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A81333	The true speech delivered on the scaffold by Iames Earl of Derby, in the market-place at Boulton in Lancashire, on vvednesday last, being the 15. of this instant October, 1651. With the manner of his deportment and carrage on the scaffold: his speech concerning the King of Scots. And his prayer immediately before his head was severed from his body. As also his declaration and desires to the people. Likewise, the manner how the King of Scots took shipping at Graves-end, on the fourth of this instant October, with Captain Hind, disguised in sea-mens apparel, and safely arrived at the Hague in Holland. Published by Authority.	Derby, James Stanley, Earl of, 1607-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing D1094; Thomason E643_19; ESTC R206007	6,309	8

THE TRUE SPEECH Delivered on the SCAFFOLD BY Iames Earl of Derby IN The Market-place at Boulton in LANCASHIRE on vvednesday last being the 15. of this instant October 1651. WITH The manner of his deportment and Carrage on the Scaffold his Speech concerning the King of Scots And his prayer immediately before his Head was severed from his Body As also his Declaration and Desires to the People Likewise the manner how the King of Scots took shipping at Graves-end on the fourth of this instant October with Captain Hind disguised in Sea-mens Apparel and safely arrived at the Hague in Holland PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY London Printed for Robert Eles for general satisfaction to the People A Speech delivered on the Scaffold in the Market place at Boulton in Lancashire by JAMES Earl of DERBY on Wednesday last being the fifteenth of this instant October 1651. ON Wednesday last being the fifteenth of this instant October the Earl of Derby was brought to the place of execution the Scaffold being erected and set up in the place where the Cross formerly stood attended by divers Gentlemen and others And where were present many hundreds of People who came from severall parts adiacent to behold this Object of compassion As soon as his Lordship came upon the Scaffold he took up the Block and kissed it saying I hope there is no more but this Block between Me and Heaven and I hope I shall never tire in my way nor go out of it Then turning to the People and putting off his hat he spake as followeth Christian Gentlemen and People YOur business hither to day is to see a sad Spectacle a Peer of the Land to be in a moment unman'd and cut off by an untimely-end And though truly if my general course of life were but inquired into I may modestly say there is such a morall honesty upon it as some may be so peremptory as to expostulate why this great judgment is fall'n upon me But know that I am able to give them and my self an answer and out of this breast laying his hand upon his heart to give a better accompt of my Judgment and Execution then my Judgers themselves or you are able to give It is Gods wrath upon me for sins long unrepented of many judgments withstood and mercies flighted therefore God hath whipped me by his severe rod of correction that he might not loose me I pray joyn with me in prayer that it may not be a fruitless rod that when by this rod I have laid down my life by this staffe I may be comforted and received into glory As for my accusers I am sorry for them they have committed Judas his crime but I wish and pray for them Peters tears that by Peters repentance they may escape Judas his punishment and I wish other people so happy they may be taken up betimes before they have drunk more blood of Christian men possibly less deserving then my self It is true there have been severall addresses made for mercy and I will put the obstruction of it upon nothing more then upon my own sin and seeing God sees it not fit I having not glorified him in my life I might do it in my death which I am content to do I profess in the face of God no particular malice to any one of the State or Parliament to do them a bodily injury I had none For the cause in which I had a great while waded I must needs say my engagement or continuance in it hath laid ho scruple upon my Conscience it was on principles of Law the knowledgment whereof I embrace and on principalls of Religion my judgment satisfied and Conscience rectified that I have pursued those wayes for which I bless God I find no blackness upon my Conscinnce nor have I put it into the bead-roll of my sins I will not presume to d●side controversies I desire God to honour himself in prospering that side that hath right with it and that you may enjoy peace and plenty when I shall enjoy peace and plenty beyond all you possess here in my conversation in the world I do not know where I have an enemy with cause or that there is such a person to whom I have a regret but it there be any whom I cannot recollect under the notion of Christian men I pardon them as freely as if I had named them by name I freely forgive them being in free peace with all the world as I desire God for Christs sake to be at peace with me For the busines of death it is a sad sentence in it self if men consult with flesh and blood But truly without boasting I say it or if I do boast I boast in the Lord I have not to this minute had one consultaton with the flesh about the blow of the Ax or one thought of the Ax more then as my Passe-port to glory I take it for an honour and I owe thankfullnesse to those under whose power I am that they have sent me hither to a place however of punishment yet of some honour to die a death exceeding worthy of my blood answerable to my birth and qualification and this courtesie of theirs hath much helped towards the pacification of my mind I shall desire God that those Gentlemen in that sad bedroll to be tried by the high Court of Justice that they may find that really 〈…〉 nominall in the Act An high Court of Justice a Court of high Justice high in its righteousness though not in its severity Father forgive them and forgive me as I forgive them I desire you that you would pray for me and not give over praying till the hour of death nor till the minute of death for the hour is come already that as I have a very great load of sins so I may have the wings of your prayers to help those Angels that are to convey my soul to Heaven hoping this day to see Christ in the presence of the Father and my self there to rejoyce with all other Saints and Angels for evermore One thing more I desire to be clear in There lieth a common imputation upon the Kings party that they are Papists and under that name we are made odious to those of the contrary opinion I am not a Papist but renounce the Pope with all his dependencies when the distractions in Religion first sprang up I might have been thought apt to to turn from this Church to the Roman but was utterly unsatisfied in their Doctrine in point of faith and very much as to their Dissipline The Religion which I profess is that which passeth under the name of Protestant though that be rather a name of distinction then properly essential to Religion But the Rellgion which was found out in the Reformation purged from all the errours of Rome in the Reign of Edward the 6. practised in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles that blessed Prince deceased that Religion before it was defaced

which made him cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But yet his soul did not die So when Stephen died his soul went to Christ It is true when a child of God dies the soul goes to sleep How is that The soul goes to sleep in a Scripture-sense that is it goes to rest in Abrahams bosom O blessed sleep it goes to rest in the imbraces of God it goes into the arms of its Redeemer it goes to the heavenly Paradise it goes to be alwayes present with the Lord But take heed of that wicked opinion to say that the soul sleeps in an Anabaptistical sense that is That it lies in a strange kind of Lethargy neither dead nor alive neither capable of ioy nor sorrow untill the resurrection Though Stephens body fell asleep yet his soul did not fall asleep but immediatly went unto Jesus Christ in Heaven Thus I have given the Explication of the words Now give me leave to make some Application of all unto our selve If the death of Gods children be nothing else but a falling asleep then let this comfort us against the deaths of our godly friends though they die unnatural and violent deaths though they be stoned to death though they be burnt to asbes though they be sawn asunder c Here is a message of rich consolation which as a Minister of Christ I hold out unto you this day viz. That the death of a child of God let it be after what manner soveer it will it is nothing else but a falling asleep he goes to his grave as to his bed and therefore our burying places are called ●oimeteria do●mitoria our sleeping-houses A child of God when he dies he lies down in peace and enters into his rest Dr. Green he being upon the Sea fold spake as followeth to the Earl of Derby You have this morning in the presence of a few given some accompt of your Religion and under generall notions or words have given an accompt of your faith charity and repentance To those on the Scaffold If you please to hear the same questions asked here you shall find that it may be a general testimony to you all that he died in the favour of God Now Sir I degin to deal with you you do acknowledg that this stroak you are by and by to suffer is a just punishment laid upon you by God for your former sins Derby I dare not only not deny it but dare not but confess it I have no opportunity of glorifying God more then by taking shame to my self and I have a reason of the Justice of God in my own bosome which I have put to your bosome Doctor You acknowledg you deserve more then this stroak hf the Ax and that a far greater misery is due to you even the pains and torments of Hell that the damned there endure Derby I know it is due in righteous judgment but I knw again I have a satisfaction made by my elder Brother Christ Jesus and then I say it is not due t is due from me but quitted by his righteousnesse Doctor Do you believe to be saved by that Mediatot and none others Derby By that and that only renouncing all secondary causes whatsoever Doct. Are you truly and unfainedly sorry before God as you appear to us for all those sins that have brought you hither Derby I am sorry and can never be sorrowfull enough and am sorry I can be no more sorty On Satturday last came intelligence of the King of Scots arrival at the Hague in Holland And of his taking Shipping at Graves-end on the fourth of this instant October being disguised in a Sea-mans Apparel FINIS