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A74878	Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. 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.	A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, 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. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	1653.0		.xml	application/xml	29885	713	54	it is a very great comfort to me , to have your Lordship by me this day , in regard I have been known to you a long time , I should be glad to obtain so much silence , as to be heard a few words , but doubt I shall not ; my Lord , I come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God , to pay the last debt I owe to sin , which is death , and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the mercies of Christ Jesus to eternal glory ; I wish I had beene private , that I might have been heard ; My Lord , if I might be so much beholding to you , that I might use a few words , I should take it for a very great courtesie ; My Lord , I come hither to submit to that judgement which hath past against me , I do it with a very quiet and contented mind , I do freely forgive all the world , a forgiveness that is not spoken from the teeth outward ( as they say ) but from my heart ; I speak it in the presence of Almighty God , before whom I stand , that these is not so much as a displeasing thought in me , arising to any creature ; I thank God I may say truly , and my conscience bears me witness , that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majesty , in any imployment , I never had any thing in my heart , but the joynt and individuall prosperity of King and people ; if it hath been my hap to be misconstrued , it is the common portion of us all while we are in this life , the righteous judgement is hereafter , here we are subject to error , and apt to be mis-judged one of another , there is one thing I desire to clear my self of , and I am very confident , I speak it with so much clearnesse , that I hope I shall have your Christian charity in the belief of it ; I did alwayes think that the Parliaments of England , were the happiest constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under , and under God the means of making King and people happy , so far have I been from being against Parliaments ; for my death , I here acquit all the world , and pray God heartily to forgive them ; and in particular , my Lord Primate , I am very glad that his Majesty is pleased to conceive me not mericing so severe and heavy a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence ; I am very glad , and infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his , and beseech God to turn it to him , and that he may find mercy when he hath most need of it ; I wish the Kingdom all the prosperity and happines in the world ; I did it living , and now dying it is my wish . They humbly Remonstrate and Protest before God , your Majesty , and the Noble Lords and Peers now assembled in Parliament , that as they have an indu●●●ate right	cache/A74878.xml	txt/A74878.txt
