1678 December

A Brief

Historical Relation

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by Narcissus Luttrell

1678 - December

In which are Mr. Coleman's Last Words at Tyburn

December: The 3rd, Mr. Coleman was drawn on a sledge to Tyburn; where being come, he denied all he was condemned there, (and, if report can be credited, it was on the assurance he had a pardon from … r…. h………); for he is said to look very much about him when in the cart, and was naturally of a timorous temper, and would have discovered very considerable matters to the parliament (who were then sitting), had he (as is thought) had not such an assurance; for at last he would almost perswade the sherif of Middlesex that he had a pardon for him; which he absolutely denying, Coleman ('tis said) should say "Then there is no faith in man;" and so submitted himself to the sentence, and was hang'd and quartered; and his body was disposed off to his freinds.

Letters from Ireland inform us of the apprehension of Peter Talbott, titular archbishop of Dublin, and col. Talbott, and Mr. Butler, on account of the plott discovered in England, and that they were committed close prisoners; as also of severall other ways they took for the security of publick safety there.