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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

J know is infinite and J blesse my God for it J go with so cleare a conscience that J know not the man that J have personally injured D. Sib. My Lord it is a marveilous great satisfaction that at this last hour you can say so I beseech the Lord for his eternall mercy strengthen your faith that in the very moment of your dissolution you may see the armes of the Lord Iesus stretched out ready to receive your soule Then the Earl of Cambridge embracing those his servants which were there present said to each of them You have been very faithful to me and the Lord blesse you Camb. Then turning to the Executioner said I shall say a very short prayer to my God while I lie down there and when I stretch out my hand my right hand then sir do your duty and I do freely forgive you and so I do all the world Dr. Sibbald The Lord in great mercie go along with you and bring you to the possession of everlasting life strengthning your faith in Jesus Christ This is a passage my Lord a short passage unto eternal glory J hope through the free grace of your gracious God you are now able to say O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory and to make this comfortable answer Blessed be God blessed be God who hath given me an assurance of victory through Christ Jesus Then the E. of Cambridge said to the Executioner Must J lie all along Execut Yes and 't please your Lordship Camb. When I stretch out my hands but J will fit my Head first tell me if I be right and how you would have me lie Ex. Your shirt must be pind back for it lies too high upon your shoulders which was done accordingly Doctor Sibbald My Lord now now lift up your eyes unto Jesus Christ and cast your self now into the everlasting arms of your most gracious Redeemer Then the Earle having laid his head over the blocke said Is this right Doctor Sibbald Jesus the Son of David have mercy upon you Execut Lie a little lower Sir Camb. Well stay then till I give you the signe And so having laine a short space devoutly praying to himselfe he stretch'd out his right hand whereupon the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was received by two of his servants then kneeling by him into a Crimson Taffety Scarfe and that with the body immediately put into a Coffin brought upon the Scaffold for that purpose and from thence conveyed to the house that was Sir John Hamiltons at the Mewes where it now remains This execution being done the Sheriffes Guard went immediately to meet the Earl of Holland which they did in the mid way between the Scaffold and Westminster-Hall and the Under-Sheriffes sonne having received him into his charge conducted him to the Scaffold he taking M. Boulton all the way in his hand passed all along to the Scaffold discoursing together upon which being come observing his voice would not reach to the people in regard the Guard compassed the Scaffold he said Holland It is to no purpose I think to speak any thing here Which way must I speak And then being directed to the front of the Scaffold he leaning over the railes said I think it is fit to say something since God hath called me to this place The first thing which I must professe is what concernes my Religion and my breeding which hath been in a good Family that hath ever been 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 die I have not lived according to that education I had in that Family where I was born and bred I hope God wil 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 designes 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 known they have been ever very faithfull to the publique and very particularly to Parliaments My affections have been ever exprest truly and clearly to them The dispositions of affairs now have put things in another posture then they were when I was ingaged with the Parliament I have never gone off from those Principles that ever I have professed I have lived in them and by Gods grace will die in them There may be alterations and changes that may carry them further then I thought reasonable and truly 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 Parliament Religion I should have said in the first place the Common-Wealth and to seek 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 Kingdome which I thought was proper since there was somthing then in agitation but nothing agreed on for seeding Propositions to the King that was the furthest aim that I had and truly beyond that I had no intention none at all And God be praised although my bloud comes to be shed here there was I think scarcely a drop of bloud shed in that action that I was ingaged in For the present affairs 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 judgement 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 Kingdome 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 bloud nor through disorder admitted again into that power and to that glory that God in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my soule for the happinesse of this State of this Nation that the

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