The Behaviour, last words, and execution of the five grand Jesuits and popish priests viz. Thomas White, alias Whitebread ... William Harcourt ... John Fenwick ... John Gavern, alias Gawen ... & Anthony Turner ... who all justly suffered at Tyburn on the 20th of June, 1679 ... 1679 Approx. 11 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-04 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A69551 Wing B1708A ESTC R19417 12114884 ocm 12114884 54273

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 eng Whitbread, Thomas, 1618-1679. Turner, Anthony, 1628 or 9-1679. Gawen, John, 1640-1679. Barrow, William, 1610-1679. Caldwell, John, 1628-1679. Popish Plot, 1678. 2020-09-21 Content of 'availability' element changed when EEBO Phase 2 texts came into the public domain 2009-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-09 Sampled and proofread 2009-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Behaviour, laſt Words, and Execution OF THE Five grand JESUITS AND POPISH PRIESTS: VIZ. Thomas White, alias Whitebread, Provincial of the Jeſuits throughout England, and pretended ARCH-BISHOP of Canterbury. William Harcourt,—Nominal Rector of London. John Fenwick, —Procurator of the Jeſuits. John Gavern, alias Gawen, & Anthony Turner, Two Jeſuits deeply concern'd in the PLOT. WHO All juſtly Suffered at TYBƲRN on the 20th of June, 1679. (Not for being either Jeſuits, Prieſts, or Papiſts, but) For their apparent Crimes of HIGH-TREASON againſt the Life of the King, and reſolv'd Deſignes of deſtroying and ſubverting the eſtabliſht Government and Religion of ENGLAND. Sera, ſed certa venit vindicta Dei.

THe Five before-mentioned notorious Criminals, after a long Confinement, being on the 13th of this inſtant June brought to their Tryals; and upon full and demonſtrative Evidence, found guilty of the horrid Treaſons they ſtood charged with, were for the ſame, on Saturday laſt, ſentenced to be Drawn, Hang'd, and Quartered; which this day was accordingly Executed.

We ſhall not here repeat the helliſh Treaſons proved againſt them, as having not onely reſolv'd upon, but ſuborn'd perſons to attempt the Sacred Life of his moſt gracious Majeſty, our lawful and undoubted Soveraign; There having already been publiſhed a ſmall Book in Quarto, giving the World ſome brief (but as to the matter of Fact, moſt true) Account thereof: Though ſince there hath privately crept abroad a Sheet in Folio, pretending the ſame; but in truth not onely plagiarizing the very words of that former Narrative, but impudently prejudicing Truth, and that more full and exact Copy of the Proceedings againſt them in due time to be emitted, by ſuggeſting as if that Triobolary Pamphlet were a full and exact Account of their Tryals: whereas That is onely to be expected from the Pains and Care of Authority.

It will be enough for us to ſay, That Four of theſe moſt dangerous Malefactors were plainly prov'd to have agreed upon, and under their reſpective hands, at the grand Conſultation of Jeſuits, (held at the White-horſe-Tavern in the Strand, April, the 24th, 1678, and thence adjourned to Wildhouſe, and ſeveral other leſſer Colonies, as they call'd them) to murther the King, as the onely Expedient to carry on their damnable Deſignes of ſubverting the Covernment, and introducing Popiſh Superſtitions: and that in purſuance thereof, they had hired ſeveral perſons to effect the ſaid horrid Murther, as Grove and Pickering to ſtabb or ſhoot him; Wakeman to poyſon him; Four Iriſh Ruffians to aſſaſſinate him at Windſor, &c.

Nay farther, it was made appear, that they had prepared received, and diſpoſed of Commiſſions to raiſe Forces, and would have had fifty thouſand Men in Arms, to have carried on this bloody deſign; and the better to colour the ſame, would at firſt have caſt the odium of the Murther on the Presbyterians, that by dividing and weakning Proteſtants in particular Parties, they might have been better enabled to deſtroy them all in general. This was proved to have been declared at a Conſultation of Popiſh Prieſts in Staffordſhire. And moreover, that by a Letter directed thither, bearing date the very ſame night Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was Murthered, they had there news of his being killed before ever his Body was found, or the Fact diſcovered at London. And in this intrigue in the Country, the fifth Jeſuite was proved to be concerned, who was likewiſe violently preſumed to have been preſent at the aforeſaid Conſult at London. becauſe his name was thereunto ſubſcribed, though the Witneſſes not particularly remembring to have ſeen him write the ſame, did conſcienciouſly forbear, directly and poſitively to charge him therewith.

After they were Condemned, they were kept ſeperately in diſtinct Chambers in the Preſs-yard, Newgate, but their friends had (by leave of the Court) liberty to come to them in the preſence of a Keeper. With a confidence uſual to thoſe of their perſwaſion, and eſpecially of their Society, they appeared outwardly not much concerned with the thoughts of death, but rather ſeem'd to indulge themſelves; and indeed what preparation for death can we expect from thoſe, who think Treaſon Merit, and that whoever dies for promoting the Intereſt of their Church, though by the blackeſt and moſt barbarous, and bloody means, ſhall yet be Kalendar'd for a Saint, or at leaſt a Martyr?

Theſe perſons being of the moſt peſtilent Fraternity, who blaſphemouſly call themſelves, The Society of Jeſus, it may not be improper to give the Reader ſome ſhort account of their Original, and the Pranks they have formerly plaid abroad in other Kingdoms, to let the World ſee, That Treaſon, and the contrivance of Diſturbances to Civil States, is no new or ſtrange thing, but a natural, and as it were, eſſential property of a Jeſuite.

Their firſt Founder was Ignatius Loyola, a raſkally Spaniſh Souldier, born in Biſcay, about the year 1491; who being maim'd in the Wars, and unable through poverty, to proſecute his wonted Debaucheries, in a melancholly mood, turn'd Superſtitious Zealot, and getting together certain ſeduced followers, offered his ſervice to the Pope, who finding his power ſhockt and endangered by the attacks of Luther, and other wreſtlers for Reformation, was glad to accept of their ſervice at a dead lift: for ſo ſaith Maffaeus a Jeſuite, in his ſecond Book of the Life of Loyola, Cap. 12. — When Ignatius, by the means of Cardinal Contarenus, offered the Pope the form of their Order, wherein (amongſt other things) it was contained, That to the other three ſolemn Vows of Poverty, Chaſtity, and Obedience, common to other Orders, they would adde a fourth ſpecial Vow, That whitherſoever it ſhould pleaſe the Pope to ſend them, without grudging, delay, or reward, they would readily go. As ſoon (I ſay) as the Pope had viewed this Propoſal, he ſaid, Sure theſe men are ſtirred up by ſpecial Providence, at ſuch a time to be an help to the afflicted State of the Church!

On this account, in the year 1540, this Order was confirmed by the name of the Society of Jeſus, (for certain blaſphemous reaſons by them alleadged, which I am aſhamed to mention) by Pope Paul the third; whom all Hiſtorians record to have been a Conjurer, and one that proſtituted his own Siſter formerly, to obtain a Cardinals Cap; poyſon'd his own Mother, and Nephew, that he might enjoy all the Eſtate of the Family of the Farneſe's; and a thouſand other Villainies.

From ſuch an Author, and ſuch an Eſtabliſher, ſprang up the Society of Jeſuits; whoſe firſt Promoter, limping Ignatius, is recorded to have given for his Motto, theſe words: Cavete vobis Principes; Kings and Princes, look to your ſelves! and indeed they have had reaſon: For two of the French Kings have been ſince murthered by their Inſtigation; not to mention the Prince of Orange, kill'd by one of their Pupils. Moſt Kingdoms and States in Chriſtendom have been by them Embroil'd, inſomuch that they have been for their Villanies baniſht the Kingdom of France, and the Republique of Venice; though in both places they have inſinuated themſelves. And the beſt way of preventing their Incurſions, is that of Sweden; where, by Law, if any of them are found, they are forthwith to be Guelt: which has hitherto clear'd the Realm of them. Nor ever will Europe be at quiet, till theſe peſtilent reſtleſs Vermine are (like the proud pragmatical Knights-Templers of old) by the general Conſent of Princes ſuppreſſed, as 'tis their Intereſt whether Papiſts or Proteſtants, to do.

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On Saturday the 14th inſtant, there was another of theſe Plotters, a Councellor of the Temple tryed, found guilty, and Condemned, but he, in reguard of the multiplicity of his buſineſs, and the many perſons he was intereſted with, whoſe Writings and Concerns being in his hands, it might have been no ſmall prejudice to them in their Eſtates, if he ſhould ſo ſuddenly have been cut off, and therefore on that account he obtained a Reprieve for ſome few days.

The other five, on this preſent Friday, June the 20th. were drawn on three Sleds, each with fower Horſes, about half an hour after nine a clock in the morning from Newgate; Mr. Harcoat and Mr. Whitebread went in the firſt Sled, Mr. Gawen, (who as we are credibly informed, was a Tailors Son in Covent Garden) and Mr. Turner in the next; and Father Fenwick in the laſt by himſelf. The firſt two were in Mourning, the others in colour'd Coats. They all behaved themſelves very reſolutely in their paſſage, and onely one of them had a Book in his hand. The Guard was extraordinary, and ſo was the concourſe of people; and if they made ſuch a grand diſturbance dying, what diſmal effects muſt we think they would have made had they lived, and their Helliſh Plot taken effect.

As for Mr. Fenwick, he was a Northumberland man, and it was particularly obſerved, that ſeveral Quakers, during the time of his confinement, came to inquire after him; and there is good reaſon to believe, that he had not infrequently been an eminent Holderforth amongſt them.

When they came to Tyburn, Harcoat and Whitebread were firſt tyed up, then the next two Gawen and Turner; they were all four turned off together: and after that, Mr. Fenwick ſuffered alone. None of them ſaid any thing conſiderable at the place of Execution, but with the uſual aſſurance of that Faction, died without any publick Confeſſion of their Crimes, ſeeming onely to mutter certain private Prayers to themſelves, and ſo were wafted to a dubious Eternity.

FINIS.