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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57719	Rouse his case truly stated and written with his own hand in Newgate, two days before his execution, to prevent any false reports : wherein he gives the world an account of the place and manner how he was taken ... of his defence for himself, how he was brought in guilty, sentence past : with a declaration against things charged upon him, and a confession of his faith, with his prayer for the church of God &c. : to which is annexed a letter to his wife from Newgate.	Rouse, John, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing R2047; ESTC R25105	11,386	19

agreeable to the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the Chief Corner Stone praying God to hasten the calling of the Jews To bring in the Gentiles destroy Babylon build up Sion preserve Great Brittain especially His Majestles Person and Government that Peace with Truth may Flourish Bless and provide for my dear Yoak-Fellow and little ones with all my Relations preserve London and Westminster order and over-rule all publick and private Transactions to his Glory and hasten his coming the second time Lastly I Commit my Body to the Care of my Friends by His Majesties leave for a decent Burial Believing a Resurrection and my Soul to that God whose right it is But this would not be granted the Petitioned for from Newgate July 1683. J. Rouse A Letter Written to his WIFE out of Newgate WHen God brought us first together we made full Account of parting one time or other but whose Lot should be first or the manner of our parting and death that was Locked up in Gods Cabinet and now after Fourteen Years cohabitation we must part it 's true were it at our own House and by an usual ordinary common way we should be better pleased it may be but this is the way appointed my Sins have been the procuring though Evil Men the Instrumental Cause This we know it is appointed to all Men once to dye and after that the Judgment it is now my Lot to be called away not by an ordinary but extraordinary Violent Shameful way of dying but what of all that May God being reconciled to me through Christ the Hand-writing Concealed Sins Pardoned Nature Sanctifyed Soul Washed in the Blood of Sprinkling Conscience Excusing not Accusing as to that Crime Charged on me though I have received Sentence from the Judgment Seat of Man I shall be acquitted at the Judgment Seat of God having this Confidence the manner of dying accompanyed with such outward Ignominy and Reproach and so many Hundred Spectators some to Triumph others to please fancy and a few out of true Love and Sympathy I say in this Confidence I am highly unconcern'd it is but a few hours and this Noise Rout and Vanity will be over What shall Indians that Dream of a place after death full of Carnal pleasure shall Papists upon Account of their Merits and an Absolution at Death indure any kind of torture and shall I who neither believe the one and who abhors the other be afraid of that which is but a Bug-bear to an ingenuous noble Soul who is born from above and now through the Infinite Merits of his dear Jesus the alone Redeemer besides whom he owns no other that very Soul is hasting to the place from whence it came and for the Body the outer Shell believing a Resurrection however that be torn shattered and devoured every piece and particle shall be collected and brought together Now I bid thee adieu till we meet where all Signs and Tears shall be wiped away but before we part I am under all Obligations imaginable to leave thee that I can to support thee since I have left thee in such a condition as without a great measure of Strength and Grace the thoughts thereof would quite sink thy Spirit But chear up from these Considerations What though my Husband be dead and gone yet I have a tender loving good Father alive on Earth and which is more I have a greater and far better Father in Heaven What though I am a Widow and have many Fatherless Children to take care of and provide for what then have I not a God who hath stiled himself the Father of the Fatherless and a Husband to the Widdow in his holy Habitation And so go on reckoning as to Habitation manner of dwelling the difference of fine or course Food and Rayment and as to Friends and Enemies Read studdy Jobs condition When at any time you think of your Husband and manner of his death endeavour to fetch Honey out of the Lyons Carkass banish away all hard thoughts of God who hath done us no wrong though this Providence seems harsh and severe to us yet it is Just and Righteous in our Lord Even that God that chastiseth the Heathen shall not he correct Psalm 94. He that teacheth Man knowledge shall not he know what is best for me I know that thoughts and many troublesome and solicitous ones will now and then arise and work strangely Consider it was thus with Holy David Then in the multitude of thy thoughts within thee let Gods Comforts delight thy Soul Martha was cumbred about many things I hope my Mary hath chosen that part that will never be taken from her then let her acquiesce in whatsoever revolutions shall pass over her head in this World c. Here follows his Advice to his Children To my dear Children whom I leave under the protection and to the care of that God who is the Father of the Fatherless as my Daughters Elizabeth and Mary my two Sons now in being John and Thomas and that which my Wife Travels with God give her a good time Advice to them all in general DEar Children since I am to leave you and leave you in a vain wicked unkind World and cannot leave you each an Estate or Portion to live upon in this world I cannot I dare not go off this Stage without letting you know that you had a Father some of you do now remember it but all of you cannot and not barely a Father but such an one as did hope a few days past to have lived and seen you his Children to find Grace both in the eyes of God and Men since it s otherwise and I am called away from you by an untimely and violent death even such a death as probably may be cast in your Teeth hereafter by some kind of people I leave you all I have instead of Silver and Gold Lands and Houses that is the Prayers Blessing and Counsel of your Loving Dying Father with a strict charge as ever you hope to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven to keep it by you follow it each of you in your own persons and convey it down to your posterity and the Great God Sanctify you Bless Protect and Keep you from all sin and danger hear and at last bring you to his Eternal Kingdom Your Loving Father J. Rouse My Dear Children my Prayers for you are that as you are mine by natural Generation That God would make you his by the Grace of Adoption that when your Earthly Father shall leave you the Father of Spirits may take care and provide for you though you and every of you be Children of Wrath by Nature you may never be Subjects of Wrath though you live in the World you may be kept from the evil of the World and lastly when you leave this World you may have a House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens By way of Counsel Children these things I write from a

what that what civillity I shewed Lea was no manner of Argument that I designed Injury to my King that I was often afraid of his going away or that he would be under a Temptation to do by me as he oft threatned to do by Keeling and Harry very often told me that he was never in that Rogues Company but once in four Months that he had been at East-Smithfield on purpose to Kill that Dog That Lea being taken up and being concious to himself what he had said was Guilty of and how he was in with Nelthrop c. who Obsconded that I had heard him speak very unworthily of and against the Duke of York that he was privy to some Wicked Design or other now for fear I should appear against him the Devil put him upon Swearing that against me whereof he knows in his own Conscience he was the Sole Author but God forgive him and grant my Blood may not be laid to his Charge then I withdrew and the Jury brought me in Guilty of High Treason against whom I have nothing to say they are to give Account at a Greater Bar if Guilty of any Error and besides I ever had a great Veneration for that Constitution however some Euthorigant Licentious Persons take Liberty to bespatter that Kind of Order Next Captain Blage was called and but one Witness against him he was acquitted Saturday the Fourteenth Captain Thomas Walcot a Man I never knew William Hone and I were called to the Bar where each of us read our Sentence of Death not to speak of the Defence I made them for it was over-ruled now after all that has been said Pro and Con It concerns me as a Man an English-man and Christian for the satisfaction of all Persons to whom this Story shall come having a clear Conscience as to any Design against the King or Government save that I heard such discourse that I could not heartily acquies in I do declare solemnly in the Words of a dying Man being under the Sentence of Death and as I know to whom I must give Account for the same That I ever declared against King Killing Principles and Practices but rather looked on it as my duty and made it my Practice to Pray for him as often as I Prayed for dayly bread or for my own Soul That I never knew none of the Persons in the Pr●clamation until the first Pr●clamation after Collon●● Flemsey See That I was never to be a Pay-master to any ●abble under agreement to the Lord now dead and Sir George Jesserres said I were but only a Pay master in Flanders 78. for Lea must needs know and then he could say that they were all concerned and many go up and down England if so the more Wicked Wretch he to Conceal it so long and for being so sh● ●otwithstanding all my siftings of him to know but as I ●●id he had a Wicked Design to carry on and so he might escape at last he did not care against whom he swore for there are more besides my self That I never knew of any Armes as Blunderbusses c. provided or to be provided That I never spoke to any Se●men about carrying on a Design save a kind of discourse which Lea fomented and promoted in the presence of Captain William Blage and his Mate with whom I was as an old acquaintance acquainted for many Years and whom I knew to be Faithful to his Prince whom he had served for many years at Sea with his life whom I assisted for his dispatch to New-York and knew his resolution and bent lay that way for which place he bought a Ship and was making all manner of hast to be gone That I never knew of any design against the City or much less Killing the Aldermen that I never knew of Attaching His Majesty whom God preserve as he should come from Windsor or any place else that I never heard one word from Richard Gondenough of acting any such thing or any other that I had been acquainted with Richard Goodenough many Years as an Attorney and no otherwise and therefore it was unlikely that he should give Iea thanks for bringing him to his acquaintance that these were none of my words I never did or could say that His Majesty had taken an Oa●h in Spain 〈◊〉 France to do so and so and that I should have it under the Kings hand I utterly deny it but I remember I heard a profligate Villain speak somewhat to that purpose this was some Years past and I might speak what a Villain that was he that spoke after that rate that what was spoke by the Mate and about his Answer observing with himself the slightness of many places about the Tower which made him say any Man might take it with Four or Five Hundred Men if they had such a mind and Provision accordingly that it was only for discourse sake without any premeditated Design That what Corbin said about the Crown was enquired into 〈◊〉 France by a former Jury not to hold water that when one of the Company Wyat was speaking of the Power of the Power of Popes over Kings c. I replyed again that if that were so that the Pope could depose Kings at pleasure and dispose there Crowns to others which I opposed and denied that then he might give it to me or any other and by that Doctrine I might or any other there Challenge it so that Corbin dealt by me as a Jesuited Evidence who hearing a Minister Preach upon that in Psalm the Fourteenth verse the first the Fool hath said in his Heart there is no God he goes and swears that the Man spake Blasphemy saying there is no God leaving out the former Words which being joyned are honest and good and if Corbin had been so honest as to speak all what I said my words could no more have been Treason and Disloyal then the Ministers words Blasphemous but I am bound to pray God to forgive my Enemies not only seven but seventy times seven and God forgive them all tho never so Implacable as I am taught to pray that God would forgive me my Trespasses That I declare my Abhorrence of such Designs and Practises as have brought an Odium upon the Protestant Religion let Men pretend to what they will I am sure they could be none that either Fear God or Honor the King if any blame me for knowing any thing of it and did not immediatly discover it I must Answer that my Design was good and I were loath to carry a piece or a broken Story as I told His Majesty or else he had heard it sooner and that Lea was well advised of and my discharging him from my House gave no small Jealousie among other things This being the Summ and Substance what I have to say I now conclude in owning my self whatever others say or think to dye in the belief of the Doctrin of that part of Christs Church planted in England being