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             True copy of the paper delivered to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex by Mr. William Anderton at the place of execution, which he designed there to have spoken, but being frequently interrupted by the ordinary, Mr. Samuel Smith, desired the said sheriffs to publish or dispose of it as they should think fit, seeing a dying man was not suffered to speak
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             June 15, 1693.
          
           
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           True
           Copy
           of
           the
           PAPER
           delivered
           to
           the
           SHERIFFS
           of
           London
           and
           Middlesex
           ,
           by
           Mr.
           
             William
             Anderton
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Place
           of
           Execution
           ,
           which
           he
           designed
           there
           to
           have
           spoken
           ,
           but
           being
           frequently
           interrupted
           by
           the
           Ordinary
           ,
           Mr.
           
             Samuel
             Smith
          
           ,
           desired
           the
           said
           Sheriffs
           
             to
             publish
             or
             dispose
             of
             it
             as
             they
             should
             think
             fit
             ,
          
           seeing
           a
           dying
           Man
           was
           not
           suffered
           to
           speak
           .
        
         
           
             To
             my
             Countrey-men
             .
          
        
         
           LIberty
           and
           Property
           hath
           for
           some
           Years
           made
           an
           hideous
           Cry
           in
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           nothing
           more
           than
           the
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           the
           Subject
           is
           the
           Pretence
           of
           our
           present
           Deliverers
           ;
           and
           doubtless
           it
           was
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           these
           that
           so
           many
           of
           my
           infatuated
           and
           blind
           Countrey-men
           rebelled
           against
           their
           Lawful
           and
           Injured
           Monarch
           ,
           whilst
           Religion
           (
           Rebellions
           Umbrage
           )
           was
           made
           the
           Covert
           of
           the
           hidden
           Designs
           of
           those
           who
           have
           now
           demonstratively
           shewn
           ,
           that
           they
           sought
           nothing
           less
           than
           our
           Ruine
           :
           And
           that
           these
           were
           only
           Pretences
           to
           gain
           their
           Ends
           ,
           the
           very
           Blind
           ,
           although
           they
           cannot
           see
           ,
           yet
           most
           certainly
           feel
           it
           .
           Under
           the
           like
           Pretences
           do
           our
           Deliverers
           still
           continue
           to
           deliver
           us
           even
           from
           what
           they
           please
           ,
           that
           they
           think
           will
           but
           in
           the
           least
           help
           to
           effect
           what
           they
           came
           for
           :
           Under
           the
           Notion
           of
           the
           Necessity
           of
           a
           War
           they
           deliver
           us
           from
           our
           Money
           ,
           and
           from
           our
           Traffick
           and
           Commerce
           ,
           by
           which
           so
           great
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           is
           sustained
           :
           Under
           the
           Notion
           of
           carrying
           it
           on
           ,
           they
           kidnap
           our
           young
           Men
           ,
           the
           Flower
           of
           our
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           directly
           contrary
           to
           Law
           transport
           them
           ;
           and
           to
           save
           their
           own
           Forreigners
           ,
           put
           them
           in
           the
           first
           Onsets
           of
           their
           Battles
           ,
           as
           the
           Heathens
           did
           the
           Christians
           of
           Old
           ,
           that
           their
           Enemies
           Swords
           might
           be
           blunted
           with
           killing
           them
           ,
           before
           they
           came
           to
           encounter
           them
           :
           They
           exhaust
           all
           our
           Stores
           both
           for
           Sea
           and
           Land
           ,
           and
           carry
           away
           all
           our
           Artillery
           ;
           and
           if
           any
           Man
           seem
           but
           to
           disapprove
           of
           these
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Law
           they
           murther
           him
           :
           Nay
           ,
           if
           they
           do
           but
           so
           much
           as
           suppose
           him
           not
           to
           be
           on
           their
           Side
           ,
           he
           must
           be
           a
           Traitor
           ,
           and
           no
           matter
           what
           the
           Law
           says
           ,
           they
           say
           he
           shall
           die
           .
        
         
           Can
           any
           thing
           be
           more
           plain
           to
           demonstrate
           this
           than
           my
           present
           Case
           ?
           My
           supposed
           Crime
           was
           Printing
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           the
           Witnesses
           could
           personally
           say
           against
           me
           ,
           was
           ,
           That
           I
           was
           a
           Man
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           had
           called
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           Hook-nose
           ,
           though
           I
           protest
           I
           never
           did
           ;
           not
           one
           of
           them
           could
           say
           ,
           nor
           did
           they
           offer
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           I
           ever
           printed
           the
           Books
           of
           which
           they
           accuse
           me
           ,
           or
           procured
           them
           to
           be
           printed
           ,
           or
           published
           any
           of
           them
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           Materials
           were
           mine
           ,
           or
           that
           I
           hired
           the
           Room
           where
           they
           were
           found
           ;
           but
           I
           was
           an
           ill
           Man
           ,
           and
           that
           was
           sufficient
           :
           By
           which
           't
           is
           plain
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           resolved
           right
           or
           wrong
           to
           have
           my
           Life
           .
        
         
           That
           they
           designed
           not
           to
           Try
           but
           to
           Convict
           me
           is
           as
           plain
           ;
           for
           they
           refused
           positively
           to
           allow
           me
           Counsel
           to
           such
           Matters
           of
           Law
           ,
           as
           was
           never
           refused
           to
           any
           before
           ;
           and
           though
           I
           caused
           several
           Statutes
           to
           be
           read
           ,
           some
           to
           prove
           that
           there
           must
           be
           two
           Witnesses
           at
           least
           to
           the
           Fact
           ,
           others
           ,
           that
           though
           there
           had
           been
           two
           ,
           as
           there
           was
           not
           one
           ,
           yet
           positively
           declared
           that
           it
           was
           not
           Treason
           :
           Nay
           ,
           the
           very
           last
           Session
           of
           Parliament
           was
           it
           enacted
           ,
           That
           the
           Printer
           of
           Seditious
           and
           Treasonable
           Books
           should
           for
           the
           first
           Offence
           be
           punished
           no
           otherwise
           than
           not
           to
           follow
           his
           Trade
           for
           three
           Years
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           second
           Offence
           never
           to
           follow
           it
           more
           ,
           and
           such
           farther
           Punishment
           as
           seemed
           fit
           to
           the
           Court
           ,
           
             not
             extending
             to
             Life
             or
             Limb.
          
           Now
           though
           mine
           (
           had
           it
           been
           proved
           )
           had
           but
           been
           the
           first
           ,
           yet
           you
           see
           contrary
           and
           in
           direct
           opposition
           to
           the
           Law
           ,
           they
           make
           it
           High-Treason
           :
           And
           when
           the
           Jury
           could
           not
           agree
           to
           find
           me
           Guilty
           ,
           and
           came
           down
           to
           ask
           the
           Court
           whether
           the
           finding
           these
           Things
           there
           ,
           and
           supposing
           them
           to
           be
           mine
           ,
           since
           it
           could
           not
           be
           prov'd
           that
           I
           printed
           these
           Books
           ,
           or
           had
           made
           any
           use
           of
           them
           ,
           could
           affect
           my
           Life
           ?
           I
           say
           ,
           when
           the
           Jury
           ask'd
           this
           Question
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           Treby
           told
           them
           positively
           ,
           
             No
             ,
             it
             did
             not
          
           ;
           yet
           withal
           he
           told
           them
           ,
           
             That
             that
             was
             not
             their
             Business
             ,
             their
             Business
             was
             to
             find
             me
             Guilty
             of
             Printing
             :
          
           And
           while
           they
           stayed
           ,
           the
           Court
           frown'd
           upon
           them
           to
           that
           degree
           ,
           that
           the
           Foreman
           told
           them
           ,
           he
           was
           not
           to
           be
           frighted
           ;
           upon
           which
           they
           publickly
           reviled
           them
           ,
           calling
           them
           ,
           
             ill
             Men
             ,
             ill
             Subjects
             ,
             and
             a
             Pack
             of
             Knaves
          
           ;
           and
           so
           terrified
           them
           into
           a
           Compliance
           .
           That
           this
           is
           true
           ,
           those
           who
           were
           near
           know
           too
           well
           ,
           although
           the
           partial
           Writer
           of
           the
           Trials
           hath
           most
           perfidiously
           publish'd
           not
           only
           an
           unfair
           ,
           imperfect
           ,
           and
           lame
           Account
           ,
           but
           hath
           also
           stuff'd
           it
           with
           downright
           Untruths
           and
           Falshoods
           ,
           and
           left
           out
           whatsoever
           made
           for
           me
           ;
           not
           so
           much
           as
           mentioning
           the
           Contradictions
           of
           the
           Witnesses
           in
           what
           they
           did
           swear
           ,
           their
           swearing
           to
           some
           things
           that
           made
           for
           me
           ,
           and
           when
           I
           took
           hold
           of
           them
           they
           denied
           them
           ,
           nor
           hath
           he
           in
           the
           least
           told
           the
           World
           of
           the
           Judges
           Over-ruling
           whatsoever
           I
           offered
           ,
           without
           giving
           any
           other
           Answer
           than
           that
           
             it
             should
             be
             so
             because
             they
             would
             have
             it
             so
          
           ;
           with
           many
           other
           such
           Things
           ,
           which
           the
           conscientious
           Auditors
           can
           testify
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           I
           pray
           consider
           where
           is
           this
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           ?
           Where
           the
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           the
           Subject
           ?
           Nay
           ,
           where
           the
           very
           Laws
           themselves
           ?
           And
           consequently
           where
           is
           the
           Security
           of
           any
           Man
           ?
           Why
           ,
           even
           in
           the
           Deliverers
           Pockets
           ,
           where
           your
           Money
           is
           ,
           and
           where
           also
           without
           all
           doubt
           ,
           if
           you
           look
           not
           well
           to
           your Selves
           ,
           your
           Estates
           ere
           long
           will
           be
           there
           likewise
           .
           What
           are
           these
           Proceedings
           but
           Arbitrary
           in
           a
           Superlative
           manner
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           no
           Reign
           ever
           produced
           before
           ?
           These
           were
           they
           you
           were
           heretofore
           only
           afraid
           of
           ,
           being
           jealous
           without
           just
           Cause
           ;
           but
           now
           you
           see
           them
           actually
           come
           upon
           you
           .
           I
           hope
           you
           your selves
           will
           put
           a
           stop
           to
           them
           ,
           by
           laying
           these
           Proceedings
           before
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           had
           it
           been
           sitting
           at
           this
           present
           these
           Proceedings
           durst
           not
           have
           been
           practised
           ;
           and
           I
           pray
           God
           to
           put
           so
           speedy
           an
           end
           to
           them
           ,
           that
           as
           I
           am
           the
           first
           ,
           so
           I
           may
           be
           the
           last
           that
           may
           suffer
           by
           them
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           hitherto
           lived
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           Orthodox
           Church
           of
           England
           as
           by
           Law
           Established
           ,
           and
           I
           declare
           I
           now
           die
           in
           the
           Unity
           of
           the
           same
           :
           Therefore
           ,
           according
           to
           its
           Discipline
           ,
           I
           hold
           my self
           obliged
           to
           ask
           Pardon
           of
           the
           whole
           World
           ,
           of
           every
           particular
           Person
           whom
           I
           have
           any
           ways
           offended
           ;
           and
           I
           do
           freely
           and
           sincerely
           forgive
           every
           one
           that
           has
           offended
           me
           ,
           particularly
           my
           most
           false
           and
           perjured
           Witnesses
           ,
           and
           among
           them
           more
           particularly
           Robin
           Stephens
           ,
           my
           most
           unjust
           and
           unrighteous
           Judges
           ,
           and
           my
           repenting
           Jury
           ;
           and
           I
           pray
           God
           may
           not
           lay
           this
           their
           Sin
           of
           wilful
           Murther
           to
           their
           Charge
           at
           the
           General
           Bar
           ,
           where
           they
           shall
           appear
           as
           Criminals
           ,
           and
           not
           Judges
           .
        
         
           MAY
           the
           Almighty
           bless
           ,
           prèserve
           ,
           prosper
           ,
           and
           restore
           our
           Sovereign
           Lord
           King
           JAMES
           ,
           to
           the
           just
           Possesision
           of
           his
           indubitable
           lawful
           Crowns
           ,
           strengthen
           him
           that
           he
           may
           vanquish
           and
           overcome
           all
           his
           Enemies
           here
           on
           Earth
           ,
           and
           crown
           him
           with
           eternal
           Glory
           hereafter
           :
           And
           that
           he
           may
           never
           want
           Heirs
           to
           inberit
           his
           Crown
           ,
           bless
           I
           beseech
           thee
           ,
           O
           God
           ,
           His
           Royal
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           and
           give
           him
           such
           a
           Numerable
           Issue
           ,
           that
           there
           may
           never
           want
           one
           of
           his
           Loins
           to
           sway
           the
           Scepters
           of
           these
           Kingdoms
           so
           long
           as
           Sun
           or
           Moon
           endure
           ▪
           Amen
           .
           Amen
           .
        
         
           
             
               June
               15.
               1693.
               
            
          
           
             William
             Anderton
             .
          
        
      
    
     
  

