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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The LAST SPEECH OF THOMAS THWING Prie&s;t; Executed at YORK for High-Tren&s;on; <HI>On</HI> <DATE>Saturday <HI>the</HI> 23. <HI>of</HI> October 1680.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Publi&s;hed <HI>verbatim</HI> as he &s;poke it; For preventing all (Popi&s;h or other) Mi&s;repre&s;entations.</HEAD>
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<BIBL>Matth. xxvii. v. xxiv.</BIBL>
<Q>Vos Videritis.</Q>
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<Q><P>THis &s;udden news of my Execution [after my Reprieve,] coming &s;o un|expectedly, made me fear I &s;hould have more &s;everity &s;hew'd Me than has been to others; and con&s;equently, that <HI>I</HI> &s;hould not have my full liberty to declare my mind in the place of my Execution, Therefore <HI>I</HI> have briefly expre&s;t my &s;elf in Writing as followeth.</P>
<P><LABEL>Fir&s;t,</LABEL> As <HI>I</HI> hope for Salvation, and Benefit by the Blood and Pa&s;&s;ion of my Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, <HI>I</HI> mo&s;t &s;incerely Prote&s;t, that what <HI>R. Balron</HI> and <HI>L. Mowbray</HI> &s;wore again&s;t me, was ab&s;olutely fal&s;e; For here in the pre&s;ence of the Eter|nal God, <HI>I</HI> declare <HI>I</HI> never knew of any Con&s;ult at <HI>Barnbow,</HI> lea&s;t prejudicial to the KING or Kingdom; Nor Was <HI>I</HI> ever at any &s;uch Con&s;ult or meeting With Sir <HI>Thomas Ga&s;coin,</HI> Mr. <HI>Ga&s;coin</HI> his Son, Sir <HI>Miles Stapleton,</HI> the Lady <HI>Tempe&s;t, Mr. Ingleby,</HI> or any other, where any thing was ever treated, &s;poken, or Written, about killing the KING, or alteration of the Government; Nor did <HI>I</HI> ever &s;ee, or know of any <HI>List</HI> of Names of Per&s;ons mention'd, and &s;worn by them again&s;t me.</P>
<P><LABEL>Secondly,</LABEL> Upon my Salvation <HI>I</HI> declare, that <HI>I</HI> never have been in my whole life time Guilty, even &s;o much as in Thought of any Trea&s;on again&s;t his Maje&s;ty, or the Kingdom, being directly contrary to the Principles of our Faith.</P>
<P><LABEL>Thirdly,</LABEL> That although <HI>I</HI> have, and do declare again&s;t the <HI>Oath of Allegiance</HI> as it is worded, Yet it is only by rea&s;on of &s;ome Clau&s;es therein contained, not pertaining to <HI>Allegiance;</HI> And therefore, if an Oath, containing nothing but <HI>Allegiance,</HI> had been legally tendred me, <HI>I</HI> &s;hould have thought it a &s;in to refu&s;e it.</P>
<P><LABEL>La&s;tly,</LABEL> <HI>I</HI> acknowledge my &s;elf a PRIEST, and to have about 15 years per|formed the Prie&s;tly Function; which <HI>I</HI> am &s;o far from denying, that <HI>I</HI> thought it the greate&s;t Honour imaginable.</P>
<P>Now Dear Country-men, having made this Prote&s;tation in the mo&s;t plain and &s;erious terms <HI>I</HI> could, without all Equivocation, or mental Re&s;ervation what&s;oever; <HI>I</HI> appeal to the Eternal Judge, whether all good Chri&s;tians ought not rather to believe what is here in this manner &s;worn by me in my pre&s;ent Circum&s;tance, than what was &s;worn by my Accu&s;ers&punc; whom notwith&s;tanding, <HI>I</HI> beg of God Almighty to Forgive; As al&s;o the Jury, and all others, who have in any kind concur'd to my Death.</P></Q>
<P>Having full time allow'd him, he &s;poke much more (with a clear Voice, and (as they &s;ay) a remarkably Chearful Countenance,) to the &s;ame Effect, declaring his Innocence as to any <HI>Plot,</HI> his Loyalty to the King, his Charity to his Neighbour, his Love and Piety to God, which he expre&s;&s;ed in Fervent Prayers and Ejaculations: But the&s;e Particulars not being by him committed to Writing, we mu&s;t expect a more verbal account of each from tho&s;e Who were actually pre&s;ent at his Execution.</P>
<P>Ju&s;t as he went off the Ladder, he was di&s;tinctly heard to &s;ay the&s;e words, <HI>Sweet Je&s;us Receive my Soul.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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