THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND CONFESSION OF Alice Millikin< no role > This name instance is in set 1245. , Who was Burnt in SMITHFIELD On Wednesday the 2d. of June, 1686 . For HIGH-TREASON, in Clipping the Kings Coin.

VEry many are the Instances of this sort of Crime; yet sad it is to observe that nothing can deter, those who exercise themselves in this sort of Wickedness.

Yet, if rightly considered, it is one of the most abominable Practices. For it is not only a great dishonour to His Most Sacred Majesty and a perverse Abuse of his Mercy and Clemency, bestowed on some Offenders of this kind; but likewise the Community may suffer much prejudice by it, although the greatest Mischief Redounds to the persons themselves, who Diminish the full Weight of His Majesties Coin: This Crime exposing them to an Ignominous Death, through a covetous desire, to satisfie their Excess in a sinful Course of Life, whereupon, that Saying of Solomon is visited, That Gain gotten by Deceit, is a Vanity tossed too and fro, by them who seek Death: And that the Treasures of Wickedness profit nothings, though they bring not the fears of the Unjust presently upon them.