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<P>The true and perfect SPEECHES Of Colonel JOHN GERHARD UPON The Scaffold at Tower-hill, on Munday la&s;t, and Mr. Peter Vowel at Charing-Cro&s;s, on <HI>Munday</HI> la&s;t, being <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he 11 of this in&s;tant <HI>July,</HI> 1654.</P>
<P>With their Declarations to the People touching the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ts&punc;</HI> their Prote&s;tations &s;ealed with their blood; and their pray~e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s immediatly before the fatal &s;troke of Death was &s;truck.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e, the Speech of the Portugal Amba&s;&s;adors Brother upon the Scaffold, his Acknowledgment and Confe&s;&s;ion; And the g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> and wonderful Mira|cle that hapned upon <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he putting of Mr. <HI>Gerard</HI> into the C<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ffin.</P>
<P><HI>Taken by an Ear witne&s;s, and impartially communicated for general &s;atisfaction.</HI></P>
<P>Imprinted at <HI>London</HI> for <HI>C. Horton,</HI> 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>The true and perfect Speeches of Ma&s;ter Vowel Col. Gerard, and the Lord Am|ba&s;&s;adors brother, at the places of Exe|cution on Munday la&s;t, at Charing-Cro&s;s, and at Tower-Hill.</HEAD>
<Q><P><HI>Gentlemen,</HI></P>
<P>_I Am this day brought hither to &s;uffer as a traytor, upon an Impeachment of high Trea&s;on, a thing which I was never guil|ty of, and in the pre&s;ence of God I here &s;peak it, never did my thoughts in the lea&s;t ever center upon any &s;uch thing; though the High Court of Ju&s;tice were plea&s;ed to affirm, that I had endeavoured to make the Lord Protector odious to the people, in turning the De&s;ign unto him by a Lybel, which was &s;cattered up and down London, that his Highne&s;s and the Army had a de&s;ign to
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ma&s;&s;acre all but their friends in all parts of Eng|land; and for endeavouring to bring in my ma&s;ter the King, for who&s;e Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e I am here brought to the place of execution, to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ffer upon the Cro&s;s, as my ble&s;&s;ed Lord and Saviou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath done before me. And truly Gentlemen, though my Death be an un|timely and ignominious Death, yet it &s;eems not in the lea&s;t either dreadful or terrible; for, ble&s;&s;ed be the Name of the Lord, that hath taken away the &s;ting thereof, and ind<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ed me with his holy and di|vine Spirit, whereby I am &s;upported with tho&s;e inward Comforts, that &s;o &s;oon a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> I have &s;ubmitted my neck to the Rope, and received the fatal Turn, I &s;hal then arrive at the Haven of Happine&s;s, there to participate of tho&s;e eternal felicities, prepared for all tho&s;e that live and die in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, through who&s;e merits, and by who&s;e pa&s;&s;ion, I do ab&s;olutely believe to have a general remi&s;&s;ion of all my &s;ins and tran&s;g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P>As for tho&s;e things laid to my charge before the High Court of Ju&s;tice, I do utterly prote&s;t again&s;t them, having not in the lea&s;t acted any thing, and withall being de<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ied that which every free-born Engli&s;h-man may claim as his &s;ole and onely birth right, that is,</P>
<P><HI>Magna Charta.</HI></P>

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So that being over awed by my Judges, I here dye innocently before my Equals, being leer and free from the guilt of any Trea&s;on in the lea&s;t.</P>
<P>And I do her<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> prote&s;t in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, that it is for no other thing that they thir&s;t after my blood, but my Loyalty to the King, <HI>(as it appears to me)</HI> whom the great J<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">vah pre&s;erve, keep, and d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">fend And truly Gen|tlemen &s;ouldiers, to you I now &s;peak, that I can do no lo&s;s then tell you, that you are all deluded, mi&s;led, and blind|ed;&mdash;</P></Q>
<P>but being interrupted by the Sheriff, he was not permitted to &s;peak any further in that particular.</P>
<Q><P>Well then, I have done, 'tis for my Royal Soveraign that I am h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="2 letters">e to &s;acrifice my life, therefore I be&s;eech you G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">tlemen le<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> no man be d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nted or di&s;mayd at my death; for I ble&s;s God I have not the lea&s;t fear of terrour within, but am confident that I &s;hal have a &s;mile in heaven, when &s;ome may receive a &s;rown: And &s;o the Lord ble&s;s, keep, and preferve you in the pure and un&s;potted bonds of true friend&s;hip and Loyalty</P></Q>
<P>After which, the Executioner put the Rope about his neck, and prayers being ended, he did his office.</P>
<P>And when he had hung about the &s;pace of half an hour, he was then cut down, and carryed to the &s;ign of the Bell, where many friends met him, and from thence carryed him in a Co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ch likewi&s;e to I&s;lington, where a great fune|ral is prepared for him.</P>
<P>His death is much lamented by any, being a Gentleman of exqui&s;ite parts, and of &s;ingular knowledge, more fit in|deed for a Councellor, then a War<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ike Officer.</P>
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About five of the clock in the Afternoon, Col. Gerard was guarded from the Tower to the Scaf|fold on Tower-hill, being accompanied by the Lieutenant, and divers other Gentlemen; but com|ing to the &s;tairs, he nimbly ran up, and &s;miling &s;a|luted Col. Bark&s;tead with a cup of Sack, and then walked up and down the &s;caffold with an undauted &s;pirit. After which, he called the Executioner to him, de&s;iring to &s;ee the block, which he took in his hand, and &s;aluted it: Then he went to the head of the Scaffold, and putting off his hat to the Auditors &s;pake as followeth:</P>
<Q><P><HI>GENTLEMEN,</HI></P>
<P>PRovidence having alotted me the time of my death, the manner of my death, and the hour of my death, I am bound out of Chri&s;tian Duty, and a Loyal Con&s;cience, to acknowledge the&s;e &s;ingu|lar favours, and to return all due honour and prai&s;e for the&s;e his great mercies; but for what I &s;tand impeached for by my Judges, in reference to high Trea&s;on, my innocency therein does ju&s;tly acquit me of the guilt thereof; &s;o that I cannot but make this inference and con&s;truction upon the Judgment pa&s;&s;ed again&s;t me in Court, that I was not thought worthy to live, becau&s;e I liv'd to love the King my
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Ma&s;ter. And thus much I do here ingenuou&s;ly de|clare, that if I had as many lives as haires upon my head, willingly &s;hould I &s;acrifice them in his Cau&s;e; and under his Banner, my Loyalty &s;hall now i&s;&s;ue &s;orth with &s;treams of blood, being a&s;&s;ured, that af|ter my pa&s;&s;ing through the violent Billows of this raging &s;ea, I &s;hal then arrive at the eternal Haven of happine&s;s, and there &s;ing hallelujah with my glori|ous father in heaven, who is the mo&s;t high and om|nipotent Protector, of all the low and inferior Pro|tectors here on Earth. And after &s;ome conference and prayer with the Mini&s;ter, with an affable coun|tenance, he ca&s;t off his Doublet, and putting on a white Wa&s;tcoat, and a linnen Cap, he then went to prayers, where immediatly after taking leav of his friends, he pro&s;traced him&s;elf before the block; and laying his head down, ro&s;e up again, and &s;aid, Gen|tlemen, when I am dead and gone, remem~ber you have a Royal Soveraign; and the Lord unite your hearts and affections unto him After which, he wil|lingly &s;ubmitted him&s;elf to the block, and the Exe|cutioner coming to him, to ask forgivene&s;s, and know the &s;ign; He replyed, the Lord forgive thee for I cannot. But when I lift up my right hand, do thy office;</P></Q>
<P>and accordingly the &s;ign b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">g given, the Executioner did his office, and at one blow &s;evered
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his head from his &s;houlders; which being done, the head and the body were both put into a Coffin, &amp; &s;o carryed off the Scaffold.</P>
<P>Then the Portugal Amba&s;&s;adors brother was guarded up to the Scaffold, being extreamly deject|ed in &s;pirit, and in a mourning Gown, where he endeavoured (by way of &s;peech) to plead inno|cency; and then by his Interpreter to impute the chief Cau&s;e of the Riot and Murder to the Eng|li&s;h; but this was onely grounded by the way of excu&s;e; &s;o that &s;uch circum&s;tances proved &s;uper|fluous; and after his Confe&s;&s;ion to the Prie&s;t, the ab&s;olving him of his &s;ins, and the re&s;igning up of the Crucifix, he likewi&s;e &s;ubmitted to the block, &amp; at two blows, and a race, his head was &s;evered from his &s;houlders.</P>
<P>One thing more is ob&s;ervable, that the&s;e two Gentlemen, which this day underwent the fatall &s;troke, were the fir&s;t that began the d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pute at the Exchange; and moreover, that Mr. Gerards hands when he was in the Coffin, were &s;een to move, and lift up the Lid thereof.</P>
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