A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...

6. Mr. HONE.

Hone was accused, and owns himself Guilty of a Design to Kill the King and the Duke of York, or one, or neither, for 'tis impossible to make any Sense of him. When they came to suf∣fer, Walcot read a Paper, in which was a good rational Confession of his Faith; then comes to the Occasion of his Death, for which, he says, He neither blames the Judges, Jury, nor Coun∣cil, but only some Men, that in reality were deeper concern'd than he, who combin'd together to swear him out of his LIfe, to save their own, and that they might do it effectually, contriv'd an Untruth, &c. He forgives the World and the Witnesses; gives his Friends Advice to be more Prudent than he had been; prays that his may be the last Blood spilt on the Account; wishes the King wou'd be merciful to others; says he knew nothing of Ireland, and concludes with praying God to have Mercy upon him.— He had then some Discourse with Cartwright, wherein he tells him, That he was not for contriving the Death of the King, nor to have had a Hand in't; and being urg'd with some Matters of Controversie, tells him, He did not come thither to dispute about Religion, but to die Religiously.