Remarks on the speeches of William Paul Clerk, and John Hall of Otterburn, Esq

Executed at Tyburn for Rebellion, the 13th of July , 1716.
In which the Government and Administration both in Church and State, as founded upon the Revolution, are Vindicated from the Treasonable Reflections and false Aspersions thrown upon them in those Speeches, which are inserted at length, as they were deliver’d to the Sheriffs.
LONDON , Printed for J. Baker and T. Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-noster-Row . M. DCC. XVI.
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ANY Judicious Man, who will be at the pains attentively to read the following Speeches, and compare them with the Papers left by Lord Derwentwater , Colonel Oxburgh , and the other Rebels lately executed, must soon be convinc’d, That they all proceed from the same Mint, and are fram’d on purpose to spirit up the Faction to a New Rebellion.
There’s such an Uniformity in the Stile, Matter, and Way of Arguing, as sufficiently proves this; so that instead of being the Speeches of the deceas’d Rebels, they plainly appear to be the Composure of others, who endeavour to serve the Cause not only at the Expence of those poor Mens Reputation, but even of their Souls, by prevailing upon them to deliver such Papers as their dying Sentiments, and the Result of their own Thoughts.
This is very plain in the Case of Mr. Hall , who being ask’d at the Place of Execution, if the Paper he deliver’d was writ by himself, he avoided giving a direct Answer, and only said it contain’d his Sentiments; tho ’tis highly probable he never carefully read it, if we consider the notorious Falshood which he is made to assert, That the Rebels conquer’d the King’s Troops at Preston.
Besides, he and Mr. Paul were so far from being stedfast to the Pretender’s Interest, as is given out in the Speeches, and so little fond of what they call Martyrdom, that ’tis very well known they us’d all possible Endeavours to save their Lives, would have disown’d the Pretender’s Claim, and renew’d their Oaths to the Government, could they have obtain’d their Pardon on that Condition. The Speech-makers were not ignorant of this, but they resolv’d to delude the unthinking Populace, and to make those Men pass for Valiant and Glorious Martyrs; tho, in truth, they liv’d and dy’d the most hateful Dissemblers, both with God and Man, that ever were heard of.