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The Earle of Straffords letter to his lady sent by a trvsty messenger, with his prayer on the scaffold at Tower Hill, 12. of May 1641.
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Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.
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THE EARLE OF STRAFFORDS LETTER TO HIS LADY SENT BY A TRVSTY MESSENGER WITH HIS PRAYER ON THE Scaffold at Tower hill 12. of May 1641. Thomas Earle of Strafford L Leutenant of Ireland A Letter sent from the Earl of Strafford to his Lady into Ireland a little before his death May the 11. 1641 YOu shall receive my deare Wife my last words in these my last times my love I send that you may keep it when I am dead And my Counsell that you may remember it when I am no more I would not with my will present you sorrowes deare Wife let them goe to the grave with mee and bee buried in the dust and seeing it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more beare my distruction patiently and with an heart like your selfe First I send you all the thankes which my heart can conceive or my words expresse for your many travels and cares for me which though they have not taken effect as you wished yet my debt to you is noe lesse but pay it I never shall in this world Secondly I beseech you for the love you beare mee living that you doe not hide your selfe many dayes but by your travell seeke to helpe the miserable fortune and the right of your poore Children your mourning cannot availe any thing that am but dust Thirdly you shall understand that my Lands were conveyed bona fide unto my Son the Writings were drawne at Midsomer was a twelve-moneth as diverse can witnesse and I trust my blood will quench their malice who desire my slaughter and that they will not seeke also you and yours to kill with extreme povertie To what friend to direct you know not for all mine have left mee in the true time of triall most sorrie am I I that beeing thus surprized by death I can leave you no better Estate God hath prevented all my determinations that great God that worketh all in all and if you can live free from want care for no more for the rest is but vanitie Love God and beginne betimes in him so shall you finde true and everlasting comfort when you have travelled and wearied your selfe with all sorts of worldly cogitations you shall sit downe with sorrow in the end Teach your Sonne also to feare and serve God whilst hee is young that the feare of God may grow upon him then will God bee an Husband to you and a Father to him and a Husband and Father that never can bee taken away from you Balo oweth me 1000. li. and Adrian 1000. li. in Iernsey I have also much owing mee Deere wife I beseech you for my soules sake pay all poore men when I am dead no doubt you shall be much sought unto for the world thinkes I was very rich have a care to the faire pretence of men for no greater misery can befall you in this life then to become a pray unto the world and after to bee despised I speake God knowes not to disswade you from Marrying againe for that will bee the best for you both in respect of God and of the world as for me I am no more yours nor you mine Death hath cut us asunder and God hath divided me from the world and you from me Remember my Child for his fathers sake who loved you in his happiest estate I sued for my life but God knowes it was for you and yours that I desired it for know it deare wife your Child is the sonne of a true man who in his owne respect despiseth death I cannot write much God knowes how hardly I steale time when all are asleepe and it is also time to separate my selfe from the world Begge my dead body which living was denyed and either lay it in Aleanne or Antley by my Father and Mother I can say no more Time and Death calls me away The everlasting God powerfull infinite and inscrutable God Almighty who is goodnesse it selfe keepe you and yours and have mercy upon me and forgive me and my prosecutors and false accusers and send us to meete in his glorious Kingdome My deare Wife farewell Blesse my Boy pray for me and let my true God hold you both in his Armes THE PRAYER MADE BY THE Earle of Strafford at Tower hill when he departed this life 12. of May 1641. O Most mercifull father I thy unworthyest of seruants doe most humbly prostrate my selfe before the throne of thy heavenly Maiesty and this multitude of people here assembled to see me suffer befeeching thee of thy infinite goodnesse to receiue when my head shall be divided from my body at this instant this distressed soule of mine into thy heaaenly kingdome and because the houre of my death is appointed and the date of my life determined at that houre let thy heavenly providence I beseech thee O Lord so guid me that I swerue not from the truth in this my last Prayer And I beseech thee O Lord from the bended knees of my heart as well as of my body before this multitude of people to iâ—fuse thâ— holy spirit inâ—o me that it may seale unto my soule â—he free pardon and forgiuenesse of all my sinnes which cry for vengeance from the righteous Iudge of heaven and earth and let mee with the pennitent theife on the Crosse finde as thon answered him this present day I confidently beleeve I shall see my Lord and sauiour in the Kingdome of heaven where all consolation and ioy is forever remaining and into whose presence I come I come Lord Iesus receive my sinfull soule Amen A Letter to a Lady MAdam Although there be some discovery made knowne yet what we intend â—s secure you must send two thousand pounds speedily no danger lesse difficult to compasse as yet you must remaine secret Remember your oath we shall slay the Beast with many heads and destroy the Devills brood before they dreame or mistrust burne this Letter your reward shall be in heaven FINIS