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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Warning to Traytors, Or a Brief ACCOUNT Of the Appredenaing, Tryal, Condemnation, Behaviour and Execution of William Di&s;inie late E&s;q; Who was Executed for High-Trea&s;on On <HI>Monday the</HI> 25.th day of <HI>June,</HI> 1685. AT Kenington Common In the County of <HI>Surry.</HI></HEAD>
<P>STrange it is, that this Nation who&s;e Natives for Huma|nity and good Nature have been accounted of, through|out the known World, &s;hould &s;o much degenerate in the&s;e latter Ages, as to produce a &s;ort of Men, who are &s;o wedded to ob&s;tinacy and grounded in Rebellious Principles, that no favours can oblige them to peaceable Obedience and hone&s;t Loyalty, nor fear of Puni&s;hment deter them from of|fending again&s;t the known Laws, much le&s;s induce them to a hearty compliance with their Duty and Allegiance to their Sovereign, though they are not in the lea&s;t ignorant that the Laws of God and Man, mo&s;t &s;trictly enjoyn it; the one un|der the Penalty of Eternal, and the other under that of Tem|poral
<PB N="2" REF="2">or Corporal Puni&s;hment, nay, &s;o re&s;tle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s &amp; Implacable is this <HI>Fanatick</HI> Generation, of Men that pretend to &s;o much Zeal and Fervency; &s;hrouding their Diabolical De&s;igns and Trea|&s;onable Enterprizes under the Veil of Hypocri&s;ie, that rather than their Malice to involve us in Blood and Mi&s;chief, &s;hall be unimployed, they will choo&s;e to Act not only contrary to the Rules of Rea&s;on, but frequently contrary to the Dictates of their own Con&s;ciences, doing tho&s;e things which they are Con&s;cious; they ought to flie and avoid, as may be ob&s;er|ved in the Practice, or wicked undertaking of Mr. <HI>Di&s;inie</HI> who&s;e Ra&s;hne&s;s has brought him &s;hame and di&s;grace, in the following Manner.</P>
<P>This Per&s;on being well de&s;cended of Loyal Parentage, &s;o far degenerated that contrary to the known Laws in which he was Practitioner, and in favour of the Rebels now in open Rebellion; He Printed, and cau&s;ed to be Printed, a Dan|gerous, Malicious, and Trea&s;onable Libel, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To inflame, &s;tir up, and incite his Maje&s;ties Subjects to Trea&s;on and Re|bellion; to bring which to pa&s;s he had gotten him a Pre&s;s and Printing materials, at his Hou&s;e on <HI>Lambeth</HI> Side; but as no Plots and Devices have hitherto been capable of pro&s;per|ing again&s;t our Gracious Sovereign, &s;o this piece of wicked|ne&s;s was di&s;covered e're it could be brought to the perfection intended, and immediately a Warrant delivered to one of his Maje&s;ties Me&s;&s;engers to apprehend the Partys and Papers, who accompanied with &s;ome Files of Mu&s;queteirs, fir&s;t be&s;et the Hou&s;e, and then breaking open the Doors and runing up Stairs they &s;ound Mr. <HI>Di&s;inie</HI> in his Shirt, who at their ap|proach cried out Thieves and Murther, but being &s;ecured, they found in his Breeches that (lay upon a Chair) a pair of Pocket Pi&s;tols and a Dagger with the Sheath fa&s;tened to the in|&s;ide of the Pocket, and proceeding farther di&s;covered &s;ome of the Papers, as likewi&s;e the Printing materials which were placed in a Celler that had formerly been a K tchen; when taking him and one who went for his Female Servant (but has &s;ince appeared to be his Nightly Companion) they were after due Examination and proof of the Fact Committed, and on <HI>Monday</HI> the 21th. of <HI>June,</HI> 1685. A &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ion be|ing i&s;&s;ued out for that purpo&s;e, they were Arraigned at the <HI>Mar&s;hal&s;ea</HI> in <HI>Southwark</HI> for <HI>High-Trea&s;on,</HI> and pleading not Guilty, <HI>Di&s;inie</HI> de&s;ired Council but was denyed as not allowa|ble
<PB N="3" REF="2">in &s;uch Capital Ca&s;es, yet upon farther Reque&s;t he had leave to make u&s;e of what Books he thought fit, to prepare him for his Defence, and time given him till the 25th. of <HI>June,</HI> 1685. When being brought to the Barr and the In|dictment Read and opened, it appeared again&s;t him upon Oath, that he had actually Printed tho&s;e Trea&s;onable Libels, and publickly read one of them at the entertainment of &s;ome per&s;ons that came to vi&s;it him; as likewi&s;e his Intention to di&s;per&s;e them; together with the manner of Di&s;covery, and finding the Libels, and printing materials, and other Circum|&s;tances &s;o plainly Evident, that he could make little or no de|fence, whereupon, after a full hearing, wherein he had all the rea&s;onable liberty imaginable to make his Objections the Jury found him Guilty of <HI>High-Trea&s;on,</HI> and he thereupon recei|ved Sentence, <HI>to be drawn upon a Hurdle to the place of Execu|tion, there to be hang'd by the Neck not till dead, but being Cut down alive, his privy members to be Cut off, his B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">wels taken out and Burnt before his Face, his Head to be &s;evered from his Body, and his Body to be divided into four quarters, and to be di&s;po&s;ed of at his Maje&s;ties plea&s;ure.</HI></P>
<P>After, Sentence he &s;eemed much dejected, as being con&s;ci|ous of &s;o great a Crime, by which &s;o much mi&s;chief might have happened had not a timely Di&s;covery prevented it; and percieving the Day of Execution (the reward of his Trea|&s;ons) approached, a concluding with him&s;elf that there could not be rea&s;onably any mercy expected for &s;o notorious a wickedne&s;s, he began &s;eriou&s;ly to bethink him of his pa&s;t &s;ins and of a future State (appearing to &s;uch as attended him) to be much concerned that he had pulled &s;uch mi&s;erie and di&s;|grace upon him&s;elf, when he might have lived peaceably and happily had he followed his bu&s;ine&s;s, and much at that rate continued he till the Day, being the 29th. of <HI>June,</HI> &amp; having taken leave of &s;uch Friends as came to pay him their la&s;t vi&s;it in the <HI>Mar&s;hal&s;ea</HI> Pri&s;on, was put into a <HI>Sledge</HI> brought for that purpo&s;e, about Nine in the Morning, and attended with a &s;trong Guard of the Sheriffs men and Con&s;tables, was convey|ed to <HI>Kenington Common</HI> the place appointed for his Execution, appearing all the way much dejected, looking wi&s;hfully up|on the People, and often lifting up his Hands and Eyes towards Heaven, continuing &s;o to do, till he came to the place afore|&s;aid
<PB N="4" REF="3">where he was to &s;uffer; when being taken out of the <HI>Sledge</HI> and put into a Cart, he prayed to him&s;elf a con&s;ider|able time, and was prayed with and exhorted to con&s;ider his latter end, &s;eeing there were but a few moments between him and Eternity; which done and the u&s;ual Devotion end|ed (he not in the lea&s;t denying the Fact for which he &s;uffer|ed,) The Cart drew away; when having hang'd a con&s;ider|able time he was Cut down and quartered, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and his Quarters brought to <HI>Newgate,</HI> in Order to their being affixed on divers Gates of the City, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as a Monument of his Trea&s;on.</P>
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<P>This may be Printed, <HI>July</HI> the 2d. 1685</P>
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<P><HI>London;</HI> Printed by <HI>E. Mallet,</HI> 1685.</P>
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