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A27268	The Behaviour and execution of Robert Green and Lawrence Hill two of the persons condemn'd at the Kings Bench Bar, February 11th, for the most notorious and barbarous murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, the twelth of October last : who suffered at Tyburn on Friday, February 21, 1678/9 : with an account of their lives, conditions, deportment after sentence, discourses with Mr. Ordinary, and other most remarkable circumstances.	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1704; ESTC R22367	2,862	10

THE BEHAVIOUR AND EXECUTION OF Robert Green and Laurence Hill Two of the Persons condemn'd at the Kings-Bench Bar February 11th for the most Notorious and Barbarous Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey the Twelfth of October last Who Suffered at TYBURN On Friday February 21 1678 9. With an Account of their Lives Conditions Deportment after Sentence Discourses with Mr. Ordinary and other most remarkable Circumstances Having at the Publishers Request perused this Sheet I do certifie That the Discourses betwixt me and the Prisoners and other matters of Fact therein are truly related Samuel Smith Ordinary LICENSED 1678 9. LONDON Printed for L. C. 1678 9. The Behaviour and Execution of Robert Green and Laurence Hill who Suffer'd at Tyburn Feb. 21. 1678 9. THe Murther of that Noble true English Protestant Patriot Sir Edmundbury Godfrey is now so notoriously known not only throughout England but I hope our Neighbour Nations too especially of the Reformed Religion that it will be wholly unnecessary with any Artifice of Rhetorick to draw forth the Readers Compassionate Tears for that worthy Gentlemans Martyrdom or raise up his just indignation against the base and barbarous Assassinates that were the Authors of it It was on Saturday the 12th day of October this Bloody Fact was Committed which long lay concealed in darkness black as that which had over-spread their Souls who were concerned in it But at length that infinite adorable Power the Avenger of Innocent Blood who hears the cries of his Slaughtered Saints from under the Altar and brings Light out of Darkness was graciously pleased to make some discovery of this Hellish Crime upon which several persons were committed to custody And of them three on the 10th of this instant February were brought to their Tryal at the Kings-Bench Bar at Westminster where after a fair hearing and full Evidence by a Jury consisting of persons of Worth and Quality they were found guilty and next Morning received Sentence of Death The particulars of the Proof and Tryal we shall not intermeddle with but rather refer the Reader for his full satisfaction therein to that intire and perfect Narrative which the World may shortly receive from the indubitable approbation of Authority Of these three persons Attainted of the Felony and Murther one on some important considerations is at least for some time thought fit to be graciously Reprieved An acount of the other two viz. Robert Green and Laurence Hill as to their Behaviour c. after Sentence till Execution we shall briefly but most truly and impartially give you Robert Green was an Irish-man born his Father a Protestant as himself acknowledged but his Mother whose weaker Sex rendred her more lyable to such absurd delusions a Papist who bred him up with an Uncle of his in the Popish Heresie though his Education was so mean that he could neither Write nor Read But where Ignorance is celebrated as the Mother of Devotion he was so much the apter Instrument for Jesuitical Engines of subtilty to make use of His aforesaid Uncle instructed him in the common Notions and Prayers of the Romish Superstition and he had his abode in Ireland till he was 16 or 18 years old being now 54 years of Age. They being all after Condemnation kept separately in Newgate Mr. Ordinary according to his place and ready inclinations to Christian Charity offering him his Assistance Advice Exhortations and Prayers he very modestly accepted of his visits who frequently exhorted him as the first step to a sincere and hearty Repentance to unburthen his Conscience by a free full and ingenuous Confession of the horrid Murther for which he stood Condemned and justly was to suffer using all the perswasive Arguments he could to that purpose But though he seemed to hearken to his Admonitions yet could he not be prevailed upon therein but rather appeared to stand it out in self-justification of his Innocence as to that particular Which as Mr. Ordinary very well observed unto and pressed upon him could not be considering the plainness of the Evidence and apparentness of the Crime and his Guilt but upon one or all of these three Reasons viz. 1. That either they were under an Oath of Secrecy which as he truly told him was a wicked Oath and in that case not at all obligatory 2. Or that betwixt the time of the Murther committed and that of their Apprehension some Priest had given them a pretended Absolution and so they conceited themselves now Innocent which Mr. Ordinary had the more reason to urge because of some former experiences he had had of common Felons who in such case had resolutely denyed even at place of Execution with their last breath those very Crimes which but some days before they had freely Confessed to himself and that meerly on the reason aforesaid Which there is good reason to believe not only from his irreprochable Testimony but even from that Popish Doctrine which some of them have not blusht to assert ☞ Quod non peccat mortalitèr qui negat se admisisse peccatum Mortale alias legitime Confessum Navar. in Man Cap. 21. Num. 38. That Man sinneth not mortally who having shriven himself of some Mortal sin denies afterwards that he was ever guilty of that sin 3. Or lastly That they believed it to be a meritorious act to kill an Heretick as they call every Protestant for so too runs their Hellish Doctrine That any private man may lawfully Take Spoil and Kill such Hereticks as are so denounced to be and burn their Houses over their Heads Symancha Inst Cathol Cap. 45. Numb 13. To all which he declined to answer much in particular but onely gave a general denial though he did confess that in other matters he had been a a great sinner against God c. And upon some occasional discourse justifying himself from some particular sins did declare that he accounted Fornication and much more Adultery not to be Venial but mortal sins nor did believe any sin to be Venial in its own nature He also affirmed that he did not believe some of the grossest points of Popery yet said he was resolved to live and die in the Roman Catholick Religion as he called it because he was born and bred in it To which Mr. Ordinary most appositely answered and told him that was no argument for then he might likewise resolve to live and die in sin because born in and too much accustomed to that also He replied onely That he would venture his Eternal State in cleaving to the Religion he had been bred in and would hear no Arguments to the contrary Mr. Ordinary yet failed not daily to visit him instructing and exhorting him to Repentance and Faith in the alone all-sufficient merits of Christ To which he was very attentive as also to the Exhortations of another Reverend and Worthy Divine sent to assist in that work of Charity and joyned with much seeming affection in Prayer with them And so thanking the Ordinary on the Thursday for his great pains and saying he would excuse him from attending him at the place of Execution yet in the mean time desired his Prayers took his leave of him Laurence Hill the other unhappy Criminal was born and bred up in the Popish way and resolved likewise to live and die therein He declared that he was not a Shoomaker as hath been reported but put forth to be a Servant about 13 years of age and successively continued in that condition at least till very lately being 34 years old at the time of his death He would not though much pains and many such Arguments as to the other too tedious here to be related were used to him confess the Crime for which he suffered but in general that he had been a great sinner and particularly said that he never wrong'd any person but one of a very inconsiderable sum which he specified and of which he said he had lately made restitution He would not admit any Protestant Divine to pray with yet desired their Prayers at home for him and so thanking Mr. Ordinary for his pains and praying God to reward him took his leave of him excusing him likewise from further attendance On Friday the 21th of February they were both pretty early in the morning convey'd in a Cart to Tyburn where after very few words and some short private Prayers they were Executed FINIS