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A86997	The several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. Also the several exhortations, and conferences with them, upon the scaffold, by Dr Sibbald, Mr Bolton, & Mr Hodges. Published by special authority.	Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.; Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing H482; Thomason E546_21; ESTC R202512	23,521	45

protection of that for my life and the honor of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberally about it I believe you will hear by other means what Arguments I used in that case But truly that that is stranger you that are English men behold here an English man now before you and acknowledged a Peer not condemned to dye by any Law of England not by any Law of England Nay shall I tell you more which is strangest of all contrary to all the Laws of England that I know of And truly I will tell you in the matter of the Civil part of my death and the cause that I have maintained I dye I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandment injoyned by God himself which injoyns reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many several Opinions yet all Divines on all hands do acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order and certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy and that Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I do say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fifth Commandment given by God himself and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you That I cannot imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himself For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himself was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are concerned in it may take the occasion of it of humble repentance to God Almighty for it I do here profess to you that truly I did give my Vote to that Bill of the E. of Strafford I doubt not but God Almighty hath washed that away with a more precious blood that is with the blood of his own Son and my dear Savior Jesus Christ and I hope he will wash it away from all those that are guilty of it truly this I may say I had not the least part nor the least degree of malice in the doing of it but I must confess again to Gods glory and the accusation of mine own frailty and the frailty of my Nature that truly it was an unworthy Cowardize not to resist so great a torrent as carried that business at that time And truly this I think I am most guilty of of not courage enough in it but malice I had none but whatsoever it was God I am sure hath pardoned it hath given me the assurance of it that Christ Jesus his blood hath washed it away and truly I do from my soul wish That all men that have any stain by it may seriously repent and receive a remission and pardon from God for it And now Gentlemen we have had an occasion by this intimation to remember his Majesty our King that last was and I cannot speak of him nor think of it but truly I must needs say That in my Opinion that have had time to consider all the Images of all the greatest and vertuousest Princes in the world and truly in my Opinion there was not a more vertuous and more sufficient Prince known in the world then our gracious King Charls that dyed last God Almighty preserve our King that now is his Son God send him more fortunate and longer days God Almighty so assist him that he may exceed both the vertues and sufficiencies of his Father For certainly I that have been a Counsellor to him and have lived long with him and in a time when discovery is easily enough made for he was yong he was about thirteen fourteen fifteen or sixteen years of age those years I was with him truly I never saw greater hopes of vertue in any yong person then in him great Judgment great Understanding great Apprehension much Honor in his Nature and truly a very perfect English man in his inclination and I pray God restore him to this Kingdom and Unite the Kingdoms one unto another and send a great happiness both to you and to him that he may long live and Reign among you and that that Family may Raign till thy Kingdom come that is while all Temporal Power is consummated I beseech God of his mercy give much happiness to this your King and to you that in it shall be his Subjects by the grace of Jesus Christ Truly I like my beginning so well that I will make my conclusion with it that is That God Almighty would confer of his infinite and inestimable grace and mercy to those that are the causers of my coming hither I pray God give them as much mercy as their own hearts can wish and truly for my part I will not accuse any one of them of malice truly I will not nay I will not think there was any malice in them what other ends there is I know not nor I will not examine but let it be what it will from my very soul I forgive them every one And so the Lord of Heaven bless you all God Almighty be infinite in goodness and mercy to you and direct you in those ways of obedience to his commands to his Majesty that this Kingdom may be a happy and glorious Nation again and that your King may be a happy King in so good and so obedient people God Almighty keep you all God Almighty preserve this Kingdom God Almighty preserve you all Then turning about and looking for the Executioner who was gone off the Scaffold said Which is the Gentleman which is the man Answer was made He is a coming He then said Stay I must pull off my Dublet first and my Wastcoat And then the Executioner being come upon the Scaffold the Lord Capel said O friend prethee come hither Then the Executioner kneeling down the Lord Capel said I forgive thee from my soul and not only forgive thee but I shall pray to God to give thee all grace for a better life There is Five pounds for thee and truly for my clothes and those things if there be any thing due to you for it you shall be very fully recompenced but I desire my body may not be stripped here and no body to take notice of my body but my own servants Look you friend this I shall desire of you that when I lye down that you would give me a time for a particular short prayer Lieut. Col Beecher Make your own sign my Lord Capel Stay a little Which side do you stand upon speaking to the Executioner Stay I think I should lay my hands forward that way pointing foreright and answer being made Yes he stood still a little while and then said GOD Almighty bless all this People God Almighty stench this blood God Almighty stench stench stench this issue of blood this will not do the business God Almighty finde out another way to do it And then turning to one of his Servants said Baldwin I cannot see any thing that belongs to my wife but I must desire thee to beseech her to rest wholly upon Jesus Christ and be contented and fully satisfied and then speaking to his Servants he said God keep you and Gentlemen let me now do a business quickly privately and pray let me have your Prayers at the moment of death that God would receive my soul Lieut. Col. Beecher I wish it Capel Pray at the moment of striking joyn your prayers but make no noise turning to his Servants that is inconvenient at this time Servant My Lord put on your Cap. Capel Should I what will that do me good Stay a little is it well as it is now * And then turning to the Executioner he said Honest man I have forgiven thee therefore strike boldly from my soul I do it Then a Gentleman speaking to him he said Nay prethee be contented be quiet good Mr. be quiet Then turning to the Executioner he said Well you are ready when I am ready are you not and stretching out his hands he said Then pray stand off Gentlemen Then going to the front of the Scaffold he said to the People Gentlemen though I doubt not of it yet I think it convenient to ask it of you That you would all joyn in Prayers with me That God would mercifully receive my soul and that for his alone Mercies in Christ Jesus God Almighty keep you all Executioner My Lord shall I put up your hair Capel I I prethee do and then as he stood lifting up his hands and eyes he said O God I do with a perfect and a willing heart submit to thy will O God I do most willingly humble my self and then kneeling down said I will try first how I can lye and laying his head over the Block said Am I well now Executioner Yes And then as he lay with both his hands stretched out he said to the Executioner Here lies both my hands out when I lift up my hand thus * then you may strike And then after he had said a short prayer he lifted up his right hand and the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was taken up by his servants and put with his body into a Coffin as the former FINIS * Observing the Writers * Looking towards M. Bolton * Pointing to the Block * As he was putting up his hair * Lifting up his right hand

as that may be done which shall tend to his glory and the peace and happinesse of the kingdom I have not much more to say that I remember of I think I have spoken of my Religion Dr. Sibbald Your Lordship his not so fully said it Camb. Truly I do believe I did say something Dr Sibbald I know you did 't is pleasing to heare it from your Lordship againe Cambr. Truly Sir for the profession of my Religion that which I said was the established Religion and that which I have practised in my owne Kingdome where I was borne and bred my Tenents they need not to be exprest they are knowne to all and I am not of a rigid opinion many godly men there is that may have scruples which doe not concerne me at all at no time they may differ in Opinion and more now then at any time differing in Opjnion does not move me not any mans my owne is cleare Sir The Lord forgive me my sinnes and I forgive freely all those that even I might as a worldly man have the greatest animosity against We are bidden to forgive Sir T is a command laid upon us and there mentioned Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us Dr. Sibbald 'T is our Saviours rule love your enemies blesse them that curse you pray for them that persecute you do good to them which despightfully use you Cambr. Sir it is high time for me to make an end of this and truly I remember no more that I have to say but to pray to God Almighty a few words and then I have done Then kneeling downe with Doctor Sibbald he Prayed thus Most Blessed Lord I thy poore and most unworthy servant come unto thee presuming in thy infinite mercy and the merits of Jesus Christ who sits upon the Throne I come flying from that of Justice to that of Mercy and tendernesse for his sake which shed his bloud for sinners that he would take compassion upon me that he will look upon me as one that graciously hears me that he would look upon me as one that hath redeemed me that he would look upon me as one that hath shed his bloud for me that he would look upon me as one who now cals and hopes to be saved by his al-sufficient merits for his sake Glorious God have compassion upon me in the freenesse of thy infinite mercy that when this sinfull soule of mine shall depart out of this fraile carcase of clay I may be carried into thy everlasting glory O Lord by thy free grace and out of thy infinite mercy heare me and look downe and have compassion upon me and thou Lord Jesus thou my Lord and thou my God and thou my Redeemer heare me take pitie upon me take pitie upon me gracious God and so deale with my soule that by thy precious merits I may attaine to thy joy and blisse O Lord remember me so miserable and sinfull a creature now thou O Lord thou O Lord that died for me receive me and receive me into thy owne bound of mercy O Lord I trust in thee suffer me not now to be confounded Satan has had too long possession of this soule O let him not now prevaile against it but let me O Lord from henceforth dwell with thee for evermore Now Lord it is thy time to heare me heare me gracious Jesus even for thy owne goodnesse mercy and truth O glorious God O blessed Father O holy Redeemer O gracious Comforter O holy and blessed Trinity I do render up my soule into thy hands and commit it with the mediation of my Redeemer praising thee for all thy dispensations that it has pleased thee to conferre upon me and even for this praise and honour and thanks of this time forth for ever more Dr. Sibbald My Lord I trust you now behold with the eye of Faith the Son of righteousnesse shining upon your soul and will chearfully submit unto him who hath redeemed us through his bloud even the bloud of Jesus Christ that you may appeare at the Tribunal of God clothed with the white robe of his unspotted righteousnesse the Lord grant that with the eye of faith you may now see the heavens opened and Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive you into his armes of mercie Cambr. Then the Earle turning to the Executioner said shall J put on another Cap must this hair be turn'd up from my neck there are three of my servants to give satisfaction D. Sib. My Lord I hope you are able to give all that are about you satisfaction you are assured that God is reconciled unto you through the bloud of Christ Iesus and the Spirit of the Lord witnesseth to you that Christ is become now a Iesus unto you My Lord fasten the eyes of your faith upon Jesus the Author finisher of your salvation who himself was brought to a violent death for the redemption of mankind he chearfully submitted to his Fathers good pleasure in it and for us blessed and holy is he that has part my Lord in the first resurrection that is in the first riser Jesus Christ who is both the resurrection and the life over him the second death shall have no power t is the unspeakable joy of a beleever that at the houre of death his soule hath an immediate passage from this earthly Tabernacle to that Region of endlesse glory yea to the presence of God himselfe in whose presence there is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Then the E of Cambridge turning to the Executiooner said which way is it that you would have me lye Sir Execut The Executioner pointing to the front of the Scaffold the Earle replyed what my Head this way then the Under Sheriffs son said my Lord the Order is that you should lay your Head towards the High-Court of Iustice The Earl of Cambr. after a little discourse in private with some of his servants kneeled down on the side of the Scaffold and prayed a while to himself When he had finisht his prayers Dr. Sibbald spake to him thus My Lord I humbly beseech God that you may now with a holy and Christian courage give up your soul to the hand of your faithful Creator and gracious Redeemer and not be dismaied with any sad apprehension of the terrours of this death And what a blessed and glorious Exchange you shall make within a very few minutes Then with a cheerfull and smiling countenance the Earle embracing the Doctor in his Armes said Camb. Truly Sir I do take you in mine arms truly I blesse God for it I do not feare I have an assurance that is grounded here laying his hand upon his heart Now that gives me more true joy then ever J had J passe out of a miserable world to go into an eternall and glorious Kingdome and Sir though J have been a most sinfull creature yet Gods mercy

violent deaths that I have seen before principally my Saviour that hath shewed us the way how and in what manner he hath done it and for what cause I am the more comforted I am the more rejoyced It is not long since the King my Master passed in the same manner and truly I hope that his purposes intentions were such as a man may not be ashamed not only to follow him in the way that was taken with him but likewise not ashamed of his purposes if God had given him life I have often disputed with him concerning many things of this kind I conceive his sufferings his better knowledg better understanding if God had spared him life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himself very happy towards this Kingdom I have seen and known that those blessed Soules in heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow many by the gate of violence and since it is Gods pleasure to dispose me this way I submit my soul to him with all comfort and with all hope that he hath made this my end and this my conclusion that though I be low in death yet neverthelesse this lowness shal raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publique to the People concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my counsells in this Kingdom I conceive they are well known it were somthing of vanity me thinks to take notice of them here He rather die with them with the comfort of them in my own bosome and that I never intended in this action or any action that ever I did in my life either malice or bloodshed or prejudice to any creature that lives For that which concernes my Religion I made my profession before of it how I was bred and in what manner I was bred in a Family that was looked upon to be no little notorious in opposition to some liberties that they conceived then to bee taken and truly there was some marke upon mee as if I had some taint of it even throughout my whole wayes that I have taken every body knowes what my affections have beene to many that have suffered to many that have beene in troubles in this Kingdome I endeavoured to relieve them I endeavoured to oblige them I thought I was tied so by my Conscience I thought it by my charity and truly very much by my breeding God hath now brought me to the last instant of my time all that I can say and all that I can adhere unto is this That as I am a great sinner so I have a great Saviour that as hee hath given mee heere a fortune to come publiquely in a shew of shame in the way of this suffering truly I understand it not to bee so I understand it to bee a glorie a glorie when I consider who hath gone before mee and a glory when I consider I had no end in it but what I conceive to bee the service of God the King and the Kingdome and therefore my Heart is not charged much with any thing in that particular since I conceive God will accept of the intention whatsoever the action seeme to bee I am going to die and the Lord receive my Soule I have no reliance but upon Christ for my selfe I doe acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners my life hath beene a vanity and a continued sinne and God may justly bring mee to this end for the finnes I have committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my Life I looke upon this as a great justice of God to bring me to this suffering and to bring mee to this punishment and those Hands that have beene most Active in it if any such there hath beene I pray God forgive them I pray God that there may not bee many such Trophees of their Victories but that this may bee as I said before the last shew that this people shall see of the bloud of persons of Condition of persons of Honor I might say something of the way of our Triall which certainely hath beene as extraordinary as any thing I thinke hath ever beene seene in this Kingdome but because that I would not seem as if I made some complaint I will not so much as mention it because no body shall believe I repine at their actions that I repine at my fortune It is the Will of God it is the Hand of God under whom I fall I take it intirely from him I submit my selfe to Him I shall desire to roule my selfe into the Armes of my blessed Saviour and when I come to this * place when I bow downe my selfe there I hope God will raise mee up and when I bid farewell as I must now to Hope and to Faith that love will abide I know nothing to accompany the soule out of this World but love and I hope that love will bring me to the fountaine of glory in Heaven through the Armes Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Iesus Christ in whom I believe O Lord help my unbeliefe Hodges The Lord make over unto you the righteousnesse of his owne Son it is that treasury that hee hath bestowed upon you and the Lord shew you the light of his countenance and fill youful with his joy and kindnesse O my dear Lord the Lord of Heaven and Earth be with you and the Lord of Heaven and Earth bring you to that safety Holl. I shall make as much hast as I can to come to that glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my soule I looke upon my selfe intirely in Him and hope to finde mercy through Him I expect it and through that fountaine that is opened for sin and for uncleannesse my soule must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I have nothing but sinne and corruption in mee I have nothing but that which in stead of being carried up into the Armes of God and Glory I have nothing but may throw me downe into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are cloathed with the righteousnesse of another you will appeare glorious though now sinfull in yourselfe The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my owne Righteousnesse and when you are cloathed with another the Lord will owne you and I shall say but thus much doubt not that ever God will deny salvation to sinners that come to him when the end of all his death and sufferings was the salvation of sinners when as I say the whole end and the whole designe and the great Work that God had to doe in the world by the death of Christ wherein hee laid out all his Councels and infinite wisedome and mercy and goodnesse beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great designe and great end the salvation of sinners that poor fooles should come over to him and live