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<P>THE SEVERAL SPEECHES OF Duke <HI>Hamilton</HI> Earl of <HI>Cambridg, Henry</HI> Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> and <HI>Arthur</HI> Lord <HI>Capel,</HI> Upon the SCAFFOLD Immediately before their EXECUTION, On Friday the 9. of <HI>March.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o the &s;everal Exhortations, and Conferences with them, upon the SCAFFOLD, by D^r <HI>Sibbald,</HI> M^r <HI>Bolton,</HI> &amp; M^r <HI>Hodges.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Peter Cole, Francis Tyton,</HI> and <HI>John Playford.</HI> 164<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
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<HEAD>The &s;everal Speeches of Earl of <HI>Cam|bridg,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Capel,</HI> upon the Scaffold, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>UPon Friday the ninth of this in&s;tant, being the day appointed for the Execution of the &s;entence of Death upon the Earl of <HI>Cambridg,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Hol|land,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Capel,</HI> about ten of the Clock that morning L.Col. <HI>Beecher</HI> came with his Order to the &s;e|veral Pri&s;oners at St <HI>James</HI>'s, requiring them to come away; According to which Order they were carried in Sedans, with a Guard, to Sir <HI>Thomas Cottons</HI> hou&s;e at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> where they continued about the &s;pace of two hours, pa&s;&s;ing away mo&s;t of that time in re|ligious and &s;ea&s;onable Conferences with the Mini&s;ters there pre&s;ent with them. After which, being called a|way to the Scaffold, it was de&s;ired, that before they went they might have the opportunity of commending their Souls to God by prayer, which being readily granted, and the room voyded, Mr <HI>Bolton</HI> was de&s;ired by the Lord of <HI>Holland</HI> to take that pains with them, which was accordingly done with great appearance of &s;olemn Affections among them. Prayer being conclu|ded, and hearty Thanks returned by them all to the Mini&s;ter who performed, as al&s;o to the re&s;t who were their A&s;&s;i&s;tants in this &s;ad time of trouble; the Earl of <HI>Cambridge</HI> prepared fir&s;t to go towards the place of Execution; and after mutual embraces, and &s;ome &s;hort ejaculatory expre&s;&s;ions, to and for his fellow-|&s;ufferers, he took his leave of them all, and went a|long
<PB N="4" REF="3">with the Officers, attended upon by Dr <HI>Sibbald,</HI> whom he had cho&s;en for his Comforter in this his &s;ad condition.</P>
<P>The Scaffold being erected in the new Palace-yard at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> over again&s;t the great Hal-Gate, in the &s;ight of the place where the High Court of Ju&s;tice formerly &s;ate (the Hal-doors being open,) there was his Excellen|cies Regiment of Hor&s;e commanded by Capt. <HI>Di&s;her,</HI> and &s;everal Companies of Col. <HI>Hew&s;ons</HI> and Col. <HI>Prides</HI> Regiments of Foot drawn up in the place: When the Earl came from <HI>Westmin&s;ter</HI> Hall neer the Scaffold, he was met by the Under&s;heriff of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and a Guard of his men, who took the charge of him from Lieut. Col. <HI>Beecher</HI> and the Partizans that were his Guard; The Sheriff of <HI>London</HI> being al&s;o, according to Command from the High Court of Ju&s;tice, pre|&s;ent, to &s;ee the Execution performed.</P>
<P>The Earl of <HI>Cambridg</HI> being come upon the Scaffold, and two of his own &s;ervants waiting upon him, he fir&s;t &s;pake to the Doctor as followeth:</P>
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<SPEAKER>Earl of Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>Whether &s;hall I pray fir&s;t?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>As Your Lord&s;hip plea&s;es.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Earl of Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord of <HI>Denbigh</HI> has &s;ent to &s;peak with me.</P>
<P>I know not the fa&s;hion, I may ask you Sir; Do the&s;e Gentlemen expect I &s;hould &s;ay any thing to them, or no, they cannot hear?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>There will be a greater &s;ilence by and by. It will
<PB N="5" REF="3">not be ami&s;s, if Your Lord&s;hip defer Your &s;peaking till You hear from his Lord&s;hip.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is &s;omething in it. He was with the Hou&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e he would give no interruption to Your Lord&s;hip, at this time, were there not &s;omething of concernment in it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>He is my Brother, and has been a very faithful Ser|vant to this State, and he was in great e&s;teem and re|putation with them.</P>
<P>He is in the Hall, and &s;ent to &s;peak with a Servant of mine to &s;end &s;omething to me.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>It will not lengthen the time much if you &s;tay while you have a Return from him. My Lord, you &s;hould do well to be&s;tow your time now in meditating upon, and imploring of the free mercy of God in Chri&s;t for your eternal Salvation, and look upon that ever-&s;tream|ing Fountain of his precious Blood, that purgeth us from all our &s;ins, even the &s;ins of the deepe&s;t dye; the Blood of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t wa&s;hes away all our &s;ins, and that Blood of Chri&s;t is poured forth upon all &s;uch as by a lively Faith lay hold upon him: God &s;o loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son, to the end, that who&s;oever beleeved in him &s;hould not peri&s;h, but have everla&s;ting life; that is now, my Lord, the Rock upon which you mu&s;t chiefly re&s;t, and labor to fix your &s;elf in the free mercy of God through Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, who&s;e mercies are from everla&s;ting to everla&s;ting, unto
<PB N="6" REF="4">all &s;uch as with the eye of Faith behold him; behold Ie&s;us the Author and Fini&s;her of your Salvation, who hath &s;atisfied the Iu&s;tice of God by that Al-&s;ufficiency of his Sacrifice, which once for all he offered upon the Cro&s;s for the &s;ins of the whole world, &s;o that the &s;ting of death is taken away from all Beleevers, and he hath &s;anctified it as a pa&s;&s;age to everla&s;ting ble&s;&s;edne&s;s: It is true, the waters of <HI>Jordan</HI> run &s;omewhat rough and &s;urly, betwixt the Wilderne&s;s and our pa&s;&s;age into <HI>Canaan;</HI> but let us re&s;t upon the Ark (my Lord) the Ark Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, that will carry us through, and above all tho&s;e waves to that Rock of ages, which no flood nor waves can reach unto, and to him who is ye&s;terday, to day, and the &s;ame for ever, again&s;t whom the Powers and Principalities, the gates of Hell, &s;hall never be a|ble to prevail; lift up and fa&s;ten your eyes now upon Chri&s;t crucified; and labor to behold Ie&s;us &s;tanding at the right hand of his Father, (as the Protomartyr <HI>Ste|phen</HI>) ready to receive your &s;oul, when it &s;hall be &s;epa|rated from this frail and mortal body: Ala&s;s, no man would de&s;ire life, if he knew beforehand what it were to live, it is nothing but &s;orrow, vexation and trouble, grief and di&s;content that waits upon every condition, whether publique or private; in every &s;tation and cal|ling there are &s;everal mi&s;eries and troubles that are in|&s;eparable from them; therefore what a ble&s;&s;ed thing it is to have a &s;peedy and comfortable pa&s;&s;age out of this raging Sea, into the Port of everla&s;ting Happine&s;s; We mu&s;t pa&s;s through a Sea, but it is the Sea of Chri&s;ts Blood, in which never &s;oul &s;uffered &s;hipwrack, in which we mu&s;t be blown with winds and tempe&s;ts,
<PB N="7" REF="4">but they are the Gales of Gods Spirit upon us, which blow away all contrary winds of diffidence in his Mercy.</P>
<P>Here one acquainting the Earl, his &s;ervant was coming, he an&s;wered, So Sir; And turning to the un|der Sheriffs &s;on, &s;aid.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir, have you your Warrant here?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sheriff.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, my Lord, we have a Command.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>A Command.</P>
<P>I take this time, Sir, of &s;taying, in regard of the Earl of <HI>Denbighs</HI> &s;ending to &s;peak with me, I know not for what it is he de&s;ires me to &s;tay.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I pre&s;ume Mr Sheriff will not grudg your Lord&s;hip a few minutes time, when &s;o great a work as this is in hand.</P>
<P>His Lord&s;hips &s;ervant being returned, and having delivered his Me&s;&s;age to the Earl of <HI>Cambridg</HI> privately, he &s;aid. So, it is done now; and then turning to the front of the Scaffold, before which (as in all the re&s;t of the pallace) there was a great concour&s;e of people, he &s;aid;</P>
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<SPEAKER>Earl of Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>I think it is truly not very nece&s;&s;ary for me to &s;peak much, there are many Gentlemen and Souldiers there that &s;ees me, but my voyce truly is &s;o weak, &s;o low, that they cannot hear me, neither truly was <HI>I</HI> ever at any time &s;o much in love with &s;peaking, or with any thing <HI>I</HI> had to expre&s;s, that I took delight in it; yet this be|ing
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<PB N="8" REF="6">the la&s;t time that I am to do &s;o, by a divine Provi|dence of Almighty God, who hath brought me to this end ju&s;tly for my &s;ins. I &s;hall to you Sir, Mr Sheriff, declare thus much, as to the matter that <HI>I</HI> am now to &s;uffer for, which is as being a Traytor to the Kingdom of <HI>England:</HI> Truly Sir, it was a Country that <HI>I</HI> equally loved with my own, <HI>I</HI> made no difference, <HI>I</HI> never in|tended either the generality of its prejudice, or any par|ticular mans in it; what <HI>I</HI> did was by the Command of the Parliament of the Country where <HI>I</HI> was born, who&s;e Commands <HI>I</HI> could not di&s;obey, without run|ning into the &s;ame hazard there, of that condition that <HI>I</HI> am now in: The ends, Sir, of that Engagement is publique, they are in Print, and &s;o <HI>I</HI> &s;hall not need to &s;pecifie them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>The Sun perhaps will be too much in Your Lord|&s;hips face, as You &s;peak.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>No Sir, it will not burn it. I hope I &s;hall &s;ee a brighter Sun then this, Sir, very &s;peedily.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr. <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>The Sun of Righteou&s;ne&s;s my Lord.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambridg.</SPEAKER>
<P>(But to that which I was &s;aying Sir.) It plea&s;ed God &s;o to di&s;po&s;e that Army under my Command, as it was ruined; and <HI>I,</HI> as their General, clothed with a Commi&s;&s;ion, &s;tand here, now ready to dye; I &s;hall not trouble you with repeating of my Plea, what I &s;aid in my own Defence at the Court of <HI>JUSTICE,</HI> my &s;elf being &s;atisfied with
<PB N="9" REF="6">the commands that is laid upon me, and they &s;atisfied with the Ju&s;tne&s;&s;e of their procedure, according to the Laws of this Land. God is ju&s;t, and how&s;oever <HI>I</HI> &s;hall not &s;ay any thing as to the matter of the &s;entence, but that <HI>I</HI> do willingly &s;ubmit to his divine Providence, and acknowledge that very many wayes <HI>I</HI> de&s;erve e|ven a worldly puni&s;hment, as well as hereafter, for we are all &s;infull, Sir, and <HI>I</HI> a great one; yet for my comfort <HI>I</HI> know there is a God in heaven that is ex|ceeding mercifull; <HI>I</HI> know my Redeemer &s;its at his right hand, and am confident, (clapping his hand to his brea&s;t) is mediating for me at this in&s;tant, <HI>I</HI> am hopefull through his free grace and al-&s;ufficient me|rits, to be pardoned of my &s;ins, and to be received in|to his mercy, upon that <HI>I</HI> rely, tru&s;ting to nothing but the free grace of God through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>I</HI> have not been tainted with my Religion <HI>I</HI> thank God for it, &s;ince my infancy it hath been &s;uch as hath been pro|fe&s;t in the Land, and e&s;tabli&s;hed, and now tis not this Religion or that Religion, nor this or that fancie of men that is to be built upon, tis but one that's right, one that's &s;ure, and that comes from God. Sir, and in the free grace of our Saviour. Sir, there is truly &s;omething that
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erving the Writers.</NOTE> (had <HI>I</HI> thought my &s;peech would have been thus taken,) <HI>I</HI> would have dige&s;ted it into &s;ome better method then now <HI>I</HI> can, and &s;hall de|&s;ire the&s;e Gentlemen that does write it, that they will not wrong me in it, and that it may not in this man|ner be publi&s;hed to my di&s;advantage, for truly <HI>I</HI> did not intend to have &s;poken thus when <HI>I</HI> came here.</P>
<P>There is, &s;irs, terrible a&s;per&s;ions has been laid upon my &s;elf; truly &s;uch as, I thank God, I am very free
<PB N="10" REF="7">from; as if my actions and intentions had not been &s;uch as they were pretended for; but that notwith|&s;tanding what I pretended it was for the King, there was nothing le&s;&s;e intended then to &s;erve him in it. <HI>I</HI> was bred with him for many years, <HI>I</HI> was his dome|&s;tique &s;ervant, and there was nothing declar'd by the Parliament that was not really intended by me; and truly in it <HI>I</HI> ventured my life one way, and now <HI>I</HI> lo&s;e it another way: and that was one of the ends, as to the King; <HI>I</HI> &s;peak only of that, becau&s;e the re&s;t has many particulars; and to clear my &s;elfe from &s;o hor|rid an a&s;per&s;ion as is laid upon me: neither was there any other de&s;ign known to me by the incoming of that Army, then what is really in the Declaration publi&s;hed. His per&s;on, I do profe&s;&s;e, <HI>I</HI> had rea&s;on to love, as he was my King, and as he had been my Ma|&s;ter: it has plea&s;ed God now to di&s;po&s;e of him, &s;o as it cannot be thought flatery to have &s;aid this, or any end in me for the &s;aying of it, but to free my &s;elfe from that calumnie which lay upon me: I cannot gain by it; yet Truth is that which we &s;hall gain by for ever.</P>
<P>There hath been much &s;poken, Sir, of an invitation into this Kingdome: it's mentioned in that <HI>Decla|ration,</HI> and truly to that I did and do remit my &s;elf: and I have been very much laboured for di&s;coveries of the&s;e inviters. 'Tis no time to di&s;&s;emble. How willing I was to have &s;erved this Nation in any thing that was in my power, is known to very many hone&s;t, pious and religious men; and how ready <HI>I</HI> would have been to have done what <HI>I</HI> could to have &s;erved them, if it had plea&s;ed them to have pre&s;erved my life, in who&s;e hands there was a power: They have
<PB N="11" REF="7">not thought it fit, and &s;o <HI>I</HI> am become unu&s;efull in that which willingly I would have done. As <HI>I</HI> &s;aid at fir&s;t (Sir) &s;o <HI>I</HI> &s;ay now concerning that point; <HI>I</HI> wi&s;h the Kingdoms happine&s;&s;e, I wi&s;h its peace; and truly Sir, <HI>I</HI> wi&s;h that this blood of mine may be the la&s;t that is drawn: and how&s;oever I may perhaps have &s;ome reluctancie with my &s;elf as to the matter of my &s;uffer|ing, for my fact, yet I freely forgive all; Sir, <HI>I</HI> carry no rancour along with me to my grave: His will be done that has created both heaven and earth, and me a poor mi&s;erable &s;infull creature now &s;peaking before him. For me to &s;peak, Sir, to you of State-bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and the Government of the Kingdom, or my opinion in that, or for any thing in that nature, Truly it is to no end, it contributes nothing: My own inclination hath been to Peace, from the beginning; and it is known to many, that I never was an ill in&s;trument be|twixt the King and his people; <HI>I</HI> never acted to the prejudice of the Parliament; <HI>I</HI> bore no Arms, I medled not with it; I was not wanting by my pray|ers to God almighty for the happine&s;&s;e of the King; and truly I &s;hall pray &s;till, that God may &s;o direct him as that may be done which &s;hall tend to his glory, and the peace and happine&s;&s;e of the kingdom.</P>
<P>I have not much more to &s;ay, that I remember of; I think I have &s;poken of my Religion.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr. <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Your Lord&s;hip his not &s;o fully &s;aid it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Camb.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly I do believe I did &s;ay &s;omething.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr, <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I know you did, 'tis plea&s;ing to heare it from your Lord&s;hip againe.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambr.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly Sir, for the profe&s;&s;ion of my Religi|gion, that which I &s;aid was the e&s;tabli&s;hed Religion,
<PB N="12" REF="8">and that which I have practi&s;ed in my owne King|dome where I was borne and bred; my Tenents they need not to be expre&s;t, they are knowne to all, and I am not of a rigid opinion; many god|ly men there is that may have &s;cruples which doe not concerne me at all at no time; they may dif|fer in Opinion, and more now then at any time; differing in Opjnion does not move me (not any mans) my owne is cleare: Sir, The Lord for|give me my &s;innes, and I forgive freely all tho&s;e that even I might as a worldly man, have the greate&s;t animo&s;ity again&s;t; We are bidden to for|give; Sir, T is a command laid upon us (and there mentioned) <HI>Forgive us our tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, as we forgive them that tre&s;pa&s;&s;e again&s;t us.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr. <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis our Saviours rule, <HI>love your ene|mies, ble&s;&s;e them that cur&s;e you, pray for them that per|&s;ecute you, do good to them which de&s;pightfully u&s;e you.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Cambr.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir, it is high time for me to make an end of this, and truly <HI>I</HI> remember no more that I have to &s;ay, but to pray to God Almighty a few words, and then I have done.</P>
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<P>Then kneeling downe, with Doctor <HI>Sibbald,</HI> he Prayed thus.</P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed Lord, I thy poore and mo&s;t unworthy &s;er|vant come unto thee, pre&s;uming in thy infinite mer|cy and the merits of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who &s;its upon the Throne, I come flying from that of Ju&s;tice, to that of Mercy, and tenderne&s;&s;e for his &s;ake which &s;hed his bloud for &s;inners, that he would take compa&s;sion up|on me, that he will look upon me as one that gra|ciou&s;ly hears me, that he would look upon me as one
<PB N="13" REF="8">that hath redeemed me, that he would look upon me as one that hath &s;hed his bloud for me; that he would look upon me as one who now cals and hopes to be &s;a|ved by his al-&s;ufficient merits; for his &s;ake, Glorious God, have compa&s;sion upon me in the freene&s;&s;e of thy infinite mercy, that when this &s;infull &s;oule of mine &s;hall depart out of this fraile carca&s;e of clay,</HI> I <HI>may be carried into thy everla&s;ting glory; O Lord by thy free grace, and out of thy infinite mercy heare me, and look downe, and have compa&s;sion upon me; and thou Lord Je&s;us, thou my Lord, and thou my God, and thou my Redeemer, heare me, take pitie upon me, take pitie upon me gracious God, and &s;o deale with my &s;oule, that by thy precious merits I may at|taine to thy joy and bli&s;&s;e; O Lord remember me &s;o mi&s;erable and &s;infull a creature; now thou O Lord, thou O Lord that died for me, receive me, and re|ceive me into thy owne bound of mercy; O Lord I tru&s;t in thee, &s;uffer me not now to be confounded, Satan has had too long po&s;&s;e&s;sion of this &s;oule, O let him not now prevaile again&s;t it, but let me O Lord from henceforth dwell with thee for evermore. Now Lord it is thy time to heare me, heare me gracious Je&s;us, even for thy owne goodne&s;&s;e, mercy, and truth; O glorious God, O ble&s;&s;ed Father, O holy Redeemer, O gracious Comforter, O holy and ble&s;&s;ed Trinity, I do render up my &s;oule into thy hands, and commit it with the mediation of my Redeemer, prai&s;ing thee for all thy di&s;pen&s;ations that it has plea&s;ed thee to conferre upon me, and even for this, prai&s;e and honour and thanks of this time forth for ever more.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr. <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My, Lord, I tru&s;t you now behold
<PB N="14" REF="9">with the eye of Faith the Son of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;hin|ing upon your &s;oul, and will chearfully &s;ubmit unto him who hath redeemed us through his bloud, even the bloud of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that you may appeare at the Tribunal of God, clothed with the white robe of his un&s;potted righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e; the Lord grant that with the eye of faith you may now &s;ee the heavens opened, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t &s;tanding at the right hand of God, ready to receive you into his armes of mercie.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cambr.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then the Earle turning to the Executio|ner, &s;aid, &s;hall J put on another Cap, mu&s;t this hair be turn'd up from my neck, there are three of my &s;ervants to give &s;atisfaction.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D. <HI>Sib.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, I hope you are able to give all that are about you &s;atisfaction, you are a&s;&s;ured that God is reconciled unto you through the bloud of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, and the Spirit of the Lord witne&s;&s;eth to you that Chri&s;t is become now a Ie&s;us unto you; My Lord, fa&s;ten the eyes of your faith upon Je&s;us the Author &amp; fini&s;her of your &s;alvation, who him&s;elf was brought to a violent death for the redemption of mankind, he chearfully &s;ubmitted to his Fathers good plea&s;ure in it, and for us, ble&s;&s;ed and holy is he that has part (my Lord) in the fir&s;t re&s;urrection; that is, in the fir&s;t ri&s;er Je&s;us Chri&s;t who is both the re&s;urrection and the life, over him, the &s;econd death &s;hall have no power, tis the un&s;peakable joy of a beleever, that at the houre of death his &s;oule hath an immediate pa&s;&s;age from this earthly Tabernacle to that Region of endle&s;&s;e glory, yea to the pre&s;ence of God him&s;elfe, in who&s;e pre|&s;ence there is fulne&s;&s;e of joy, and at who&s;e right hand there are plea&s;ures for evermore.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="15" REF="9">
<P>Then the E, of <HI>Cambridge</HI> turning to the Executio|oner, &s;aid, which way is it that you would have me lye, Sir.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Execut.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Executioner pointing to the front of the Scaffold, the Earle replyed what, my Head this way; then the Under Sheriffs &s;on &s;aid, my Lord, the Order is that you &s;hould lay your Head towards the High-Court of Iu&s;tice.</P>
</SP>
<P>The Earl of <HI>Cambr.</HI> after a little di&s;cour&s;e in pri|vate with &s;ome of his &s;ervants, kneeled down on the &s;ide of the Scaffold, and prayed a while to him&s;elf.</P>
<P>When he had fini&s;ht his prayers, Dr. <HI>Sibbald</HI> &s;pake to him thus:</P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> I humbly be&s;eech God, that you may now with a holy and Chri&s;tian courage give up your &s;oul to the hand of your faithful Creator and gracious Re|deemer; and not be di&s;maied with any &s;ad apprehen|&s;ion of the terrours of this death. And what a ble&s;&s;ed and glorious Exchange you &s;hall make within a very few minutes!</P>
<P>Then with a cheerfull and &s;miling countenance, the Earle embracing the Doctor in his Armes, &s;aid,</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Camb.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly Sir, I do take you in mine arms, &amp; truly I ble&s;&s;e God for it, I do not feare, I have an a&s;&s;urance that is grounded here; (laying his hand upon his heart.) Now that gives me more true joy then ever J had, J pa&s;&s;e out of a mi&s;erable world to go into an e|ternall and glorious Kingdome; and Sir, though J have been a mo&s;t &s;infull creature, yet Gods mercy J know is infinite, and J ble&s;&s;e my God for it, J go with &s;o cleare a con&s;cience, that J know not the man that J have per|&s;onally injured.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="16" REF="10">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D. Sib.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, it is a marveilous great &s;atisfaction that at this la&s;t hour you can &s;ay &s;o, I be&s;eech the Lord for his eternall mercy &s;trengthen your faith, that in the very moment of your di&s;&s;olution, you may &s;ee the armes of the Lord Ie&s;us &s;tretched out ready to receive your &s;oule.</P>
</SP>
<P>Then the Earl of Cambridge embracing tho&s;e his &s;ervants which were there pre&s;ent, &s;aid to each of them, You have been very faithful to me, and the Lord ble&s;&s;e you.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Camb.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then turning to the Executioner, &s;aid, I &s;hall &s;ay a very &s;hort prayer to my God, while I lie down there: and when I &s;tretch out my hand (my right hand) then &s;ir, do your duty; and I do freely forgive you, and &s;o I do all the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dr. <HI>Sibbald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord in great mercie go along with you, and bring you to the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of everla&s;t|ing life, &s;trengthning your faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t. This is a pa&s;&s;age, <HI>my Lord,</HI> a &s;hort pa&s;&s;age unto eternal glory. J hope, through the free grace of your gracious God, you are now able to &s;ay, O <HI>Death where is thy &s;ting?</HI> O <HI>grave where is thy victory?</HI> and to make this com|fortable an&s;wer, <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be God, ble&s;&s;ed be God, who hath given me an a&s;&s;urance of victory through Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</HI></P>
</SP>
<P>Then the E. of Cambridge &s;aid to the Executioner, Mu&s;t J lie all along?</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Execut.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, and't plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Camb.</SPEAKER>
<P>When I &s;tretch out my hands&mdash;but J will fit my Head, fir&s;t tell me if I be right, and how you would have me lie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ex.</SPEAKER>
<P>Your &s;hirt mu&s;t be pind back, for it lies too high upon your &s;houlders (<HI>which was done accordingly.</HI></P>
</SP>
<PB N="17" REF="10">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor Sibbald.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, now, now lift up your eyes unto Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and ca&s;t your &s;elf now into the everla&s;ting arms of your mo&s;t gracious Re|deemer.</P>
</SP>
<P>Then the Earle having laid his head over the blocke, &s;aid, Is this right?</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor Sibbald.</SPEAKER>
<P>Je&s;us the Son of <HI>David,</HI> have mercy upon you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Execut.</SPEAKER>
<P>Lie a little lower Sir.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Camb.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, &s;tay then till I give you the &s;igne.</P>
</SP>
<P>And &s;o having laine a &s;hort &s;pace devoutly pray|ing to him&s;elfe, he &s;tretch'd out his right hand, whereupon the Executioner at one blow &s;evered his head from his body, which was received by two of his &s;ervants then kneeling by him, into a Crim|&s;on Taffety Scarfe, and that with the body imme|diately put into a Coffin brought upon the Scaffold for that purpo&s;e, and from thence conveyed to the hou&s;e that was Sir <HI>John Hamiltons</HI> at the Mewes, where it now remains.</P>
<P>This execution being done, the Sheriffes Guard went immediately to meet the Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> which they did in the mid way between the Scaffold and We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall, and the Under-Sheriffes &s;onne having received him into his charge, conducted him to the Scaffold, he taking M. <HI>Boulton</HI> all the way in his hand, pa&s;&s;ed all along to the Scaffold di&s;cour|&s;ing together; upon which being come, ob&s;erving his voice would not reach to the people, in regard the Guard compa&s;&s;ed the Scaffold, he &s;aid;</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is to no purpo&s;e (I think) to &s;peak any thing here. Which way mu&s;t I &s;peak? And
<PB N="18" REF="11">then being directed to the front of the Scaffold, he (leaning over the railes) &s;aid, I think it is fit to &s;ay &s;omething, &s;ince God hath called me to this place. The fir&s;t thing which I mu&s;t profe&s;&s;e, is, what con|cernes my Religion, and my breeding, which hath been in a good Family, that hath ever been faithfull to the true Prote&s;tant Religion, in the which I have been bred, in the which I have lived, and in the which by Gods grace and mercy I &s;hall die. I have not lived according to that education I had in that Family where I was born and bred: I hope God wil forgive me my &s;ins, &s;ince I conceive that it is ve|ry much his plea&s;ure to bring me to this place for the &s;ins that I have committed. The cau&s;e that hath brought me hither, I believe by many hath been much mi&s;taken. They have conceived that I have had ill de&s;ignes to the State, and to the Kingdome: Truly I look upon it as a Judgement, and a ju&s;t Judgement of God; not but I have offended &s;o much the State, and the Kingdome, and the Parlia|ment, as that I have had an extream vanity in &s;er|ving them very extraordinarily. For tho&s;e actions that I have done, I think it is known they have been ever very faithfull to the publique, and very parti|cularly to Parliaments. My affections have been e|ver expre&s;t truly and clearly to them. The di&s;po&s;i|tions of affairs now have put things in another po|&s;ture then they were when I was ingaged with the Parliament. I have never gone off from tho&s;e Princi|ples that ever I have profe&s;&s;ed: I have lived in them, and by Gods grace will die in them. There may be alterations and changes that may carry them further
<PB N="19" REF="11">then I thought rea&s;onable, and truly there I left them: but there hath been nothing that I have &s;aid, or done, or profe&s;&s;ed, either by Covenant, or Declara|tion, which hath not been very con&s;tant, and very clear upon the principles that I ever have gone upon, which was to &s;erve the King, the Parliament, Religi|on (I &s;hould have &s;aid in the fir&s;t place) the Common-Wealth, and to &s;eek the Peace of the Kingdome. That made me think it no improper time, being pre&s;t out by accidents and circum&s;tances, to &s;eek the Peace of the Kingdome, which I thought was proper, &s;ince there was &s;omthing then in agitation, but nothing a|greed on for &s;eeding Propo&s;itions to the King; that was the furthe&s;t aim that I had, and truly beyond that I had no intention, none at all. And God be prai&s;ed, although my bloud comes to be &s;hed here, there was I think &s;carcely a drop of bloud &s;hed in that action that I was ingaged in. For the pre&s;ent affairs as they are, I cannot tell how to judge of them: and truly they are in &s;uch a condition, as (I conceive) no body can make a judgement of them: and therefore I mu&s;t make u&s;e of my Prayers, rather then of my opinion, which are, that God would ble&s;&s;e this Kingdome, this Nati|on, this State; that he would &s;ettle it in a way agreea|ble to what this Kingdome hath been happily gover|ned under; by a King, by the Lords, by the Com|mons: a Government that (I conceive) it hath flou|ri&s;hed much under, and I pray God the change of it bring not rather a prejudice, a di&s;order, and a confu&s;i|on, then the contrary. I look upon the Po&s;terity of the King, and truly my Con&s;cience directs me to it, to de|&s;ire, that if God be plea&s;ed that the&s;e people may look
<PB N="20" REF="12">upon them with that affection that they owe, that they may be called in again, and they may be, not through bloud, nor through di&s;order, admitted again into that power, and to that glory that God in their birth intended to them. I &s;hall pray with all my &s;oule for the happine&s;&s;e of this State, of this Nation, that the bloud which is here &s;pilt, may be even the la&s;t which may fall among us and truly I &s;hould lay down mylife with as much chearfulne&s;s as ever per&s;on did, if I conceived that there would no more bloud fol|low us: for a State, or Affairs that are built upon bloud, is a foundation for the mo&s;t part that doth not pro&s;per.</P>
</SP>
<P>After the ble&s;&s;ing that I give to the Nation, to the Kingdom, and truly to the Parliament, I do wi&s;h with all my heart, happine&s;&s;e, and a ble&s;&s;ing to all tho&s;e that have been authors in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; and truly that have been authors in this very work that bringeth us hither: I do not onely forgive them, but I pray heartily and really for them, as God will forgive my &s;ins, &s;o I de|&s;ire God may forgive them.</P>
<P>I have a particular relation, as I am Chancellour of Cambridge, and truly I mu&s;t here, &s;ince it is the la&s;t of my prayers, pray to God that that Univer&s;ity may go on in that happy way which it is in, that God may make it a Nur&s;ery to plant tho&s;e per&s;ons that may be di&s;tributed to the Kingdome, that the &s;ouls of the peo|ple may receive a great benefit, and a great advantage by them, and (I hope) God will reward them for their kindne&s;&s;e, and their affections that I have found from them.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Looking towards M.</HI> Bolton.</NOTE> I have &s;aid what Religion I have been bred in, what Religion I have been borne in, what Religi|on I have practi&s;ed; I began with it, and I mu&s;t end
<PB N="21" REF="12">with it. I told you that my actions and my life have not been agreeable to my breeding, I have told you likewi&s;e that the family where I was bred hath been an exemplary family (I may &s;ay &s;o I hope, without vani|ty) of much affection to Religion, and of much faith|fulne&s;&s;e to this Kingdome, and to this State. I have indeavoured to do tho&s;e actions that have become an hone&s;t man, and which became a good Engli&s;hman, and which became a good Chri&s;tian. I have been wil|ling to oblige tho&s;e that have been in trouble, tho&s;e that have been in per&s;ecution, and truly I find a great reward of it; for I have found their prayers and their kindne&s;&s;e now in this di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and in this condition I am in, and I thinke it a great reward, and I pray God reward them for it.</P>
<P>I am a great &s;inner, and I hope God will be plea&s;ed to heare my prayers, to give me faith to tru&s;t in him, that as he hath called me to death at this place, he will make it but a pa&s;&s;age to an eternall life through Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which I tru&s;t to, which I rely upon, and which I expect by the mercy of God. And &s;o I pray God ble&s;&s;e you all, and &s;end that you may &s;ee this to be the la&s;t execution, and the la&s;t bloud that is likely to bee &s;pilt among you. And then turning to the &s;ide-raile, he prayed for a good &s;pace of time; after which M. <HI>Bolton</HI> &s;aid:</P>
<P>My Lord, Now look upon him whom you have tru&s;ted.</P>
<P>My Lord, I hope that here is your la&s;t prayer: there will no more praiers remain, but prai&s;es: And I hope that af|ter this day is over, there will a day begin that &s;hall never have end: And I look upon this (my Lord) the morning of it, the morning of that day. My Lord, you know where your fulne&s;&s;e lies, where your riches lie,
<PB N="22" REF="13">where is your onely rocke to anchor on. You know there is fulne&s;&s;e in Chri&s;t: If the Lord comes not in with fulne&s;&s;e of comfort to you, yet re&s;olve to wait upon him while you live, and to tru&s;t in him when you die; and then &s;ay, I will die here, I will pe|ri&s;h at thy feet, I will be found dead at the feet of Je|&s;us Chri&s;t. Certainly, he that came to &s;eek and &s;ave lo&s;t &s;inners, will not reject lo&s;t &s;inners when they come to &s;eek him: Hee that intreateth us to come, will not &s;leight us when we come to intreat him. My Lord, there is enough there, and fix your heart there, and fix your eyes there, that eye of Faith, and that eye of hope, exerci&s;e the&s;e graces now, there will be no exerci&s;e hereafter. As your Lord&s;hip &s;aid, here take an end of Faith, and take an end of Hope, and take a fare|well of Repentance: and all the&s;e, and welcome God, and welcome Chri&s;t, and welcome Glory and welcome Happine&s;&s;e to all Eternity; and &s;o it will be a happy pa&s;&s;age then, if it bee a pa&s;&s;age here from mi&s;ery to happine&s;&s;e. And though it be but a &s;ad way, yet if it will bring you into the pre&s;ence of joy, although it be a valley of tears, although it be a &s;hadow of death, yet if God will plea&s;e to bring you, and make it a pa&s;&s;age to that happine&s;&s;e, welcome Lord. And I doubt not but God will give you a heart to ta&s;te &s;ome &s;weetne&s;&s;e and love in this bitter potion, and to &s;ee &s;omthing of mercy and goodne&s;&s;e to you, and &s;hew you &s;ome &s;igne and token of good, &s;o that your &s;oule may &s;ee that which we have had already experi|ence of (ble&s;&s;ed be God for it) many experiences, ma|ny expre&s;&s;ions, not onely in words, but tears; God hath not left us without much comfort nor evidence, and I hope (my Lord) you that have given &s;o many
<PB N="23" REF="13">evidences to us, I hope you want none your &s;elfe: but that the Lord will be plea&s;ed to uphold and &s;up|port you, and bear up your &s;pirit, and if there want e|vidence, there is reliance; my &s;ecurity lies not in my knowing that I &s;hall come to heaven, and come to glo|ry, but in my re&s;ting and relying upon him: When the Anchor of Faith is throwne out, there may be &s;ha|kings and to&s;&s;ings, but there is &s;afety; nothing &s;hall interrupt &s;afety, although &s;omthing may interrupt &s;e|curity, my &s;afety is &s;ure, although I apprehend it not: and what if I go to God in the dark? what if I come to him, as <HI>Nicodemus</HI> did, &s;taggering in the night? It is a night of trouble, a night of darkne&s;&s;e, though I come trembling and &s;taggering in this night, yet I &s;hall be &s;ure to find comfort &amp; fixedne&s;&s;e in him. And the Lord of heaven be the &s;trength, &s;tay, and the &s;upport of your &s;oul, and the Lord furni&s;h you with all tho&s;e graces which may carry you into the bo&s;ome of the Lord Je|&s;us, that when you expire this life, you may be able to expire it into him, in whom you may begin to live to all eternity; and that is my humble prayer.&mdash;</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>M. <HI>Bolton,</HI> God hath given me long time in this world; he hath carried me through many great accidents of Fortune; he hath at la&s;t brought me down into a condition, where I find my &s;elf brought to an end, for a di&s;affection to this State, to this Parliament, that (as I &s;aid before) I did believe no body in the world more unlikely to have expected to &s;uffer for that Cau&s;e: I look upon it as a great judgment of God for my &s;ins. And truly Sir, &s;ince that the death is violent, I am the le&s;&s;e troubled with it, becau&s;e of tho&s;e violent deaths that I have &s;een before; principally my Saviour that hath &s;hewed us the way, how and in what manner he
<PB N="24" REF="14">hath done it, and for what cau&s;e, I am the more comfor|ted, I am the more rejoyced. It is not long &s;ince the King my Ma&s;ter pa&s;&s;ed in the &s;ame manner; and truly I hope that his purpo&s;es &amp; intentions were &s;uch, as a man may not be a&s;hamed, not only to follow him, in the way that was taken with him, but likewi&s;e not a&s;hamed of his purpo&s;es, if God had given him life. I have often di&s;pu|ted with him concerning many things of this kind, &amp; I conceive his &s;ufferings, &amp; his better knowledg &amp; better under&s;tanding (if God had &s;pared him life) might have made him a Prince very happy towards him&s;elf, &amp; very happy towards this Kingdom. I have &s;een and known, that tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed Soules in heaven have pa&s;&s;ed thither by the gate of &s;orrow, &amp; many by the gate of violence: and &s;ince it is Gods plea&s;ure to di&s;po&s;e me this way, I &s;ubmit my &s;oul to him, with all comfort, and with all hope, that he hath made this my end, and this my con|clu&s;ion, that though I be low in death, yet neverthele&s;&s;e this lowne&s;s &s;hal rai&s;e me to the highe&s;t glory for ever.</P>
<P>Truly, I have not &s;aid much in publique to the Peo|ple, concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my coun&s;ells in this Kingdom; I con|ceive they are well known; it were &s;omthing of vani|ty (me thinks) to take notice of them here; He rather die with them, with the comfort of them in my own bo&s;ome; and that I never intended in this action, or a|ny action that ever I did in my life, either malice, or blood&s;hed, or prejudice to any creature that lives. For that which concernes my Religion, I made my profe&s;|&s;ion before of it, how I was bred, and in what manner I was bred, in a Family that was looked up|on to be no little notorious, in oppo&s;ition to &s;ome liberties, that they conceived then to bee taken;
<PB N="25" REF="14">and truly, there was &s;ome marke upon mee, as if I had &s;ome taint of it, even throughout my whole wayes, that I have taken: every body knowes what my affections have beene, to many that have &s;uffered, to many that have beene in troubles in this Kingdome, I endeavoured to relieve them, I endeavoured to oblige them, I thought I was tied &s;o by my Con&s;cience, I thought it by my charity, and truly very much by my breeding; God hath now brought me to the la&s;t in&s;tant of my time, all that I can &s;ay, and all that I can adhere unto is this; That as I am a great &s;inner, &s;o I have a great Saviour, that as hee hath given mee heere a fortune, to come publiquely in a &s;hew of &s;hame in the way of this &s;uffering (truly I under&s;tand it not to bee &s;o) I under&s;tand it to bee a glorie, a glorie when I con&s;ider who hath gone before mee, and a glory when I con&s;ider I had no end in it, but what I conceive to bee the &s;ervice of God, the King, and the Kingdome, and therefore my Heart is not charged much with any thing in that particular, &s;ince I conceive God will ac|cept of the intention, what&s;oever the action &s;eeme to bee. I am going to die, and the Lord receive my Soule: I have no reliance but upon Chri&s;t, for my &s;elfe I doe acknowledge that I am the unworthie&s;t of &s;inners; my life hath beene a vanity, and a continued &s;inne, and God may ju&s;tly bring mee to this end, for the finnes I have committed again&s;t him, and were there nothing el&s;e, but the iniquities, that I have
<PB N="26" REF="15">committed in the way of my Life, I looke up|on this as a great ju&s;tice of God to bring me to this &s;uffering, and to bring mee to this pu|ni&s;hment, and tho&s;e Hands that have beene mo&s;t Active in it, if any &s;uch there hath beene, I pray God forgive them, I pray God that there may not bee many &s;uch Trophees of their Victories, but that this may bee as I &s;aid be|fore the la&s;t &s;hew, that this people &s;hall &s;ee, of the bloud of per&s;ons of Condition, of per|&s;ons of Honor; I might &s;ay &s;omething of the way of our Triall, which certainely hath beene as extraordinary, as any thing I thinke hath ever beene &s;eene in this Kingdome; but be|cau&s;e that I would not &s;eem as if I made &s;ome complaint I will not &s;o much, as mention it, becau&s;e no body &s;hall believe I repine at their actions, that I repine at my fortune: It is the Will of God, it is the Hand of God under whom I fall, I take it intirely from him I &s;ubmit my &s;elfe to Him, I &s;hall de&s;ire to roule my &s;elfe into the Armes of my ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, and when I come to this
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Pointing to the Block.</NOTE> place, when I bow downe my &s;elfe there, I hope God will rai&s;e mee up, and when I bid fare|well, as I mu&s;t now to Hope and to Faith, that love will abide, I know nothing to accompany the &s;oule out of this World but love, and I hope that love will bring me to the fountaine of glory in Heaven, through the Armes, Mediation, and the Mercy of my Saviour <HI>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> in whom I believe, O Lord help my unbeliefe.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="27" REF="15">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hodges,</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord make over unto you the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of his owne Son, it is that trea&s;ury that hee hath be&s;towed upon you, and the Lord &s;hew you the light of his countenance, and fill youful with his joy and kindne&s;&s;e, O my dear Lord, the Lord of Heaven and Earth be with you, and the Lord of Heaven and Earth bring you to that &s;afety.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holl.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hall make as much ha&s;t as I can to come to that glory, and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my &s;oule: I looke upon my &s;elfe intirely in Him, and hope to finde mercy through Him, I expect it, and through that fountaine that is o|pened for &s;in, and for uncleanne&s;&s;e my &s;oule mu&s;t receive it, for did I re&s;t in any thing el&s;e, I have nothing but &s;inne and corruption in mee; I have nothing but that, which in &s;tead of being carried up into the Armes of God and Glory, I have nothing but may throw me downe into Hell.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton,</SPEAKER>
<P>But my Lord, when you are cloathed with the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of another you will ap|peare glorious, though now &s;infull in your&s;elfe; The Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>I de&s;ire not to be found in my owne Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> and when you are cloathed with another, the Lord will owne you, and I &s;hall &s;ay but thus much: doubt not that ever God will deny &s;alvation to &s;inners, that come to him, when the end of all his death and &s;uffe|rings was the &s;alvation of &s;inners, when as I &s;ay the whole end, and the whole de&s;igne, and the great Work, that God had to doe in the world, by the death of Chri&s;t, wherein hee laid out all
<PB N="28" REF="16">his Councels, and infinite wi&s;edome, and mercy, and goodne&s;&s;e, beyond which there was a <HI>Non ultra,</HI> in Gods thoughts, when this was the great de&s;igne, and great end, the &s;alvation of &s;inners, that poor &s;ooles &s;hould come over to him and live; certainely when &s;inners come, hee will not reject, bee will not refu&s;e. And my Lord, doe but think of this, the greate&s;t work that ever was done in the World, was the blood of Chri&s;t that was &s;hed, never any thing like it: and this blood of Chri&s;t that was &s;hed, was &s;hed for them that come, if not for them, for none, it was in vaine el&s;e: you &s;ee the Divells they are out of capacity of good by it, the Angels they have no need of it, wicked men will not come, and there are but a few that come over, and &s;hould hee denie them, there were no end nor fruit of the blood and &s;ufferings of the Lord Je&s;us; and had your Lord&s;hip beene with Chri&s;t in that bloo|dy agony, when hee was in that bloody &s;weat, &s;weating drops of blood, if you had asked him. Lord what art thou now a doing, art thou not now reconciling an angry God and me together? art thou not pacifying the wrath of God? art thou not interpo&s;ing thy &s;elfe betweene the Ju&s;tice of God and my &s;oule? Would hee not have &s;aid, yea: and &s;urely then hee will not deny it now. My Lord his pa&s;&s;ions are over, his com|pa&s;&s;ions &s;till remaine, and the larger and greater, becau&s;e hee is gone up into a higher place, that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ee may throw downe more abundance of his mercy and grace upon you; and my Lord, think
<PB N="29" REF="16">of that infinite love, that abundance of riches in Chri&s;t: I am lo&s;t, I am empty, I have nothing, I am poore, I am &s;infull: be it &s;o, as bad as God will make me, and as vile as I po&s;&s;ibly can conceive my &s;elf, I am willing to be: but when I have &s;aid all, the more I advance that riches, and honor that grace of God. And why &s;hould I doubt when by this he puts me into a capacity into a di&s;po&s;ition for him to &s;hew me mercy, that by this I may the better advance the riches of his grace, &amp; &s;ay grace, grace, to the Lord, to all eternity, that God &s;hould owne &s;uch a Creature, that de&s;erves nothing; and the le&s;&s;e I de&s;erve, the more con&s;picuous is his Grace: and this is certaine, the riches of his Grace hee throweth among&s;t men, that the glory of his Grace might be given to him&s;elfe, If wee can give him but the glory of his Grace, wee &s;hall never doubt to partake of the riches of it, and that fulne&s;&s;e, My Lord, that fulne&s;&s;e bee your comfort, that fulne&s;&s;e of mercy, that fulne&s;&s;e of love, that fulne&s;&s;e of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and power bee now your riches, and your only &s;tay, and the Lord interpo&s;e him&s;elfe between God and you, as your Faith bath endeavored to interpo&s;e him between God and your &s;oule; &s;o I doubt not but there he &s;tands (my Lord) to plead for you, and when you are not able to do any thing your &s;elfe, yet lie downe at the feet of him that is a mercifull Saviour and knowes what you would de&s;ire, and wait upon him while you live, tru&s;t in him when you die, there is riches enough and mercy enough, if hee open not, yet die at his
<PB N="30" REF="17">doore, &s;ay their I'le die, there is mercy e|nough.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>And here is the place where I lie down before him, from whence I hope he will rai&s;e me to an eternall Glory through my Saviour, upon whom I rely, from whom only I can expect mercy: into his Armes I commend my &s;pirit, into his bleeding Armes that when I leave this bleeding body that mu&s;t lie upon this place, he will receive that &s;oule that ari&s;eth out of it, and receive it into his eternall mercy, through the merits, through the worthine&s;&s;e, through the mediation of Chri&s;t that hath purcha&s;ed it with his own mo&s;t precious blood.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, Though you conclude here, I hope you begin above, and though you put an end here, I hope there will never be an end of the mercy and goodne&s;&s;e of God: and if this be the morning of Eternity, if this be the ri&s;e of Glory, if God plea&s;eth to throw you down here, to rai&s;e you up for ever: &s;ay, Welcome Lord! welcome that death that &s;hall make way for life, and wel|come any condition that &s;hall throw me down here, to bring me into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hodges.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, If you have made a Deed of Gift of your &s;elfe to Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to bee found only in him; I am confident you &s;hall &s;tand at the day of Chri&s;t, My dear Lord, we &s;hall meet in happine&s;&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="31" REF="17">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>Chri&s;t Je&s;us receive my &s;oule, my &s;oule hungers and thir&s;ts after him; cloud, are gathering, and I tru&s;t in God through all my hea|vine&s;&s;e, and I hope through all impediments, he will &s;ettle my Intere&s;t in him, and throw off all the claime that Sathan can make unto it, and that he will carry my &s;oule in di&s;pight of all the calumnies, and all that the Devi'l, and Satan can invent, will carry it into eternall mercy there to receive the ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e of his pre&s;ence to all Eternity.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hodges.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, it was his own by Creation, it is his own now by Redemption, and purcha&s;e; and it is likewi&s;e his own by re&s;ignation: O my Lord, look therefore up to the Lamb of God, that &s;its at the right hand of God, to take away the &s;innes of the World, O that Lamb of God!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>That Lamb of God, into his hands I commit my &s;oule: and that Lamb of God that &s;its upon the Throne to Judge tho&s;e 24 that fall downe before him, I hope hee will bee plea&s;ed to look downeward, and judge me with mercy that fall downe before him, and that wor&s;hip him, and that adore him, that onely ttu&s;ts upon his mercy, for his compa&s;&s;ion; and that as he hath purcha&s;ed me, he would lay his claime unto me now, and re|ceive me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, think of this, <HI>there is no condemnation to them who are in Chri&s;t, who is it that can condemn, it is Chri&s;t that ju&s;tifies;</HI> and there|fore
<PB N="32" REF="18">look now upon this, (My Lord,) upon this Chri&s;t, upon this Chri&s;t that ju&s;tifies: Hell, Death, Sinne, Sathan; nothing &s;hall be able to condemne, <HI>it is Chri&s;t that ju&s;tifies you.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland,</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed if Chri&s;t ju&s;tify, no body can condemne, and I tru&s;t in God, in his ju&s;tification, though there is confu&s;ion here without us, and though there are wonders and &s;taring that now di&s;quiet, yet I tru&s;t that I &s;hall be caried into that mercy, that God will receive my &s;oule.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton,</SPEAKER>
<P>I doubt not my Lord but as you are a Spectacle and of pitty here, &s;o you are an object of Gods mercy above.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland,</SPEAKER>
<P>Then the Farle of <HI>Holland</HI> looking over among the people, pointing to a Souldier, &s;ayd, This hone&s;t man took me pri&s;oner, you little thought I &s;hould have beene brought to this, when I delivered my &s;elfe to you upon conditi|ons: and e&s;pying Captaine <HI>Wat&s;on</HI> on hor&s;e back putting off his hat &s;ayd to him, God be with you Sir, God reward you Sir.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton,</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, throw your &s;elfe into the Armes of mercy, and &s;ay, there I will Anchor, and there J will die, he is a Saviour for us in all conditions, whither &s;hould wee goe, hee hath the words of eternall life, and upou him do you re&s;t, waite while you live, and even tru&s;t in Death.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="33" REF="18">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>Here mu&s;t now be my Anchor, a great Storm makes me finde my anchor; and but in &s;torms no body tru&s;t to their anchor, and therefore I mu&s;t tru&s;t upon my anchor (<HI>Upon that God,</HI> &s;aid Mr. <HI>Bolton, up|on whom your Anchor tru&s;ts</HI>) yea, God, I hope, will anchor my Soul fa&s;t upon Chri&s;t Je&s;us: and if I dye not with that clearne&s;s and that heartine&s;s that you &s;peak of, truly, I will tru&s;t in God, though he kill me, I will relie upon him, and in the Mercy of my Savior.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is Mercy enough, my Lord, and to &s;pare, you &s;hall not need to doubt; they &s;hall never go begging to another door (my Lord) that come to him. Then the Earl of <HI>Holland</HI> &s;peaking to Mr. <HI>Hodges,</HI> &s;aid, I pray God reward you for all your kindene&s;s; and pray as you have done, in&s;truct my Family, that they may &s;erve God with faithfulne&s;s, with holine&s;s, with more diligence, then truly I have been careful to pre&s;s them unto: You have the charge of the &s;ame place, you may do much for them, and I recommend them to your kindene&s;s, and the goodne&s;s of your Con&s;cience.</P>
</SP>
<P>Dr. <HI>Sybald</HI> &s;tanding by upon the Scaffold, in his pa&s;&s;age to Col: <HI>Beecher,</HI> expre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf thus to his Lord&s;hip:</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dr. <HI>Sybald.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you, and you &s;hall be &s;afe.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="34" REF="19">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then the Earl of <HI>Holland</HI> embraced Lieut: Col: <HI>Beecher,</HI> and took his leave of him: After which, he came to Mr. <HI>Bolton,</HI> and having embraced him, and returned him many thanks for his great pains and affections to his &s;oul, de&s;iring God to reward him, and return his love into his bo&s;om. Mr. <HI>Bolton</HI> &s;aid to him, The Lord God &s;upport you, and be &s;een in this great extremity; The Lord reveal and di&s;cover him&s;elf to you, and make your death the pa&s;&s;age unto eternal life &mdash; .</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then the Earl of <HI>Holland</HI> turning to the Execu|tioner, &s;aid, Here, my friend, let my Clothes and my Body alone, there is Ten pounds for thee, that is better then my Clothes, I am &s;ure of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Executioner.</SPEAKER>
<P>Will your Lord&s;hip plea&s;e to give me a Sign when I &s;hall &s;trike? And then his Lord&s;hip &s;aid, You have room enough here, have you not? and the Execu|tioner &s;aid, Yes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord be your &s;trength, there is riches in him; The Lord of Heaven impart him&s;elf to you, he is able to &s;ave to the uttermo&s;t: We cannot fall &s;o low, as to fall below the everla&s;ting Arms of God; and therefore the Lord be a &s;upport and &s;tay to you in your low condition, that he will be plea&s;ed to make this an advantage to that Life and glory that will make amends for all.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="35" REF="19">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then the Earl of <HI>Holland</HI> turning to the Executio|ner, &s;aid, Friend, do you hear me, if you take up my Head, do not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants, he &s;aid to one, Fare you well, thou art an hone&s;t fellow; and to another, God be with thee, thou art hone&s;t man: and then &s;aid, Stay, I will kneel down, and ask God forgivene&s;s; and then prayed for a pretty &s;pace, with &s;eeming earne&s;tne&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bolton.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord grant you may finde life in death.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>Which is the way of lying? (which they &s;hewed him) And then going to the front of the Scaffold, he &s;aid to the People, God ble&s;s you all, and God deli|ver you from any &s;uch accident as may bring you to any &s;uch death as is violent, either by War, or by the&s;e accidents, but that there may be Peace among you, and you may finde that the&s;e accidents that have hapned to us, may be the la&s;t that may happen in this Kingdom; it is that I de&s;ire, it is that I beg of God, next the &s;aving of my Soul: I pray God give all happine&s;s to this Kingdom, to this People, and this Nation: and then turning to the Executio|ner, &s;aid, How mu&s;t I lie? I know not.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Executioner.</SPEAKER>
<P>Lie down flat upon your belly: and then having laid him&s;elf down, he &s;aid, Mu&s;t I lie clo&s;er?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Executioner.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, and backwarder.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="36" REF="20">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Holland.</SPEAKER>
<P>I will tell you when you &s;hall &s;trike; and then as he lay, &s;eemed to pray with much affection for a &s;hort &s;pace, and then lifting up his head, &s;aid, Where is the man? and &s;eeing the Executioner by him, he &s;aid, Stay while I give the Sign; and pre&s;ently after &s;tretching out his hand, and the Executioner being not fully ready, he &s;aid, Now, now, and ju&s;t as the words were coming out of his mouth, the Exe|cutioner at one blow &s;evered his head from his body.</P>
</SP>
<P><HI>The execution of the Lord of</HI> Holland <HI>being thus performed, the Lord</HI> Capel <HI>was brought to the Scaffold as the former, and in the way to the Scaffold, he put off his Hat to the people on both &s;ides, looking very au&s;terely about him: And being come upon the Scaffold, Lieut: Col:</HI> Beecher <HI>&s;aid to him,</HI> Is your Chaplain here?</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Capel.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, I have taken my leave of him; and per|ceiving &s;ome of his &s;ervants to weep, he &s;aid, Gen|tlemen, refrain your &s;elves, refrain your &s;elves; and turning to Lieut: Col: <HI>Beecher,</HI> he &s;aid, What, did the Lords &s;peak with their Hats off or on?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lieut: Col: <HI>Beecher.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>With their Hats off: And then coming to the front of the Scaffold, he &s;aid, I &s;hall hardly be under&s;tood here, I think, and then began his Speech as followeth.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="37" REF="20">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Capel.</SPEAKER>
<P>THe conclu&s;ion that I made with tho&s;e that &s;ent me hither, and are the cau&s;e of this vio|lent death of mine, &s;hall be the beginning of what I &s;hall &s;ay to you: When I made an Ad|dre&s;s to them (which was the la&s;t) I told them with much &s;incerity, That I would pray to the God of all mercies, that they might be partakers of his in|e&s;timable and boundle&s;s mercies in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and truly, I &s;till pray that Prayer; and I be&s;eech the God of Heaven, forgive any injury they have done to me, from my &s;oul I wi&s;h it. And truly, this I tell you, as a Chri&s;tian, to let you &s;ee I am a Chri|&s;tian; but it is nece&s;&s;ary I &s;hould tell you &s;omewhat more, That I am a Prote&s;tant: And truly, I am a Prote&s;tant, and very much in love with the profe&s;|&s;ion of it, after the maner as it was e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>England</HI> by the Thirty nine Articles; a ble&s;&s;ed way of profe&s;&s;ion, and &s;uch a one, as truly, I never knew none &s;o good: I am &s;o far from being a Pa|pi&s;t, which &s;ome body have (truly) very unwor|thily at &s;ome time charged me withal, that truly, I profe&s;s to you, that though I love good works, and commend good works, yet I hold, They have no|thing at all to do in the matter of Salvation; my Anchor-hold is this, <HI>That Chri&s;t loved me, and gave him&s;elf for me,</HI> that is that that I re&s;t upon. And truly, &s;omething I &s;hall &s;ay to you as a Citizen of the whole world, and in that con&s;ideration I am here condemned to dye: Truly, contrary to the Law that governs all the world; that is, The Law of the Sword: I had the protection of that for my
<PB N="38" REF="21">life, and the honor of it; but truly, I will not trouble you much with that, becau&s;e in another place I have &s;poken very largely and liberally about it, I believe you will hear by other means, what Arguments I u&s;ed in that ca&s;e: But truly, that that is &s;tranger, you that are Engli&s;h men, behold here an Engli&s;h man now before you, and acknow|ledged a Peer, not condemned to dye by any Law of <HI>England,</HI> not by any Law of <HI>England;</HI> Nay, &s;hall I tell you more (which is &s;trange&s;t of all) con|trary to all the Laws of <HI>England</HI> that I know of. And truly, I will tell you, in the matter of the Civil part of my death, and the cau&s;e that I have main|tained, I dye (I take it) for maintaining the fifth Commandment, injoyned by God him&s;elf, which injoyns reverence and obedience to Parents: All Divines on all hands, though they contradict one another in many &s;everal Opinions, yet all Divines on all hands, do acknowledge, that here is intend|ed Magi&s;tracy and Order; and certainly I have obeyed that Magi&s;tracy and that Order under which I have lived, which I was bound to obey; and truly, I do &s;ay very confidently, that I do dye here for keeping, for obeying that fifth Commandment given by God him&s;elf, and written with his own finger. And now Gentlemen, I will take this op|portunity to tell you, That I cannot imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his, that &s;aid of him&s;elf, <HI>For &s;uffering an unju&s;t judgement upon another, him|&s;elf was brought to &s;uffer by an unju&s;t judgement.</HI> Truly Gentlemen, that God may be glorified, that all men that are concerned in it may take the occa&s;ion of it, of humble repentance to God Almighty for it, I do
<PB N="39" REF="21">here profe&s;s to you, that truly I did give my Vote to that Bill of the E. of <HI>Strafford,</HI> I doubt not but God Almighty hath wa&s;hed that away with a more preci|ous blood, &amp; that is, with the blood of his own Son, and my dear Savior Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and I hope he will wa&s;h it away from all tho&s;e that are guilty of it; truly, this I may &s;ay, I had not the lea&s;t part nor the lea&s;t degree of malice in the doing of it; but I mu&s;t confe&s;s again to Gods glory, and the accu&s;ation of mine own frailty, and the frailty of my Nature, that truly it was an unworthy Cowardize, not to re&s;i&s;t &s;o great a torrent as carried that bu&s;ine&s;s at that time. And truly, this I think I am mo&s;t guilty of, of not courage enough in it, but malice I had none; but what&s;oe|ver it was, God I am &s;ure hath pardoned it, hath given me the a&s;&s;urance of it, that Chri&s;t Je&s;us his blood hath wa&s;hed it away; and truly, I do from my &s;oul wi&s;h, That all men that have any &s;tain by it, may &s;eriou&s;ly repent, and receive a remi&s;&s;ion and pardon from God for it. And now Gentlemen, we have had an occa&s;ion by this intimation to remember his Ma|je&s;ty, our King that la&s;t was; and I cannot &s;peak of him, nor think of it, but truly, I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, That in my Opinion, that have had time to con&s;ider all the Images of all the greate&s;t and ver|tuou&s;e&s;t Princes in the world; and truly, in my O|pinion, there was not a more vertuous, and more &s;ufficient Prince known in the world, then our gra|cious King <HI>Charls</HI> that dyed la&s;t: God Almighty pre&s;erve our King that now is, his Son; God &s;end him more fortunate and longer days; God Al|mighty &s;o a&s;&s;i&s;t him, that he may exceed both the vertues and &s;ufficiencies of his Father: For certain|ly,
<PB N="40" REF="22">I that have been a Coun&s;ellor to him, and have lived long with him, and in a time when di&s;covery is ea&s;ily enough made, for he was yong (he was about thirteen, fourteen, fifteen or &s;ixteen years of age) tho&s;e years I was with him, truly, I never &s;aw greater hopes of vertue in any yong per&s;on then in him; great Judg|ment, great Under&s;tanding, great Apprehen&s;ion, much Honor in his Nature, and truly, a very per|fect Engli&s;h man in his inclination; and I pray God re&s;tore him to this Kingdom, and Unite the King|doms one unto another, and &s;end a great happine&s;s both to you and to him, that he may long live and Reign among you, and that that Family may Raign till thy Kingdom come, that is, while all Tempo|ral Power is con&s;ummated: I be&s;eech God of his mercy, give much happine&s;s to this your King, and to you that in it &s;hall be his Subjects, by the grace of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Truly, I like my beginning &s;o well, that I will make my conclu&s;ion with it, that is, That God Almighty would confer of his infinite and ine&s;timable grace and mercy, to tho&s;e that are the cau&s;ers of my coming hither, I pray God give them as much mercy as their own hearts can wi&s;h; and truly, for my part, I will not accu&s;e any one of them of malice, truly I will not, nay, I will not think there was any malice in them; what other ends there is, I know not, nor I will not examine, but let it be what it will, from my very &s;oul I forgive them every one: And &s;o, the Lord of Heaven ble&s;s you all, God Almighty be infinite in goodne&s;s and mercy to you, and direct you in tho&s;e ways of obedience to his commands to his Maje&s;ty, that this Kingdom may be a happy and
<PB N="41" REF="22">glorious Nation again, and that your King may be a happy King in &s;o good and &s;o obedient people; God Almighty keep you all, God Almighty pre&s;erve this Kingdom, God Almighty pre&s;erve you all.</P>
<P>Then turning about, and looking for the Execu|tioner (who was gone off the Scaffold) &s;aid, Which is the Gentleman? which is the man? An&s;wer was made, He is a coming; He then &s;aid, Stay, I mu&s;t pull off my Dublet fir&s;t, and my Wa&s;tcoat: And then the Executioner being come upon the Scaffold, the Lord <HI>Capel</HI> &s;aid, O friend, prethee come hither: Then the Executioner kneeling down, the Lord <HI>Ca|pel</HI> &s;aid, I forgive thee from my &s;oul, and not only forgive thee, but I &s;hall pray to God to give thee all grace for a better life: There is Five pounds for thee; and truly, for my clothes and tho&s;e things, if there be any thing due to you for it, you &s;hall be very fully recompenced; but I de&s;ire my body may not be &s;tripped here, and no body to take notice of my body but my own &s;ervants: Look you friend, this I &s;hall de&s;ire of you, that when I lye down, that you would give me a time for a particular &s;hort prayer.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lieut. Col: <HI>Beecher.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Make your own &s;ign, my Lord.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Capel.</SPEAKER>
<P>Stay a little, Which &s;ide do you &s;tand upon? (&s;peaking to the Executioner) Stay, I think I &s;hould lay my hands forward that way (pointing fore|right) and an&s;wer being made, Yes; he &s;tood &s;till a little while, and then &s;aid, GOD Almighty ble&s;s all this People, God Almighty &s;tench this
<PB N="42" REF="23">blood, God Almighty &s;tench, &s;tench, &s;tench this i&s;&s;ue of blood; this will not do the bu&s;ine&s;s, God Almighty finde out another way to do it. And then turning to one of his Servants, &s;aid, <HI>Baldwin,</HI> I can|not &s;ee any thing that belongs to my wife; but I mu&s;t de&s;ire thee to be&s;eech her to re&s;t wholly upon Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and be contented and fully &s;atisfied: and then &s;peaking to his Servants, he &s;aid, God keep you; and Gentlemen, let me now do a bu&s;ine&s;s quickly, privately, and pray let me have your Prayers at the moment of death, that God would receive my &s;oul.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lieut. Col. <HI>Beecher.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I wi&s;h it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Capel.</SPEAKER>
<P>Pray at the moment of &s;triking, joyn your prayers, but make no noi&s;e (turning to his Servants) that is in|convenient at this time.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Servant.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, put on your Cap.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Capel.</SPEAKER>
<P>Should I, what will that do me good? Stay a little, is it well as it is now?
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As he was putting up his hair.</NOTE></P>
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<P>And then turning to the Executioner, he &s;aid, Ho|ne&s;t man, I have forgiven thee, therefore &s;trike boldly; from my &s;oul I do it.</P>
<P>Then a Gentleman &s;peaking to him, he &s;aid, Nay, prethee be contented, be quiet good Mr. &lowbar;&lowbar;&lowbar; be quiet.</P>
<P>Then turning to the Executioner, he &s;aid, Well, you are ready when I am ready, are you not? and &s;tretching out his hands, he &s;aid, Then pray &s;tand off
<PB N="43" REF="23">Gentlemen. Then going to the front of the Scaf|fold, he &s;aid to the People, Gentlemen, though I doubt not of it, yet I think it convenient to ask it of you; That you would all joyn in Prayers with me, That God would mercifully receive my &s;oul, and that for his alone Mercies in Chri&s;t Je&s;us. God Al|mighty keep you all.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Executioner.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, &s;hall I put up your hair?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Capel.</SPEAKER>
<P>I, I, prethee do; and then as he &s;tood, lifting up his hands and eyes, he &s;aid, O God, I do with a per|fect and a willing heart &s;ubmit to thy will: O God, I do mo&s;t willingly humble my &s;elf: and then kneel|ing down, &s;aid, I will try fir&s;t how I can lye; and laying his head over the Block, &s;aid, Am I well now?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Executioner.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes.</P>
</SP>
<P>And then as he lay with both his hands &s;tretched out, he &s;aid to the Executioner, Here lies both my hands out, when I lift up my hand thus,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Lifting up his right hand.</NOTE> then you may &s;trike.</P>
<P>And then after he had &s;aid a &s;hort prayer, he lift|ed up his right hand, and the Executioner at one blow &s;evered his head from his body, which was taken up by his &s;ervants and put (with his body) in|to a Coffin, as the former.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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