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Show rehearfed : So, thinking them not fit to Jive on the Eanh, nor to be Buried as, or among, Men. Well ·thus far of this Cruel Munher, and the m;nner thereof, fo far as at this dift~nce have come ro Hand, and your proceedmgs thereupon, which I ha":e reckoned together, that in one p,riod I mtght make an end of this bloody Tragedy, wherein (as you fee ) you are conce:ned. l.fhall now return a Ii£- · de back, in pomt of l'Jme, and fee how your Lips rwirtered after another Draught of Blood, and your Swmachs roll'd, whillt your Janiz. rzries fore' d a Dinner of Blood for you, from the Life of the other. Yer before I pafs to what remains, I cannot omit ~ne Paffage, which is concerning a Speech that was given out ro cover your ~ruelry, That if William Leddra would, he m1ght go out uf Prifon ; as if it were his own fa~lt that he there . remained: Of which, proof bemg made· by one Thomao T¥ilkie, a Stranger, who was a SpeCtator of this bloody Tragedy, and it being found by him to be a Lye~ he wrote thereof to George Lad, a Malter of the America of Dartmouth, then at Barbadoes, which (with the reft of that Paifage) I tball rehearfe in his ~wn word~, which, according to the Copy of h1s Letter, JS as followeth . The The COPY of a LETTER (rom a Stranger ro his Friend, touching the Death of William Leddra. Bofion1 March, 16. r66.r; ON the 14th of this Inflant, here was one William Leddra, which was put to Death. The People of the Timm told me, He might go away if he would : But when I made further Enquiry, I heard the Marjbal fay, That he was Chained in Prifon, from the Time he was Condemned, to the ·Day of his Execution. I am not of hi.f Opinion : But yet trulr me thought the Lord did mightily appear in the Man. l 'vent to one of the Magiftrates of Cambridg.e, who bad been of the J-ury that condemned him ( (M he told me him{elf) and I ask~d him by what Rule he did it ? He anfwereJ me, That he was a Rogue, a very Rogue. But what is this to the ~eftion ( I /aid) where is your R~le? He [aid, He had abufed Authoriry. Then I goes after the t M:m, and asked him, Whether bet Willi.u~t did not look on it ao a Breach of Rule, to flight and Leddra. undervalue Authority ? .And I faid, That Paul gave Fell us the Title of Honour, tho' he was a Heathen ( I do not fay thefe ldagiftrates are Heathens.) r faiq then, when the Man lvas on the Ladtler He looked on me, and called me Friend, and /aid, . Know? thar this Day I am willi,ng to offer up my Ltfe, for the Witnefs of JESUS. ~~hen I de(ired leave of the Officers to (peak, and [t~id, Gentlemen, I am a Stranger borh to your Perfons and Country, and yet a Friend ro both : And I cried aloud, For the · Lord's fake, rake nor away the Man•s Life; but remember Gamaliers Counfel to the 1ews, If chis be of 1\1an, ir v;iil come X3 ro |
