A prayer sayd by the lorde Sturton being on his knees before he went up the ladder, and also his confession before his death the vi. day of Marche in the yeare of our lord God M.D.L.vii. Stourton, Charles Stourton, Baron, d. 1557. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A13027 of text S3004 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 23318.7). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A13027 STC 23318.7 ESTC S3004 29649505 ocm 29649505 28064 2240924132

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A13027) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28064) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1861:26) A prayer sayd by the lorde Sturton being on his knees before he went up the ladder, and also his confession before his death the vi. day of Marche in the yeare of our lord God M.D.L.vii. Stourton, Charles Stourton, Baron, d. 1557. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Jmprinted at London in Fletestrete nere to Saint Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe, [London] : [1557] Author's name provided from STC (2nd ed.) Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries. eng Stourton, Charles Stourton, -- Baron, d. 1557. eebo A prayer sayd by the lorde Sturton being on his knees before he went up the ladder, and also his confession before his death the vi. day of Marche in Stourton, Charles Stourton, Baron 1557 1 766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A prayer sayd by the lorde Sturton being on his knees before he went vp the ladder , and also his confession before his death the .vi. day of Marche in the yeare of our lord God . M. D. L .vii.

LOrd harken to my wordes , consider the thought of my hert , behold how lowde I crye vnto the , let my iust prayer enter into thine eares which vnfainedly cometh from mine heart , heare me lorde for I am poore and destitute of mannes helpe , take care for my soule , saue me thy seruaunt which wholye trust in the , haue mercy vpon me , O Lord , for I will neuer cease crying to the for helpe , for the art mild & more merciful than my tong can expresse , as often as aduersity assaileth me I wil crie and cal for helpe vnto the , I wyl cal vpon that in the day time , and in the night my cry shal not be hid from the , O thou god of the heauens , the maker of the waters , and lord of all creatures , heare me a poore sinner calling vpon the and putting my hole trust in thy mercy . O lord what great pleasures thou haste prepared for me in heauen , that I should delight in no earthly thing but in the , my most pleasure is to cleane fast vnto the and in the to set my hope and trust , haue mercy vpon me O lorde ( O lord god ) haue mercye vpon me : for thy manifolde mercies sake . Forgeue almine offences . I commit my spirite into thy handes , delyuer me from the powers of darkenes of this worlde . Thou hast redemed me Lorde God of truth . I praye you all to pray for me , and then he sayd . In tedomine speraui non confundar in eternum . &c.

The wordes of the lord Sturton vpon the ladder before his death .

GOod people I am come hither to dye , I am come hither to dye , and iustly condempned for mine offences by the lawe , what myne offences were it is not vnknowen vnto you all , whiche was for a moste cruell and detestable murther , by my commaundement done and committed . wherfore I shall desire you al for gods sake , to let me be an example to you all , and to all the worlde , and beware that ye let no ranker or malice take roote in your hartes , for where ranker or malyce is rooted no good vertue can growe , I shall desyre you all , and al the worlde to forgeue me , and specially those poore women and children , whose husbandes I haue so cruelly caused to be murthered , that god may put it into their hartes for Christes sake and for charity to forgeue me , and if there be any here whom I haue offended I shal desire you all for charities sake to forgeue me , and if there be any of you whom hath oftended me , I do from the bottome of my heart forgiue you as truly as I trust god of his mercy hath forgeuen me , being most sory and repentaunt . And when I shall depart this world that ye wil say all , Lord , take his spirite into thy handes , and I shal also desire you for Christes sake to saye with me vpon your knees our lordes prayer which is the Pater noster , and so turning him vnto the East sayed our Lordes praier , which done he desired Sir John Souch to forgiue him , who aunswered , my lord I forgeue you euen from the bottome of my heart , and then going higher vpon the ladder sayd , good people pray for me , and so winking sayd somwhat softer . I charge the Sathan in goddes name to depart from me , and suffer my soule to rest in our lord . And then sayd , Domine accipe spiritum meum thre times , them one of the garde did bind a handker theife about his eyes , and so he was immedtatly turned beside the ladder , on whose soule Christ take mercy .

Amen .

Imprinted at London in Flete strete nere to Saint Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe .