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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55929	The proceedings against Sir Thomas Armstrong in His Majesties Court of King's Bench, at Westminster, upon an outlawry for high-treason, &c. : as also an account of what passed at his execution at Tyburn, the 20th. of June 1684 : together with the paper he delivered ...	Armstrong, Thomas, Sir, 1624?-1684.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1684 (1684)	Wing P3546; ESTC R21348	7,450	4

to pray with me Dr. Tennison's Prayer ALmighty God with whom do live the Spirits of Just men made Perfect after they are delivered from their earthly Prisons we humbly commend the Soul of this thy Servant into thy Hands as into the Hands of a Faithful Creator and most Merciful Saviour beseeching thee it may be pretious in thy Sight Wash it and Sanctifie it by the Blood of the Immaculate Lamb that taketh away the Sins of the World that whatsoever defilements it may have contracted in this miserable sinful and naughty World through the lusts of the Flesh or the wiles of Satan being purged and done away it may be presented Pure and Spotless before thee And now O Holy and most Merciful Saviour thou most Blessed Judge Eternal suffer him not suffer him not at his last Hour for any Pains of Death to fall from thee Support him by the assistance of thy Spirit in all Agonies of Soul and Body at his last Moment and teach us by this and all other Spectacles of Mortality to number our Days and to apply our Hearts to that Holy and Heavenly Wisdom whilst we live here which may bring us hereafter to everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Our Father c. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the Love of God the Father and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us and in a particular manner with this thy Servant now in the Minute of Death and in the Day of Judgment Amen Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly Now Sir commend your self to God by your private Devotions make your self Ready and then let that be the last thing you do Sir T. Arms Sir I hope in God my Sins are Pardoned and I do Pray for it heartily I forgive the whole World all offences they have committed against me Dr. Tennison I pray God shew Mercy to you as you express Charity to them Then Sir Thomas kneel'd down and Prayed and afterwards thanked Dr. Tennison for his great Care and Pains with him And then he turned to his Servant and desired to be remembred to his Wife and Children The PAPER he delivered to the SHERIFFS I Thank Almighty God though I have had but a short time allowed me I find my self prepar'd for Death and my thoughts set on another World and trust in God well weaned from putting my heart on this yet I cannot but give so much of my little time to set down in Writing my Answers to some Calumnies raised since my close Imprisonment as well as what Mr. Attorney accus'd me of at the Bar I was told a Very Great Person says I was a Spy of Cromwel's I have been sent from England by the best and considerablest Friends the King had then with Bills of Exchange for His Majesties Use and Letters of very great Importance to His Majesty then at Bruxels I appeal to His Majesty if I deliver'd them not safe to Him and His answers too when I return'd Which I had not been above Six Days but I was Clapt up Ten Weeks a close Prisoner in the Gate-house and in no small hazard of my Life for that Journey Before this time I had been a whole Year at least in Lambeth-house a Prisoner and after both these times a Prisoner in the Tower when the Usurper Died and near Starving in every One of them Very ill Treatments for a Spy and Pensioner My Lord of Oxford and many others of Quality will I think testifie my Innocency in this point I protest before God I was never a Spy to Cromwel or any other Man O● Saturday last I was brought to the Kings-Bench Bar on an Outlawry of High Treason I was asked what I had to say for my self that Judgment of Death should not pass I was beyond Seas when the Outlawry came out I thought a Writ of Errour to Reverse it the Law allowed I prayed I might be allowed a Tryal for my Life according to the Laws of the Land I urg'd the Statute of Edward the 6th which was expresly for it it being within the Twelve Months allowed by that Statute It signified nothing I was with an unordinary Roughness Condemned and made a President tho' Mr. Holloway a little before had it offered him I cannot but think all the World will conclude my Case very different else why refused me Mr. Attorney said I was accused for being one of those that was to Kill the King as he came from Newmarket after the Fire I take God to Witness I never had any Design nor ever had such a Thought to take away the King's Life neither ever had any man the Impudence to propose so Barbarous and Base a thing to me neither was Fever in any Design to alter the Government of England What I am Accused of more I know no otherwise than by Reports and Prints which I take to be uncertain So that it cannot reasonably be expected I should make particular Answers If I had been Tryed I could have proved my Lord Howard's Base Reflections on me to be a Notorious Falshood For I know there is at least Ten Gentlemen besides all the Servants of the House can testifie I Dined there that day I have Lived and now Die of the Reformed Religion A True and Sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England and I heartily wish I had more strictly lived up to the Religion which I believed and I have found the great comfort of the Love and Mercy of God in and through my Blessed Redeemer in whom I only trust and I do verily hope that I am going to partake of that fulness of Joy which is in His Presence the hopes whereof doth infinitly please me I thank God I have no repining at my heart for the condition my sins have most deservedly brought upon me I have deserved much worse at the hands of God so that I cheerfully submit to this Punishment as being taken off but a small time sooner I do freely forgive all the World even those concerned in taking away my Life As for the Sentence of Death past upon me I cannot but think a very hard one being I think denied the Laws of the Land To conclude as I never had any Design against the King's Life or the Life of any man so I never was in a Design to alter the Monarchy I Die in charity with all the World and therefore I heartily pray God to Bless the Church of Christ every where these poor Nations the Kings Majesty and I heartily commend my Soul to Gods Infinite Mercy through my Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ We do Appoint Robert Horn John Baker and John Redmayne to Print and Publish this Paper and that none other Print the same Peter Daniel Samuel Dashwood LONDON Printed for Robert Horn John Baker and John Redmayne 1684.