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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43219	A new book of loyal English martyrs and confessors who have endured the pains and terrours of death, arraignment, banishment and imprisonment for the maintenance of the just and legal government of these kingdoms both in church and state / by James Heath ...	Heath, James, 1629-1664.	1665 (1665)	Wing H1336; ESTC R32480	188,800	504

twinckling of an eye as the Scriptures phrase is yet are there many previous dispositions which make way unto it all which are comprehended in the name of death And in that latitude of expression do we take the word in laying down the story of his death before you which being writ out of an honest zeal to truth and a sincere affection to his name and memory shall either be approved of or at least excused It was the practice and position of the antient Donatists the Predecessors and Progenitors of the modern Puritan occidere quemcun● qui contra eos fecerit to kill and make away whoever durst oppose their doings or was conceived to be an hindrance to their growing faction And by this Card their followers in these Kingdoms have been steered of late imprisoning and destroying all who have stood against them It is long since they entertained such desperate purposes against the life and person of the Lord Arch-Bishop threatnig his death in scattered Libels tellig him that his life was sought for that neither God nor man could endure so vile a Counsellor to live any longer This was about the end of March 1629 and was the Prologue to those libels full of threats and scandals which year by year exasperated and inflamed the People till they had made them ripe for mischief and readily prepared to execute whatever their grand Directors should suggest unto them Saint Paul did never fight more frequent and more terrible combats with the beasts of Ephesus for the promotion of the Gospel then he with these untractable and fiery spirits who most seditiously opposed his religious purposes of setling unity and uniformity in this Church of England And in this state things stood till the year 1640 in which not only many factious and seditious People in and about the City of London made an assault by night on his House at Lambeth with an intent to murther him had they found him there but the whole faction of the Scots declared in a Remonstrance to the English Nation that one of the chief causes which induced them to invade this Realm was to remove him from his Majesty and bring him to the punishment which he had deserved The manner of their coming hit her and the great entertainment given them by the faction here shewed plainly that they were not like to be sent away without their Errand and makes it evident that his ruine was resolved on in their secret Councils before the Parliament was called or that they had declared so much by their will revealed The Parliament had not long continued but he is named for an Incendiary by the Scottish Commissioners and thereupon accused of Treason by the House of Commons And although no particular Charge was brought against him but only a bare promise to prepare it in convenient time yet was he presently committed to the custody of the Gentleman Vsher and by him kept in durance till the end of February being full ten weeks about which time his Charge was brought unto the Lords but in generals only and longer time required for particular instances And yet upon this Lydsord law by which they used to hang men first and endite them afterwards was he committed to the Tower being followed almost all the way by the R●scal multitude who barbarously pursued him with reproaches and clamours to the very gates and there detained contrary to all Law and Justice almost four years longer This was the first great breach which was made by Parliament in the liberties of the English Subject save that their like proceedings with the Earl of Strafford was a preparative unto it and was indeed the very gap at which the slavery and oppression under which this miserable Nation hath for many years pined and languished did break in What right could meaner persons look for when as so great a Peer was doomed to so long imprisonment without being called to his Answer But yet the malice of his Enemies was not so contented For though some of the more moderate or rather the lesse violent Lords who did not pierce into the depth of the design gave out that they intended only to remove him from his Majesties eare and to deprive him of his Arch-Bishoprick which resolution notwithstanding being taken up before any charge was brought against him was as unjust though not so cruel as the others yet they shewed only by this Ovonture that they did reckon without their Hosts and might be of the Court perchance but not of the Counsel The leading and predominant party thought of nothing lesse then that he should escape with life or go off with liberty Only perhaps they might conceive some wicked hopes that either the tediousnesse of his restraint or the indignitie and affronts which day by day were offer'd to him would have broken his heart not formerly accustomed to the like oppressions And then like Pilate in the Gospel they had called for water and washed their hands before the multitude and said that they were innocent of the blood of that righteous person thinking that by such wretched figg-leaves they could not only hide their wickednesse and deceive poor men but that God also might be mocked and his All-seeing eie deluded to which all hearts lye open all desires are known and from which no secrets can be hidden To this end not content to immute him up within the walls of the Tower they robb him of his menial servants restrain him to two only of his number and those not to have conserence with any others but in the presence of his Warder and in conclusion make him a close Prisoner not suffering him to go out of his lodging to refresh himself but in the company of his Keeper And all this while they vex his Soul continually with scandalous and infamous Papers and set up factious and seditious Preachers to inveigh against him in the Pulpit to his very face so to expose him to the scorn both of boyes and women who many times stood up and turned towards him to observe his countenance to see if any alteration did appear therein And to the same ungodly end did they divest him of his Archiepiscopal and Episcopal jurisdiction conferring it on his inferiour and subordinate Officers sequester his rents under pretence of maintenance for the Kings younger Children as if his Majesties Revenues which they had invaded were not sufficient for that purpose convert his House at Lambeth into a Prison and confiscate all his coals and fewel to the use of their Gaoler deprive him of his right of Patronage and take into their own hands the disposing of all his Benefices seize upon all his goods and books which they found at Lambeth and in conclusion rifle him of his notes and papers not only such as were of ordinary use and observation but such as did concern him in the way of his just defence In which they did not any thing from the first to the last but in a proud

said He was ready to submit or words to like purpose Then he addressed himself to private prayer again and kneeling down to the Block he prayed privately for a short space Then laid his head upon the Block and at the sign given the Executioner severed His Head from his Body at one Blow And his Friends put his Body into a Coffin and removed it into a close Coach prepared neer the place Doctor Hewyt THis Venerable Doctor was next brought upon the Stage and baited to Death by their Belial President Lisle His objected Crimes were for conspiring against the Government with divers others and holding intelligence with the King branched out into several Articles After the Charge exhibited he demurted to their Jurisdiction citing divers Law-Cases and Presidents to back the Reasons he alledged against their Authority but withal prayed the Court he might not be taken upon the nicety punctilio of their Law that if they would please to evince the legality of their Court to him he would instantly plead to his Charge and leave himself to them While he thus disputed with them they took advantage of three times demanding his Plea after which they would not admit of it though he thrice petitioned them that they would please to accept thereof but it seems they were more contented without it being not able to prove their Charge their Witnesses failing them as it appeared after wards in other mens cases whom they had appointed for the slaughter They were also the more peremptory and untractable to this reverent person because of his great Esteem and Abilities which he had a long while employed at St. Gregories in the service of this Church King and Kingdom whose cause he forbore not to plead in the worst of those times till he was taken from his Ministry by the Tyrant and his Eloquent Tongue silenced in the Grave And if Cromwel had any particular malice to any person in the contrivance of their death this good Doctor was one whom he upbraided with railing and unbecoming language at his Examination before him as may appear in the Doctor 's Speech on the Scaffold to which we refer the Reader and with the rest of this Taper-light now expiring bring him down to his Monument He prayed very fervently earnestly for the space of almost half an hour and then sealed his Martyrdom by having his head severed from his body with much Christian Magnanimity where we leave him till his appearance with the Lamb with his white Robes and Crown of Martyrdom The Horrid Execution of the reverend Doctor John Hewyt D. D. on the same Scaffold on Tuesday the same 8. of June 1658. with his speech before his Death AS soon as Sir Henry Slingsby's body was removed as is aforesaid Dr. Hewyt was brought upon the Scaffold whether being come together with Dr. Wild Dr. Warmstry and Mr. Barwick he fell upon his knees and prayed privately for the space of a quarter of an hour After that he prayed audibly for a good space After which prayer he addressed himself to the people in a speech which continued above the space of an hour the substance of which speech was as followeth I am now become a publick Spectacle to Men and Angels I hope God who is Omniscient is now beholding me with much pity and great mercy and compassion and the more because I am now come to that end that his own Son came into the world to To bear witness to the truth he himself said For this end was I born for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness to the Truth I was brought into the world the Christian world for to bear witness to the truth of the Gospel as a common Christian I was brought into the world the Church as a Minister of his blessed Word and Sacraments Blessed be his name for that great honour and dignity and I came into the world to die more immediately for the testimony of JESUS which God hath now called me to I came into this world this Common-wealth to be a member thereof to bear witnesse to the truths of the Customes the Laws the Liberties and Priviledges thereof So I am a member of the Common-wealth And me thinks it seems to me a strange thing that in as much as we all plead for Liberty and Priviledges and I pleading for the Priviledges the Laws the Statutes and the Customes of this Land yet I should die by those that should stand for the Laws the Statutes and Priviledges of the Land And I am here beheld by those that plead for their Liberties and I hope I am pitied because I here give up my self willingly and freely to be a State Martyr for the publick good and I had rather die many deaths my self than betray my fellow freemen to so many inconvences that they might be like to suffer by being subject to the wills of them that willed me to this death And it is worthy remembrance that Mr. Solicitor having impeached me of Treason to the Commissioners of the Court against his Highnesse I did often when brought before those Commissioners plead for the Liberties of the people of England though I had not the knowledge of the Law yet I had instruction from those that were learned in the Law and had several Law-Cases and presidents put into my hand though not by them and urged several Law-Cases and made my Appeal First for the Judicature that I was to be tryed by whether it were according to Law whether it were according to the Act and whether it were according to the words of the said Act I did appeal to have the said Act argued by learned Lawyers on both sides and then to be resolved by his Highnesse own Councel which was denyed me This by the by I pressing the Argument made a second appeal that those Judges if they would give singly their several judgments that it was a just and lawfull Court of Judicature I would answer to my Charge I did make another Appeal to those that were his Highness's Council and pleaded against me That if they would deliver it to me under their hands to be according to Law I would then go on to plead and answer to the Charge What was then said further my spirits being faint I shall not say much but only this I was taken in three defaults upon formality of the Court It seems it is a custome in all Courts which I did not know before that if they answer not the third time speaking by the Clerk that then they are guilty of three defaults and proceeded against as mute I had no such knowledge of the Law So they found me guilty of those defaults and when I would have pleaded and resolved to begin to plead I was taken from the Bar. I did the next day make my Petition to the Court in the Painted-Chamber two Petitions were presented the same in effect the former the Title was mistaken Yet because