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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

hairs breadth from my Roman Catholick Faith a Roman Catholick I am a Roman Catholick Priest I am a Roman Catholick Priest of that Religious Order called the Society of Jesus I am and I bless God who first called me and I bless the hour in which I was first called both unto Faith and Function Please now to observe I was condemned for reading Mass hearing Confessions Administring the Sacraments Annointing the Sick Christening Marrying Preaching As for reading the Mass it was the old and still is the Accustomed and Laudable Liturgy of the Holy Church and all the other Acts which are Acts of Religion tending to the Worship of God and for this dying I dye for Religion Moreover know that when last May I was in London under examination concerning the Plot a prime Examinant told me That to save my Life and increase my Fortunes I must make some discovery of the Plot or Conform discover Plot I could not for I knew of none Conform I would not because it was against my Conscience then by consequence I must dye and so now dying I dye for Conscience and Religion and dying upon such good scores as far as humane frailty permits I dye with Alacrity Interior and Exterior from the abundance of the Heart let not only Mouths but Faces also speak Here methinks I feel Flesh and Blood ready to burst into loud Cries Tooth for Tooth Eye for Eye Blood for Blood Life for Life No cryeth Holy Gospel Forgive and you shall be forgiven Pray for those that persecute you Love your Enemies and I profess my self a Child of the Gospel and the Gospel I obey Whomever present or absent I have ever offended I humbly desire them to forgive me as for my Enemies had I as many Hearts as I have Fingers with all those Hearts would I forgive my Enemies at least-wise with all that single Heart I have I freely forgive them all my Neighbours that betrayed me the Persons that took me the Justices that Committed me the Witnesses that proved against me the Jury that found me the Judge that Condemned me and others who ever that out of malice or zeal covertly or openly have been contributive to my Condemnation but singularly and especially I forgive my Capital Persecutor who hath been so long thirsting after my Blood from my Soul I forgive him and wish his Soul so well that were it in my power I would seat him a Seraphim in Heaven and I pray for them in the Language of Glorious St. Stephen the Protomartyr Lord lay not this sin unto them or better yet in the Style of our Great Master Christ himself Father forgive them they know not what they do And with Reason I love them also for though they have done themselves a vast Soul-prejudice yet they have done me an incomparable favour which I shall eternally acknowledge but chiefly I love them for his sake who said Love your Enemies and in Testimony of my Love I wish them and it is the best of Wishes from the Center of my Soul I wish them a good Eternity O Eternity Eternity How momentanean are the Glories Riches and Pleasures of this World and how desirable art thou Endless Eternity And for my said Enemies attaining thereunto I humbly beseech God to give them the Grace of true Repentance before they and this World part Next to my Enemies give me leave to lift up my Eyes Hands and Heart to Heaven and drop some few Words of Advice unto and for my Friends as well those present as absent Friends Fear God Honour your King be firm in your Faith avoid Mortal Sin by frequenting the Sacraments of Holy Church patiently bear your Persecutions and Afflictions Forgive your Enemies your Sufferings are great I say be firm in your Faith to the end yea even to Death then shall you heap unto your selves Coelestial Treasures in the Heavenly Jerusalem where no Thief Robbeth no Moth Eateth and no Rust Consumeth and have that Blessed Saying of the Blessed St. Peter Prince of the Apostles always in your memory which I heartily recommend unto you viz. Let none of you suffer as a Murderer or Thief but if as a Christian let him not be ashamed but glorifie God in his Name Now it is high time I make my Addresses to Heaven and supplicate the Divine Goodness in my own behalf by some few short and Cordial Ejaculations of Prayers Sovereign Lord God Eternal Father of Heaven Creator of all Conserver of all sole Author of Grace and Glory with prostrate Heart I Adore thee and thee only I Adore as God the Giving of Divine Honour to any Creature of highest degree I abhor and detest as damnable Idolatry Incarnate Son of God True God Thou hast purchased a Church here upon Earth with thy Sacred Blood and planted it with thy Sacred Labours a Church One Holy Catholick and Apostolick a Church to continue to the Consummation of the World Whatever that Church of thine hath by Revelation from thee whatever that Church of thine hath taught me and commanded me to believe I belive it to an Jota God Holy Ghost who maketh thy Sun to shine on Good and Bad thy Rain to fall on the Just and Unjust I praise thy Holy Name and thank thee for the Innumerable Benefits thou hast been pleased to bestow and confer upon me thy unworthy Servant the threescore and three years I now have lived on Earth The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Charity of God and the Communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen 2 Cor. 13. Chap. 14. Verse The Peace of God that passeth all understanding keep your Hearts and Minds in the Knowledge and Love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty Father Son and Holy Ghost be among you and remain with you all and always Amen O Holy Trinity three Persons and one God from the bottom of my Heart I am sorry that ever I have offended thee my Good God even to an Idle Word yet through the Mercy of thee my God and Merits of my Redeemer I strongly hope for an Eternal Salvation Sweet Jesus Receive my Soul And so was Executed FINIS