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A29466 A brief narrative of that stupendious [sic] tragedie late intended to be acted by the satanical saints of these reforming times humbly presented to the king's most excellent majesty : also, an impartial account of the indictment, arraignment, tryal [sic], and condemnation of Thomas Tonge, George Phillips, Francis Stubbs, James Hind, John Sallers, and Nathaniel Gibbs, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, London, Decemb. 11, 1662 ; together with the confessions, speeches, and prayers of George Phillips, Thomas Tonge, Nathaniel Gibbs, Francis Stubbs, at the place of execution, on Munday, Decemb. 22, 1662. / exactly taken in short-hand characters, by the same person that wrote the late king's judges tryals. Hill, William, fl. 1662.; Tonge, Thomas, d. 1662.; Phillips, George, d. 1662.; Stubbs, Francis, d. 1662.; Sallers, John, d. ca. 1662.; Gibbs, Nathaniel, d. 1662. 1662 (1662) Wing B4611; ESTC R32577 58,554 95

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Brown from whom I received full instruction every night On Tuesday Sir Richard Brown and Sir Iohn Robinson ordered me to go along with the Soldiers to take Riggs Hind Tonge Stubbs c. White the Cane man who were all apprehended accordingly William Hill An Impartial Narrative of the Indictment Arraignment Tryal and Sentence of Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs James Hind John Sallers and Nathaniel Gibbs at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily London Decemb. 11. 1662. THe Commission of Oyer and Terminer being read and Proclamation made the Grand Jury were sworn whose Names are Arthur Iourdan Iohn Freestone Thomas Fawson Thomas Coney George Compere Isaac Rutter Chr. Rigby Rowland Steed William Standen Iohn Worth Iohn Rigby Leonard Staples And several Witnesses being called there appeared William Hill Edward Riggs Tyler Godolphin Bonfoy and several others who being all sworn were directed up to the Grand Jury After some hours examination of the Witnesses and consultation the Grand Jury returned the Indictment Billa vera Clerk of the Peace You good men of the City of London summoned to appear here this day to enquire between our Soveraign Lord the King and the Prisoners that are and shall be at the Bar answer to your Names as you shall be called every one at their first Call upon pain and peril that shall fall thereon Good men of the Ward of c. Serjeant Glyn Serjeant Maynard His Majesty's Serjeants at Law Sir Ieoffry Palmer Attorney General Sir Heneage Finch His Majesty's Solicitor Serjeant Keeling His Majesty's Serjeant Sir Edward Turnor taking their places in Court The Prisoners were commanded to be set to the Bar. Clerk of the Peace Thomas Tonge hold up thy hand George Phillips hold up thy hand Francis Stubbs hold up thy hand Iames Hinde hold up thy hand Iohn Sallers hold up thy hand and Nathaniel Gibbs hold up thy hand Which they severally doing their Indictment was read the substance whereof is as followeth Viz. YOu the Prisoners that were last called to the Bar stand indicted in London by the names of Thomas Tonge late of London Distiller George Phillips late of London Yeoman Francis Stubbs late of London Cheese-monger Iames Hind late of London Gunner Iohn Sallers late of London Compass-maker and Nathaniel Gibbs late of London Felt-maker for that you six together with divers others particularly in the Indictment mentioned and others not yet taken as false Traytors to the Illustrious Serene and most Excellent Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defendor of the Faith c. minding and with all their force intending the Pea●● and Tranquillity of this Kingdom of England to disturb and our said Soveraign Lord the King to death and final destruction to bring and put the 31 th day of October in the Fourteenth year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second traiterously did compass imagine and intend the killing of our said Soveraign Lord the King and the ancient Government of this Kingdom of England to change as in the Indictment more particularly was mentioned What sayest thou Thomas Tonge art thou guilty of this High Treason in manner and form as thou standest iudicted or not guilty Tonge Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be tried Tonge By God and my Countrey Clerk What saist thou George Phillips art thou guilty c Phill. I am guilty in hearing and not discovering of it Clerk Art thou guilty of this High Treason whereof thou standest indicted Phill. I am guilty but not in manner and form as I stand indicted I have heard the words as I formerly confessed to Sir Richard Brown not guilty as to the manner and form Clerk How wilt thou be tried Phill. By God and my Countrey Clerk How sayest thou Francis Stubbs art thou guilty c Stub Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be tried Stub By God and my Countrey Clerk What sayest thou Iames Hind art thou guilty c Hind kneeling down and discovering much penitency answered I am guilty and humbly beg Mercy of His Majesty Court Record his Confession Clerk How sayest thou Iohn Sallers art thou guilty c Sall. Not guilty Clerk How wilt thou be tried Sall. By God and the Countrey Clerk How sayest thou Nathaniel Gibbs art thou guilty c Gibbs Not guilty Cler. How wilt thou be tried Gibbs By God and the Countrey Court Carry up Hind to the Gaole And the rest standing at the Bar silence was commanded Cler. Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs Iohn Sallers and Nathaniel Gibbs You the Prisoners that were last called to the Bar those men that you shall hear called are to pass upon trial for your several lives and deaths if you or any of you will challenge them or any of them you must challenge them when they come to the Book to be sworn before they be sworn Edmund Butler Tonge I challenge him but afterwards admitted him Clerk Edmond Butler Clement Punge George Dixon Samuel Paine Iohn Bagnal Iohn Gourney William Gayler Ralph Silverton William Dudley Ioseph Drake Iohn Peake and Robert Morrice were severally sworn in this manner Lay your hand on the Book look upon the Prisoner You shall well and truely try and true deliverance make between our Soveraign Lord the King and the Prisoners at the Bar whom you shall have in charge according to your Evidence So help you God Clerk Count these Cryer Edmund Butler Cryer one Clement Punge two c. Twelve good men and true stand together and hear your Evidence Clerk Cryer make Proclamation Cryer O Yes If any one can inform my Lords the Kings Justices the Kings Serjeants or the Kings Attorney before this Inquest be taken let them come forth and they shall be heard for now the Prisoners stand at the Bar upon their Deliverance and all others that are bound by Recognizance to give Evidence against any of the Prisoners at the Bar come forth and give Evidence or else you forfeit your Recognizance and all manner of persons that were summoned upon the Jury and have not yet been sworn they are discharged and may depart the Court. Clerk Tho. Tonge Hold up thy hand and so to the rest of them at the Bar You of the Jury Look upon the Prisoners and hearken to their Cause you shall understand that they stand indicted in London by the names of Tho. Tonge late of c. and so as in the Indictment aforementioned who together with Iames Hind who stands convicted by his own confession and the rest also aforementioned and so reads the Indictment again Upon which Indictment they have been Arraigned and thereunto have severally pleaded Not Guilty and for their Trial have put themselves upon God and the Country which Country you are Your charge is to enquire whether they be guilty of the High Treason in manner and form as they stand Indicted or not guilty If you finde that they or any of them are guilty you shall
Licensed and Entred A BRIEF NARRATIVE Of that Stupendious Tragedie Late intended to be Acted by the Satanical SAINTS of these Reforming Times Humbly presented to the KING' 's most EXCELLENT MAIESTY ALSO An Impartial Account of the Indictment Arraignment Tryal and Condemnation of Thomas Tonge George Phillips Francis Stubbs Iames Hind Iohn Sallers and Nathaniel Gibbs At Iustice-Hall in the Old-Baily London Decemb. 11. 1662. Together with the Confessions Speeches and Prayers of George Phillips Thomas Tonge Nathaniel Gibbs Francis Stubbs at the Place of Execution on Munday Decemb. 22. 1662. Exactly taken in Short-Hand Characters by the same Person that wrote the late Kings Iudges Tryals London Printed for Charles Adams at the Talbot in Fleet-street near S. Dunstans Church 1662. THE NARRATIVE Presented to the KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTIE May it Please Your Majesty ON Sunday October the 12th 1662. I came to London for dispatch of my own private Affairs On Thursday following the 16th of the same month walking through Cheapside I met one commonly called by the name of Captain Baker then living in East-Smithfield formerly of New-England but more lately promoted by Hugh Peters not long since Hanged and Quartered for many Treasons to be one of Cromwels Yeomen of his Guard we remained not long in the Street but he gave me an invitation to bestow upon me my welcome to Town which I accepted and by that means I had the opportunity of Discourse After we had saluted each other he proceeded to ask me what News from the Country I told him we heard l●ttle In the Town he replyed there was some stirring and that he had Matters of Concernment in hand to follow with several others who did hope ere long to be delivered from that Trumpery of Rome that did daily incroach upon the Nation Some more words to this effect passed from him I considering and knowing what a desperate Enemy to the King and all the Ministry of the Land this man had been and though he was but an illiterate and rough-hewn fellow yet in new-New-England he might be sufficiently possessed with villanous Principles and I knowing also that the chiefest Designers against the Kings Majesty had confidence enough to intrust him with matters of moment upon this I modestly put my self upon the sifting of him He being not suspicious in the least of my fidelity and knowing how forward my Father had been to promote that Devil that Geneva Good-old-Cause and supposing that I was a Non-Conformist because I was not in a Canonical Habit he at last told me That before a few Weeks were expired he did not doubt but that both of us should see the slaughter and confusion of those Rogues at Whitehall And that it did grieve his heart to see that Villain meaning the King and Prince Rupert to ride not long since through the City with a few men with them which was when as Baker said He rode a Hunting when the said Baker would have been one of the Twenty that should have murdered Him and have delivered this Nation from the Tyranny of an Outlandish Dog I perceiving the temper of the man to be so high thought he would not be so bold unless he had some perswasions that the GODLY PARTY should Once more reign over this Kingdom Whereupon I began to under-value his Assertion of Confounding the Rogues at Whitehall and certified him there was no such Expectation in the Countrey but the Parliament Party there were heartless onely this that our Eyes were upon the City and if any hopes of Recovery were here amongst the HONEST PEOPLE we should gladly set our Hearts and Hands to their assistance with many words to this purpose His Reply was that if I would come along with him the said Baker at that present time he did not doubt but he should meet with some friends that in these matters would give me better satisfaction I answered him I had not leisure then but on the morrow or any other time I would gladly accompany them and understand somewhat of those Negotiations because it concerned us all to yield our best Council and assistance to that work whereupon he promised to bring some persons with him suddenly to my Lodging for that purpose October 17. Upon the Friday following towards night the said Baker came to my Lodging in Smithfield and brought three other persons with him enquiring for me but it being late before I came home they departed and Baker with two of the aforesaid three promised to come early on the Saturday morning which two persons accordingly came but Baker fayling and they being not acquainted with me they let me depart the House after I came out of my chamber without the least Greeting Upon the Munday following being the 20th of October early in the morning the said Baker visited me excusing his neglect on the Saturday before telling me that he had brought 3 persons of Eminency the last Friday night to give me some intelligence of matters in hand but they having not the happiness to see me then had engaged him to come this morning to me desiring I would come with him to the Exchange and in the New-England walke he should find those three persons waiting for us I consented asking their quality and their names He Answered that one of them was a choyce person Zealous and active in the Cause which was Mr. Edward Riggs formerly Chaplain to Blake the other was Bradely formerly a faithful Messenger to Cromwells Council of State the other was one Hill a Drawer of Cloth in Coleman-street and a Church Member All which persons betwixt twelve and one I met on the Exchange assoon as I beheld their Aspect I presently adjudged them of that party After Baker had informed them that I was as good as themselves and my Father a publick Person that may Advance the Cause in the Countrey we saluted and all of us Resolved to have some Godly Communication at the Sign of the Ship by the East-India House in Leaden-Hall Street The man of the house as the said Hill the Drawer of Cloth informed though he was a Trained Souldier yet was truely honest to the Godly Party And our Conference there was all of Gods Glory in Ze●l we were up to the Eyes and I began exactly to speak their Language and especially to fit Riggs with expressions sutable to his Tone because I found him the most intelligent person amongst them and the Darling of the Churches After much circumlocution I had insinuated into Riggs a good opinion of me that our Souls were as David and Ionathans Then downright we came to the business and Riggs assured me I having certified him of our ignorance of it in the Country yet we were unwilling not to be numbered among the Repairers of Zion to look on and not help our Brethren Then he was sick until he had satisfied me of the happy reconciliation of all the Sects and Churches and that Six most excellent Persons wishing well to all
his countenance upon our precious souls be a precious God to us and a dear and loving Father thou hast not left poor souls in the dark in such an hour as this O that thou wouldest communicate thy self unto us we are now departing and dying good Father we pray thee that we may have the spiritual life communicated to our souls Look in mercy upon every heart here in thy presence O that their Souls may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ thou hast given Christ to die for us whilst creatures here thy blood is able to wash and make me clean O there is no spot no dye but the blood of Jesus is able to take it away O Lord help us that we may die in the love of Jesus Christ And good Lord we desire that thou would look in mercy upon him that is the Officer and Executioner of these poor worms and as he is to wash his hands in our blood O Lord wash his soul in the blood of the Lamb of God Father thou knowest we desire the good of his soul we forgive him and we desire to forgive every one And dear Lord we desire thee to look upon the King communicate the riches of thy mercy unto his Majesty we desire his soul may be saved thou hast the hearts of all Kings in thy hand draw forth his heart that he may love those things that pleaseth thee and love them which thou lovest Let him be established in righteousness and let Justice and Judgment run down the streets of England as a mighty stream We pray thee to carry forth our souls to pray for every Relation beget Love in all sorts of people that they may live the life of Love that when they depart this life they may enjoy the blessed Comforter the Lord Jesus Christ. And dear Lord thou art pleased to give us a taste of thy love this day Lord thou hast given us a pardon blessed be thy Majesty for it thou hast given us a reprieve for our souls we are delivered from death to life we hope when we depart this world we shall meet them with Jesus Christ we shall enjoy those blessed Mansions to all eternity And gracious Father we desire to bless thee for that civility we have had from those that have been Officers here Lord make it up to them And we desire to bless thee for it O the riches and the heigth of the grace of God and the love of Jesus Christ to poor sinners We may see that thou wouldst be pleased to look in mercy upon this poor Nation O that thou wouldst unite their hearts in love together O that there might not be any more differences or hatred Unite their hearts in love and obedience that they may fear God honour the King that they may desire in all righteousness and holiness to do those things that are according to thy mind and will And gracious Father thou canst not abide Hypocrites the Lord cause souls to love holiness and the power of godliness that they may not shrowd themselves under the profession when there is reality Look in mercy upon all the Churches of Jesus Christ communicate thy mercy and love to them be pleased to be with us this day and go along with us O that we may bless thee with our souls and all that is within us Be with us and do for us more then we are able to ask or think upon the account of Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased to whom be all praise and glory now and for ever Amen AFterwhich their Caps being severally pulled over their Faces and after some private ejaculations the Executioner caused the Cart to be drawn away and after they had hanged a while they were severally headed and quartered according to their Sentence and their heads and quarters conveyed in a Basket to Newgate to be disposed of at the Kings pleasure Which he was graciously pleased thus to dispose of Their several Quarters to be buried which was accordingly done on Saturday-night December 27. Their heads to be set up on several Poles Two on the one Tower-hill and two on the other as neer the Tower as may be FINIS