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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	sister_n	wife_n	57,154	5	9.8443	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93951	The two last speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and deputy of Ireland The one in the Tower, the other on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12th 1641.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5800aA; ESTC R230021	8,086	12

I might have beene heard my Lord if I might be so much beholding to you that I might use a few words I should take it for a very great courtesie my Lord I come hither to submit to that judgement which hath past against me I doe it with a very quiet and contented minde I doe freely forgive all the world a forgivenesse that is not spoken from the teeth outward as they say but from the heart I speake it in the presence of Almightie God before whom I stand that there is not so much as a displeasing thought in me arising to any creature I thank God I may say truly and my conscience beares mee witnesse that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majestie in any employment I never had any thing in my heart but the joynt and individuall prosperitie of King and people if it have beene my hap to be misconstrued it is the common proportion of us all while we are in this life the righteous judgement is hereafter here we are subject to errour and apt to bee mis-judged one or another there is one thing I desire to cleere my selfe of and I am verie confident I speake it with so much clearnesse that I hope I shall have your Christian charitie in the beleefe of it I did alwayes ever thinke the Parliaments of England were the happiest Constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under and under God the meanes of making King and people happie so far have I beene from being against Parliaments for my death J here a quit all the world and pray God heartily to forgive them and in particular my Lord Primate I am verie glad that his Majestie is pleased to conceive mee not meriting so severe and heavie a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I am verse glad and infinitely rejoyce in this mercie of his beseech God to turne it to him that hee may finde mercy when he hath most need of it I wish this Kingdome all the prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I doe now professe it from my heart and do most humbly recommend it unto every man here and wish every man to lay his hand upon his heart and consider seriously whither the beginning of the happinesse of a people should be written in letters of blood I feare you are in a wrong way and I desire Almighty God that no one drop of my blood may rise up in judgment agaynst you My Lord of Armagh I professe my selfe a Protestant and a true and obedient Son to the Church of England to that Church wherein I was borne and wherein I was bred prosperity and happinesse be ever to it and whereas it hath beene sayd that I have enclin'd to Popery if it be an objection worth answering let me say truly that from the time since I was one and twenty yeares of age till this houre now going upon nine forty I never had thought in my heart to doubt of the truth of my Religion nor to my best memory durst any ever profer it any kind whatsoever and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Iesus my Saviour into whose bosome I hope shortly to bee gathered to enjoy those eternall happinsses that shall never have end I desire hartily the forgivenesse of every man both for any rash or unadvised word or deed and desire your prayers And so my Lords farwel farwell all things of this world Lord strengthen my faith give me confidence and assurance in the merits of Christ Iesus I desire you that you would be solent and ioyne in Prayers with me and for me and I trust in God that we shall all meet and live eternally in Heaven there to receive the a complishment of all happines where every teare shall bee wiped from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God blesse this Kingdom and Iesus have mercy upon my Soule Then turning himselfe about hee saluted all the Noble-men and tooke a solemne leave of all considerable persons on the Scaffold giving them his hand And after that hee sayd Gentlemen I would say my prayers and I entreat you all to pray with me and for me then his Chaplaine layd the booke of Common Prayer upon the chaire before him as hee kneeled downe on which he prayed almost a quarter of an houre then he prayed as long or longer without a booke and ended with the Lords Prayer then standing up he spies his brother Sir George Wentworth and cals him to him and saith Brother wee must part remember me to my sister and to my wife and carrie my blessing to my eldest for and charge him from me that he feare God and continue an obedient son of the Church of England that he should approve himselfe a faithfull subject to the King and tell him that he should not have any private grudge or revenge towards any 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 himselfe to be a servant to his Countrey as a Iustice of peace in his Countie and not aiming at higher preferments carrie my blessing also to my daughters Anne and Arabella charge them to feare and serve God and hee will blesse them not forgetting my little infant that yet knowes neither good nor evill and cannot speake for it selfe God speake for it and blesse it Then said he Now I have nigh done one stroke will make my wife husbandlesse my deare children fatherlesse and my poore servants masterlesse and separate me from my deare brother and all my friends but let God be to you and them all in all After that going to take off his doublet and to make himselfe unready he said I thank God I am no more afraid of death nor daunted with any discouragement rising from any feares but doe as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed Then he put off his doublet and wound up his haire with his hands and put on a white cap with his haire under it Had the Deputie lived till Friday following which was the 14 day of May there had dyed two Noblemen in the same moneth and the same place though not for the same fact which was the Earle of Caflle Haven ten yeares since Then hee called Where is the man that should doe this last office meaning the Executioner call him to me When he came and askt him forgivenesse hee told him hee forgave him and all the world Then kneeling downe by the block hee went to prayer againe himselfe the Bishop of Armach kneeling on the one side and the Minister on the other to the which Minister after prayer hee turned himselfe and spoke some few words softly having his hands lifted up this Minister closed his hands with his then bowing himselfe to the earth to lay his head on the block he told the Executioner that hee would first lay downe his head to try the fitnesse of the block and take it up againe before he would lay it downe for good and all and so he did and before hee laid it downe againe he told the Executioner that he would give him warning when to strike by stretching forth his hands and then layd downe his neck on the block stretching out his hands the Executioner struck off his head at one blow then tooke the head up in his hands and shewed it to all the people and said God save the King His private Ejaculations BEhold O my Lord I place my selfe before thine eyes kneeling at the foot step of thy mercy seat begging pardon of thee for the forgivenesse of all my sins and O my good God what sinfull soule can performe this act without the helpe of thy Divine Grace It is thy mercy which now I crave who am at the last period of my life Lord therefore let thy hand of mercy be so fatre stretched out to me that it may reach to the forgivenesse of all my transgressions of what nature condition soever they are or have beene whether they have beene sins to please my selfe or others Heare me O Father of all pitty and compassion and that for Iesus Christs sake who at this time maketh intercession for all true penitents Lord into thy hands I commend and commit my Spirit FINIS