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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year published as a breviary, leading all along, successively, as they fell out in their severall years, so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

which hath been in a good Family that hath been ever faithfull to the true Protestant Religion in the which I have been bred in the which I have lived and in the which by Gods grace and mercy I shall dye I have not lived according to that Education I had in that Family where I was borne and bred I hope God will forgive me my sins since I conceive that it is very much his pleasure to bring me to this place for the sins that I have committed The cause that hath brought me hither I believe by many hath been much mistaken They have conceived that I have had ill designs to the State and to the Kingdome truly I look upon it as a judgement and a just judgement of God not but I have offended so much the State and the Kingdome and the Parliament as that I have had an extream vanity in serving them very extraordinarily For those actions that I have done I think it is knowne they have been ever faithfull to the publick and very particularly to Parliam my affections have been ever exprest truly and cleerly to them The dispositions of affaires now have put things in another posture then they were when I was ingaged with the Parl. I have never gone off from those principles that ever I have profest I have lived in them and by Gods grace will I dye in them There may be alterations and changes that may carry them further then I thought reasonable and there I left them But there hath been nothing that I have said or done or professed either by Covenant or Declaration which hath not been very constant and very clear upon the Principles that I ever have gone upon which was to serve the King the Parl. Religion I should have said in the first place the Common-wealth and to seeke the peace of the Kingdome That made me think it no improper time being prest out by accidents and circumstances to seek the peace of the Kingdom which I thought was proper since there was something then in agitation but nothing agreed on for sending Propositions to the King that was the furthest aime that I had and truly beyond that I had no intention none at all And God be praised although my blood comes to be shed here there was I think scarcely a drop of blood shed in that action that I was ingaged in For the present affaires as they are I cannot tell how to judge of them and truly they are in such a condition as I conceive no body can make a judgment of them and therefore I must make use of my prayers rather then of my opinion which are that God would blesse this Kingdome this Nation this State that he would settle it in a way agreeable to what this Kingdom hath been happily Governed under by a King by the Lords by the Commons a Government that I conceive it hath flourished much under and I pray God the change of it bring not rather a prejudice a disorder and a confusion then the contrary I look upon the Posterity of the King and truly my conscience directs me to it to desire that if God be pleased that these people may look upon them with that affection that they owe that they may be called in again and they may be not through blood nor through disorder admitted againe into that power and to that glory that God hath in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my Soul for the happinesse of this State of this Nation that the blood which is here spilt may be even the last which may fall amongst us and truly I should lay down my life with as much cheerfulnesse as ever person did if I conceived that there would no more blood follow us for a State or affairs that are built upon blood is a foundation for the most part that doth not prosper After the blessing that I give to the Nation to the Kingdome and truly to the Parliament I doe wish with all my heart happinesse and a blessing to all those that have been authors in this business and truly that have been authors in this very work that bringeth us hither I doe not only forgive them but I pray heartily and really for them as God will forgive my sins so I desire God may forgive them I have a particular relation as I am Chancellor of Cambridge and truly I must here since it is the last of my prayers pray to God that that University may goe on in that happy way which it is in that God may make it a Nursery to plant those persons that may be distributed to the Kingdome that the Soules of the people may receive a great benefit and a great advantage by them and I hope God will reward them for their kindnesse and their affections that I have found from them Looking towards Mr. Bolton I have said what Religion I have been breed in what Religion I have been born in what Religion I have practiced I began with it and I must end with it I told you that my actions and my life have not been agreeable to my breeding I have told you likewise that the Family where I was bred hath been an exemplary Family I may say so I hope without vanity of much affection to Religion and of much faithfullnesse to this Kingdome and to this State I have endeavoured to doe those actions that have become an honest man and which became a good English-man and which became a good Christian I have been willing to oblige those that have been in trouble those that have been in persecution and truly I finde a great reward of it for I have found their prayers and their kindnesse now in this distresse and in this condition I am in and I think it a great reward and I pray God reward them for it I am a great sinner and I hope God will be pleased to hear my prayers to give me Faith to trust in him that as he hath called me to death at this place hee will make it but a passage to an eternall life through Jesus Christ which I trust to which I relye upon and which I expect by the mercy of God And so I pray God blesse you all and send that you may see this to be the last execution and the last blood that is likely to be spilt among you And then turning to the side raile he prayed for a good space of time God hath given me speaking to Mr. Bolton long time in this world he hath carried me through many great accidents of Fortune he hath at last brought me downe into a condition where I find my selfe brought to an end for a dis-affection to this State to this Parl. that as I said before I did believe no body in the world more unlikely to have expected to suffer for that Cause I look upon it as a great judgement of God for my sins And truly Sir since that the death is violent I am the

God in his justification though there is confusion here without us and though there are wonders and staring that now disquiet us yet I trust that I shall be carried into that mercy that God will receive my soule Then the Earl of Holland looking over among the people pointing to a Souldier said This honest man took me Prisoner you little thought I should have been brought to this when I delivered my self to you upon conditions and espying Capt. Watson on Horse back putting off his Hat said to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Here must now be my Anchor a great storm makes me find my Anchor and but in stormes no body trust to their Anchor and therefore I must trust upon my Anchor Upon that God said Mr Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts yea God I hope will Anchor my soule fast upon Christ Jesus and if I dye not with that clearnesse and heartinesse that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will relye upon him and the mercy of my Saviour Then the Earl of Holland imbraced Liev Col Beecher and tooke his leave of him After which he came to Mr Bolton and having imbraced him and returned him many thanks for his great paines and affections to his soule desiring God to reward him and returne his love into his bosome Mr Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great extremity the Lord reveale and discover himselfe to you and make your death the passage unto eternall life Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said Here my friend let my Cloaths and my Body alone there is ten pounds for thee that is better then try Cloaths I am sure of it Execut. Will your Lordship please to give me a signe when I shall strike And his Lordship said you have room enough here have you not Execut. Yes Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Friend doe you hear me if you take up my Head doe not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants be said to one Fare you well thou art an honest fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an honest man and then said Stay I will kneel down and aske God forgivenesse and then prayed for a pretty space with seeming earnestnesse Then speaking to the Executioner he said Which is the way of lying which they shewed him and then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the people God blesse you all and God deliver you from any such act as may bring you to any such death as is violent either by war or by these accidents but that there may be peace among you and you may find that these accidents that have hapned to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdome it is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my soule I pray God give all happinesse to this Kingdom to this people and this Nation And then turning to the Executioner said How must I lye I know not Execut. Lye down flat upon your Belly and then having laid himselfe down he said Must I lye closer Execut. Yes and backwarder I will tell you when you shall strike and then as he lay seemed to pray with much affection for a short space and then lifting up his head said where is the man and seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the signe and presently after stretching out his hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now and just as the words were coming out of his mouth the Executioner at one blow severed his Head from his Body The Speech of the Lord Capel upon the Scaffold THe Conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the cause of this violent death of mine shall be the beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much sincerity That I would pray to the God of all mercies that they might be partakes of his inestimable and boundlesse mercy in Jesus Christ and truly I shall pray that prayer and I beseech the God of Heaven forgive any injury they have done to me from my soule I wish it And truly this I tell you as a Christian to let you see I am a Christian But it is necessary I should tell you somewhat more That I am a Protestant and truly I am a Protestant and very much in love with the profession of it after the manner as it wa● established in England by the thirty nine Article● a blessed way of profession and such a one as truly I never knew none so good I am so far from being a Papist which some body have truly very unwo●thily at some time charged me withall that truly I professe to you that though I love Good Works and commend Good Works yet I hold they have nothing at all to doe in the matter of Salvation my Anchor-hold is this That Christ loved me and gave himselfe for me that is it that I rest upon And truly something I shall say to you as a Citizen of the whole world and in that consideration I am here condemned to dye truly contrary to the Law that Governs all the world that is The Law of the Sword I had the protection of that for my life and honour of it but truly I will not trouble you much with that because in another place I have spoken very largely and liberall 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 Engl. not by any Law of England nay shall I tell you which is strangest of all contrary to all the Lawes of Engl that I know of And truly I will tell you in the matter of the civill part of my death and the Cause I have maintained I dye I take it for maintaining the fifth Commandement enjoyned by God himselfe which enjoynes reverence and obedience to Parents All Divines on all hands though they contradict one another in many severall opinions yet all Divines on all hands doe acknowledge that here is intended Magistracy and Order and certainly I have obeyed that Magistracy and the Order under which I have lived which I was bound to obey and truly I doe say very confidently that I do dye here for keeping for obeying that fifth Commandement given by God himselfe and written with his own finger And now Gentlemen I will take this opportunity to tell you that I can not imitate a better nor a greater ingenuity then his that said of himselfe For suffering an unjust judgement upon another himselfe was brought to suffer by an unjust judgement Truly Gentlemen that God may be glorified that all men that are