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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61045	The Speeches of the five Jesuits that were executed at Tyburn on Friday the 20th of this instant June, 1679	Whitbread, Thomas, 1618-1679.; Barrow, William, 1610-1679.; Caldwell, John, 1628-1679.; Gawen, John, 1640-1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4876A; ESTC R37621	4,804	4

THE SPEECHES OF THE Five JESUITS That were Executed at TYBURN on Friday the 20 th of this instant June 1679. These Speeches which I have here published being most exactly taken verbatim from the mouths of the Condemn'd persons who spoke them I thought I could do no less then make them publick to the World as well for the satisfaction of the Curious as to let the World see how little Faith is to be given to any of that Religion wherein Lying is so much more prevalent than Repentance and where to commit a sin and deny it is more meritorious than not to sin at all I could were it to my purpose give you a thousand instances of what Lyes have been suffer'd by the Church of Rome to be made use of as lawful under the helps of Equivocation mental Reservation c. but this is not time of day for such things when they have so lately had the Impudence to deny that there was ever born alive such a man as Sir Edmondbury Godfrey because he was neither Knighted nor Christned at the hour of his Birth In the same manner the Priest conditionally that they shall deny such and such things absolves them of all things from the time of their Birth which makes them as Innocent as the Child unborn the very expression they so often use Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Mr. Whitebread's Speech I Suppose it is expected I should say something as to the Matter for which I am Condemned and am brought hither to Suffer It is no less then the Contriving and Plotting His Majesties Death and Alteration of the Government of the Church and State You all either know or ought to know I am to make my Appearance before the face of Almighty God and with all imaginable certainty and evidence to receive a final Judgment for all the thoughts words and actions of my whole life So that I am not now upon terms to speak other than Truth and therefore in his most Holy Presence and as I hope for mercy from his Divine Majesty I do declare to you here present and to the whole World that I go out of the World as Innocent and as free from any Guilt of those things laid to my charge in this matter as I came into the World from my Mothers womb And this I do renouncing from my heart all manner of Pardons Absolutions or Dispensations for Swearing as occasion or Interest may seem to require which some have been pleased to lay to our charge as matter of our Doctrine and Practice but is a thing so unjustifiable that I believe and ever did that no Power on Earth can Authorize me or any body else so to do And for those who have most falsly accused me as time either in this World or the next will make appear I do heartily forgive them and beg of God to grant them his holy Grace that they may repent of their unjust proceedings against me otherwise they will in conclusion find they have done themselves more wrong than I have suffered from them though that hath been a great deal I pray to God to bless him Majesty both Temporally and Eternally which hath been my daily Prayers for him and is all the harm I ever intended or imagined against him And I do with this my last breath in the sight of God declare That I never did learn teach nor believe that it is lawful upon any occasion or pretence whatsoever to design or contrive the Death of his Majesty or any hurt to his Person but on the contrary that all are bound to obey defend and preserve his Sacred Person to the utmost of their power And I do moreover declare That this is the true and plain sence of my Soul and as I hope to see his blessed Face without any Equivocation or mental Reservation That is all I have to say concerning the matter of my Condemnation That which remains now for me to do is to recommend my Soul into the hands of my blessed Redeemer by whose Merits and Passion I hope for Salvation Mr. Harecourt's Speech THe words of dying Persons have always been esteemed of greatest Authority because uttered then when shortly after they are to be cited before the high Tribunal of Almighty God This gives me hopes that mine may be look'd upon as such Therefore I do here Declare in the presence of Almighty God the whole Court of Heaven and this numerous Assembly that as I ever hope by the Merits and Passion of my sweet Saviour Jesus Christ for eternal Bliss I am as innocent as the Child unborn of any thing laid to my charge concerning the Matter for which I am here to die And I do utterly renounce abhor and detest that abominable and false Doctrine laid to our charge that we can have licence to commit Perjuries or any other sin to advantage our Cause being expresly against the Doctrine of St. Paul saying Non sunt facienda mala ut eveniant bona Evil is not to be done that good may come thereof and therefore we hold it in all cases unlawful to kill or murther any Person whatsoever much more our lawful King now Reigning whose Person and temporal Dominions we are ready to defend against any Opponent whatsoever none excepted I forgive all those that contrived my Death and beg pardon of Almighty God and I also pardon all the World I pray God to bless His Majesty and grant Him a prosperous Reign and the like to His Royal Consort the best of Queens I humbly beg the prayers of all those who are of the Roman Church if any such be present Mr. Fenwick's Speech I Suppose you expect I should say something as to the Crimes I am condemned for and either acknowledge my Guilt or assert my Innocence I do therefore Declare before God and the whole World and call God to witness that what I say is true that I am as innocent of what is laid to my charge of plotting the King's Death and endeavouring to subvert the Government as the Child yet unborn and that I know nothing of it but what I have learnt from Mr. Oates and his Companions and what comes originally from them And as to what is said and commonly believed of Roman Catholicks that they are not to be believed or trusted because they can have Dispensations for Lying Perjury killing Kings and other the most enormous Crimes I do hereby utterly renounce all such Pardons and Dispensations and withall Declare that it is a malicious and most wicked Calumny cast on them who do with all their hearts and souls hate and detest such wicked and damnable practices and in the words of a dying Man and as I hope for mercy at the hands of God before whom I must shortly appear and give an account of all my Actions I do again Declare that what I have said is most true and I hope Christian Charity will not let you think that by the last Act of my

Life I should cast away my Soul by sealing up my last Breath with a damnable Lye Mr. Gavon's Speech Dearly beloved Countrymen I Am now come to the last Scene of Mortality to the hour of my Death an hour which is the Horizon between Time and Eternity an hour which must either make me a Star to shine for ever in the Empire above or a Firebrand to burn everlastingly among the damned Souls in Hell below an hour in which if I deal sincerely and with a hearty sorrow acknowledge my Crimes I may hope for mercy but if I falsly deny them I must expect nothing but Eternal damnation and therefore what I shall say in this great hour I hope you will believe And now I do solemnly swear protest and vow by all that is Sacred in Heaven or on Earth and as I hope to see the face of God in Glory That I am as innocent as the Child unborn of those Treasonable Crimes which Mr. Oates and Mr. Dugdale swore against me in my Tryal and for which Sentence of Death was pass'd against me the day after my Tryal And that you may be assured I do in like manner protest and swear as I hope to see the face of God in Glory That I do not in what I say unto you make use of any Equivocation mental Reservation material Prolocution or any such ways to palliate Truth or if I do make use of any Dispensation from the Pope or any body else or of any Oath of Secrecy or any Absolution in Confession or out of Confession to deny the Truth but I speak in the plain sence which the words bear And if I do speak in any other terms to palliate hide or deny the Truth I wish with all my Soul that God may exclude me from his Heavenly Glory and condemn me to the lowest place of Hell fire And so much to that point And now dear Countrymen in the second place I do confess and own to the whole World that I am a Roman Catholick and a Priest and one of that sort of Priests which you call Jesuits And now because they are so falsly charged for holding the King-killing Doctrine I think it my duty to protest to you with my last dying words That neither I in particular nor the Jesuits in general hold any such Opinion but utterly abhorr and detest it And I assure you that among the vast number of Authors which among the Jesuits have printed Philosophy Divinity-Cases or Sermons there is not one to the best of my knowledge that allows of King-killing Doctrine or holds this position That it is lawful for a private person to kill a King although a Heretick Pagan or Tyrant There is I say not one Jesuit that holds this except Mariana the Spanish Jesuit and he defends it not absolutely but Problematically for which his Book was called in again and the Opinion expung'd and censured And is it not a sad thing that for the rashness of one single man whilst the rest cry out against him and hold the contrary that a whole Religious Order should be sentenced But I have not time now to discuss the point at large and therefore I refer you all to a Royal Author I mean the wise and victorious King Henry the 4th of France the Royal Grandfather of our present gracious King who in a publick Oration which he pronounced himself in defence of the Jesuits among other things declares That he was very well satisfied with the Jesuits Doctrine concerning Kings as believing it conformable to what the best Doctors of the Church have taught But why do I relate the Testimony of one particular Prince when the whole Catholick World is the Jesuits Advocate For to them chiefly Germany France Italy Spain and Flanders trust she Education of their Youth and to them in a great measure they trust their own Souls to be governed in the Sacraments And can you imagine so many great Kings and Princes and so many wise Statists should do or permit this to be done in their Kingdoms if the Jesuites were men of such damnable Principles as they are now taken for in England In the third place dear Countreymen I do Attest That as I never in my life did machine or contrive either the Deposing or Death of the King so now I do heartily desire of God to grant Him a quiet and happy Reign upon Earth and an everlasting Crown in Heaven For the Judges also and the Jury and all those which were any ways concerned either in my Trial Accusation or Condemnation I do humbly ask of God both temporal and eternal Happiness And as for Mr. Oates and Mr. Dugdale who I call God to witness have brought me by false Oaths to this untimely end I heartily forgive them because God commands me so to do and I beg of God in his infinite mercy to grant them true sorrow and repentance in this World that they may be capable of eternal Happiness in the next And so having discharged my Duty towards my Self and innocence to wards my Order and its Doctrine to my Neighbours and the World I have nothing else to do now my great God but to cast my self into the Arms of thy Mercy as firmly as I judge that I my self am as certainly as I believe that you are one divine Essence and three divine Persons and in the second Person of the Trinity you became Man to redeem me I also believe you are an eternal Rewarder of good and a Chastiser of bad In fine I believe all you have revealed for your infinite Veracity I hope in you above all things for your infinite Fidelity and I love you above all things for your infinite Beauty and Goodness and I am heartily sorry that ever I offended so great a God with my whole heart I am contended to undergo an ignominious Death for the Love of you my dear Jesus seeing you have been pleased to undergo an ignominious Death for me As for Mr. Turner he spake twice much to the same purpose and effect with his Brethren whose Speech being too long to be contain'd in this Sheet I thought fit to omit it But in sum He professed that he was wholly innocent as to any Plot or Conspiracy against the Life of his Sacred Majesty or the Subversion of the Government which he declared with great earnestness and asseveration praying God to forgive his Judges Jurors Witnesses and Accusers And so laying all their heads to Whitebread's after some secret conference they made their final Exit and Catastrophe