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war_n	death_n	king_n	treason_n	2,761	5	9.5559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47835	Considerations upon a printed sheet entituled the speech of the late Lord Russel to the sheriffs together, with the paper delivered by him to them, at the place of execution, on July 21. 1683.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing L1230; ESTC R7414	30,363	54

of Expressing such Horrible Treasons The Paper calls it Dying Innocent of the Crime my Lord was Condemned for and but Misprision of Treason at the most in Concealing what he was Privy to Here is the Knowledg of Treason Implyed in the Misprision of Treason Confessed And there needs not much Concurrence with Traytors to make a man Guilty of Treason It is to be wish'd My Lord would have Declared what sort of Treason it was that he was made Acquainted with whether the Imprisoning or Deposing of the King And by what Means and Instruments to be Executed Once again now and I have done As for the Sentence of Death passed upon me I cannot but think it a very Hard One for Nothing was sworn against me whether true or false I will not now Examine but some Discourses about making some Stirs And this is not Levying War against the King which is Treason by the Statute of Edward the Third and not the Consulting and Discoursing about it which was all that was Witnessed against me But by a strange Fetch the Design of Seizing the Guards was Construed a Design of Killing the King and so I was in that Cast. And now I have Truly and Syncerely told what my part was in that which cannot be more then a Bare Misprison And yet I am Condemned as Guilty of a Design of Killing the King Here 's an Insinuation of an Unjust Sentence upon False Evidence though this Paper Confesses as much on my Lords Part as was Sworn against him The Paper calls it Nothing but some Discourses about making some Stirs and those Sitrs are afterward Expounded to be Levying War against the King And my Lord was Condemned for Consulting about those Stirs These Consultations the Court Pronounces to be Treason My Lord Insists upon it that they are only a Bare Misprison And that the Design of Seizing the Guards is wrongfully Interpreted a Design of Killing the King If this be so strange a Fetch what was it in the House of Commons to make the Charge against my Lord Chief Justice Scroggs to be Treason The Law-Part has been Learnedly and Copiously clear'd already in certain Reflexions upon This Paper called the Antidote against Poyson The Ouvert Acts towards the Accomplishing this Treason were abundantly made out at the Tryal and Undoubtedly That which was Good Law in the Case of my Lord Stafford holds as Good in the Case of my Lord Russel And Sir William Jones's Opinion in this Point will weigh certainly against the Opinion of the Author of this Paper Will any man deny says Sir William Jones that the Meeting and Consulting of several men together about Killing the King and changing the Government is an Ouvert Act Lord Staffords Tryal p. 190. Here is enough said to set forth the Inconsistencies of the Speech Spoken and of the Paper Delivered to the Sheriffs And the Disagreements of that Pap●r with it self in several Peremptory Denïals and Point-Blank Confessions of the same thing That is to say according to the Popular Acceptation of Words Delivered with Simplicity and Candour But then in the True Protestant Latitude of Savings and Reservations The Connexion seems to be perfectly all of a piece And One Line serves to Expound Another to the Readers Infinite Satisfaction that there is Nothing Intended upon the Whole but Fallacy and Illusion bating only here and there a Stricture where it Cuts upon the Government In few words It is a Reproach in the form of a Vindication the Panegyrique of a Pedant instead of the Confession of a Penitent The Last Prayer and Agonies of a Dying Christian Dissolved into a Floud of Calumnie and Bitterness against the Church and State and nothing but the Name to Entitle it to the thing it Pretends to be After so Severe and Needful a Reflection upon this Vagabond Paper for it fills All Mouths and Places I reckon it a Duty to Accompany my Zeal for the Publick in this Particular with all Possible Justice and Respect to the Memory of the Dead The Unhappy Circumstances of his Deplorable Fate duly Considered That my Lords Charge was Proved and his Sentence according to Law his Lordship hath acknowledged under his own Hand whatsoever this Ill-natured Paper may Pretend to the Contrary In one Petition to his Majesty My Lord does Solemnly Protest upon the Word of a Dying Man that he never had any Intention or Thought of doing hurt to his Majesties Sacred Person however by Interpretation of Law 't is imputed to him And if his Majesty should be pleased to Execute the Rigour of the Law upon him he hoped that God would Enable him c. In a second Petition His Lordship Humbly and sorrowfully Confesses his having been Present at those Meetings which he is Convinced are Unlawful and justly Provoking to his Majesty But being Betrayed by Ignorance and Inadvertence he did not Decline them as he ought to have done c. I have the Charity to Believe now that really according to the Purport of these Petitions His Lordships Great Misfortune was rather an Error of Principle then a Factiousness of Malice And it is no wonder if he were somewhat deeper Dyed then Ordinary that had but too frequently most desperate Seducers at his Elbow What was that Treasonous and Atheistical Libel of Julian the Apostate but the very Scheme of this Conspiracy and Calculated for the Murder of the King and the Dissolution of the State And it was the same Poysonous Position that brought this Unhappy Lord to his Ruine As to this Pernicious Paper I make no question but my Lord Signed it and that he made it his Own by so Doing But it holds so little Congruity with the State and Exigence of his Lordships Case that I am perswaded under his Anxious Circumstances he would have Signed a Blank upon the same Terms if the same Person had Presented it For there is not one Syllable in 't that Avails him to any purpose Imaginable It Pretends to Truth and Plainness and yet scarce six Lines in 't without a Riddle It pretends to Discharge my Lord of the whole Indictment And yet in several Places either Intricates or Confesses it It pretends to Deliver the whole Truth of the Matter and yet leaves out the Meetings at his Own and Mr. Hamdens House where the great Pinch of the Charge lay Nay the Faction had proceeded so far to the Captivating of this Honourable Persons Judgment that Mr. Montagues Letter to the LordTreasurer bearing date Jan. 18. 1678. St. N. that was Read in the House of Commons takes Notice how much the Court of France depended upon him for the Crossing as he calls it of the Court Measures Mr. Ruvigny's Instructions are by the Means of Will. Russel and other Discontented People to give a Great deal of Mony and cross all your Measures at Court But to come more particularly now to the miserable Principle that led him to his Destruction Upon the Munday after my Lords Condemnation