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A further Account of the Behaviour of Mr. Chri∣stopher Battiscomb, of his l••st Speech and Prayer, immediately befor•• he suff••red at Lyme, 12th. Septemb. 1685. which Account should have been inserted after the Figures 1685. in p. 373.
HE was a true Protestant to the last, well beloved among the Gentry of that Coun∣try: But it was his fortune to be concerned with the Duke of Monmouth, and was very faith∣ful to him to the last, during the time of the Bloody Assizes at Dorchester, where he received his Sentence of Death; he was divers times sent for to the Chamber of the then L. C. J. and promoted with offers of Life to betray some Gen∣tlemen, which he always refused, saying, he scorn∣ed to purchase his Life by such indirect means; and he accordingly chose Death rather than Life; seeing it could not be purchased, but by such un∣worthy means. The day being come, he prepared himself, and received the Holy Sacrament, walking down to the place of Execution, with much chear∣fulness and Christian Courage, when he was mounting the Ladder, smiled, and said, I am not afraid of this, I am going to a better place, from a poor and miserable World, to a Celestial Para∣dise, a Heavenly Jerusalem; I might have chosen, whether I would have undergone this Death, if I had hearkned to the L. C. J. but it was upon such unworthy terms, that should I have accepted of my Pardon, it would have been troublesome to me; I die