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A34573	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end, of William, late lord viscount Stafford, beheaded upon Tower-hill on Wednesday the 29. of December 1681 hereunto is also annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colleges trial.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing C6306; ESTC R20377	92,206	80

he I may perhaps shake for cold but I trust in God never for fear After some time spent in Spiritual discourses at length about Ten a Clock word was brought him That Mr. Lieutenant waited for him below upon which he sweetly saluted his Friends bidding them not grieve for him for this was the happiest day of all his Life then he immediately went down and walked along by the Lieutenants Chair who had the Gout through a lane of Soldiers to the Barrs without the Tower There the Lieutenant delievered him to the Sheriffs and they from thence Guarded him to the Scaffold erected on Tower-Hill All the way as he passed several thousands of People crowded to see him many civilly saluted him and few there were amongst that vast number whose hearts were not touched and mollified with Compassion for him Having mounted the Scaffold there appeared in his Countenance such an unusual vivacity such a Chearfulness such a Confidence such a Candor as if the Innocence of his Soul had shined through his Body Nothing of that Mortal paleness Nothing of those Reluctances Convulsions and Agonies incident to persons in his condition could in the least be perceived in him He looked Death in the face with so undaunted a Resolution as gave many occasion to say Grace had left in him no Resentments of Nature After a short pause viewing the People and finding them attentive to what he should say he stept to one side of the Scaffold and with a Graceful Air and intelligible Voice pronounced his last Speech as followeth My Lord's last Speech BY the permission of Almighty God I am this day brought hither to Suffer Death as if I were Guilty of High Treason I do most truly in the presence of the Eternal Omnipotent and All-knowing God protest upon my Salvation that I am as Innocent as it is possible for any Man to be so much as in a thought of the Crimes laid to my Charge I acknowledge it to be a particular Grace and Favour of the Holy Trinity to have given me this Long time to prepare my self for Eternity I have not made so good use of that Grace as I ought to have done partly by my not having so well recollected my self as I might have done and partly because not only my Friends but my Wife and Children have for several days been forbidden to see me but in the presence of one of my Warders This hath been a great trouble and distraction unto me but I hope God of his Infinite Mercy will Pardon my Defects and accept of my good Intentions Since my long Imprisonment I have considered often what could the Original Cause of my being thus Accused since I knew my self not Culpable so much as in a thought and I cannot believe it to be upon any other account then my being of the Church of Rome I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it Teacheth nothing but the Right Worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to all Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant to the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected That the Church holds that Sovereign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope way by their Subjects be Deposed or Murthered As to the Murther of Princes I have been taught as a Matter of Faith in the Catholick Church That such Doctrine is Diabolical Horrid Detestable and contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations And as such from my heart I Renounce and abominate it As for the Doctrine of Deposing Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as able and Learned as they have Written against it But it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any Point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare that it is my true and real Judgement That the same Doctrine of Deposing Kings is contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom Injurious to Sovereign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable I believe and profess That there is One God One Saviour One Holy Catholick Church of which through the Mercy Grace and Goodness of God I die a member To my great and unspeakable grief I have offended God in many things by many great Offences but I give him most humble thanks not in any of those Crimes of which I was Accused All the Members of either House having liberty to propose in the House what they think fit for the good of the Kingdom accordingly I proposed what I thought fit the House is Judge of the fitness or unfitness of it and I think I never said any thing that was unsitting there or contrary to the Law and Vse of Parliament for certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have punished me so I am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations and Pardons to Murther Rebel Lie Forswear and Commit such other Crimes held and given in the Church I do here profess in the presence of God I never Learned Believed or Practised any such thing but the contrary And I speak this without any Equivocation or Reservation whatsoever And certainly were I guilty either my self or knew of any one that were Guilty whosoever that were so of any of those Crimes of which I am accused I were not only the greatest Fool imaginable but a perfect Mad-man and as wicked as any of those that so falsly have accused me If I should not discover any ill Design I knew in any kind and so upon Discovery save my Life I have so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me And so am guilty of Self-Murther which is a most grievous and hainous Sin and though I was last Impeached at the Lords Bar yet I have great grounds to believe that I was first brought to Tryal on the belief that to save my Life I would make some great Discovery And truly so I would had I known any such thing of any ill Design or Illegal Dangerous Plot either of my self or any other Person whatsoever without any Exception But had I a thousand Lives I would lose them all rather then Falsly accuse either my self or any other whatsoever And if I had known of any Treason and should thus deny it as I do now upon my Salvation at this time I should have no hope of Salvation which now I have through the Merits of Christ Jesus I do beseech God to bless His Majestly who is my Lawful King and Sovereign whom I was always by all Laws Humane and Divine bound to Obey and I am sure that no Power upon Earth either singly or all together can legally allow me or any body else to lift up a Hand against him or his Legal Authority I do hold that the

resolving to turn from his evil ways and bring forth Fruits worthy of Penance there is then and no otherwise an Authority left by Christ to Absolve such a Penitent Sinner from his Sins which Authority Christ gave to his Apostles and their Successors the Bishops and Priests of the Catholick Church in those words when he said Receive ye the Holy Ghost whose Sins you shall forgive they are forgiven unto them c. 2. Though no Creature whatsoever can make Condign satisfaction either for the Guilt of Sin or the Pain Eternal due to it This satisfaction being proper to Christ our Saviour only yet Penitent Sinners Redeemed by Christ may as Members of Christ in some measure satisfie by Prayer Fasting Almes Deeds and other Works of Piety for the Temporal Paine which by order of Divine Justice sometimes remains due after the guilt of Sin and Pains Eternal are gratis remitted These Penitential Works are notwithstanding satisfactory no otherwise than as joyned and applyed to that satisfaction which Jesus made upon the Cross in vertue of which alone all our good works find a grateful acceptance in God's Sight 3. The Guilt of Sin or Pain Eternal due to it is never remitted by Indulgences but only such Temporal Punishments as remain due after the Guilt is remitted These Indulgences being nothing else than a Mitigation or Relaxation upon just causes of Canonical Penances enjoyned by the Pastors of the Church on Penitent Sinners according to their several Degrees of Demerit And if any abuses or mistakes be sometimes committed in point either of Granting or Gaining Indulgences through the Remisness or Ignorance of particular Persons contrary to the ancient Custom and Discipline of the Church such Abuses or Mistakes cannot rationally be charged on the Church nor rendred matter of Derision in prejudice to her Faith and Doctrine 4. Catholicks hold there is a Purgatory that is to say a Place or State where Souls departing this Life with Remission of their Sins as to the Eternal Guilt or Pain yet Obnoxious to some Temporal Punishment still Remaining due Or not perfectly freed from the Blemish of some venial Defects or Deordinations as Idle Words c. not liable to Damnation are purged before their Admittence into Heaven where nothing that is defiled can enter Furthermore 5. Catholicks also hold That such Souls so detained in Purgatory being the Living Members of Christ Jesus are Relieved by the Prayers and Suffrages of their Fellow members here on Earth But where this place is Of what Nature or Quality the Pains are How long each Souls is detained there After what manner the Suffrages made in their behalf are applyed Whether by way of Satisfaction or Intercession c. are Questions Superfluous and Impertinent as to Faith 6. No Man though just can Merit either an Increase of Sanctity or Happiness in this Life or Eternal Glory in the next Independent on the Merits and Passion of Christ Nevertheless in and by the Merits of Christ Jesus the good Works of a just Man proceeding from Grace and Charity are acceptable to God so far forth as to be through his Goodness and Sacred Promise Truly Meritorious of Eternal Life 7. It is an Article of the Catholick Faith That in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is Truly and Really contained the Body of Christ which was delivered for us and his Bloud which was shed for the Remission of Sins The substance of Bread and Wine being by the powerful Words of Christ changed into the Substance of his Blessed Body and Bloud the Species or Accidents of Bread and Wine still remaining Thus 8. Christ is not present in this Sacrament according to his natural way of Existence that is with extension of parts in order to place c. but after a Supernatural manner one and the same in many places and whole in every part of the Symbols This therefore is a Real Substantial yet Sacramental Presence of Christ's Body and Blood not exposed to the external Senses nor Obnoxious to corporeal Contingences 9. Neither is the Body of Christ in this Holy Sacrament Seperated from his Bloud or his Bloud from his Body or either of both disjoyned from his Soul and Divinity but all and whole living Jesus is entirely contained under either Species so that whosoever receiveth under one kind is truly partaker of the whole Sacrament and no wise deprived either of the Body or Bloud of Christ True it is 10. Our Saviour Jesus Christ left unto us his Body and Bloud under two distinct Species or Kinds in doing of which he instituted not only a Sacrament but also a Sacrifice a Commemorative Sacrifice distinctly shewing his Death or Bloudy Passion until he come For as the Sacrifice of the Cross was performed by a distinct Effusion of Bloud so is the same Sacrifice Commemorated in that of the Altar by a distinction of the Symbols Jesus therefore is here given not only to us but for us and the Church thereby enriched with a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice usually termed Mass 11. Catholicks Renounce all Divine Worship and Adoration of Images or Pictures God alone we Worship and Adore nevertheless we make use of Pictures and place them in Churches and Oratories to reduce our wandering thoughts and Enliven our Memories towards Heavenly things And farther we allow a certain Honour and Veneration to the Picture of Christ of the Virgin Mary c. beyond what is due to every Prophane Figure not that we believe any Divinity or Vertue in the Pictures themselves for which they ought to be Honoured but because the Honour given to the Pictures is referred to the Prototype or things represented In like manner 12. There is a kind of Honour and Veneration Respectively due to the Bible to the Cross to the Name of Jesus to Churches to the Sacraments c. as things peculiarly appertaining to God also to the glorified Saints in Heaven as the Domestick Friends of God yea to Kings Magistrates and Superiors on Earth as the Vicegerents of God To whom Honour is due Honour may be given without any Derogation to the Majesty of God or that Divine Worship appropriate to him Furthermore 13. Catholicks believe That the blessed Saints in Heaven replenished with Charity pray for us their fellow-Members here on Earth that they Rejoyce at our Conversion that seeing God they see and know in him all things suitable to their happy state that God is Inclinable to hear their Requests made in our behalf and for their sakes grants Us many Favours That therefore it is Good and Profitable to Desire their Intercession And that this manner of Invocation is no more Injurious to Christ our Mediator nor Superabundant in it self than it is for one Christian to beg the Prayers and

am hourly looking to hear of the hour of my Execution I have time by his Omnipotent mercy to lay my Heart prostrate on the ground to beg his Pardon and acknowledg his infinite mercy and goodness God grant me grace to reflect as I ought on all these assurances and as I ought to do love his Divinity and nothing created independently of him Nothing in this World but the Holy Trinity deserving the whole love and Adoration of Mankind God give me grace to love him and only him And though I cannot do it so well as otherwise I ought yet I hope I do it what I can And do firmly resolve by his holy Grace I will to the uttermost of my power so long as it shall please him to give me my life wholly and willingly to resign my self to his Holy will and doubt not by his Grace but to find more true delight in serving him then ever I did in the vanities of the World All Glory Praise and Honour be given unto him for all Eterni●● Amen THere was likewise found in his Chamber this following Prayer or Resignation Thou hast said O Lord he that loves Father or Mother c. more then me is not worthy of me I acknowledge most dear Lord that I love my Wife and Children as much as a loving Husband and tender Father can love a most deserving Wife and most dutiful Children but to shew that I love thy Divine Majesty more than them and my own Life to boot I willingly render up and forsake both for the love of thee and rather then to offend thee though by the contrary I may have life and all worldly advantages both for my self and them Receive therefore Dear Jesus this voluntary Oblation of both Take us into thy protection O Helper in opportunities in Tribulation Be thou a Judge and Spouse to the Widdow a Father to the Orphans and Salvation to all our Souls I rejoyce to have so dear a Pledge to Offer and present thee for all thy blessings and benefits bestowed upon Us and for thy sake who offeredst thy self for us to Death to the most ignominious Death of the Cross Receive therefore Sweet Jesus this poor Oblation of mine though all I am able to offer thee in union of all the Oblations of thy most Sacred Life Death and Passion and of all those Divine Oblations which have been are and ever shall be offered upon thine Altars All which I Offer thee and by thy hands to thy eternal Father O Father look upon the face of thy Christ and turn away thy face from my Sins O Holy Mary Mother of God all ye Holy Angels and Saints in Heaven make Intercession for me that what I deserve not of my self may by your Intercession be bestowed upon me Amen Jesu Amen Grant and ratisie what I ask for thy Names sake Amen On Sunday the 19 th of December Mr Lieutenant of the Tower came to him and told him He was sorry he must bring him the ill news that he must dye on the 29 th of this Month. To which dismal Message he undauntedly replyed I must obey Then added in Latine that Text of the Psalm Haec dies c. This is the day which our Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it After which turning himself to his almost dead-struck Lady he said Let us go to our Prayers UPon this occasion also he writ a little Schedule containing these words In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost This day Mr. Lieutenant came and told me I must dye God's Holy name be praised and I prostrate beseech him to have mercy on my sinful Soul And deal with me as his Omnipotence knows I am Innocent of what was falsly sworn against me I do not doubt of Salvation through the Passion of our most blessed Saviour IT was truly a matter of wonder and astonishment to those who lived and were conversant with him during this short remnant of his life to see with what Constancy and equal temper of mind he comported himself What interior Quiet and serenity he seem d to injoy What confidence he expressed in God What Charity to all even to the worst of his Enemies Death hath usually an aspect formidable to nature especially when Treason and Murder slie in the face of a guilty Conscience A man who hath warning and leisure deliberately to consider he is now upon the point of being just dragged out of this mortal State before the dreadful Tribunal of a severe Judge who knows the Secrets of his Heart there to receive an Eternal Doom of Hell and Damnation for crimes detested by God and Nature This man surely can never die without such Conflicts of horrour and despair as will almost prevent the hand of the Executioner yet there appeared in my Lord no other symptoms then those of a most pleasing Tranquility as if Innocence had Guarded him As if the Injustice of others had secured him As if the Holy Ghost had fortified him As if Christ Jesus had united him to his Sufferings and undertaken his conduct and defence THat very morning he was to dye he writ a Letter to his Lady which afterwards he delivered on the Scaffold to a Friend there present the contents whereof are these My Dear Wife I Have I give God humble thanks slept this night some hours very quietly I would not dress me until I had by this given you thanks for all your great Love and Kindness unto me I am very sorry that I have not deserved it from you God reward you Were I to live numbers of years I assure you I would never omit any occasion to let you know the Love I bear you I cannot say what I would nor how well and many ways you have deserved God of His most infinite mercy send us an happy meeting in Heaven My last request unto you is that you will bear my Death as well as you can for my sake I have now no more to do but as well as I can though not so well as I would to recommend my sinful Soul unto the mercy of the Holy Trinity who through the Passion Bloud and Merits of our Savour I hope will mercifully grant me a place though the lowest in Heaven God grant it And bless you and Ours St. Thomas of Canterbury's day 1680 past six in the Morning Your truly loving Husband William Howard The Manner and Circumstances of my Lord 's Final End WHen the hour appointed for his Death drew near he exspected with some impatience the arrival of Mr. Lieutenant telling his Friends that were about him he ought not to hasten his own death yet he thought the time long till they came for him A Gentleman then with him in his Chamber put him in mind that it was a cold day and that his Lordship would do well to put on a Cloak or Coat to keep him warm He answered He would for said

est In thâ promissione non in meâ justitiâ confido Vitam quam dedisti mihi libenter tibi reddo secundum beneplacitum tuum In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum qui moriens Spiritum tuum in aeterni Patris manus commendasti In pace igitur in id ipsum dormiam requiescam quoniam tu Domine singulariter in spe constituisti me Amen Jesu Amen Englished thus I acknowledge O Lord Jesus my Sins to be many and great for which I am affraid but I hope in thy mercy and commiserations which are without number Have mercy therefore on me according to thy great mercy and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out mine iniquity If my Sins be great thy mercy is greater If many thy Commiserations are infinite If I have committed that for which thou mayest Condemn me thou hast not lost that by which thou canst and art accustomed to Save To him that believed in thy Power and said O Lord If thou wilt thou caust make me clean Thou presently answeredst I will Be thou clean I believe what he believed I hope for what he hoped I Implored what he Implored Say therefore to my Soul I am thy Salvation Heal Me O Lord Jesus and I shall be healed Save Me and I shall be saved and I will sing forth thy mercy for all eternity Cast me not therefore away from thy Face and take not thy Holy Spirit from me But render me the joy of thy Salvation and with thy Principal Spirit Confirm me Thou hast said O most Sweet Jesus Turn to Me and I will turn to You I turn my self to Thee with my whole Heart with my whole Soul with my whole Mind Turn thy self therefore O most Merciful unto me thy unworthy Servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most Precious Bloud Thou hast said Every one who shall confess me before Men I will confess him before my Father which is in Heaven I Living Confess thee and thy Holy Catholick Religion and through the assistance of thy Holy Grace will confess thee Dying Vouchsafe therefore to Receive and Confess me before thy Father which is in Heaven I confide in thy Promise not in my own Justice The Life thou hast given me I willingly render thee according to thy good pleasure Into thy Hands I commend my Spirit who Dying didst commend thy Spirit into the Hands of thy Eternal Father In peace therefore in that one thing will I Sleep and Rest because thou O Lord hast singularly Established me in hope Amen JESUS Amen TO this Prayer he adjoyned several other Pious Ejaculations wherein with singular Compunction and aboundance of Tears he Implored the Divine Mercy and Pardon for his Sins past He recommended his Soul to his dear Redeemer Jesus He blessed his Holy Name And offered his Life to him a willing Sacrifice of Gratitude Piety and Love Remaining still on his knees he again protested his Innocence with all the asseverations a dying Christian is capable to make Then rising up he a second time saluted the people and walking to each side of the Scaffold Told them they had as good and gracious a King as ever Reigned He earnestly exhorted them to be faithful and constant in their Allegiance to him And that no pretence whatsoever should withdraw them from their Duty He wished with a feeling resentment that none might be less Loyal to His Majesty then he had been And it was very remarkable in him He never seemed transported with any fervours or Extasies but either in his Prayers to God or in his expressions of Loyalty to the King Then indeed he was all Flame and you might read in his very Eyes the tender Emotions and Zeal of his heart He likewise assured them upon his Salvation he knew no design the Duke of York ever had against the King But that he had behaved himself for ought he knew as a loving Loyal Brother ought to do Then he again declared his own Innocence and desired the Prayers of all good Christians for him He Prayed to God heartily to bless the King and preserve him from his Enemies To bless the Nation To bless and be with them all there present especially the King 's Loyal Subjects He begged Gods Mercy and Pardon for his Sins He asked forgiveness of all and forgave all beseeching the Divine goodness not to Revenge his Innocent Bloud upon the whole Kingdom No not upon those by whose Perjuries he was brought thither to whom he wished from his Heart no other hurt then that they should repent and tell truth Whilest he thus professed his Loyaity his Innocence his Piety Most that heard him were touched with a sensible Compassion for him Some as he Spoke put off their Hats and Bowed to him in sign they Accorded to what he said Others by distinct Acclamations answered We believe you my Lord God bless you my Lord Pray God forgive him his Sins c. In this conjuncture a Protestant Minister accosted him saying Have you received no Indulgences from the Romish Church Have you received no Absolution To which my Lord answered What have you to do with my Religion However I do say the Roman Catholick Church allow's of no Indulgences or Dispensations Authorizing Treason Murder Lying or Forswearing Nor have I received any Absolution for such ends Pray do not trouble your self nor me Then turning from the Parson he applyed himself to his Friends about him whom he lovingly embraced and with a pleasant Voice and Aspect bid them Adieu for this World Next he delivered his Watch two Rings off his Fingers his Staff and his Crucifix about his Neck as Legacies to several Friends He desired the Sheriffs that such Persons as he nominated might have leave without the Executioners Intermeddling to assist him and take care of his Body which was accordingly done And his Gentleman stripping him of his Coat and Peruke put on his head a Silk Cap and accommodated his hair Shirt and Waistcoat for the Execution And now being ready for Death both in Body and Mind he chearfully submitted himself to the Block before which first kneeling down and making the Sign of the Cross he recommended himself with raptures of Devotion to the Divine Mercy and Goodness After this he lay down as it were to try the Block And then who could imagine it with a Stupendious Courage embraced the fatal Wood as the dear Basis or Point from whence his Soul was now to take its flight to Immortal Glory The Heads-man put him in mind that his Shirt and Waistcoat came too high Whereupon he raised himself up upon his Knees and bid his Gentleman put them lower Whilst this was Performing he was heard continually to breath forth several Acts of Prayer as Sweet Jesus receive my Soul Into thy hands O Lord I commend my Spirit c. When his Gentleman had finished He again laid down his head upon the Block persevering still in Prayer and expecting the