10 Records Of the Rising in the West, A.I). 1655. 



hope and expectations of joyes prepared for true and faithful! 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 e j 

 generall resurrection graunt that my body may be endued with immortality and 

 receaved, with my soule into glory. 



I praise thee 0 God I acknowledge thee to be y e Lord. 



0 Lambe of God that takest away y e sinnes of y e world, have mercy upon me. 



Thou that sittest at the right hand of God, receave my praier. 



0 Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, Mediatour betwixt God and man I have 

 sinned as a man, be thou merciful unto me as God. 



0 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 upoL. 

 the stage, who during the tyme of his comeing thither and stay there kept up I 

 a gallant and heroick spirit. 



Att his first comeing upon the stage he saluteth the sheriffe, and told him I 

 desireing the people alsoe to take notice That he had newly parted with Doctor I 

 Short* and Doctor filavell 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 Rhetorick 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, &c„ 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 I stand? " To his con- 

 fusion the reply was, " In Dr. Short's." — See Walker's w Sufferings of the Clergy," 



