Equity of their Judgment that the Cry of Innocent Blood hanging over the Nation is the least part of their Fears I return my most hearty Thanks to those noble and worthy Persons who gave me their Assistance by opposing this Bill of Attainder without which it had been impossible I could have fallen under the Sentence of Death God bless them and their Posterity though I am fully satisfied they pleaded their own Cause while they defended mine His Expressions of Gratitude to those Members whose peculiar Tenderness inclined them to Mercy towards him is very worthy from him but where he comes to tell them that it had been impossible for him to have fallen under the Sentence of Death without a Bill of Attainder he would have done well to have told the World that he stood so much upon his own Innocence that his trifling Motions towards a Confession were no false Mask of Candor and Ingenuity only to protract Time till Goodman could be bribed off and spirited away to France And where he tells them that whilst they defended his Cause they pleaded their own there I am afraid he has quite dash'd his first grateful Acknowledgment for God forbid that so many worthy Gentlemen and Men of Honour and Loyalty should fall under Sir John's Dilemma's or be tinctured with his Blemishes to stand in want either of a Plea or Defence I pray God to bless my true and lawful Soveraign King James the Queen and Prince of Wales and restore him and his Posterity to this Throne again for the Peace and Prosperity of this Nation which is impossible to prosper till the Government is settled upon a right Foot The Transport and Zeal of this last Prayer summs all His Death only wanted this conclusive Protestation to seal it a Martyrdom The Glory and Merit of the Cause in which he dyes so supersedes all the Guilt of the Fact charged against him that without any other Declaration this Innocence alone wipes off all Attainder There can be no Blot in that Scucheon where every private Conscience is the Herauld 'T is true Sir John before told you That his Religion taught him his Loyalty to King James his Church of England Perswasion Methinks 't is a mad Church that can be so much felo de se as to be so strangely active in Restoring of that Prince that would bring over Daggers to cut its ' own Throat Methinks the whole Malecontent Party especially the Church of England Members amongst them should not have forgotten the more particular Ungrateful Treatment from that Prince to that very Church that mounted him into his Throne and consequently what slender Hopes they must have of his future Civility to it for keeping him thus long out of it And therefore if after all this Dreadful Prospect before them upon Supposition of his Return their over-scrupulous straight-lac'd Consciences cannot come up to acquiesce to the Present Establishment in acknowledging KING WILLIAM that Prince's Title not only supported by the National Assent the best Foundation of Allegiance but likewise by the Recognition of almost all the Princes of Europe though even of a contrary Church the very Romanists themselves Certainly I say if there can be any such Depraved Senses left in that Communion they are undoubtedly resolved to let the whole World know that their Religion has either divested them of their Humanity or Reason viz. either in wishing such a Scourge both to them and their Posterity or otherwise fancying such Golden Dreams or rather Airy ones from such a Restauration As Sacred and as Darling as an Uninterrupted Succession may be esteem'd and as much upon a Right Foot as King James's Title stood nevertheless we are but too sensible that he began to warp into that Unfortunate Left-handed Administration that his Restauration ought to be no part of any Sober or Rational Man's Prayers except his Letany And now O God I do with all humble Devotion commend my Soul into Thy Hands the Great Maker and Preserver of Men and Lover of Souls beseeching Thee that it may be alwaies dear and precious in Thy Sight through the Merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ Amen JOHN FENWICKE Amen Amen FINIS