STill does unexpiated Murder cry, and Justice is not satisfied; Offended Heaven is displeased when its rebel­lious Creatures dare so barbarously mis­use the Image of their Creator, and with­out a Cause inhumanely to violate their proper kind, though far more noble in Degree and Order: The stamps of Justice and of Mercy, fixed in the deep Center of a braver Soul, might sure have awed their Cruelties, and turned their Bloody Hands [Page 4]from that polluted Sin, lest gastly horrour, when too late for a retreat, should seize up­on their drooping Spirits; all clothed with ignominious shame, and drive them head­long to the place from whence their wick­ed Counsels were at first derived: For this Gygantick Crime o're-tops the Cedars, whose tall Branches sweep the Clouds; nay more, the Stars and that Immortal Throne, to which the Souls beneath the Altar cry for Vengeance to be heaped upon the shed­ders of their guiltless blood, from which had they the VVings of Eagles, or should take the Mornings dawn they could not flye; from which, if Hills would cleave, and gloomy Caves retain, or sollid Rocks in­close, they could not hide: Its Bolts are sure, and levell'd Vengeance never aims amiss: The Almighty God is just in all his wise decrees, and turns the malice of per­nicious men upon themselves; pulls off the Masks that veil'd their black Designs, and lays them open to the VVorld; most plain and undisguised, whose horrid forms may make all Christians start, whose tender [Page 5]Consciences look pale at the approach of mon­strous sin, foul Treasons, Massacres, and what­soe're such Diabolick Wits can tune in dreadful Notes, thereby to make their Hellish Harmony complete, and string the discordant numbers of contagious pride, disdain and envy, mixed with pious [...]hews to blind the Vu [...]gar Eyes, and gain their fond Applause for the promotion of their desperate rage, but seldom does it long escape unpunished, as may in this more plainly be expos­ed to the considerate thoughts of all impartial men. Thus Henry Rerry, (seduced by the impi­ous but crafty perswasions of those Assassinators, and chief Plagues of Christendom, who, like Egyptian Locusts, where they come destroy the Virtues that adorn the Souls of men, and in their stead infuse prepostrous Poysons) was pre­vail'd upon to desile himself with innocent Blood; in order unto which he the said Henry Berry, with several others, two of which already have received their just rewards for their noto­rious. Crimes, the horrid Fact was for mur­dering Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey, a Justice, (but at their hands no Justice found) the Circumstan­ces are so amply known I need not much enlarge; but yet, to satisfie the curious Reader, I will in­sert the Heads of some particulars. On Satur­day, the 12th of October 1678. Sir Edmund was watched from his House, by some of the mur­derous Crew, and the remaining part of that [Page 9]day dogged about from place to place where e're he went, but when Night approach'd (the fittest time to act such cruel deeds) as he return'd home­wards through the Strand, when he came to the Water-gate of Somerset-house (by some of them who stood there for that purpose) was intreated to come in, and part, by his Authority, a certain Fray; a Counterfeit to trap his life which was before designed, where he, by much perswasions, enter'd never to return alive; these barbarous men thus having got their Prey secure, more ravinous than Tygers, taking their opportunity, twisted a Handkerchief about his Neck [...] cast and pulled him down behind the [...] not dreaming of such cruelties) and violently strangled him, regardless of Justice or of Mer­cy.

But in short time their cruel darings came to light, though acted in the darkest shade, for which they apprehended were by Justice, order­ed to the County Goal of Newgate, from whence they were brought to Westminster, where they upon a fair Tryal were found guilty of this hor­rid murther, and received Sentence to return to the place from whence they came, and from thence to the place of Execution, there to suffer for their Crimes, as in that case the Law hath provided, the which on Fryday the 21th. of Fe­bruary, [Page 7]two of them, viz. Green and Hill, fell before offended Justice, and this day being Fry­day the 28th. of the same Instant, Henry Berry aforesaid was executed likewise; there being a number of Constables and Watchmen warned to guard him to the aforesaid place, the Keepers and the Sheriffs men likewise officiated their ordi­nary places, the prisoner being seated in the Cart about nine or ten of the Clock; his countenance was much dejected, pale, and of a meagre hue, to what it heretofore had been; for he was by Nature of a Sanguine complexion, Corpulent and o [...] a merry temper heretofore: But such a Fate would surely change a braver soul than his: In the Prison, vvhilst he there remained, he de­meaned himself orderly, especially after the time of his Condemnation, shevving very frequent tokens of Contrition and Sorrovv for his great Offences vvhich he had committed.

He vvas dravvn in a Cart vvith tvvo light-coloured Horses: his Habit indifferently com­posed and moderate; all the vvay he vvas dravvn, vvith erected Countenance, often lift­ing up his hands and eyes to heaven, vvhich drevv pity from the beholders. When he ar­rived at the place of Execution, after he had made a Speech to those that vvere present, and [Page 8]prepared himself for his unhappy end, the Ca [...]t vvas dravvn avvay betvveen eleven and tvvelve of the Clock, and he, after he had hanged the limited time expressed by the Lavv, vvas cut dovvn and buried.