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The last speeches of the five notorious traitors and Jesuits viz. Thomas White ... William Harcourt ... John Gavan ... Anthony Turner and John Fenwick ... who were justly executed at Tyburn, June 20, 1679, for conspiring the death of His Sacred Majesty, and the subversion of the government and Protestant religion.
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kill or murder any person whatsoever much more our lawful King now Reigning whose personal and temporal Dominions we are ready to defend against any Opponent whatsoever none excepted I forgive all that have contriv'd my Death and humbly beg pardon of Almighty God I also pardon all the World I pray God bless His Majesty and grant him a prosperous Reign The like I wish to his Royal Consort the best of Queens I humbly beg the Prayers of all those of the Roman Church if any such be present The last Speech of John Gavan aliàs Gawen DEarly beloved Country-men I am come now to the last Scene of Mortality to the hour of my Death an hour which is the Horizon between Time and Eternity an hour which must either make me a Star to shine for ever in the Empyreum above or a Firebrand to burn everlastingly amongst the damned Souls in Hell below an hour in which if I deal sincerely and with a hearty sorrow acknowledge my crimes I may hope for mercy but if I falsly deny them I must expect nothing but Eternal Damnation and therefore what I shall say in this great hour I hope you will believe And now in this hour I do solemnly swear protest and vow by all that is Sacred in Heaven and on Earth and as I hope to see the Face of God in Glory that I am as innocent as the Child unborn of those treasonable Crimes which Mr. Oates and Mr. Dugdale have Sworn against me in my Tryal and for which sentence of Death was pronounced against me the day after my Tryal and that you may be assured that what I say is true I do in the like manner protest vow and swear as I hope to see the Face of God in Glory that I do not in what I say unto you make use of any Equivocation mental Reservation and material Prolocution or any such ways to palliate Truth Neither do I make use of any dispensations from the Pope or any body else or of any Oath of secresie or any absolution in Confession or out of Confession to deny the truth but I speak in the plain sence which the words bear and if I do not speak in the plain sence which the words bear or if I do speak in any other terms to palliate hide or deny the truth I wish with all my Soul that God may exclude me from his Heavenly Glory and condemn me to the lowest place of Hell Fire and so much to that point And now dear Country-men in the second place I do confess and own to the whole World that I am a Roman Catholick and a Priest and one of that sort of Priests which you call Jesuits and now because they are so falsly charged for holding King-killing Doctrine I think it my duty to protest to you with my last dying words that neither I in particular nor the Jesuits in general hold any such opinion but utterly abhor and detest it and I assure you that among the multitude of Authors which among the Jesuits have printed Philosophy Divinity Cases or Sermons there is not one to the best of my knowledge that allows of King-killing Doctrine or holds this position That it is lawful for a private person to kill a King although an Heretick although a Pagan although a Tyrant there is I say not one Jesuit that holds this except Mariana the Spanish Jesuit and he defends it not absolutely but only problematically for which his Book was called in again and the opinions expugned and sentenced And is it not a sad thing that for the rashness of one single Man whilst the rest cry out against him and hold the contrary that a whole Religious Order should be sentenc'd But I have not time to discuss this point at large and therefore I refer you all to a Royal Author I mean the wife and victorious King Henry the Fourth of France the Royal Grandfather of our present gracious King in a publick Oration which he pronounced himself in defence of the Jesuits said that he was very well satisfied with the Jesuits Doctrine concerning Kings as believing conformable to what the best Doctors of the Church have taught But why do I relate the testimony of one particular Prince when the whole Catholick World is the Jesuit's Advocate for to them chiefly Germany France Italy Spain and Flanders trust the Education of their Youth and to them in a great proportion they trust their own Souls to be governed in the Sacraments And can you imagin so many great Kings and Princes and so many wise States should do or permit this to be done in their Kingdoms if the Jesuits were men of such damnable principles as they are now taken for in England In the third place dear Country-men I do attest that as I never in my life did machine or contrive either the deposition or death of the King so now I do heartily desire of God to grant him a quiet and happy Reign upon Earth and an Everlasting Crown in Heaven For the Judges also and the Jury and all those that were any ways concern'd either in my Tryal Accusation or Condemnation I do humbly ask of God both Temporal and Eternal happiness And as for Mr. Oates and Mr. Dugdale whom I call God to witness by false Oaths have brought me to this untimely end I heartily forgive them because God commands me so to do and I beg of God for his infinite Mercy to grant them true Sorrow and Repentance in this World that they be capable of Eternal happiness in the next And so having discharged my Duty towards my self and my own Innocence towards my Order and its Doctrine to my Neighbour and the World I have nothing else to do now my great God but to cast my self into the Arms of your Mercy as firmly as I judge that I my self am as certainly as I believe you are One Divine Essence and Three Divine Persons and in the Second Person of your Trinity you became Man to redeem me I also believe you are an Eternal Rewarder of Good and Chastiser of Bad. In fine I believe all you have reveal'd for your own infinite Veracity I hope in you above all things for your infinite Fidelity and I love you above all things for your infinite Beauty and Goodness and I am heartily sorry that ever I offended so great a God with my whole heart I am contented to undergo an ignominious Death for the love of you my dear Jesu seeing you have been pleased to undergo an ignominious Death for the love of me The last Speech of Anthony Turner BEing now good People very near my End and summon'd by a violent Death to appear before God's Tribunal there to render an account of all my thoughts words and actions before a just Judge I am bound in Conscience to declare upon Oath my Innocence from the horrid Crime of Treason with which I am falsely accused And I esteem it a Duty I owe to Christian