The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot.

Arthur Onslow

Date:: 1777

Credit: The life of Dr. George Abbot, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury / by the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onlsow, late speaker of the House of Commons ... a description of the hospital which he ... endowed in ... Guildford; correct copies of the charter and statutes of the same ... To which are added the lives of his ... brothers, Dr. R. Abbot ... and Sir M. Abbot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$him very high ideas of the abilities of the man, who was 4 fore knowledge of that confpiracy, and was able to utter much 4 of the fecrets of it : one George Sprot, a notary, inhabiting 5 at Ayernouth, a place well known in that county. Which 4 matter, or feme part thereof, being made known to an honour- 4 able perfon, [ the Earl of Dunbar] a mod faithful fervantto 4 His Majefty : fir 11, by fome words that fell from Sprot himfelf, 4 and afterwards, by fome papers found upon him ; it was fo 4 wifely carried, and fo prudently brought about, by the great 4 care and diligence of that nobleman (God Almighty bleffmr O \ o j <J> 4 the buffnefs) that fo much was revealed, as followeth in this 4 trea-tife, upon the afts to be feen, which are here, fet down at 4 large, word for word, as they agree with the procefs origi- 4 nal, and other examinations, that fuch as have been averfe, ' may at lad receive fatisfaction. Touching ail which I fnall 4 fay nothing, but only report that which befel upon the day 4 of his death, when he buffered for that treafon. Having then £ the fentence puffed on him, upon Friday, Augufl: 12, 1608, 4 in the forenoon, and publickly being warned to prepare him- 4 felf to his end. which mull be that day after dinner, he molt 4 willingly fubmitted himfelf unto that punilhment, which (as 4 he then acknowledged) he had jultly dderved. And being c left to himfelf, till dinner time, was expired, then came to him c into that private place where he remained, fome of the reve- h rend bifhops, diverfe lords of the Seftion, two of the E 11 gl iff: '* min liters there employed by his majefty, with diverfe other 5 ministers of the town of Edinburgh. Before whom he firli 1 acknowledged and avouched his former confeffion to be true, ‘ and that he would die in the fame ; and then falling on his • knees-, in a corner of that room where he and they then were, ■ in a prayer to God uttered aloud, lie fo paffionately deplored ■ his former wickedneffes, but efpecially that fm of hr . for ■ which-he was to die, that a man may j ultly fay, he did m a ; fort, cl eject end caff down himfelf to the gates of Hell, as if : he fhoukl there have been Evallowed up in the gulf of def- 1 peration : yet predentlv laying hold upon the mercies or God in Thrift, he railed himfelf, and itrangely lifted up his foul unto the throne of grace, applying joy and comfort to his own heart fo effectually, as cannot well be deferibed. In the admitting of this confolatioii into his inward man, he burft our d-to-tears, fo plentifully flowing from him, that for a time m e ' ‘ they$

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