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A41804	An appeal of murther from certain unjust judges, lately sitting at the Old Baily to the righteous judge of heaven and earth; and to all sensible English-men, containing a relation of the tryal, behaviour, and death of Mr. William Anderton, executed June 16. 1693. at Tyburn, for pretended high treason.	Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?	1693 (1693)	Wing G1566; ESTC R216496	30,841	41

had perhaps it might set their Tongues and Pens on edge to speak and write as severe Truth as he did There are others who employ time which might be better spent in seeking or making Exceptions against this brave Man But I will leave them with Trinculo to mutiny by themselves I wish all of them had seen him and conversed with him in the time of his Confinement they then would rather have admired him than disparaged him a Man upon whom the Terrours of Death made no Impression no Man that came to him could ever discover any the least sign of fear or perturbation of Mind in him but found him always in the same sweet even temper excepting only in his Devotions and Exercises of Religion wherein he was very fervent and vehement as powring out all his Soul to his God To carp and cavil is no hard matter but to die is not so very easie and I hope I shall be thought to make no ill Wish if I wish that those who are so ready to censure may be able to make as brave and as Christian an End as this poor Man did who is persecuted both living and dead During the time that the Ordinary busied himself he was observed not to mind him but to imploy himself in his private Devotions and after the Delivery of his Speech to the Sheriffs his Cap pulled over his Eyes ready for Execution he prayed thus Most great and most merciful Lord God! do thou look down upon me thy poor unworthy Servant in this hour of my great extremity and have Mercy upon me Sweet Jesus receive my Soul into thine everlasting Kingdom for into thy hands do I commend my Spirit because thou hast redeemed it O Lord God of Truth Come Lord Jesus and receive my pretious Soul Father of Mercy have mercy upon me O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon me Lord comfort and support my Soul in these my last Minutes come sweet Jesus come quickly and save me sweet Jesus by thy most pretious Blood by thy Agony and bloody Sweat and by the coming of the Holy Ghost O Lord do thou deliver me Here the Ordinary put in saying you must give a sign when you are ready whereupon the Sheriffs charged him not to interrupt them and as he was proceeding his Sister desired to speak to him which was granted who kissing him and weeping over him said be of good comfort though there is no Pardon for you here yet there is above So when they had taken a Christian leave of each other he returned to his Devotions when after a short pathetical Prayer constantly calling upon his Saviour the Cart drove away His Body was conveyed to a House near till the dusk of the Evening and then brought to Town both for quietness sake and to prevent giving Offence but as privately as it was done that Blood-hound Stephens pursu'd him dead and was observed to walk several times by the House and to give notice to the Mob so that he who was designed to have been stollen to his Grave by a few Friends late in the night was follow'd by a very numerous Train but without any manner of Incivility and now lies interr'd in little S. Bartholomew's Church-yard expecting a joyful Resurrection and the coming of the righteous Judge before whom William and Mary Anderton and Treby shall appear without any other difference or respect than what their Sins or their Virtues shall make and from whom they shall receive according to what they have done in the flesh be it good or evil FINIS

Law he thought the satisfaction of the Judg's Conscience concerned in it as well as his Life but if his Counsel could be satisfied or fairly over-ruled in it he would acquiesce without more ado The matter now lay wholly before the City Recorder Salathiel Lovel and some Persons perhaps will wonder how the soppish Tool could so easily get over these matters but he is mounted into a Station above himself and now thinks himself above all Sense Reason or Law Thus much he knew that his business was to doom the Man to die not to expose the matter by disputing the Case and therefore after a flourish or two of Empty Rhetorick he in a bravery proceeds to pronounce that dreadful Sentence which the Law allots to Treason which is not barely death but to have the heart and bowels torn out and burnt and the body dismemb'red and the Quarters set up or disposed as Authority orders Thus Innocence falls before the Guilty and it is the Triumph of a hardned Sinner to wash his hands in blood Whilst Mr. Anderton was preparing for his Death his Friends were struggling for his Life he had many Friends upon the account of his known ability industry and integrity others were taken with his manly behaviour and clear pleading upon his Tryal and others were more forward to move in his Case in pity or indignation at his Lawless usage Those who were concern'd in it might have observed the activity and zeal of charitable and pitiful Christians the fair and open dealing of some generous Noble Persons the pretty Fetches and Tricks of little Courtiers to hook in a prize but above all the Artifices of a Council in declining what was before-hand resolved should not be granted The Queen as still upon occasion it was answered could do nothing without the Council nor the Council without the Queen if the Council was met the Queen was not there or if she was there there wanted such and such of the Council without whom nothing could be done and thus things at every turn were shuffled off but where the danger is imminent and time short Persons are willing to watch hard and look out sharp taking this course his disconsolate Wise had at last so fairly set the Council that it was thought they could not avoid giving her a direct Answer for though they were resolved he should not live yet the matter being so warmly debated amongst all sorts of Persons they were not willing to say peremptorily he should die To put her by now this Artifice served effectually a number of Waiters attending about the Council Chamber fell foul upon the poor Woman in no very courtly Language reproaching and reviling her That she did not bring her Husband to Confession In short they so teazed and plagued her that they drove her away and an old Hag followed her persecuting her and all that came near her as Friends with such vehement and bitter Language that they were forced to quit the place But of these things there is a worthy pious Gentlewoman who never spares any pains to promote a work of Charity or Mercy can give a better account than I and they being too long to be inserted here with her and to her careful Observation I leave them It did at last plainly appear that the reason of Caiaphas prevailed It was expedient one should die Pardon the Expression for the very Words were used and therefore no matter whether the Law was strained or not they had caught a Man whom they thought fit should die if not for his Crimes yet for Example And thus we have bravely secured our Lives Liberties and Estates when men are hanged for Reasons of State not for Offences against Law I now draw near to his last Exit only I crave leave to premise a very short account of his Life Mr. Will. Anderton was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire Sept. 29. 1663. his Father's Name was also William Anderton an eminent Clothier in that Town his Mothers Elizabeth the Daughter of Mr. Maximilian Topham she is yet living a Woman of a Masculine Spirit yet as pious as couragious for though in this Man she lost the Son both of her love and support for she is fallen into poverty and would readily have given her own life in exchange to have saved his yet she bore it with such a Christian Magnanimity that she did not stick to say That she thanked God that he had singled out one of her Children to dye in so good a Cause He was brought up in the Grammar-School there till he was fit for the University for which he was designed by his Father whose desire was to have made him a Clergy-man but he considering with himself that since his Father's death by many Losses and Crosses the Estate had been very much impaired and that there were others beside himself to be brought up and disposed of in the World so that a tolerable University-maintenance could not be allowed him without crushing his Mother and Brother and Sisters he resolved to betake himself to a Trade When his School-master heard of this he was extreamly troubled for he looked on him as a Boy of as great hopes as any he had taught and to divert him from his Resolution did promise and undertake that amongst his Friends and Acquaintance he would procure him a Maintenance but the Boy being unwilling to depend on such Uncertainties made haste away up to London in the year 1679. where he was unfortunately bound Apprentice to one Thomas Snowden a Printer and withal a furious Bigotted Fanatick who using to pray after his fashion every Night in his Family never failed in one part of his Prayer to blother out most malitious Invectives and venomous Imprecations against the Church of England and its Members especially the Clergy His new Apprentice who had been bred by his Loyal Parents in the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of England could not endure this but when his Master fell to praying backwards would get up on his Feet and manifestly shew his dislike At first his Master reproved him and thought to have perswaded him with Argument but at that weapon the Apprentice was too hard for him which made his angry Master have recourse to the Argumentum bacillinum thinking he would at least be able to cudgel his young Man into Fanaticism But still as often as the Master came to the malicious part of his Prayers so often the Apprentice arose though he was as often beaten for it till in the end his Master perceived his immoveable Resolution and knowing that he could not justifie his own Proceedings gave him leave to pray his own way and to go to Church but withall bore him such an eternal grudge for it that he laid hold on all Advantages imaginable to use him ill and by the silly Oath he made against him at the Tryal any man would think it stuck by him still Such doings made the Apprentice so very uneasie that about