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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37137	The dying speeches of several excellent persons, who suffered for their zeal against popery, and arbitrary government viz. I. Mr. Stephen Colledg, at Oxford, August 31, 1681, II. The Lord Russel in Lincolns-Inn-fields, July 21, 1683, III. Col. Sidney, on Tower-Hill, December 7, 1683, IV. Col. Rumbald,	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681.; Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Rumbold, Richard, 1622?-1685.; Lisle, Alice, 1614?-1685.; Cornish, Henry, d. 1685.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.	1689 (1689)	Wing D2957; ESTC R3148	29,338	40

be but One Sheepfold It was therefore in the Defence of this Party in their Just Rights and Liberties against Popery and Slavery At which words they Beat the Drums To which he said They need not trouble themselves for he should say no more of his Mind on that Subject since they were so disingenuous as to interrupt a Dying Man only to assure the People he adhered to the True Protestant Religion detesting the erroneous Opinions of many that called themselves so and I Die this day in the Defence of the ancient Laws and Liberties of these Nations And though God for Reasons best known to himself hath not seen it sit to honour Us as to make Us the Instruments for the Deliverance of his People yet as I have Lived so I Die in the Faith that he will speedily arise for the Deliverance of his Church and People And I desire all of you to prepare for this with speed I may say This is a deluded Generation vail'd with Ignorance that though Popery and Slavery be riding in upon them do not perceive it though I am sure there was no Man born marked of God above another for none comes into the world with a Saddle on his Back neither any Booted and Spurr'd to Ride to him not but that I am well satisfied that God hate wisely ordered different Stations for Men in the World as I have already said Kings having as much Power as to make them Great and the People as much Property as to make them Happy And to conclude I shall only add my Wishes for the Salvation of all Men who were created for that end After ending these words he prayed most fervently near three quarters of an hour freely forgiving all Men even his greatest Enemies begging most earnestly for the Deliverance of Sion from all her Persecutors particularly praying for London Edinburgh and Dublin from which the Streams run that Rule God's People in these three Nations Being asked some hours before his Execution If he thought not his Sentence Dreadful He answered He wished he had a Limb for every Town in Christendom The Last Speech of Madam LISLE Beheaded at Winchester in September 1685. Gentlemen Friends and Neighbours IT may be expected that I should say something at my Death my Birth and Education being near this place My Parents instructed me in the Fear of God and I now Die of the Reformed Religion always being instructed in that Belief that if Popery should return into this Nation it would be a great Judgment I Die in Expectation of Pardon of my Sins and Acceptation with the Father by the imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ He being the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth I thank God through Christ Jesus I depart under the Blood of Sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel God having made this Chastisement an Ordinance to my Soul. I did as little expect to come to this place on ●his Occasion as any Person in this Nation therefore let all learn not to be High-minded but Fear The Lord is a Sovereign and will take what way he seeth best to Glorifie himself by his poor Creatures therefore I humbly desire to submit to his Will praying of him That in Patience I may possess my Soul. The Crime was my Entertaining a Non-Conformist Minister which is since sworn to have been in the Duke of Monmouth's Army I am told if I had not denied them it would not have affected me I have no Excuse but Surprize and Fear which I believe my Jury must make use of to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have been told That the Court ought to be Counsel for the Prisoner Instead of Advice there was Evidence given from thence which though it was but Hear-say might possibly affect my Jury My Defence was such as might be expected from a weak Woman but such as it was I never heard it repeated again to the Jury But I forgive all Persons that have wronged me and I desire that God will do so likewise I forgive Col. Penruddock although he told me He could have taken those Men before they came to my House As to what may be expected for my Conviction That I gave it under my Hand that I discours'd with Nelthrop that could be no Evidence to the Court or Jury it being after my Conviction and Sentence I acknowledge His Majesty's Favour in Revoking my Sentence and I pray God he may long Reign in Mercy as well as Justice and that he may Reign in Peace and that the True Religion may Flourish under him Two things I have omitted to say which is That I forgive him that desired to be taken from the Grand Jury and put upon the Petty Jury that he might be the more nearly concerned in my Death And return humble Thanks to God and the Reverend Clergy that assisted me in my Imprisonment Sept. 85. Alicia Lisle Some Passages of Henry Cornish Esq before his Sufferings COming into the Press-yard and seeing the Halter in the Officers Hand he said Is this for me The Officer answer'd Yes he replied Blessed be God and Kissed it and after said O blessed be God for Newgate I have enjoyed God ever since I came within these Walls and blessed be God who hath made me fit to die I am now going to that God that will not be mocked to that God that will not be imposed upon to that God that knows the Innocency of his poor Creature And a little after he said Never did any poor Creature come unto God with greater Confidence in his Mercy and Assurance of Acceptation with him through Jesus Christ than I do but it is through Jesus Christ for there is no other way of coming to God but by him to find acceptance with him there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby we can be saved but the Name of Jesus Then speaking to the Officers he said Labour every one of you to be fit to die I was not fit to Die my self till I came in hither but O blessed be God he hath made me fit to die and hath made we willing to die In a few moments I shall have the Fruition of the Blessed Jesus and that not for a day but for ever I am going to the Kingdom of God where I shall enjoy the presence of God the Father and of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit and of all the Holy Angels I am going to the general Assembly of the First-born and of the Spirits of just Men made perfect O that God should ever do so much for me O that God should concern himself so much for the good of poor Creatures for their Salvation blessed be his Name For this was the design of God from all Eternity to give his only Son to die for poor miserable Sinners Then the Officers going to tye his Hands he said What must I be tyed then Well a brown Thred might have served the

would call me which he did And when I came into the Room I saw Mr. Rumsey by the Chimney though he swears he came in after and there were things said by some with much more Heat than Judgment which I did sufficiently disapprove and yet for these things I stand condemned But I thank God my part was sincere and well meant It is I know inferred from hence and was pressed to me that I was acquainted with these Heats and ill Designs and did not discover them But this is but Misprision of Treason at most So I die innocent of the Crime I stand condemn'd for and I hope no body will imagine that so mean a Thought could enter into me as to go about to save my self by accusing others The part that some have acted lately of that kind has not been such as to invite me to love Life at such a rate As for the Sentence of Death passed upon me I cannot but think it a very hard one For nothing was sworn against me whether true or false I will not now examine but some Discourses about making some Stirs And this is not levying War against the King which is Treason by the Statute of Edward the Third and not the Consulting and Discoursing about it which was all that was witnessed against me But by a a strange Fetch the Design of Seizing the Guards was construed a Design of Killing the King and so I was in that cast And now I have truly and sincerely told what my part was in that which cannot be more than a bare Misprison and yet I am condemned as guilty of a Design of killing the King. I pray God lay not this to the charge neither of the King's Counsel nor Judges nor Sheriffs nor Jury And for the Witnesses I pity them and with them well I shall not reckon up the Particulars wherein they did me wrong I had rather their own Consciences should do that to which and the Mercies of God I leave them Only I still averr That what I said of my not hearing Col. Rumsey deliver any Message from my Lord Shaftsbury was true for I always detested Lying though never so much to my advantage And I hope none will be so unjust and uncharitable as to think I would venture on it in these my last Words for which I am so soon to give an Account to the Great God the Searcher of Hearts and Judge of all Things From the time of chusing Sheriffs I concluded the Heat in that Matter would produce something of this kind and I am not much surprized to find it fall upon me And I wish what is done to me may put a stop and satiate some Peoples Revenge and that no more innocent Blood be shed for I must and do still look upon mine as such since I know I was guilty of no Treason and therefore I would not betray my Innocence by Flight of which I do not I thank God yet repent though much pressed to it how fatal soever it may have seem'd to have proved to me for I look upon my Death in this manner I thank God with other eyes than the World does I know I said but little at the Trial and I suppose it looks more like Innocence than Guilt I was also advis'd not to confess Matter of Fact plainly since that must certainly have brought me within the guilt of Misprision And being thus restrained from dealing franky and openly I chose rather to say little than to depart from that Ingenuity that by the Grace of God I had carried along with me in the former part of my Life and so could easier be silent and leave the whole Matter to the Conscience of the Jury than to make the last and solemnest part of my Life so different from the Course of it as the using little Tricks and Evasions must have been Nor did I ever pretend to a great readiness in Speaking I wish those Gentlemen of the Law who have it would make more Conscience in the use of it and not run Men down and by Strains and Fetches impose on easie and willing Juries to the ruine of innocent Men For to kill by Forms and Subtilties of Law is the worst sort of Murther But I wish the Rage of hot Men and the Partialities of Juries may be stopp'd with my Blood which I would offer up with so much the more Joy if I thought I should be the last were to suffer in such a way Since my Sentence I have had but few Thoughts but Preparatory ones for Death Yet the Importunity of my Friends and particularly of the Best and Dearest Wife in the World prevailed with me to Sign Petitions and make an Address for my Life To which I was very averse For I thank God though in all respects I have lived one of the happiest and contented'st Men of the World for now very near fourteen years yet I am so willing to leave all that it was not without Difficulty that I did any thing for the saving of my Life that was Begging But I was willing to let my Friends see what Power they had over me and that I was not Obstinate nor Sullen but would do any thing that an honest Man could do for their Satisfaction Which was the only Motive that sway'd or had any weight with me And now to sum up all As I never had any Design against the King's Life or the Life of any Man whatsoever so I never was in any Contrivance of altering the Government What the Heats Wickedness Passions and Vanities of other Men have occasioned I ought not to be answerable for nor could I repress them though I now suffer for them But the Will of the Lord be done into whose Hands I commend my Spirit and trust that thou O most Merciful Father hast forgiven me all my Transgressions the Sins of my Youth and all the Errors of my Life and that Thou wilt not lay my secret Sins and Ignorances to my Charges but wilt graciously support me during that small part of my Time now before me and assist me in my last Moments and not leave me then to be disorder'd by Fear or any other Temptation but make the Light of thy Countenance to shine upon me for Thou art my Sun and my Shield And as Thou supportest me by thy Grace so I hope thou wilt hereafter Crown me with Glory and receive me into the Fellowship of Angels and Saints in that blessed Inheritance purchased for me by my most merciful Redeemer who is I trust at thy Right-hand preparing a place for me and is ready to receive me into whose Hands I commend my Spirit The very Copy of a Paper delivered to the Sheriffs upon the Scaffold on Tower-Hill on Friday December 7. 1683. By Algernon Sidney Esq before his Execution there Men Brethren and Fathers Friends Countrymen and Strangers IT may be expected that I should now say some Great Matters unto you but the Rigour of the Season

do thou give us such an assurance of an Interest in Thee that we may be inabled in deed in reality and in truth to say that we have run our Race and we have finished our Course with Joy O let us now receive the fruit of those many Petitions that we have put up unto Thee O let us now find the Spirit influencing our Hearts to a yielding patience and a thorow subjection to the Will of God Let us find thy Spirit assuring us that we are thine O let us have stronger Evidences of thy Love stronger Testimonies of thy Affection O give us some inward Tastes of those Heavenly Joys that we hope through the Mercy of Jesus Christ in a little time to have a more full Fruition of O Lord do thou speak Peace to every one of our Consciences enable us to take hold of thy Strength that thou mayest make Peace with us and let us not be discouraged O Lord since we have a High Priest that can be touched with our Infirmities Let us with Boldness have Access to the Threne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and Grace to help in time of need O take away the Sting and Terror that is in Death in any one of us by assuring us of our Interest in Thee by assuring us that our Names are Recorded in the Book of Life though we lie under a Sentence of Death from Man we beg that we may have a Sentence of Life Eternal from our God and though we meet Thee O Lord in a Field of Blood we beg that Thou wilt come to meet with us in a Field of Mercy O Lord extend thy Mercy thou Lord whose Compassions fail not cause the Bowels of thy tender Pity to yearn with Compassion towards us Enable every one of us O Lord to die believing in Jesus Christ to die hoping in his Mercy to die relying upon him for Justification for Sanctification and for Adoption O Lord though we have been Prodigals we desire to return unto our Fathrrs House where there is Bread enough O enable us to come unto Thee as Children to their Parents O let our Prayers be offered with so much Fervour in Christ Jesus that Thou may'st think it reasonable to assure us of thy Love. O let the Intercession of Jesus Christ be accepted O Lord we beg that he may be our Advocate if our Advocate be our Judg certainly we cannot miscarry O let Jesus Christ be the Hope of every one of our Souls and Lord let not our Hope be like that of the Hypocrite but let our Faith be built upon the Rock of Ages and let us not fail from the apprehension of Affliction and Punishment from Men. Yet O Lord do thou so order our Hearts and our Spirits aright that thou mayest be the Lot of our Inheritance and our Portion for ever O do thou interest us in thy Self Lord carry on thy own Work. We desire to come unto Thee that we may have Life Lord help us Lord put to thy helping Hand Lord teach us truly to leave no Sin unrepented of in any one of our Hearts And O Lord we beg that with us thou wilt give us leave to recommend unto thy Care our poor Wives and Children Thou hast promised to be the Father of the Fatherless and the Husband of the Widdow and thou hast commanded us to cast the Care of them upon Thee O do thou make Provision for them deal kindly with them imprint thy own Image upon them and enable them to bear this severe stroke with Patience O Lord stand by and support them let their Ways be found so pleasing and acceptable unto Thee that thou may'st think it reasonable to make all their Enemies at Peace Lord. interest them in thy Love and do thou favour them with thy Mercies and loving-kindnesses O Lord we also beseech Thee in the behalf of these poor Kingdoms wherein we are that Thou wilt he merciful to them prevent Divisions among them heal all their Breaches compose their Differences make all that are thine of one Heart and Mind in the things of thee our God. And Lord if it be thy Will do thou rule in the Heart of the King that he may Rule and Reign for Thee and for the good of thy Church and People Lord favour us with thy Mercy assure us of thy Love stand by us in the difficult Hour take us into thine own Care cause thy Angels to attend us to convey our Souls as soon as they are divided from our Bodies into Abraham's Bosom into the Paradise of our God. And Lord we beg that thou wilt be with us with thy extraordinary Presence helping us to trust in Thee doing for us beyond what our narrow Hearts are able to ask or think All which we beg for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ in whom O Lord this little time do thou give us Hearts to give thee all Glory Honour and Praise now and for evermore Amen Sweet Jesus Amen FINIS