SAINT CHARLES, KING & MARTYR

Corruptibilem pro incorruptibile

 

Looking to Iefus so our Soveraigne Stood
Praying for thofe who Thirsted for his Blood :
But high in Blifs with his Celestial Crowne
Now with an Eye of Pity hee Looks Downe
While some Attaque his other life his Fame,
Ludlow reviv’d to blott the Royal Name
On Sacred Majesty Profanely treads,
Madd to sett up ye Beast with many Heads.

New Regicides bad as the Old dare call
The Martyrs blood on their own Heads to Fall:
And black as those who Frocks & Vizors wore,
These barefac’d Hangmen trample on his Gore
Can it bee Silent can it cease to cry?
Such Feinds forbid it in repose to Lye:
Tis well the blood of God speaks better Things
Than that of Abell or a Murder’d King’s

INDEX OF DOCUMENTS

1.  Propers for the Feast of St Charles KM (Scottish Prayer Book 1929)

2.   Propers        ..            ..            ..                 (Society of King Charles the Martyr 1936)

3.   Propers        ..            ..            ..                 (provenance unknown—can you help?)

4.  Prayer with Fasting for 30 January, King Charles the Martyr  
    (Order removed from the Book of Common Prayer in 1859)

Other forms of State Prayers in earlier editions of the Prayer Book

5.  Gunpowder Treason: Prayer with Thanksgiving for 5 November (BCP). 

6.  Prayer with Thanksgiving for the Restoration of the Royal Family 29 May (BCP).

7.  Prayer with Thanksgiving for the Queen’s Accession (original form) (BCP).

8. A Sermon for the Feast of St Charles by Fr Malcolm Pearce, during which he died