Famous Last Words by Chris Wood

Author:Chris Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History / Military / World War II
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

‘Good people!

I beseech you all to take warning by an unhappy man’s suffering; that you be not deluded into so absurd and wicked a conceit, as to believe that there are any such beings upon earth as witches.

It was that foolish and vain imagination, heighten’d and inflamed by the strength of liquor, which prompted me to be instrumental (with others as mad-brain’d as myself ) in the horrid and barbarous murder of Ruth Osborne, the supposed witch, for which I am now so deservedly to suffer death.

I am fully convinced of my former error, and with the sincerity of a dying man, declare, that I do not believe there is such a thing in being as a witch; and pray God that none of you, thro’ a contrary persuasion, may hereafter be induced to think, that you have a right in any shape to persecute, much less endanger the life of a fellow-creature.

I beg of you all to pray to God to forgive me, and to wash clean my polluted soul in the blood of Jesus Christ, my saviour and Redeemer,

So exhorteth you all, the dying

Thomas Colley’

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