Horsham Museum said that what raises the pamphlet above the usual deathbed confessions “is the degree to which Thomas was self-aware and reflective on his life”. He describes one incident in a Southampton inn, when the son of the innkeeper joined Munn in his bed, informing him that “I love to lie with a naked man”.
I wanted Words to express my Confusion, Surprise and Passion, at his Propositions
“He had not been long in Bed but began to act a Part so Contradictory to Nature that I started up in Bed, wanted Words to express my Confusion, Surprise and Passion, at his Propositions,” Munn says. The “chap” leaves after Munn threatens him with a penknife, and makes “many Excuses” the next day.
As Munn tells it: “It was what I never met with before, nor since, but had Philosophy enough in me, to think it a pity to expose a young Man, tho’ he pointed at a very heinous Sin; and certainly we that commit Crimes beyond what is common, ought to be pitied, for no Man is certain if he comes under the same Temptation, that he shall be able to withstand it.”
