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A30964	The speeches and prayers of John Barkstead, John Okey, and Miles Corbet together with severa[l] passages at the time of their execution at Tyiburn [sic], the nineteenth of April, 1662, with some due and sober animadversions of the said speeches.; Selections. 1662	Barkstead, John, d. 1662.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.; Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B816; ESTC R305	18,945	39

THE SPEECHES AND PRAYERS Of JOHN BARKSTEAD JOHN OKEY and MILES CORBET Together with severa passages at the time of their Execution at TYIBURN the nineteenth of April 1662. With some due and sober ANIMADVERSIONS On the said SPEECHES LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhill and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain 1662. To the Reader THis is to assure thee that first there is not a syllable to the best of the writers skill that took these Speeches at the place of Execution either added or deminished in the transcript either in favour or injury to the Dead secondly that as they are faithfully communicated so are they methodically digested for the better understanding and greater ease of the Reader with the intervenient discourses and passages and thirdly that they do not carry in them any dangerous or treasonable reflects upon the Govirnment that might prejudice them publsihing and give cause to their friends if they had not been brought to light to suppose there were some notable things in them which the Times would not indure It is wished that the disaffected people would comport themselves so in their lives as these men seem to instruct them here at their their deaths Therefore for the use and benefit sake which may redound to the Nation hereby it is thought good to produce them to light and conserve the only memories of these men famous for their Time and Places For further satisfaction there are also added some sober Notes and Animadversions on the said Speeches which are together here offered to thy perusal Farewell SPEECHES AND PRAYERS OF John Barkstead John Okey and Miles Corbet VPon Aprill 19. 1662. being the day appointed for the Execution of John Barkstead John Okey and Miles Corbet who were drawn on three several Hurdles from the Tower to Tyburn Barkstead was first brought to the the place of Execution then Okey and then Miles Corbet who mounted a Cart which was prepared for them to stand in whilest they spake to the people The first that ascended the Cart was Barkstead as soon as he was in he lifted up his eies to Heaven and said Blessed be God the Executioner having put the Rope about his neck and fastned it to the Gallowes he then sate down upon the side of the Cart After a little space the Sheriff said Colonel Barkstead I am commanded not to suffer you to speak any thing in justification of that horrid Act for which you come here to suffer Barkstead I cannot speak much by reason of the weakness of my body I desire to get as much refreshment as I can before I speak Some while after my Lord of Newport looking upon the Prisoner and smiling at him said F●r wel Colonel Barkstead farewel B. You are a Gentleman I am sure I bless God I can say Death is not terrible to me and that is onely through Jesus Christ Executioner You may go on with your prayers B I desire to see my Brethren Sher. Sir are you sorry for the Fact for which you are brought here to suffer B. J shall be sorry for every thing that is a sin when the Lord sets home that to me J shall be sorry before God and men this must be from God alone Then he drank a little Cordial and said J bless God J have a better Comforter than this Then a gentleman said Sir you had me once a prisoner B. Then I hope I used you civilly if I have not I beg forgiveness as freely as I forgive all men I bless God I have an assurance through Jesus Christ to be happy One standing by said I Sir that may be within half an hour Barkstead being asked by a person of quality whether he were not troubled answered B. Sir I bless God I have no more trouble at this minute upon my spirit then I had upon my wedding-day The other two Prisoners being taken out of the Sledges and brought into the Cart Okey presently embraced Barkstead and kissed h●m and being about to speake one of the Sheriffs said to him Sir I must not permit you to speake any thing in justification of that horrid Act for which you are brought here to suffer Okey Sir I must not lye for God much less for you J hope you will give me leave to speake what lies upon my Conscience if asked whether guilty or not guilty Sher. Are you sorry Okey J hope J may speak what lyes upon my Conscience Soon after Colonel Okey standing up in the Cart Shewing a great deal of modesty and resolution in his department and looking upon the people spake as followeth Okey Mr. Sheriffs and Gentlemen the Providence of God hath brought me hither to suffer J shall not trouble you with that which J look upon me as superfluous which is to tell you my Family which of all the Families in Israel is one of the least and I the least of that Family It is not unknown to many here who hear me this day how I was called forth to serve God and my Countrey upon the service of the King and Parliament I served them faithfully to the best of my knowledge I bless God when I was called to the work I was perswaded it was for the glory of God and good of his people and had I had as many lives as hairs on my head I would have adventured them in that Cause I have nothing upon me as to that I am satisfied as to the Cause As the Parents of him that was born blind being asked how he came to his sight said He is of age let him speak for himself so say I. That which I have been adjudged for is the death of the late King I think most of you know I was none of the Councel that contrived it neither did I know any thing till I saw my Name inserted in a Paper I sate but once or twice but for malice or envy I never had any but prayed for him to the last hour What aims others had time did discover I have nothing upon my Spirit for that I have many hundred times not onely since I went out of England which is about two years but many times be-before begged that if I had any mali●e or hatred in my heart that God would make me sensible of it and I would confess it to God and before you all What other men aimed at I can say nothing to that there were some as it did appear had self-ends I never got any thing by i I was advanced to the Dignity of a Colonel before that I thank the Lord I have no trouble upon me for that A great disturbance being amongst the People he ceased speaking for a while then the Sherriffs said to him Sir you may go on Okey As I told you before so I say again there is no guilt upon my spirit which makes me the more comfortable at this hour I take this as the just and righteous hand of God