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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    [ ] now refolVd his Beard fhould undergo the fame, Fate with himfelf ,* whereas he intended feme time before to be fhav'd, that he might appear to the People as before. He was a Man well vers'd in all kinds of Learn¬ ing : His Utopia is admir'd by all the World : His Richard the Third is of fuch Credit with Hiftori- ans, that they place it in their Works, without the leaft Alteration ; and he compos'd feveral other Pieces., His Monument is in Chelfea Church, where, 'tis faid, Biihop Fijher lies buried with him in the fame Grave. His Head having continued for fome Months upon London-Bridge, and being about to be thrown into the Thames to make room for others, his Daughter Margaret bought it, left (as fhe faid, when file was brought before the Council for it) it fhould be Food for Fifhes. She enclos'd it in $ Leaden Box, and kept it fora Relick. His PERSON. Sir Thomm was a Man of low Stature, well pro¬ portion'd, his Complexion inclining to be fleg- matick, his Colour white and pale, his Hair nei¬ ther black nor yellow, but between both,* his Eyes grey, his Countenance amiable and chearful, his Voice neither big nor ilirilh but fpeaking plainly and diftin.&Iy, not very tuneable, though he delighted much in Muftck ; he was pretty healthful, only as he grew in Years, he us'd to compete of a Pain in his Stomach, which was fuppofed to: proceed from his writing much ; he drank Water chiefty in his Youth, and liv'd ab- ftemioufty but 'tis obfervable he was twice mar¬ ried, nbtwithftandiiig the Hazard he inlinuates there is* ifr Matrimony, when he compares it to a Bag of Snakes. And indeed let Men feem never id