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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93942	The last speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and deputy of Ireland The one in the Tovver, the other on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the twelfth. 1641. Together with his deportment before and at the end of his execution.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5785B; ESTC R231586	7,448	12

heart I speake it in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not so much as a displeasing thought in mee arising to any creature I thanke God I may say truly and my Conscience beares me witnesse that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majesty in any employment I never had any thing in my heart but the joynt and individuall prosperity of King and People if it have been my hap to be misconstrued it is the common portion of us all while we are in this life the righteous judgement is hereafter here we are subject to error and apt to be misjudged one of another there is one thing I desire to cleere my selfe of and I am very confident I speake it with so much clearenesse that I hope I shall have your Christian charity in the beliefe of it I did alwaies ever thinke the Parliaments of England were the happiest Constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under and under God the meanes of making King and People happy so far have I been from being against Parliaments for my death I here acquit all the world and pray God heartily to forgive them and in particular my Lord Primate I am very glad that his Majesty is pleased to conceive me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I am very glad and infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and beseech God to turne it to him that he may finde mercy when he hath most need of it I wish this Kingdome all the prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I doe now professe it from my heart and doe most humbly recommend it unto every man here and wish every man to lay his hand upon his heart and consider seriously whether the beginning of the happinesse of a People should bee written in letters of Blood I feare you are in a wrong way and I desire Almighty God that no one drop of my Blood may rise up in judgement against you My Lord I professe my selfe a true and obedient Son to the Church of England to that Church wherein I was borne and wherein I was bred prosperity and happinesse be ever to it and whereas it hath been said that I have enclin'd to Popery if it be an Objection worth answering let me say truly that from the time since I was one and twenty yeares of age till this houre now going upon 49. I never had thought in my heart to doubt of the truth of my Religion in England and never any had the boldnesse to suggest to me the contrary to the best of my remembrance and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Iesus my Saviour into whose bosome I hope shortly to be gather'd to those eternall happinesses that shall never have end I desire heartily the forgivenesse of every man both for any rash or unadvised word or deed and desire your Prayers And so my Lords farewell farewell all the things of this world LORD strengthen my faith give me confidence and assurance in the merits of Christ Iesus I desire you that you would be silent and joyne in Prayers with me and I trust in GOD that we shall all meet and live eternally in Heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happinesse where every teare shall be wiped from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God blesse this Kingdome and Iesus have mercy upon my Soule THen turning himselfe about he saluted all the Noblemen and tooke a solemne leave of all considerable persons on the Scaffold giving them his hand And after that he said Gentlemen I would say my prayers and I intreat you all to pray with me and for me then his Chaplaine laid the booke of Common prayer upon the Chaire before him as he kneeled down on which he prayed almost a quarter of an houre then he prayed as long or longer without a booke and ended with the Lords prayer then standing up he spies his brother Sir George Wentworth and calls him to him and saith brother wee must part remember me to my sister and to my wife and carry my blessing to my eldest Son and charge him from mee that he feare God and continue an obedient Sonne of the Church of England and that he should approve himselfe a faithfull subject to the King and tell him that he should not have any private grudge or revenge towards any concerning me and bid him beware that he meddle not with Church livings for that will prove a moath and canker to him in his estate and wish him to content himselfe to be a servant to his Countrey as a Justice of peace in his County and not aiming at higher preferments carry my blessing also to my daughters Anne and Arrabella charge them to feare and serve God and he will blesse them not forgetting my little Infant that yet knowes neither good nor evill and cannot speake for it selfe God speake for it and blesse it then said he now I have nigh done one stroke will make my wife husbandlesse my deare children fatherlesse and my poore servants masterlesse and seperate mee from my deare brother and all my friends but let God be to you and them all in all After that going to take off his dublet and to make himselfe unready he said I thanke God I am no more afraid of death nor daunted with any discouragements rising from any feares but doe as chearefully put off my dublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed Then he put off his dublet and wound up his haire with his hands and put on a white Cap. Then he called Where is the man that should doe this last office meaning the Executioner call him to mee When he came and askt him forgivenesse he told him hee forgave him and all the world Then kneeling downe by the block he went to prayer again himselfe the Bishop of Armach kneeling on the one side and the Minister on the other to the which Minister after prayer he turned himselfe and spoke some few words softly having his hands lifted up this Minister closed his hands with his then bowing himselfe to the earth to lay his head on the block he told the Executioner that he would first lay downe his head to try the fitnesse of the block and take it up againe before he would lay it downe for good and all and so hee did and before he laid it downe againe he told the Executioner that he would give him warning when to strike by stretching forth his hands and then laid down his neck on the block stretching out his hands the Executioner strucke off his head at one blow then took the head up in his hands and shewed it to all the people and said God save the King FINIS