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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	heir_n	king_n	wales_n	2,772	5	10.3654	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25374	True copy of the paper delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex by Mr. William Anderton at the place of execution, which he designed there to have spoken, but being frequently interrupted by the ordinary, Mr. Samuel Smith, desired the said sheriffs to publish or dispose of it as they should think fit, seeing a dying man was not suffered to speak	Anderton, William, d. 1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing A3113; ESTC R114	2,631	2

True Copy of the PAPER delivered to the SHERIFFS of London and Middlesex by Mr. William Anderton at the Place of Execution which he designed there to have spoken but being frequently interrupted by the Ordinary Mr. Samuel Smith desired the said Sheriffs to publish or dispose of it as they should think fit seeing a dying Man was not suffered to speak To my Countrey-men LIberty and Property hath for some Years made an hideous Cry in these Kingdoms and nothing more than the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject is the Pretence of our present Deliverers and doubtless it was for the sake of these that so many of my infatuated and blind Countrey-men rebelled against their Lawful and Injured Monarch whilst Religion Rebellions Umbrage was made the Covert of the hidden Designs of those who have now demonstratively shewn that they sought nothing less than our Ruine And that these were only Pretences to gain their Ends the very Blind although they cannot see yet most certainly feel it Under the like Pretences do our Deliverers still continue to deliver us even from what they please that they think will but in the least help to effect what they came for Under the Notion of the Necessity of a War they deliver us from our Money and from our Traffick and Commerce by which so great a part of the Kingdom is sustained Under the Notion of carrying it on they kidnap our young Men the Flower of our Kingdom and directly contrary to Law transport them and to save their own Forreigners put them in the first Onsets of their Battles as the Heathens did the Christians of Old that their Enemies Swords might be blunted with killing them before they came to encounter them They exhaust all our Stores both for Sea and Land and carry away all our Artillery and if any Man seem but to disapprove of these their Proceedings under the Notion of Law they murther him Nay if they do but so much as suppose him not to be on their Side he must be a Traitor and no matter what the Law says they say he shall die Can any thing be more plain to demonstrate this than my present Case My supposed Crime was Printing and all that the Witnesses could personally say against me was That I was a Man against the Government and had called the Prince of Orange Hook-nose though I protest I never did not one of them could say nor did they offer to say that I ever printed the Books of which they accuse me or procured them to be printed or published any of them or that the Materials were mine or that I hired the Room where they were found but I was an ill Man and that was sufficient By which 't is plain that they were resolved right or wrong to have my Life That they designed not to Try but to Convict me is as plain for they refused positively to allow me Counsel to such Matters of Law as was never refused to any before and though I caused several Statutes to be read some to prove that there must be two Witnesses at least to the Fact others that though there had been two as there was not one yet positively declared that it was not Treason Nay the very last Session of Parliament was it enacted That the Printer of Seditious and Treasonable Books should for the first Offence be punished no otherwise than not to follow his Trade for three Years and for the second Offence never to follow it more and such farther Punishment as seemed fit to the Court not extending to Life or Limb. Now though mine had it been proved had but been the first yet you see contrary and in direct opposition to the Law they make it High-Treason And when the Jury could not agree to find me Guilty and came down to ask the Court whether the finding these Things there and supposing them to be mine since it could not be prov'd that I printed these Books or had made any use of them could affect my Life I say when the Jury ask'd this Question and the Lord Chief Justice Treby told them positively No it did not yet withal he told them That that was not their Business their Business was to find me Guilty of Printing And while they stayed the Court frown'd upon them to that degree that the Foreman told them he was not to be frighted upon which they publickly reviled them calling them ill Men ill Subjects and a Pack of Knaves and so terrified them into a Compliance That this is true those who were near know too well although the partial Writer of the Trials hath most perfidiously publish'd not only an unfair imperfect and lame Account but hath also stuff'd it with downright Untruths and Falshoods and left out whatsoever made for me not so much as mentioning the Contradictions of the Witnesses in what they did swear their swearing to some things that made for me and when I took hold of them they denied them nor hath he in the least told the World of the Judges Over-ruling whatsoever I offered without giving any other Answer than that it should be so because they would have it so with many other such Things which the conscientious Auditors can testify And now I pray consider where is this Liberty and Property Where the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject Nay where the very Laws themselves And consequently where is the Security of any Man Why even in the Deliverers Pockets where your Money is and where also without all doubt if you look not well to your Selves your Estates ere long will be there likewise What are these Proceedings but Arbitrary in a Superlative manner and such as no Reign ever produced before These were they you were heretofore only afraid of being jealous without just Cause but now you see them actually come upon you I hope you your selves will put a stop to them by laying these Proceedings before the Parliament for had it been sitting at this present these Proceedings durst not have been practised and I pray God to put so speedy an end to them that as I am the first so I may be the last that may suffer by them I have hitherto lived a Member of the Orthodox Church of England as by Law Established and I declare I now die in the Unity of the same Therefore according to its Discipline I hold my self obliged to ask Pardon of the whole World of every particular Person whom I have any ways offended and I do freely and sincerely forgive every one that has offended me particularly my most false and perjured Witnesses and among them more particularly Robin Stephens my most unjust and unrighteous Judges and my repenting Jury and I pray God may not lay this their Sin of wilful Murther to their Charge at the General Bar where they shall appear as Criminals and not Judges MAY the Almighty bless prèserve prosper and restore our Sovereign Lord King JAMES to the just Possesision of his indubitable lawful Crowns strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his Enemies here on Earth and crown him with eternal Glory hereafter And that he may never want Heirs to inberit his Crown bless I beseech thee O God His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and give him such a Numerable Issue that there may never want one of his Loins to sway the Scepters of these Kingdoms so long as Sun or Moon endure Amen Amen June 15. 1693. William Anderton