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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61726	The two last speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and deputy of Ireland the one in the Tower, the other on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12th, 1641.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5800; ESTC R9625	6,309	11

doe it with a very quiet and contented minde I doe freely forgive all the world a forgivenesse that is not spoken from the teeth outward as they say but from the heart I speake it in the presence of Almightie God before whom I stand that there is not so much as a displeasing thought in me arising to any creature I thank God I may say truly and my conscience beares mee witnesse that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majestie in any employment I never had any thing in my heart but the joynt and individuall prosperitie of King and people if it have beene my hap to be misconstrued it is the common proportion of us all while we are in this life the righteous judgement is hereafter here we are subject to errour and apt to bee mis-judged one of another there is one thing I desire to cleere my selfe of and I am verie confident I speake it with so much clearnesse that I hope I shall have your Christian charitie in the beleefe of it I did alwayes ever thinke the Parliaments of England were the happiest Constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under and under God the meanes of making King and people happie so far have I beene from being against Parliaments for my death J here acquit all the world and pray God heartily to forgive them and in particular my Lord Primate I am verie glad that his Majestie is pleased to conceive mee not meriting so severe and heavie a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I am verie glad and infinitely rejoyce in this mercie of his beseech God to turne it to him that hee may finde mercy when he hath most need of it I wish this Kingdome all the prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I doe now professe it from my heart and do most humbly recommend it unto every man here and wish every man to lay his hand upon his heart and consider seriously whither the beginning of the happinesse of a people should be written in letters of blood I feare you are in a wrong way and I desire Almighty God that no one drop of my blood may rise up in judgment agaynst you My Lord of Armagh I professe my selfe a Protestant and a true and obedient Son to the Church of England to that Church wherein I was borne and wherein I was bred prosperity and happinesse be ever to it and whereas it hath beene sayd that I have enclin'd to Popery if it be an objection worth answering let me say truly that from the time since I was one and twenty yeares of age till this houre now going upon nine forty I never had thought in my heart to doubt of the truth of my Religion nor to my best memory durst any ever profer it any kind whatsoever and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Iesus my Saviour into whose bosome I hope shortly to bee gathered to enjoy those eternall happinsses that shall never have end I desire hartily the forgivenesse of every man both for any rash or unadvised word or deed and desire your prayers And so my Lords farwel farwell all things of this world Lord strengthen my faith give me confidence and assurance in the merits of Christ Iesus I desire you that you would be silent and ioyne in Prayers with me and for me and I trust in God that we shall all meet and live eternally in Heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happines where every teare shall bee wiped from our eyes and every say thought from our hearts And so God bless● this Kingdom and Iesus have mercy upon my Soule FINIS