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A40577	King, Augustin, d. 1688.	A full and true account of the tryal, condemnation, and execution with the last dying words of Augustin King Who was executed neer Hartford-Townsend, on Wednesday March the 21st. 1687/8.	1688.0		.xml	application/xml	1887	59	56	Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Of all , which having notice , he began to apply himselfe to repent and consider his latter end , and had several visits from a Parson who assured him of the salvation of his Soul , if not his Body , in order to which , some applications were made by his means , but proving ineffectual , the Priest acquainted him he must prepare for Death : upon which he was desired by Mr. King , to desist in his visits , for he knew the way to heaven better then he could shew him , and craved the asistance of some Dissenting Ministers , as also some worthy Divines of the Church of England , and so with great zeale and assurance , h● cheerfully waited for the day of his Execution , which was o● Wednesday last after the Sun was down , an other who was exect●ted with him , was carryed in a Cart , but he had the favour to walke to the Gallowes which stood a little out of the Town o● Hartford , the high Shrieff walked by his side with whom he discoursed all the way as they went , often smiling and freely telling them any thing they asked or he knew , he particularly confessed a Robbery he lately committed on a Pedlar in Essex for which an eminent Cytizen was accused upon the oaths of three but cleared by his Jury , but denyed being concerned any other way than sinisterly in that Robbery for which he came to suffer he gave an account of the evil practices of several Inn-keepers &c.	cache/A40577.xml	txt/A40577.txt
