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A41238
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Sir George Sondes his plaine narrative to the vvorld, of all passages upon the death of his tvvo sonnes.
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Feversham, George Sondes, Earl of, 1599-1677.
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1655
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his death receive him into thy armes of mercy that his mournfull Father may yet have this comfort that though thou hast made him Childlesse and left him not one Son alive on earth yet which is much better they may live with thee in Eternal blisse in Heaven Dear Father grant us this our request and that onely for thy beloved Son JESVS CHRIST his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen In his Examination at Maidstone before the Justices when he was asked what provoked him to commit so foule an act 't is strange to see how he seems to make my hard using of him to be the motive and provocation whereas it is well known to all that never Son was treated more tenderly by a Father I will set down the effect of his Examination and my Answer to himself by a Letter when I came to the knowledge of it and the true story of the Doublet he so much complained of attested by divers who were then by And when at last he asked forgivenesse of me and desired to hear from me you shall see my bowels toward him in my last Letter The effect of his Examination The fact of murthering his Brother he freely confessed before the Justices It is already in print and it is my grief to repeat it But being asked why he did it He answered It was because upon a difference between him and his Brother about a week before May day last concerning a Doublet his Father threatned that he would ruine him never look on him more keep him short while he lived and at his death make him a Servant to his Brother that whereas it was said by some that he had a thousand pounds a year I would not leave him a thousand groats and that I would make him as poor as his Unkle Nicholas and that for the space of four yeares last past he hath not had of his Father forty pounds he believeth not twenty and that his Fathers displeasure against him still continued These if truths might have been ground of discontent but no provocations to so wicked an act But he who is the father of murthers is also the father of lyes and taught man this lesson from the beginning We are all apt to lay our faults on others our Father Adam did it in Paradise The Woman whom thou gavest me said he she gave me of the fruit and I did eat As if he had said if thou hadst not given her to me I had never eaten of the forbidden fruit Oh ingratefull Adam to upbraid thy Maker who gave thee a Woman the best of Creatures for an help and not for thy ruine O wicked Son so to pervert thy Fathers words which were spoken to thee for thy amendment but not for thy hurt My Letter to him will declare the truth and in what manner the words were spoken to him Can it be imagined if any thing had past that had troubled him about that Doublet that it should provoke him to commit that foule fact a quarter of a yeare after especially since he had the same if not greater opportunity all along and all manner of respect and kindness both from his Brother me passing still to him to the very night before and all former quarrels quite forgot I had been from them seven weeks a Prisoner in Upnor Castle and did not see them but as they came sometimes to me passing between London and my house I came not home many dayes before and the very day before I and both my Sons were at Feversham to see a Match at Running a sport they delighted in wee were as pleasant as ever and so went to our Chambers Bed without the least shew of any discontent But I will shew you my Sons Letter to me and my Answer to him which will discover the truth of these things Freeman's Letter Most dear and loving Father ALthough through the heinousnesse of my offence I am become unworthy to see your face more in this world yet I hope such is your Fatherly goodnesse that you will vouchsafe to accept and reade these few and last lines of your dead Son Dead to your selfe dead to all this world and I hope through Gods grace dead to sin but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord Sir I praise God I am come to a sight and sense of my sin I begin to feel the weight of my burden but I hope the Lord Iesus will very shortly ease me in full assurance whereof I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Sir I desire you may have comfort in my death although you have had little in my life For I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son The Lord make me worthy to be one of his Sir all I beg at your hands is your pardon your blessing your prayers which I doubt not to obtain I am now neer my journeys end and I hope in a very short time to rest in Abrahams bosome whither my Brother is gone before me Is gone hinc illae lachrymae and you my dear Father shall in Gods good time follow after Comfort your selfe with these words Sir I hope through the strength of Gods grace to look death in the face couragiously and depart this world penitently not doubting but that when I shall petition Lord remember me now thou art in thy Kingdome I shall to my unspeakable comfort receive that gracious answer from the mouth of my triumphant Saviour This day shalt thou be with me in paradise In prayer for which and assurance whereof through faith in the Lord Iesus with my humble thanks for your tender love and Fatherly care from my very cradle to this day although undeserved my humble duty presented to your self praying to God to make you happier without us than you were with us I humbly take leave Your Son for a few daies But I hope the Son of God for ever FREEMAN SONDES To his Letter I returned this Answer Son Freeman I Have received your Letter and like well of the words and desires you use therein and wish with all my soul you were as that speaks you That you were heartily sorry for that most high and crying sinne committed against your heavenly and earthly Father in so foulely murthering your most innocent brother Upon these hopes though never greater injury was done to man I doe really and fully forgive you And doe and have and shall as long as you have being here most heartily and earnestly every moment of time beg of God that he would give you a true sight of this and of all other your sinnes and receive you to his mercy and forgivenesse But let me tell you that will never be but upon a true repentance of all your sins and an acknowledgment of them and that let me be plain with you I yet see not in you For this most detestable fact you confesse indeed you did it but as much as in