The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years / With their several characters from the best historians. As Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c., and a table shewing how the respective sentences were executed, and which of them were mitigated, or pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the State-tryals.

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1720
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Credit: The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years / With their several characters from the best historians. As Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c., and a table shewing how the respective sentences were executed, and which of them were mitigated, or pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the State-tryals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [»] Another Warrant to the Lord Chancellor, for iffuing the Writ de Haeretico comburendo. fames Rex, JAMES, by the Grace of God., King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender' of the Faith, &c. To our right Trufty and right Well-beloved Counfellor, 'Thomas Lord Elkfmere, our Chancellor of England, greeting. Whereas the Reverend Father in God, Richard Bifhop of Co¬ ventry and Lichfield, having judicially proceeded in the Examination, hearing and determining of % Caufe of Hereby againft Edward Wightman of the Parifh of Burton upon Trent, in the Diocefs of Coventry and Lichfield, concerning the wicked Hereiies of the Ebionites, Corinthians, Valentinians, Arrians, Macedonians, of Simon Magm, of Manes, Manichees, of Photinm, and Anabaptifis, and of other heretical, execrable and unheard of Opi¬ nions, by the inftinft of Satan, by him excogita¬ ted and holden, viz,. That there is not the Trinity of Perfons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, in the Unity of the Deity. 2. That Jefus Chrift is not the true natural Son of God, perfect God, and of the fame Subftance, Eternity and Majefty with the Father in refped of his Godhead. 3. That Jefus Chrift is only Man and a meer Creature, and not both God and Man in one Perfon. 4. That Chrift our Saviour took not humane Flefh of the Subftance of the Virgin Mary his Mother; and that that Promife, The Seed of the Woman fall break the Serpent s Head, was not rul- filfd in Chrift. 5. That the Perfon of the Holy Ghoft: is not God coequal, coeternal, and co- eftential with the Father and the Son. 6. That the