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A84037	The last speeches and confession of the Lord Maguire: the Irish rebell, that was hanged at Tyburne, and drawne, and quartered on Thursday last, the 20th. of February, 1644. With all the questions that were put to him, and his severall answers. And the coppies of those letters, and other papers which he then had in his hands and made use of, that were afterwards delivered to Sheriffe Gibbs. And his directory from the Romish priests that gave him notice by the said papers to know them, in passing to Tiburne with him; also his severall absolutions secretly given him, and all other passages at his death. Printed and published according to order.	Enniskillen, Connor Maguire, Baron of, 1616-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing E3128A; Thomason E270_19; ESTC R212340	9,841	21

of Execution Most loving Sir MY Master his Coach shall wait on you infallibly That day your friend William shall go by the Coach all the way upon a red horse with a white hat and in a gray jacket We may see what need there is that the Officers of Prisons that looke to the Prisons be purged and then you cannot choose by the grace of God but to know the Coach of two whitish gray horses and then you may doe or shew that token only as to lift up to your face your hand nodding or inclining down your head and there shall go two or three divers Coaches for the same purpose and bee sure to have plenary Physicke as you desire I send you this holy stone by the vertue whereof you may gaine a plenary Physicke in saying any certain prayer I beseech you deare Sir be of good courage for you shall not want any thing for that happie journey and offer you your selfe wholly for him who did the same for you Pray earnestly for your Country and for your own sonnes that God may prosper them I do humbly intreat you to pray for me Yours own poore afflicted servant Your poore Gray This was in the margin of the Letter as it were a postscript You shall do well to send your letters to morrow to that young man that comes to me and the wooden Crosse that I have sent there of late I beseech you send me word whether the Reliquary that came along with those two Crosses was your or your companions * Macmohan Hugh These words following were in an Irish Character Mo mhile beannacht chugad a mhic mhanma In English My thousand blessings unto you son of my soule This following was in a paper in Latin being as it seems the advice of his Confessour to him which is here translated BEloved son in Christ believe almighty God who governes all the world by his eternall providence hath appointed this way to thy salvation and this manner of death though he could have brought thee to the land of blesse by another way knew this to be more expedient Therefore my son thou shouldest suffer this glorious kinde of death which thy God hath ordained for thee with an elevated mind yea thou shouldest desire it certainly this kind of death is a great mercy of God Is it not a speciall gift of God to have a certaine time of sorrow and repentance for offences committed O with how great a desire did the Kingly Prophet David wish that he might know the length of his dayes expostulating thus with God Make me O Lord to know my end and the number of my days This kind of death is granted to many Psal 36. who rather with a perverse mind with an improvident death falt to suffer everlasting punishment David being weary of the miseries and dangers of the present life said Woe is me because my pilgrimage is prolonged as if the time of his banishment seemed long besides Paul sayes O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. 7. And out of a desire of living in the land of the living he said I desire to be dissolved Plil 1. and to bee with Christ Therefore my Lord beare this death which now hangs over your head with a quiet mind● for Christ died for you therefore fervently meditate with the eyes of your heart upon this bitter death of Christ and his torments See These Lines following were written on the back-side of the paper part of it being before come and no more brought by him then what is here his kingdome shall move thee and sar into thy hands I commend my spirit Thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth Thou hast created me oh my God Thou hast redeemed me O most holy Father I am all thine let thy will be done in me illuminate mine eyes that I may never sleep in death Thou shalt invocate blessed Mary for thy helper saying Mary the Mother of grace the Mother of mercy do thou protect us from the enemy and receive us in the houre of death thou shalt invocate also Saint Michael the Archangell and the Angell thy keeper and the holy Patrons And lastly all the Saints that they may intercede for thee and helpe thee with their prayers and merits thou shalt also recite these words O Lord Jesus Christ I believe that thou art my God and my Redeemer and I firmely believe whatsoever the holy catholike Church propounds to be believed and professe that I will live and die in this faith It grieves me that I have offended so great goodnesse and it grieves mee that I can grieve no more for my offences committed against thee my Creatour and Saviour in thought word and deed and by omission and I humbly beseech thee to pardon me by thy bloud which thou hast powred out for my salvation and if I have forgot any thing which hath offended thy Majesty or do not know it I desire to know it and repent of it And in the meane time I ask forgivenesse of all and likewise for thy sake doe from my heart passe by all offences whereby others have offended me Also I pray them to forgive me if I have detained any thing from any man my heires shal make restitution to them to whom ought is due CRede dilecte in Christo fili Deum optimum maximum qui mundum hunc universum aeterna quadam mentis provisione moderatur hanc salutis turewam hunc modu moriendi statuisse qui quidem quamvis te ad foelicitatis patriam alio tramite ducere potuisset magis hoc tibi expedire praecognovit Ergo mi fili hoc genus gloriosum mo●tis quod Dominus Deus sic tibi ordinavit erecto animo perferas quinetiam cxoptes Certe hujusmodi mors magnum Der beneficium est nonne speciase donum Dei est habere certum tempus dolendi poenitendi de offensis commissis contra suam divinam Majestatem O quanto desiderio expostulavit sibi dari certum notum vitae suae spatium regius Propheta David expostulans a Deo sic Notum fac mihi Domine finem meum numerum drerum meorum Hoc genus mortis enim quāplurimis est concessum qui perverso potius animo improvisa morte ceciderunt poenas daturi sempiternas David pertaesus miserias pericula praesentis vitae dicebat Heu mihi quia incolatus meus prolongatus est quasi longum illi videretur tempus cxilii Beatus Paulus dicebat Infelix ego quis me liberabit à corpore mortis hujus Et ex desiderio vivendi in terra viventium dicebat Cupio dissolui esse cum Christo Ideo mi Domine hanc mortem quae tibi jam imminet aquo animo pro Christo acerbiter pro te mortuo seras Hanc amariffimam Christi mortem tormenta caeteras oculis tui cordis serventer meditare Vide These Lines

The last Speeches AND CONFESSION OF THE Lord Maguire The Jrish REBELL that was Hanged at Tyburne and Drawne and Quartered on Thursday last the 20th of February 1644. With all the Questions that were put to him and his severall Answers And the Coppies of those Letters and other Papers which he then had in his hands and made use of that were afterwards delivered to Sheriffe Gibbs And his Directory from the Romish Priests that gave him notice by the said papers to know them in passing to Tiburne with him Also his severall Absolutions secretly given him and all other passages at his death Printed and Published according to Order Imprinted at London by Iane Coe The last speeches and confession of the Lord Maguire the Irish Rebell On Thursday Feb. 20. the Lord Maguire was drawne upon a sledge from the Tower of London through the citie unto Tyburne which being c●●●e and the cart set ready he kneeled upon the sledge and prayed for sometime after which the Sheriffe spake to him as followeth viz. Sheriffe Gibs MY Lord Maguire It is now the last Declaration you are like to make in this world Here you stand justly condemned to be executed for a very hainous crime as is not paraleld by any History that was ever mentioned in the Christian world taking all circumstances and their manner of proceedings if you have done this that you have done without any confession why then certainly you have much innocent blood lies upon you and much to answer for at the judgement Seat of God It is one of the ten Commandments Thou shalt not kill There are many thousands yea I may say hundred of thousands whose blood you your complices have taken away Men and women and children such as you never saw such as never did you any injury and not onely so but they were your fellow Subjects and were of the same cohabitation with you you have now to answer for all this as 't was a confederacy wherein you were ingaged My Lord you have been an ingenious man as I have been told you have been bred in Magdalene Colledge in Oxford where you took the oath of Allegiance to our Soveraign Lord the King contrary to this oath you took upon you to surprize His Castles and slay his subjects without any Commission as you declare your selfe therefore now make some acknowledgement and give us the best satisfaction that you can that you doe hold it a very grievous sinne and that you are heartily sorry for it Maguire God Almighty forgive me Sher. Sir we desire you before this people here to expresse your sence of those horrid actions Maguire I desire Almighty God to forgive me my fi●●● Sheriffe Gibs Doe you beleeve you did well in those wicked actions Mag. I have but a short time doe not trouble me Sher. Gibs Sir It is just I should trouble you that you may not be troubled for ever Mag. I beseech you Sir trouble me not I have but a little time to spend Sher. Gibs Sir I shall give you as much time after as you shall spend to give satisfaction to the people I doe require you as an instrument set in Gods stead here to make an acknowledgement to the people whether you are sorry for what you have done or no Whether it be good or no Maguire I beseech you doe not trouble me Sheriffe I have told you I would give you as much time afterward as I shall take up Mag. I am not disposed to give you any Account Doctor Sibbalds If the blood of one Man of Abel cried to heaven for vengeance how much more shall the blood of many thousands Oh give glory to God by confession of your sinnes never any perished for want of mercy Christ Jesus is full of mercy Make a faithfull and humble confession and there is pardon with God God pardoned Manasseh the greatest Idolater that ever was the sea of his Mercy is bottomelesse Mag. Pray give me leave to pray Doctor Sibbalds Give glory to God that your soul may not be presented to God with the blood of so many thousand people Sheriffe You are either to goe to heaven or hell if you not make an ingenious confession your case is desperate Had you any commission or no. Mag. I tell you that there was no Commission that ever I saw Doctor Sib. How then doe you think to escape the judgement of the great God when you shall live and die in such an outragious sinne as this is Sher. Who were actors or plotters with you or gave you any Commission Mag. For God sake give me leave that I may depart in p●●ce D. Sib. There is no dissembling now you are with in a few min●●s to be presented before the Tribu●●●ll of that great Judge who will reward every man according to their deeds There is mercy with God the penitent received mercy at the houre of death Christ Jesus Armes are still open with mercy for the penitent Sher. Had you not some pardon or Bull from the Pope for what you did I desire you as a Minister of God to declare the truth Mag. I am not of the same Religion with you Doct. Sib. All your Religions agree in that without confession there is no salvation Alder. Bunch My Lord Be pleased to remember that text in the Revelation of the soules that lie under the Altar crying for God to avenge their blood those souls that are in heaven now where your soul must go or else go to hell Pray therefore That God would give you a reall and unfained repentance for all your sinnes Beleeve that there is a God will bring vengeance upon you if you confesse not Doe you know of any Bull or pardon Mag. I saw none of it All that I knew of I delivered in my examinations Sher. Have you any pardon from the Pope Mag. I saw none Doct. Sib. I beseech you my Lord in the name of God to discover the truth Mag. What will you have me to speak Sher. What inducements moved you to it Mag. All that I said in my examinations are true all that I said is right I beseech you Let me depart in peace Sher. What grounds moved you first to attempt this Mag. I have delivered all this in my examination Gentlemen I beseech you to let me depart in peace Sher. Whither was that a sin or no to shed so much innocent blood Mag. For Gods sake Gentlemen I have Sher. Sir will you die like a stock will you go to hell without mercy and not acknowledge your sorrowfulnesse for that foul crime D. Sib. Do you think a Jesuit will pardon you when you will not confesse The question is whether your Honour do think you did well or ill in this bloody Act Here he answered not but continued mumbling over a paper as he had done from his coming whereupon it being asked what the paper was Sher. It is a Directory for his Devotion D. Sib. You are going to hell or