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A86997	The several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. Also the several exhortations, and conferences with them, upon the scaffold, by Dr Sibbald, Mr Bolton, & Mr Hodges. Published by special authority.	Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.; Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing H482; Thomason E546_21; ESTC R202512	23,521	45

THE SEVERAL SPEECHES OF Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg Henry Earl of Holland and Arthur Lord Capel Upon the SCAFFOLD Immediately before their EXECUTION On Friday the 9. of March Also the several Exhortations and Conferences with them upon the SCAFFOLD by Dr Sibbald Mr Bolton Mr Hodges Published by special Authority LONDON Printed for Peter Cole Francis Tyton and John Playford 164● The several Speeches of Earl of Cambridg the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capel upon the Scaffold c. UPon Friday the ninth of this instant being the day appointed for the Execution of the sentence of Death upon the Earl of Cambridg 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 voyded 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 Minister 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 Hal-Gate in the sight of the place where the High Court of Justice formerly sate the Hal-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 neer the Scaffold he was met by the Undersheriff of Middlesex and a Guard of his men who took the charge of him from Lieut. 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 Cambridg being come upon the Scaffold and two of his own servants waiting upon him he first spake to the Doctor as followeth Earl of Cambridg Whether shall I pray first Dr Sibbald As Your Lordship pleases Earl of Cambridg My Lord of Denbigh has sent to speak with me I know not the fashion I may ask you Sir Do these 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 Cambridg 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 Cambridg He is my Brother and has been a very faithful Servant to this 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 Dr 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 dye the Blood of Iesus 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 beleeved in him should not perish but have everlasting life that is now my Lord the Rock upon which you must chiefly rest and labor to fix your self in the free mercy of God through Christ Iesus whose mercies are from everlasting to everlasting unto all such as with the eye of Faith behold him behold Iesus the Author and Finisher of your Salvation who hath satisfied the Iustice of God by that Al-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 Beleevers 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 Iesus that will carry us through and above all those waves to that Rock of ages which no flood 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 labor to behold Iesus standing 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 Alass 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 that waits upon every condition whether publique or private in every station and calling there are several miseries and troubles that are inseparable from them therefore what a blessed thing it is to have a speedy and comfortable passage out of this raging Sea into the Port of everlasting Happiness We must pass through a Sea but it is the Sea of Christs Blood in which never soul suffered shipwrack in which we must be blown with winds and tempests but they are the Gales of Gods Spirit upon us which blow away all contrary winds of diffidence in his Mercy Here one acquainting the Earl his servant was coming he answered So Sir And turning to the under Sheriffs son said Cambridg Sir have you your Warrant here Sheriff Yes my Lord we have a Command Cambridg A Command I take this time Sir of staying in regard of the Earl of Denbighs sending to speak with me I know not for what it is he desires me to stay Dr Sibbald I presume Mr Sheriff will not grudg your Lordship a few minutes time when so great a work as this is

certainely when sinners come hee will not reject bee will not refuse And my Lord doe but think of this the greatest work that ever was done in the World was the blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it and this blood of Christ that was shed was shed for them that come if not for them for none it was in vaine else you see the Divells they are out of capacity of good by it the Angels they have no need of it wicked men will not come and there are but a few that come over and should hee denie them there were no end nor fruit of the blood and sufferings of the Lord Jesus and had your Lordship beene with Christ in that bloody agony when hee was in that bloody sweat sweating drops of blood if you had asked him Lord what art thou now a doing art thou not now reconciling an angry God and me together art thou not pacifying the wrath of God art thou not interposing thy selfe betweene the Justice of God and my soule Would hee not have said yea and surely then hee will not deny it now My Lord his passions are over his compassions still remaine and the larger and greater because hee is gone up into a higher place that ●ee may throw downe more abundance of his mercy and grace upon you and my Lord think of that infinite love that abundance of riches in Christ I am lost I am empty I have nothing I am poore I am sinfull be it so as bad as God will make me and as vile as I possibly can conceive my self I am willing to be but when I have said all the more I advance that riches and honor that grace of God And why should I doubt when by this he puts me into a capacity into a disposition for him to shew me mercy that by this I may the better advance the riches of his grace say grace grace to the Lord to all eternity that God should owne such a Creature that deserves nothing and the lesse I deserve the more conspicuous is his Grace and this is certaine the riches of his Grace hee throweth amongst men that the glory of his Grace might be given to himselfe If wee can give him but the glory of his Grace wee shall never doubt to partake of the riches of it and that fulnesse My Lord that fulnesse bee your comfort that fulnesse of mercy that fulnesse of love that fulnesse of righteousnesse and power bee now your riches and your only stay and the Lord interpose himselfe between God and you as your Faith bath endeavored to interpose him between God and your soule so I doubt not but there he stands my Lord to plead for you and when you are not able to do any thing your selfe yet lie downe at the feet of him that is a mercifull Saviour and knowes what you would desire and wait upon him while you live trust in him when you die there is riches enough and mercy enough if hee open not yet die at his doore say their I 'le die there is mercy enough Holland And here is the place where I lie down before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an eternall Glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom only I can expect mercy into his Armes I commend my spirit into his bleeding Armes that when I leave this bleeding body that must lie upon this place he will receive that soule that ariseth out of it and receive it into his eternall mercy through the merits through the worthinesse through the mediation of Christ that hath purchased it with his own most precious blood Bolton My Lord Though you conclude here I hope you begin above and though you put an end here I hope there will never be an end of the mercy and goodnesse of God and if this be the morning of Eternity if this be the rise of Glory if God pleaseth to throw you down here to raise you up for ever say Welcome Lord welcome that death that shall make way for life and welcome any condition that shall throw me down here to bring me into the possession of Jesus Christ Hodges My Lord If you have made a Deed of Gift of your selfe to Jesus Christ to bee found only in him I am confident you shall stand at the day of Christ My dear Lord we shall meet in happinesse Holland Christ Jesus receive my soule my soule hungers and thirsts after him cloud are gathering and I trust in God through all my heavinesse and I hope through all impediments he will settle my Interest in him and throw off all the claime that Sathan can make unto it and that he will carry my soule in dispight of all the calumnies and all that the Devi'l and Satan can invent will carry it into eternall mercy there to receive the blessednesse of his presence to all Eternity Hodges My Lord it was his own by Creation it is his own now by Redemption and purchase and it is likewise his own by resignation O my Lord look therefore up to the Lamb of God that sits at the right hand of God to take away the sinnes of the World O that Lamb of God! Holland That Lamb of God into his hands I commit my soule and that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to Judge those 24 that fall downe before him I hope hee will bee pleased to look downeward and judge me with mercy that fall downe before him and that worship him and that adore him that onely ttusts upon his mercy for his compassion and that as he hath purchased me he would lay his claime unto me now and receive me Bolton My Lord think of this there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ who is it that can condemn it is Christ that justifies and therefore look now upon this My Lord upon this Christ upon this Christ that justifies Hell Death Sinne Sathan nothing shall be able to condemne it is Christ that justifies you Holland Indeed if Christ justify no body can condemne and I trust in God in his justification though there is confusion here without us and though there are wonders and staring that now disquiet yet I trust that I shall be caried into that mercy that God will receive my soule Bolton I doubt not my Lord but as you are a Spectacle and of pitty here so you are an object of Gods mercy above Holland Then the Earle of Holland looking over among the people pointing to a Souldier sayd This honest man took me prisoner you little thought I should have beene brought to this when I delivered my selfe to you upon conditions and espying Captaine Watson on horse back putting off his hat sayd to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Bolton My Lord throw your selfe into the Armes of mercy and say there I will Anchor and there J will die he is a Saviour for us in all conditions whither should wee goe