10 Records of the Rising m the West, A.D. 1655. 
hope and expectatons of joyes prepared for true and faithfull servants, Lett the 
infinite Love of God my Saviour, make my love to him steadfast sincere and 
constant. Oh Lord consider my contrition, accept my teares, asswage my greife 
give mee comfort and confidence in thee: Impute not unto mee my former sinnes 
but most mercifull ffather, receave mee into thy favour by the meritts of Christ 
Jesus. 
Many and grievous are my sinnes, for I have sinned many times against the 
Light of knowledge, against remorse of conscience, against the motions and 
opportunityes of Grace, But accept I beseech thee the sacrifice of a broken and 
contrite hearte, in and for the pfect sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction of thy 
sonne Christ Jesus; Oh Lord receave my soule (after it is delivered from the 
burden of the flesh) into pfect joy, in the sight and fruition of thee, and at y* 
generall resurrection graunt that my body may be endued with immortality and 
receaved, with my soule into glory. 
I praise thee O God I acknowledge thee to be ye Lord. 
O Lambe of God that takest away y° sinnes of y° world, have mercy upon me, 
Thou that sittest at the right hand of God, receave my praier. 
O Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, Mediatour betwixt God and man I have 
sinned as a man, be thou merciful unto me as God. 
O holy and blessed spiritt, helpe my infirmityes with those sighes and groanes 
which I cannot expresse. 
Amen. Amen. Amen.” 
Next follows, the Zeals M.S. :— 
‘¢ After Colonel Penruddock was beheaded, Colonel Grove was brought upox 
the stage, who during the tyme of his comeing thither and stay there kept up 
a gallant and heroick spirit. 
Att his first comeing upon the stage he saluteth the sheriffe, and told him 
desireing the people alsoe to take notice That he had newly parted with Doctor 
Short* and Doctor flavell with whome he had perfected his preparation for death, 
And therefore onely desired liberty to make a shorte speeche to the people and 
a private prayer to himselfe. After which (with his thanks to the citizens of 
Excester for their civilities to him and them of the better sorte and theer charity 
to the meaner sort of prisoners which he desired them to contynew) submitted 
his head to the block, which was very ill fitted for his neck, And after a pritty 
long debate betwixt the sheriffe and Headsman who doubted he should not be 
able to doe his worke without putting him to some torture, he had at one blow . 
and a sawe his head severed from his body.” 
His speech upon the Scaffold. 
** Good People I never was guilty of much Rhetoriek nor ever loved long 
speeches in all my life. And therefore you cannot expect either of them from 
me now at my death, All that I shall desire of you (besides your hearty prayers 
for my soule) That you will beare me a witness, that I die a true sonne of the 
* Probably Anthony Short, D.D., the ejected Rector of Drewsington, &o,, in the county of Devon, 
a Royalist divine, beloved and respected. Of Mr, Herring, who was substituted for him, the follow- 
ing story is told— whilst catechising his National School children, whom he had before instructed 
that the minister stood in God’s place, he asked a lad, ‘‘In whose place do Istand?”’ To his con- 
fusion the reply was, “In Dr, Short’s.’”,—See Walker’s “ Sufferings of the Clergy,” 

