The SPEECH.
As to my Body, Brethren, I have taken no manner of Care of it: for I value not the barbarous Part of the Sentence, of being cut down and quartered. When I am once gone, I shall be out of the reach of my Enemies; and I wish I had Quarters enough to send to every Parish in the Kingdom, to testify that a Clergyman of the Church of England was martyr’d for being Loyal to his King.
July 13. 1716.
William Paul.
REMARKS.
Here he tells us he had taken no manner of Care of his Body, and it is plain, by his Speech, he took as little of his Soul, since he dy’d with Malice in his Heart, and a Lye in his Mouth; as appears plain, if we compare his Speech with the following Letters, which he wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Townshend.
The Conclusion of this Paragraph is so very extravagant and hypocritical, considering the Submissions which he made to the present Ministry, that it cannot but strike the Reader with Horror, to think that one who valu’d himself upon his Sacred Function, should dare thus to prevaricate in sight of God’s Tribunal; before which he was so quickly to appear.
Since Mr. Paul regrets, that he had not Quarters enough for every Parish in the Kingdom, to testify that a Clergyman of the Church of England (he means his Nonjuring Church) was martyr’d for being Loyal to his King; I shall add no more but a hearty Wish, that his Incorrigible Brethren in Rebellion or Perjury, be they Clergy or Laymen, may fall by the hands of Justice to supply that Defect.
The two following Letters were written by Mr. William Paul on the 9th of July, to His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
May it please your Grace,