A Full and True Relation of the murder 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 thoroughly purge them, they having the Care of many Souls: But by the Instigation of the Devil, worldly Gain and Honour, are often lead 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 misspent Time, caused a sudden desperation in him to lay Violent Hands upon himself, a Crime odious to God and Man. I advice all, whose Study is wholly to Out-vie by loquasity, those of his Equals, and strain that of his Gown to what his humour lead 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 rabble were quelled; 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 cheerfully to read, 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 broke 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 breeches underneath his Head, with a Guinea, and fourteen Shillings in Silver, with some Farthings, with his Throat Cut in a most inhuman and Barbarous manner, the Orifice being three or four Inches long, and a considerable Depth, but the Body not could; 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 rendered him odious, as he supposed, to the Mobile, and brought him to that of Despair, and rendered him to the Jury, Non compus Mentis.  
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