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death_n	day_n	great_a	king_n	6,708	5	3.5390	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63198	The trial of the Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for inhumanely causing his own wife to be ravished, and for buggery	Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.	1679 (1679)	Wing T2227; ESTC R18229	8,611	16

the Church of England And for the Articles received at this present time in the Church of England and confirmed by the Authority of Parliament I do not differ in any Points renouncing all the superstitious Errors taught or believed in the Church of Rome or any other Church In which Faith I will continue God willing to my Lives end in testimony whereof I have here subscribed my Hand the first Day of May 1631. Then he proceeded I acknowledge the great Justice and Mercy of the Kings Majesty His Justice in bringing me to the Bar and His Mercy in affording me such a Noble and Gracious Trial here and I give His Majesty humble and hearty Thanks for signing my Death to be in this manner contrary to the Sentence pronounced against me at my Arraignment But there is a greater Favour than this for which I am to render Thanks unto His Sacred Majesty and that is the long time I have had to repent in whereof praysed by Almighty God I can speak with comfort I have made good use and am now fully prepared for Death and much the better by the good help and instruction of these two worthy men to whom I acknowledge my self bounden and do here before you all give them hearty Thanks for their great pains taken in coming to me praying for me and preaching and reading to me And I desire your Lordships to present my humble acknowledgment to His Majesty and for His Goodness in sending them to me and my Thanks for the same I do also from my heart desire and beseech Almighty God to bless the Kings Majesty the Queen and the Young Prince together with all such other Issue as he shall hereafter in Mercy bestow on them and the whole State and my Trust and Desire is there may be ever one of there Line to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms to the Worlds end And I beseech and do heartily pray for the Welfare and happy Prosperity of the King and Queen of Bohemia with all their Princely Issue I do again desire your Lordships to make Tender of my humble acknowledgement of his Mercy and Goodness And now lastly That you will not bend your Eyes so much upon me as your Hands and Hearts to Heaven in Prayers for me and so I take my last Farewel of your Lordships and the World Then he went again to his private Prayers which being done he prepared himself for Death striving to shew the like Courage and Magnanimity which he had formerly done unto the last but sight of the Headsman whom yet he freely forgave and took him by the hand bidding him do his Office manfully together with the apprehension of his near approaching End made him somewhat to change colour and shew some signs of trembling Passion for his Hands shook a little in undoing his Band-strings which his man perceiving stept to him and helpt him as also off with his Doublet Then taking leave again of the Lords the Doctors and his man saying a very short Prayer by himself he pulled down his Handkercher over his Face and laid his Head upon the Block which was watched for by the Executioner who instantly at one Blow smote it off And thus died that Great Lord of Castle-Haven FINIS If a Man force a Whore yet he dieth by the Law No Man being never so ill but would have his Wife better The Ladies were in a Room behind the Chancerie the Lords that went to them were four Bedford Essex Warwick Leicester