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A37137	The dying speeches of several excellent persons, who suffered for their zeal against popery, and arbitrary government viz. I. Mr. Stephen Colledg, at Oxford, August 31, 1681, II. The Lord Russel in Lincolns-Inn-fields, July 21, 1683, III. Col. Sidney, on Tower-Hill, December 7, 1683, IV. Col. Rumbald,	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681.; Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Rumbold, Richard, 1622?-1685.; Lisle, Alice, 1614?-1685.; Cornish, Henry, d. 1685.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.	1689 (1689)	Wing D2957; ESTC R3148	29,338	40

do thou give us such an assurance of an Interest in Thee that we may be inabled in deed in reality and in truth to say that we have run our Race and we have finished our Course with Joy O let us now receive the fruit of those many Petitions that we have put up unto Thee O let us now find the Spirit influencing our Hearts to a yielding patience and a thorow subjection to the Will of God Let us find thy Spirit assuring us that we are thine O let us have stronger Evidences of thy Love stronger Testimonies of thy Affection O give us some inward Tastes of those Heavenly Joys that we hope through the Mercy of Jesus Christ in a little time to have a more full Fruition of O Lord do thou speak Peace to every one of our Consciences enable us to take hold of thy Strength that thou mayest make Peace with us and let us not be discouraged O Lord since we have a High Priest that can be touched with our Infirmities Let us with Boldness have Access to the Threne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and Grace to help in time of need O take away the Sting and Terror that is in Death in any one of us by assuring us of our Interest in Thee by assuring us that our Names are Recorded in the Book of Life though we lie under a Sentence of Death from Man we beg that we may have a Sentence of Life Eternal from our God and though we meet Thee O Lord in a Field of Blood we beg that Thou wilt come to meet with us in a Field of Mercy O Lord extend thy Mercy thou Lord whose Compassions fail not cause the Bowels of thy tender Pity to yearn with Compassion towards us Enable every one of us O Lord to die believing in Jesus Christ to die hoping in his Mercy to die relying upon him for Justification for Sanctification and for Adoption O Lord though we have been Prodigals we desire to return unto our Fathrrs House where there is Bread enough O enable us to come unto Thee as Children to their Parents O let our Prayers be offered with so much Fervour in Christ Jesus that Thou may'st think it reasonable to assure us of thy Love. O let the Intercession of Jesus Christ be accepted O Lord we beg that he may be our Advocate if our Advocate be our Judg certainly we cannot miscarry O let Jesus Christ be the Hope of every one of our Souls and Lord let not our Hope be like that of the Hypocrite but let our Faith be built upon the Rock of Ages and let us not fail from the apprehension of Affliction and Punishment from Men. Yet O Lord do thou so order our Hearts and our Spirits aright that thou mayest be the Lot of our Inheritance and our Portion for ever O do thou interest us in thy Self Lord carry on thy own Work. We desire to come unto Thee that we may have Life Lord help us Lord put to thy helping Hand Lord teach us truly to leave no Sin unrepented of in any one of our Hearts And O Lord we beg that with us thou wilt give us leave to recommend unto thy Care our poor Wives and Children Thou hast promised to be the Father of the Fatherless and the Husband of the Widdow and thou hast commanded us to cast the Care of them upon Thee O do thou make Provision for them deal kindly with them imprint thy own Image upon them and enable them to bear this severe stroke with Patience O Lord stand by and support them let their Ways be found so pleasing and acceptable unto Thee that thou may'st think it reasonable to make all their Enemies at Peace Lord. interest them in thy Love and do thou favour them with thy Mercies and loving-kindnesses O Lord we also beseech Thee in the behalf of these poor Kingdoms wherein we are that Thou wilt he merciful to them prevent Divisions among them heal all their Breaches compose their Differences make all that are thine of one Heart and Mind in the things of thee our God. And Lord if it be thy Will do thou rule in the Heart of the King that he may Rule and Reign for Thee and for the good of thy Church and People Lord favour us with thy Mercy assure us of thy Love stand by us in the difficult Hour take us into thine own Care cause thy Angels to attend us to convey our Souls as soon as they are divided from our Bodies into Abraham's Bosom into the Paradise of our God. And Lord we beg that thou wilt be with us with thy extraordinary Presence helping us to trust in Thee doing for us beyond what our narrow Hearts are able to ask or think All which we beg for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ in whom O Lord this little time do thou give us Hearts to give thee all Glory Honour and Praise now and for evermore Amen Sweet Jesus Amen FINIS

his Judgments or Mercies reclaim them that they shed no more innocent Blood There is not a Man of them that I know of that ever heard me say or do any bit of Treason in my Life This is the first I may not say it is but almost the Twentieth Sham-Plot that they have endeavoured to put upon the Nation to delude the People and put off their own Damnable Plot. This is not the first but I think the sixteenth or seventeenth I pray God that my Blood may be the last I pray God defend every Man's Blood and all Protestants in England from the Hands of these bloody Papists by whose means I die this Death And if they shall go on in this Nature I hope the Good God will open every Man's Eyes to see it before he feels it And I beseech you if you have any love for your King your Country and the Protestants unite together if you are Protestants I pray God those that deserve the Name let them be called how they will either Dissenters or Church of England Men that they may unite together like Men like Christians against the Common Foe who will spare neither the one side nor the other but beat you one against another like two Pitchers the last that stands they will certainly destroy if they can This is my Sense and God is my Witness I speak my Conscience I do not know Mr. Sheriff whether there be any thing else I have to say or no we have a good God and I beseech every Man that hears me this day for we live in a sinful Age good People and it behoves every one of you it cannot be long before all that look upon me in this Condition must lie down in the Dust and God knows must come into an Eternal State either for Mercy or for Judgment I beseech you in the Name of God he is a God of Mercy and a God of Patience and Long-suffering that you would break off your Sins by Repentance and serve a good God who must be your Friend at last or else you are lost to Eternity O Lord how ungrateful Wretches are we that have a God of such infinite Mercy and Goodness that affords us our Life our Health and a thousand Mercies every day and we like ungrateful People not deserving the Name of Men or Christians live riotous Lives in Debauchery and Swearing in Malice and the Lord knows how many Evils I beseech God that I may be this day a Means in the Hand of God to bring some of their Souls over to him I beseech you remember what I say indeed I do not know I have been so strangely used since I have been a Prisoner what to say being brought from one Affliction to another that my Body is worn out and my Memory and Intellects have failed me much to what they were I cannot remember what I have to say more but that the Lord Jesus Christ would bless my Country and preserve it from Popery and in mercy bless his Majesty Good God be merciful to him make him an Instrument in thy Hand to defend his Protestant Subjects Lord in mercy defend him from his Enemies Good God bless this People good Lord continue the Gospel of Jesus Christ thy Gospel in its purity to us and our Posterity as long as the Sun and Moon endure O Lord save all that call upon thee be merciful to all thy Servants all thy People that put their trust in thee good Lord deliver them from the Hand of their Enemies good God let their Lives and Bodies and Souls be all precious in thy sight O merci-God put a stop to these most wicked Conspiracies of thy Enemies and the Nation 's Enemies the Papists Let no more Protestant Blood be shed but this of mine I beseech thee O my God. O Lord look upon me O Lord bless me O good God receive me into thy blessed Presence by Jesus Christ my alone Saviour and Redeemer in whom alone I put my trust for Salvation It is thee O God that I trust in thou Righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth All Popery all Pardons all Popes and Priests all Dispensations I disown and will not go out of the World with a Lie in my Mouth From the sincerity of my Heart I declare again that what I have said to you is the very Sentiments of my Soul as God shall have Mercy upon me and to the best of my knowledg I desire the Prayers of you good People while I am here and once more I beseech you to think upon Eternity every one of you that hear me this day The Lord turn your Hearts and Souls if you have been wicked Livers if you do live wicked Lives the Lord in Mercy convert you and shew you your Danger for I as little thought to come to this as any Man that hears me this day and I bless God I have no more deserved it from the Hands of Men than the Child that sucks at his Mothers Breast I bless my God for it and do say I have been a Sinner against my God and he hath learn'd me Grace ever since I have been a Prisoner I bless my God for a Prison I bless my God for Afflictions I bless my God that ever I was restrained for I never knew my self till he had taken me out of the World. Therefore you that have your Liberties and Time and precious Opportunities be up and be doing for God and for your Souls every one of you To his Son. Where is my dear Child Mr. Sheriff I made one Request to you and you gave me an imperfect Answer You said you were of the best Reform ●d Church in the World the Church of England according to the best Reformation in the World I desire you for the Satisfaction of the World to declare what Church that is Whether Presbyterian or Independent or the Church of England or what Colledge Good Mr. Sheriff for your satisfaction For twenty Years and above I was under the Presbyterian Ministry till his Majesty's Restauration then I was conformable to the Church of England when that was restored and so continued till such time as I saw persecution upon the Dissenting People and very undue things done to their Meeting-places then I went among them to know what kind of People those were And I do take God to Witness since that time I have used their Meetings viz. the Presbyterians others very seldom and the Church of England I did hear Dr. Tillotson not above three weeks before I was taken I heard the Church of England as frequently as I heard the Dissenters and never had any Prejudice God is my Witness against either but always heartily desired that they might unite and be Lovers and Friends and had no prejudice against any Man and truly I am afraid that it is not for the Nation 's Good that there should be such Heart-burnings between them That some of the Church of England will preach that the

Presbyterians are worse than the Papists God doth know that what I say I speak freely from my Heart I have found many among them truly serving God and so I have of all the rest that have come into my company Men without any manner of design but to serve God serve his Majesty and keep their Liberties and Properties Men that I am certain are not of vicious Lives I found no Dammers or those kind of People among them or at least few of them To his Son Kissing him several times with great passion Dear Child Farewel the Lord have mercy upon thee Good people let me have your prayers to God Almighty to receive my Soul. And then he Prayed And as soon as he had done spake as followeth The Lord have Mercy upon my Enemies and I beseech you good people who ever you are and the whole World that I have offended to forgive me whom ever I have offended in word or deed I ask every Mans pardon and I forgive the World with all my Soul all the Injuries I have received and I beseech God Almighty forgive those poor Wretches who have cast away their Souls or at least endangered them to ruine this Body of mine I beseech God that they may have a sight of their Sins and that they may find Mercy at his hands Let my Blood speak the Justice of my Cause I have done And God have Mercy upon you all To Mr. Crosthwait Pray Sir my Service to Dr. Hall and Dr. Reynall and thank them for all their Kindnesses to me I thank you Sir for your Kindness The Lord bless you all Mr. Sheriff God be with you God be with you all good People The Executioner Ketch desired his pardon And he said I do forgive you The Lord have mercy on my Soul. The SPEECH of the late Lord RUSSEL to the Sheriffs Together with the PAPER delivered by him to them at the Place of Execution on July 21. 1683. Mr. Sheriff I Expected the Noise would be such that I could not be very well heard I was never fond of much Speaking much less now Therefore I have set down in this Paper all that I think fit to leave behind me God knows how far I was always from Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government and I still pray for the preservation of both and of the Protestant Religion I am told that Captain Walcot has said some things concerning my knowledg of the Plot I know not whether the Report is true or not I hope it is not For to my knowledg I never saw him or spake with him in my whole Life and in the Words of a dying Man I profess I know of no Plot either against the King's Life or the Government But I have now done with this World and am going to a better I forgive all the World and I thank God I die in Charity with all Men and I wish all sincere Protestants may love one another and not make way for Popery by their Animosities The PAPER deliver'd to the SHERIFFS I Thank God I find my self so composed and prepared for Death and my Thoughts so fixed on another World that I hope in God I am now quite weaned from setting my Heart on this Yet I cannot forbear spending some time now in setting down in Writing a fuller Account of my Condition to be left behind me than I 'll venture to say at the place of Execution in the Noise and Clutter that is like to be there I bless God heartily for those many Blessings which he in his infinite Mercy has bestowed upon me through the whole Course of my Life That I was born of worthy good Parents and had the Advantages of a Religious Education which I have often thank'd God very heartily for and look'd upon as an invaluable Blessing For even when I minded it least it still hung about me and gave me checks and has now for many Years so influenced and possessed me that I feel the happy Effects of it in this my Extremity in which I have been so wonderfully I thank God supported that neither my Imprisonmenr nor the Fear of Death have been able to discompose me to any degree but on the contrary I have found the Assurances of the Love and Mercy of God in and through my blessed Redeemer in whom only I trust and I do not question but that I am going to partake of that Fulness of Joy which is in his presence the hopes whereof does so wonderfully delight me that I reckon this as the happiest time of my Life tho others may look upon it as the saddest I have lived and now die of the Reformed Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England tho I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heights of many People I wish with all my Soul all our unhappy Differences were removed and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the Danger of Popery as to lay aside their Heats and agree against the Common Enemy and that the Churchmen would be less severe and the Dissenters less scrupulous For I think Bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad but much more now For Popery I look on it as an Idolatrous and Bloody Religion and therefore thought my self bound in my Station to do all I could against it And by that I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to my self and so powerful Ones that I have been now for some time expecting the worst And blessed be God I fall by the Ax and not by the Fiery Tryal Yet whatever Apprehensions I had of Popery and of my own severe and heavy share I was like to have under it when it should prevail I never had a Thought of doing any thing against it basely or inhumanly but what could well consist with the Christian Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom And I thank God I have examin'd all my actings in that Matter with so great Care that I can appeal to God Almighty who knows my Heart that I went on Sincerely without being moved either by Passion By-End or Ill-Design I have always loved my Country much more than my Life and never had any Design of changing the Government which I value and look upon as one of the best Governments in the World and would always have been ready to venture my Life for the preserving of it and would have suffered any Extremity rather than have consented to any Design to take away the King's Life Neither ever-had Man the Impudence to propose so base and barbarous a thing to me And I look upon it as a very unhappy and uneasy part of my present Condition That in my Indictment there should be so much as mention of so vile a Fact tho nothing in the least was said to prove any such Matter but the contrary by the Lord Howard Neither does any Body I am consident believe the least

be but One Sheepfold It was therefore in the Defence of this Party in their Just Rights and Liberties against Popery and Slavery At which words they Beat the Drums To which he said They need not trouble themselves for he should say no more of his Mind on that Subject since they were so disingenuous as to interrupt a Dying Man only to assure the People he adhered to the True Protestant Religion detesting the erroneous Opinions of many that called themselves so and I Die this day in the Defence of the ancient Laws and Liberties of these Nations And though God for Reasons best known to himself hath not seen it sit to honour Us as to make Us the Instruments for the Deliverance of his People yet as I have Lived so I Die in the Faith that he will speedily arise for the Deliverance of his Church and People And I desire all of you to prepare for this with speed I may say This is a deluded Generation vail'd with Ignorance that though Popery and Slavery be riding in upon them do not perceive it though I am sure there was no Man born marked of God above another for none comes into the world with a Saddle on his Back neither any Booted and Spurr'd to Ride to him not but that I am well satisfied that God hate wisely ordered different Stations for Men in the World as I have already said Kings having as much Power as to make them Great and the People as much Property as to make them Happy And to conclude I shall only add my Wishes for the Salvation of all Men who were created for that end After ending these words he prayed most fervently near three quarters of an hour freely forgiving all Men even his greatest Enemies begging most earnestly for the Deliverance of Sion from all her Persecutors particularly praying for London Edinburgh and Dublin from which the Streams run that Rule God's People in these three Nations Being asked some hours before his Execution If he thought not his Sentence Dreadful He answered He wished he had a Limb for every Town in Christendom The Last Speech of Madam LISLE Beheaded at Winchester in September 1685. Gentlemen Friends and Neighbours IT may be expected that I should say something at my Death my Birth and Education being near this place My Parents instructed me in the Fear of God and I now Die of the Reformed Religion always being instructed in that Belief that if Popery should return into this Nation it would be a great Judgment I Die in Expectation of Pardon of my Sins and Acceptation with the Father by the imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ He being the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth I thank God through Christ Jesus I depart under the Blood of Sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel God having made this Chastisement an Ordinance to my Soul. I did as little expect to come to this place on ●his Occasion as any Person in this Nation therefore let all learn not to be High-minded but Fear The Lord is a Sovereign and will take what way he seeth best to Glorifie himself by his poor Creatures therefore I humbly desire to submit to his Will praying of him That in Patience I may possess my Soul. The Crime was my Entertaining a Non-Conformist Minister which is since sworn to have been in the Duke of Monmouth's Army I am told if I had not denied them it would not have affected me I have no Excuse but Surprize and Fear which I believe my Jury must make use of to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have been told That the Court ought to be Counsel for the Prisoner Instead of Advice there was Evidence given from thence which though it was but Hear-say might possibly affect my Jury My Defence was such as might be expected from a weak Woman but such as it was I never heard it repeated again to the Jury But I forgive all Persons that have wronged me and I desire that God will do so likewise I forgive Col. Penruddock although he told me He could have taken those Men before they came to my House As to what may be expected for my Conviction That I gave it under my Hand that I discours'd with Nelthrop that could be no Evidence to the Court or Jury it being after my Conviction and Sentence I acknowledge His Majesty's Favour in Revoking my Sentence and I pray God he may long Reign in Mercy as well as Justice and that he may Reign in Peace and that the True Religion may Flourish under him Two things I have omitted to say which is That I forgive him that desired to be taken from the Grand Jury and put upon the Petty Jury that he might be the more nearly concerned in my Death And return humble Thanks to God and the Reverend Clergy that assisted me in my Imprisonment Sept. 85. Alicia Lisle Some Passages of Henry Cornish Esq before his Sufferings COming into the Press-yard and seeing the Halter in the Officers Hand he said Is this for me The Officer answer'd Yes he replied Blessed be God and Kissed it and after said O blessed be God for Newgate I have enjoyed God ever since I came within these Walls and blessed be God who hath made me fit to die I am now going to that God that will not be mocked to that God that will not be imposed upon to that God that knows the Innocency of his poor Creature And a little after he said Never did any poor Creature come unto God with greater Confidence in his Mercy and Assurance of Acceptation with him through Jesus Christ than I do but it is through Jesus Christ for there is no other way of coming to God but by him to find acceptance with him there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby we can be saved but the Name of Jesus Then speaking to the Officers he said Labour every one of you to be fit to die I was not fit to Die my self till I came in hither but O blessed be God he hath made me fit to die and hath made we willing to die In a few moments I shall have the Fruition of the Blessed Jesus and that not for a day but for ever I am going to the Kingdom of God where I shall enjoy the presence of God the Father and of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit and of all the Holy Angels I am going to the general Assembly of the First-born and of the Spirits of just Men made perfect O that God should ever do so much for me O that God should concern himself so much for the good of poor Creatures for their Salvation blessed be his Name For this was the design of God from all Eternity to give his only Son to die for poor miserable Sinners Then the Officers going to tye his Hands he said What must I be tyed then Well a brown Thred might have served the