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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47456	King Charls his tryal at the high court of justice sitting in Westminster Hall, begun on Saturday, Jan. 20, ended Jan. 27, 1648 also His Majesties speech on the scaffold immediately before his execution on Tuesday, Ian. 30 : together with the several speeches of Duke Hamilton, the Earl of Holland, and the Lord Capel, immediately before their execution on Friday, March 9, 1649.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649.	1650 (1650)	Wing K556; ESTC R11695	57,138	138

taken I would have digested it into some better method then now I can and shall desire these Gentlemen that does write it that they will not wrong me in it and that it may not in this manner be published to my disadvantage for truly I did not intend to have spoken thus when I came here There is Sirs terrible Aspersions has been laid upon my self truly such as I thank God I am very free from as if my actions and intentions had not been such as they were pretended for but that notwithstanding what I pretended it was for the King there was nothing less intended then to serve him in it I was bred with him for many years I was his Domestique servant and there was nothing declar'd by the Parliament that was not really intended by me and truly in it I ventured my Life one way and now I loose it another way and that was one of the ends as to the King I speak only of that because the rest has many particulars and to clear my self from so horrid an Aspersion as is laid upon me neither was there any other design known to me by the incoming of that Army then what is really in the Declaration published His Person I do profess I had reason to love as he was my King and as he had been my Master it has pleased God now to dispose of him so as it cannot be thought flattery to have said this or any end in me for the saying of it but to free my self from that Calumny which lay upon me I cannot gain by it yet truth is that which we shall gain by for ever There hath been much spoken Sir of an invitation into this Kingdom it 's mentioned in that Declaration and truly to that I did and do remit my self and I have been very much laboured for discoveries of these Inviters 'T is no time to dissemble How willing I was to have served this Nation in any thing that was in my power is known to very many honest Pious and Religious men and how ready I would have been to have done what I could to have served them if it had pleased them to have preserved my Life in whose hands there was a power They have not thought it fit and so I am become unuseful in that which willingly I would have done As I said at first Sir so I say now concerning that point I wish the Kingdoms happiness I wish its peace and truly Sir I wish that this bloud of mine may be the last that is drawn and howsoever I may perhaps have some reluctancie with my my self as to the matter of my suffering for my Fact yet I freely forgive all Sir I carry no rancor along with me to my grave His will be done that has created both heaven and earth and me a poor miserable sinful creature now speaking before him For me to speak Sir to you of State-business and the Government of the Kingdom or my opinion in that or for any thing in that nature Truly it is to no end it contributes nothing My own inclination hath been to Peace from the begining and it is known to many that I never was an ill instrument betwixt the King and his People I never acted to the prejudice of the Parliament I bore no Arms I medled not with it I was not wanting by my Prayers to God Almighty for the happiness of the King and truly I shall pray still that God may so direct him as that may be done which shall tend to his Glory and the peace and happiness of the Kingdome I have not much more to say that I remember of I think I have spoken of my Religion Dr. Sibbald Your Lordship has not so fully said it Cambridg Truly I do believe I did say something Dr. Sibbald I know you did 't is pleasing to hear it from your Lordship again Cambridg Truly Sir for the Profession of my Religion That which I said was the established Religion and that which I have practised in my own Kingdom where I was born and bred my Tenents they need not to be exprest they are known to all and I am not of a rigid opinion many Godly men there is that may have scruples which do not concern me at all at no time they may differ in opinion and more now then at any time differing in Opinion does not move me not any mans my own is clear Sir The Lord forgive me my sins and I forgive freely all those that even I might as a Wordly 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 trespass 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 Cambridg 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 down with Doctor Sibbald He prayed thus MOST Blessed Lord I thy poor and most unworthy Servant come to th●● 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 tenderness 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 freeness of thy infinite mercy that when this sinful Soul of mine shall depart out of this frail carcass of clay I may be carried into thy everlasting Glory O Lord by thy Free-Grace and out of thy infinite mercy hear me and look down and have compassion upon me and thou Lord Iesus thou my Lord and thou my God and thou my Redeemer hear me take pitty upon me take pitty upon me gracious God and so deal with my soul that by thy precious merits I may attain to thy Ioy and Bliss O Lord remember me so miserable and sinful a creature Now thou O Lord thou O Lord that dyed for me receive me and receive me into thy own 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 prevail against it but let me O Lord from henceforth dwell with thee for evermore Now Lord it is thy time to hear me hear me gracious Iesus even for thy own goodness mercy and truth O Glorious God O blessed Father O holy Redeemer O gracious Comforter O

committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my life I look upon this as a great Justice of God to bring me to this suffering and to bring me to this punishment and those hands that have been most active in it if any such there hath been I pray God forgive them I pray God that there may not be many such Trophees of their Victories but that this may be as I said before the last shew that this People shall see of the blood of persons of Condition of persons of Honour I might say something of the way of our Tryal which certainly hath been as extraordinary as any thing I think hath ever been seen in this Kingdom 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 self to him I shall desire to roul my self into the Arms of my blessed Saviour and when I come to this place pointing to the Block when I bow down my self there I hope God will raise me up and when I bid farewel as I must now to Hope and to Faith that Love will abide I know nothing to accompany the Soul out of this World but Love and I hope that Love will bring me to the Fountain of Glory in Heaven through the Arms Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Jesus Christ in whom I believe O LORD help my unbelief Hodges The Lord make over unto you the Righteousness of his own Son it is that Treasury that he hath bestowed upon you and the Lord shew you the light of his countenance and fill you full with his joy and kindness 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 Holland I shall make as much haste as I can to come to that Glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my Soul I look upon my self intirely in Him and hope to find mercy through Him I expect it and through that Fountain that is opened for sin and for uncleanness my Soul must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I have nothing but sin and corruption in me I have nothing but that which instead of being carryed up into the Arms of God and Glory I have nothing but may throw me down into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are clothed with the Righteousness of another you will appear glorious though now sinful in your self The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my own Righteousness and when you are clothed with another the Lord will own 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 design and the great Work that God had to do in the World by the death of Christ wherein he laid out all his Counsels and infinite Wisdom and Mercy and Goodness beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great design great end the Salvation of siners that poor Souls should come over to him and live certainly when sinners come he will not reject he will not refuse And my Lord do but think of this the greatest work that ever was done in the World was the Blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it and this Blood of Christ that was shed was shed for them that come if not for them for none it was in vain else You see the Devils they are out of capacity of good by it the Angels they have no need of it wicked men will not come there are but a few that come over and should he deny them there were no end nor fruit of the blood and sufferings of the Lord Jesus and had your Lordship been with Christ in that bloody Agony when he was in that bloody sweat sweating drops of blood if you had asked him Lord what art thou now a doing Art thou not now reconciling an angry God and me together Art thou not pacifying the wrath of God Art thou not interposing thy self between the Justice of God and my Soul Would he not have said Yea and surely then he will not deny it now My Lord his passions are over his compassions still remain and the larger and greater because he is gone up into a higher place that he may throw down more abundance of his mercy and grace upon you and my Lord think of that infinite love that abundance of riches in Christ I am lost I am empty I have nothing I am poor I am sinful be it so as bad as God will make me and as vile as I possibly can conceive my self I am willing to be but when I have said all the more I advance that riches and honour that grace of God And why should I doubt when by this he puts me into a capacity into a disposition for him to shew me mercy that by this I may the better advance the riches of his grace and say grace grace to the Lord to all eternity that God should own such a creature that deserves nothing and the less I deserve the more conspicuous is his grace and this is certain the riches of his grace he throweth amongst men that the glory of his grace might be given to himself if we can give him but the glory of his grace we shall never doubt to partake of the riches of it and that fulness my Lord that fulness be your comfort that fulness of Mercy that fulness of Love that fulness of Righteousness and Power be now your riches and your only stay and the Lord interpose himself between God and you as your faith hath endeavored to interpose him between God and your soul so I doubt not but there he stands my Lord to plead for you and when you are not able to do any thing your self yet lie down at the feet of him that is a merciful Saviour and knows what you would desire and wait upon him while you live trust in him when you dye there is riches enough and mercy enough if he open not yet dye at his door say there I 'l dye there is mercy enough Holland And here is the place where I lie down before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an eternal glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom only I can expect mercy into his Arms I commend my spirit into his bleeding Arms that when I leave this bleeding body that must lie upon this place he will receive that soul that ariseth out of it and receive it into his

of his Father For certainly I that have been a Councellor to him and have lived long with him and in a time when discovery is easily enough made for he was young 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 young person then in him great Judgment great Vnderstanding 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 Raign 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 of my Dublet first and my Wastcoat Then the Executioner being come upon the Scaffold the Lord Capel said O friend prethee come hither Then the Executioner kneeling down the L 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 lie down that you would give me time for a particular short prayer Lieu. Col. Beecher Make your own sign my Lord. Cap. Stay a litle which side do you stand upon speaking to the Executioner Stay I think I should lay my hands forward that way pointing fore-right 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 find 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 Servant 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 's inconvenient at this time Servant My Lord put on your Cap. Capel Should I what wil 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 Execut. 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 lie and laying his head over the Block said Am I wel 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 lifting up his right hand 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 * This is as the King express'd but I supposed he meant Ans * Here a Malignant Lady interrupted the Court saying not halfe the people but she was soon silenced * Strafford * Pointing to Dr. Juxon * Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote * Meaning if he did blunt the edg * Pointing to D. Juxon * It is thought for to give it to the Prince * Stretching them out * Observing the Writers * Looking towards M. Bolton * As he was putting up his hair

holy and blessed Trinity I doe render up my soul into thy hands and commit it with the mediation of my Redeemer praising thee for all thy dispensation that it has pleased thee to confer upon me and even for this praise and honor and thanks of this time forth for evermore Dr. Sibbald My Lord I trust you now behold with the Eye of Faith the Son of Righteousness 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 appear at the Tribunal of God clothed with the white robe of his unspoted Righteousness 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 arms of mercy Cambridg Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said shall I put on another Cap must this hair be turned up from my neck there are three of my servants to give satisfaction Dr. Sibbald 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 Jesus and the Spirit of the Lord witnesseth to you that Christ is become now a Jesus unto you My Lord fasten the eyes of your Faith upon Jesus the Author and finisher of your salvation who himself was brought to a violent death for the redemption of mankinde 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 believer That at the hour of death his soul hath an immediate passage from this earthly Tabernacle to that Region of endless Glory yea to the presence of God himself in whose presence there is fulness of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Then the Earl of Cambridg turning to the Executioner said which way is it that you would have me lie Sir Executioner The Executioner pointing to the front of the Scaffold The Earl 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 Justice The Earl of Cambridg 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 finished his prayers D. 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 Terrors of this death And what a blessed and glorious exchange you shall make within a very few minutes Then with a Chearful and smiling Countenance The Earl embracing the Dr. in his Arms said Cambridg Truly Sir I do take you in mine arms and truly I bless God for it I do not fear I have an assurance that is grounded here laying his hand upon his heart Now that gives me more true joy then ever I had I pass out of a miserable world to go into an Eternal and glorious Kingdom and Sir though I have been a most sinful creature yet Gods mercy I know is infinite and I bless my God for it I go with so clear a Conscience That I know not the man that I have personally injured Dr. Sibbald My Lord it is a marvellous great satisfaction that at this last hour you can say so I beseech the Lord for his eternal mercy strengthen your faith that in the very moment of your dissolution you may see the arms of the Lord Jesus stretched out ready to receive your soul Then the Earl of Cambridg embracing those his servants which were there present said to each of them You have been very faithful to me and the Lord bless you Cambridg 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 mercy go along with you and bring you to the possession of everlasting life strengthening your Faith in Jesus Christ This is a passage my Lord a short passage unto eternal glory I 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 Earl of Cambridg said to the Executioner Must I lie all along Execut. Yes and 't please your Lordship Camb. When I stretch out my hands but I will fit my Head first tell me if I be right and how you would have me lie Execut. Your shirt must be pin'd back for it lies too high upon your shoulders which was done accordingly Dr 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 Earl having layd his Head over the Block said Is this right Dr 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 layn a short space devoutly praying to himself he stretched 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 Crimsion Taffety Scarf 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 Me●●es where it now remains This execution being done the Sheriffs 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-Sheriffs son having received him into his charge conducted him to the Scaffold he taking Mr. Bolton all the way in his hand passed all along to the Scaffold discoursing together upon which being come observing his voyce 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 rails said I think it is fit to say something since God hath called me to this place The first thing which I must profess is what concerns my Religion and my breading which hath been in a good Family that hath ever been