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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74820	King Charls his speech made upon the scaffold at Whitehall-Gate, immediately before his execution, on Tuesday the 30 of Ian. 1648. VVith a relation of the maner of his going to execution. / Published by special authority.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1649 (1649)	Wing C2792; Thomason E540_17; ESTC R206023	4,493	17

freely and cleerly heard For the King indeed I will not then turning to a Gentleman that touched the Ax said Hurt not the Ax that may hurt me * Meaning if he did blunt the edg For the King The Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns My Own particular I onely give you a touch of it For the people And truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any Body whomsoever but I must tell you That their Liberty and their Freedom consists in having of Government those Laws by which their Life and their Goods may be most their own It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore until they do that I mean That you do put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs It was for this that now I Am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge That I Am the Martyr of the People In troth Sirs I shall not hold you much longer for I will Onely say this to you That in truth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me. I have delivered my Conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation Doctor Juxon Will Your Majesty though it may be very well known Your Majesties Affections to Religion yet it may be expected that You should say somewhat for the Worlds satisfaction King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it In troth Sirs My Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the Profession of the Church of ENGLAND as I found it left Me by My Father and this honest man Pointing to Dr. Juxon I think will witness it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs excuse me for this same I have a good Cause and I have a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Colonel Hacker he said Take care that they do not put Me to pain and Sir this and it please you But then a Gentleman coming neer the Ax the King said Take heed of the Ax pray take heed of the Ax. Then the King speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out My hands Then the King called to Doctor Iuxon for His Night-Cap and having put it on He said to the Executioner Does My Hair trouble you Who desired Him to put it all under His Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop then the King turning to Doctor Iuxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Doctor Juxon There is but one Stage more This Stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one But You may consider it will soon carry You a very great way it will carry You from Earth to Heaven and there You shall finde a great deal of Cordial Joy and Comfort King I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the World Doctor Juxon You are exchanged from a Temporal to an eternal Crown a good exchange The King then said to the Executioner is My Hair well Then the King took off His Cloak and His George giving His George to Doctor Iuxon saying Remember * It is thought for to give it to the Prince Then the King put off His Dublet and being in His Wastecoat put His Cloak on again then looking upon the block said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King It might have been a little higher Executioner It can be no higher Sir King When I put out my hands this way Stretching them out then After that having said two or three words as he stood to Himself with hands and eyes lift up Immediately stooping down laid His Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King said * Thinking he had bin going to strike Stay for the signe Executioner Yes I will and it please Your Majesty And after a very little pawse the King stretching forth his hands The Executioner at one blow severed his head from his Body That when the Kings head was cut off the Executioner held it up and shewed it to the Spectators And his Body was put in a Coffin covered with black Velvet for that purpose The Kings Body now lies in His Lodging Chamber in Whitehall Sic transit gloria mundi FINIS