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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    [ *5 ] {aid, Let not your Spirits be cajl down, for / hope we fall. fee one another in a better Place, where we fall be free to live and love in Eternal Blifs. And to divert Popes Grief, he took up his Urinal, and iliook it, faying merrily, I fee no Danger but that this Man may live longer, if the King pleafes. About Nine he was brought out of the Tower ; his Beard was long, his Face pale and thin, and carrying a Red Crofs in his Hand, he often lift up his Eyes to Heaven ,* a Woman meeting him with a Cup of Wine, he refus’d it, faying, Chrifl at his Paffion drank no Wine, but Gall and Vinegar. Another Woman came crying, and demanded fome Papers £he faid {he had left in his Hands when he was Lord Chancellor. To whom he faid, Good Woman, have Patience but for an Hour, and the King will rid me of the Care I have for tbcfe Papers, and every thing elfe< Another Woman fol¬ lowed him, crying. He had done her much Wrong when he was Lord Chancellor. To whom he faid, 1 very well remember the Caufe, and if I were to decide it novo, 1 foil'd make the fame Decree. When he came to the Scaffold, it feern’d rea¬ dy to fall; whereupon he faid merrily to the Lieutenant, Pray, Sir, fee mefafe up ; and as to my coming down, let me f ft for myfelf Being about to fpeak to the People, he was interrupted by the- Sheriff and thereupon he only defired the People to pray for him, and bear Witnefe he died in the Faith of the Catholick Church, a faithful Ser¬ vant, both to God and the King. Then kneeling, he repeated the Mferere Pfalm with much.Devo¬ tion ; and riling up, the Executioner ask’d him Forgivenefs. He kifs’d him, and faid. Pluck up thy Spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thine Office; my Neck is very fort, take heed therefore thou fir ike not awry for faving thine Honefly. Laying his Head pjpon the Blocks he bid the Executioner flay till