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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

and Amity of which as I have beene guilty so I crave at Gods hands forgivenesse It is a Maxime in Philosophy that ambitious men can bee never good Counsellours to Princes the desire of having more is common to great Lords and a desire of Rule a great cause of their Ruine My Lords I am now the hopelesse President may I bee to you all an happy example For Ambition devoureth gold and drinketh bloud and climbeth so high by other mens heads that at the length in the fall it breaketh its own neck therefore it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble For more precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy For what are wee but meere vapours which in a serene Element ascend high and upon an instant like Smoak vanish into nothing or like Ships without Pilots tost up and downe upon the Seas by contrary winds and tempests But the good husbandman thinks better of those eares of Corne which bow downe and grow crooked than those which are streight and upright because he is assured to finde more store of graine in the one than in the other This all men know yet of this how few make use The defect whereof must be now my paine may my suffering prove to others profit For what hath now the favour of my Prince the familiarity with my Peeres the volubility of a tongue the strength of my memory my learning or knowledge my honours or Offices my power and potency my riches and treasure all these the especiall gifts both of Nature and Fortune what have all these profited mee Blessings I acknowledge though by God bestowed upon man yet not all of them together upon many yet by the Divine providence the most of them met in me of which had I made happy use I might still have flourisht who now am forc'd immaturely to fall I now could wish but that utinam is too late that God with his outward goodnesse towards mee had so commixed his inward grace that I had chused the medium path neither inclining to the right hand nor deviating to the left but like Icarus with my waxen wings fearing by too low a flight to moysten them with the Waves I soared too high and too neare the Sunne by which they being melted I ayming at the highest am precipitated to the lowest and am made a wretched prey to the Waters But I who before built my house upon the the sand have now setled my hopes upon the Rock my Saviour by whose onely merits my sole trust is that whatsoever becomes of my body yet in this bosome my soule may be Sanctuaried Nimrod would have built a Tower to reach up to heaven and cald it Babel but God turned it to the confusion of Languages and dissipation of the people Pharaoh kept the Children of Israel in bondage and after having freed them in his great pride would have made them his prey but God gave them a drie and miraculous passage and Pharaoh and his hoast a watrie Sepulcher Belshazzer feasted his Princes and Prostitutes who drunke healths in the Vessells taken from the Temple but the hand of God writ upon the wall Mene Tekel Phoras and that night before morning was both his Kingdome and life taken from him Thus God lets men goe on a great while in their owne devices but in the end it proved their own ruine and destruction never suffering them to effect their desired purposes therefore let none presume upon his power glory in his greatnesse or bee too confident in his riches These things were written for our Instruction of which the living may make use the dying cannot but wit and unfruitfull wisedome are the next neighbours to folly There can bee no greater vanity in the world than to esteeme the world which regardeth no man and to make slight account of God who greatly respecteth all men and there can bee no greater folly in man than by much Travell to increase his goods and pamper his body and in the interim with vaine delights and pleasures to lose his soule It is a great folly in any man to attempt a bad beginning in hope of a good ending and to make that proper to one which was before common to all is meere indiscretion and the beginning of discord which I positively wish may end in this my punishment O how small a proportion of earth will containe my body when my high minde could not be confined within the spacious compasse of two Kingdomes But my houre draweth on and I conclude with the Psalmist not ayming at any one man in particular but speaking for all in generall How long will you Judges bee corrupted how long will yee cease to give true Iudgement c. Blessed is the man that doth not walke in the Councell of the wicked nor stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornfull therefore they shall not stand in the Indgement nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous c. About the houre of 12. a Clocke the aforesaid Lord of Strafford was conveyed to the Scaffold on Tower Hill where was a Court of Guard made by the severall Companies of Souldiers of the City of London and the Hamlets of the Tower on each side as he passed to the Scaffold before marched the Marshalls men to make way then the Sheriffes of Londons Officers with their Halberds after them the Kings Guard or warders of the Tower Next came one of his Gentlemen bare headed in mourning Habit the Lord Strafford following him clad in blacke cloath with divers others in the same habit which were his attendance then the Lord Bishop of Armagh and other good Divines with the Sheriffes of London and divers honourable parsonages The manner of his going from the Tower to the Scaffold When he came to the Scaffold he there shewed himselfe on each side in full view to all people and made this short speech with as much alacrity of Spirit as a mortall man could expresse viz. The Earle of Straffords laft speech on the Scaffold and the manner how he shewed himselfe and spake to the people MY Lord Primate of Ireland and my Lords and the rest of these Gentlemen it is a very great comfort for me to have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been knowne to you a long time I should be very glad to obtaine so much silence as to bee heard a few words but I doubt I shall not my Lord. I come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almightie God to pay that last debt I owe unto sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Christ Jesus to eternall glorie And hee being disturbed by the people hee said What is the matter and sate downe in a chaire some replyed The Souldiers kept most stir If they said he would be quiet all the rest would be quiet I wish I had been private that