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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59289	Animadversions on the last speech of the late William Lord Russel	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1683 (1683)	Wing S2656; ESTC R25790	7,738	4

ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE Last Speech and Confession OF THE LATE WILLIAM Lord RUSSEL HAving perused a certain Printed sheet called The Speech of the Lord Russel to the Sheriffs together with the Paper delivered by him to them at the place of Execution I could no ●… imagine the said Paper to be the Words of a Person of his Quality or indeed of a dying Christian till ●…ound underwritten Printed by J. Darby by Direction 〈◊〉 the Lady Russel Upon this satisfaction I could not forbear seriously ●…d thoroughly examining the Contents of the Speech ●…d Paper and upon full consideration thereof I think 〈◊〉 the Duty of a good Subject to give the World my ●…inion of the several Protestations and Assertions ●…roughout it and the Tendency they naturally bear In his short Speech to the Sheriff he says little only that be expected much noise at that place and therefore ●…ng not fond of much speaking and much less at that 〈◊〉 He tells the Sheriff He had set down in that Paper ●…en and there given him all that he THOVGHT FIT 〈◊〉 ●…ave behind him And truly in that he spoke like an ●…e for in the said Paper he has left no more behind ●…m as he says then he Thought fit indeed In true he continues in the said Speech to affirm 〈◊〉 the words of a dying man I know of no Plot either against ●…e Kings Life or the Government The Truth and Va●…dity of which dying Protestation we shall see fully examined in his following Paper The subject of the first Paragraph in the Paper is only his Thoughts of another World and his Preparations made for Death his Thanks to God for his In●…ite Blessings both in the Advantages of his Worthy Parents and Religious Education with the Assurance of the Love and Mercy of God through the Merits of Christ and Fullness of Joy in his Presence c. All which I have nothing to say to but only to wish with Cordial Christian Charity that he has found that Mercy from the hands of a Gracious God which his own hopes assured him For Heaven forbid the highest of Criminals should be punish'd beyond the Grave or that a Temporal punishment with a true Penitence might not be a sufficient Expiation for the greatest Guilt In the second Paragraph he gives you an account of his Faith saying I dye of the Reformed Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England though I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heights of many People Here it is true he is of the Church of England's Communion but indeed such a Mungril Communicant of that Church that he cannot comply with or rise up to the heights of many people of that Communion Now how he has lag'd below the Members of our Church not only the Fatal Cause that brought him to his End demonstrates but a farther sample of his Religion we have upon Record in the Learned Works of his own good Chaplain the Author of JVLIAN Where the Doctrine of Rebel my Country-men is so elaborately handled and that great pattern of Christ Submission to Magistracy and that distinguishing Shibboleth of Christianity Passive Obedience is so Artfully attaqued that truly-from such a Pastor and such Principles 't is undoubtedly evident that to use his Expression he was not extreamly well taught to reach to the heights of the Church of England From this part of his Paper to the end of the Chapter his Lordship begins to bear up smartly to the matter and the whole Paper throughout is but a Compact of the highest Uncharity against the King and Court a continued Arraignment of the Judge and Justice of the Kingdom and indeed the whole Government it self A heap of Exclamations against the monstrous dangers of Popery and an Appeal to the very Mobile to remove them and lastly a feeble and lame pretence of his own Loyalty and Innocence crutch'd up with so many Reservations Evasions and Equivocations that even through his Lordships own Spectacles were never seen in the Rankest of Jesuits 3 which you 'll find as follows But first for a taste of his Innocence in Paragraph the 8th he avers I never was at Mr. Shepherds with that Company but once and there was no undertaking then of securing and seizing the Guards nor none appointed to view or examine them which nor none I 'll be so charitable not to take in the Affirmative but read it nor any Some discourse there was of the Feasibleness of it had several Times by ACCIDENT in general discourse elsewhere I have heard it mentioned as a thing might easily be done but never consented to as fit to be done And particularly at my Lord Shaftsbury 's there being some general discourse of this kind I immediately flew out and exclaimed against it and ask'd if the thing succeeded what must be done next but Massacring the ●…n●…s and killing 'em in Cold Blood which I look'd upon as so detestable a thing and so like a Popish Practice that I could not but abhor it And at the same time the Duke of Monmouth took me by the Hand and told me very kindly My Lord I see you and I are of a Temper did you ever hear so horrid a Thing Here observe the prettiest piece of more than Jesuitical Equivocation The Conference at Shepherds contained no Vndertaking of Securing or Seizing the Guards c. Only some Discourse about the Feasibleness of it If so eminent a piece of work as Seizing the Kings Guards were only a piece of Title Tatle amongst these great men a Tryal of Skill to argue for Wit-sake or to pass away the time over a Glass of Mr. Shepherds Sherry How comes it about the Lord heard it by his own Confession SEVERAL TIMES and oh wonderful all by Accident A thing never intended to be put in Action could never be the dull reiterated impertinent Talk so many times over amongst persons of such Sense nor could the Lord Russel's Exclamation of What kill 'em in cold Blood And harmless Monmouth's Oh horrid to it be a rational Repartee to a Chimera or a Discourse only én Passant No no the business is this the Lord Russel is to die as Innocent as a Sucking Lamb for Child unborn's out of fashion and because the seizing of Guards was only Sworn against him at the Meeting at Shepherds to make the Witnesses Perjured the Discourse of it at the other several Times and Places might be in order to the putting it into Execution and what Treason ye please but at that one onely Time 't was all harmless Prattle and nothing but the Feasibleness of the Thing the matter in debate However tho' the Innocent Lord lets us know and all this with no less than the words of a dying Protestant that the feasibility of the business was the only Argument of the Guards seizing in this 8th Paragraph In the 10th Paragraph he gives a farther Narrative of this Meeting at