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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

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

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

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

violent deaths that I have seen before principally my Saviour that hath shewed us the way how and in what manner he hath done it and for what cause I am the more comforted I am the more rejoyced It is not long since the King my Master passed in the same manner and truly I hope that his purposes intentions were such as a man may not be ashamed not only to follow him in the way that was taken with him but likewise not ashamed of his purposes if God had given him life I have often disputed with him concerning many things of this kind I conceive his sufferings his better knowledg better understanding if God had spared him life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himself very happy towards this Kingdom I have seen and known that those blessed Soules in heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow many by the gate of violence and since it is Gods pleasure to dispose me this way I submit my soul to him with all comfort and with all hope that he hath made this my end and this my conclusion that though I be low in death yet neverthelesse this lowness shal raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publique to the People concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my counsells in this Kingdom I conceive they are well known it were somthing of vanity me thinks to take notice of them here He rather die with them with the comfort of them in my own bosome and that I never intended in this action or any action that ever I did in my life either malice or bloodshed or prejudice to any creature that lives For that which concernes my Religion I made my profession before of it how I was bred and in what manner I was bred in a Family that was looked upon to be no little notorious in opposition to some liberties that they conceived then to bee taken and truly there was some marke upon mee as if I had some taint of it even throughout my whole wayes that I have taken every body knowes what my affections have beene to many that have suffered to many that have beene in troubles in this Kingdome I endeavoured to relieve them I endeavoured to oblige them I thought I was tied so by my Conscience I thought it by my charity and truly very much by my breeding God hath now brought me to the last instant of my time all that I can say and all that I can adhere unto is this That as I am a great sinner so I have a great Saviour that as hee hath given mee heere a fortune to come publiquely in a shew of shame in the way of this suffering truly I understand it not to bee so I understand it to bee a glorie a glorie when I consider who hath gone before mee and a glory when I consider I had no end in it but what I conceive to bee the service of God the King and the Kingdome and therefore my Heart is not charged much with any thing in that particular since I conceive God will accept of the intention whatsoever the action seeme to bee I am going to die and the Lord receive my Soule I have no reliance but upon Christ for my selfe I doe acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners my life hath beene a vanity and a continued sinne and God may justly bring mee to this end for the finnes I have committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my Life I looke upon this as a great justice of God to bring me to this suffering and to bring mee to this punishment and those Hands that have beene most Active in it if any such there hath beene I pray God forgive them I pray God that there may not bee many such Trophees of their Victories but that this may bee as I said before the last shew that this people shall see of the bloud of persons of Condition of persons of Honor I might say something of the way of our Triall which certainely hath beene as extraordinary as any thing I thinke hath ever beene seene in this Kingdome but because that I would not seem as if I made some complaint I will not so much as mention it because no body shall believe I repine at their actions that I repine at my fortune It is the Will of God it is the Hand of God under whom I fall I take it intirely from him I submit my selfe to Him I shall desire to roule my selfe into the Armes of my blessed Saviour and when I come to this * place when I bow downe my selfe there I hope God will raise mee up and when I bid farewell as I must now to Hope and to Faith that love will abide I know nothing to accompany the soule out of this World but love and I hope that love will bring me to the fountaine of glory in Heaven through the Armes Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Iesus Christ in whom I believe O Lord help my unbeliefe Hodges The Lord make over unto you the righteousnesse of his owne Son it is that treasury that hee hath bestowed upon you and the Lord shew you the light of his countenance and fill youful with his joy and kindnesse O my dear Lord the Lord of Heaven and Earth be with you and the Lord of Heaven and Earth bring you to that safety Holl. I shall make as much hast as I can to come to that glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my soule I looke upon my selfe intirely in Him and hope to finde mercy through Him I expect it and through that fountaine that is opened for sin and for uncleannesse my soule must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I have nothing but sinne and corruption in mee I have nothing but that which in stead of being carried up into the Armes of God and Glory I have nothing but may throw me downe into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are cloathed with the righteousnesse of another you will appeare glorious though now sinfull in yourselfe The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my owne Righteousnesse and when you are cloathed with another the Lord will owne you and I shall say but thus much doubt not that ever God will deny salvation to sinners that come to him when the end of all his death and sufferings was the salvation of sinners when as I say the whole end and the whole designe and the great Work that God had to doe in the world by the death of Christ wherein hee laid out all his Councels and infinite wisedome and mercy and goodnesse beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great designe and great end the salvation of sinners that poor fooles should come over to him and live

protection of that for my life and the honor of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberally about it I believe you will hear by other means what Arguments I used in that case But truly that that is stranger you that are English men behold here an English man now before you and acknowledged a Peer not condemned to dye by any Law of England not by any Law of England Nay shall I tell you more which is strangest of all contrary to all the Laws of England that I know of And truly I will tell you in the matter of the Civil part of my death and the cause that I have maintained I dye I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandment injoyned by God himself which injoyns reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many several Opinions yet all Divines on all hands do acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order and certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy and that Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I do say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fifth Commandment given by God himself and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you That I cannot imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himself For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himself was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are concerned in it may take the occasion of it of humble repentance to God Almighty for it I do here profess to you that truly I did give my Vote to that Bill of the E. of Strafford I doubt not but God Almighty hath washed that away with a more precious blood that is with the blood of his own Son and my dear Savior Jesus Christ and I hope he will wash it away from all those that are guilty of it truly this I may say I had not the least part nor the least degree of malice in the doing of it but I must confess again to Gods glory and the accusation of mine own frailty and the frailty of my Nature that truly it was an unworthy Cowardize not to resist so great a torrent as carried that business at that time And truly this I think I am most guilty of of not courage enough in it but malice I had none but whatsoever it was God I am sure hath pardoned it hath given me the assurance of it that Christ Jesus his blood hath washed it away and truly I do from my soul wish That all men that have any stain by it may seriously repent and receive a remission and pardon from God for it And now Gentlemen we have had an occasion by this intimation to remember his Majesty our King that last was and I cannot speak of him nor think of it but truly I must needs say That in my Opinion that have had time to consider all the Images of all the greatest and vertuousest Princes in the world and truly in my Opinion there was not a more vertuous and more sufficient Prince known in the world then our gracious King Charls that dyed last God Almighty preserve our King that now is his Son God send him more fortunate and longer days God Almighty so assist him that he may exceed both the vertues and sufficiencies of his Father For certainly I that have been a Counsellor to him and have lived long with him and in a time when discovery is easily enough made for he was yong he was about thirteen fourteen fifteen or sixteen years of age those years I was with him truly I never saw greater hopes of vertue in any yong person then in him great Judgment great Understanding great Apprehension much Honor in his Nature and truly a very perfect English man in his inclination and I pray God restore him to this Kingdom and Unite the Kingdoms one unto another and send a great happiness both to you and to him that he may long live and Reign among you and that that Family may Raign till thy Kingdom come that is while all Temporal Power is consummated I beseech God of his mercy give much happiness to this your King and to you that in it shall be his Subjects by the grace of Jesus Christ Truly I like my beginning so well that I will make my conclusion with it that is That God Almighty would confer of his infinite and inestimable grace and mercy to those that are the causers of my coming hither I pray God give them as much mercy as their own hearts can wish and truly for my part I will not accuse any one of them of malice truly I will not nay I will not think there was any malice in them what other ends there is I know not nor I will not examine but let it be what it will from my very soul I forgive them every one And so the Lord of Heaven bless you all God Almighty be infinite in goodness and mercy to you and direct you in those ways of obedience to his commands to his Majesty that this Kingdom may be a happy and glorious Nation again and that your King may be a happy King in so good and so obedient people God Almighty keep you all God Almighty preserve this Kingdom God Almighty preserve you all Then turning about and looking for the Executioner who was gone off the Scaffold said Which is the Gentleman which is the man Answer was made He is a coming He then said Stay I must pull off my Dublet first and my Wastcoat And then the Executioner being come upon the Scaffold the Lord Capel said O friend prethee come hither Then the Executioner kneeling down the Lord Capel said I forgive thee from my soul and not only forgive thee but I shall pray to God to give thee all grace for a better life There is Five pounds for thee and truly for my clothes and those things if there be any thing due to you for it you shall be very fully recompenced but I desire my body may not be stripped here and no body to take notice of my body but my own servants Look you friend this I shall desire of you that when I lye down that you would give me a time for a particular short prayer Lieut. Col Beecher Make your own sign my Lord Capel Stay a little Which side do you stand upon speaking to the Executioner Stay I think I should lay my hands forward that way pointing foreright and answer being made Yes he stood still a little while and then said GOD Almighty bless all this People God Almighty stench this blood God Almighty stench stench stench this issue of blood this will not do the business God Almighty finde out another way to do it And then turning to one of his Servants said Baldwin I cannot see any thing that belongs to my wife but I must desire thee to beseech her to rest wholly upon Jesus Christ and be contented and fully satisfied and then speaking to his Servants he said God keep you and Gentlemen let me now do a business quickly privately and pray let me have your Prayers at the moment of death that God would receive my soul Lieut. Col. Beecher I wish it Capel Pray at the moment of striking joyn your prayers but make no noise turning to his Servants that is inconvenient at this time Servant My Lord put on your Cap. Capel Should I what will that do me good Stay a little is it well as it is now * And then turning to the Executioner he said Honest man I have forgiven thee therefore strike boldly from my soul I do it Then a Gentleman speaking to him he said Nay prethee be contented be quiet good Mr. be quiet Then turning to the Executioner he said Well you are ready when I am ready are you not and stretching out his hands he said Then pray stand off Gentlemen Then going to the front of the Scaffold he said to the People Gentlemen though I doubt not of it yet I think it convenient to ask it of you That you would all joyn in Prayers with me That God would mercifully receive my soul and that for his alone Mercies in Christ Jesus God Almighty keep you all Executioner My Lord shall I put up your hair Capel I I prethee do and then as he stood lifting up his hands and eyes he said O God I do with a perfect and a willing heart submit to thy will O God I do most willingly humble my self and then kneeling down said I will try first how I can lye and laying his head over the Block said Am I well now Executioner Yes And then as he lay with both his hands stretched out he said to the Executioner Here lies both my hands out when I lift up my hand thus * then you may strike And then after he had said a short prayer he lifted up his right hand and the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was taken up by his servants and put with his body into a Coffin as the former FINIS * Observing the Writers * Looking towards M. Bolton * Pointing to the Block * As he was putting up his hair * Lifting up his right hand