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in his unprofitable courfe of diffimulation,

inftead thereof, fell to railing and curfing

of the Queen's Majesty, moft villanously. He curfes the But being more vehemently urged to re- Queen. member his prefent ftate, and to give over

all hope to do himself good by fuch diffembling, he began to pray this moft paffionate, blafphemous, and execrable Prayer,

viz. O God of Heaven, mighty Jehovah, His blafpheAlpha and Omega, Lord of Lords, King mous execraof Kings, and God everlasting, that knowest ble Prayer. me to be that true fehovah, whom thou hast

fent: fend fome miracle out of a cloud to convert thefe Infidels, and deliver me from these mine enemies: If not, I will fire the beacc vens, and tear thee from thy throne with my "bands. With other words of moft execrable blafphemy against the divine Ma

jefty of God (not to be rehearsed) by "reafon that he found not that deliverance " which he fancied God to have promised. "Then turning towards the Executioner, he "faid unto him, Ab thou baftards child,wilt thou His words to hang Wm. Hacket thy king? The Magiftrates the Hangman. "and people detefting this fubtil, feditious,

"and blafphemous humour,commanded and "cried to the Officers to dispatch with him, or to have his mouth ftopped from blafpheming but they had much ado to get him up the Ladder: And when he was up, he ftruggled with his head to "and fro, (as well as he could) that he "might not have the fatal noofe put over "his head. Then he asked them (very

fear

He dies horridly blafphe ming.

Coppinger

and dies next

day in Bride. wel.

Arthington

"fearfully) O what do you, what do you? "but feeing by the circumftance, what they intended, he began to rave again, "and faid, Have I this for my kingdom be

ftowed upon thee? I come to revenge thee, "and plague thee; and fo was turn'd off. But "the people unwilling that fo traitorous " and blafphemous a wretch, should have any the leaft favour: cried out mightily to have him cut down presently, to be quartered, and feemed very angry with "the Officers, that made no more hafte "therein: but as foon almoft as he was 66 cut down, (even with a trice) his heart "was taken forth, and fhewed out openly "to the people, for a moft deteftable, blafphemous Traytor's heart.

"Thus died the most dangerous fire"brand of fedition, moft deteftable Traytor, "most hypocritical feducer, and most exeແ crable blafphemous hellhound, that many ages ever faw, or heard of, in this cc Land.

"The next day after this (being Thurfftarves himself from meat (as is faid) feven or eight days "day,) Coppinger having wilfully abftained together, died in Bridewell: and Arthingcc ton liveth yet in the Counter in Woodstreet, "referved (I hope) unto fincere and perin the Coun-, "fect repentance. For immediately upon "Hacket's execution, he wrote a Letter unto two great Counsellors, (whom among others he had lewdly flandered) "of fubmiffion, and afterwards (more at

ter repents and

fues for Par den.

"large)

large) he wrote to the body of the "Council, the whole courfe (as he preten"deth) of this action, fo far as he was "made acquainted therewith, humbly "craving their Lordfhips mediation unto "the Queens most excellent Majefty for his "pardon, and acknowledging his dange❝rous error, and devilish teduction (by "Hacket efpecially) into this traiterous

"action.

This Declaration is truly taken forth of their own Letters, Writings under their hands, and their Confeffions upon Examinations, subscribed by themselves, and by fundry honourable and worshipful perfons of great gravity, and wisdom, before whom they were made: and therefore may fuffice, to fhew unto all reasonable and well-affected, the lewdnefs and danger of the hypocritical Plots, and feditious Confpiracies entred into by these persons.

But fome there are fo perverfely wedded to The state flan their own wills, and addicted to their fancies dered in thefe once conceived, that they give out they Proceedings. were mad, and furious perfons, choofing therein, rather to accufe the honourable Justice of the Realm, and all the adminifters thereof, than that any of their factious Crew (profeffing defire of pretended Reformation, and to bring in The Difcipline as they call it) fhould be noted with fo deep difloyalty.

The Justice vindicated.

Tufc. qu.li.3.

As it is not the part of any honeft Chrifian, by calumniation to charge thofe that be innocent; fo doth it not become a loyal Subject, to juftifie any Traytors, efpecially with flandering of the State. It therefore feemeth requifite, that this point be not left uncleared: whether they or any of them, in these practices, were indeed tranfported with fury, befides themselves, fo as they needed not to have been regarded, nor (by Law) ought to have fuffered death for them?

In wants of understanding and reason (after fuch time as men fhould naturally have them) there are noted divers degrees, that are alfo of feveral confideration; that is to fay: Furor five Rabies: Dementia five Amentia: Infania five Phrenefis: Fatuitas, Stul titia, Lethargia, & Delirium. And albeit the three firft (by fundry Writers) be fometimes confounded and taken for one, like as also the fourth is with the fifth, and the fixth with the laft: yet when the diverfity efpied in the things themselves, do drive men to a more exact confideration, and diftinction of the words (by which thofe paffions are to be expreffed) they are for the most part thus properly termed and diftinguished by the best Writers.

Furor (as it is defcribed by Tully) eft mentis ad omnia cæcitas: an entire and full blindness or darkening of the understanding of the mind, whereby a man knoweth not at all, what he doth or faith, and is

englished

englished madneß or woodneß. He that is Balin Lfed & poffeffed herewith, is carried with fury of milites jam mind, into great violences, and outrages, excuf. tuautem § ff.de fo that he neither fpareth himself, nor other to: & pafand is called in Greek arróμos. fim alij. Such was the madness of Ajax (as is fained by the Poets) who whipped and fcourged droves of beafts and cattel, thinking they were the Gracians that had difpleafed him, and afterward in that rage killed himfelf.

men,

Dementia is defcribed there, by the fame Author, to be affectio animi lumine mentis carens, A paffion of the mind, bereaving it

Ibidem.

of the light of understanding: Or as ano- Quintil. Dether grave and learned Author calleth it, clamat. 348. ablatus rerum omnium intellectus when a man's perceivance and understanding of all things is taken away, and may be englished distracted of wit, or being befide himself. Such one is called alfo Mente captus, cùm Feftus. mens ei è poteftate abiit, in Greek drónos. This infirmity of the mind is lefs than fu- 1.2.D.de inof rious rage, and to be diftinguished from fic. teftamenit. They differ in this, that the first is, as it were carried with great outrage of mind, into violent courfes; but he that is only mente captus, ufeth greater quietnefs of body; D.D in 1. and calmness, and theweth not fuch outward Inftit. S de reftimonies in his actions, of alienation of his wits: yet neither of these have any ruled memory, will, understanding or feeling, of that they do or fay.

to.

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