THE EXECUTION OF Henry Berry, Who was Executed at TYBURN On Friday the 28. of this Instant February, 1678.  
For assisting in the murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, late of St. Martin's in the Fields.  
WITH An Account of his Deportment in Newgate, and at the place of Execution, with several other remarkable Circumstances.  With Allowance. 
LONDON: Printed for D. M. 1679.   

THE EXECUTION OF Mr. HENRY BERRY AT TYBURN.  
STill does unexpiated Murder cry, and Justice is not satisfied; Offended Heaven is displeased when its rebellious Creatures dare so barbarously misuse the Image of their Creator, and without a Cause inhumanely to violate their proper kind, though far more noble in Degree and Order: The stamps of Justice and of Mercy, fixed in the deep Centre of a braver Soul, might sure have awed their Cruelties, and turned their Bloody Hands from that polluted Sin, lest ghastly horror, when too late for a retreat, should seize upon their drooping Spirits; all clothed with ignominious shame, and drive them headlong to the place from whence their wicked Counsels were at first derived: For this Gygantick Crime o'retops the Cedars, whose tall Branches sweep the Clouds; nay more, the Stars and that Immortal Throne, to which the Souls beneath the Altar cry for Vengeance to be heaped upon the shedders of their guiltless blood, from which had they the Wings of Eagles, or should take the Morning's dawn they could not fly; from which, if Hills would cleave, and gloomy Caves retain, or solid Rocks enclose, they could not hid: Its Bolts are sure, and levelled Vengeance never aims amiss: The Almighty God is just in all his wise decrees, and turns the malice of pernicious men upon themselves; pulls off the Masks that veiled their black Designs, and lays them open to the World; most plain and undisguised, whose horrid forms may make all Christians start, whose tender Consciences look pale at the approach of monstrous sin, foul Treasons, Massacres, and whatsoever such Diabolick Wits can tune in dreadful Notes, thereby to make their Hellish Harmony complete, and string the discordant numbers of contagious pride, disdain and envy, mixed with pious ●hews to blind the Vulgar Eyes, and gain their fond Applause for the promotion of their desperate rage, but seldom does it long escape unpunished, as may in this more plainly be exposed to the considerate thoughts of all impartial men. Thus Henry Rerry, (seduced by the impious but crafty persuasions of those Assassinators, and chief Plagues of Christendom, who, like Egyptian Locusts, where they come destroy the Virtues that adorn the Souls of men, and in their stead infuse preposterous Poisons) was prevailed upon to desile himself with innocent Blood; in order unto which he the said Henry Berry, with several others, two of which already have received their just rewards for their notorious. Crimes, the horrid Fact was for murdering Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, a Justice, (but at their hands no Justice found) the Circumstances are so amply known I need not much enlarge; but yet, to satisfy the curious Reader, I will insert the Heads of some particulars. On Saturday, the 12th of October 1678. Sir Edmund was watched from his House, by some of the murderous Crew, and the remaining part of that day dogged about from place to place where e'er he went, but when Night approached (the fittest time to act such cruel deeds) as he returned homewards through the Strand, when he came to the Water-gate of  (by some of them who stood there for that purpose) was entreated to come in, and part, by his Authority, a certain Fray; a Counterfeit to trap his life which was before designed, where he, by much persuasions, entered never to return alive; these barbarous men thus having got their Prey secure, more ravenous than Tigers, taking their opportunity, twisted a Handkerchief about his Neck 〈◊〉 cast and pulled him down behind the 〈◊〉 not dreaming of such cruelties) and violently strangled him, regardless of Justice or of Mercy.  
But in short time their cruel dare came to light, though acted in the darkest shade, for which they apprehended were by Justice, ordered to the County Goal of Newgate, from whence they were brought to Westminster, where they upon a fair Trial were found guilty of this horrid murder, and received Sentence to return to the place from whence they came, and from thence to the place of Execution, there to suffer for their Crimes, as in that case the Law hath provided, the which on Friday the 21th. of February, two of them, viz. Green and Hill, fell before offended Justice, and this day being Friday the 28th. of the same Instant, Henry Berry aforesaid was executed likewise; there being a number of Constables and Watchmen warned to guard him to the aforesaid place, the Keepers and the Sheriff's men likewise officiated their ordinary places, the prisoner being seated in the Cart about nine or ten of the Clock; his countenance was much dejected, pale, and of a meager hue, to what it heretofore had been; for he was by Nature of a Sanguine complexion, Corpulent and o● a merry temper heretofore: But such a Fate would surely change a braver soul than his: In the Prison, whilst he there remained, he demeaned himself orderly, especially after the time of his Condemnation, showing very frequent tokens of Contrition and Sorrow for his great Offences which he had committed.  
He was drawn in a Cart with two light-coloured Horses: his Habit indifferently composed and moderate; all the way he was drawn, with erected Countenance, often lifting up his hands and eyes to heaven, which drawn pity from the beholders. When he arrived at the place of Execution, after he had made a Speech to those that were present, and prepared himself for his unhappy end, the Ca●t was drawn away between eleven and twelve of the Clock, and he, after he had hanged the limited time expressed by the Law, was cut down and buried.  
FINIS.