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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    [17] ' ed in the Law aforefaid, juilly, lawfully and canonically againft the faid Edward Wightman m that part brought, ftands adjudged and pronoun¬ ced an Heretiek, and therefore, as a difeafed Sheep out of the Flock of the Lord, left our Sub¬ jects he do infed by his Contagion, he hath de¬ creed to be call: out and cut off. Whereas there¬ fore the holy Mother Church hath not further in this Part what it ought more to do and profe- cute, the fame Reverend Father, the fame Edward Wightman, as a blafphemous and condemn’d He- retick, hath left to our fecular Power to be punifh’d with condign Puniihment, as by the Letters Patents of the aforefaid Reverend Father the Bilhop of Coventry and Lichfield, in this Behalf thereupon made, is certified unto us in our Chan¬ cery. We therefore, as a Zealot of Juitice, and a Defender of the CatholickFaith ,* and willing that the Holy Church, and the Rights and Liberties of the fame, and the Catholick Faith to maim* tain and defend, and fuch like Herefies and Errors every where, fo much as in us lies, to root out and extirpate, and Hereticks fo convict to punifh With condign Punifhment, holding that inch an Heretiek, in the aforefaid Form, convict and condemn’d according to the Laws and Cuftoms of this our Kingdom of England, in this part ac- cuftom’d, ought to be burnt with Fire ; We com¬ mand thee that thou caufe the faid Edward Wightman, being in thy Cuftody, to be commit* ted to the Fire, in feme publick and open Place, below the City aforefaid, for the Caufe aforefaid* before the People, and the famwEdward 'Wightman, in the fame Fire, eaufe really to be burnt, in the Deteftation of the faid Crime, and for manifelt Example of other Chriflian^ that they may not fall into the fame Grime • and this no ways omit*