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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76336	The behaviour, confession, and execution, of the four prisoners at Tyburn William Blower, for high treason; Robert Francis for the murther of Tho. Dangerfield, Henry Anthony, and John Morgan for two several burglarys and fellonies. On Friday the 24 of this instant July, 1685. VVith many remarkable passages and transactious [sic], during the series of their lives, taken from their own mouths, after their condemnation.		1685 (1685)	Wing B1705; ESTC R232477	4,171	4

THE Behaviour Confession And EXECUTION of the Four Prisoners at TYBURN William Blower for High Treason Robert Francis for the Murther of Tho. Dangerfield Henry Anthony and John Morgan for two several Burglarys and Fellonies On Friday the 24 of this Instant July 1685. VVith many remarkable Passages and Transactious during the Series of their lives taken from their own Mouths after their Condemnation ONe main Reason which Induces us to publish this Melancholly Account of the untimely ends of such as have forfeited their Lives to offend Justice by breaking the known Laws is to deter others from such rash and lawless Enterprizes as must inevitably end in their Ruin and disgrace with which frequent Examples furnish the word of which after many precedent take the following William Blower Chirurgion of the Parish of St. Allhallows Barkin being Tryed upon an Indictment of High Treason for Cliping Fileing and Defacing the Lawful and Current Coin of this Kingdom and upon proof that Clipings and Cliping-Instruments were found in his house found Guilty and received Sentence of Death on the 18th of July when returning to Newgate he betook himself to his retirement and for a time was much dejected and discontented in Sighs and Groans deploring his sad misfortune but being comforted by the wholesome Advice of such Reverend Divines as in Christian Charity came to fit and prepare him for another World laying aside all thoughts of any long continuance in this and looking upon himself as a dying man he betook himself to Prayer and Meditation confessing the depravity of his Nature and acknowledging himself to be a Sinner in a high degree they earnestly pressed him to lay open the secrets of his Heart before the great God of Heaven and with all Humility and Prostration to humble himself and implore Mercy and Forgiveness through the Merits of our Blessed Saviour who laid down his Life for Sinners laying before him the Penitence of David the Patience of Job the humble and submissive Expressions of the Prodigal in his return the Expression of the Penitent Goaler and the dying words of the Thief upon the Cross the sorrow of Mary Magdalen and divers Recorded in Sacred writ for true Penitents and unfeigned Converts assuring him that God in the Name and for the sake of his beloved Son our ever Blessed Saviour is at all times willing to accept of those that repent and turn from the evil of their ways and that he will in no wise rejeect the humble and those that are of a broken and contrite Spirit admonishing him to try and examine himself for the good and well-fare of his Immortal Soul of more value than the whole World and therefore ought to be highly prised above what he could think or imagine not regarding what became of his Body so that inestimable Jewel arrived safe at the Heavenly Canaan and that a bare belief that Christ shed his precious Blood to save him was not sufficient but that he must wholly cast himself upon him counting himself altogether unworthy of any favour at the hands of the Almighty whom he many ways highly offended but in and through the Merits of his Blessed Son who shed his precious Blood to attone for the sins of mankind After these and many the like pious Expressions a worthy Divine proceeded to ask him how it fared with him and how he found himself as to his State in another World requiring him to give him an Account what assurance or hope he had c. to which with much meekness and humility he replyed that at first viz. Immediately after his Condemnation he found great strugling within himself and laboured under strange Temptations his heart not being plyable as it ought but that he had earnestly laboured to overcome them and reduce himself to a calm and plyable temper fit to take the Impressions of saving Grace but could not soon prevail yet after much serious and fervent Prayer to Almighty God to strengthen and enable him to resist and overcome the Tempter he found the Tempest or strugling in hir Soul allayed and succeeded by a sedate calmness which ever since continued to his great comfort acknowledging that he had been a great sinner and that for his perseverance in many known sins God had suffered him to fall under this affliction Then being asked by the Reverend Divine whether he used not Prayer and reading the Holy Scripture he answered that the hurry of Business had of late made him somwhat remiss in those Holy Dutys but that he was exceeding sorry for his neglect beging pardon of God for such his neglect After these and divers other sacred admonitions they prayed with him beseeching the Almighty to give him a true sense of his sins and a heart sincerely to repent That he would pardon his former Transgressions and have mercy upon his precious and immortal Soul When after some other necessary Exhortations and an Application of what had been urged he left him in a calm temper of mind altogether unshaken by fear of approaching Death but rather expressing a kind of a joy or a lacritie that God had made him sensible of his latter end and given him knowledge of the certain Number of his days Robert Francis of the Parish of St. Andrews Holbourn Indicted the same Sessions as the former upon his Tryal was found Guilty of wilful Murther for giving Thomas Dangerfield a Wound in the Eye with a little stick on the 4th of July of which Wound he dyed in Newgate on the 5th of the same Month for which receiving Sentence of Death on the 18th and being returned to the Press-yard he began seriously to consider what he had done becoming more Melancholly than ever and as muh as stood with conveniency retired from company seriously reflecting upon his latter end saying what he had done was rashly and altogether without any premeditated Malice that he was unfortunately coming along and pressed into the Croude out of curiosity to see the Prisoner of whom he had little or no knowledge only by report and that an unhappy word passing he pushed at him with his Cane not imagining it would have proved of fatal consequence saying that he had lived in credit and reputation not being given to quarrel nor transported with passion to a degree of mischiefeing any person before this unhappy Accident hoping the God of Mercys would pardon his sins As for Death altho' it should be his misfortune to fall untimely yet he would chearfully submit to what the Laws inflicted on him giving much heed to such as admonished him to be mindful of his future state often reading and meditating both before and after he had notice a Warrant was signed for his Execution expressing a calm temper and quiet of mind speaking chearfully to such as daily come to visit him desiring them not to be troubled or concerned at his mirfortune since it was befallen him and could not now be remedied and that he was sensibly sorry for what he