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<P>Captains <HI>B&V;RLEY</HI> HIS SPEECH AT THE Place of Execution at <HI>Winche&s;ter,</HI> where he was hang'd, drawn, and quartered, for endevouring to rai&s;e Forces to take away the KING from the I&s;le of <HI>Wyght.</HI> ALSO A Letter from his Maje&s;ties Court at <HI>Carisbrook</HI>-Ca&s;tle. AND A Great Ri&s;ing in the City of <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI>; Certified by a Letter to a Member of the <HI>Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</HI></P>
<P>Feb.7. 1647. <HI>Imprimatur Gil. Mabbot.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London</HI> by <HI>Robert Ibbit&s;on</HI> in <HI>Smithfield,</HI> neere the Queens-head Tavern. 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>THE Copy of a Letter from his Maje&s;ties Court, at <HI>Carisbrook</HI> Ca&s;tle.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HIs Maje&s;ty (though abridged of that Liberty as formerly) yet is merry &s;ometimes when occa&s;i|on is offered, There is little of News from Court, onely comments of what comes from other parts, and expectations of the events.</P>
<P>Nor is there mourning here for the death of Cap|tain <HI>Burley,</HI> who is hang'd, drawn, and quartered, (al|ready almo&s;t forgotten) concerning whom there was u&s;ed what meanes could be to worke him to &s;ight of his wicked and bloody crime (in that had not God prevented it) this poore I&s;land might have been im|brued in a bloody and &s;ad ma&s;&s;acre, by his wicked de&s;igne, but yet he continued ob&s;tinate.</P>
<P>Divers Mini&s;ters were with him before his death &s;everall times, but they could not worke upon him: And in the la&s;t Sermon before he was executed, that he heard &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages again&s;t that de&s;igne &s;poken off (as before at others) he carried him&s;elfe, as if hee had rather &s;corned, then been melted at it.</P>
<P>And when he was brought our to the place of Ex|ecution, and the Hangman ready to doe his office, (It
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is true, he &s;eemed to have &s;ome fear of death, but) was &s;till ob&s;tinate: And &s;poke to the effect of the inclo&s;ed paper.</P>
<P>And having taken his leave of the world, and prayed a while, he prayed to God to receive his &s;oul, and was then by the Hangman that came downe thi|ther turned off of the ladder, and after he had hanged a &s;pace, cut downe, and quartered, after the u&s;uall manner.</P>
<P>Sir, wee have nothing here new: his Maje&s;ty is very re&s;erved in his &s;peeches, and chearfull at his meat; we are all quiet, de&s;iring a happy &s;ettlement: &s;o prayes,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Carisbrooke-Ca&s;tle,</HI> <DATE>Febru.4.1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate Friend, Fran. Moline.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Captain Burleyes Speech, at the place of exe|cution, imediately before he was hang'd drawn, and quartered at <HI>Winche&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>CAptain <HI>Burley</HI> being on the ladder ready to dye, he was moved by a Mini&s;ter and others to bee humbled, that the Lord might have mercy up|on him, and confe&s;&s;e his &s;innes to God, and particu|larly the Trea&s;on for which he was to dye: hee &s;aid, he was a &s;inner, but no Traytor.</P>
<P>It was told him what a faire tryall he had had, and how legally he was condemned; he an&s;wered that it was true, the Gentlemen condemned him on the Bench, the Mini&s;ters in the Pulpit, and the Gentle|men of the County in their verdicts, but yet he was no Traitor.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="3">He was told how bloody an act he agitated, in &s;ee|king to take away the King through blood: hee an|&s;wered he was happy to dye &s;o, and prayed that his blood might be the la&s;t.</P>
<P>The foulne&s;&s;e of the act was declared to him, but he continued ob&s;tinate &s;till. Afterwards hee prayed, concluding with the Lords prayer. Then the Hang|man pulling his cap over his eyes, Captaine <HI>Burley</HI> called upon God, Lord pre&s;erve my &s;oule, Lord Je|&s;us receive my &s;oule, and &s;o was turned of, and han|ged, drawn and quartered.</P>
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<HEAD>A <HI>Letter to a Member of the Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY &s;ervice pre&s;ented unto you, the&s;e are to certifie you of the ri&s;ing among us, you &s;hall under&s;tand that about a weeke &s;ince there came a pe&s;tilent booke to Towne among&s;t us called <HI>Loyalty &s;peakes truth,</HI> purpo&s;ely written again&s;t the Exci&s;e-men naming them by name, but &s;o &s;oone as the Country Troope was disbanded upon this day being Munday the people in the City ro&s;e in very great numbers, and went directly to the Exci&s;e hou&s;e which they mo&s;t violently ran&s;aked and plundered, from morning till night breaking the windowes and as it was thought they would have laid the Hou&s;e levell with the ground had not &s;ome made great in|terce&s;&s;ion, they abu&s;ed the Mayor and Aldermen, neither could the Mayor get any of the freemen at his
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call, to come to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, neither could the cheife Officers of the Souldiery that quarter in the Towne doe any thing for their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, but in my &s;ight was a&s;&s;alted by the people and had very much adoe to e|&s;cape, they did not onely take away Stooles, Bed|&s;teds, Coffers and all away that was worth a groat; but that Wine and Beere which was in the Cellor which they could not drinke they let run about the Cellor, and la&s;tly tooke away the empty Caskes.</P>
<P>About noone they cryed downe with the Commit|tee, and for God and King Charles, when we heard them at that; at that time all our &s;mall Party was out of the Towne, but &s;ome of them came home pre|&s;ently.</P>
<P>Some Rogues gave out that the money belong|ing' to the Exci&s;e was carried to Mr.<HI>Moores</HI> the Mi|ni&s;ters, wherefore Mr, <HI>Moore</HI> exhorted every one that was or had beene for the Parliament to &s;tand to it. At that, &s;ome few of us met in the Colledge Greene and made fa&s;t the Gate, &s;ome fifteene well-af|fected Town&s;-men came in to our a&s;&s;i&s;tance, wee charged the Gunnes with &s;mall &s;hot, and &s;o we keep a &s;mall Garri&s;on yet, about &s;ix a clock the Mayor came to us, and informed us of the tumult, hoping that now night was come they begun to go home. They were about 2000. truely they &s;eemed like the mu&s;ter of a Battaile &s;o many men women and child|ren about this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. We have made a great fire in the Hall in the Deanery and keepe our Court of Guard in that place, I for my part &s;tole from among my fellowes about ten at night, and came as &s;ecure as I could to my hou&s;e to write to you, meaning to returne about one of the clocke after midnight. The
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tumulters threaten hard that next Wedne&s;day they &s;hall have the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Witch</HI> and other places a|gain&s;t us, and we as re&s;olutely intend to defend our &s;elves.</P>
<P>I heard &s;ome inkling of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e before, but they &s;pake &s;o my&s;tically that I could not under&s;tand them, but now I &s;ee what they meant, I do mo&s;t truely gather that except &s;ome part of the Army come downe to quiet tho&s;e Mutiners, it is very like to bee true which (they &s;ay) that not onely this County but <HI>Hereford</HI> and other places will doe the like, you &s;hall al&s;o under&s;tand that this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was plotted by &s;ome prime ones, and divers Souldiers that had beene Cavaliers were with them, and mightily incourag|ed them, and a&s;si&s;ted, there hath &s;ome layed wagers and made wonderfull. Prote&s;tations that the fate of things (as they call it) will change within the&s;e &s;ix weekes).</P>
<P>I beleeve among&s;t their party they dur&s;t as freely buy the Parliament mens lands when they can get them, as any man the Bi&s;hops lands, I judge this to be a thing they looke for, that when they can get a full ri&s;ing of the people to &s;uprre&s;&s;e grieviances (as they call them) &s;ome wi&s;e heads among&s;t them toge|ther with the &s;upernumeraries (that neither are nor will bee disbanded) they will make a Party againe of their owne. My Rea&s;ons are the&s;e.</P>
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<ITEM>1 Becau&s;e I am &s;ure by their talke and by private conference they have a wonderfull &s;ure De&s;igne which mu&s;t &s;uddainly as they &s;ay bee brought a|bout.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Divers of them have bought new armes very
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lately, giving dangerous words out when they &s;aw the Forces disbanded.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 The willingne&s;&s;e of the Souldiers to a&s;&s;i&s;t them which quarter in this City (as al&s;o in other places here about.) I am now about to go to the Colledge a|gaine it being two a clock after midnight.</ITEM>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE>Worce&s;ter <DATE>the 1 of Feb. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Humble Servant J. SMITH.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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