A
Full
and
True
Relation
of
the
MURTHER
OF
Doctor
Urthwait
,
Archdeacon
of
the
ISLE
of
MAN
;
WHO
In
an
Inhuman
and
Barbarous
manner
,
cut
his
own
Throat
,
in
Curriers-Hall-Court
,
within
Criple-Gate
,
on
Wednesday
the
twentieth
of
this
instant
December
;
with
several
other
Circumstances
thereunto
appertaining
.
GOD
gave
unto
Man
an
Upright
Heart
and
that
full
of
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
;
and
in
likeness
to
himself
,
beyond
all
other
Creatures
he
made
;
but
as
he
made
Man
,
so
likewise
made
he
the
Devil
;
to
try
his
People
,
especially
those
whom
he
hath
called
to
be
the
Ministers
of
his
Gospel
,
to
throughly
purge
them
,
they
having
the
Care
of
many
Souls
:
But
by
the
Instigation
of
the
Devil
,
Wordly
Gain
and
Honour
,
are
often
led
away
,
as
by
the
sequel
of
this
will
appear
,
by
one
Doctor
William
Urthwait
,
Archdeacon
of
Man
,
and
sometimes
Tutor
to
the
Earl
of
Darby's
Family
;
who
was
in
a
Place
of
great
Trust
(
for
Man's
Salvation
)
:
But
more
regarding
the
Times
than
the
Souls
of
his
Hearers
(
supposed
to
be
leaning
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
as
may
more
plainly
appear
)
but
the
Alteration
now
that
is
much
reflecting
upon
him
,
and
the
mispent
Time
,
caused
a
sudden
Desparation
in
him
to
lay
Violent
Hands
upon
himself
,
a
Crime
odious
to
God
and
Man
.
I
advise
all
,
whose
Study
is
wholly
to
Out-vie
by
loquasity
,
those
of
his
Equals
,
and
strain
that
of
his
Gown
to
what
his
Humor
led
him
,
seeming
to
Out-vie
those
of
his
Station
;
and
his
far-fetch't
Arguments
and
rationality
to
that
of
Time-serving
;
but
that
Divine
Justice
often
overtakes
such
Barely-Gowned
Men
in
their
own
Arguments
and
brings
them
to
a
signal
Demonstration
of
Divine
Justice
upon
them
;
is
visible
by
this
following
Relation
.
On
Wednesday
the
Nineteenth
of
December
,
1688.
one
Dr.
Urthwait
,
Archdeacon
of
Man
,
came
to
Lodge
at
one
Mrs.
Wilds
,
a
Widow
,
in
Curriers-Hall-Court
,
near
Cripplegate
,
and
that
Night
was
seemingly
much
pleased
with
his
Lodging
,
in
so
much
,
that
he
commended
the
Air
,
&c.
And
having
removed
from
his
former
Lodging
,
as
supposed
to
avoid
the
Rabble
,
asked
,
If
the
Rable
were
Quell'd
;
a
Lodger
in
the
aforesaid
House
answered
,
It
was
(
as
he
believed
)
:
He
Replied
,
If
they
were
not
,
and
came
into
the
Court
,
it
was
impossible
to
make
his
Escape
out
;
a
little
after
he
went
very
chearfully
to
Red
,
the
next
day
,
about
Noon
,
Mrs.
Wild
,
his
Landlady
,
heard
him
walking
about
the
Room
(
from
thence
till
Candlelight
)
hearing
nothing
of
him
,
went
up
Stairs
,
and
often
calling
to
him
,
but
no
answer
being
made
,
the
Landlady
,
Mrs.
Wild
,
immediately
sent
for
a
Constable
and
some
Neighbours
,
who
broak
open
the
Door
,
and
found
the
said
Doctor
in
Bed
,
as
fallen
from
a
sitting
Posture
,
a
Razor
and
Pen-Knife
both
Bloody
by
him
upon
the
Bed
,
his
Head
lying
against
the
Beads-head
board
,
with
his
Britches
underneath
his
Head
,
with
a
Guinea
,
and
fourteen
Shillings
in
Silver
,
with
some
Farthings
,
with
his
Throat
Cut
in
a
most
Inhumane
and
Barbarous
manner
,
the
Orifice
being
three
or
four
Inches
long
,
and
a
considerable
Depth
,
but
the
Body
not
cold
;
In
the
Chamber
were
several
Papers
torn
and
thrown
about
the
Room
.
On
Friday
the
twenty
first
of
this
instant
December
,
the
Coronor
having
assembled
a
Jury
of
substantial
Citizens
,
as
is
usual
upon
such
Occasions
;
and
having
made
a
strict
Scrutiny
,
as
became
so
judicious
a
Convention
,
and
the
Witnesses
by
most
incontrolable
Circumstances
,
made
apparent
,
That
his
former
Disputations
,
Argumentive
Silogisms
,
and
Time-serving
Equivocations
,
which
he
endeavoured
to
prove
;
and
his
other
Inclinations
to
that
Party
,
had
rendred
him
odious
,
as
he
suposed
,
to
the
Mobile
,
and
brought
him
to
that
of
Despair
,
and
rendred
him
to
the
Jury
,
Non
compus
Mentis
.
FINIS
.