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England's black tribunall set forth in the triall of K. Charles I at a High Court of Justice at Westminster-Hall : together with his last speech when he was put to death on the scaffold, January 30, 1648 [i.e. 1649] : to which is added several dying speeches and manner of the putting to death of Earl of Strafford, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Duke Hamilton ...
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things against me I pray with all my soul that God would forgive all those that upon so slender and small grounds adjudg'd me to die taking advantage of such simple ignorance as I was in And I had at the very beginning of my pleading engaged their Honors no advantage should be taken against me to my prejudice that in as much as I understood nothing of the Law And having heard that a man in the nicety of the Law might be lost in the severity thereof meerly for speaking a word out of simple ignorance I made it my prayer to them that no advantage might be taken against me to the prejudice of my person and there was to me a seeming consent for the President told me there should be no advantage taken against me and upon these considerations I am afraid there was too great uncharitableness But I pray God forgive them from the very bottom of my soul and I desire that even those that shed my bloud may have the bowels of the God of Mercy shed for them And now having given you the occasion of my coming hither it is fit I should give you somewhat as concerning my self as I am a Christian and as I am a Clergy-man First as I am a Christian I thank God I was baptized to the Holy Church so I was baptized to be a Member of the holy Catholick Church that is the Church of England which I dare say for purity of Doctrine and orderly Discipline till a sad reformation had spoiled the face of the Church and made it a querie whether it were a Church or no I say it was more purely Divine and Apostolical than any other Doctrine or Church in the Christian World whether National or Classical or Congregational And I must tel you That as I am a Member of this Church so I am a Member of the holy Catholick Church and shall give a most just confession of my Faith both negatively and affirmatively Negatively I am so a Member of the holy Catholick Church that I abhor all Sects Schisms Sedition and Tyranny in Religion Affirmatively so That as I hold Communion with so I love and honour all Christians in the world that love the same Lord JESUS in sincerity and call on his Name agreeing with those truths that are absolutely necessary and clearly demonstrated in the Word of God both in the Old and New Testament though in charity dissenting from some others that are not necessary And I as I am thus a Christian I hope for salvation through the merits of Christ Jesus his bloud I rely on his merits I trust to for the salvation of my own soul though to this Faith Good Works are necessary not meritorious in us but onely made meritorious by Christ his death by his all-sufficiency by his satisfaction and his righteousnesse they become meritorious but in us they are no other than as defiled Rags And truly as I am a Member of the Church so I told you I was a Member of this Community and so pleaded for the Liberties and Priviledges thereof I must now answer something I am aspersed withall in the world They talk of something of a Plot and a Treasonable desâ—gn and that I had a great interest in the knowledge and practise thereof and that for the saving my life I would have discovered and betrayed I cannot tel what I hope my conversation hath not been such here in this City where I have been a long time very wel known as to make one imagine I should intermeddle in such an action and go so contrary to the practise of my profession and I hope there are none so uncharitable towards me as to believe I had a knowledge of that design Here I must come to particulars for a Plot of having a design upon the City of London for the firing of it I so much tremble at the thought of the thing that should have been done as they say for the carrying on of such a design if my heart deceive me not had I known it I so much abhor the thing I should have been the first discoverer of it Nor ever had I correspondencie or meetings with such persons as would have carried on such a design It is said likewise I entertained the Earl the Marquess of Ormond To my remembrance I never saw the face of that honourable person in my life It is said One Lords day I did preach at Saint Gregories and the next Lords day I was at Brussels or Bruges and kist the Kings hand and brought I cannot tel what Orders and Instructions from him This I shal say For these three years last past together I have not been sixty miles from this City of London and I think it is somewhat further to either of those places than threescore miles It is said that I kept correspondence with one Mallory and Bishop They are persons I have heard of their names but never saw their faces and to my knowledge I do not know they know me nor do I know them at all but onely as I have heard of their names And whosoever else hath suggested such things against me I know not His Highness was pleased to tel me I was like a flaming Torch in the midst of a sheaf of Corn He meaning I being a publick Preacher was able to set the City on fire by sedition and combustions and promoting designes Here truly I do say and have it from many of those that are Judges of the High-Court that upon examination of the business they have not found me a medler at all in these Affaires And truly I must needs say therefore That it was a very uncharitable act in them who ever they were that brought such accusation against me and irritated his Highness against me I will not say it was malice it might be zeal but it was rash zeal which caused me to be sentenced to this place The God of mercy pardon and forgive them all And truly as I am a Member of the Church and as a Member of the Community where on behalf I have been speaking I cannot but do as our Saviour himself did for his Disciples when he was to be taken from them he blessed them and ascended up to heaven My trust is in the mercy of the most High I shall not miscarry and however my daies are shortned by this unexpected doom and shal be brought untimely to the grave I cannot go without my prayers for a blessing upon all the people of this Land and cannot but bless them all in the name of God and beseech God to bless them in all their waies and his blessing be upon them Let us pray O Most glorious Lord God thou whose dwelling is so far above the highest Heavens that thou humblest thy self but to look upon the things that are in Heaven and that are in earth and thou dost whatsoever thou wilt both in Heaven in Earth in the Sea and in all deep places In thy hands are
severing of his head from his body of which Sentence Execution yet remains to be done These are therefore to will and require you to see the said Sentence Executed in the open street before White-Hall upon the morrow being the 30 day of this instant moneth of January between the houres of 10 in the morning â—nd 5 in the afternoon of the same day with full â—ffect And for so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant And these are to require all Officers and Souldiers and other the good people of this Nation of England to be assisting unto you in this service Given under our Hands and Seals To Coll. Francis Hacker Coll. Haucks and Lieutenant Coll. Phray and to every of them Sealed and subscribed by Jo. Bradshaw Tho. Grey O. Cromwell c. Painted Chamber Jan. 30. 1648. The Commissioners met and ordered That Mr. Marshall Mr. Wye Mr. Caryll Mr. Salway and Mr. Dell be desired to attend the King to administer to him those spiritual helps as should be suitable to his present condition and Lieutenant Colonel Goffe is desired forthwith to repair unto them for that purpose Who did so but after informed the Court That the King being acquainted therewith refused to confer with them expressing that he would not be troubled with them Ordered That the Scaffold upon which the King is to be executed be covered with black The Warrant for executing the King being accordingly delivered to those parties to whom the same was directed execution was done upon him according to the Tenour of the Warrant about two of the Clock in the Afternoon of the said 30. of January Other Passages relating to the Tryal and Execution of the King AFter Sentence The King being hurried from their Bar as he passed down the Stairs The Common Soldiers laying a side all Reverence to Soveraignity scoffed at him casting the Smoak of their stinking tobacco in his Face no Smell more offensive to him and slinging their foul pipes at his feet But one more insolent then the rest defiled his venerable Face with his spittle for his Majesty was observed with much patience to wipe it off with his Handkercheif and as he passed hearing them cry out Justice Justice Poor souls said he for a peece of mony they would do so for their Commanders That Night being Saturday Jan. 27. the King lodged at White-hall that Evening a Member of the Army acquainted the Committee with the desires of the King that seeing they had passed Sentence of Death upon him and the time of his Execution might be nigh that he might see his Children and receive the Sacrament and that Dr. Juxon Bishop of London might be admitted to pray with him in his private Chamber both which were granted The next day being Sunday Jan. 28. the King was attended by his Guard to St. James's where the Bishop of London preached privately before him his Text was in Rom. 2.16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of all men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Monday Jan. 29. His Children were permitted to come to him where passed this following Discourse as it was set down in writing by his Daughter the Lady Elizabeth which Lady Elizabeth some months after being confined to Crasbrough-castle in the Isle of Wight dyed there with greif for the Sufferings of her Dear Father A true Relation of the Kings Speech to the Lady Elizabeth and the Duke of Glocester the Day before his Death HIs Children being come to meet him He first gave his Blessing to the Lady Elizabeth and bade her remember to tell her Brother James when ever she should see him that it was his Fathers last desire that he should no more look upon Charles as his eldest Brother only but be obedient unto him as his Soveraign and that they should love one another and forgive their Fathers Enemies Then said the King to her Sweet-heart you 'l forget this No said she I shall never forget it whilest I live and pouring forth abundance of tears promised him to write down the partiticulars Then the King taking the Duke of Glocester upon his Knee said Sweet-heart now they will cut off thy Fathers head upon which words the child looked very stedfastly on him Mark child what I say They will cut off My Head and perhaps make thee a King But mark what I say you must not be a King so long as your Brothers Charles and James do live for they will cut off your Brothers Heads when they can catch them and cut off thy Head too at last and therefore I charge you do not be made a King by them At which the child sighing said I will be torn in pieces first which falling so unexpectedly from one so young it made the King rejoyce exceedingly Tuesday Jan. 30. The Fatal Day He was about 10. of the Clock brought from his Pallace at St. James's to White-hall marched on foot guarded with a Regiment of foot Soldiers through the Park with their Colours flying and Drums beating his private Guard of Partizans about him Dr. Juxon Bishop of London on one side and Coll. Tomlinson on the other both bare headed bidding them go faster saying That he now went before them to strive for an heavenly Crown with lesse Solitude then he had oftentimes bid his Soldiers to fight for a Earthly Diadem Being come to the end of the Park he assends the Stairs leading to the long Gallery in Whitehall and so into the Cabinet Chamber where he formerly used to Lodge there his Majesty with the Bishop of London continued for some time in devotion and received the blessed Sacrament from the hand of the said Bishop at which time he read for the second Lesson the 27. Chapter of St. Matthews Gospel which contained the History of the Death and Passion of our Blessed Saviour the Communion ended his Majesty thanked the Bishop for selecting so seasonable and comfortable a portion of Scripture The Bishop modestly replied no thanks was due to him for it was the Chapter appointed by the Rubrick of the Church for the second morning Lesson for that day being Jan. 30. here the King continued at his devotion refusing to dine onely about twelve of the Clock he eat a bit of bread and drank a Glasse of Claret from thence about one a Clock he was accompanied by Dr. Juxon and Coll. Thomlinson and other Officers formerly appointed to attend him and the private Guard of Partizans with Musketeers on each side through the Banquetting-house adjoyning to which the Scaffold was erected between White-hall Gate and the Gate leading into the Gallery from from St. Jameâ—'s The Scaffold was hung round with black the floor covered with black bayes and the Ax and block laid in the middle of the Scaffold There were divers Companies of Foot of Collonel Prides Regiment and several Troops of Horse placed on the one side of the Scaffold toward Kings-street and on the other side toward Charing-Cross and the multitudes of