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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40752	A Further narrative of the passages of these times in the Common-wealth of England an act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended title of Charls Stuart, and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries, the judgment ... against James Naylor the Quaker : with the triall of Miles Sundercombe ...		1658 (1658)	Wing F2560A; ESTC R38753	41,953	62

him to escape and that not being yielded to he tempted him to procure him some poyson and not prevailing with him he sollicited his own sister who was permitted to attend him to the same purpose On Friday the 13 instant betwixt seven and eight a Clock at night the writ being brought and read unto him for his execution the next day he trembled and quaked very much at the apprehension of death as was visible to them that were present yet said he was not so much troubled at death as at the infamous manner of it What hapned afterward is as followeth Immediately upon this sad news his sister was heard to say in the house below stairs that nothing troubled her so much as that he should be hanged c. but she had rather see him dy before he went out of that room He having discoursed a little with the men in his Chamber which were about four or five to attend him called for a Bible and having read a little while he then desired them to withdraw out of the Room for about half an hour that he might have liberty to pray alone The Attendants withdrew and putting the door to they stood there at the top of the stairs but before the half hour was over he came himselfe to the door and pulling it open bade them come in in a cheerfull manner rubbing his hands together and then about his mouth and his nose saying I have done and now pray you come in Not long after he undressed himself and springing lively into Bed well said he this is the last night that ever I shall lye in Bed Being in bed he had some discourse a while with the company without any sign of sicknesse Then drawing his Curtain and lying a while silent and afterwards snorting one of the Company observing so went and drew the Curtain gently to look on him and found him in a dying sencelesse condition All wayes were used to recover him but nothing could availe for he was in a manner dead by a eleven a clock that night or a little after though he languished till twelve This death of his happening so suddainly and unexpectedly and there being strong presumptions of poyson his body was opened on Saturday February 14. In the presence of Sir Richard Rapier Doct. of Phisick and Doctor Fern Anatomy Reader at Gressum-Colledge by Mr. Charls Stamford and Mr. Nicholas Brethers Wardens of the Company of Chirurgions and Mr. Laurence Loe all able and known persons in their profession who opening the Skull found the brain much inflamed red and distended with Blood swoln as full as the Skull could well contain besides much Extravasal g●umous and Clotted Blood which they judged to be the ●ffect of some very violent and preternaturall cause and their opinions were that the said Prisoner had caused the same by some extraordinary meanes for the hastening of his death February 15. Being the Lords day Sundercombs Keeper taking care for the airing and cleansing of the Chamber where he dyed and the Close-stoole being removed under it was found a Paper written and subscribed with his own hand as followeth GOD knoweth my heart I doe take this course because I would not have all the open shame of the world executed upon my Body I desire all good People not to Judge amisse of me for I doe not fear my life but do trust God with my soule I did this thing without the privity of any person in the World I doe before God and the World clear my Keeper my Sister Mother or Brother or any of my Relations but it was done alone by my self I say by me Miles Sindercomb 13 Day 1656. February 16. The Testimonies of the Phisitians and Chirurgeons as also Sindercombs own Paper being considered by the Coroner and Jury they unanimously resolved and agreed That he by some extraordinary means had caused his own death and that they verily beleeved the same to be by poyson Miles Sindercom hauinge Murthered himselfe was Drawne vpon Tower-Hill at a Horse taile with his Head forward and there vnder the Scaffold he was turned into a hoale Starke naked and a stake spiked plated with Iron was driuen throug him into the earth for ar to all Traytors for tune to Come seb. 17 1657 February 17. Their Verdict was given in as followeth Middles ss. WE find that upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord 1656. about the hour of Nine in the night Miles Sindercomb otherwise Fish late of the Parish of Peter in bonds in the County of Middlesex not having God before his eyes but by the instigation of the Devill being moved and seduced at the Tower of London in the Parish and County aforesaid Feloniously wilfully and of his malice towards himself aforethought as a Felon against himselfe then and there feloniously upon himself did make an assault And that the said Miles Sindercomb otherwise Fish then and there certain poysoned powder through the nose of him the said Miles into the head of him the said Miles Feloniously wilfully and of his malice towards himself aforethought a Felon of himselfe feloniously did snuff and draw By reason of which snuffing and drawing of the poyson aforesaid so as aforesaid into the Head of him the said Miles Sindercomb he the said Miles Sindercomb by the strength and opperation o● the poyson aforesaid himselfe did mortally poyson of which said mortall poysoning he the said Miles Sindercomb otherwise Fish within three houres after died And so we find that the aforesaid Miles Sindercomb otherwise Fish the said Thirteenth day of February in the year aforesaid at the Tower of London aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid Feloniously wilfully and of his malice towards himselfe aforethought as a Felon against himselfe Feloniously himselfe did kill and murther We finde no Goods or Chattels that the said Miles Sindercomb otherwise Fish had at the time of the felony and murder aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid upon himselfe done and committed In witnesse hereof we have hereunto set our hands this seventeenth day of February 1656. c. And thereupon the said Coroner issued forth his Warrant for Burial of Sindercomb the Copy whereof followeth Middles ss. WHereas the Jury Impaneld and Sworn to inquire of the Death of Miles Sindercomb otherwise Fish did present upon their Oaths That the said Miles the Thirteenth day of this instant February did Feloniously poyson himselfe These are therefore in the name of his Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland To require you to bury the Corps of the said Miles Sindercomb according to Law in the next Common High-way hereof you are not to fail as you will answer the contrary at your perils Dated the Seventeenth day of February 1656. Thomas Evans Coroner To the Constables and Headboroughs within the Liberty of the Tower of London On the same day February 17. Miles Sindercomb aforesaid being found

and slugges about Sermon time to Mydhopes house which they found very convenient for their purpose and resolved to buy it and to build a Room in the yard next the street there being several back yards and doors and resolved also to secure Mydhope or otherwise to deale with him that he might not discover them nor hinder their designe It was proved moreover by Cecil and Mydhope that Sermon being ended all three of them viz. he the said Cecil Sindercomb and Boyes went into the yard of the House next the Abbey to shoot his Highness as he passed from the Abbey to meet the Parliament in the painted Chamber and to that end he the said Cecil stood on the wall with his Pistoll charged and Sindercomb walked in the Yard but other Company coming in thither they were prevented and Boyes went out of the Yard into the throng of people It was further proved by Cecil that this enterprize not succeeding they resolved to murther his Highness some other way to wit to furnish themselves with fleet horses to kill him as he rode forth That Sindercomb engaged Toope who constantly gave him notice of the life-guards going abroad or of the sadling of the Pad Nags That the first time they rode forth to kill him was the latter end of September last viz the Suturday after he had left going to Hampton Court That the second time was when he rode to Kensington and thence the back way to London The third time when he went to Hide Park in his Coach The fourth time when he went to Turnham Green and so by Acton home at which time they rode forth to kill him and resolved to break through all difficulties to effect it The fifth time when he rode into Hide Park where his Highness alighting asked him the said Cecil whose horse that was he rode on Sindercombe being then on the outside of the Parke and then Cecil was ready to have done it but doubted his horse having at that time got a cold That Sindercomb rode forth once himself to kill his Highness and told Cecil of it That all proving ineffectuall they resolved to desist till the Spring and in the mean time to fire White-hall That the said Cecil put on a thin Holland Shirt and thin cloathes for his better escape when he rode forth to kill his Highness and prepared his horse as if he had been to run a race To prove the taking of the house and banquetting-house at Hammersmith of Henry Busby Coachman to the Earle of Salisbury there was beside Cecil the testimony of Henry Busby himself William Page and William Neal Sindercombs servant To prove the Basket of stuff for firing the Chappel there was the testimony of Cecil and Toope and others who were persons of quality To prove the buying and keeping of the Horses there was the testimony of Henry Busby who sould them one Horse for fourscore pounds also of William Page and William Neale Sindercombs servant To prove the Hinges of Hide-Parke gate filed off and the Pales cut there was the testimony of John Cecil and Thomas Shell The prisoner seeing the evidence so clear against him had nothing materiall to say for himselfe by way of defence yet carried himself very insolently at the Bar and when the Court asked him touching any of the matters proved against him he would confidently deny what was laid to his charge And after all the evidence given and the prisoner heard what he had to say for himself the Court summed up the whole to the Jury of Life and Death and declared That by the Common Law to compass or imagine the death of the chiefe Magistrate of the Land by what name soever he was called whether Lord Protector or otherwise is high-treason he being the Chiefe Magistrate and the spring of Justice in whose name all Writs run all Commissions and Grants are made and that the Statutes of Treason made 25 Ed. 3. as to this did only declare what the Common Law was before the making of that Statute and was not introductive of a new Law and more to that effect and then proceeded to Judgment against the Prisoner in this manner The Sentence IT is considered by the Court that the said Miles Sindercomb alias Fish be sent from hence to the Prison in the Tower of London from whence he came and from thence be drawn upon a Hurdle through the streets of London to Tyburn there to be hanged on the Gallows untill he be half dead and then to be cut down and his Intrals and bowels taken out and burnt in his own sight and his body divided into four quarters and be disposed of as his Highness the Lord Protector shall think fit Tower of London February 14. Sindercomb having upon his tryal by a Jury in the Upper Bench received sentence to be hanged drawn and quartered at Tyborne for his treisonous designe against the life of his Highness and having some dayes time afterward given him for the preparing of his soule for another world care was taken by the honourable Sir John Barkstead Lievtenant of the Tower to send unto him at severall times divers eminent and Pious Ministers of the City to conferr with him touching his concernments in the life to come Two things in his discourse were observable that when any of the Ministers came to him he would first condition with them that they should not treat with him at all touching the crime for which he stood condemned The other was that he told them alwayes as an entrance to his discourse that he was for the Universal poynt and being pressed to explaine his meaning he told then he beleeved that all men were brought into a saveable estate by the death of Christ and he doubted not but himselfe should fare as well as others Which expression shews him to have been infected with that un-Evangelicall conceit of Universall Redemption Little good could be wrought on him by any of the Ministers And no marvell if it be considered what discourse passed from him to others since the time of his condemnation for he was of the same opinion with many others that have slipt into Liberti●ism viz. That when man dyeth the soule sleepeth with the body and said he it may be it shall rise again This is that wretched opinion of that sort of men whom we in English call Soul sle●pers persons so far unworthy the name of Christians that the ancient Heathens will rise up in judgment against them and in the tendency of it so destructive to the conveniency of Government that it disposeth these who embrace it to attempt any wickedness whatsoever any Treason Sedition or Assassination and to despise vertue seeing it at once destroyeth both the hope of reward and the fear of punishment after this life is ended During the daves alotted him for his preparation he made severall attempts with promise of a good summe of money 700 pounds first and last to perswade his Keeper to permitt