tance; shewing them, That such a great Sin (as this was) must needs be greatly repented of, if the Person guilty of it expects ever to obtain GOD's Pardon and Salvation.

In my private Discourses with them, they gave me such an Account of their respective Circumstances (both as to their Fact and Repentance) as here follows.

1. George Purchase< no role > , condemn'd for being concern'd in the Riot in Salisbury-Court , Fleetstreet , on Tuesday the 24th of July last . He said, he was 23 Years of age, born at Puddle-Dock , London : That he serv'd an Apprentiship of 7 Years with a Shoemaker in Salisbury-Court : That when his Time was expir'd he became a Journeyman to his said Master, and never did an ill thing before this Fact for which he is condemn'd, and which he rashly committed, not considering then (as I endeavour'd now to make him sensible of) the Unlawfulness and dismal Consequences of such a Rebellious Sedition as that was, which so much tended not only to the Ruin of private Persons, but to the great Disturbance of, and Dishonour to, the whole Government. I representing both to him and his Fellow-Criminals and Sufferers, what perfect Nonsense (not to say worse) it was for them to cry-out, High-Church and Ormond; and what an unheard of Impudence and Disloyalty, what an enormous Wickedness and Impiety they all discover'd to be in their Nature, by their uttering these and the like Rebellious and Malicious Expressions; Do Hannoverian, King George, Down with the Mugg-house, &c. by which they excited and stirr'd up both themselves and others, to kill and plunder, to set the Nation in a Flame, and, in a word, to do all the Mischief they could, and to which (no doubt) they were greatly encourag'd underhand by such as neither fear GOD, nor honour the KING; nor indeed have any true Love for, or Regard to the Lives of those poor silly Tools they made use of in that Riot.

Upon this my Observation and Admonition (endeavouring to convince them, that they could have no good Intent in doing what they did, but quite contrary) this George Purchase< no role > acknowledg'd it to be a heinous Crime, himself greatly Guilty, and his Sentence just; praying GOD to forgive him this and all other his Sins, and have Mercy upon his Soul.