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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    [^7 ] ' complained how little they got under him, I will do Juftice, fa id he, for your fakes y to all Men> and will leave you a Bleffing. No Subpoena was granted but what he Jaw, no Order but what he perused, neither the King or Queen cou’d corrupt him, nor the whole Convocation fatten any thing upon him, nor did he leave one Cafe undecided in Chancery. His Apothegms were grounded on Experience and Judgment: He would fay, i .The World is undone by looking at things at a diflame. 2. T0 aim at Honour here, is to fet a Coat of Arms over a Prifon~ Gate. 3. He that is covetous when he is old, is like a Thief that fteals when he is going to the Gallows. 4. f he greatefl Punijhment in the World was to have our Wfhes. 5. We goto Hell with more Pains than we might go to Heaven. 6. f 'he more of any thing we- have but Riches, the more good we are. 7. Whowoud not fend his Alms to Heaveny who would not fend his Eflate whither he is to be banijhed ? He wi fil’d three things to Chriftendom. 1. An univer- fal Peace. 2. An uniform Religion. 3* A Re¬ formation rather or Lives than Religion. Mr. Cambden reports of him, That he us’d to compare the great Number of Women to be chofen for Wives, to a Bag full of Snakes, having amongtt: them but one Eel. If a Man puts his Hand into this Bag, he may chance to find the Eel; but ’tis a hundred to one if he be not flung- with the Snake. When 'Word was brought him, that the King had pardon’d all the Sentence but beheading, he faid merrily, Gid forbid the Kingjhoud ufe any more fuch Mercies to any of my Friends or Pcfterity. Being urg’d by a certain Courtier to change his Mind while he was in Prifon : To get rid of him, he told him,he had alter’d it; which this inconfiderate Gentleman flattening to acquaint the King with, was commanded to return and know wherein his Mind was chang’d. Sir fhomas told him, he had now