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truth_n	according_a	faith_n	true_a	1,754	5	4.4203	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40752	A Further narrative of the passages of these times in the Common-wealth of England an act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended title of Charls Stuart, and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries, the judgment ... against James Naylor the Quaker : with the triall of Miles Sundercombe ...		1658 (1658)	Wing F2560A; ESTC R38753	41,953	62

our Country man John Wicklof that famous witnesse of Christ against Antichrist even in the darkest times of Popery And I doubt no but that God who hath lately opened your bowels to so large and eminent a Contribution towards the persecuted Protestants at Piedmont for which many Thanksgivings have been made to God on your behalf will again draw out your hearts upon this like sad occasion to the like bountifull liberality it being our duty to cast our bread upon the waters and to give a portion to six and also to seven not being weary of well-doing because in due time we shall reap if we faint not Considering also how honourable it is to ●ct grace and to lay out our selves upon such occasions we recommmend i● again as the work of God accompanied with his own voyce calling aloud upon us to inlarge our selves in this ministration and withall to pour out our hearts in faith and prayer that the Lord would yet please to raise up S●on upon the Ruins of Babylon hastening his work and blessing means to it John Trevor Christopher Pack Will. Puref●y Edward Cresse● Thomas Viner Joseph Caryl John Owen Will. Jenkyn Philip Ny● Will Cooper Edmond Ca●●●y A Breviate of the impeachment of high Treason exhibited by Mr. Attorney Generall against John Hewet Doctor of Divinity consisting of these heads 1. THat to embroyl the Commonwealth in new and intestine troubles and to stir up Sedition and Rebellion within the Nation He together with others Traiterously and Maliciously raised force and levied war against his highnes and the government to subvert and alter the same 2. That he traiterously declared published and promoted Charls Stuart Eldest Son of the late King Charls to be King of England Scotland and Ireland c. 3. That he held correspondence with the said Charls Stuart And declared the same by these open deeds I. By conferring with one Trelawney Jo. Stapely and Henry Mallory how to effect the same II. By appoynting places of meeting to consult for effecting the same III. By encouraging Stapely and Mallory thereunto IV. By delivering Commissions to several persons in the Name of and as from the said Charls Stuart concerning the raising of forces and leavying the power aforesaid against his highnesse and the Government and this contrary to the statute in that case made and provided The substance of Sir Henry Slingsby's speech at Tower-Hill June 8. 1658. THat he stood condemned by the court of justice as contriving and endeavoring to withdraw divers officers of the garison of Kingston upon Hull from their duty and perswading them to a surrendring and yeelding up of that Garison and one that held correspondence with some beyond Sea to that end That it was true he had conference upon that account with the officers of that Garison and that he gave Major Waterhouse a commission signed Charls R. but that it was but an old one that had lain by him though he thought fit to make use of it to the Major Many passages he said there were which he would not insist on That some friends of his had made application to his Highnes for the saving of his life but it seemes it was thought fit not to be granted c. and therefore he submitted and was ready to dye c. He spake but low and very little and kept himselfe in a very even temper both in words and behaviour Then addressing himselfe againe to his friends he called for the executioner who having received his reward by the hand of a friend came to him placed the block in the middle of the Scaffold which Sir Henry beheld with his armes folded and a setled countenance an officer standing by with the Ax. Then the prisoner declaring he had no more to say stripped himselfe Before he put off his band he desired a friend standing by to take off a Ring which hung in his Bandstring 't was in the form and about the breadth of an ordinary seal but instead of a seale engraven it had the Picture of the late King done in little and very exactly When the Gentleman had taken it off he said these words to him Pray give this to Harry His doublet being off he kneel'd down before the block and lifting up his hands as before he again prayed privately to himself but was very short Then rising up and embracing his friends one after another tooke his leave of them all After this kneeling down and placing his neck upon the block the executioner struck off his head at one blow The Head was immediately taken off the Scaffold and put in a black Scarff the Body into the Coffin and the Head with it which being nailed up and covered was conveyed off the Scaffold into a Herse drawn by six horses which stood ready to receive it The sum of Doctor Hewet's Speech on the Scaffold Viz. That he had never been in such a Pulpit as this was and that he came thither within a few minutes to suffer death for the Truth and to bear testimony thereto according to that saying of our blessed Lord and Saviour For this end was I born and for this end came I into the world to bear witnesse to the Truth And that in two respects First as a Clergy-man and secondly as a Member of the community in which he lived As a Clergy-man he blessed God that had called him to the office of the Ministry though unworthy and that he had been baptized into the true faith and doctrine of the Gospel and thereby made a member of the Catholique Church especially of that part of it the Church of England which he looked upon as the purest for sound doctrine and orderly discipline of any in the christian world and disowned all others walking contrary thereunto Here the Reader is to observe that the Doctor was not questioned for any poynt of Faith he held but for being a Traitor and so he dyed not for truth but for Treason In the second place as one of the community or civill state he looked upon himselfe as borne a free Englishman and in that capacity had a right to the Liberties and priviledges of this Land and to the Laws thereof Here he tooke occasion to speake of passages at his tryall before the Court of Justice saying that having been advised by persons learned in the Law and being furnished with some books of Law cases and reports he was thereby instructed to make severall demands in court as that he might be satisfied about the jurisdiction of the court then that he might have counsel allowed afterwards being told in court that they were to try him in matter of fact to which he ought first to plead he in the next place said he desired that the matter might be heard by the Judges and thereupon appealed to them which would not be admitted he being told the court had a full Jurisdiction by Act of Parliament That he had alwayes insisted that he might have a Jury to be