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SPEECHES
I ^|Si|SS O F V-: ll^pr
|, William Paul Cljerk,
AND
jfote Jffii// of Qtterlurn, Efq;
Executed at Tyburn for Rebellion, the ijth
of July , 1716.
In which the Government and Administration
both in Church and State, as founded upon
the Revolution, are Vindicated from the Trea-
fonable Reflections and falfe Afperfions thrown
upon them in thofe Speeches, which are in-
ferted at length, as they were delivered to the
Sheriffs.
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REMARKS on tie Speech of
William Paul, Clerk.
INTRODUCTION.
ANY Judicious Man, who will be at the pains
attentively to read the following Speeches,
apd compare them with the Papers left by
Lord Derwentwater, Colonel Oxburgb, and the
other Rebels lately executed, muft foon be cpnvinc d,
That they all proceed from the fame Mint, and are
framM on purpofe to fpirit up the Fadion to a New
Rebellion.
There s fuch an Uniformity in the Stile, Matter, and
Way of Arguing, as fufficiently proves this; fo thac
inftead of being the Speeches of the deceased Rebels,
they plainly appear to be the Gompofure of others, who
endeavour to ferve the Caufe not only at the Expence
of thofe poor Mens Reputation, but even of their Souls,
by prevailing upon them to deliver fuch Papers as
their dying Sentiments, and the Refult of their own
Thoughts.
This is very plain in the Cafe of Mr. f/att, who be
ing ask d at the Place of Execution, if the Paper he
deliver d was writ by himfelf, he avoided giving a
direcl: Anfwer, and only faid it contain d his Sentiments \
tho tis highly probable he never carefully read it, if
we confider the notorious Falfhood which he is made
to aflert, That the Rebels conquered the King s Troops at
Prefton.
Befides, he and Mr. Paul were fo far from being
ftedfaft to the Pretender s Intereft, as is given out in
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the Speeches, and fo little fond of what they call Mar
tyrdom, that tis very well known they us d all poffible
Endeavours to fave their Lives, would have difown d
the Pretender s Claim, and renew d their Oaths to the
Government^ could they have bbtain d their Pardon on
that Condition. The Speech- makers were not ignorant
of this, but they refolv d to delude the unthinking Po
pulace, and to make thofe Men pafs for Valiant and
Glorious Martyrs , tho, in truth, they liv d and dy d
the molt hateful Diflemblers, both with God and Man,
that ever were heard of.
But to come to the Speeches themfelves.
Mr. PAW* SPEECH.
Good People , I am juft going to make my Appearance in
the other World, where I muft give an Account of all the
Attions of my pafl Life : and tho 1 have endeavoured to
make my Peace with God, by fincerely repenting of aft wy
Sins, yet forafmuch as feveral of them are of a Publick
Nature, I take it to be my Duty to declare here, in the
face of the World, my hearty Abhorrence and Deteflation
of them.
R E MARK S.
Tis eafy to perceive that this Paragraph is calculated
to gain Credit to what he was afterwards to fay; but
the judicious Reader will difcover the Artifice, and
that the Author is far from being ingenuous. Tis very
odd, in a Proteftant Divine, to talk of making his Peac&
with God, by a fincere Repentance of att his Sins^ and not
fay one Word of Faith in the Merits of Jefus Chrift }
without which, Repentance can neither be fincere nor
perfeft. This looks fo like the Popifh Doctrine, that
Penance is a fufficient Atonement for Sin, as gives e-
very one juft Caufe to fufpecl: the Author s Religion.
He takes notice, that feveral of his Sins were of a
Publick Nature, and that he thought it his Duty to de
clare his hearty Abhorrence and Deteftation of them
in the Face of the World , but how much he juggled
in this Matter, will be evident by the two following
Paragraphs, and the Reflections upon them.
The
The SPEECH.
And firft, 1 atk Pardon of God and tie King, for hav
ing violated my Loyalty, by taking moft abominable Oaths in
Defence of Vfurpation^ againji my Lawful Sovereign King
James the Third.
j4nd <v$ I ash Pardon of all Perfons whom I have injured
or offended, fo I do efpeciatty defire Forgivenefs of all thofs
whom I have fcandaltzSd by pleading Guilty. / am fenfi-
ble that it is a Safe and Difhonourable Attion \ that it is
inconfiftent with my Duty to the King> and an entire Sur
render of my Loyalty. Human Frailty, and too great a
Defire of Life, together with the Perfuajions of fever al who
fretended to be my Friends , were the O.cafion of it. Itrufi
God of his infinite Mercy , upon my fincere Repentance^ ha*
forgiven me j and 1 hope all good Chriftians witt.
REMARKS.
Since the Author owns, that feveral of his Sins were
of a Publick Nature, he ought to have been very par
ticular and exaft in the Enumeration of them ; but he
mentions only two, viz. his taking what he calls molt
abominable Oaths in Defence of Ufurpation, and his
pleading Guilty to his Indictment.
He muft be a very fuperficial Reader, who does not
obferve, that thefe things, which Mr. Paul calls Sins,
were attended with others of as heinous and publick a
Nature ; of which he fays not one Word. For his tak
ing the Oaths, if he thought them abominable, was
not only a Crime againft his pretended Lawful Sove
reign, King James 111. but a dreadful mocking of God,
and treacherous Impofition upon the prefent Govern
ment, and his Country j and fo much the more, that
he continued in this abominable Praftice till the time the
Rebellion broke out : and it was aggravated by this
heinous Circumftance, That he went from the very Pul
pit in which he preach d by the Authority of the pre
fent Government, to join thofe who rofe in Arms a-
gainft it. Had he been a (incere Penitent, fuch hateful
Prevarication with God and Man muft have flar d him
in the Face, and call d for an exprefs and humble Ac-
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knowledgment of it *, whereas he confines his Repen
tance to what he did againft the Loyalty which he fan
cies he ow d the Pretender.
One might have expected, from a true and ingenu
ous Penitent, an Account of the Reafons why he calls
the prefent Government an Ufurpation : for tho per
haps he might think, that the Word of a dying Prieft
was Authority enough for the Bigots of his Party, he
ought to have con fiderM, that others would exped ve
ry ftrong and convincing Arguments to prove, that his
fingle Judgment fhould be prefer d not only to that of
our prefent Legiflature, but of all our Parliaments \
who, everfince we were a Nation, have aflerted it to
be their indifputed Right to dethrone Tyrants, and to
fettle the Succeffion in fuch a manner as they thought
moft conducibie to preferve the Liberties of the People.
Nothing can be more evident than this in all bur Hif-
tories and Ads of Parliament before the Reformation 5
and he mult have been prodigioufly ignorant, if he did
not know that. It has been the Practice, as well as the
Principle of the Church of England fince flie became
Proteftant : For all the World knows, that in the be
ginning of the Reformation, under Henry VII L ihe
own d the Power of Parliaments, in fettling the Suc-
cefHon, about which there were feveral Acls made in
his Reign. In that of his Son, King Edward VI. it ap
pears plain enough that the leading Proteftants were of
the fame mind, when they agreed to fet afide his Popilh
Sifter Queen Mary, and to fettle the Crown on Lady
Jane Grey. And tis as well known, that the famous
Martyr, Bifhop Ridley, did openly preach againft Queen
Mwy\ Title, at Pdw/VCrofs.
In Queen Elizabeth s Reign it appears, by the Records
of Parliament, that the Bilhops of the Church of Eng
land did unanimouOy agree not only to fet afide the
Title of Many the Popifh Queen of Scots, who was next
Heirefs to the Englijk Crown , but alfo to take off her
Head, becaufe of her Plots againft Queen Elizabeth.
Tis no lefs evident, from the Hiftory of that Reign,
That the Bifhops aad Clergy of England enabled the
Qpeen,
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Queen, by their Purfes and other wife, to fupport the
Proteftants of France and the Netherlands, who had ta
ken Arras againft their Tyrannical Sovereigns , and alfo
thofe of Scotland, who had dethron d the Mother, and
fet up the Son. In the Reign of King James I. the
Church of England concurred in like manner to fupport
the Proteftants of the Vnited Netherlands and Germany
againft their Tyrannical Princes ; and they continu d
the fame Endeavours in the Reign of King Charles I.
when even Archbilhop Laud, the Idol of our High-
Church Clergy, concurred in granting Subsidies for the
Support of the French Proteftants, who were in Arms
againft their perfecuting Sovereign, What the Church
of England did towards dethroning King James II. for
his Tyranny, is too late to be forgot ; and Mr. Paul
cannot but know, that {he annually thanks God in her
Office on the 5th of November, for bringing over the
Prince of Orange, and making all Oppofition fall before
him, till he became our King and Governour. This, no
doubt, he frequently concurred in, and had his Jacobite
Repentance been iincere, he ought to have acknowledged
that as publickly as the other things, which he thought
it his Duty to declare in the Face of the World.
Upon the whole, it appears to be of too great Im
portance for the Speech-makers to think, that Mr. Paul s
bare Aflertion, without any Argument, was fufficient
to weigh down fuch a Train of Authorities.
His begging Pardon of thofe whom he has fcandaliz d
by pleading Guilty, is the Form which the Ghoftly
Fathers of the Rebels have put into all their Mouths ,
as appears by Lord Derwcntwater s Speech, &c. But
iince he calls this a bafe and difhonourable Aftion, in-
confiftent with his Duty to the King, and an entire
Surrender of his Loyalty \ it deferv d a greater Aft of
Contrition, than to afcribe it barely to human Frailty,
a too great Defire of Life, and the Perfuaflon of pre
tended Friends. Here again he ftiews himfelf a very
loofe Proteftant, when he relies upon his own Repen
tance, without one word of our Saviour s Merits for a
Pardon at the hands of God.
The SPEECH:
You, fee, my Countrymen, by my Habit, that 1 die a Son,
tho a wry unworthy one, of the Church of England : but I
would not have you think that lama Member of the Schif-
matical Church, whofe Bifhops fet themfelves up in oppofition
to thofe Orthodox Fathers, who were unlawfully and invalid-
ly deprived by the Prince of Orange. / declare that ] re
nounce that Communion, and that I die a Dutiful and
faithful Member of the Nonjuring Church ; which has kept
*t fctf f ree fron* Rebellion andSchifm, and hcvs prefertfd and
maintain d true Orthodox Principles, both a* to Church and
State. And I deflre the Clergy , and all Members of the
Revolution-Church, to confider what Bottom they ft and upon 9
when their SucceJJion is grounded upon an Vnlawful and /-
valid Deprivation of Catholick Bifhops ; the only Foundation
of which Deprivation, is a pretended Aft of Parliament.
REMARKS.
Here s a new Difcovery, for which the World is ob-
lig d to the Speech-makers, that the Habit makes a Son,
or a Prieft, of the Church. It had been well for the
She-Comedian, who a&ed Roxettana, that this Dodtrine
had obtain d in the Reign of King Charles II. for then
fhe might have been a Countefs without Difpute, and
her Son Heir to an antient Earldom, becaufe fhe was
marry d to an Earl by his Coachman in a Prieft s Ha
bit. Parfon Paul might alfo have been better infonn d
by his good Friends the Papifts, among whom tis a
common Proverb, Cucutta non facit Monachum, That
tfye Coul does not make a Monk : but the plain Defign
of this Paragraph is to incenfe the Mob againfl the Go
vernment, as if they were going to hang up the Church.
That was the Reafon why Mr. Paul went to Tyburn in
his Prieft s Veftments, which he needed not have done.
We know the time when the Clergy took a great deal
of Care to prevent fuch a Scandal to their Cloth, and
thar was when they degraded the Reverend Mr. Sam.
Johnfon, before he was whipt, for writing againfl Popery
and Tyranny , tho he had more Honefty, and a better
Title to his Orders, than any of thofe who pretended
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to take them from him. But this lets us fee where
the Blame lies, if carrying Mr. Paul to Tyburn in
his Prieft s Veftments was a Difgrace to the Church.
There are fome in the World, who think the Character
of a Jacobite Prieft indelible, tho they did not think
fo of that Brave and Learned Patriot, Mr. Johnfon. but
however that is, tis no more Reflection upon the Go
vernment, that Priefts fhould be hang d in their Ha
bit, than kilFd in the Field for Rebellion ; and this
we may venture to fay, that Parfon Paul diihonour d
the Habit more by wearing it in the Pulpit, than at the
Gallows.
At the fame time his Friends have a very good way
to make themfeives amends, by laying up his Veftments
with thofe of St. Garnet and Faux, where the Bigots
may adore them as precious Relicks; and perhaps this
was the reafon why the Parfon would not die in a
Lay-Habit, tho he was difguis d in one, when taken up
for his Treafon.
The World is farther oblig d to this Prieft, for ano
ther important Difcovery ; to wit, that he was not a
Member of the Sc.hifmatical Church, but dy d a duti
ful and faithful Member of the Nonjuring Church of
England, which has kept it felf free from Rebellion
and Schifm, and has preiervM and maintained true Or
thodox Principles, both as to Church and State. The
Folly and Inconfiftency of this Declaration is evident
at fit ft View, and the Malice of it is what ill became a
dying Man. Tis well enough known that he liv d a
Prieft^ tho he did not die a Member, of what he call d
the Schifmattcal Church , and he continued in her Com
munion till he went to join the Rebels at Prefton. This
is another of his publick Sins, which he forgot in his
Enumeration of em in the beginning of his Speech , but
he thinks to atone for that, by renouncing her Commu
nion at Death.
Tis pleafant to hear his Reafons for calling the Efta-
blifti dChurchSchifmatical,and that is,becaufe herBifhops
fet themfeives up in oppofition to thofe Orthodox Fa
thers, who were unlawfully andinvalidly deprived by the
B Prince
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Prince of Orange. So that according to him the Church
of England is Schifmatical, Republican, and Antimo-
narchical, as well as DilTenters : but had the Speech-
maker s Head been cool, he would have confider d, that
his Argument, were it conclufive, could not make all
the Eftablifti d Church Schifmaticks, but only thofe Bi-
fhops who came in place of hisdepriv d Orthodox Fa
thers, and fuch as liv d under them ; now all thofe
Bilhops being dead, the Schifm, according to Mr.
Dodweilj the grand Champion of the Party, ceas d with
them. By this we fee, that the Party has no fix d Prin
ciple i for tho they applauded that Author, and look d
upon him as their Oracle, yet now they differ from
him : fo that we find it to be true of this Set of
People, That evil Men and Seducers grow worfe and
woife.
The Parfon equally difcovers his Malice and Igno
rance, by finding fault with that Deprivation } for had
he ever read the Statute of Provifors, made in the 25th
of King Edward III. he might thereby have known,
That the Church of England was founded in the E-
ilate of Prelacy, by the Kings, Earls, Barons, and o-
ther Nobles of this Realm, to inform them and the
People of the Law of God, &c. And that certain
PoflefTions, as well in Fees, Lands, Rents, as in Ad-
vowfons, which do extend to a great Value, were
4 affign d by the faid Founders to the Prelates, &c?
And (ince it is fo, tis a known Maxim in Law and Rea-
fon, That they who have a power to make, have a
power to unmake : and it will be acknowledged as a ve
ry good reaibn all over the World, to deprive fuch
Prelates as refufe to fwear or give Allegiance to the
Government, that founded their Prelacys, and protects
their Perfons.
He might alfo have feen, by the 5th of the 25th of
MffyVllf. that the Bifhops of Salisbury andltforcefter
were deprived, becaufe not regarding their Duties to
Almighty God, nor the Cures of their Bifhopricks,
rhey dwelt at Rome? and other Parts beyond Sea, &c.
And the Reafon given for this Power, then exercis d
by
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by the King and Parliament, is the fame with that aj-
ready roention d in the Statute of Provifors. Befides,
every one knows, that in King Henry Vlll. and King Ed
ward VI sTime, the Biihops held their Commiflions only
during the Pleafure of the Prince, and as his Delegates.
If the Speech-maker s Friends objeft, that this re-
Jates only to the Temporalities of the Bifhops, tis an-
fwer d, that in the Commiffion taken out by Archbilhop
Cranmer for his Archbifhoprick, his Power of ordain
ing and turning out Presbyters, is alfo deriv d from the
King. The Commillion is at large in Dr. Burners Hif-
tory of the Reformation, Colle&ion of Records, p. 90.
But perhaps the Example of that Excellent Primate
and Martyr won t have much weight with the High-
Church Party , therefore I (hall give them one of Bifhop
Bonner, who was as Bloody and High a Churchman as
any of thcmfelves. He took out a Commidlon from
King Henry Vlll. in the Preamble of which tis aflerted,
That fmce all Jurifdiftion, both Ecclefiaftical and Ci
vil, flow d from the King as Supreme Head, and he
was the Foundation of all Power } it became thofe
who exercis d it only at the King s Courtefy, grate
fully to acknowledg that they had it only of his Boun-
c ty, and declare that they would deliver it up again
* when it fhould pleafe him to call for it. The Com-
rnifHori is exhibited at Urge in Dr. Burners Hiftory of
the Reformation, Vol. i. Collection of Records, N 14.
Tis true, that the way of giving Temporary Com-
miffions to Bilhops for the Exercife of their Epifcopal
Power, is now laid afide: but lince that Power is ftill
deriv d from the Sovereign, by virtue of a Conge d*
Eflire, tis impudent in our High Church Priefts to
complain of the Deprivation of the Nonjurant Bifhops
by King WMiam and his Parliament.-, efpecially if we
confider, that Bifhops were antiently chofen in Parlia
ment, till the time of Henry \. and that tis by A3 of
Parliament our Princes were impower d to ere& and
confer Bilhopricks ; as appears by 31 H. \J\\\. c . 9.
13. and by the 37th of his Reign, c. 17. *ti$ declared,
* That Archbifhops, Bilhops, Archdeacons, and other
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1 Ecclefiaftical Perfons, have no manner of Jurifdi&ion
4 Ecrlefiaitical, but by and under the King, the only
c undoubted Supreme Head of the Church of England?
By the 25th Hewy VIII. c. 20. the Chapter is oblig d
in twelve Days to chufe the Perfon nam d by the King
in the Conge d Eflire -, if they do not, his Nomination
is fufficient : and the Archbifhop and Bilhops, to whom
the King s Signification is direded, are oblig d to con-
fecrate the Eleft within twenty Days, as well as the
Chapter is to prefent him, on pain of a Prtmunire.
Yet tho the EngUfn Prelacy is fo plainly a Creature
of the State, and enjoys all its Power and Revenues
from it ; our High Church Priefts are fo traitorous and
unconfcionable, that they would have the Biihops to
enjoy part of the Legifiature as an Eftate by themfelves,
and be capable of Pofls of State, and of Ecclefiaftical
and Civil Power, without any Dependence on the State:
which, inftead of one Pope over Chriftendom, is to fet
up twenty fix Independent Popes in England, and run
both Church and State into Anarchy and Confufion.
It is in vain for them to ailed g, that they difpute
King William s Power, becaufe he was not a Lawful
King -, for we have heard already, that by the antient
Constitution of England, our Parliaments always afler-
tcd their Power to dethrone Tyrants, and to fet up
fuch in their Head as would maintain the Nation s
Privileges.
The Speech enumerates fo many forts of Churches
of England, that it will be hard to tell, according to
the Notions of the Fadion, how many they will come
to at laft. Here s a Schiimatical Church of England,
a Nonjuring Church of England, a Revolution Church
of England , he might have added a Perjuring Church of
England, of which he himfelf, and his Fellow. Criminal
Mr. Hall were noted Members. Tis ridiculous to af-
fert, that the Nonjuring Church has kept it felf free
from Rebellion^ for all the World knows, that the
Men of that Stamp begun what he calls the Rebellion
agdinft the late King James, and they have been Re
bels to all our Sovereigns ever fince ; fo that if any
Set
Set of Men in the Ifiand deferve to be calTd Rebellious
and Andmonarchical, tis they. Was it not for Re
bellion, that Mr. Paul and others of his Party have
loft their Lives ? We know indeed, that noc only the
Nonjurors, but even fome others of the Church of
England, are fhy of calling it Rebellion } yet tis fo in
the Eye of the Law, and in the Opinion of all thofe
Powers in Europe, who have own d his Majefty s Title.
Then let the World judg, whether Parfon Paufs Au
thority or theirs, is moft to be rely d on.
Tis perfectly ridiculous then to alledg, that the
Nonjuring Church has kept it felf free from Rebellion
and Schifm, when they have not only been in a Courfe
of Rebellion ever ilnce the Revolution, but feparated
from their Brethren, and fet up private Conventicles,
as well as difown d the Head of the Church: which
certainly makes them Schifmaticks in the higheft fenfe.
Nor is there a Proteftant Church in the World at this
day, whofe Communion they don t rejeft. They may
talk then of being Catholick as long as they pleafe, but
they can be fo in no other fenfe than that they are for
a Roman Catholick Prince, and for fuch an Union with
the Church of Rome, as is betwixt her and the Church
of France j which Mr.Z^, the Pretender s Chaplain,
and one of his Biihops, propos d long ago in his Pon
tificate and Regale.
Mr. Paul feems miferably to have forgot himfelf, in
faying that he dy d a dutiful and faithful Member of the
Nonjuring Church, when the World knows that he
continu d a Member of the Eftablifh d Church till the
Rebellion begun ; and it can be prov d, that he wou d
have been glad to have continu d fo, and to have own d
the prefent Government a very little before his Death,
tho the Speech calls it a Ufurpation, could the Pro-
mifes and Oaths of fuch a perfidious Wretch been re
ly d upon, or thought worthy of being accepted.
The SPEECH.
Having asVd Forgivenefs for my fclf, I come now to
forgive others. I fardon tbofe, who under the Notion of
Fritnd-
Friendflif perfuaded me to f lead Guilty. I heartily forgive
aft my moft inveterate Enemies^ efpeciatty the Eleftor of Han
nover, my Lord Towrifliend, and aU others who have been
inftrumental in promoting my Death. Father, forgive
them ! Lord Jefus, have mercy upon them, and lay
not this Sin to their Charge.
R E MA RKS.
After he has rail d at the Church and State, he pre
tends that he has ask d Forgivenefs for himfelf, and
comes to forgive others j and firft, thofe who under the
Koticn of Friendfhip perfuaded him to plead guilty.
7 Tis common, we fee, for thofe who are falfe them-
felves, to call others Falfe Brethren , yet tis evident
by the Clemency fliew d to others who pleaded guilty,
that thofe who advisM him to do fo, were his belt
Friends : but unce there were fuch Aggravations in his
Cafe and Character, as made him unworthy of the like
Favour, his Blood lies on his own Head.
His way of fo* giving others is very extraordinary,
when he calls them with his dying Breath his molt in
veterate Enemies j and among thofe, he points out the
King, under the Title of Eledor of Hannover, and my
Lord Town/bend. This fmeils of ib much Rancour,
that it is not reconcilable with the Spirit of Chriftiani-
ty, and at the fame time ix (hews the height of Preva
rication with God and Man , fmce in his Applications
for Mercy he gave the King his Royal Titles (which he
now denies him) and him whom he call d his King at
the Gallows, he thought fit to call a Pretender in his
Petitions. His pointing at my Lord Town/bend in fuch
a particular manner, is to mark out that Noble Lord
to the Fury of the Jacobite Mobs , a piece of Revenge
that is abominable in any Man, but execrable in a dy
ing Mini Her, who knew that my Lord Townfhcnd could
not in Faifhfulnefs to the King behave himfelf any o-
therwife than he did, or become an IntercefTor for a
Man of fo vile a Charader, as Mr. Paul appears to
have been, to ail that know him. But the Spirit of
Rage and Malice, by which the Parfon was afted to the
lair,
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laft, will further appear by the following Paragraph,
and the Refle&ions upon it.
The S P E E C H.
Tine next thing I bave to do, Chriftian Friends, ti to ex
hort you all to return to your Duty. Remember that King
James the "Third u your only Rightful Sovereign, by the
Laws of the Land, and the Conftitntion of the Kingdom.
And therefore if you would perform the Duty of Juftice to
him, which vs due to all Mankind, you are obliged in Ce>-
fcienceto do all you can to reft ore htm to \M Crown : for it
w his Right, and no Man in the World be fides himfelf can
lawfully claim a Title to it. And a* it is your Duty to
ferve him, fo it is your Interefl ; for till he is rtflor^d, the
Nation can never be happy. Tou fee what Miferies and Ca
lamities have befallen thefe Kingdoms by the Revolution ^
and 1 believe you are now convinced, by woful Experience^
that fwerving from God?s Laws, and thereby putting your
felves out of his Protection, is not the way to fecure you
from thofe Evils and Misfortunes which you are afraid of in
this World. Before the Revolution, you thought your Reli-
gion, Liberties, and Properties in Danger ; and I pray you
to confidtr how you have freferv d them by Rebelling. Are
they not ten times more precarious than ever ? Who can fay
he is certain of his Life or Eftate, when he con/iders the Pro-
ceedings of the frefent Adminiftration ? And at for your
Religion, is it not evident that the Revolution, inftead of
keeping out Popery , hat let in Atheifm ? Do not Herefies
abound every day -, and are not the Teachers of falfe Doc
trines patronized by the Great Men in the Government?
This /hews the Kindnefs and Affettion they bave for the
Church. And to give you another Inftance of their RefpecJ
and Reverence for it, you are now going to fee a Prieft of
the Church of England murdered for doing his Duty. For
it is not me they flrike at fo particularly, but it is thro me
that they would wound the Priqfthood, bring a Difgrace upon
the Gown, and a Scandal upon my Sacred Fund ion. But
they would do wcU to remember, that he who defpifis Chrifi s
Priejls, defpjfes Chrift 5 and he who defafis / w> dtfpifes
him that fent him.
R E-
16 )
R EM ARKS.
After profaning the Name of our Saviour, by Teem
ing to pray that he would forgive thofe who had been
instrumental in promoting Mr. Paul s Death ; the
Speechmaker gives himfelf the lye, by exciting his Au
ditors to a new Rebellion : and the Motives he ufes for
it are only a parcel of vulgar Topicks and bold Afler-
tions, fuited to the Tafte of the Jacobite Mob, without
one word of Argument to fupport his Propofitions j
for he knew the Credulity of the High-Church Faction,
^and that if he cou d prevail upon them to exert them-
felves for the Pretender, they wou d not fail in their
ufual brutiih manner to attempt a Revenge on thofe,
whom he points out as his own and the Pretender s
Enemies.
Tis remarkable however, that he does not offer one
Law or Text to juftify the Pretender s Claim, which he
fo politively aflerts, but goes on with a pitiful Decla
mation, to perfuade them to a new Rebellion, from the
Topicks of Intereft. And he infifts upon the Calami
ties that have befallen thefe Kingdoms by the Revolu
tion, without giving one Inftance of thofe Calamities.
We may fee the Hand of the Jefuit in this way of Rea-
foning *, for crafty and knavilh Men always betake them-
felves to Generals. In this he follows the Example of
the Holbom Dodtor, who did what he cou d to blacken
the Revolution, and the Methods made ufeof to effect
it, by general Slanders, without offering at one parti
cular Inftance to juftify what he fays.
Nothing can more demonftrate the Infatuation of
Mr. Paul, or thofe who made his Speech, than his tel
ling the People that before the Revolution they thought
their Religion, Liberties, and Properties in danger j
and that inftead of preferving them by Rebellion, they
are now become ten times more precarious than ever.
Had Satan appear d in a vifible Form, he couM not have
utter d any thing more deceitful and falfe. By this In-
flance tis plain, that the great Accufer of the Bre
thren triumphs in the Weaknefs, as well as the Wic-
kednefs of thofe he has deluded : For even the late
Arch-
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Archbilhop Bancroft, and other Patrons of the Non-
jurant Party, give Mr, Paul the lye, as to the firft part
of his Propofition, and common Sfenfe falGfies the lat
ter. To prove this, we need only to obferve, that
Sancroft and the reft of the Bifhops, who refus d to read
K. James H s Declaration for Liberty of Confcience,
alledg d that it was an Invafion upon our Civil and Re
ligious Liberties. And becaufe they fet forth this in
their Petition to that Prince, they were committed to
the Tower^ and brought to a Tryal as traitorous Crimi
nals : but to their good fortune, the Law, which they
had formerly too much run down, prevailed againft
that Arbitrary Power of the Prince, which they had
fo long preach d up j and the Arguments which were
made ufe of by the late Lord Chief Juflice Pottexfen^
Lord Sommers, and other Whigs, in behalf of the Con-
ftitution, prevail d fo far, that they were honourably
acquitted. Upon which, Dr. Sancroft and his Brethren
did fo much refent thefe Tyrannical Proceedings of
King James II. that they concur d with others in the
Happy Revolution: and Archbifhop Sancroft himfelf,
tho afterwards the Head of the Nonjuring Party, did
take the Keys of the Tower from Skelton, K. James s
Lieutenant, and join d, with other Bifhops afterwards
Nonjurors, in a Declaration for applying to the Prince
of Orange^ on the nth of December 1688. after King
James had run away, to obtain a Parliament for fe-
curing our Laws, Liberties, Properties, and the Church
of England in particular.
This is enough to fhew, that the Heads of the Non-
jurant Party were then convinced that our Religion,
Liberties, and Properties were in Danger , which fuf-
ficierttly confutes Mr. Paul s Infmuation, that they were
not.
And as to the other part of his bold Aflertion, that
they are ten times more precarious now than ever, com
mon Senfe and Experience give him the Lye; for
Thanks to God, we have now a Proteilant, whereas
we then had a Popiih King on the Throne : and Malice
ic felf can t fay, thac profefs d Papifls are contrary to
C Law-
Law made Members of the Privy Council, Commanders
in the Army, and obtruded upon our Univerfities, in-
ftead of proceftants illegally turn d out, as was the Cafe
in thofe days.
Befides, by the Revolution, which Mr. Paul thinks
fit to call a Rebellion, we hdve obtain d an irrevocable
Law, that none who has been a Pa pi ft, is a Pa pill, or
marries a Papift, fhall from henceforth fit on our
Throne -, but that they fhall always be of the Commu*
nion of the Church of England, as by Law eftablifh d.
This is fuch a Security for our Religion, as England
never had before. And as to our Civil Rights, Liber
ties, and Properties, we have, by the Declaration of
Rights, enaded into a Law, fuch a Security, as our An*
ceftors never enjoy d a better, nor can any Nation in
Europe fhew the like. With what face then could this
dying Traitor fay, that our Religion, Liberties, and
Properties are ten times more precarious than ever ?
Certainly a Man who could thus appear before the Tri
bunal of Heaven, with fuch a Lye in his Mouth, mult
have been judicially harden d, and given up to a repro
bate Senfe.
As to his Queftion, Who can fay ,he is certain of his
Life or Eftate, when he confiders the Proceedings of
the prefent Adminiltration -, it is brimful of the greateft
Malice and Falfhood, and utter d on purpofe to expofe
the Miniftry to the Rageqf the Jacobite Mobs ; which
fhews us how fincere Mr. Paul was in his Profeflions to
forgive his Enemies. But it is our Happinefs that none
of the Party can fay, that the prefent Miniltry pack
Juries, or fuborn Evidence, to fwear Men out of their
Lives and Eltates, as the Tories always did when they
fat at the Helm. Nor can Malice charge the prefenc
Miniltry with bringing Quo Warrantees, to deprive
Corporations of their Charters, on pretence of hav
ing forfeited them by Tumults; as was pra&is d in the
Reigns of King Charles and King James II. notwith-
ftanding the juft occafion which the Faftion has given
for doing it every where, by fuch groundlefs and bar
barous Tumults and Rebellions, as were never heard
of
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of in England before. As to the Security of our Live*
and Eitaies, the Rebels themfelves, who have been
brought to Tryal, can bear \\ itnefs, that they have
had the Benefit of the 7th of William III. which is
more favourable and indulgent to Traitors, than the
Laws of England before the Revolution , for by this
Act they are allow d a Copy of, their Indictment five
days, and a Copy of the Pannel two days before Trial^
to make their Defence by Counfel, and Proof by Wit>
nefies upon Oath. And the Court is oblig d, on the
Requeft of the Prifoners, to affign them Counfel, who
are to have free Accefs to them , befides- which, none
can be try d according to that Act, but on the Oath of
two lawful Witnefles, either both to the fame Overt-
Ad, or one to one Overc- Act, and the other to the o-
ther: which aieall fuch Privileges as EngUfhmen never
enjoy d before the Revolution.
Since all this is evident by our Statute-Books, and
by Matter of Fad, it plainly fliews the Ignorance and
Malice of Mr. Paul and his Speech-makers.
As to his other Infinuation, that the Revolution, in-
fiead of keeping out Popery, has let in Atheifm, no
thing but unparallel d Impudence could have utter d it.
The late Biihop of Sarum did juftly obferve ac Sacheve-
rel s Trial, that nothing had fo much contributed to the
Growth of Atheifm in the Nation, as the Clergy s play
ing fail and loofe with Oaths: and as this was the a-
vow d Practice of Mr. Paul and his Party, to take
Oaths to the Government, on purpoie to undermine
it, and to abjure the Pretender, while at the iametime
they carry d on his Interefts } the Growth and Patro
nage of Atheifm; is juftly afcrib d to his own Faction.
There can be no flronger proof of this, than their
Breach of folemn Leagues and Oaths, and making the
late Queen Anne fo notorioufly contradicl her felf from
the Throne. Befides, does not all the World know,
that her Tory Miniftry, and particularly two of her
Secretaries of State, were guilty of the moft avow d
Perjury ? Were not the Generals of the Rebels, as
well as he who betray d the Confederate Armies to
C 1 France,
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France, guilty of wilful Perjury ? And were not many
of the High-Church Members of the Houfe of Com
mons, and the High-Church Clergy guilty of the like?
Can any thing be a greater Proof of Atheifm than wil
ful Perjury ? Does it not deny the very Being, and all
the Attributes of God Almighty ? With what face
then could this dying Traitor charge others with A-
theifm, of which he and his Party are fo demonflra-
bly guilty ?
He feems to make a Diftindion betwixt Atheifm and
Popery, and to give the latter the Preference, which
is another Proof of his Ignorance and Malice , for eve
ry Man who has read the Cafuiftical Divinity of the
Jefuits, which is the very Soul and Support of Popery,
muft needs koow, that the whck- ; of that Divi
nity is Atheiftical : and therefore it has a long time
been the Opinion of fome of the ableft Proteiuot Di
vines, that it is next to impoffible for a Man of Learn
ing and Knowledg of the World to be a Papift, and
not be an Atheift at the fame time.
For Mr. Paul s other Infmuation, that Herefies a-
bound every day, and that the Teachers of falfe Doc
trines are patroniz d by the Great Men now in the Go
vernment, he ought to have given fome well-known
Inftances tofupporthis AlTertion } but his Buiinefs was
to flander : fo that this needs no other Anfwer, than
that it ill becomes thofe who preach and maintain the
abominable Dodrines of Popery and Slavery, Herefies
deflrudlive to the Bodies and Souls of Men, to charge
the Miniflry with patronizing the Teachers of falfe
Dodhines, merely becaufe they won t break thro Law
to gratify the persecuting Humour of "High-Church, a-
gainfl Men who differ from their Brethren in fome Mat
ters of Speculation, or mere Circumitantials of Reli
gion.
But the true Caufe of all this Malice is, that Mr. Paul
was now for his Rebellion brought to the Gallows,
which he calls the Murder of a Prieft of the Church of
England for doing his Duty. We have heard before,
that the Pra&ice for which he was condemn d to be
hang d,
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hang d, isdire&ly contrary to the DoSrine of the Li
turgy of the Church of England , fo that tis ridicu
lous as well ashatefnl for him to call a due Courfe of
Law Murder. Faux and Garnet, when they were
hang d for the Gunpowder-Plot, and thofe who fuffer d
in King Willianfs time for the Aflaflmation, went out
of the World with the like Reflections upon the Go
vernment *, fo that thefe being only Words of courfe
from Rebels at the Gallows, they deferve no further re
gard.
Nothing c?n be more villanous and profane than the
laft part or this Paragragb, where he falfly aflerts,
that the Priefthcod wis ftruck at thro him, &c. How
he could reckon himfelf a Pneft, fince he was ordain d
by a Schifmatical Biihop in 1709, I can t tell ; but be
that how it will, tis never reckonM a Difgrace to the
Clergy in a Proteflant Country, when any of that Or
der are juftly executed for capital Crimes : nor was it
reckon d foeven among his Brethren the Papifts in Spain
and Catalonia, where Priefts were hang d for Rebellion
on both (ides by the Houfes of Bourbon and Auftrta, ac
cording as either prevailed \ but more efpeciafly by
King Pbilif, fince Mr. Paul s Friends, the late Tory
Miniftry, betray d the Catalans : and 1 fuppofe that no
body will doubt thattbofetwo Royal Families have as
great a Refpeft for the Order of the Priefthood, as our
High Churchmen. It is true indeed, that the Pope, the
Great High Prieft, has always claimM the fole Power
of animadverting upon the Clergy, as his own proper
Sons -, but one of the molt Chriftian Rings, who, took
a Bifhop in Rebellion, with a Coat of Mail upon him,
knew very well how to diilinguifh betwixt the Priefl
and the Rebel j and when the Pope demanded the Bi-
Ihop to be fet at liberty as one of his Sons, the French
King feat his Holinefs the Bifhop s Armour, and bid
him fee whether that was his Son s Coat or no ^ making
ufe of the vulgar Latin Tranflation in the Cafe of Jo-
feph s Coat that was fent to his Father, fide an b#c fit
tunica filii tut ? Had Parfon Paul gone to the Gallows
vdth the Lay-Habit in which he rebell d in Lanca/hire,
and
and was taken up in London, It might have fav d the
Honour of the Gown, but it would ha^e been no Argu
ment for the Honefty of the Prieft.
The Conclufion of this Paragraph is fo very profane
and blafphemous, that it can t be repeated without
Horror, The Text here, mifapplyMby Mr, Paul, was
fpoke with relation to our Saviour s Apoftles, fo that
the Miffionaries of Popery and Slavery have nothing to
do with it. Oar Saviour is reprefented by St. John the
Divine, to walk in the midft of the feven Golden Can-
dlefticks} but thofe of Brafs, like Parfon Paul^ who
rebel againft Chriftianity, in behalf of Antichriftian
Idolatry, have their Miffion from the Pope and the
Devil : fo that a Mm cannot be a good Chriftian, with
out defpifing them and him that fent them.
The SPEECH.
And now. Beloved, if you have any . Regard to your
Country, wb : cb lies bleeding under tbefe dreadful Extremi
ties, bring the King to bis jufl and undoubted Right. Tbat
is the only Way to be freed from tbefe Misfortunes, and to
fecure all tbofe Rights and Privileges which are in Danger at
frej ent. King James has promised to proteft and defend
the Church of England; He has given his Royal Word to
confent to fuch Laws, which you your felvcs fiatt tbink ne-
ceffary to be made for its Prefirvation. And his Majefty
is a Prince of that Juftice, Vertue and Honour, that you
have no manner of Reafon to doubt the Performance of bis
Royal Promife. He fiudies nothing fo much as how to
make you aU Eafy and Htf\y 5 and whenever he comes to
his Kingdom^ I doubt not but you will be fo.
REMARKS.
This Paragraph continues Parfon Paul s rebellious
Declamation, which is very well adapted to the Caufe
he dy d for. Tis the Encomium of a falfe Prophet
upon a fpurions and counterfeit Prince, who (lands at
tainted by our Laws as an Impoftor. But were it
otherwife, the Parfon dies with a Lye in his right hand
as to the Character of his pretended King : for the
World knows, that inltead of giving that Security
which
which the Parfon promifes in his Name for the Church
of England, he would not fo much as take an Oath for
fupporting the Traitor s dear Brethren, the Nonjaring
Epifcopal Party in Scotland <> in which perhaps he was
fight, fince a Nonjuring Church ought to have a Non-
juring King, Nay, he would not fo much as counte
nance the Church-of-wgte>fcJ Liturgy with his Prefence,
becaufe he lik d the Mafs in Lattn better. In fhort,
there wanted nothing to make this Paragraph a corn-
pleat intelligible Lye, but that the Parfon, to the Qua
lities of Juftice, Vertue and Honour, which he afcribes
to his King, fhould have added Valour ? a Quality as ap
plicable to a finifh d Coward, as thofe of Vertue, Ho
nour, and Jultice are to one bred up in the Idolatry of
Rome, and the Tyrannical Maxims of France : and that
this is the Pretender s Character, we can prove by
Queen Amis Speech to Parliament in 1708.
The SPEECH.
1 fhatt be heartily glad, good People, if what I have faid
has any effecJ upon you, fo as to be injlrumcntal in making
you perform your Duly. It is out of my power now to do
any thing more to ferve the King, than by employing fome
of the few Minutes I have to live in th vs World, in paying
to Almighty God to fhower down hit Bkjflngs Spiritual and
Temporal upon his Head, to proteff him and reftore him, to
be favourable to his Vndcrtaking, to profper him here, and
to reward him hereafter. I befeech the fame Infinite Good-
nefs to preferve and defend the Church of England, and to
reftore it to all its juft Rights and Privileges : and laflly, I
fray God have mercy upon me, pardon my Sins, and receive
my Soul into his cverlajling Kingdom , that with the Pa
triarchs, Prophets* j4poftles and Martyrs^ 1 may praife and
magnify him for ever and ever. Amen.
REMARKS.
Had not the High-Church Faction been bred up in as
rnuch Ignorance by their Priefts, as thofe of Rome, the
Parfon could never have hop d that his pitiful Rhapfody
would be any way inftrumental to make them perform
what he calls their Duty \ which in plain Englifh (as the
Aft
( M)
A& to oblige Papifts to regifler their Perfons and
Eftates, well exprefTes it) is c to dethrone and murder
4 his Sacred Majefty, to deftroy our prefent happy Ef-
c tablifhment, to fettle a Popifh Pretender on the
Throne, to deftroy the Proteftant Religion, and cru-
c elly to murder and tnaflacre its ProfefTors. None but
fuch barbarous Priefts as Mr. Paul could exhort them
to do this, and none but fuch ignorant Bigots could
fwallow the Suggeftions of Hell as Chriftian Do&rine :
and fince this is the way in which the High Church Par
ty, when brought to the Gallows, pretend to forgive
their Enemies, we may eafily guefs at their Clemency,
had Heaven, for our Sins 7 have fuffer d their Arms to
prevail.
The Prayers of the Farfon s laft Minutes for the Pre
tender, are anfwerable to Mr. PauFs Behaviour during
the Courfe of his Life. It would feem however, than
he had forgot the Order of the Toafts, which was fol-
low d by his Brethren in the laft Reign, to put the
Church before the Queen j for here he has put his King
before his Church. But his Prayers are like to be e-
qually effe&ual in both refpeds j for God will not hear
the Petitions of thofe who regard Iniquity in their
Hearts, as tis plain this Parfon did.
He fhould however have told us what thofe Juft
Rights and Privileges are, to which he prays the Church
of England might be reftor d, or he could not expect
m? Amen. Tis certain fhe enjoys as many Privileges
now, and is as well fecur d in them, as fhe has been at any
time fince the Reformation. But if he meant that (he
fhould be reftor d to all the Church-Lands, which were
enjoyM by the Secular and Regular Clergy in time of
Popery ; that the Clergy fhould be Independent on the
State, as they pretended to be then, but could never
obtain it } that the High-Church Writ, de Htfretico Com-
burendo, fhould be reviv d *, that fome of the Inferior
Clergy fhould fit in the Houfe of Commons, inftead of
the Popifh Priors , that others Ihould fit in the Houfe
of Lords, inftead of the Mitred Abbots , or, in a word,
that in fhould be in the power of the High-Church
Clergy
^_
Clergy to King and Unking, to Chriften and Unchri-
ften whom they pleas d. If thefe are the Privileges
and Liberties he wants to have reftor d, his Prayers
will never be granted by God, becaufe they are con
trary to his reveaFd Will, nor liften d to by Englifh-
mtn, till they put off human Nature, and degenerate
into Brutes.
The Clergyman at laft comes to take fome Care of
his own Soul, and prays that his Sins may be pardon d,
and that he may be receiv d into the Everlafting King
dom, among Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles, and Mar
tyrs: but tis obfervable, that in his whole Speech he
does not pray for any one thing thro the Merits of
Chrift ^ which fhew d how little he underflood the Gof-
pel that he pretended to preach, and gives us too juft
Ground to conclude, that as he did not live like a Chri-
ftian, he did not die one.
The SPEECH.
A* to my Body, Brethren, I have taken no manner of
Care of it : for I value not the barbarous Part of the Sen
tence^ of being cut down and quartered. When I am ones
gone, 1 fhatt be out of the reach of my Enemies, and I
v>i[h J bad Quarters enough to fend to every Parifb in the
Kingdom, to teftify that a Clergyman of the Church of
England was martyred for being Loyal to hit King.
July 13. 1716. William Paul.
REMARKS.
Here he tells us he had taken no manner of Care of
his Body, and it is plain, by his Speech, he took as
little of his Soul, fince he dy d with Malice in his
Heart, and a Lye in his Mouth , as Appears plain, if we
compare his Speech with the following Letters, which
he wrote to the Archbifhop ^{Canterbury, and the Lord
Townfhend.
The Conclmlon of this Paragraph is fo very extra
vagant and hypocritical, confidering the Submiflions
which he made to the prefent Miniftry, that it cannot
but flrike the Reader with Horror, to think that one
D who
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who valu d hitnfelf upon his Sacred Funftion, (hould
dare thus to prevaricate in fight of God s Tribunal 5
before which he was fo quickly to appear.
Since Mr. Paul regrets, that he had not Quarters e-
nough for every Parifti in the Kingdom, to teftify that
a Clergyman of the Church of England (he means his
Nonjuring Church) was martyr d for being Loyal to
his King , I (hall add no more but a hearty Wifti, that
his Incorrigible Brethren in Rebellion or Perjury, be
they Clergy or Laymen, may fall by the hands of Juftice
tofupply that Defect.
The two following Letters were written by Mr. Wil
liam Paul on the 9th of July, to His Grace the Lord
Archbifhop of Canterbury.
It fleafeyour Grace^
T T my Tryall I thought I had a very good Plea,
but was advis d by the Lawers, as the fuereft
c way to obtain Mercy, to plead guilty, upon which I
c threw my felt wholly upon the King s Mercy. What
* Confeflion the Court would have from me, I can t
c tell} I am fare your Grace would not have me for
c the World fpake more than I know. I declare be-
* fore Almighty God, upon the Word of a Clergyman,
c I never brought any Letter out of Prefton^ or went to
c any one Gentleman, or ipoke the leaft thing that
* tended that Way, viz.* to Rebellion, but came into
c rny own Country, as fad as I could, and fo to Lon-
c dott) where I was feizd and fent to Newgate. 1 hum-
c bly delire your Grace once more to believe me, and
L to ufe your uttnoft Endeavours to fave a poor Cler-
c gy man s Life: If it will not be granted to fpend the
1 Remainder of it in England^ I beg you ll be pleefd
1 to fend me to the Plantations, or any where rather
1 then Tyburn. 1 humbly defire your Grace to conflder
* your
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L your poor affixed Servant, and take him from this
* naltyPrifon.
* My Lord,
4 I am your Lord (hip s moil Humble,
4 and moil ObedientServant,
William
c My Lord, I never did, fince I was in Newgate^
4 pray for the Pretender by any Name or Title.
My Lord,
FBEG pardon for troubling your Grace, but pre-
4 -*- fuming upon your Goodnefs once again, humbly de-
4 fire you tointerceed with his Royal Hignefs for Mer-
* cy. The dead Warrant is come down for Exicution
4 Friday next: What ill Steps 1 have made in my Life
4 pail, 1 hope Almighty God will forgive me j but the
4 things that are laid to my charge, viz,, preaching up
4 Rebellion, advifing my Parifhioners to take up Arms,
4 and that I preachd feverall feditious Sermons, all
4 which are faulfe upon the Word of a Clergyman, as
4 I have a Certificate to prove, for fix Years, the time
4 of my being att Orton^ handed by moil of the Parifh.
4 Another thing is obje&ed againil me, that 1 was
4 ccncern d in fevral Confultations, but i am inocent
4 and ignorant, I calGod to witnefs, of any Detlgn
4 that was formd in any Part of the Kingdome againil
4 the Government ; and if ever I knew of any Meeting,
4 but where I was unfortunatly at Prefton, or Con-
4 fultation, oreverask d or advis d anybody to rife in
4 Rebellion, lam willing to fuffer.
c I defire your Grace will endeavour to fave me this
4 time from that ignominious Death of the Halter, and
4 .defpofe of me in what Part your Lordfhip pleafcth.
4 If nothing can be done, I humbly deiive your Lord-
4 ihip s Blelling and Prayers for Patience and Courage in
4 this fevere time of Tryall. For God fake, my Lord,
* do what lyes in your power to lave the Life of a
D 2
4 poor affli&ed Clergyman, the remaining Part of which
1 mail be fpent in Prayers for your Grace, and all that
4 endeavour d to bring me out of thefe great Troubles.
c My Lord,
Newgate^ < \ am your Lordfhip s moft Humble
pth July. < And moft Obedient Servant,
William Paul.
The following Letter was written by William Paul-> the
Night before his Execution, to the Right Honoura
ble the Lord V ifcount Townfoend.
My Lordj
c TV /fR. Patten was fo kind to pay me aVifitinmy
* IV JL Afflidion, and defked me if I knew any thing
4 relating to the Government, I would declare it. My
4 Lord, I folemnly declare, I call Almighty God to
c witfiefs, I carried no Letter of from Prefton^ tho I told
c Mr. Patten fo, which was only a Faint that I might
4 goof} and if Mr.Patteu will do me juftice, he can
1 tell your Lordfhip how uneafy I was when 1 difcoverd
4 my Rafhnefs. My Lord, I depend foely upon your
* Lordfhip s Goodnefs in this my miferable Condition.
c I wilh my Lord, 1 could have my Life faved, that I
c might fhew to the World how heartily I am fbrry for
c all my paft Errours ^ and no Man fhall demonftrate it
c more, thea
4 My Lord,
c Your Lordfhip s moft Humble,
c And moft Obedient Servant,
William Paul.
c My Lord, Mr.Pattev fayth it is an Aggravation to
my Crime, that I pray d in expres Terms in
* Newgate for the Pretender by the Name of K.
4 James, I declare I never did. I once more crave
4 your Lordfhip s kind Affiltance to procure me
c my Life,
RE-
REMARKS on the Speech of
|yp John Hall, Efo
TH E laft Sentiments of thefe two Traitors are
fo much alike, and there is fuch a Harmony
betwixt them in Matter, that the Reflexions
on the former exhauft all that is material in the latter ,
fo that I mall only take notice of what is peculiar in Mr.
s, or that is applicable to his particular Cafe.
The SPEECH.
Mends , Brethren, and Countrymen 5 lam come here to die
far the fa\e of God, my Ktng^ and my Country, and I
heartily rejoice that I am counted worthy of fo great an Ho
nour : for let not any of you think that I am come to a
fkameful and ignominious End. the Truth and Juftice of
the Caufe^ for which I fufftr, makes my Death a Duty, a
Vtnue^ and an Honour. Remember that I laid down my
Life for afferting the Right of my only Lawful Sovereign,
King James the Third } That I offer my felf a* a Vi8\vn
for the Liberties and Happinefs of my dear Country, ana *ny
beloved Fellow- Subjt ft s ; That I fall a Sacrifice to Tyranny,
Oppreffion and Vfurpation. Jnfhort, confider that I fuffvr
in defence of the Commands of God> and the Laws and He
reditary Conftitution of the Land : and then know and be
affur d that I am not a Traitor, but a Martyr.
REMARKS.
This unfortunate Gentleman fets out with a vile hy
pocritical Rhodomontade: he allerts, that he came to
die for the fake of God, his King, and his Country ^
but tis certain, that had his Applications to the prefent
Government for a Pardon fucceeded, he mult, accord
ing to this Principle, have livM in fuch a manner as
was quite oppolite to what he pretended to die for:
which
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which is fo horrid, that I may well be excus d from
faying any thing further about it, fince the Antithefis
muft be obvious to every Reader.
How much he counted it his Honour to die for the
Pretender s Caufe, I lhall not fay j but I am well aflur d,
that he employ d all his Friends to do their utmoft for
faving his Life, and obtefted them to do it, as they
had any regard to the Bleffings of himfelf, his Wife,
and five Children. And I am fatisfy d, that the Reve
rend Mr. Patten will own to the World, if it be re-
quir d, that Mr. Hall, in order to fave his Life, would
have had Mr. Patten declare to the Court, that he the
faid Mr- Hall was mad } which he thought was as good
a Plea for an Engltjk Squire, as for a Scotch Earl. This
makes his End truly ignominious and (hameful, and
fhews that he had no fuch Opinion of the Truth and
Juflice of the Caufe for which he fuffer d, as to make
his Death a Duty, Vertue and Honour,, till he found
he muft come to the Gallows, and there he fets up for
a Hero and a Martyr.
Mr. Hall, having a&ed as a Juflice of Peace under
the prefent Government till the Rebellion broke out,
ought to have had fome knowledg of the Law ; and
therefore we might have expeded fome Reafons from
the Statute Book, why he calls the Pretender his
only Lawful Sovereign : but tis probable he knew,
that twas not to be done, and therefore thought it
enough to pawm his bare Afiertion upon the Jacobite
Mob for Law, as his Fellow. Sufferer the Clergyman did
his for Gofpel. Tis evident, that both their Talents
were better adapted to Rail, than to Reafon 5 other-
wife, the one would have given us a Text, and the
other a Statute, to prove that they fuffer d in defence
of the Laws of God and the Land : but fince neither of
them have done it, and that none of the Party either
has been, or will ever be able to do it for them, we
have reafon to conclude, that they dyM Traitors, but
not Martyrs.
Thofe who have read the Old and New Teftament
with Attention, muft certainly be fatisfyM, that there.
is
one Word in either for a Divine Indefeafible He
reditary Right in any Perfon or Family to Govern
ment i but on the contrary, that our Saviour, the Pro
phets, and Apoftles, taught Obedience to fuch Govern
ments and human Conftitutions, as were in being at the
refpedive times when they liv d -, and laid their Fol
lowers under no other Reftri&ion, as to their Obedience
to the Superior Powers they found in the World, but
to obey God rather than Man, when their Commands
interfered.
As to the Laws of Great Britain, our Adverfaries
will never be able to prove any other Hereditary Right
than what was deriv d from thofe Laws ; which being
alterable, according to the Nature of all human Con
ftitutions, fucceeding Generations muft always, accor
ding to the Laws of Nature and Reafon, have the
fame power to alter them for their own Security, as
their Anceftors had to enadt them for theirs. If this
be not allowed, this Abfurdity muft naturally follow,
that had any preceding King and Parliament made an
Aft that all their Succeflbrs fhou d be Pagans, Papifts,
Turks, or Slaves, we had been left without a Remedy.
The S P E E C H.
/ declare tbat I die a true and fincere Member of the
Church of England ; but not of the Revolution Schifmatical
Church, vphofe Bifhops have fo rebellioufly abandoned the
King, and fo fhamefully given up the Rights of the Church,
by Jubmitting to the Vnlawful, Invalid, Lay* Deprivations
of the Prince of Orange. The Communion i die in, is that
of the True Catholick Nonjuring Church of England -, and
I pray God to profper and increafe it, and to grant, if it
be his good plea fur e, tbat it may rife again and flourijb.
REMARKS.
This is fo much of a piece with what Parfon Paul
faid in his Speech, that I need fay little more upon it:
only Mr. Hall fays, that the Rights of the Church
were given up by the Submiflion of the Bifhops and
Clergy to the Unlawful Invalid Lay-Deprivations of
the Prince of Orange.
The
The Church of England ufed formerly, whencharg d
with being Eraftian in her Conftitution, to alledg that
it cou d not be fo, (ince the Sovereign of England was
mixtaptrfona, and by confequence a Clergyman as well
as ayman. But tho the High-Church has thrown up
that Argument, tis plain from the Statutes quoted in
anfwer to Mr. Paul, that by the Laws of England our
Sovereign is made Head of the Church ^ and from him
the Bifliops and Clergy of England do immediately de
rive all their Ecclefiaftical Power and Authority. And
fince it was the Parliament of England which invefted
our Princes with the Power of conferring thatAutho*
rity, King William was as lawfully poflefs d of it as
any of his Predeceflbrs.
But farther, (ince all the Epifcopal Power which the
Bifhops of England can pretend to, is deriv d from Lay
men (if the King and Parliament muft be calPd fo) it
follows in Reafon, that a Lay-Deprivation is fufficienE
to make void a Lay-lnftitution, if the Deprivation be
founded on a juftCaufe, as difowning the Government
certainly is. Befides, it ought to be confider d, that
the Bifhops who fit in Parliament are Clergymen j and
jlnce they confented to the Deprivation, it can t in
Juftice be wholly call d a Lay one, unlefs they had pro-
tefled againft it in Convocation,, where they fit as
Clergyman : and that they did not fo proteft r is evi
dent to all the World.
Tis obfervable, that Mr. Hall adds Catholick to
Mr. Paul s Epithet of the Nonjuring Church of Eng
land-, fo that at laft the JufHce and the Clergyman
won d bring us to the Church of Rome^ which is the
only Church pretending to be Catholick, that the Non
juring Church agrees with.
The S PEECH.
I heartily beg Pardon of all whom I bave in any manner^
and at any time injured or offended, I do particularly
implore For^ivenefs of God and my King, for having fo far
fmri/.d from my Duty, a$ to comply with the Ufurpation,
in {wearing Allegiance to it, and afting in fublick Pofls by
tbe
the Vfurpe Ss Comtntffions, which were.void of aU Power and
Authority. God knows my Heat t, { did (his at fir ft thro Ig
norance and Error; but after / had recoUefted my f elf, and
informed my Judgment better, I repent^ and drew my
Sword for the King, and now fubmit my felf to this violent
Death for his fake. I heartily pray God, my Penitence and
my Sufferings may atone for my former Crime. And this I
beg thro the Merits, Mediation, and Sufferings of my dtarefl
Saviour, Chrifljefus.
R EM ARKS.
By this Paragraph we may fee whether Mr. Hall was
a fincere Member of the Nonjuring Church or not. He
owns, that he had fworn Allegiance to what he calls
the Ufurpation, and acted in publick Pods by Com-
raiflion from it. This i$ a plain Proof that he was an
Abjuror inftead of a Non juror, until the Rebellion
broke out 5 and then to make himfelf a fincere Non-
juror, he became a Perjuror j and contrary to his Alle
giance, which he had fworn from time to time while a
Jafticeof Peace, he drew his Sword againft the King
from whom he held his Commiflion.
He pretends to excufe himfelf, by frying that his
Submiffion to the Revolution Government proceeded
at firft from Ignorance and Error , but after he had
recollected himfejf, and informed his Judgment better,
he repented, and drew his Sword for the King, mean
ing the Pretender. Tis worth while to obferve, how
much time Mr HoU took to recoiled and inform him
felf better. It certainly was not much, for at the
very time when the Rebellion began, he was fitting with
other Juftices in Commiflion, at the Quarter- Setfions in
Northumberland i and he pretended at his Tryal, that
he was < .ken Prifoner by the Rebels in his Return from
the Quarter-Seflion?. By this we may eafily know
what to think of his Recollection and better Information.
I fhall fay no more to this Paragraph, but that Mr. Hatt
feems to have dy d as bad a Proteftant as a Subjeft,
fince he joins his own Repentance and Sufferings to
the Merits and Sufferings of our Saviour, as the Foun
dation of his Hopes for Mercy : which, with what has
been
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been obferv d already in Mr. Paul s Speech, may ferve
to convince the World what fort of Proteilants our
High-Church-Men are.
The SPEECH.
7 do /incerely forgive all my Enemies, efyecially tbofe
who bave either caus d or rs- .ieaid the Dtftruftions in
Church or State. I pray God have mercy upon them^ and
fpare them, becaufi they are the Work of hit own Hands^
and becaufi hey ate redeemed with h vs Son s moft precious
Blood. / do particularly forgive , from the bottom of my
Heart, the Eleftor of Brunfwick, who murders me j my
unjitft pretended Judges and jury , who convitJed, axd
condemned me *, Mr. Patten and Mr. Carnaby, Evidence*
who fwore again/I me at my Trial. And I do here declare,
upon the Words of a tying Man (and all my Northum
berland Fellow- Pri? lers can teftify the fame) that the Evi-
dt -c they gave r^ fo far from being the Truth, the whole
Truth^ and nothing but the Truth^ that in relation to my
Indittmcnt they fwore not one true thing dgainft me, but
many abjclute Pal/hoods. I pray God forgive them, for I
am fare I do.
, R E M A R K S*
His way of forgiving his Enemies is much the fame
with Parfon Paul s. Here his Folly and Malice are c-
quaily confpicuous} for in this Paragraph he charges
the Evidence againft him with fwearing falfly ; whereas
in that immediately preceding, he owns the Truth of
whatisfworu in tae main, by confeflTing that he drew
his Sword for King James, which is a fufficient Vindica
tion of the Evidence.
The SPEECH.
Laftly, I forgive att who had any hand in the Surrender
at Preiton *, for they have funenderd away my Life : and
J would to Cod that were the only bad Conference of it.
But alas it is too plain, that the Surrenderors not only ruined
man) of his Majefty s brave and faithful Subje&s. b-4t gave
up tbttr King and Country into the Bargain. For it was then
in their vower to bave reftofd the King with Triumph to bis
Throne ;
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Throne ; and thereby to have made us a happy People. W e
had repulsed our Enemies at every Attack, and were ready ,
willing, and able to have attack d them. On our fidt even
our common Men were brave, courageous and refolute -, on
the other hand, theirs were direftly the contrary : infomucb
that after they had run away from our firft fire, they could
never be brought jo much as to endeavour to fland a ftcond.
This I think my felf oblig d in Juflice to mention, that Mr.
Wills may not impofe upon the World, as if he and his
Troops had conquered us, and gdin d the Pi&ory : for the
truth 5, after we had conquered them, our Super tours thought
fit to capitulate, and ruin us- I wifh them God s and the
King s Pardon for it.
REMARKS.
This Paragraph is fuch a fulfom and flagrant Lye,
that it would feem the Devil ow d him a fhame. To
publifh an Untruth of this nature, in view of the Bar
of Heaven, proves the poor Man, or at leaft his Speech-
makers, to have been more than cafe-harden d. What
the Defign of the Faftion could be, in handing fuch a
Story as this to the World, which can be contradifted
by Thoufandsof Eye-Witneffes, and by Mr. Hall s Fel
low-Rebels as well as by the King s Troops, is not eafy
to be imagin d ^ unlefs it be to fpirit up the Faction to a
new Rebellion, by telling them, that their Friends
were Conquerors, but unhappily betray d into a Surren
der by their Leaders. Had this been true, what Fools
rouft their Generals Forfter and Mackinto(h be to fly
from a Government, where they had fo much Merit to
plead, to another which will certainly hang them, if
Mr. Hall s Accufation obtain Belief? One would be
tempted to think, that when Mr. Hall read or fign d
this Speech, he did not expert to have been hang d, but
to have been refcu d by the Jacobite Mob, and to have
fet himfelf at their Head as General j a Poft which (if
he fays true) he certainly deferv d much better than
Lord Derwentwater, Lord Kenmure, or Meflieurs Forfter
and Mackinto/b. But be that how it will, if the Rebels
make another Attempt, tis probable this fcandalous
Refleftion may put our Generals and Soldiers upon an-
2, other
other Method of managing the W^r, Hian to content
themfelves withth; Surrender of the Jacobites at Dif-
cretion: and of what Set vice Mr. .HalPs Speech may be
to his Party in this Cafe, they themieives are left to
judg.
The SPEECH.
May it fleaft the Almighty to bkfs, preferve, and reftore
eur only Rightful and Lawful Sovereign, King James the
Third! May he dire ft hi* Councils , and prefer h vs Arms!
May he bring htm to hit Kingdom, and fet the Crown upon
his H ad ! May he froteti him from the Malice of his
Enemas, and defend him from thoje who for a Reward
would flay him innocent! May he grant him in fjealtb
and Wealth long to live ! May he ftrengthen him, that
he may vanqutfb and overcome all hvs Enemies f And fi
nally, when it plcafes his infinite Wifdom to take him out
of this World, may he take him to himfelf, and reward him
with an ever la fling Crown of Glory in the next ! .
REMARKS.
All that I (hall fay to this Paragraph, is, that the
Prayers of the Worfhipful Juflice, and the Reverend
Parfon, are much of the fame Strain, and, no doubt,
they ll meet with the like Anfwer. Indeed the Juf-*
tice appears to have been the better Churchman of the
two, for he prays for the Church in his fecond Para
graph, and put*: off his Prayers for the King almoft till
the laft ; and the Parfon fhevvs himfelf to have been a
better Lawyer than the Juftice, becaufe he prays for
his King ftrft, as the Head of his Church.
The SPEECH.
Thefi-i my beloved Countrymen, are the fincere Prayers^
thefe the laft Words of me^ who am now a dying Perfon.
And if you have any regard to the laft Breath of one who
is juft going out of the World, let me beg of you to be du
tiful, obedient, and loyal to your only Sovereign Liege Lord,
J(ing James the Third : be ever ready to ferve him, and be
fare you never fail to ufe all your Endeavours to reftore him $
and whatever the Confluence be, remember that you have
a
a good Caufe, and a gracious (jodj and expett your Recom-
fcncr f >m hint
To that God, the God of Tntth and Holiwfs, the Rew,<tr-
der of all who fuffer for Righteoufrefs fake^ I commend my
Soul i befeeching him to ham mercy upon it, for the fakx of
my dear Redeemer , and merciful Saviour , Jefw Chrift, our
Lord* Amen. Amen. Amen.
July 1 3. ii\6. John Hall.
REMARKS.
The Juffiice agrees with the Parfon in his Attempts
to excite the Jacobites to a new Rebellion y but the Juf-
tice has fallen upon the luckier Argument of the two,
becaufe, in a former Paragraph, he encourages them
with the News of a Vidory, which it feems the Par
fon knew nothing of, thoprefent in the Field of Battle,
and never faw any Marks of Triumph on that account,
till he and his Brother Juftice came to rejoice together
for it at the Triple-Tree. The Juftice however d y d the
beft Proteftant, becaufe he begs pardon for the fake of
his Redeemer, and does not feem to rely altogether
upon his own Merits, as the Parfon did.
POSTSCRIPT.
/ might reafonably have expe&ed my Life would have
been fayed, fince I had obtained five Reprieves : but I find
that the Duke of Hannover, and his Evil Counsellors who
guide him, have fo little Virtue and Honour tbemfelvcs,
that they are refolv^d not to fpare my Life^ becaufe I would
not fur chafe it upon bafe and dijhonourable Terms- I have
reafon to think, that at fir ft I could have frcuSd both Life
and Fortune, if 1 would have pleaded Guilty j and I doubt
not but 1 might fince have obtained Favour^ if I would have
petitioned in a vile fcandalous manner. But I was refolvd
to do nothing whereby I Jhould have difowrid my King, and
deny d my Principles : and I thank my good G od, both for
infpiring me with this holy Refolution, and for giving me
the Grace to perform it.
July 13. 17*6. John Hall.
REMARKS.
This is fo malicious and filly, that it carries its An*
tidote along with it He was oblig d to the Govern
ment for five Reprieves, and if we may believe what
he fays, tis entirely owing to himfelf that he did not
obtain a Pardon, becaufe he would not petition. Twas
highly reafonable then, that when Mercy wou d not do,
Juftice fhou d take place. Tis certain, that a Petition
for Mercy cou d be nothing fo vile, as forfeiting his
Life by Perjury and Rebellion. But by this we fee
what aukard Notions our Jacobites have of what they
call Honour.
I fhall conclude the whole with obferving, that thefe
two Speeches are enough to convince the World, that
the Oaths of the High-Church Party are not to be
truited while living, nor their Speeches when dead,
FINIS.
