TIs very fit the World should have some Account of what was said at the Execution of these men, and how they came to say what they did.

Their Confession (as 'tis called) was a Denyal of the Fact, which was Pen'd and prepar'd in a very Formall manner, and taken out of the Pocket of Hill, who had neither Pen, Ink nor Paper, all the while he was in Newgate; Yet after he was dead, Captain Richardson the Master of Newgate, saw the Executioner take it out of his Pocket;

Which is Verbatim as follows.

This Paper was shewn to Hills Wife; and she being demand­ed whether it was her Husbands Hand-Writing; affirmed it was not: And being further asked whether she convey [...]d it to him, she protested she knew not how he came by it, and declared that she never saw it before.

Of this Lesson Hill repeated as much as (in such an ill time for conning) he could remember; wherein these particulars are very observable.

First, That these words were not the Prisoners own words, but prepared by another for him to say.

And that in a matter which required only plain Truth, but not Art, and so the Writers skill was needless.

For all that the Prisoner could instruct the Penner in, must be, that he was not guilty of the Fact; which certainly would have been much more Credible out of his Mouth from his Heart, then out of this Paper from his Memory.

[Page 3] But the Obedience of the dying Proselite, and the Charity of the Instructing Priest, (for such without question is the Indicter,) is very remarkable.

For no man certainly in Articulo Mortis would have troubled his mind with a parcel of formal words, if the Awe of the Priest had not been prevalent, even above his considerations for a future state.

But above all, The exemplary Charity of the Holy Father is not to be forgotten; who after he has made his dying Penitent say that from his heart he did forgive his Accusers; yet in his very next breath (which was almost his last too) he makes him cyte both Judge, Jury and Witnesses, with all their partakers, before the great Tribunal of God's Justice, to answer for the wrong they have done him

Which (besides the incoherent Non-sense) contains in it, First the very Spirit of a Romish Priest. Then it manifests what regard they have to the Souls of their dying Disciples, to make them call for Vengeance, when they should forgive: And it shews the direct equivocation of a Priest too, who when he says from his heart he forgives, Yet hopes God will not; Else why does he Cyte them before the Dreadful Tribunall, to answer the Wrong they have done? And when the Prisoner was to say this at his Death, I would fain have any Man tell me, why he might not as well at his last hour denie the Truth, as depart from Charity, if his Priest requires it?

I commend the Priest for his Care of their Church, in that the World should know he died a Roman Catholick, but not so much for his care of the Man, When he would not let him desire the Prayers of any but Papists.

Let any unprejudic'd person consider well vvhat is naturally to be collected from this Paper, and he vvill easily judge, vvithout breach of Charitie, upon vvhat grounds Men of that Persvvasion are first seduced to commit a Sin, and then obstinately to denie it to the last.