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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34574	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876	92,519	237

you for your extraordinary Kindness and Love to me I am sure no Man ever had a better Wife in all kinds then you have been unto me I am most heartily sorry that I have not been able to shew hew happy I have held my self in the great blessing which God was pleased to afford me in having you not only for the great Family to which you are the undoubted Heir and Estate you brought me and mine but for the great Love you have always born me I sincerly ask you Pardon with all my heart for all that I have done to give you any dislike I know you will forgive me out of your kindness and affection you have so often shewn unto me more then I deserved If I should repeat all the kindness and affection you have shewn unto me and of all which I am most sensible I should not know when to end God reward you You were present this day when Mr. Lieutenant brought me word of the day of my Death I know the trouble it brought unto you I do most willingly submit my self to Gods Holy will and since he knows how Innocent I am and how Falsly I am Sworn against I am most confident that the most Blessed Trinity will through the Merits and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ grant me a place in Heaven of happiness to glorify God to all Eternity amongst his Angels and Saints the lowest place in Heaven being an happiness above all the Kingdoms of the Earth I give God most humble thanks that I am absolutely quiet within my self from being guilty even so much as in a thought of that Treason I am accused of and never had a thought of any thing against the Person or Government of his Majesty And what I did towards the introducing of the Catholick Religion was no way but that which I thought to be for the good of the Kingdom by Act of Parliament I do ask of the Eternal and Merciful God most humble Pardon for all my great Sins hoping in the mercy of Christ Jesus through his most sacred Passion to obtain remission of my Sins and Life everlasting in Heaven God protect and keep you and ours in his Holy Grace My dear I beseech you by the love you always bore me afflict your self as little as you can for the unexpected yet I doubt not but blessed end of Yours c. To my dear and entirely loving and beloved WIFE My most dear and loving Wife IT hath pleased God of his infinite mercy to bring me into the condition I am in I take it for a mercy much greater then I could deserve or expect I am heartily sorry That I have not been so sensible of the blessing God was pleased to bestow on me by giving you unto me as I should have been for I do from my heart acknowledge that you have been a most kind loving Wife as any man could have and I was not worthy of you I pray forgive me of any and all things that I have ever done to displease you I have not now many hours to live God send me to make a good end I humbly thank him I have a great confidence in his mercy And I do hope through the merits and Passion of Jesus Christ our Saviour to obtain everlasting happiness I beseech God to reward you and bless you and send you all happiness I beseech you by the love you have always born me to bear this my end as well as possibly you can And put my Innocence into the ballance of my Death I pray God to bless all our Children who I hope will be obedient to you I must not forget the Pains and Care that my Daughter Winchester hath taken in an extraordinary kind and discreet way I must likewise own how groundless that report was that hath been Spread abroad That you and she by your entreaty and perswasions have kept me from Discovering my knowledge of the Plot so much spoken of when God knows I know nothing to Discover and shall as totally Die Innocent as any Man ever did not having in the least ever had a Disloyal heart to His Majesty God Preserve you and ours and send us an happy meeting in Heaven which is the hearty Prayer of him that Forty Years had the Honour to bear your name and now is returned unto the name of My dear Mistress Your most affectionate loving Husband William Howard St. Stephen's day 1680 Dear Harry GOD of his mercy I am confident hath brought me hither to let me see how vain all worldly things are and how we deceive our selves when we think of any thing but how with Devotion we may duly serve him I hope by the mercy of God to obtain everlasting Salvation The All-knowing God sees how Innocent I am from the Crimes I am charged with It is a comfort unto me that none of all my Estate will in any way be Forfeited but all comes unto you as if I had Died a natural Death I beseech God to Bless you and make you happy in this World and the World to come And the only way to be so is never to leave truly serving God upon no account whatsoever I know you will carry your self with that duty to your Mother and love and kindness to your Brothers as is fit for you to do So again beseeching God to Protect you and Govern you in Righteousness I am Your most loving Father William Howard Good Child THe Condition I am in is such as I doubt not but that God hath brought me into it for the good of my Soul his Holy Name be praised for it I willingly and chearfully submit unto it I beseech God to bless you and send you eternal Happiness which is the Prayer of Your affectionate Father William Howard Good Daughter I Know you will bear what happens unto me with Patience and Resignation I thank God that I know my self in every kind Innocent and that I have confidence in Gods Mercies and doubt not but through the Mercy and Passion of our Saviour to obtain everlasting happiness I pray God bless you I am Your affectionate Father William Howard My good Child THis is the last time I shall Write unto you I Pray God bless you Your poor Old Father hath this comfort that he is totally Innocent of what he was accused of and confident of Gods Mercy and through the Merits of our Saviour I hope for Salvation I take great content in my Innocency and willingly resign my self to Gods Holy Will I am very much troubled to leave my Wife who hath been so extraordinary a good and kind Wife unto me more then I could deserve God reward her So with my blessing unto you I am Your most loving Father William Howard HE Writ also upon occasion several little Papers or Notes whereof I have only these two or three Copies ✚ 1680. IN the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the

Species or Kinds in doing of which he instituted not only a Sacrament but also a Sacrifice a Commemorative Sacrifice distinctly shewing his Death or Bloudy Passion until he come For as the Sacrifice of the Cross was performed by a distinct Effusion of Bloud so is the same Sacrifice Commemorated in that of the Altar by a distinction of the Symbols Jesus therefore is here given not only to us but for us and the Church thereby enriched with a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice usually termed Mass 11. Catholicks Renounce all Divine Worship and Adoration of Images or Pictures God alone we Worship and Adore nevertheless we make use of Pictures and place them in Churches and Oratories to reduce our wandring thoughts and Enliven our Memories towards Heavenly things And farther we allow a certain Honour and Veneration to the Picture of Christ of the Virgin Mary c. beyond what is due to every Prophane Figure not that we believe any Divinity or Vertue in the Pictures themselves for which they ought to be Honoured but because the Honour given to the Pictures is referred to the Prototypes or things represented In like manner 12. There is a kind of Honour and Veneration Respectively due to the Bible to the Cross to the Name of Jesus to Churches to the Sacraments c. as things peculiarly appertaining to God also to the glorified Saints in Heaven as the Domestick Friends of God yea to Kings Magistrates and Superiors on Earth as the Vicegerents of God To whom Honour is due Honour may be given without any Derogation to the Majesty of God or that Divine Worship appropriate to him Furthermore 13. Catholicks believe That the blessed Saints in Heaven replenished with Charity pray for us their fellow-Members here on Earth that they Rejoyce at our Conversion that seeing God they see and know in him all things suitable to their happy state that God is Inclinable to hear their Requests made in our behalf and for their sakes grants Us many Favours That therefore it is good and Profitable to Desire their Intercession And that this manner of Invocation is no more Injurious to Christ our Mediator nor Superabundant in it self then it is for one Christian to beg the Prayers and Assistance of another in this World Notwithstanding all which Catholicks are taught not so to Relie on the Prayers of others as to neglect their own Duty to God In Imploring his Divine Mercy and Goodness in Mortifying the Deeds of the Flesh in Despising the World in Loving and Serving God and their Neighbours in Following the Footsteps of Christ our Lord who is the Way the Truth and the Life To whom be Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen THese are the Principles These the Treasons These the Idolatries and Superstitions which though no other then what We have Received of our Fore-fathers and what the greatest part of the Christian World now profess yet have drawn upon Us poor Catholicks in England such Dreadful Punishments I beseech you Sir consider our Cause without Passion or Prejudice and I am confident you will see We are not such Monsters as our Adversaries Represent Us to be nor entertain such Principles as are Inconsistent with our Duty to God and the King You seem to say This very Plot with which We are charged proves Us guilty of wicked Principles But under Favour You here commit a Vicious Circle in way of Arguing For first here are wicked Principles alledg'd to make good the Proof of a Plot And these being deny'd the Plot is introduced to make out the wicked Principles As if a man should say a thing because he thought so and give no Reason why he thought so but only because he said so which instead of Proof is to beg the Question Certain I am Catholicks both Taught and Practised Principles of Loyalty at a Time when the King and Kingdom felt the Dire Effects of contrary Perswasions In Fine whatsoever is pretended against Us it is manifest We suffer for our Religion and for our Religion wrongfully traduced It is a farther Comfort to Us that our Sufferings God be praised are in some measure not unlike to those of Christ our Lord For it was laid to his Charge as it is to Ours that he was a Traytor to Caesar That he perverted the People and endeavoured the Destruction of Church and State Nor were there wanting then as now an Oates and Bedloe two false Witnesses to Swear all this Thus God I hope hath Predestinated Us as the Apostle saith to be conform to the Image of his Son to the end that Suffering with Him We may through his Mercy be Glorified together with him Sweet Jesus Bless our Soveraign Pardon our Enemies Grant Us Patience and Establish Peace and Charity in our Nation THus much of my Lord's Principles in Reference to God and the King Whether they be agreable to Reason and Conformable to the Law and Ghospel of Christ I leave to the Impartial Reader to Judge SECT IV. My Lord's Declaration before the House of Lords after his Condemnation SOon after my Lords Tryal several of his Relations and Acquaintance some out of zeal against Popery and others out of kindness to my Lord were daily urgent with him to make Discoveries of all he knew as the only remaining remedy whereby to save his Life regain the Kings favour and attract the applause of the whole Nation My Lord always reply'd He was most willing and ready out of a meer sense of Duty and Conscience independent of any Temporal advantage to himself to discover with all imaginable Sincerity the utmost of what he knew either to the King or House of Lords when ever they required it The Lords being informed hereof Ordered his appearance before them the next day When he came and had audience granted he made his acknowledgments to this effect That he thought it no crime in any Man to wish his Neighbours might be of the same Religion wherein he himself hoped to be saved Nay to seek and promote it by such ways and means as the Laws of God and the Nation allow That there had been at divers times and on sundry occasions endeavours used and overtures made to obtain an Abrogation or at least a Mitigation of Severities against Catholicks But this to be procured no otherwise then by Legal and Parliamentary means That he himself went to Breda whilst the King was there and propounded 100000 l. in behalf of the Catholicks to take off the penal Laws That after the King came in there was a Bill brought into the House in favour of Catholicks but it was opposed by my Lord Chancellour Hide That there had likewise been framed by the Lord Bristol and others in order to the proposing of them in Parliament several forms of Oaths conceived in