Tutchin, John
, a party writer in the reign of king
James the second, very early in life became obnoxious to
the government from the virulence of his writings. He was
prosecuted for a political performance on the side of Monmouth, and being found guilty, was sentenced by Jefferies
to be whipped through several market- towns in the west.
To avoid this severe punishment he petitioned the king that
the sentence might be changed to hanging. At the death
of this unfortunate monarch he wrote an invective against
his memory, which even the severity of his sufferings can
hardly excuse. He was the author of “The Observator,”
which was begun April I, 1702. Becoming obnoxious to
the tories, he received a severe beating in August 1707,
and died in much distress in the Mint, the 23d of September following, at the age of forty-seven. In some verses on
his death he is called captain Tutchin. Besides political
and poetical effusions, he wrote a drama entitled “The unfortunate Shepherd,” 1685," 8vo, which is printed in a
collection of his poems. 2
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Works found by this author (or others with similar names)in the Early English Books Online Collection:
Poems on several occasions, with a pastoral to which is added, A discourse of life / by John Tutchin.Poems. Selections (1685)
The Protestant Martyrs: or, The bloody assizes Giving an account of the lives, tryals, and dying speeches, of all those eminent Protestants that suffered in the west of England, by the sentence of that bloody and cruel Judge Jefferies; being in all 251 persons, besides what were hang'd and destroyed in cold blood. Containing also, the life and death of James Duke of Monmouth; his birth and education; his actions both at home and abroad; his unfortunate sentence, execution and dying-words upon the scaffold: with a true copy of the paper he left behind him. And many other curious remarks worth the reader's observation. (1688)
An heroick poem upon the late expedition of His Majesty, to rescue England from popery, tyranny, and arbitrary government by John Tutchin, Gent. (1689)
The bloody assizes, or, A compleat history of the life of George Lord Jefferies, from his birth to this present time ... to which is added Major Holmes's excellent speech, with the dying speeches and prayers of many other eminent Protestants : none of which were ever before publish'd ... (1689)
The second and last collection of the dying speeches, letters, and prayers &c. of those eminent Protestants who suffered in the west of England (and elsewhere) under the cruel sentence of the late Lord Chancellour, then Lord Chief Justice Jefferys : with an account of their undaunted courage at the barr and afterwards : with the most remarkable circumstances that attended their execution. (1689)
Civitas militaris, or, A poem on the city royal regiment of horse by John Tutchin. (1689)
A poem upon Their Majesties speeches to the nonconformist ministers by John Tutchin. (1690)
Reflections upon the French Kings declaration for the restauration of the late King James, to the kingdom of England / by John Tutchin. (1690)
A true and impartial account of a great and bloody fight between part of the English fleet, commanded by Sir Clovesly Shovel and the French at sea with an account of the men killed and wounded : together with the great bravery and courage of Captain Hoskins, from on board Their Majesties ship the Crown, this ninth of December, 1690, riding Plimouth-Sound. (1690)
The tribe of Levi A poem. (1691)
The tribe of Levi A poem. (1691)
A congratulatory poem to the Reverend Dr. John Tillotson upon his promotion to the arch-episcopal-see of Canterbury / by Mr. Tutchin. (1691)
The tribe of Levi a poem. (1691)
The earth-quake of Jamaica describ'd in a Pindarick poem / by Mr. Tutchin. (1692)
A funeral poem on the death of the reverend and learned divine Mr. Richard Baxter written by Mr. Tutchin. (1692)
A new martyrology, or, The bloody assizes now exactly methodizing in one volume comprehending a compleat history of the lives, actions, trials, sufferings, dying speeches, letters, and prayers of all those eminent Protestants who fell in the west of England and elsewhere from the year 1678 ... : with an alphabetical table ... / written by Thomas Pitts. (1693)
An epistle to Mr. Benjamin Bridgwater, occasion'd by the death of the late Queen Mary by Mr. Tutchin. (1694)
A poem upon the death of Her late Majesty, Queen Mary, of blessed memory occasioned by an epistle to the author, from Mr. J. Tutchin / by Ben. Bridgewater. (1695)
A Pindarick ode, in the praise of folly and knavery by Mr. Tutchin. (1696)
A search after honesty a poem / by Mr. Tutchin. (1697)
White-Hall in flames. A pindarick poem. : Occasion'd by the late burning of that royal palace. / By Mr. Tutchin. (1698)
The reverse: or, the tables turn'd A poem written in answer, paragraph by paragraph, to a late scurrilous and malicious medly of rhimes called the foreigners. (1700)
The foreigners. Part I a poem. (1700)
The Natives an answer to The foreigners. (1700)
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