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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75842	An Account of what passed at the execution of the late Duke of Monmouth on Wednesday the 15th of July, 1685, on Tower-Hill together with a paper signed by himself that morning in the Tower, in the presence of the Lords Bishops of Ely, and Bath and Wells, Dr. Tennison and Dr. Hooper : and also the copy of his letter to His Majesty after he was taken, dated at Ringwood in Hantshire, the 8th of July.	Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of, 1649-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A433A; ESTC R175360	4,921	4

represent the Great City and in speaking to them you speak to the whole City make some Satisfaction by owning your Crime before them He was silent here Then all went to solemn Commendatory Prayers which continued for a good space the late Duke of Monmouth and the Company kneeling and joyning in them with great fervency Prayers being ended before he and the four who assisted him were risen from their knees he was again earnestly exhorted to a true and through Repentance After they were risen up he was Exhorted to Pray for the KING and was asked Whither he did not desire to send some dutiful Message to His Majesty and to recommend His wife and Children to His Majesties Favour M. What harm have they done Do it if you please I pray for Him and for all Men Then the Versicles were Repeated A. O Lord shew thy Mercy upon us M. He made the Response And grant us thy Salvation A. It followed O Lord save the KING M. And Mercifully hear us when we call upon thee A. Sir Do you not pray for the KING with us The Versicle was again Repeated O Lord save the KING M. After some pause he answered Amen THen he spake to the Executioner concerning his Undressing c. and he would have no Cap c. and at the beginning of His Undressing it was said to him on this manner A. My Lord You have been bred a Souldier You will do a Generous Christian-Thing if you please to go to the Rail and speak to the Souldiers and say That here you stand a sad Example of Rebellion and intreat Them and the People to be Loyal and Obedient to the KING M. I have said I will make no Speeches I will make no Speeches I come to dye A. My Lord Ten words will be enough Then calling his Servant and giving him something like a Tooth-pick-Case Here said he give this to the Person to whom you are to deliver the other things M. To the Executioner Here are six Guinneys for you Pray do your business well don't serve me as you did my Lord Russel I have heard you struck him three or four times Here to his Servant take these remaining Guinneys and give them to him if he does his work well Executioner I hope I shall M. If you strike me twice I cannot promise you not to stir During his Undressing and standing towards the Block there were used by those who assisted him divers Ejaculations proper at that time and much of the fifty-first Psalm was repeated and particularly Deliver me from Blood Guiltness O God thou God c. Then he lay down and soon after he raised himself upon his Elbow and said to the Executioner Prethee let me feel the Ax he felt the Edge and said I fear it is not sharp enough Executioner It is sharp enough and heavy enough Then he lay down again During this space many Pious Ejaculations were used by those that assisted him with great fervency Ex. Gr. God accept your Repentance God accept your Repentance God accept your IMPERFECT Repe●tance My Lord God accept your GENERAL Repentance God Almighty shew his OMNIPOTENT Mercy upon you Father into thy hands we commend his Spirit c. Lord Jesus receive his Soul Then the Executioner proceeded to do his Office This is a true Account Witness our Hands Francis Ely Thomas Bath and Wells Thomas Tennison George Hooper Sheriffs William Gostlin Peter Vandeput A Copy of the Paper to which the late Duke of Monmouth referred himself in the Discourses he held upon the Scaffold I Declare That the Title of KING was forc't upon me and That it was very much contrary to my Opinion when I was Proclaimed For the Satisfaction of the World I do declare That the late King told me He was never Married to my Mother Having declared this I hope that the King who is now will not let my Children suffer on this Account And to this I put my Hand this Fifteenth Day of July 1685. MONMOUTH Declared by himself and Signed in the Presence of Us Francis Ely Thomas Bath and Wells Thomas Tenison George Hooper A Copy of the late Duke of Monmouth's Letter to the KING Dated from Ring-Wood the 8th of July 1685. SIR YOUR Majesty may think it is the Misfortune I now lie under makes me make this Application to You But I do assure Your Majesty it is the Remorse I now have in me of the Wrong I have done You in several things and now in taking up Arms against You. For my taking up Arms It never was in my Thoughts since the King Died The Prince and Princess of Orange will be Witness for me of the Assurance I gave them That I would never stir against You. But my Misfortune was such as to meet with some Horrid People that made me believe Things of Your Majesty and gave me so many false Arguments that I was fully led away to believe That it was a Shame and a Sin before God not to do it But SIR I will not trouble Your Majesty at present with many things I could say for my self that I am sure would move Your Compassion The Chief End of this Letter being only to beg of You That I may have that Happiness as to speak to Your Majesty For I have that to say to You SIR that I hope may give You a long and Happy Reign I am sure SIR when You hear me You will be convinced of the Zeal I have for Your Preservation and how heartily I Repent of what I have done I can say no more to Your Majesty now being this Letter must be seen by those that keep me Therefore SIR I shall make an end in begging of Your Majesty to believe so well of me That I would rather die a Thousand Deaths than excuse any thing I have done if I did not really think my self the most in the Wrong that ever any Man was and had not from the bottom of my Heart an Abhorrence for those that put me upon it and for the Action it self I hope SIR God Almighty will strike Your Heart with Mercy and Compassion for me as He has done mine with the Abhorrence of what I have done Therefore I hope SIR I may live to shew You how zealous I shall ever be for Your Service and could I say but one Word in this Letter you would be convinced of it but it is of that Consequence that I dare not do it Therefore SIR I do beg of You once more to let me speak to You for then You will be convinced how much I shall ever be Your Majesty's most Humble and Dutiful MONMOUTH London Printed for Robert Horne John Baker and Benjamin Took 1685.