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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

bloud which is here spilt may be even the last which may fall among us and truly I should lay down mylife with as much chearfulness as ever person did if I conceived that there would no more bloud follow us for a State or Affairs that are built upon bloud is a foundation for the most part that doth not prosper After the blessing that I give to the Nation to the Kingdom and truly to the Parliament I do wish with all my heart happinesse and a blessing to all those that have been authors in this businesse and truly that have been authors in this very work that bringeth us hither I do not onely forgive them but I pray heartily and really for them as God will forgive my sins so I desire God may forgive them I have a particular relation as I am Chancellour of Cambridge and truly I must here since it is the last of my prayers pray to God that that University may go on in that happy way which it is in that God may make it a Nursery to plant those persons that may be distributed to the Kingdome that the souls of the people may receive a great benefit and a great advantage by them and I hope God will reward them for their kindnesse and their affections that I have found from them * I have said what Religion I have been bred in what Religion I have been borne in what Religion I have practised I began with it and I must end with it I told you that my actions and my life have not been agreeable to my breeding I have told you likewise that the family where I was bred hath been an exemplary family I may say so I hope without vanity of much affection to Religion and of much faithfulnesse to this Kingdome and to this State I have indeavoured to do those actions that have become an honest man and which became a good Englishman and which became a good Christian I have been willing to oblige those that have been in trouble those that have been in persecution and truly I find a great reward of it for I have found their prayers and their kindnesse now in this distresse and in this condition I am in and I thinke it a great reward and I pray God reward them for it I am a great sinner and I hope God will be pleased to heare my prayers to give me faith to trust in him that as he hath called me to death at this place he will make it but a passage to an eternall life through Jesus Christ which I trust to which I rely upon and which I expect by the mercy of God And so I pray God blesse you all and send that you may see this to be the last execution and the last bloud that is likely to bee spilt among you And then turning to the side-raile he prayed for a good space of time after which M. Bolton said My Lord Now look upon him whom you have trusted My Lord I hope that here is your last prayer there will no more praiers remain but praises And I hope that after this day is over there will a day begin that shall never have end And I look upon this my Lord the morning of it the morning of that day My Lord you know where your fulnesse lies where your riches lie where is your onely rocke to anchor on You know there is fulnesse in Christ If the Lord comes not in with fulnesse of comfort to you yet resolve to wait upon him while you live and to trust in him when you die and then say I will die here I will perish at thy feet I will be found dead at the feet of Jesus Christ Certainly he that came to seek and save lost sinners will not reject lost sinners when they come to seek him Hee that intreateth us to come will not sleight us when we come to intreat him My Lord there is enough there and fix your heart there and fix your eyes there that eye of Faith and that eye of hope exercise these graces now there will be no exercise hereafter As your Lordship said here take an end of Faith and take an end of Hope and take a farewell of Repentance and all these and welcome God and welcome Christ and welcome Glory and welcome Happinesse to all Eternity and so it will be a happy passage then if it bee a passage here from misery to happinesse And though it be but a sad way yet if it will bring you into the presence of joy although it be a valley of tears although it be a shadow of death yet if God will please to bring you and make it a passage to that happinesse welcome Lord And I doubt not but God will give you a heart to taste some sweetnesse and love in this bitter potion and to see somthing of mercy and goodnesse to you and shew you some signe and token of good so that your soule may see that which we have had already experience of blessed be God for it many experiences many expressions not onely in words but tears God hath not left us without much comfort nor evidence and I hope my Lord you that have given so many evidences to us I hope you want none your selfe but that the Lord will be pleased to uphold and support you and bear up your spirit and if there want evidence there is reliance my security lies not in my knowing that I shall come to heaven and come to glory but in my resting and relying upon him When the Anchor of Faith is throwne out there may be shakings and tossings but there is safety nothing shall interrupt safety although somthing may interrupt security my safety is sure although I apprehend it not and what if I go to God in the dark what if I come to him as Nicodemus did staggering in the night It is a night of trouble a night of darknesse though I come trembling and staggering in this night yet I shall be sure to find comfort fixednesse in him And the Lord of heaven be the strength stay and the support of your soul and the Lord furnish you with all those graces which may carry you into the bosome of the Lord Jesus that when you expire this life you may be able to expire it into him in whom you may begin to live to all eternity and that is my humble prayer Holland M. Bolton God hath given me long time in this world he hath carried me through many great accidents of Fortune he hath at last brought me down into a condition where I find my self brought to an end for a disaffection to this State to this Parliament that as I said before I did believe no body in the world more unlikely to have expected to suffer for that Cause I look upon it as a great judgment of God for my sins And truly Sir since that the death is violent I am the lesse troubled with it because of those

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

hee hath the words of eternall life and upou him do you rest waite while you live and even trust in Death Holland Here must now be my Anchor a great Storm makes me finde my anchor and but in storms no body trust to their anchor and therefore I must trust upon my anchor Upon that God said Mr. Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts yea God I hope will anchor my Soul fast upon Christ Jesus and if I dye not with that clearness and that heartiness that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will relie upon him and in the Mercy of my Savior Bolton There is Mercy enough my Lord and to spare you shall not need to doubt they shall never go begging to another door my Lord that come to him Then the Earl of Holland speaking to Mr. Hodges said I pray God reward you for all your kindeness and pray as you have done instruct my Family that they may serve God with faithfulness with holiness with more diligence then truly I have been careful to press them unto You have the charge of the same place you may do much for them and I recommend them to your kindeness and the goodness of your Conscience Dr. Sybald standing by upon the Scaffold in his passage to Col Beecher expressed himself thus to his Lordship Dr. Sybald The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and you shall be safe Holland Then the Earl of Holland embraced Lieut Col Beecher and took his leave of him After which he came to Mr. Bolton and having embraced him and returned him many thanks for his great pains and affections to his soul desiring God to reward him and return his love into his bosom Mr. Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great extremity The Lord reveal and discover himself to you and make your death the passage unto eternal life Holland Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Here my friend let my Clothes and my Body alone there is Ten pounds for thee that is better then my Clothes I am sure of it Executioner Will your Lordship please to give me a Sign when I shall strike And then his Lordship said You have room enough here have you not and the Executioner said Yes Bolton The Lord be your strength there is riches in him The Lord of Heaven impart himself to you he is able to save to the uttermost We cannot fall so low as to fall below the everlasting Arms of God and therefore the Lord be a support and stay to you in your low condition that he will be pleased to make this an advantage to that Life and glory that will make amends for all Holland Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Friend do you hear me if you take up my Head do not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants he said to one Fare you well thou art an honest fellow and to another God be with thee thou art honest man and then said Stay I will kneel down and ask God forgiveness and then prayed for a pretty space with seeming earnestness Bolton The Lord grant you may finde life in death Holland Which is the way of lying which they shewed him And then going to the front of the Scaffold he said to the People God bless you all and God deliver you from any such accident as may bring you to any such death as is violent either by War or by these accidents but that there may be Peace among you and you may finde that these accidents that have hapned to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdom it is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my Soul I pray God give all happiness to this Kingdom to this People and this Nation and then turning to the Executioner said How must I lie I know not Executioner Lie down flat upon your belly and then having laid himself down he said Must I lie closer Executioner Yes and backwarder Holland I will tell you when you shall strike and then as he lay seemed to pray with much affection for a short space and then lifting up his head said Where is the man and seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the Sign and presently after stretching out his hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now and just as the words were coming out of his mouth the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body The execution of the Lord of Holland being thus performed the Lord Capel was brought to the Scaffold as the former and in the way to the Scaffold he put off his Hat to the people on both sides looking very austerely about him And being come upon the Scaffold Lieut Col Beecher said to him Is your Chaplain here Capel No I have taken my leave of him and perceiving some of his servants to weep he said Gentlemen refrain your selves refrain your selves and turning to Lieut Col Beecher he said What did the Lords speak with their Hats off or on Lieut Col Beecher With their Hats off And then coming to the front of the Scaffold he said I shall hardly be understood here I think and then began his Speech as followeth Capel THe conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the cause of this violent death of mine shall be the beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much sincerity That I would pray to the God of all mercies that they might be partakers of his inestimable and boundless mercies in Jesus Christ and truly I still pray that Prayer and I beseech the God of Heaven forgive any injury they have done to me from my soul I wish it And truly this I tell you as a Christian to let you see I am a Christian but it is necessary I should tell you somewhat more That I am a Protestant And truly I am a Protestant and very much in love with the profession of it after the maner as it was established in England by the Thirty nine Articles a blessed way of profession and such a one as truly I never knew none so good I am so far from being a Papist which some body have truly very unworthily at some time charged me withal that truly I profess to you that though I love good works and commend good works yet I hold They have nothing at all to do in the matter of Salvation my Anchor-hold is this That Christ loved me and gave himself for me that is that that I rest upon And truly something I shall say to you as a Citizen of the whole world and in that consideration I am here condemned to dye Truly contrary to the Law that governs all the world that is The Law of the Sword I had the