MR. Richard Langhorn being Convicted and Condemned at the ſame time with the five Jeſuites late executed, for conſpiring the death of his Sacred Majeſty, the deſtruction of the Proteſtant Religion, and the Government eſtabliſhed; His Majeſty was graciouſly pleaſed to reprieve his Execution for ſome time, in expectation of his making ſome Ingenuous Confeſſion of what he knew concerning this horrid Popiſh Plot; but he perſiſting in his Jeſuited obſtinacy, and offering to diſcover ſome inconſiderable things, but ſuch as could no way deſerve the continuing his Majeſties Clemency toward him.

Order was given for his Execution on Monday morning the 14th. of this inſtant July, and accordingly he was put into the Siedge at Newgate, having a black Suit and Periwig on, with a vaſt multitude of people accompanying him; being come to the place of Execution, the Executioner having pull'd off his Periwig and put on his Cap, was putting the Rope over his head, which he taking in his hands zealouſly kiſſed, and then applying himſelf to the Sheriffs, began to ſpeak to them, but in ſo low a voice, that it was audible to very few of the Spectators.

The ſubſtance of his Speech was, That he did not think he ſhould have had an opportunity to to ſpeak in that place, but ſince he had, he did declare that he was not directly nor indirectly guilty of what he was accuſed of; not that he did accuſe the Judges nor the Jury, who (he ſaid) were at their Liberty to have believed the witneſſes or not.

And that whereas he was charged with having Commiſſions ſigned by Paulus de Oliva, he denyed that ever he ſaw any ſuch under his hand. Being asked, whether he did not ſee any Commiſſions under any other hand, he denyed it, or whether he did not ſee ſome Patents, he ſaid, he knew not of any; neither to the Lord Petre, nor the Lord Arundel of Warder, having never ſeen one of their Faces, as he had declared in a Paper, which Mr. Sheriff ſaid, he did not think fit to be printed, and that he had already printed a Paper or ſome body for him, which Mr. Langhorn denied he was concerned in, he ſaid he was no way concerned in deſigning to raiſe any forces or making any diſturbance in the Government any manner of way.

And being then told that he had but a little while to live, and that he would therefore do very well to imploy it for the good of his ſoul, ſince it was very well known that thoſe who were of his Party had Liberty to deny any thing, or to make any kind of Equivocations, when they were once abſolved for the fame.

He then applyed himſelf to his Devotions, and one of the Spectators ſaying, The Lord have mercy on your ſoul, he turn'd back and ſaid, I thank you for your charity.

He then proceeded praying God to bleſs this Kingdom and His Majeſty, and that God would forgive them that deſigned or rejoyced in his death, and that further bloodſhed might be prevented: and then ſaid, he had no further to ſay in publick, and asking the Executioner whether the Rope were right or no, he proceeded to his private Devotions, (being told by the Executioner that if he pleaſed he might have half an hour for doing the ſame,) and by ſome words which he ſpoke louder than ordinary, it appeared that ſome of his Prayers were in Engliſh and others in Latine; having continued ſome time in theſe his Ejaculations with the Cap over his eyes, he ſaid at laſt, That they need ſtay no longer for him, and was thereupon turned off.

And the Hang-man having ſtruck him on the breaſt, and pulled him by the Legs to diſpatch him, he was ſtript, and being quite dead he was cut down, and his bowels were burnt, and his body quartered according to his Sentence.

And thus this man ended his life in denying all againſt the cleareſt evidence imaginable, and thus we may expect that the reſt will do too, if any more ſhould ſuffer, for as that Gentleman told Mr. Langhorn, at the Gallows, after they are abſolved, they have liberty to ſay, or ſwear, or equivocate upon any thing, and by the Tenents of their Church they ought and muſt dye thus, if it may be inſtrumental for advancing their Religion and Intereſt, which having been ſo fully and ingenuouſly proved, by the ſeveral animadverſions and obſervations which have been made upon the ſpeeches of the Jeſuited Traytors laſt executed, need not be any further inſiſted on at this time. And we have this to ſay, That never any men in any Nation ſuffered upon more full evidence, nor had ever more liberty to have proved their innocence (if poſſible) in this matter than they.