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mercy_n	heaven_n	miserable_a	sinner_n	7,000	5	10.1398	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28503	A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury with the severall arraignments and speeches of those that were executed thereupon : also, all the passages concerning the divorce between Robert, late Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard : with King James's and other large speeches / collected out of the papers of Sir Francis Bacon ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1651 (1651)	Wing B338; ESTC R10750	59,190	110

pocket some pieces of gold or silver and said Here take this spend it which he with bitter tears thankfully accepted Doctor Felton and Doctor Whiting strained courtesie which of them should begin a publike Prayer for this parties condition one of them willed the other but at last Doctor VVhiting said If you Sir Iervas can perform it your self you of all men are fittest to do it with efficacy both of soul and spirit whereupon he said I shall do my best then but my hearers I crave your charitable constructions if with half words and imperfect speeches I chatter like a Crane His Prayer O Eternall Omnipotent and Omniscient God the Creator of Heaven and Earth and of me a most miserable and horrible wretch by reason of my unmeasurable sinnes and transgressions whereof I am wholly guilty take pitty of me that have so many ponderous sinnes that without thy speciall favour and mercy they will be ready to press me into perpetuall destruction thy full and free pardon in Iesus Christ I humbly crave with this assurance that immediately my soule shall be translated hence into those inestimable joyes which the heart of man is unable to conceive the tongue to utter the eare to hear Then Lord hear the petition of me a most miserable wretch according to thy promise made unto the repentant sinner my sinnes yet unknown and unrepented of which are my secret sinnes Lord call not to accompt disburthen me O Lord of my unknown sins I desire to give a true sigh for them all my sins of youth and riper years O Lord pardon thou O Lord knowest how many they are let the misty clouds of all my sinnes whatsoever be scattered by the bright beams of thy merits Be merciful to me in Christ Iesus that these weak poor prayers may be available in thy sight this comfort yet I have that I am thine for were I not thine then out of the roots of me could not the buds of repentance appear by which I know thou lovest me it is not I but thou O Lord hast drawn me to thee for thine own mercies sake In which thy mercies and thy promises made to the true repentant sinner once again I rely for if thou killest me by this or any other ignominious death yet will I trust in thee I crave thy assistance Protect my soul from that great Adversary of mine I mean Satan who with pale death and the infirmities of flesh do band their balls together then especially at the last gasp in which great conflict Lord strengthen me that they may not overcome but be overcome Amen This Prayer being ended he asked if he might not pray privately The Doctors answered Yea then made he a short Prayer to himself with his face covered and after he uncovered it and said Now I have prayed now must J pay J mean do the last office to Justice with that Doctor VVhiting said Sir Iervas you may stand one step lower upon the Ladder to whom the Sheriff answered Jt is better for him Mr. Doctor to be where he is Stay quoth the Doctor to the Executioner for he hath given a watch-word he is in private prayer again Yea quoth he for he hath given me a watch-word when J shall perform my office to him He uncovered his face after his second short prayer And first took his leave of all the assembly saying with a cheerfull voyce and countenance J pray you pray for me who shall never more behold your faces then he said with great fervency of spirit Lord I desire at thy hands this bitter Cup of death as the Patient receives a bitter Potion not once demanding what is in the Cup but takes and drinks it off be it never so bitter As soon as he had then said audibly Lord Iesus receive my soule which belike was the Executioners watch-word he turn'd him off the Ladder and the Executioners man catching at one of his feet and his own man by the other they suddenly weighed his life where hanging a small distance of time his body not once stirred onely his hands moved a little being tyed with a black silk Ribbon which a little before he had reached to the Executioner putting up his hands to him for that purpose all which being ended both Corps high Gibbet were from thence conveyed The Proceedings against Iames Franckling at his Arraignment at the Kings Bench the 27. of November An. Dom. 1615. AFter he had put himself for his Tryal upon the Country a Jury of Esquires and Gentlemen were impannilled to pass upon his life there then Westons Indictment was read and Francklin accused as accessary to the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury and then his Examination formerly taken in these words Iames Francklins Confession HE confesseth That in a house near Doctors Commons Mistriss Turner did first come unto him about the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury and prayed him to provide that which should not kill a man presently but lie in his body a certain time wherewith he might languish away by little and little at the same time she gave him four Angels wherewith he bought a water called Aqua fortis and sent it to Mistriss Turner who to try the operation thereof gave it to a Cat wherewith the Cat languished crying pitifully for two days and so dyed Afterwards Mistriss Turner sent for Francklin to come to the Countess who told him that Aqua fortis was too violent a Water But what think you quoth she of White Arsnick He told her that was too violent What say you quoth she to Powder of Diamonds He answered I know not the Nature of that She said then he was a Fool and gave him pieces of Gold and bid him buy some of that Powder for her Francklin demanded of the Countess what was her Reason to poyson Sir Tho. Overbury she told him He would pry so far into their estate that he would overthrow them all A little before Sir Tho. Overburies death the Countess sent for Francklin and shewed him a Letter sent from the Lord of Rochester wherein he read these words I marvel at these delays that the business is not yet dispatched whereby Francklin thinketh in his Conscience was meant the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury And in another Letter from the Lord of Rochester was written That Sir Thomas was to come out of the Tower within two days and they all should be undone whereupon the Countess sent for Weston and was very angry with him that he had not dispatched Sir Thomas Overbury Weston told her that he had given him a thing that would have killed ten men Also a fortnight after Westons Apprehension this Countess sent for Francklin into S. Iames's Park where he the Earl and the Countess walking together and as soon as he came the Earl went apart into a Chamber then she told him Weston hath been sent for by a Pursevant and hath confessed all and we shall be hanged but on your life quoth she do not you