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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

as that may be done which shall tend to his glory and the peace and happinesse of the kingdom I have not much more to say that I remember of I think I have spoken of my Religion Dr. Sibbald Your Lordship his not so fully said it Camb. Truly I do believe I did say something Dr Sibbald I know you did 't is pleasing to heare it from your Lordship againe Cambr. Truly Sir for the profession of my Religion that which I said was the established Religion and that which I have practised in my owne Kingdome where I was borne and bred my Tenents they need not to be exprest they are knowne to all and I am not of a rigid opinion many godly men there is that may have scruples which doe not concerne me at all at no time they may differ in Opinion and more now then at any time differing in Opjnion does not move me not any mans my owne is cleare Sir The Lord forgive me my sinnes and I forgive freely all those that even I might as a worldly man have the greatest animosity against We are bidden to forgive Sir T is a command laid upon us and there mentioned Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us Dr. Sibbald 'T is our Saviours rule love your enemies blesse them that curse you pray for them that persecute you do good to them which despightfully use you Cambr. Sir it is high time for me to make an end of this and truly I remember no more that I have to say but to pray to God Almighty a few words and then I have done Then kneeling downe with Doctor Sibbald he Prayed thus Most Blessed Lord I thy poore and most unworthy servant come unto thee presuming in thy infinite mercy and the merits of Jesus Christ who sits upon the Throne I come flying from that of Justice to that of Mercy and tendernesse for his sake which shed his bloud for sinners that he would take compassion upon me that he will look upon me as one that graciously hears me that he would look upon me as one that hath redeemed me that he would look upon me as one that hath shed his bloud for me that he would look upon me as one who now cals and hopes to be saved by his al-sufficient merits for his sake Glorious God have compassion upon me in the freenesse of thy infinite mercy that when this sinfull soule of mine shall depart out of this fraile carcase of clay I may be carried into thy everlasting glory O Lord by thy free grace and out of thy infinite mercy heare me and look downe and have compassion upon me and thou Lord Jesus thou my Lord and thou my God and thou my Redeemer heare me take pitie upon me take pitie upon me gracious God and so deale with my soule that by thy precious merits I may attaine to thy joy and blisse O Lord remember me so miserable and sinfull a creature now thou O Lord thou O Lord that died for me receive me and receive me into thy owne bound of mercy O Lord I trust in thee suffer me not now to be confounded Satan has had too long possession of this soule O let him not now prevaile against it but let me O Lord from henceforth dwell with thee for evermore Now Lord it is thy time to heare me heare me gracious Jesus even for thy owne goodnesse mercy and truth O glorious God O blessed Father O holy Redeemer O gracious Comforter O holy and blessed Trinity I do render up my soule into thy hands and commit it with the mediation of my Redeemer praising thee for all thy dispensations that it has pleased thee to conferre upon me and even for this praise and honour and thanks of this time forth for ever more Dr. Sibbald My Lord I trust you now behold with the eye of Faith the Son of righteousnesse shining upon your soul and will chearfully submit unto him who hath redeemed us through his bloud even the bloud of Jesus Christ that you may appeare at the Tribunal of God clothed with the white robe of his unspotted righteousnesse the Lord grant that with the eye of faith you may now see the heavens opened and Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive you into his armes of mercie Cambr. Then the Earle turning to the Executioner said shall J put on another Cap must this hair be turn'd up from my neck there are three of my servants to give satisfaction D. Sib. My Lord I hope you are able to give all that are about you satisfaction you are assured that God is reconciled unto you through the bloud of Christ Iesus and the Spirit of the Lord witnesseth to you that Christ is become now a Iesus unto you My Lord fasten the eyes of your faith upon Jesus the Author finisher of your salvation who himself was brought to a violent death for the redemption of mankind he chearfully submitted to his Fathers good pleasure in it and for us blessed and holy is he that has part my Lord in the first resurrection that is in the first riser Jesus Christ who is both the resurrection and the life over him the second death shall have no power t is the unspeakable joy of a beleever that at the houre of death his soule hath an immediate passage from this earthly Tabernacle to that Region of endlesse glory yea to the presence of God himselfe in whose presence there is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Then the E of Cambridge turning to the Executiooner said which way is it that you would have me lye Sir Execut The Executioner pointing to the front of the Scaffold the Earle replyed what my Head this way then the Under Sheriffs son said my Lord the Order is that you should lay your Head towards the High-Court of Iustice The Earl of Cambr. after a little discourse in private with some of his servants kneeled down on the side of the Scaffold and prayed a while to himself When he had finisht his prayers Dr. Sibbald spake to him thus My Lord I humbly beseech God that you may now with a holy and Christian courage give up your soul to the hand of your faithful Creator and gracious Redeemer and not be dismaied with any sad apprehension of the terrours of this death And what a blessed and glorious Exchange you shall make within a very few minutes Then with a cheerfull and smiling countenance the Earle embracing the Doctor in his Armes said Camb. Truly Sir I do take you in mine arms truly I blesse God for it I do not feare I have an assurance that is grounded here laying his hand upon his heart Now that gives me more true joy then ever J had J passe out of a miserable world to go into an eternall and glorious Kingdome and Sir though J have been a most sinfull creature yet Gods mercy

J know is infinite and J blesse my God for it J go with so cleare a conscience that J know not the man that J have personally injured D. Sib. My Lord it is a marveilous great satisfaction that at this last hour you can say so I beseech the Lord for his eternall mercy strengthen your faith that in the very moment of your dissolution you may see the armes of the Lord Iesus stretched out ready to receive your soule Then the Earl of Cambridge embracing those his servants which were there present said to each of them You have been very faithful to me and the Lord blesse you Camb. Then turning to the Executioner said I shall say a very short prayer to my God while I lie down there and when I stretch out my hand my right hand then sir do your duty and I do freely forgive you and so I do all the world Dr. Sibbald The Lord in great mercie go along with you and bring you to the possession of everlasting life strengthning your faith in Jesus Christ This is a passage my Lord a short passage unto eternal glory J hope through the free grace of your gracious God you are now able to say O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory and to make this comfortable answer Blessed be God blessed be God who hath given me an assurance of victory through Christ Jesus Then the E. of Cambridge said to the Executioner Must J lie all along Execut Yes and 't please your Lordship Camb. When I stretch out my hands but J will fit my Head first tell me if I be right and how you would have me lie Ex. Your shirt must be pind back for it lies too high upon your shoulders which was done accordingly Doctor Sibbald My Lord now now lift up your eyes unto Jesus Christ and cast your self now into the everlasting arms of your most gracious Redeemer Then the Earle having laid his head over the blocke said Is this right Doctor Sibbald Jesus the Son of David have mercy upon you Execut Lie a little lower Sir Camb. Well stay then till I give you the signe And so having laine a short space devoutly praying to himselfe he stretch'd out his right hand whereupon the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was received by two of his servants then kneeling by him into a Crimson Taffety Scarfe and that with the body immediately put into a Coffin brought upon the Scaffold for that purpose and from thence conveyed to the house that was Sir John Hamiltons at the Mewes where it now remains This execution being done the Sheriffes Guard went immediately to meet the Earl of Holland which they did in the mid way between the Scaffold and Westminster-Hall and the Under-Sheriffes sonne having received him into his charge conducted him to the Scaffold he taking M. Boulton all the way in his hand passed all along to the Scaffold discoursing together upon which being come observing his voice would not reach to the people in regard the Guard compassed the Scaffold he said Holland It is to no purpose I think to speak any thing here Which way must I speak And then being directed to the front of the Scaffold he leaning over the railes said I think it is fit to say something since God hath called me to this place The first thing which I must professe is what concernes my Religion and my breeding which hath been in a good Family that hath ever been faithfull to the true Protestant Religion in the which I have been bred in the which I have lived and in the which by Gods grace and mercy I shall die I have not lived according to that education I had in that Family where I was born and bred I hope God wil forgive me my sins since I conceive that it is very much his pleasure to bring me to this place for the sins that I have committed The cause that hath brought me hither I believe by many hath been much mistaken They have conceived that I have had ill designes to the State and to the Kingdome Truly I look upon it as a Judgement and a just Judgement of God not but I have offended so much the State and the Kingdome and the Parliament as that I have had an extream vanity in serving them very extraordinarily For those actions that I have done I think it is known they have been ever very faithfull to the publique and very particularly to Parliaments My affections have been ever exprest truly and clearly to them The dispositions of affairs now have put things in another posture then they were when I was ingaged with the Parliament I have never gone off from those Principles that ever I have professed I have lived in them and by Gods grace will die in them There may be alterations and changes that may carry them further then I thought reasonable and truly there I left them but there hath been nothing that I have said or done or professed either by Covenant or Declaration which hath not been very constant and very clear upon the principles that I ever have gone upon which was to serve the King the Parliament Religion I should have said in the first place the Common-Wealth and to seek the Peace of the Kingdome That made me think it no improper time being prest out by accidents and circumstances to seek the Peace of the Kingdome which I thought was proper since there was somthing then in agitation but nothing agreed on for seeding Propositions to the King that was the furthest aim that I had and truly beyond that I had no intention none at all And God be praised although my bloud comes to be shed here there was I think scarcely a drop of bloud shed in that action that I was ingaged in For the present affairs as they are I cannot tell how to judge of them and truly they are in such a condition as I conceive no body can make a judgement of them and therefore I must make use of my Prayers rather then of my opinion which are that God would blesse this Kingdome this Nation this State that he would settle it in a way agreeable to what this Kingdome hath been happily governed under by a King by the Lords by the Commons a Government that I conceive it hath flourished much under and I pray God the change of it bring not rather a prejudice a disorder and a confusion then the contrary I look upon the Posterity of the King and truly my Conscience directs me to it to desire that if God be pleased that these people may look upon them with that affection that they owe that they may be called in again and they may be not through bloud nor through disorder admitted again into that power and to that glory that God in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my soule for the happinesse of this State of this Nation that the

in hand His Lordships servant being returned and having delivered his Message to the Earl of Cambridg privately he said So it is done now and then turning to the front of the Scaffold before which as in all the rest of the pallace there was a great concourse of people he said Earl of Cambridg I think it is truly not very necessary for me to speak much there are many Gentlemen and Souldiers there that sees me but my voyce truly is so weak so low that they cannot hear me neither truly was I ever at any time so much in love with speaking or with any thing I had to express that I took delight in it yet this being the last time that I am to do so by a divine Providence of Almighty God who hath brought me to this end justly for my sins I shall to you Sir Mr Sheriff declare thus much as to the matter that I am now to suffer for which is as being a Traytor to the Kingdom of England Truly Sir it was a Country that I equally loved with my own I made no difference I never intended either the generality of its prejudice or any particular mans in it what I did was by the Command of the Parliament of the Country where I was born whose Commands I could not disobey without running into the same hazard there of that condition that I am now in The ends Sir of that Engagement is publique they are in Print and so I shall not need to specifie them Dr Sibbald The Sun perhaps will be too much in Your Lordships face as You speak Cambridg No Sir it will not burn it I hope I shall see a brighter Sun then this Sir very speedily Dr. Sibbald The Sun of Righteousness my Lord Cambridg But to that which I was saying Sir It pleased God so to dispose that Army under my Command as it was ruined and I as their General clothed with a Commission stand here now ready to dye I shall not trouble you with repeating of my Plea what I said in my own Defence at the Court of JUSTICE my self being satisfied with the commands that is laid upon me and they satisfied with the Justnesse of their procedure according to the Laws of this Land God is just and howsoever I shall not say any thing as to the matter of the sentence but that I do willingly submit to his divine Providence and acknowledge that very many wayes I deserve even a worldly punishment as well as hereafter for we are all sinfull Sir and I a great one yet for my comfort I know there is a God in heaven that is exceeding mercifull I know my Redeemer sits at his right hand and am confident clapping his hand to his breast is mediating for me at this instant I am hopefull through his free grace and al-sufficient merits to be pardoned of my sins and to be received into his mercy upon that I rely trusting to nothing but the free grace of God through Iesus Christ I have not been tainted with my Religion I thank God for it since my infancy it hath been such as hath been profest in the Land and established and now t is not this Religion or that Religion nor this or that fancie of men that is to be built upon t is but one that 's right one that 's sure and that comes from God Sir and in the free grace of our Saviour Sir there is truly something that * had I thought my speech would have been thus taken I would have digested it into some better method then now I can and shall desire these Gentlemen that does write it that they will not wrong me in it and that it may not in this manner be published to my disadvantage for truly I did not intend to have spoken thus when I came here There is sirs terrible aspersions has been laid upon my self truly such as I thank God I am very free from as if my actions and intentions had not been such as they were pretended for but that notwithstanding what I pretended it was for the King there was nothing lesse intended then to serve him in it I was bred with him for many years I was his domestique servant and there was nothing declar'd by the Parliament that was not really intended by me and truly in it I ventured my life one way and now I lose it another way and that was one of the ends as to the King I speak only of that because the rest has many particulars and to clear my selfe from so horrid an aspersion as is laid upon me neither was there any other design known to me by the incoming of that Army then what is really in the Declaration published His person I do professe I had reason to love as he was my King and as he had been my Master it has pleased God now to dispose of him so as it cannot be thought flatery to have said this or any end in me for the saying of it but to free my selfe from that calumnie which lay upon me I cannot gain by it yet Truth is that which we shall gain by for ever There hath been much spoken Sir of an invitation into this Kingdome it 's mentioned in that Declaration and truly to that I did and do remit my self and I have been very much laboured for discoveries of these inviters 'T is no time to dissemble How willing I was to have served this Nation in any thing that was in my power is known to very many honest pious and religious men and how ready I would have been to have done what I could to have served them if it had pleased them to have preserved my life in whose hands there was a power They have not thought it fit and so I am become unusefull in that which willingly I would have done As I said at first Sir so I say now concerning that point I wish the Kingdoms happinesse I wish its peace and truly Sir I wish that this blood of mine may be the last that is drawn and howsoever I may perhaps have some reluctancie with my self as to the matter of my suffering for my fact yet I freely forgive all Sir I carry no rancour along with me to my grave His will be done that has created both heaven and earth and me a poor miserable sinfull creature now speaking before him For me to speak Sir to you of State-businesse and the Government of the Kingdom or my opinion in that or for any thing in that nature Truly it is to no end it contributes nothing My own inclination hath been to Peace from the beginning and it is known to many that I never was an ill instrument betwixt the King and his people I never acted to the prejudice of the Parliament I bore no Arms I medled not with it I was not wanting by my prayers to God almighty for the happinesse of the King and truly I shall pray still that God may so direct him