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A38380	England's black tribunall set forth in the triall of K. Charles I at a High Court of Justice at Westminster-Hall : together with his last speech when he was put to death on the scaffold, January 30, 1648 [i.e. 1649] : to which is added several dying speeches and manner of the putting to death of Earl of Strafford, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Duke Hamilton ...		1660 (1660)	Wing E2947; ESTC R31429	137,194	238

any fortunes to lose My Lords I have now troubled you longer then I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in heaven left me I should be loth my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my self it is nothing but that my indiscretion should forfeit for my child it even woundeth me deep to the very soul You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it passe And now my Lords I have been by the blessing of Almighty God taught that the afflictions of this life present are not to be compared to the eternal weight of that glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquility of mind I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgments and whether that righteous judgement shall be to life or death Te Deum laudamus te Dominum consitemur The Earl of Straffords Speech on the Scaffold immediately before his Execution on Tower-hill May 12. 1641. My L. Primate of Ireland IT is my very great comfort that I have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been known to you this many years and I doe thank God and your Lordship for it that you are here I should be very glad to obtain so much silence as to be heard a few words but I doubt I shall not the noise is so great My Lords I am come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay that last debt I owe to sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Jesus Christ to righteousnesse and life eternal Here he was a little interrupted My Lords I am come hither to submit to that Judgement which hath passed against me I do it with a very quiet and contented mind I thank God I doe freely forgive all the world a forgivenesse that is not spoken from the teeth outwards as they say but from the very heart I speak it in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not a displeasing thought arising in me towards any man living I thank God I can say it and truly too my conscience bearing me witness that in all my imployment since I had the Honour to serve his Majestie I never had any thing in the purpose of my heart but what tended to the joynt and Individuall prosperity of King and people although it hath been my ill fortune to be misconstrued I am not the first that hath suffered in this kind it is the common portion of us all while we are in this life to erre Righteous Judgement we must wait for in another place for here we are very subject to be mis-judged one of another There is one thing that I desire to free my self of and I am very confident speaking it now with so much chearfulnesse that I shall obtain your Christian charity in the belief of it I was so far from being against Parliaments that I did alwaies think the Parliaments of England were the most happy constitutions that any Kingdom or Nation lived under and the best means under God to make the King and people happy For my Death I here acquit all the world and beseech the God of Heaven heartily to forgive them that contrived it though in the intentions and purposes of my heart I am not guilty of what I dye for And my Lord Primate it is a great comfort for me that his Majesty conceives me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as is the utmost execution of this Sentence I do infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and I beseech God return it into his own bosome that he may find mercy when he stands most in need of it I wish this Kingdom all the Prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I do most humbly recommend this to every one who hears me and desire they would lay their hands upon their hearts and consider seriously whether the beginning of the happinesse and reformation of a Kingdom should be written in Letters of bloud consider this when you are at your homes and let me be never so unhappy as that the last drop of my bloud should rise up in Judgement against any one of you but I fear you are in a wrong way My Lords I have but one word more and with that I shall end I professe that I die a true and obedient Son to the Church of England wherein I was born and in which I was bred Peace and prosperity be ever to it It hath been objected if it were an objection worth the answering that I have been inclined to Popery but I say truly from my heart that from the time that I was one and twenty years of age to this present going now upon forty nine I never had in my heart to doubt of this religion of the Church of England Nor ever had any man the boldnesse to suggest any such thing to me to the best of my remembrance and so being reconciled by the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour into whose bosome I hope I shall shortly be gathered to those eternall happinesses which shall never have end I desire heartily the forgivenesse of every man for any rash or unadvised words or any thing done amisse and so my Lords and Gentlemen Farewell Farewell all the things of this world I desire that you would be silent and joyn with me in prayer and I trust in God we shall all meet and live eternally in heaven there to receive the Accomplishment of all happinesse where every teare shall be wiped away from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts and so God blesse this Kingdom and Jesus have mercy on my Soul Then turning himself about he saluted all the noble men and took a solemn leave of all considerable persons upon the Scaffold giving them his hand After that he said Gentlemen I would say my prayers and intreat you all to pray with me and for me then his Chaplain laid the book of Common-prayer upon the Chaire before him as he kneeled down on which he prayed almost a quarter of an hour and then as long or longer without the Book and concluded with the Lords prayer Standing up he espies his Brother Sir Gorge Wentworth and calls him to him saying Brother we must part remember me to my Sister and to my wife and carry my blessing to my Son and charge him that he fear God and continue an obedient Son to the Church of England and warne him that he bears no private grudge or revenge toward any man concerning me And bid him beware that he meddle not with Church-livings for that will prove a moth and canker to him in his estate and wish him to content himself to be a Servant to his Country not aiming at higher Preferments Aliter To his Son

at Chester to the place of his death He was brought to a house in the Town near the Crosse where the Scaffold was raised and as he passed by said VENIO DOMINE I am prepared to fulfill thy will O my God this Scaffold must be my Crosse blessed Saviour I take it up willingly and follow thee From thence going into a Chamber with some friends and servants he was advertized by the Commander in Cheif that he had till 3. of the clock allowed him to prepare for death for indeed the Scaffold was not ready the people of the Town and Country generally refusing to carry so much as a planck or strike a naile or to lend any assistance to that work their cry being generally in the steerts Oh sad day O wofull day shall the good Earl of Derby dye here many sad losses have we had in this Warre but none like unto this for now the Antient Honour of our Countrey must suffer here and adde to his trouble most of the Timber that built the Scaffold was of the ruines of Latham house but nothing could alter his Lordships resolution and courage for with a stedfast composed countenance and a chearfull he called the company which were present to prayers with him wherein he shewed admirable fervency and a kind of humble importunity with Almighty God that he would pardon his sinnes be mercifull to his soul and be gracious to this land in restoring the King Laws and Liberty and that he would be a Husband to his Wife a Father to his Children and a Friend to all those that suffered by his losse or that had been friends to him Rising from prayer he sate down with a very pleasing countenance and assured the standers by that God had heard his prayers which the blessed Spirit of God witnessed unto him in the present Comforts he now felt in his soul Then he entred into a discourse of his life and beseech't God to forgive him the daies and time he had mis-spent and said it was his Comfort that although he had not walked so circumspectly as he ought to have done yet he ever had a sense of his sinnes and a tender respect to all the Services Servants and Ordinances of his God and that he knew God had mercy for him that he had strengthened and comforted him against all the terrours of death After these and some other words to this purpose he desired his friends and the people by to pray with him again which when he had ended rising from him his knees he appeared fully satisfied of a gracious Return to his prayers and never after shewed any sadnesse in his countenance His next businesse was with his Sonne the Lord Strange whom he publickly charged to be dutifull to his sad Mother affectionate to his distressed Brothers and Sisters and studious of the peace of his Country But especially said he Son I charge you upon my blessing and upon the blessings you expect from God to be ever dutifull to your distressed Mother ever obedient to hers commands and ever tender how you in any thing grieve or offend her She is a person well known to the most eminent personages of England France Germany and Holland noted for piety prudence and all honourable vertues and certainly the more you are obedient to her the more you will increase in favour with God and Man Then he desired to be private in the room himself where he was observed to be about half an hour upon his knees with frequent interjections of groans and sighs before his God then when he called the company in again his eyes witnessed to us that he had abundantly mixed tears with his prayers he told us that he was very willing to leave the world being assured by the Testimony of Gods Spirit that he should be carried from trouble to rest and peace from sorrow to joy from life to death and that death had no other bitternesse in it to him but that it took him from his dear Wife and Children whom he humbly commended to the protection and providence of a better Husband and a better Father and that yet he did not doubt but that the Generall and they who sate in the seat of Authority would make provision for them hoping that his death might satisfie all those who sought his life whom he freely forgave and desired God to doe the like Then calling for his Sonne he took his leave of him and blessed him which indeed would have grieved any ones heart though never so hardned to see the parting of him now with his Son and with his two Daughters the Lady Katharine and the Lady Amely Stanley upon the Road betwixt Chester and Bolton the day before This ended he called the Officer and told him he was ready In his way to the Scaffold the people prayed and wept and cryed aloud to whom his Lordship with a cheerfull countenance and courteous humblenesse said Good people I thank you and I beseech you still pray for me and our blessed God return your prayers back into your own bosomes The God of Mercies blesse you the Son of God establish you in righteousnesse and the Holy Ghost fill you with all comforts Coming neer the Scaffold he looked up and said God I thank thee I am not afraid to goe up here though I am to die there there are but these few steps to my eternity then kissing the ladder he went up and saluted the people he walked a turn or two upon the Scaffold then went to the East-end of the Scaffold and pulled off his hat again and saluted the people with a cheerful countenance said I am come by the will of my heavenly Father to die in this place and I thank God I doe with all willingnesse and readinesse submit to his most blessed will 'T is a place I desired to see when I was last in the Country both for the mutual obligations that have been betwixt this Town and my family as also for your particular respects to me whom I have understood to be ready to clear me from that soul imputation That I was a man of blood and that particularly I killed one Bootle here in cold blood I doubt not but there are here many men present both that day this Town was taken and divers other times during this war that can justifie I preserv'd many lives but I know there is not any one present that can l●y the blood of any man whatsoever to my charge unlesse what might casually happen in the fury and heat of a battel and why I die in this Town I know not unlesse it be to perswade the Nation that I fall as a sacrifice for that blood which some said I shed here from which I am acquitted before you and from which I had also cleared my self before my grand Judges at Westminster had they pleased to hear me before they had destroyed me that report being hastily brought up among them by some that I hope God