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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    [19] Proof of Sincerity and good Earneft, Hypocrify and Pretence will feldom ftand the fiery TryaL Thefe Qualities may fliine till they are examin’d, but bring them to the Touchfione and they are eafily difcover’d. See the 'Principles of tho/e who were deem d Hereticks in the Reign of Henry IV. Coh Ecci. Hift. Vol. i. Page 6ip. Wiliiam Thorpe’s CHARACTER, TjH E next Perfon we find profecnted for Herefy (and the firft we meet with in the State Trials) was William Thorpe Prieft, 8 Henry IV. 1407. As to this Gentleman’s Charader, Mr, Collier ob- ferves that h is Treat ife, call’d Thorpe's Teft ament 9 is a violent Invedive againft the Hierarchy, and difcovers a great deal of Heat, Ignorance, and Enthufiafm. He falls blindly upon the whole Order, without Referve or Exception j he infills mainly upon reforming the Church to Apoftolical Poverty, would have the Bilhops and Priefts work for their Livings, and when they were' paft their Labour, to fubfifiupon the Charity of the People, He addrefies all Kings and Emperors, Lords and Ladies, to reduce the Clergy to a State of Beg¬ gary and Dependence. In lhort, he endeavours to raife the Government upon the Church, preffes defirudive Expedients, charges the People to for- fake the publick Communion; and pretends to foretel, that unlefs the Clergy are thus harrafs’d and renounc’d, they’ll draw down the Judgments of Heaven upon the Kingdom, and the Nation will be deflroy’d with Pefiilence and Famine. His Reafon for exhorting tbe People to defert the Communion of the then Church, is founded upon the Misbehaviour of the Clergy: but this Ground is clearly indcfenfible. To argue in this ittaffner, is to make the Validity of the Sacra- C 2 ments