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 coi-d. A reply to the " lleply " appeared in No. 

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 &c. (Taylor and Francis.) 



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Caniirfif^Cjeigbteen-tbirtyseven. Hymees.J. 'A Trea- 

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Oxford^ eigbteen-thirtyeigbt. Lockhaet, James. 

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London, eigbteen-tbirtynine. Mukphy, Robert. 'A 

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io?if/o?j, eighteen -forty two. Weddle, Thomas. 'New, 

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This important method is different from Hor- 

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Leipzick, (by Romberg.) and London, (by Williams 

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London, eigbteen-fortynine. Rutherford, William. 

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London, eigbteen-fiftyeight. Jerrard, G. C. * An 

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London, eighteen-fiftynine ....*.... Part II.' Oc- 

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The date &c. of the second edition of Professor 

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James Cockle, M.A. &c. 



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THE "REMEMBER!" OF CHARLES THE FIRST 

 ON THE SCAFFOLD. WHAT IT MEANT. 

 We put forward the following observations on 

 a very interesting point in English history. There 

 is a little account repeated in all our histories, 

 and it is impressed on the mind with all the greater 

 distinctness that it comes in the closing scene of 

 King Charles's unfortunate reign. We are all 

 familiar with some particular words, emphasised 



with the solemn reminder " Remember ! " spoken 

 by the King on the scaffold before the Banquet- 

 ting House, Whitehall, on that fatal 30th day of 

 January, 1648. Bishop Juxon — the " good 

 Bishop Juxon," as he was called — who attended 

 the King with a pious care, and who was melted 

 in tears during the whole sad scene, was the 

 person to whom this solemn and all-important 

 injunction to "Remember" was made. It evi- 

 dently bore reference to something which had 

 previously passed between him and the King. 

 Impressed by the King's manner when he was 

 pronouncing the word, and suspicious of what the 

 communication should be — also actuated by some 

 arousing private curiosity independently^ of any 

 political significance to be attached to it — the 

 officers on duty, in the first instance, and .the 

 Commissioners of the Commons afterwards, in- 

 sisted on Bishop Juxon declaring what the im- 

 partment was, which the King made. He, as all 

 readers of English History know, only told his 

 questioners that the King's last words were meant 

 as a message to his son, and that the private com- 

 munication, and the word " Remember " enforcing 

 it, were only to enjoin forgiveness of his enemies, 

 by his son, in the future time. Those who had 

 questioned Juxon seem to have been satisfied 

 with this answer. And from that time until the 

 present it has been assumed as a fact that nothing 

 farther lay under this, which was, however, cer- 

 tainly the most solemn adjuration of the King's. 

 We have often wondered that the occurrence has 

 excited so little attention, since we regard the 

 explanation of Bishop Juxon as very unsatisfac- 

 tory, and as one the readiest occurring to him at 

 the instant, only intended to divert the attention, 

 and to elude the suspicion, of the King's enemies 

 at the time. 



It is to be observed that this solemn "Re- 

 member" was the last word said by the King 

 when his mind was wholly engrossed with things 

 of another world, and when, as it were, as the 

 event proved, he was leaving a wonderful legacy 

 of his knowledge by divine insight of events 

 which were designed by Providence to come 

 really about in the future. The words of the 

 historian are : " Charles, having taken off his 

 cloak, delivered his ' George ' to the prelate, pro- 

 nouncing the word " Remember ! " In that awful 

 moment — the last opportunity for any farther 

 dealing on earth — when the unfortunate Charles 

 was literally bidding adieu to the world, and 

 standing in the presence of the Angel of Death, 

 with, as it were, the light of the other_ world dis- 

 closing upon his figure, he almost seeming to have 

 ceased to have aught to do with this state of 

 things, it is not likely — nor, in the nature of 

 probabilities, is it to be believed— that he was 

 merely giving utterance to a common-place ex- 

 pression of general, unexalted forgiveness ; much 



