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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	3,167	5	11.1087	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74878	A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, as they fell out in their severall years: so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. 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.	1652 (1652)	Wing V294A; Thomason E693_2; ESTC R206997	57,270	63

to the Declarations will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles not I so that as for the guilt of these enormous crimes that are laid against me I hope in God that God will clear me of it I will not I am in charity God forbid that I should lay it upon the two Houses of Parliament there is no necessity of either I hope they are free of this guilt for I doe believe that ill instruments between them and me ha's been the cause of all this blood shed so that by way of speaking as I find my self clear of this I hope and pray God that they may too yet for all this God forbid that I should be so ill a Christian as not to say that Gods judgements are just upon me many times he does pay justice by an unjust sentence that is ordinary I will onely say this That an unjust Sentence that I suffered to take effect is punished now by an unjust Sentence upon me that is so far I have said to shew you that I am an innocent man Now for to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good man pointing to Dr Iuckson that will bear me witnesse that I have forgiven all the world and those in particular that have been the chief causers of my death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them But this is not all my charity must go farther I wish that they may repent for indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St Stephen that this be not laid to their charge nay not onely so but that they may take the right way to the peace of the Kingdome So Sirs I do wish with all my soule and I do hope there is some here will carry it further that they may endeavour the peace of the Kingdom Now Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and will put you in a way first you are out of the way for certainly all the way you ever have had yet as I could find by any thing is in the way of Conquest certainly this is in an ill way for Conquest Sir in my opinion is never just except there be a good just Cause either for matter of wrong or just Title and then if you go beyond it that makes it unjust at the end that was just at first But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that He was the Great Robber he was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I do think the way that you are in is much out of the way Now Sir for to put you in the way beleive it you will never doe right nor God will never prosper you untill you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the people their due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his due by regulating rightly his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order For to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but onely this A Nationall Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when that every Opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not the Lawes of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedome as much as any body whomsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and their Freedome consists in having of Government those Lawes by which their life and their goods may be most their owne It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean different things and therefore untill they do that I mean that you do put the people in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sirs it was for this that now I am come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the people Introth Sirs I shall not trouble you much longer for I will onely say this to you that intruth I could have desired some little time longer because that I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse Me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God that you do take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation The Bishop of London minding him to say something concerning his Religion King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witnesse it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs excuse me for this same I have a good cause and I have a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col Hacker he said Take care that they do not put me to pain and Sir this and it please you But then a Gentleman coming neer the Ax the King said take heed of the Ax pray take heed of the Ax Then the King speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to D Iuxon for his night cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner does my heire trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop then the King turning to Dr Iuxon said I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side Dr Iuxon There is but one stage more this stage is turbulent and troublesome it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way it will carry you from Earth to Heaven and there you shall find a great deal of cordiall joy and comsort King I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be Doct. You are exchanged from a temporall to an eternall Crown a good exchange Then the King took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to Dr Iuxon saying Remember 't is thought for the Prince and some other small Ceremonies past after which the King stooping down laid his neck upon the block after a very little pause st●etched forth his hands the Executioner at one blow severed his

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 Kingdome happiness I wish it peace and truly Sir I wish that this bloud 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 ranc●●… along with me to my grave His will be done that has created both 〈◊〉 and earth and me a poor miserable sinfull creature now speaking before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For me to speak Sir to you of State-businesse and the Government of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingdome or my opinion in that or for any thing in that nature Truly it is 〈◊〉 no end it contributes nothing My owne 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 as that may be done which shall tend to his glory and the peace and happinesse of the Kingdome For 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 Tenets they need not to be exprest they are known to all and I am not of a rigid opinion many godly men there are that may have scruples which do not concerne me at all at no time they may differ in opinion and more now then at any time differing in opinion does not move me nor any mans my owne is clear 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 Wee 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 Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said shall I put on another cap must this hair be turn'd up from my neck there are three of my servants to give satisfaction he also asked him which way he would have him lye The Executioner pointing to the front of the Scaffold the Earl replyed What my head this way After a little discourse in private with some of his servants he kneeled downe by the side of the Scaffold and prayed a while to himself Then with a cheerfull and smiling countenance embracing Dr. Sibbalds he said Truly Sir I doe take you in mine arms and truly I blesse God for it I do not fear I have an assurance that is grounded here laying his hand upon his heart now that gives me more true joy then ever I had I passe out of a miserable world to go into an eternall and glorious Kingdom and Sir though I have bin a most sinfull creature yet Gods mercy I know is infinite and I blesse my God for it I go with so clear a conscience that I know not the man that I have personally injured Then imbracing those his servants which were there present said to each of them You have been very faithfull to me and the Lord blesse you And so turning himselfe to the Executioner he said I shall say a very short prayer unto my God while I lye downe there and when I stretch out my hand my right hand then sir do your duty and I doe freely forgive you and so I doe all the world Then the E. of Cambridge said to the Executioner Must I lye all along he answered Yes and 't please your Lordship Then he said When I stretch out my hands but I will fit my head first tell me if I be right and how you would have me lye And being told he must lye a little lower he said 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 Taffery 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 Mews where it now remains Dk. Hambleton E of Cambridg E of Holland and Lord Capell be headed mar 9. 1649 And their speeches on the scaffold The speech of the Earl of Holland upon the Scaffold IT is to no purpose I thinke to speake any thing here Which way must I speak And then being directed to the front of the Scaffold he leaning over the raile said I thinke it is fit to say something since God hath called me to this place The first thing which I must professe is what concerns my Religion and my breeding which hath been in a good Family that hath been ever 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 dye I have not lived according to that education I had in that Family where I was borne and bred I hope God will 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 beleive by many hath been much mistaken They have conceived that I have had ill designs to the State and to the Kingdom 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 knowne 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 wi●l dye in them There may be alterations and changes that may carry them further then I thought reasonable and 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 bin 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 thinke 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 something then in agitation but nothing agreed on for sending Propositions to the King that was the furthest aime that I had and truly beyond that I had no intention none at all And God be praised although my blood comes to be shed here there was I think scarcely a drop of blood 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 blood nor through disorder admitted again into that power and to that glory that God hath in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my Soul for the happinesse of this State of this Nation that the blood which is here spilt may be even the last which may fall among us and truly I should lay down my life with as much cheerfulnesse as ever person did if I conceived that there would no more blood follow us for a State or affairs that are built upon blood 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 doe 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 doe not only 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 Chancellor of Cambridge and truly I must here since it is the last of my prayers pray to God that that University may goe 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 Looking towards Mr. Bolton I have said what Religion I have been bred in what Religion I have been born 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 Kingdom and to this State I have endeavoured to doe 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 hear 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 blood that is likely to be spilt among you And then turning to the side raile he prayed for a god space of time God hath given me speaking to M. Bolton long time in this world he hath carryed me through many great accidents of Fortune hee hath at last brought me down into a condition where I find my self brought to an end for a dis-affection 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 judgement of God for my sins And truly Sir since that the death is violent I am the lesse troubled with it because of those 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 truely I hope that his purposes and intentions were such as a man may not be ashamed not onely 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 and I conceive his sufferings and his better knowledge and better understanding if God had spared him life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himself and very happy towards this Kingdome I have seen and known that those blessed souls in heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow and 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 lownesse shall raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publike to the people concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my Counsels in this Kingdom I conceive they are well known it were something of vanity