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A69768	Excellent contemplations, divine and moral written by the magnanimous and truly loyal Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham ; together with some account of his life, and his letters to several persons whilst he was prisoner in the tower ... likewise his affectionate letters to his lady, the day before his death ... March 9, 1648, with his pious advice to his son the late Earl of Essex.	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649. His speech on the Scaffold, March 9, 1649.	1683 (1683)	Wing C469; ESTC R4075	81,286	218

EXCELLENT Contemplations Divine and Moral Written by the Magnanimous and truly Loyal Arthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham Together with some Account of his Life and his Letters to several Persons whilst he was Prisoner in the Tower vigorously asserting the Royal Cause against all the Enemies thereof Likewise his Affectionate Letters to his Lady the Day before his Death and his Couragious Behaviour and last Speech at his Suffering March 9. 1648. With his Pious Advice to his Son the late Earl of ESSEX LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1683. Some Account of the Life of the Pious and Virtuous Arthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham THis Honourable Person ought to be eternized for his Endeavours Constancy and Perseverance in the Royal Cause first to the parting with his vast Estate being sequestred for his Loyalty and afterward with his life so that he may be rightly termed The Flower of English Fidelity and his name ought to be ever honourably mentioned according to that of the Psalmist Psalm 112. 6. The Righteous shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance He was Son and Heir to Sir Arthur Capel of Hadham Hall in Hertfordshire a Gentleman of a great Estate one who followed the Old Mode of our Nation kept a bountiful house and shewed forth his Faith by his works extending his charity in such abundant manner to the poor that he was bread to the hungry drink to the thirsty eyes to the blind and legs to the lame and might be justly stiled Great Almoner to the King of Kings Concerning the humility of this worthy Knight though it be too sudden a diversion I shall presume to insert a story which I have heard delivered by some well acquainted with his Worship that he being one time at his Gate all alone in a plain but decent habit a Serving-man who had plumed himself with his Masters cast Feathers came riding to him asked him if Sir Arthur Capel were within Sir replied the knight he was there not long ago and if you please to walk in you may hear further of his Servants Old Father said the Serving-man here take my horse and walk him and therewithal gave him a small peice of Silver it being the first money he ever received in that kind Sir Arthur agreed to the motion and with a smile received from him a single penny took his horse and walkt him whilst the finical spruce Serving-man strutted with convenient boldness into the house But being informed by the Servants that their Master was at the Gate he replying that he was not there one of them to justify himself went with him to the Gate to see where they found Sir Arthur very industrious in his Imployment the Serving-man very much ashamed of his mistake craved pardon and with humble obeisance with his hat in his hand with many cringes would have received the horse from the knight Nay stay says Sir Arthur you paid me my hire get up as soon as you will for I am resolved to see you on Horse-back Then the old Knight putting his hand into his purse gave him half a piece which he said was for taking so much care of his Masters Horse being purposely thus liberal to incourage his own Servants to imitate his careful example But to return to his son he was very well educated attaining to some perfection in learning his Father dying as he inherited his Estate so he did his virtues The Privacy of this noble Lord before the war was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with valour and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of peace none was more Pious Charitable and Munificent In our unhappy differences none more resolved Loyal and active The People loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he made him one of his Peers in Parliament the King and People agreeing in this one thing to have a just kindness for the Lord Capel He was one of those excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the faction to a due Temperament guiding some mens well meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than yielding to the importunities of the People to what was just rather than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced consent to that brave Persons death than for losing his own life he ventured through the first war and by his Ingagement in the second for after the surender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to Extremity yeilding himself upon Condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Arms that Law that governeth the World Yet as he said against the Law of God man for keeping the first Commandment he was sacrificed on a Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear Conscience and a resolution befitting a good Christian expressing that same Judicious Piety at his death which he did in this Incomparable Book of his Meditations in his life A Piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplains and the formalities of that times Devotions before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward Ostentation or Pomp from the Noble sentiment whereof the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms A Lyon Rampant in Field Gules between two Crosses thus expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than affrighted by it It being very observable That a learned Dr. of Physick present at the opening and Embalming of this Lord and the Duke Hamilton delivered at a publick Lecture That the Lord Capels was the least heart and the Dukes the greatest that ever he saw Agreeable to that Observation in Philosophy That the Spirits contracted within the least compass are the cause of the greatest courage Two things are considerable in this Incomparable Person 1. His uninterrupted Loyalty keeping pace with his life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 last breath was spent in proclaiming K. Charles the second in the very face of his Enemies as known to him to be Virtuous Noble Gentle Just and a great Prince 2 His Great merit and modesty whereof King Charles the first writes thus to her Majesty the Queen There is one that doth not yet pretend who deserves as well as any I mean Capel Therefore I desire thy assistance to find out

him in Question After a short formal Tryal he was condemned he only saying That however he was dealt with here he hoped for a better resurrection hereafter March 9. 1648. was the fatal day appointed for the Execution of the sentence of death upon Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capel where this Lord behaved himself like a stout Roman with that Courage and resolution as was to be admired But as to his Carriage and Speech and likewise how excellently he bestowed his time in the Tower imploying his thoughts more for the safety of his Majesties life than his own the following Contemplations and Letters published by a Reverend Divine intimately conversant with him and with whom he spent his last hours do sufficiently demonstrate EXCELLENT Meditations Divine and Moral I. IF we religiously observe the Sabbath unto God we may with assured hope expect a plentiful increase by our honest labour to our ensuing enterprises II. If Man in innocency needed a help solace and comfort and Marriage was all these how deficient were our now miserable lives without it For besides that it doubles joys and divides griefs it creates new and unthought of contentments And yet I have observed many that unwisely lose the blessings of wedlock nay worse that of good Wine have made the sharpest Vinegar Not much unlike an ignorant Artificer that having a most curious piece of marble to work on yet through unskilfulness hath framed so mishapen a statue that himself loathed the sight of it whereas a good Artist would out of materials not altogether so compleat frame a work not unpleasant III. Garrulity is so irksome to society that we seldom find it welcomed For as it betrays the parties weakness who cannot possibly strongly ratiocinate such variety of propositions so he cannot but many times fall into those discourses which mens particular affairs or studies indear them to or upon those persons though absent whom the present company are interested in either by affinity or which is more by Amity IV. There is no difficulty greater than to remove another mans affections from those persons that either his present use or a crafty dissimulation of goodness hath gained For if his present use had caused it then they think those that disswade would perswade their prejudice If a subtile counterfeiting of Vertue then the more honest the party is that is to be disswaded the adventure of effecting it will be the greater and the more hazard of losing your own reputation with him For so the opinion he hath of the others goodness will endanger in him a suspect of your malice and therefore in this must be used great circumspection V. Recreations have their due place in our life and not without good profit both to the mind and body To the body for health to the mind for refreshing Yet we may observe many that perpetually live in them not using but serving them and so over-mastered by them that their best fortunes are not employed so willingly to the advantage of any necessary or good occasion as to be ingulfed in idle pastime This is too frequent a vanity VI. In a State necessitous and hungry those men are happiest that content themselves with a moderate wealth For the fattest Deer are most shot at and the leanest live longest VII In Oeconomical Government as it is discretion in the master of a Family not to neglect severe discipline toward the insolent and wilful faults of his Servants so it is not less wisdom favourably to receive an ingenuous acknowledgment from them of those slips which humane frailty or inevitable chance may cast them upon For their Hire commands but the hands service but 't is gentle goodness invites the hearts affection And a wise man would willingly have his servants as I may call them his servile friends VIII The breach of a facile command doth most justly aggravate the punishment For Adams disobedience in Paradise was so much the more extreme as the precept was easie and therefore most justly rewarded with a weighty punishment For where the punishment of the breach of obedience was so great and the precept so easily kept who can at full relate the guilt of that sin that brake it standing neither in awe of the Commanders Majesty nor fear of the terrible affliction following the breach And we may very fitly observe that our disobedience to God is punished with disobedience For what is mans misery but his own disobedience to himself the Flesh daily warring against the Spirit and innumerable impossible desires daily fighting against Reason IX There are dispositions that will be displeased either for the omitting or acting the self same things If we be tyed to these either by natural or civil respects we must carry our selves with great caution And one of the best ways is if conveniently it may be done to pretend an ignorance of the thing or of their will If this fall not happily in our way then it is best to let them ventilate their own absurd humor without our contestation for Arguing kindles the fire more inward X. The assaults of impudent liars are frequent and endless and though most manifestly detected yet their shameless wickedness will seldom be quelled But yet we may often observe their contrary reports to fight one against another like Cadmus earth-bornchildren to their own destruction XI Few there are but do love knowledge but the reason why there are so few that are knowing is because the entrance of all Arts and Sciences is difficult and though most are delighted with the amiable parts of learning or wisdom in other men and desire to be like qualified yet they imitate not their indefatigable industry by which they ascended to that eminent height XII In presentments it is great Generosity to bestow that which will deserve acceptance But if friends desire those things which are of inferiour value then it is not unworthily done to satisfie them in those courtesies which we our selves would think too slight for them But I observe many of rich fortunes that with much circumlocution and instance will press poor and slender presents upon those that no whit affect them As if one should go into the fields and gather a handful of common flowers and with great formality and importunity should make present of them to one who hath a curious garden of Tulips XIII The conditions of men in society are divers but three are most observable The Open the Concealed lastly the Well-tempered betwixt these The first are of so thin a composition that a man may by a little converse see as easily through them as if they were made of glass for in every discourse they unlock to you their most inward secrets The second sort are so tenacious and closely moulded that they seem like those Coffers that are shut fast and no discovery can be made where they are to be opened These as they are of less delight for society so of

Nathanael Lacey Jo. Stone Cornelius Cook William Wybeard Jo. Blackwell Esq James Prince Nathanael Whettam Silvanus Taylor Thomas Ayres Edward Cresset William Penoyre Esq Sir Edward Barkham Barrester Ralph Harrison Maximillian Beard Sir William Roe Fra. Hacker Esq Jo. Whitby John Harrison Richard Downes Sparrow William Webb Thomas Cook Robert Titchbourn George Cooper Owen Roe Thomas Pride Jo. Huson Thomas Sanders Esq Thomas Titchbourn Esq Thomas Anarews Alder● William Spence Nicholas Martin Josias Barnars Hardwick Robert Norwood Stevin Estwick Thomas Nowell Thomas Arnold Thomas Browne Esq Thomas Ayre William Barlet Esq Sir Jo. Throughgood Kt. Vincent Potter William Parker Solomon Smith Hubberd Esq Sir Rich. Saltingstall Kt. Sampson Sheffeild Esq You and every of you are required to appear upon Monday the fifth of this instant Febr. in the morning by nine of the Clock in the Painted Chamber at Westminster for the putting into Execution an Act of Parliament for the erecting of an High Court of Justice for the trying and adjudging of James Earl of Cambridge Henry Earl of Holland George Lord Goring Arthur Lord Capel and Sir John Owen Knight Hereof the Subscribers are ordered to give notice and therefore desire you not to fail herein Given under our hands this third day of Feb. Anno Dom. 1648. Luke Robinson Nicho. Love J. Sarland The several Speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capell immediately before their Execution upon the Scaffold in the Palace-yard Westminster on Friday March 9. 1649. Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge his Speech on the Scaffold March 9 1649. UPon Friday the ninth of this instant being the day appointed for the Execution of the sentence of Death upon the Earl of Cambridge the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capel about ten of the Clock that morning L. Col. Beecher came with his Order to the several Prisoners at St. James's requiring them to come away according to which Order they were carried in Sedans with a Guard to Sir Thomas Cottons House at Westminster where they continued about the space of two hours passing away most of that time in Religious and seasonable conferences with the Ministers there present with them After which being called away to the Scaffold it was desired that before they went they might have the opportunity of commending their Souls to God by prayer which being readily granted and the room voided Mr. Bolton was desired by the Lord of Holland to take that pains with them which was accordingly done with great appearance of solemn Affections among them Prayer being concluded and hearty thanks returned by them all to the Ministers who performed as also to the rest who were their Assistants in this sad time of trouble The Earl of Cambridge prepared first to go towards the place of Execution and after mutual Embraces and some short Ejaculatory Expressions to and for his fellow-Sufferers he took his leave of them all and went along with the Officers attended upon by Dr. Sibbald whom he had chosen for his Comforter in this his sad Condition The Scaffold being erected in the new Palace-yard at Westminster over against the great Hall-Gate in the sight of the place where the High-Court of Justice formerly sate the Hall-doors being open there was his excellencies Regiment of Horse commanded by Capt. Disher and several Companies of Col. Hewsons and Col. Prides Regiments of Foot drawn up in the place When the Earl came from Westminster Hall near the Scaffold he was met by the Under-Sheriff of Middlesex and a Guard of his Men who took the charge of him from Lient Col. Beecher and the Partizans that were his Guard The Sheriff of London being also according to command from the High Court of Justice present to see the Execution performed The Earl of Cambridge being come upon the Scaffold and two of his own Servants waiting upon him he first spake to the Doctor as followeth E. of Camb. Whether shall I pray first Dr. Sibbald As your Lordship pleases E. of Camb. My Lord of Denbigh has sent to speak with me I know not the fashion I may ask you Sir Do those Gentlemen expect I should say any thing to them or no They cannot hear Dr. Sibbald There will be a greater silence by and by It will not be amiss if your Lordship defer your speaking till you hear from his Lordship Camb. There is something in it He was with the House Dr. Sibbald I suppose he would give no interruption to your Lordship at this time were there not something of concernment in it Camb. He is my Brother and has been a very faithful Servant to the State and he was in great esteem and reputation with them He is in the Hall and sent to speak with a servant of mine to send something to me Sibbald It will not lengthen the time much if you stay while you have a return from him My Lord you should do well to bestow your time now in meditating upon and imploring of the free mercy of God in Christ for your Eternal Salvation and look upon that ever-streaming Fountain of his precious Blood that purgeth us from all our sins even the sins of the deepest die the Blood of Jesus Christ washes away all our sins and that Blood of Christ is poured forth upon all such as by a lively faith lay hold upon him God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son to the end that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life that is now my Lord the Rock upon which you must chiefly rest and labour to fix your self in the free mercy of God through Christ Jesus whose mercies are from Everlasting to Everlasting unto all such as with the eye of Faith behold him behold Jesus the Author and Finisher of your Salvation who hath satisfied the Justice of God by that all-sufficiency of his Sacrifice which once for all he offered upon the Cross for the sins of the whole world so that the sting of Death is taken away from all Believers and he hath sanctified it as a passage to Everlasting Blessedness It is true the Waters of Jordan run somewhat rough and surly betwixt the Wilderness and our passage into Canaan but let us rest upon the Ark my Lord the Ark Christ Jesus that will carry us through and above all those Waves to that Rock of Ages which no Floud nor Waves can reach unto and to him who is yesterday to day and the same for ever against whom the Powers and Principalities the Gates of Hell shall never be able to prevail lift up and fasten your eyes now upon Christ crucified and labour to behold Jesus stand at the right hand of his Father as the Protomartyr Stephen ready to receive your Soul when it shall be separated from this frail and mortal Body Alas no man would desire Life if he knew beforehand what it were to live it is nothing but sorrow vexation and trouble grief and discontent

come upon the Scaffold the Lord Capelsaid O Friend prethee come hither Then the Executioner kneeling down the Lord Capel said I forgive thee from my Soul and not only forgive thee but I shall pray to God to give all Grace for a better Life There is Five Pounds for thee and truly for my Cloaths and those things if there be any thing due to you for it you shall be fully recompensed But I desire my Body may not be stripped here and no Body to take notice of my Body but my own Servants Look you Friend this I shall desire of you That when I lie down you would give me a time for a particular short Prayer Lieut. Coll. Beecher Make your own Sign my Lord. Capel Stay a little which side do you stand upon speaking to the Executioner Stay I think I should lay my Hands forward that way pointing fore-right and Answer being made Yes he stood still a little while and then said God Almighty bless all this People God Almighty stench this Blood God Almighty stench stench stench this Issue of Blood This will not do the business God Almighty find out another way to do it And then turning to one of his Servants said Baldwin I cannot see any thing that belongs to my Wife but I must desire thee and beseech her to rest wholly upon Jesus Christ to be contented and fully satisfied And then speaking to his Servants he said God keep you and Gentlemen let me now do a Business quickly privately and pray let me have your Prayers at the moment of Death That God would receive my Soul Lieut. Coll. Beecher I wish it Capel Pray at the moment of striking joyn your Prayers but make no noise turning to his Servants it is inconvenient at this time Servant My Lord put on your Cap. Capel Should I what will that do me good Stay a little it is well as it is now As he was putting up his Hair And then turning to the Executioner he said Honest Man I have forgiven thee therefore strike boldly from my Soul I do it Then a Gentleman speaking to him he said Nay prethee be contented be quiet good Mr. be quiet Then turning to the Executioner he said Well you are ready when I am ready are you not And then stretching out his Hands he said Then pray stand off Gentlemen Then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the People Gentlemen though I doubt not of it yet I think it convenient to ask it of you That you would all joyn in Prayers with me ThatGod would mercifully receive my Soul and that for his alone Mercies in Christ Jesus God Almighty keep you all Executioner My Lord shall put up your Hair Capel I I prethee do And then as he stood lifting up his Hands and Eyes he said O God I do with a perfect and a willing Heart submit to thy Will O God I do most willingly humble my self And then kneeling down said I will try first how I can lie And laying his Head over the Block said Am I well now Executioner Yes And then as he lay with both his Hands stretched out he said to the Executioner Here lie both my Hands out when I lift up my Hands thus lifting up his Right Hand then you may strike And then after he had said a short Prayer he lifted up his Right Hand and the Executioner at one Blow severed his Head from his Body which was taken up by his Servants and put with his Body into a Coffin These following Epitaphs were written upon the Suffering of this Couragious and Noble LORD HEre Virtue Valour Charity and all Those rare Endowments we Celestial call Included are Nor wonder at the Story Capel lies here Loyalty's chiefest Glory Another DIsturb me not my Soul is mounting high To Pyramide great Capel's Memory I 'le range my Thoughts it is a World that shall be rul'd by Capel's Eccho hallow all Ye Sacred Muses and conspire to bring Materials for this Work and learn to sing For should you weep your Eyes might undertake To drown the World which I intend to make Forbear your Tears are useless you must now Gaze upon Earth with an undaunted Brow Capel hath taught us how to entertain The Pallid Looks of Fate by him we gain The Art of Dying and from him we have The Definition of a Deathless Grave Rare Soul I say thy ever Active Fame Shall build a World unto thy pregnant Name And every Letter of thy Stem shall raise A spacious Kingdom where thy ample Praise Shall be recorded Every list'ning Ear Shall prove Ambitious be intranc'd to hear 'T will be a Glory when the World shall say 'T was bravely done His Sovereign led the way And he as Valiant Souldiers ought to do March't boldly after and was always true To Sacred Majesty His Hero'd Breath Disdain'd to fear he rather courted Death Death added Life unto his Thoughts for he Contemn'd a Death he bought with Victory The very Birds shall learn to prate and sing How Capel suffered for his Royal King FINIS There are Lately Published Ten very useful pleasant and necessary Books all fold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside I. TWO Journies to Jerusalem containing first A strange and True Account of the Travels of two English Pilgrims some years since and what Admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to Jerusalem Grand Cairo Alexandria c. With the wonderful manner of hatching many Thousand Chickens at once in Ovens Secondly The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in 1669 from Scandaroon to Tripoly Joppa Ramah Jerusalem Bethlehem Jericho the River Jordan the Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah and back again to Aleppo By T. B. With the rare Antiquities Monuments and memorable places and things mentioned in the Holy Scripture and an exact description of the Old and New Jerusalem to which is added a Relation of the great Council of the Jews Assembled in the Plains of Ajayday in Hungaria 1650. to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ By S. B. an Englishman there present With the notorious Delusion of the Jews by a Counterfeit Messiah or false Christ at Smyrna in 1666. and the Event thereof Lastly the fatal and final Extirpation and Destruction of the Jews throughout the Kingdom of Persia whereby many Thousands of all Qualities and Ages were cut off in 1666. and the Remarkable occasion thereof Beautified with Pictures Price One Shilling II. UNparrallel'd Varieties Or the Marchless Actions and Passions of Mankind Dispeyald in near four hundred notable instances and examples Discovering the transcendent effects 1. Of Love Friendship and Gratitude 2. Of Magnanimity Courage and Fidelity 3. Of Chastity Temperance and Humility And on the contrary the Tremendous Consequences 4. Of Hatred Revenge and Ingratitude 5. Of Cowardice Barbarity and Treachery 6. Of unchastity Intemperance and Ambition Imbellished with Proper Figures Price One Shilling III. SUrprising Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts containing 1. The

pleased to be so God be with Thee my most virtuous Wife God multiply many comforts to Thee and my Children is the fervent Prayer of Thy c. A Letter to Mr. E. S. from a Reverend and Grave Divine SIR I Hope this Paper will find you upon your Recovery You have my daily and hearty Prayers for it not so much for your own sake for I doubt not but it would be much better for you in regard of your self to be dissolved and be with Christ but in the behalf of the Church your Friends and poor Family to which notwithstanding be assured God will be merciful howsoever he disposeth of you either for this Life or for a better But if you live as I pray and hope you will you shall do very well to write the Life and Death of that Noble Lord and Blessed Martyr who professed at his Death That he died for the Fifth Commandment And to die in the Defence and for the Testimony of any Divine Truth is truly and properly to be a Martyr That which I can contribute towards this Work is to communicate some few Observations I made of him and from him before and after his Condemnation I was several times with him and always found him in a very chearful and well-composed Temper of Mind proceeding from true Christian Grounds and not from a Roman Resolution only as his Enemies are pleased to speak of him He told me often It was the Good God he served and the Good Cause he had served for that made him not to fear Death Adding He had never had the Temptation of so much as a thought to check him for his Engagement in this Quarrel for he took it for his Crown and Glory and wished he had a greater Ability and better Fortune to engage in it After his Condemnation and the Afternoon before his suffering we were a great while in private together when bewailing with that Sense which became a true and not despairing Penitent the sins of his Life past the greatest he could remember was his Voting my Lord of Strafford's Death which though as he said he did without any Malice at all yet he confessed it to be a very great sin and that he had done it out of a base Fear they were his own words of a prevailing party Adding That he had very often and very heartily repented of it and was confident of God's Pardon for it Then he told me He had a great desire to receive the Blessed Sacrament so he called it before he died the next Morning asking What Divine of the King's Party I would recommend to him I replied That though many were more worthy yet none would be more willing to do him that Service than my self Which he accepting very kindly told me He durst not desire it for fear it might be some danger to me After this and some Conference in order to his preparation both for his Viaticum and his Voyage the Sacrament and his Death he desired me to pray with him Which after I had performed and promised to be with him by seven the next Morning I left him for that time to his own Devotions The next Day I was there at the time assigned and after some short Conference in order to the present Occasion he desired me to hear him pray which he did for half an hour in an excellent Method very apt Expressions and most strong hearty and passionate Affections First Confessing and bewailing his sins with strong Cries and Tears Then humbly and most earnestly desiring God's Mercy through the Merits of Christ only Secondly For his dear Wife and Children with some passion but for her especially with most ardent Affections recommending them to the Divine Providence with great Confidence and Assurance and desiring for them rather the Blessings of a Better Life than of This. Thirdly For the King Church and State And lastly For his Enemies with almost the same Ardour and Affection After this sending for my Lord of Norwich and Sir John Owen I read the whole Office of the Church for Good Friday and then after a short Homily I used for the present Occasion we received the Sacrament In which Action he behaved himself with great Humility Zeal and Devotion And being demanded after we had done how he found himself he replied Very much better stronger and cheerfuller for that Heavenly Repast and that he doubted not to walk like a Christian through the Vale of Death in the Strength of it But he was to have an Agony before his Passion and that was the parting with his Wife Eldest Son Son-in-Law two of his Vncles and Sir T. C. especially the parting with his most dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle that ever I beheld In which Occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of Humane Frailty yet even then he did not forget both to comfort and counsel her and the rest of his Friends particularly in blessing the young Lord he commanded him never to revenge his Death though it should be in his Power The like he said unto his Lady He told his Son He would leave him a Legacy out of David's Psalms and that was this Lord lead me in a plain Path. For Boy said he I would have you a plain honest Man and hate Dissimulation After this with much adoe I perswaded his Wife and the rest to be gone and then being all alone with me he said Doctor the hardest part of my Work in this World is now past meaning the parting with his Wife Then he desired me to pray preparatively to his Death that in the last Action he might so behave himself as might be most for God's Glory for the endearing of his Dead Master's Memory his Present Master's Service and that he might avoid the doing or saying of any thing which might favour either of vanity or sullenness This being done they were all carried to Sir Robert Cotton's House where I was with him till he was called unto the Scaffold and would have gone up with him but the Guard of Souldiers would not suffer me AT the same time with the Lord Capel there suffered as is aforementioned James Hamilton who was likewise Earl of Cambridge and Henry Earl of Holland who were both condemned by the same pretended High Court of Justice together with George Lord Goring and Sir John Owen who were pardoned The Names of which pretended High Court were as followeth A List of the Names of the Judges of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of James Earl of Cambridge Henry Earl of Holland George Lord Goring Arthur Lord Capel and Sir John Owen Knight Appointed by an Act of the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled IOhn Bradshaw Serj. at Law Rich. Keable Serj. at Law Jo. Pulliston Serj. at Law Matthew Shepheard Will. Underwood Jo. Hayes Geo. Langham George Manley Jo. Langley Sam. Moys Morris Tompson Richard Shute Mark Hildersley Thomas Allen. Daniel Taylor Edmund Warring

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Likewise a true Account of the Groaning Board II. The Miracles of Art describing the most Magnificent Buildings and other curious Inventions in all Ages as the Seven Wonders of the World and many other excellent structures and rarities throughout the Earth Beautified with sculptures Price One Shilling IV. EXtraordinary Adve●●●●●● of several Famous Men with the strange Events and signal Mutations and Changes in the Fortunes of divers Illustrious Places and Persons in all Ages Being an account of a Multitude of S●upe●●ious Revolutions Accidents and Observable 〈◊〉 in States and Provinces throughout the whole world Namely the Adventures of Christo Columbus and the manner of his Discovery of America or the New World The Cruelties used by the Turks upon the Christians at Argiers their manner of selling Slaves c. 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ADmirable curiosities Rarities and Wonders in England Scotland and Ireland or an account of many remarkable persons and places and likewise of the Battles Sieges Prodigious Earthquakes Tempests Inundations Thunders Lightnings Fires Murders and other considerable occurences and accidents for many hundred years past and among others the Battle of Bosworth and the miserable death of Crookbackt Richard The beheading of the Lord Cromwel and the Earl of Essex with their last Speeches The Rebellion under Ket the Tanner and his Laws and Ordinances in the Oak of Reformation near Norwich The Lady riding naked through Coventry Together with the natural and artificial rarities in every County in England with several curious Sculptures Prince One Shilling VI. VVOnderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy discovered in above 300 memorable Histories containing 1. Dreadful judgments upon Atheists Blasphemers perjured Villains c. 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Admirable Deliverances from imminent Dangers and Deplorable Distresses at Sea and Land Lastly Divine Goodness to Penitents with the Dying Thoughts of several famous Men concerning a future state after this Life Imbellished with divers Pictures Price One Shilling VII HIstorical Remarks and Observations of the Ancient and Present state of London and Westminster shewing the Foundations Walls Gates Towers Bridges Churches Rivers Wards Halls Companies Government Courts Hospitals Schools Inns of Court Charters Franchises and Priviledges thereof with an account of the most remarkable Accidents as to Wars Fires Plagues and other Occurrences for above Nine hundred years past in and about these Cities and among other particulars the Rebellion of Wat Tylor who was slain by the Lord Mayor in Smithfield and the Speech of Jack Straw at his Execution The Murder of King Hen. 6. and likewise of Edw. 5. and his Brother by Richard 3. called Crook-back The Insurrection in London in King Henry 8. time and how 411 Men and Women went through the City in their shifts and Ropes about their Necks to Westiminster-Halt where they were pardoned by the King with several other Remarks to this Year 1681. and a description of the manner of the Tryal of the late Lord Strafford in Westminster-Hall Illustrated with Pictures with the Arms of the 65 Companies of London and the time of their Incorporating Prince One Shilling VIII THe Fourth Edition of the Wars in Engand Scotland and Ireland being near a third part enlarged with very considerable Additions containing an Impartial Account of all the Battles Sieges and other Remarkable Transactions Revolutions and Accidents which have happened from the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First 1625. to His Majesties Happy Restauration 1660. And among other particulars the Debates and Proceedings in the Four first Parliaments of King Charles 1. The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham by Felton The Tumults at Edenburgh in Scotland The Insurrection of the Apprentices and Seamen and their assaulting of A. B. Lauds House at Lambeth Remarks on the Life of the E. of Strafford and his last Speech The Death of Arch-Bishop Laud Duke Hamilton Lord Capel Mr. Love Dr. Hewet and others The illegal Tryal of King Charles ●●at large with his last Speech at his Suffering And the most considerable matters which happened till 1660. with Pictures of several remarkable Accidents Price One Shilling IX THE Young Mans Calling or the whole Duty of Youth in a serious and compassionate Address to all young Persons to remember their Creator in the days of their Youth Together with Remarks upon the Lives of several excellent Young Persons of both Sexes as well ancient as modern who have been famous for Virtue and Piety in their Generations namely on the Lives of Isaac and Joseph in their youth On the Martyrdom of seven Sons and their Mother and of Romanus a young Nobleman with the invincible courage of a Child of seven years old who was martyred On the Martyrdom of divers holy Virgins and Martyrs On the Life of that blessed Prince King Edw. 6. with his ingenious Letter to his Godfather A. 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A Guide to Eternal Glory or brief Directons to all Christians how to attain Everlasting Salvation to which is added A Dialogue between a Divine and a Beggar Questions for dayly self-Examination Spiritual Hymns upon the Blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper Beams of the Spirit or Cordial Meditations enlivening and enlightning the Soul recommended by Joseph Caryl Price Six Pence All Ten sold by Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1683. FINIS * Observing the Writers * Looking towards M. Bolton * Pointing to the Bl 〈…〉 k.