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A63966	A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing T3380; ESTC R23782	258,533	487

the said Lord Chancellor in whose Name the Grant was to pass whether in his Lordships or Mr. Pitts The Chancellor Reply'd That the King had Granted him the Ground for Ninety Nine Years at a Pepper-Corn per Annum and that he was to make over the said Grant to his Landlord Pitt's for the same Term of Years without any Alteration in consideration of his said Landlord Pitt Building him a Cause-Room c. and his the said Lord Chancellor's Enjoying the same during his living in the said Pitt's House and withal urg'd him the said Pitt immediately to take down the King's Park-wall and to Build with all Expedition for he much wanted the Cause-Room and that I should not doubt him for he would certainly be as good as his Agreement with me My Witnesses are Sir Christopher Wren Their Majesties Surveyor Mr. Fisher de●eas●d who belong'd to Sir C. Harbord Their Majesties Land Surveyor Mr. Joseph Avis my Builder Mr. Thomas Bludworth Mr. John Arnold both Gentlemen belonging to the said Lord Chancellor and several others upon which I had a Warrant from Mr. Cook out of the Secretary of State 's Office in the Lord Chancellor's Name with King James's Hand and Seal to pluck down the King's VVall and make a Door and Steps Lights c. into the Park at Discretion which said Warrant cost me 6 l. 5 s. Upon which in about Three or Four Months time I Built the Two Wings of that Great House which is opposite to the Bird-Cages with the Stairs and Tarrass c. which said Building cost me about Four Thousand Pounds with all the inside-work My Work-men being imploy'd by the said Lord Chancellor to sit up the said House and also Offices and Cause-Room for his Use for all which he never paid me one Farthing When I had finished the said Building I demanded of him several times my Grant of the said Ground from the King he often promised me that I should certainly have it but I being very uneasie for want of my said Grant I wrote several times to him and often waited to speak with him to have it done but at last I found I could have no Access to him and that I spent much time in waiting to speak with him altho I liv'd just against his door and also I consider'd that he could not be long Lord Chancellor of England King William being just come I got into the Parlour where he was many Tradesmen being with him that he had sent for I told him that I did not so earnestly demand my Rent of him which was near half a year due but I demanded of him my Grant from King James of the Ground we h●d agreed for in consideration of my Building He told me That he would leave my House and that he should not ●arry away the Ground and Building with him which was all the Answer I could have from him And the very next day he went into White-●all and had the Jesuite Peter's Lodging where he ●ay till that Tuesday Morning King James first Abdicated and went away with Sir Edward Hales the said Lord Chancellor should have gone with them but they dropt him so that Morning finding them to be gone he was fain to shift for himself and to fly with a Servant or at most Two with him and soon after taken and sent to the Tower where he since Died. But to return to the thrid of this Discourse passing by his vehement and pressing Discourse to the Jury against William Lord Russel on his Trial at the Old-Baily which some say greatly influenced them to find him Guilty and add that he did it out of a pique in remembrance he was one of the Members of the Parliament before whom he was brought on his Knees We find him by this time Trying of Dr. Titus Oates upon two Informations upon the Account of his Swearing to the White-Horse Consult and Ireland's being in Town and after a long Debate wherein many sharp Repar●ees passed the Jury made a shift to find him Guilty as to the Circumstances I refer you to the Tryal but the Sentence was severe and of its effects few are ignorant wherefore I shall pass it over as also that of Mr. Tho. Dangerfield another of the Evidences in discovering the Contrivance● and carrying on of the Popish Plot which the Papists by these manner of Proceedings accounted to be effectually stifled And now before any thing remarkable happened the Kingdom was alarm'd by the Landing of the late Duke of Monmouth at Lyme in Dorsetshire and the Earl of Argyle in Scotland but however these two unfortunate Gentlemen miscarrying and losing their Lives left a great many of their miserable Followers to feel the severity of Punishment and as for the gleaning the bloody Fields in England they came to the sifting of this Person who with others going down with a Commission to Try them all the Indignities the Dissenters had put upon him came fresh into his remembrance so that he made them find the Laws more cruel than the Sword and wish they had fallen in the Field rather than have come to his handling for he breathed Death like a destroying Angel and sanguined his very Ermin● in Blood A large Account of which you shall have in its proper place But by the way for the sake of the West-Country Reader I shall here add a true and impartial Narrative of the late Duke of Monmouth's whole Expedition while in the West seeing that was the Prologue to that bloody Scene that you 'll hear by and by was acted by George Lord Jeffreys the ●●bject of our present Discourse To begin then May 24. Old Style We left Amsterdam about two of the Clock being Sunday Morning and in a Lighter sail'd for the Tex●l our Vessels being sent before us thither but meeting with extream cross Winds all the way we arrived not till Saturday Night and then went all on Board Here our Man of War with about 32 Guns where the Dukes Person was was under an Arrest by order of the States of Amsterdam on the Complaint of our Envoy they presuming we had been clear but we broke through our Arrest and Sunday Morning at break of Day set Sail for England We had in all three Ships that of 32 Guns carried most of our Men the other two were for our Ammunition We met with exceeding cross Winds most part of the time we spent on the Seas and Arrived not at Lyme till Thursday June 11. so that from Amsterdam to Lyme we wanted but two days of three Weeks We Landed without any the least Opposition and were received with all expressions of Joy imaginable the Duke as soon as he jump'd out of his Boat on Land call'd for silence and then desir'd we would joyn with him in returning God Thanks for that wonderful preservation we had met with at Sea and accordingly fell on his Knees on the Sand and was the mouth of us all in a short Ejaculation and then

a Malefactor he is said to have wish'd He had never learn'd to write Jeffreys on the other side then only seem'd in his Element when in the midst of Destruction and Murther For his Religion What a sort of one 't was his Life past sufficiently tells us tho he and his good Brother Commissioner the Balswagger of Chester maliciously persuade th● world that they were of the Church of England that after they cou'd do it no more mischief with their Live● they might disgrace it by their Deaths pretending both to die in that Communion But 't is mean to follow 'em any further unless with a wish somewhat like that handsom one History leaves us That all K. William and Q. Mary's Enemies were as honourable bury'd Or in the inspired words of a great Person So O Lord let all thine Enemies perish A Letter to the Lord Chancellor exposing to him the Sentiments of the People with some pertinent Advice in the conclusion My Lord I 'De praise your Lordship but you 've had your share Of that before if not too much by far And now a nobler Field for curses are Yet I 'll not curse but leave you to the crowd Who never baulk their Rage but speak aloud In all the Labrynth's of your crimes they 'll track ye Worse than ten thousand Furies they 'll attack ye We talk not here of Penal Laws or Test Nor how you King of Terrours in the West With more than human Cruelty opprest Those whose Shades now stab through your Anxious Breast To these I leave you each with brandish'd Dart Throughly revenge his Quarrel at your Heart For me I 'll only let your Lordship see How they resent your chang'd Felicity Now may you hear the People as they scoure Along not fear to Damn the Chancellor The Women too and all the tender Crew That us'd to pity all now laugh at you The very Boys how do they grin and prate And giggle at the Bills upon your Gate Nay rather than be frustrate of their hope The Women will contribute for a Rope And those fine Locks that no bless'd Spark might touch On this account Ketch may they love my Lord so much Oh for Dispensing now ah now 's the time Your Eloqu●nce will hardly blanch the crime And all the turnings of your Proteus-wit With all your little tricks won't help a bit Ev'n that fine Tongue in which your Lordships trust is Now won't altho sometimes it baffled Justice No Ignoramus Juries shall perplex ye But with their Billa vera's now they 'll vex ye From their dire claws no hiding hole you 'll find They speak their own now not a Parties mind Not now as heretofore when on the Bench Flattery and daubing had such Influence And Jeffreys for a Gift would with the Laws dispence But granting all our Laws be out of joint Why yet they do not fear to gain the point A High commission may the Cause decide Your Lordship by a Butcher may be try'd When by commission he is dignify'd His Power you must not doubt if he be satisfy'd This 't is they mean 't is this they wou'd have done But I wou'd chouse 'em ' ery Mothers Son Troth I 'de ' en hang my self ' en quickly done If you 've no Halter never make a pother Take but a Greater one's as good as to'ther For Lord should such a Man as you submit To be the publick Laughter of each grinning Cit Else my Lord take a Razor never fear And cut your Lordships Throat from Ear to Ear. 'T is feasible enough you know who did it Cut both the Jug'lar Veins thro' if you can Else you 'll say Essex was the stouter man I am your Lordships in any thing of this Nature From the little House over against Tyburn where the People are almost dead with expectation of you Jeffreys ELEGY I Very well remember on a Night Or rather in the peep of Morning Light When sweet Aurora with a smiling Eye Call'd up the Birds to wonted Melody Dull Morpheus with his weight upon me leant Half waking and yet sleeping thus I Dreamt Methoughts I saw a Lawyer at his Book Studying Pecunia but never Cooke He scorned Littleton and Plowden too With Mouldy Authors he 'd have nought to do Next Stage I saw him on was Hicks's Hall And heard him mightily to roar and bawl Never did City cryer louder yaul The People star'd at such a noise uncouth Who is 't cries one why 't is the cities Mouth Then straight I saw him plac'd the more 's the pity To be the Speaking Trumpet of the City Knight and Recorder he was made together This Man thought I will live in any Weather Money came in he then grew mighty rich And to climb higher had a deadly Itch. Then presently a Popish Priest came to him That Square Cap Curr thought I will sure undo him Wilt thou now be prefer'd come hither come And be but reconciled unto Rome And for Advancement thou maist rest upon her None of her Sons e're wanted Wealth or Honour Do but declare against the Whiggs and say Thou hates the Ill-contriv'd Fanatick way With that methoughts I saw him tack about And straight he Courted the Curs'd Romish rout Esteem'd it happiness enough to go And kiss his Holinesses stinking Toe Next place I saw him in was Justice Chair Who fled away because she saw him there He with Commission rid the Land about But still he aim'd to keep fair Justice out With angry Look he Brow-beat Rightful Cause And his bold hand did Sacrifice the Laws Tore 'um or Trampled on 'um with his Paws Poor Justice being frighted fled from Earth To Heaven whence she did derive her Birth To the Eternal Justice she did go And made report what Monsters sate below Inquisitor like Spain in England sate And at their pleasure steer'd the Helm of Fate He rid the Western Circuit all around But where he came no justice to be found He improv'd his Talents Martyrs to Condemn Hang draw and Qua●ter was his daily Theam He bid 'um to Confess if e're they hope To be Reprieved from the fatal Rope This seem'd a favour but he 'd none forgive The favour was a day or two to live Which those had not that troubled him with Tryal His Business Blood and would have no denyal His Entrails Brass his very Heart was steel Poor Souls he made his Judges Courage feel How valiant to Condemn when in his Power Two hundred he could sentence in an Hour Guilty or not to him was all a case On Martyrs Bodies did his honour raise And to destroy by Retail thought it base The Blood of Protestants for vengeance cry And will I fear to all Eternity Altho' kind Death hath made him scape mans Doom And quietly hath hurl'd him in his Tomb. Then next methought I saw him placed higher O whither will this Canibal aspire The Purse the Mace and all the Honour that Belongeth to Lord Chancellour of State Made

fat with Treason he did daily thrive Till to his highest pitch he did arrive The Church of England saw a Traitor Lurch Who went about to undermine their Church Witness else Maudlin Colledge and the rest He was the stoutest Stickler for the Test But could not help it 'cause he was so high He soa●'d above the sight of humble Eye Abhor'd Petitioners as heretofore Such Varlets still was banisht from his Dore Now being on the top of Fortune's Wheel The Giddy Goddess did begin to reel A warning 't is to all depending on her Of Ice is made the Pinacle of Honour Or Glassie substance brittle shining hew That afar off doth make a Golden Shew Those that are Low admire it and would Climb Altho' they break their Necks the very time And now methoughts he hearing preparations That were a forming in the Neighbour Nations Prepares for his own safety now in time Thinking the Thunder would on him incline Therefore being ask'd what were the Princes Heads Of 's Declaration feelingly he said His Head was one aim'd at 'mongst many others Knowing in Villany he 'd many Brothers With that betook him to his heels and run Thinking by Bribes he could not ruin shun He took a Colli●rs Coat to Sea to go Was ever chancellour arrayed so But like to like he 'd needs Anticipate Devil Incarnate or Colier of State He dealt in deeds of darkness black as night Such a bl●ck habit needs must fit him right Brave sight to see him in a Colliers Skin Come pence a piece my Masters enter in My Lord Mayor sounded and was stricken dumb To see his Metamorphos'd Lordship come A Countrym●n he flouted once I hear Ask'd what he had for Swearing T was too dear You Bumpkin in the Leather Jacket there To whom the Hobnail quickly did reply Hadst thou no more for lying than poor I Have here for Swearing thou might quickly wear A Lether one inste●d of Plush Th●ed-bare Now had he seen my Lord in Colliers Buss Bumpkin had past for Prophet sure enough The Mobile and Rout with Clubs and Staves Swore that his Carcass ne're should lie in Graves They'd ●at him up alive within an hour Their Teeth should tear his flesh and him devour Limb him they would as Boys on Shrovetide do Some cryed I ●m for a Wing an Aro● for what are you I am for his H●ad says one for his Brains says t'other And I am for his Sowse his E●rs another Oh cries a thi●d I am for his ●u●tocks brave Nine pound of ●takes f●om them I mean to have I know the Rogu● is fle●hy says a sourth The Sweet br●●d● Lu●gs and Heart then nothing worth Yes quoth anoth●r out no● good to Eat A Heart of St●el wi●l n●'re prove tender meat But we ●ust them dispose another way A good rich Lawy●r will a round sum pay For such a set of Loud and bellowing Lungs Enough to serve a h●ndred Stentors Tongues We 'll s●ll his Heart to the Pope to make a show A Relique on 't an● he 'll get money too But whilst they were dividin● him in thought The Lord Mayor ordered Souldiers to be brought Who resceud hi● from out the Rabbles power And straight away they took him to t●e Tower With much ado ●e there ●as brought at Last To think on all his wicked actions past FINIS An Alphabetical Table of the Chief Matters contained in thi● Book A. ANsl●ys Abraham last Speech His last Letter p. 506. p. 505. Argile Earl his Sufferings His last Speech p. 409. p. 408. Armstrong his Sufferings and dying words His Elegy p. 132. p. 126. Arnold a brief account of his Sufferings p. 25. Askews Letter to his Father Another Letter to his Friend p. 508. The Account his Friend gives of him p. 509. p. 506. Author's Sentiments concerning the Western Sufferers p. 527. Axminster and Honiton an account of those executed there p. 459. B. BAtemans Sufferings p. 141. Battiscomb his Life and Sufferings He was executed at Lime in company of eleven Persons p. 449. His last words p. 373. p. 369. Battiscomb a further account of his Behaviour A Poem on a Lady that came to J●ffreys to beg Mr. Battiscomb's Life p. 373. His Character p. 374. p. 474. Boddys last Speech p. 479. Bragg his dying Speech and Behaviour p. 437. Bridport and Lime an acco●nt of those that s●ffered there p. 444. C. CIvilities of the Citizens of Exon to the Western Sufferers p. 528. Colledge his L●fe Tryal and last Words The Verses upon his Picture p. 39. Poem w●itten by himself Ibid. p. 27. Cornishes Sufferings A hint at the occasion of his Martyrdom Passages before his Death p. 136. An account of a Poem made in his time p. 139. His Character Ibid. p. 132. Cox Sufferings and Triumphant Death p. 451. D. DAngerfield his Life and Sufferings His Character p. 156. His Elegy Ib●d His Ghost to Jeffreys p. 166. p. 153. E. ESsex Earl his Life and Martyrdom His Character p. 60. His Elegy p. 61. p. 40. G. GAunts Sufferings Her dying Speech p. 4●2 Her Postscript to the said Speech p. 406. p. 400. Gatchets Sufferings p. 462. Ga●chils Behaviour and dying Words p. 520. Godfrey Sir Edmondbury his Life and Martyrdom Anagram upon his Name p. 23. Poem on his Death p. 24. p. 1. H. HAmlings Case p. 460. Hewlings both Benjamin and William an account of their behaviour both before and at their Execution with several Letters to divers of their Relations The Character of the two Hewlings p. 368. A further account of Mr. W. Hewling p. 448. He is executed with Dr. Temple Mr. Mathers and some others p. 468. p. 184. Hicks John last Speech His Letter to his Nephew the day before his Death p. 497. His Letter to his Wife p. 499. Another Letter to his Wife p. 501. Another Letter to his Wife p. 502. p. 481. Hymns made by several Sufferers p. 516. Holloway his Life Sufferings and dying Words p. 120. Holway of Lime his Behaviour before and at the place of Execution His last Words p. 511. p. 510. Holmes his Sufferings His dying Words p. 445. His last Prayer p. 446. p. 444. Holmes Coll. a further account of his Behaviour p. 477. Hones Accusation His dying Words Ibid. p. 102. Huckers Letter to the Bookseller concerning his Father His Letter to his Friend p. 522. p. 521. I. JEffreys Late Lord Chancellor his Life and Death following Dedication of his Life to himself following the Title Page Poem to the Memory of the Lord Jeffreys following the Dedication His Birth and Parentage p. 6. His Behaviour at School p. 7. His Father Prophecies that he 'll die with his Shooes and Stockins on Ibid. His Dream p. 9. His entring himself in the Inner Temple p. 8. His Marriage and early Son p. 10. He is made Recorder of London Ibid. Hi● Abhorrence of Petitioning p. 13. His b●ing on his Knees before the House of Commons p. 14. His ill Practices whilst Recorder p. 16. His Vehement