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A45839
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Antiquities of the city of Exeter collected by Richard Izacke ...; Antiquities of the city of Exeter
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Izacke, Richard, 1624?-1698.
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Wing I1110; ESTC R22442
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Estates which we lost by not having the benefit of the Articles let hanging drawing and quartering be the denomination of Captain Crook's Articles Nevertheless I thank the Lord Protector for that he hath indulged me so far as to have my Head severed from my Body I should now give an account of my Faith but truly Gentlemen this poor Nation is rent into so many several opinions as that 't is impossible to give you my own without displeasing some of you however if any be so critical as to enquire of what Faith I die it is the same belief of the Apostles and of Athanasius Creed I have subscribed and do own the Nine and Thirty Articles of the Church of England if this will not satisfie I refer my self to this Reverend Doctor Short to whom I have unbosomed my self as to the particulars of my Religion And now having given you an Account concerning my self I hold my self obliged in duty to some of my Friends to take off some suspicion that lies upon them I mean as to some Persons of Honour with whom upon my examination I was charged to have a correspondency withal concerning this business viz. The Lord Marquess of Hertford the Marquess of Winchester and the Earl of Pembrook I did then acquit them and do now second it with this protestation that I never had any correspondency with any of them in relation to this particular business or indeed to any that concerned the Protector or his Government As for the Marquess of Winchester I saw him some twelve years since and not later and if I should see him here present I believe I should not know him As for the Earl of Pembrook he was not a Man likely to whom I should discover my thoughts because I know not how he stands affected I was likewise examined concerning my Brother Freke my Cousin Hastings and Mr. Dorrington they are Men of very great Estates which may make them liable to this Inquisition and endeavoured to be brought into my condition but I do here so far acquit them as to give the World this protestation That I am confident they are as innocent as the youngest Child here I have no more to say to you now but that I am in Charity with all Men and I thank God I can forgive my greatest persecutors I can go on my bare knees to the greatest of mine enemics to forgive them And I do freely forgive all that ever had a hand in my Death I have offered the Protector good security for my future demeanour as I suppose he could have expected if he had thought sit to have given me my Life Certainly I should not have been so ungrateful as to have employed it against him I do humbly submit to God's pleasure knowing that the Issues of Life and Death are in his hands my Blood is but a small sacrifice If it had been saved I am so much a Gentleman as to have given thanks to him that preserved it and so much a Christian as to forgive them that takes it away but seeing God by his Providence hath called me to lay it down I submit to him Death is a debt a due debt owing by all it is terrible to nature but I look on it without terrour it pleased God to make me a good Husband and I am not come to pay this Debt before it be due I am not ashamed of the cause for which I die and I hope that none of my Friends or Allyants will be ashamed of it or of the Ignominy of my death seeing it is for so good a Cause I do not look upon it as the pulling down of my Family but the raising it up one story higher I am not so prodigal of Nature as to throw away my Life but have used all yet none but Honourable and honest means to preserve it These unhappy times have been very fatal to my Family Two of my Brothers slain and my self going to the slaughter it is God's Will and I must submit to that Providence I must render a due acknowledgement of the great civilities I have received from this City of Exeter and from some Persons of Quality and for the plentiful provision made for the Prisoners especially I thank this noble Sheriff for his many great favours and courtesies towards us and in particular to my self and I desire the Sheriff to present my due respects to the Protector and although he had no mercy for my self yet that he would have respect to my Family for the business I now die I look on it as an Individuum vagum I know not what they mean when they assert this to be Treason except they make it like the Wind in the Gospel to blow where it listeth I know not to what end it may come I pray God that my own and my Brother's blood who is now to die with me may be the last I am now stripping off my cloaths to fight a duel with death and conceive no other duel to be lawful but my Saviour hath pulled out the sting of this mine enemy he made himself a Sacrifice for me I do not account that man deserving a drop of his blood that will not spend all for him in a good cause As I now put off these garments of cloth so I hope I have put off my garments of sin and have put on the Robes of Christ's Righteousness here which will bring me to the enjayment of his glorious Robes anon I desire to see the Axe and he kissed it saying I am like to have a sharp passage of it but my Saviour hath taken away the sting of death and I hope he will sweeten it to me Thus I commit my Soul to God my Creator and Redeemer look on me O Lord at my last gasping hear my Prayer and the Prayers of all good people I will close with praying for the King I thank thee O God for all thy dispensations towards me Glory be to God on high on Earth peace and good Will towards Men Causa non poena seu passio facit Martyrem To dic in the defence and for the Testimony of any Divine Truth is truly to be a Martyr Memorable hath been the stedfast obedience and fidelity of this City to the Crown in the various succession of Ages and Times of the Britains Romans Saxons Danes and Normans which have been well remunerated by their several and successive Kings in their distinct Reigns as is manifested by the many and large Immunities Liberties and Priviledges from time to time conferred on their City Whatever the Antiquity of this City be I find that 't was built before London even at Brute's first landing here by his Nephew Corinaeus on whom Brute bestowed this Western Country Hooker Stowe Bale Anno Mundi 2855. The same being before Christ's Incarnation eleven hundred years and upwards And presently thereafter Brute built London calling it Troynovant This City is thought to be one of the first Cities that