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The life and death of Charles the First King of Great Britain, France and Ireland: containing an account of his sufferings; his tryal, sentence, and dying words on the scaffold; and his sorrowful farewel and advice to his children, and the whole nation in general.
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that an unjust Sentence that I suffer'd to take effect is punish'd by an unjust Sentence upon me so far I have said to shew you that I am an Innocent Man Now to shew you that I am a good Christian I hope there is a good Man Pointing to the Bishop that will bear me witness that I have forgiven all the World and even those in particular that have been the cause of Death who they are God knows I do not desire to know I pray God forgive them but this not all my Charity must go farther I wish that they may Repent indeed they have committed a great sin in that particular I pray God with St. Stephen that be not laid to their charge and withal that they may take the way to the peace of the Kingdom for my Charity commands me not only to forgive particular men but endeavour to the last gasp the peace of the Kingdom So Sirs I do with all my Soul I see there are some here that will carry it farther the peace of the Kingdom Sirs I must shew you how you are out of the way and put you in the way first you are out of the way for certaily all the ways you ever had yet as far as ever I could find by any thing If in the way of Conquest certainly this is an ill way for Conquest in my Opinion is never just except there be a good and just Cause either for matter of Wrong or a just Title and then if you go beyond the first Quarrel that makes that Unjust at the end that was Just at first for if there be only matter of Conquest then it is a Robbery as a Pirate said to Alexander that he was a great Robber himself was but a petty Robber and so Sirs I think for the way that you are in you are much out of the way Now Sirs to put put you in the way believe it you shall never go right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his Due the King his Due that is my Successor and the People their Due I am as much for them as any of you You must give God his Due by regulating the Church according to the Scripture which is now out of order and to set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely call'd freely debating among themselves must settle this When every Opinion is freely heard For the King indeed I will not the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the people truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whosoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having Government under those Laws by which their Lives and theirs may be most their own It is not in having a share in the Government that is nothing appertaining to them a Subject and a Sovereign are clear differing things and therefore until you do that I mean that you put the People into that Liberty as I say they will never enjoy themselves Sir It was for this that now I am come hither for if I would have given way to an Arbitrary Course to have all Laws chang'd according to the Power of the Sword I need not to have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray to God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People In troth Sirs I shall not hold you any longer I will only say this to you that I could have desired some little time longer because I would have a little better digested this I have said and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you take take Courses that are the best for the good of the Kingdom and your own Salvation Bishop Tho' your Majesties affections may be very well known as to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say something thereof for the World's Satisfaction King I thank you heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it in Troth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the World and therefore I declare before you all That I dye a Christian according to the Profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest Man I think will witness it Then speaking to the Executioner he said I shall say but very short Prayers and when I thrust out my hands let that be your Sign Then he called to the Bishop for his Night Cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Does my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly with the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then turning to the Executioner he said I have a good Cause and a righteous God on my side Bishop There is but one Stage more this Stage is turbulent and full of trouble it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven and there you will find a great deal of Cordial Joy and Happiness King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the World Bishop You are Exchanged from a Temporary to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange Then the King said is my Hair well and took off his Cloak and his George giving his George to the Bishop saying Remember Then he put off his Dublet and being in his Wastecoat he put on his Cloak again then looking upon the Block he said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put out my Hands this way stretching them out Then do your Work after having said two or three Words to himself as he stood with Hands lift up to Heaven immediately stooping down he laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King thinking he had been going to strike said Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and 't pleasure your Majesty Then after a little pause the King stretching forth his Hands the Executioner at one blow severed his Head from his Body which with his Body was put into a Coffin cover'd with black Velvet and carried into his Lodgings at White-hall From thence it was carried to his House at St. James's where his Body was Embalm'd and put into a Coffin of Lead and there lay a Fortnight to be seen of the People On Wednesday seven-night after his Corps embalm'd and coffin'd in Lead was deliver'd to the care of four of his Servants viz. Mr. Herbert Captain Anthony Mildmay Captain Preston and Mr. John Joyner who with others in Mourning accompanied the Herse that night to Windsor and placed it in the Room which was formerly the King's
The Life and Death of Charles the First King of Great Britain France and Ireland Containing an Account of his Sufferings His TRYAL SENTENCE and Dying Words on the Scaffold and his sorrowful Farewel and Advice to his Children and the whole Nation in general London Printed by J. Bradford in Fetter-Lane The Life and Death of Charles the First King of Great Britain France and Ireland THIS Pious tho' Unfortunate Prince Charles the first King of Great Britain France and Ireland was the Son of James the 6th King of Scots and Anne his Wife Daughter to the King of Denmark He was born at Dunfermeling one of the Principal Towns of Fife in Scotland on Novem. 19. Anno 1600. in so much Weakness that his Baptism was hasten'd without the usual Ceremonies Providence seeming to Consecrate him to Suffering from the very Womb. At 2 years of Age he was created Duke of Albany Marquess of Ormond Earl of Ross and Baron of Ardmanock When he was 3 years Old he was committed to the Care and Governance of Sir Robert Cary's Lady as a Reward for being the first Messenger of Queen Elizabeth's Death At 11 years of age he was made Knight of the Garter and the next Year his elder Brother Prince Henry dying he succeeded him in the Dukedom of Cornwall When he was 16 years of Age he was created Prince of Wales Earl of Chester and Flint the Revenues thereof being assigned him for the Maintenance of his Court. At 22 years of Age he was sent by the King his Father into Spain to contract a Marriage with the Iafanta but this was liker to turn into a War with the Spaniards and a Marriage was sought with Henrieta Maria the youngest Daughter of the French King In the interim of which King James died at Theobalds Sunday March the 27th 1625. And Prince Charles was immediately proclaim'd King at the Court Gate and so throughout the three Kingdoms with infinite Rejoycings His first Publick Act was celebrating his Father's Funeral whereat himself was chief Mourner contrary to the Practice of all his Royal Predecessors When he had paid that Debt he next provided for Posterity and therefore hastened the coming over of his Royal Consort whom he received at Dover and was Married on Trinity-Sunday at Canterbury Thus having dispatched the Affairs of his Family he applyed himself to those of the Kingdom in which he seem'd not so much to ascend a Throne as to wrestle with all the Difficulties of a corrupted State whose long Peace had soften'd the Nobles into Court-Pleasures and made the Commons Insolent by a great Plenty His First Parliament began June 18. At the Opening of which the King acquainted them with the necessary Supplies for the War with Spain which they had importunatly thro' his Mediation engag'd his Father in which after some Petitions and Delays they answer'd but with two Subsidies too poor a stock to furnish an Army yet was kindly receiv'd in Expectation of more at the next Sitting For the Infection seizing upon London the Parliament was adjouru'd till August when they were to meet at Oxford and at that time he pass'd some Acts that were presented to him At the next Session he gave a Complying and Satisfactory Answer to all their Petitions and expected a Return in larger Subsidies toward the Spanish War but instead of these there were high and furious Debates Grievances Consultations to form and Publish Remonstrances Accasations against the Duke of Buckingham which the King esteeming Reproaches of his Government Dissolves that Assembly hoping to find one of a less Cholerick Complexion after his Coronation This drew after it another Mischief the Miscarriage of the Designs upon Spain by rendring for want of Supplies the Fleet uncapable of attempting Cadiz And now Feb. 2d the King perform'd the Ceremony of his Coronation after which he began a 2d Parliament wherein the Commons Voted him 4 Subsidies but the Faction then forming in the Kingdom tacking it to other matters as the Ruine of the Duke of Buckingham and Remonstrances against the Government the King Dissolves the Parliament June 18. and the Bill for the Subsidies never pass'd This misunderstanding at Home produc'd another War abroad for the King of France taking advantage of these Domestick Broils began open War and Seiz'd upon the English Merchants in the River of Bourdeaux The next Year 1627 the King quicken'd by the Petitions of the Rochellers who sued for his Protection as well as by the Justice of his own Cause sent the Duke of Buckingham to attack the Isle of Rhee which partly thro' the Duke's Conduct miscarried This occasion'd the King to call another Parliament which in the begining prov'd very shamefull but the Faction labour to form new Discontents and Jealousies and are again hammering out Remonstrances to Reproach him and his Government which the King being unable to endure he Adjourns the Parliament June 26th till Octob. 20. soon after Peace was clapt up with France and King Charles the Second Born all was in Peace and Quietness till 1632 when the King took a journey into Scotland to receive the Imperial Crown there and was accordingly Crown'd at Edenburgh June 10th and return'd with great welcome again into Eungland But the Malecontents here defus'd their Poyson they complain'd of Invasions on their Spiritual Liberttes because the Bishops endeavour'd to reduce the Ceremonies of the Church to their Primitive Observance for which both his Majesty and they were defam'd with Popery And now the Tax of Ship-Money appear'd that was likewise pretended a Breach to their Civil Liberties and contrary to Law because not laid by Parliament Amidst all these difficulties and Calumnies the King hitherto had Govern'd so that sober Men could not Pray for nor Heaven grant in mercy to a People any greater happiness but for the Arts and Fury of some Wicked Men who endeavour'd to overwhelm every Part of the Kings Dominions with a Deluge of Blood The first storm arose from the North where Disputes were manag'd about Church Government till at length the King Marches that way with a Gallant Army and Oblig'd the Scots to sue for an Accommodation but they soon broke their Faith as soon as the King had Disbanded his Army which occasion'd the King to prepare for another Army and in order thereto calls a Parliament in Ireland and another in England which latter he was fain to Dissolve without any Effect The King however Vigourously Prosecuted his Undertaking and rais'd a sufficient Army but could not do it with equal speed to his Enemies so that he gave a Defeat to a Party of it e're the Rear could be brought up Commanded by the Earl of Strafford He was no sooner arriv'd at the Army himself but there follow'd him a Petition of some English Lords Conformable to the Scotch Remonstrance which they call'd the Inventions of the Army so that his Majesty might justly fear some attempts in the South while he was thus Defending himself in the