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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48390	The life and death of Charles the First King of Great Britain, France and Ireland: containing an account of his sufferings; his tryal, sentence, and dying words on the scaffold; and his sorrowful farewel and advice to his children, and the whole nation in general.		1690 (1690)	Wing L1992A; ESTC R216673	16,808	17

that an unjust Sentence that I suffer'd to take effect is punish'd by an unjust Sentence upon me so far I have said to shew you that I am an Innocent Man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good Man Pointing to the Bishop that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the World and even those in particular that have been the cause of Death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them but this not all my Charity must go farther I wish that they may Repent indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St. Stephen that be not laid to their charge and withal that they may take the way to the peace of the Kingdom for my Charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but endeavour to the last gasp the peace of the Kingdom So Sirs I do with all my Soul I see there are some here that will carry it farther the peace of the Kingdom Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and put you in the way first you are out of the way for certaily all the ways you ever had yet as far as ever I could find by any thing If in the way of Conquest certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there be a good and just Cause either for matter of Wrong or a just Title and then if you go beyond the first Quarrel that makes that Unjust at the end that was Just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that he was a great Robber himself was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put put you in the way believe it you shall never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his Due the King his Due that is my Successor and the People their Due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his Due by regulating the Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely call'd freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whosoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having Government under those Laws by which their Lives and theirs may be most their own It is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing appertaining to them a Subject and a Sovereign are clear differing things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the People into that Liberty as I say they will never enjoy themselves Sir It was for this that now I am come hither for if I would have given way to an Arbitrary Course to have all Laws chang'd according to the Power of the Sword I need not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People In troth Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have a little better digested this I have said and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take take Courses that are the best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation Bishop Tho' your Majesties affections may be very well known as to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say something thereof for the World's Satisfaction King I thank you heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it in Troth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I dye a Christian according to the Profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest Man I think will witness it Then speaking to the Executioner he said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out my hands let that be your Sign Then he called to the Bishop for his Night Cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Does my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly with the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then turning to the Executioner he said I have a good Cause and a righteous God on my side Bishop There is but one Stage more this Stage is turbulent and full of trouble it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven and there you will find a great deal of Cordial Joy and Happiness King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the World Bishop You are Exchanged from a Temporary to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange Then the King said is my Hair well and took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to the Bishop saying Remember Then he put off his Dublet and being in his Wastecoat he put on his Cloak again then looking upon the Block he said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put out my Hands this way stretching them out Then do your Work after having said two or three Words to himself as he stood with Hands lift up to Heaven immediately stooping down he laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King thinking he had been going to strike said Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and 't pleasure your Majesty Then after a little pause the King stretching forth his Hands the Executioner at one blow severed his Head from his Body which with his Body was put into a Coffin cover'd with black Velvet and carried into his Lodgings at White-hall From thence it was carried to his House at St. James's where his Body was Embalm'd and put into a Coffin of Lead and there lay a Fortnight to be seen of the People On Wednesday seven-night after his Corps embalm'd and coffin'd in Lead was deliver'd to the care of four of his Servants viz. Mr. Herbert Captain Anthony Mildmay Captain Preston and Mr. John Joyner who with others in Mourning accompanied the Herse that night to Windsor and placed it in the Room which was formerly the King's