The speech and deportment of John Hewit, D.D., late of St. Gregories London at the place of execution on Tower Hill, June 8, 1658 / taken by an impartial hand ; and the substance of his triall before the high court of justice, his letter to Dr. Wilde after sentence, his discourses and demeanor on the scaffold ; with an elegie on the said Dr. ; published for the satisfaction of his friends.

His Carriage and Discourses in Prison.

A Friend of his a while after, telling him he were glad to heare he received his Sentence without disturbance; he replyes at that present, I had this Meditation, my Lord and Master were made to carry his Crosse, and I the meanest of his Servants should be car∣ryed to my Crosse. The time drawing near of his death, which was Saturday June the fifth, the Sentence was altered, his head being to be severed from his Body, on Tower-Hill, on Tuesday the eighth of the same Moneth. The Lords day he implyed for the most part in earnest seeking God by prayer, that so through those sorrows and teares, he might purchase the fruition of joys and pleasures, most glo∣rious, pure and perpetuall; The rest of the day being the afternoon, he past away in discourse with some friends, who came to condole his condition, who deported himselfe with that chearfullnesse, that they nor he need to metigate sorrow, and as the feare of death was not tedious to him to imbrase, charity bids us conclude he did it to put on a better Life; This afternoon too passages are observeable.

The first, whil'st the Doctor was discourseing with some Friends, a Woman got accidentally to his Chamber doore, and in a seeming mallincollinesse drew neare him, and laid her hat at his Feet, saying, I can never be at quiet when the godly are to suffer. The next, the Gard being releived, he turned to them that were departing, and

with a chearfull deportment and humble carriage, saith faire well my deare friends, and in all this time seemed so little to be moved at his Imprisonment, that as the walls confinde his body, so meeknesse im∣prisoned his passions. On munday morning his Lady came to visit him, but with how little pleasure or content, I leave it to them ima∣gined, who contemplatively can make her sorrow their one, now she must not onely take her leave for a day, but resolve to see him no more in the flesh, and indeed to me it seemes impossible to distinguish, which was the greatest weight of sorrow to her spirit, that he must suffer an untimely death, and be no more, or that she must take her last farewell of him, and so she have him dead to her whil'st alive, but since providence compels them to part here, Imagen, for I cannot expresse their affectionate farewels with teares, till they meet where joys are compleater & perpetual; This being past, he makes it his only work to put of his, and to prepare for a better life, in which D. Wild added to his indeavours his pious assistance, the day being spent, Dr. Wilde left him not without the beames and light of a friends prayers, and the dayes glory together, but kept him company all that night, thereby to make day in his soule, though it were night in the World. (Immediately after came Dr. Reynolds, Mr. Carill, Mr. Manton, Mr. Bates, and others, with whose discourse they were so affected, that that evening they took Coach on Lud-gate Hill, and went down to white-Hall to beg his life of his Highnesse the Lord Protector, but that were not granted.)