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.

Date:
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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    [15] Canonice contra eundem Edwardum Wightman in ea ■parte latamHeretic adjudicat & pronunciat9 exiftti; & ideo tanquam ovem morbidam e grege Domini, ne fnbditos no fir os fua contagione inficiet, ejiciendum & eliminandum fore decrement: Cum igitur SanBa Mater Ecclefia non habeat quod ulterius in hac parte facere & exequi debeat, idem Reverendm Pater eundem Edwardum. Wight- man, ut Blafphemwn & damnatum Hareticum, brachio nofiro feculari reLquit, condigna animadverjione plec- tendd, prout per Liter as Patentes prafati Reverendi Patris Epifcopi Cov.en.tr3 & Lich5 in hac parte fuperinde con- fecP Nobis in Cancellar nofir am certificat3 eft. Nos igi¬ tur ut delator juftitire & fidei Catholics defenfor, vo- lentefque Ecclefiam SanBam ac jura Pr Ubertates ejuf- dem & fidem Catholicam manutenere & defendere, ac hujufmodi Harefes & Errores ubique {quantum in nobis eft) eradicare & extirpate, ac Hareticos fic con- viBos animadverjione condigna puniri, attendentefq; hujufmodi Hareticum in forma pradiBa conviBum CX damnatum juxta leges & confuetudinem Regni noftri Anglia in hac parte confuei ignis incendio comburi de¬ fer?;, fibi pracepimus quod diB3 Edwardum Wight¬ man in cuftodia tua exiftent in aliquo loco publico & aperto infra Civitatem pradiB* ex caufa pramijfa cor am populo pub lice igni committi, & ipfum Edwardum Wightman in eodem igne realiter comburi fac in hu¬ jufmodi criminis deteftationem aliorumque Chriflianorum exemplum manifeftum, ne in jlmile crimen labantur. Et hoc fub periculo incumbente mllatenm omittas. ‘Tefte, &c* Henry Hibirte. * «...-■ <- / ■ k . This contained! a Warrant to be granted by your Majefty unto the Lord Chancellor of Eng¬ land, for the awarding of a Writ, under the Great Seal of England, to the Sheriff of the City of Lichfield, for the burning of Edward Wightman, who is convicted of divers horrible Hereiies, be¬ fore