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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>A Cleare and Nece&s;&s;ary
VINDICATION
OF THE
PRINCIPLES and PRACTICES
OF ME
<HI>CHRISTOPHER LO&V;E,</HI>
Since my Tryall before, and Condem|nation
by, the High Court of Iu&s;tice,
WHEREBY
It is manife&s;ted, That a clo&s;e Pri&s;on, a long Sword,
a High Court, and a bloody Scaffold, have not in the lea&s;t
altered my judgment.</P>
<P>WHEREAS ALSO
The Cruelty of the Sentence, the In&s;ufficiency of the Proofs, and
My own Innocency, are demon&s;trated.
AS ALSO
My Grounds and Rea&s;ons of giving in a Narrative, and the Lawfulne&s;s
of the Matter and Titles of My Petitions (though to U&s;urpers) manife&s;ted and
maintained.</P>
<P>TOGETHER WITH
A Declaration of My judgement concerning <HI>Cromwells</HI> unlawfull Inva&s;ion of the
Kingdom of <HI>SCOTLAND.</HI></P>
<P>Written by Me CHRISTOPHER LOVE, Ma&s;ter of Arts, Mini&s;ter
of <HI>Lawrence Iury, London;</HI> Penned by Me the eighth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> fourteen
days before My death.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Jeremiah 26. 14, 15.</BIBL>
<P>As for Me, behold I am in your hands, do with Me as &s;eemeth good and meet
unto you, but know ye for certain, that if ye put Me to death, ye &s;hall &s;urely
bring innocent blood upon your &s;elves, and upon this City, and upon the In|habitants
thereof, &amp;c.</P></Q>
<P>LONDON Printed in the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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<HEAD>To the Reverend Fathers and Brethren,
the Mini&s;ters in and about the City of London,
Sub&s;cribers of the Petitions for my Reprieve and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ardon.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reverend Sirs,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is no little comfort to me, that when Men ca&s;t
me out of the world, that God doth not ca&s;t me out
of your hearts, (which would have been more bit|ter
than death unto me) How much am I bound to
ble&s;&s;e God, and thank you, that you &s;hould intercede
&s;hould not dye, when &s;o many Sonnes of Violence
think me not worthy to live? Though your media|tion
for my life &s;hould not &s;ucceed, yet herein I &s;hould rejoyce, if your mee|ting
together lay a foundation of love and union among your &s;elves, though
not of advantage unto me. It hath been no little grief of heart to me to
con&s;ider, that whiles the Prelates contend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">d for Vniformity, thinking to
have the Coat of Chri&s;t without rent, and the Separati&s;ts for Purity, think|ing
to have it without &s;pot, by their contentions they have left the Church
this Coat of Chri&s;t full of both. I know it is your work and wi&s;edome to
labour for the things that make for Peace in the Churches of the Saints.
As for a State-peace, or State-union, that's more proper for State&s;men;
I &s;hould not de&s;ire to live to that day, to &s;ee the Mini&s;ters of <HI>London</HI> u|nite
upon a State intere&s;t to maintain the pre&s;ent Power; this were to &s;ay
a confederacy with them that &s;ay a confederacy; this were rather a Combi|nation,
than a Vnion. All that I &s;hall &s;ay touching the men in pre&s;ent
Power, They have gotten Power into their hands by policy, exerci&s;e it by
cruelty, and they will lo&s;e it with ignominy. As it was &s;aid of <HI>Boniface,</HI> he
entred the Popedome like a Fox, reigned like a Lyon, but dyed like a Dog:
Reverend Fathers and Brethren, as you have not bin a&s;hamed of my chain,
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&s;o, I be&s;eech you, wax more confident by my bonds, and be much more bold
to Preach the Word without fear. God hath not promi&s;ed to pre&s;erve this
or that kinde of Government in the States and Kingdomes of this World,
but he hath promi&s;ed to pre&s;erve a Ministry in his Church, and loe he will
be with you to the end of the World. <HI>I</HI> have no more to &s;ay, but to take my
la&s;t farewell of you all, for <HI>I</HI> am ready to be offered up, and the time of
my departure is at hand; <HI>I</HI> &s;ee men thir&s;t after my blood, though you long
after my life, oh! that my blood could &s;oder the differences, and my dead
body fill up the breaches that are among the Godly, that they might walk
together in Truth and Love, in the Fellow&s;hip of the Go&s;pell; This is
the prayer of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your dying, yet comforted Servant,<LB>
who is not worthy to have a<LB>
name among you, therefore is<LB>
cut off from the land of the<LB>
living,<LB>
CHRISTOPHER LOVE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>From the Tower of</HI>
London, <DATE>Aug.
11. 1651.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>I May &s;ay as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> did, though a good Con&s;cience be &s;ufficient for my &s;elf,
yet a good name is nece&s;&s;ary for others; a good name is as precious oyntment,
yet there will not be wanting many flying reports to corrupt it; many are
the obloquies and reproaches which by the Sonnes of &s;lander are ca&s;t upon
me, they would faine have my name to be buried and rot above ground, before
my friends can bury my body under it, yet herein is my comfort, there will be a
re&s;urrection of names as well as of bodies at the la&s;t day; I am a&s;&s;ured that God
will not only wipe off all tears from mine eyes, but all reproaches from my name
al&s;o; I am, as &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, counted a Deceiver, yet True; as an Apo&s;tate, yet
firm to my fir&s;t principles.</P>
<P>There are two things at which offence is taken, fir&s;t my Petitioning for my
life to the Parliament (&s;o called;) &s;econdly, my giving in a Narrative of
the whole matter; to both which I &s;hall give full &s;atisfaction. About my Petiti|oning,
a double offence is taken, fir&s;t at the titles of my Petitions; &s;econdly at the
matter of them. I &s;hall &s;peak briefly to both, to take away any &s;tumbling block
out of the way of any. Touching the Titles of my four Petitions they run in this
forme.</P>
<P>To the Supreme Authority, the Parliament of the Common-wealth of <HI>Eng|land.</HI></P>
<P>Although I am far from going about to ju&s;tifie their right to this Title to whom
I give it, yet I &s;hall ju&s;tifie the lawfulne&s;&s;e of my practice in giving them this Title
which they a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves, e&s;pecially in a ca&s;e of life as mine is: for in tri|viall
matters I had rather lo&s;e my own right which belongs to me, than give
them this Title which belongs not to them.</P>
<P>The rea&s;ons which &s;way with me why I gave them this Title (though I am not
&s;atisfied they have a right to it) are the&s;e.</P>
<P>1. They would not receive my Petitions without giving them their a&s;&s;umed Ti|tles;
yea to my knowledge they have rejected Petitions which have not had the&s;e
Titles.</P>
<P>2. I am upon &s;ure and clear grounds per&s;waded, that giving to men Titles
they a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves, is not a reall owning that they have a right to tho&s;e
Titles. Titular and reall are u&s;ually di&s;tingui&s;hed; by giving them the Title of Su|preme
Authority, and Parliament, I do acknowledge them a Titular Authority,
and a Titular Parliament, but by ingaging to them (which I have never done, and
I hope &s;hall never do) I do acknowledge them a reall Authority, and a reall
Parliament: that I may further evince the truth of this &s;econd rea&s;on, <HI>viz.</HI> that
giving of Titles to men they a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves, is not a reall owning that they
have a reall right to tho&s;e Titles, I &s;hall give &s;undry in&s;tances in Scripture to make
it good;<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 16. &amp; 16&punc;</NOTE> <HI>Hu&s;hai</HI> did call <HI>Ab&s;alom,</HI> that notorious U&s;urper, King, &s;aying, <HI>God
&s;ave the King, God &s;ave the Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">g,</HI> (an expre&s;&s;ion the People gave him) yet
<HI>Hu&s;hai</HI> knew that <HI>David</HI> only was (even then) the Lawfull King of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;et o|ver
him by God, and <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> only an intruder, and made King by the tumults of
the People, yea <HI>David</HI> him&s;elf did bid <HI>Hu&s;hai</HI> call <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> (that U&s;urper) King.
2 <HI>Sam. 15. 34. Say to Ab&s;alom, I will be thy &s;ervant O King.</HI> Yea further <HI>David</HI>
him&s;elf did call <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> King, 2 <HI>Sam. 15. 19. David &s;aid to Hu&s;hai, returne to
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thy place, and abide with the King</HI> (that is with <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI>) yet he knew him&s;elfe
to be the lawfull King, and did not acknowledge that his Sonne <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> had any
right to the Kingdom, though he did give him the Title of a King. So <HI>Athaliahs</HI>
U&s;urping is called by the Spirit of God reigning, yet the &s;pirit of God ownes not
her right to reigne, but approved of the killing of her, and the &s;etting up <HI>Ieh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;h</HI>
the true and lawfull heire in her room.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Kings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> per to|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> Yea Chri&s;t him&s;elf called the Devill the
Prince of this World, <HI>Iohn</HI> 12. 13. and 16. and 11. yet is it imaginable that
Chri&s;t thought this Title of right belonged to the Divell? certainely no, <HI>Mu&s;cu|lus</HI>
on <HI>Iohn</HI> 12. 31. well ob&s;erves, <HI>non e&s;t i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">le (viz. Satan) Princeps mundi legitimus,
&s;ed per rapinam. Paul</HI> called the Devills Principalities and power, <HI>Eph.</HI> 6. 12. yet
none will be &s;o &s;hamele&s;&s;e as to &s;ay, that <HI>Paul</HI> thought this their Rule, Domini|on,
and power, of right belonged to them, but is meerly u&s;urped and intruded into.
See Annot. on the Bible on <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 6. 12.</P>
<P>3. Titles are not alwaies approbative, but di&s;tinctive; my meaning is, that gi|ving
of Titles to per&s;ons or things argues not ones approving of a ju&s;t right to tho&s;e
Titles, but &s;eems meerly to di&s;tingui&s;h tho&s;e per&s;ons or things from others that
are called by other names or Titles; as I call them at Whitehall a Councell of
State, to di&s;tingui&s;h them from a Councell of Warre, I call tho&s;e at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>
the Parliament of the Common-wealth, to di&s;tingui&s;h them from the Lords and
Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</P>
<P>4. Titles are giving to things or per&s;ons &s;ometimes meerly by allu&s;ion, not ap|probation,
as in Scripture phra&s;e &s;in is &s;aid to reigne, and the Devils are &s;aid to
rule, not that either the one or the other hath an approved right to
rule over man, as a lawfull Prince hath to rule over his Subjects, but they are
&s;aid to reign or rule by way of allu&s;ion to the reign of Princes in their Dominions.</P>
<P>5. Titles may be given without &s;in to per&s;ons or things, though of right they
belong not to them, where they are generally received or mentioned by &s;uch ti|tles
by the people where I live. About names and titles much indulgence is to be
given to the common u&s;ages and cu&s;tomes of the people; I may call things or per|&s;ons
by &s;uch names or titles as I know belongs not of right unto them, becau&s;e they
are ordinarily knowne, and generally received by &s;uch names and titles. I could
give manifold in&s;tances out of Scripture to prove this; <HI>David</HI> called <HI>Ab&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">lom</HI>
King, not that he thought him &s;o of right, but becau&s;e he was commonly known
and generally received by that title among the people. So <HI>Herod</HI> was called by the
Evangeli&s;t King of the Jews, &s;o did the Jews generally call him by that title, yet
none but that &s;ect or &s;ort of people called the Herodians did owne it as <HI>Herods</HI>
right to be the King of the Iews, who were &s;o called becau&s;e they pleaded for <HI>He|rod</HI>
to be the lawfull King of the Iews, which the Phari&s;es and others with&s;tood,
becau&s;e he was not one of the Iewi&s;h Nation, as he ought to be. <HI>Deut</HI> 17. 15. Yet
all the Iews called <HI>Herod</HI> King, though they did not acknowledge him to be
their lawfull King; tis manife&s;t giving of titles are but titular acknowledgments and
no more.</P>
<P>6. If names may without &s;in be given to places and things (which belong not
to them) I &s;ee no rea&s;on why they may not be given to per&s;ons. There are
names and titles given to many places both upon &s;uper&s;titious and idolatrous
grounds, yet may without &s;in be u&s;ed (I &s;peak not of the fir&s;t impo&s;ers) when
tho&s;e places are &s;o called and commonly knowne by &s;uch names. <HI>Luke</HI> that writ
the Acts of the Apo&s;tles, calls a place in <HI>Athens, Mars-hill</HI> (as it was common|ly
<PB N="3" REF="4">
called) and this he might do without &s;in, though this name was originally im|po&s;ed
on that place in honour of <HI>Mars,</HI> yet he calls the place as it was com|monly
called, though called &s;o upon an Idolatrous ground. <HI>Acts</HI> 17. 22. So for
T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ings al&s;o we may without &s;in call them by tho&s;e names which others give them,
though they may deal &s;uper&s;titiou&s;ly or &s;infully in the fir&s;t impo&s;ition of &s;uch names.
Thus <HI>Paul</HI> mentions a &s;hip of <HI>Alexandria</HI> who&s;e &s;igne was <HI>Ca&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">r</HI> and <HI>Pollux,</HI>
names originally impo&s;ed by the Gentiles, upon an idolatrous ground, yet being
generally received, <HI>Paul</HI> calls the &s;hip after this name.</P>
<P>7. It was a matter of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity (as to my life) for me to Petition them,
I being condemned to dye; tis true for a trivial, or ordinary occa&s;ion I &s;hould
never Petition them, but in an extraordinary ca&s;e I might lawfully do it;
<HI>David</HI> in a ca&s;e of extreme nece&s;&s;ity did eat the Shew-bread, which in an ordinary
ca&s;e he might not do. Tis true indeed, <HI>Cato</HI> would not Petition <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> for his life,
he had rather dye than Petition, but that I conceive was rather out of &s;ome animo|&s;ity
or height of Spirit, or petty di&s;content, than out of a rectified judgment;
for my part I am fully &s;atisfied that I have not &s;inned in giving them their a&s;&s;umed
Titles; Names and Titles do not determine rights, <HI>conveniunt rebus nemina &s;aepe &s;uis,</HI>
it is true &s;ometimes, but not alwayes:</P>
<P>8. Titles men a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves, or are generally given by others, may be
given them by me without &s;in, or without owning a right to tho&s;e titles; this I may
make appear by &s;undry late in&s;tances; <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth had this title given him,
<HI>Defender of the faith,</HI> yet he had no right to this title; for he defended only the
Popi&s;h Religion; he oppo&s;ed the Faith rather than defended the Faith, and the
true rea&s;on why the Pope gave him this title <HI>Defender of the Faith,</HI> was becau&s;e
he oppo&s;ed the Doctrine of <HI>Luther,</HI> and wrote again&s;t him; yet none &s;crupled
to call him and the &s;ucceeding Kings of <HI>England</HI> the <HI>Defenders of the Faith.</HI> So the
King of <HI>Spaine</HI> is called the Catholick King, yet he hath no true right to this title,
for he is not a Catholick or univer&s;all Monarch, yet our new State have lately
&s;ent to the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> under this title, <HI>The Catholick King;</HI> &s;o the King of
<HI>France</HI> is call'd the mo&s;t Chri&s;tian King; &s;o the Duke of <HI>Bavaria</HI> having by arms eje|cted
the <HI>Pal&s;grave</HI> writes him&s;elfe Prince Elector Palatine of the <HI>Rhine,</HI> &s;o the
King of <HI>Poland</HI> takes this title to him&s;elfe <HI>King of Sweden,</HI> yet hath no right to that
Kingdom; yet none that ever I heard of &s;crupled to give the&s;e titles to them, con|&s;idering
that titles do not determine rights, and con&s;idering al&s;o, that no addre&s;|&s;es
to them will be received by them, unle&s;&s;e the titles they a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves
be given them by tho&s;e who make applications to them.</P>
<P>Having thus &s;poken to ju&s;tifie the lawfulne&s;&s;e of the titles of my Petitions, I
come now to ju&s;tifie the matter of my Petitions. Before I &s;peak to the matter of my
Petitions po&s;itively, I &s;hall in a word declare negatively what was not the matter
of my Petitions, as,</P>
<P>1. I did not promi&s;e to act any thing for the promoting and maintaining this
pre&s;ent Government, that had been equivalent to taking the engagement.</P>
<P>2. I did not promi&s;e to joyne with the pre&s;ent power to oppo&s;e the Scoti&s;h Army
though I was often &s;ollicited to it.</P>
<P>3. I did not declare that for which I was condemned was a &s;in again&s;t God, I
am of the &s;am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> mind I was when at the High Court after I had my &s;en|tence,
I &s;aid, Though they Condemned me, yet God and my owne Con&s;ci|ence
did not Condemne me, they Condemned me for Trea&s;on, yet my Con|&s;cience
<PB N="4" REF="5">
did not tell me that it was a &s;inne again&s;t God which they counted Trea|&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>I confe&s;&s;ed it was a tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of their Lawes, but no tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of any
command of God. In my fir&s;t Petition I have the&s;e words,</HI> That I lay my mouth
in the du&s;t, that there may be hope that the Lord will pardon his manifold iniquities,
and that your Honours will pa&s;&s;e by his offences contrary to your Lawes. <HI>In my &s;econd
Petition I have the&s;e words,</HI> through unadvi&s;edne&s;&s;e and weakne&s;&s;e he is fallen under
your &s;ad and heavy di&s;plea&s;ure, and hath offended again&s;t the Lawes of this Common|wealth.
<HI>In my third there is no mention of &s;inne at all. In my fourth Petition
there is this pa&s;&s;age,</HI> The con&s;ideration whereof melteth the heart of your Petitioner,
and makes him (after a more narrow &s;earch of his heart and wayes) more deeply &s;en|&s;ible
than ever of his &s;inne again&s;t God, and more &s;orrowfull for his crimes and offences
again&s;t the Parliament in his late and great mi&s;carriages. <HI>In all which pa&s;&s;ages I
have not renounced the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the cau&s;e for which I &s;uffer, nor acknow|ledged
the thing it &s;elfe to be &s;infull, which I &s;till maintaine as ju&s;tifiable, and
can &s;ay with the Apo&s;tle, Happy is he that condemneth not him&s;elfe in the thing
which he alloweth.</HI></P>
<P>4. I did not in my Petition ju&s;tifie the acts upon which I was condemned to be
righteous; nor the Court to be legall: I do publickly prote&s;t again&s;t the former
to be mo&s;t unrighteous, unmercifull, and &s;evere Lawes, as <HI>Draco's</HI> written in
blood; and have before the High Court prote&s;ted again&s;t the latter, that they
were not a leagall Court of judicature to judge me for my life, therefore I did ear|ne&s;tly
plead it was my birthright to have a jury, my duty to demand it, though their
plea&s;ure to deny it.</P>
<P>5. I did not ab&s;olutely ju&s;tifie the &s;entence of the High Court, I had rather
patiently undergoe the &s;entence than ab&s;olutely to ju&s;tifie it; I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e
through advice of Lawyers, and earne&s;t &s;olicitatious of friends, I did in my la&s;t Pe|tition,
after a &s;ort, and in &s;ome &s;ence &s;ay the Sentence was ju&s;t (in what &s;ence I
&s;hall by and by &s;hew) My words are the&s;e, <HI>He humbly acknowledgeth he hath &s;o
highly violated the Lawes of the Commonwealth, as that thereby he hath rendred
him&s;elfe guilty of the &s;entence of death, ju&s;tly pa&s;t upon him by the high Court of Iu|stice.</HI>
In which words, fir&s;t, I do not ju&s;tifie their Lawes, nor, &s;econdly, the
Legality of the Court, thirdly, nor the &s;ufficiency of the te&s;timony of the Witne&s;|&s;es;
There did not any two Witne&s;&s;es evidence any one fact again&s;t me that was
trea&s;on by their new Acts, and that &s;ome Members of the High Court have confe&s;t
unto me.</P>
<P>Having &s;poken Negatively what was not the matter of my Petitions, I now come
to &s;peake po&s;itively what was the matter of my Petitions, wherein I
have &s;aid or done nothing contrary to Con&s;cience, or my former princi|ples.</P>
<P>The matter of my Petitions containes three parts, fir&s;t, the Narratory part,
&s;econdly, the Promi&s;&s;ory part, thirdly the Petitionary part; At the la&s;t none
can be offended, (unle&s;&s;e &s;uch as thir&s;ted after my blood) in that I did but
begge a grant of my life, that I might bee re&s;cued from going downe
into the Grave. None can ju&s;tly blame mee for begging my life from
any who have my life in the power of their hands; I neede not &s;peak to
that.</P>
<P>But the two former parts of my Petitions (<HI>viz.</HI> the narratory and promi&s;&s;ory
<PB N="5" REF="5">
parts) require more to be &s;poken concerning them.</P>
<P><HI>As touching the Narratory part, I &s;hall begin with the fir&s;t Petition, the nar|ratory
part runs thus.</HI> Most humbly &s;heweth, Your Petitioner having received the
&s;entence of Death by the High Court of Ju&s;tice, is preparing him&s;elf in all humility,
and &s;erious &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to drink that bitter cup, the terrour whereof, though much aba|ted
through the pardoning mercies of God, in the blood of &s;prinkling, yet your Petitio|ner,
being brought down to the du&s;t of Death, de&s;ires to &s;ee the righteous Lord in this
Sentence; acknowledging it to be ju&s;t with the the mo&s;t High to cut him off, both in the
mid&s;t of his dayes, and the mid&s;t of his Mini&s;try; but de&s;ires to be deeply humbled un|der
the mighty hand of God, lying low before the Lord and you, putting his mouth in
the du&s;t, that there may be hope that the Lord will pardon his manifold Iniquities,
and that your Honours would pa&s;&s;e by his offences, done contrary to your Laws, which
as he formerly did, &s;o &s;till doth confe&s;&s;e renders him faulty, for which he is unfeignedly
&s;orry; your Petitioner goeth not about to plead excu&s;e, but with an humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion
pro&s;trates him&s;elf at your feet, acknowledging he hath offended again&s;t the acts of this
Commonwealth, and thereby is fallen under your &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure, of which he is very
deeply &s;en&s;ible and &s;orrowfull al&s;o.</P>
<P>This is all the narratory part, which I hope offends no &s;ober minde, nor Chri|&s;tian
ear, it offends &s;ome I have &s;aid no more, it offends none (I hope) that I
have &s;aid &s;o much. I de&s;ire to give you a few things to ob&s;erve out of the&s;e words
in my fir&s;t Petition. 1. I &s;aid, <HI>I de&s;ire to &s;ee the righteous Lord in this Sentence.</HI>
I doe acknowledge God to be righteous (what ever men are) in all that is brought
upon me, he is righteous &s;hould a wor&s;e Sentence than Death pa&s;&s;e up|on
me.</P>
<P>2. <HI>I do acknowledge it to be ju&s;t with the mo&s;t High to cut me off, both in the
mid&s;t of my dayes, and in the mid&s;t of my Mini&s;tery.</HI> I doe not &s;ay it is ju&s;t with
men, they &s;hall an&s;wer for what they have done; but it is ju&s;t with God, he is ju&s;t
in mens inju&s;tice, and righteous in mens unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>3. I &s;ay in my Petition, That <HI>I de&s;ire to be deeply humbled under the mighty hand
of God, lying low before the Lord and you, putting his mouth in the du&s;t, if there may
be hope that God will pardon his manifold Iniquities, and your Honours pa&s;&s;e by his
offence done contrary to your Laws, which as formerly did, &s;o I doe &s;till confe&s;&s;e renders
me faulty, for which I am unfeignedly &s;orry.</HI> In which words I de&s;ire the Reader
to ob&s;erve I doe onely in the generall beg pardon for my manifold Iniquities, with|out
re&s;training it to this particular fact for which I am condemned. I am a&s;&s;ured
that what they count Sin is Duty, and what they judge Trea&s;on is Loyalty. Se|condly,
when I beg their Honours to pa&s;&s;e by my offences done contrary to their
Laws, I do not intend it as if my offending again&s;t their Laws made me a tran&s;gre&s;|&s;or
again&s;t Gods Lawes; no they are tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors again&s;t Gods Law for making
&s;uch Laws, not I for breaking them. Thirdly, I u&s;ed this pa&s;&s;age [again&s;t your
Lawes] on purpo&s;e to di&s;tingui&s;h their new Lawes from the Ancient and Fun|damentall
Lawes of this Nation. Fourthly, when I &s;ay I am by their Laws rende|red
faulty, I doe not, nor never did intend it as to God, but if I re&s;pect their laws
&s;ingly I am faulty by them, for I confe&s;&s;e I have broken them; yet as to God they
are faulty in making them, not I in breaking them. Fifthly, when I &s;ay <HI>I am un|feignedly
&s;orry that I have done it contrary to their Laws,</HI> My meaning is, becau&s;e
of the penalty their Lawes inflict, <HI>viz.</HI> Impri&s;onment and Death, for this I am
&s;orry; As for Gods Law I de&s;ire to grieve more for the offence than the Puni&s;h|ment,
<PB N="6" REF="6">
but as for their Laws I am not bound to doe &s;o.</P>
<P>Fourthly, when I &s;ay <HI>I pro&s;trate my &s;elfe at your feet, acknowledging I have of|fended
again&s;t the Acts of this Commonwealth, and thereby am fallen under your &s;ore
di&s;plea&s;ure, of which I am very deeply &s;en&s;ible and &s;orrowfull al&s;o,</HI> I de&s;ire the Rea|der
to ob&s;erve, 1. I call their Laws the Acts of this Common-wealth, to di&s;tingui&s;h
them from Acts of Parliament. 2. By the&s;e words you may under&s;tand my intent
in the foregoing Clau&s;e, where I &s;aid I was &s;orry for my offences done contrary
to their Laws, the&s;e words explain tho&s;e, that my &s;orrow is that I have fallen un|der
their &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure (which I feel by Impri&s;onment and &s;entence of death)
rather than tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing their Acts; I have more cau&s;e of grief that their Laws are
not aboli&s;hed, than that they are broken.</P>
<P>This is all I have to &s;ay about the narratory part of the fir&s;t Petition, the narra|tory
of my &s;econd Petition is as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;t humbly &s;heweth, That your Petitioner doth with all thankefulne&s;&s;e acknow|ledge
it a &s;ingular Providence of God, and &s;peciall favour of the Parliament, that a
dore of hope is yet open, and opportunity once more offered to pro&s;trate him&s;elf at your
feet for a grant of his life, which if you vouch&s;afe, he &s;hall accept as an Act of great
grace and mercy. It is no little grief of heart to your Petitioner, that through unad|vi&s;edne&s;&s;e
and weakne&s;&s;e he is fallen under your &s;ad and heavy di&s;plea&s;ure, and hath of|fended
again&s;t the Lawes of this Commonwealth, for which he is unfeignedly &s;orrow|full;
And now by the &s;entence of the High Court (to which he &s;ubmits with all Chri|&s;tian
meekne&s;&s;e and humble acknowledgement of Gods <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">and therein) is in inevitable
and &s;uddon danger to lo&s;e his life, without your mercifull interpo&s;ition. And where|as
there is &s;urmi&s;e of a plot continued again&s;t the peace and welfare of this Common|wealth,
he doth prote&s;t in the pre&s;ence of GOD, the &s;earcher of all hearts, that he know|eth
of no plot or de&s;igne again&s;t the pre&s;ent Government, nor it privy in the lea&s;t to
any preparations or intendments towards any inte&s;tine In&s;urrections, or forreign Inva|&s;ions,
or to any Corre&s;pondency now held with any in, or of the</HI> Scoti&s;h <HI>Nation, or any
other what&s;oever. He is not ignorant how much Malignants will triumph at his death,
nor is he without naturall affections to his dear Wife and Children, nor without real<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
de&s;ires of life to doe GOD and his Countrey &s;ervice, which are powerfull per&s;wa&s;ives
to him to doe what ever he can, without wounding his Con&s;cience.</HI> In which words I
de&s;ire the Reader to take notice, 1. That by u&s;ing the word Parliament, I doe not
own them as a reall, but as a titular Parliament. 2. When I mention unadvi&s;ed|ne&s;&s;e
and weakne&s;&s;e, I under&s;tand it in the manner of management of &s;uch a bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e,
that is, was without that caution and care that became a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of &s;uch
a nature. It was my unadvi&s;edne&s;&s;e and weakne&s;&s;e, I confe&s;&s;e, that I ever met with
&s;uch per&s;ons who were &s;ome of them &s;o fal&s;e, others &s;o fearfull, mo&s;t of them &s;o
undi&s;creeet, yea it was my unadvi&s;edne&s;&s;e to meet with &s;o many of them. 3. When
I &s;ay <HI>I am unfeignedly &s;orrowfull,</HI> it is not &s;ingly for offending again&s;t their Laws,
but conjunctly, becau&s;e <HI>I am fallen under their &s;ad and heavy di&s;plea&s;ure, and offen|ded
again&s;t their Lawes.</HI> This explains a like clau&s;e in my fir&s;t Petition, it implies
I am &s;orrowfull for the penalty their Lawes inflict (<HI>viz.</HI> Impri&s;onment and Death)
for therein I finde the &s;ad effect of their heavy di&s;plea&s;ure, &s;o that my &s;orrow is ra|ther
that I am a &s;ufferer by their cruell Laws, than that I am a breaker of them; in|deed
as to the Laws of God, and the unque&s;tionable Lawes of this Nation, a man
ought to be more &s;en&s;ible that he is a tran&s;gre&s;&s;or, than that he is a &s;ufferer: But a
man is not bound to be &s;o for tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing their trea&s;onable Lawes. 4. Take no|tice,
<PB N="7" REF="6">
I call their new Lawes the Lawes of this Commonwealth, to di&s;tingui&s;h them
from the old Lawes of this Kingdome, which I will keep, not only for Fear, but
for Con&s;cience &s;ake, but as for their Laws a man may forbear to break them, out of
Fear, or in Prudence, but not for Con&s;cience &s;ake. 5. When I &s;peak to the &s;en|tence
of the Court, take notice I onely &s;ay, That <HI>I &s;ubmit to the Sentence of the high
Court with all Chri&s;tian meekne&s;&s;e, and humble acknowledgment of Gods hand there|in.</HI>
Take notice I doe here &s;ubmit to the &s;entence, not ju&s;tifie it; and I doe ac|knowledge
therein God to be righteous; for he is righteous in the unrighteou&s;ne&s;s
of men. I doe acknowledge Gods hand in this Sentence to be ju&s;t, though mans
hand to be cruell. As for other pa&s;&s;ages in the narratory part there is nothing
que&s;tionable, therefore I &s;hall &s;peak no more to it.</P>
<P><HI>The narratory part of my third Petition is as followeth.</HI> Most humbly &s;heweth,
That whereas there are but a few hours between your Petitioner and Death, he is hum|bly
bold, before he breath out his Soul to God, to breath out his request to the Parlia|ment,
by making his la&s;t addre&s;&s;e to you, humbly acknowledging he hath incurred your
high di&s;plea&s;ure, of which he is deeply &s;en&s;ible, and violated the Lawes of this Com|monwealth,
for which he is unfeignedly &s;orrowfull, and now al&s;o &s;ubmits to the &s;entence
of the High-Court. <HI>I de&s;ire the Reader to ob&s;erve, that this third Petition for the
narratory part of it, is but a repetition of what was in the two former Petitions,
therefore what I have &s;aid to the former, will &s;uffice for this al&s;o.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The naratory part of my fourth Petition is as followeth.</HI> Sheweth, That your Petiti|oner
doth humbly adore the wonderfull goodne&s;&s;e of God, &amp; mo&s;t thankfully acknowledge
the great mercy of the Parliament, for &s;o &s;ea&s;onable and acceptable an Act of Grace,
to &s;uch an offending Suppliant, that when there was but a &s;tep between him and death,
the number of his dayes being accompli&s;hed, and he almo&s;t cut off from the Land of
the living, then you mercifully interpo&s;ed, and gave him his life for a moneth longer,
which was to him as a Re&s;urrection from the dead; the Con&s;ideration whereof, melteth
the heart of your Petitioner, and makes him, after a more narrow &s;earch into his heart
and wayes, more deeply &s;en&s;ible than ever of his &s;inne again&s;t God, and more &s;orrow|full
for his high crimes and offences again&s;t the Parliament, in his late and great mi&s;|carriages.
He humbly acknowledgeth he hath &s;o highly violated the Laws of this Com|monwealth,
as that thereby he hath rendred him&s;elf guilty of the &s;entence of death, ju&s;t|ly
pa&s;t upon him by the High Court of Ju&s;tice. He doth al&s;o herewith humbly offer
to your Honours a free and full Narrative under his hand of the whole de&s;igne to
the be&s;t of his remembrance, which he leaveth to your grave wi&s;domes and favou|rable
interpretations. <HI>This would require a more large vindication than the for|mer.
Wherefore I &s;hall de&s;ire the Reader to take notice of the&s;e following parti|culars.</HI></P>
<P>1. I doe in the &s;ame &s;ence call them a Parliament in this Petition as I did in the
former; I know that the giving them the name Parliament (without engaging to
them) is but a titular, not a reall acknowledgement, yea in the titles of my Petiti|ons
I call them the Parliament of the Commonwealth, I do not call them (nor doe
I beleeve them to be) the Kingdomes Parliament. I have ob&s;erved the name
Parliament hath bin three different wayes applied: The Juncto of <HI>Oxford</HI> was cal|led
a Parliament, but that was only the Kings Parliament: The Members now
&s;itting at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> are called a Parliament al&s;o, but they are the Parliament of
that Faction, who &s;tand for the Government of a Commonwealth, in oppo&s;ition
to the Kingdomes Government: The Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled at <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
were called a Parliament, and they only were and are the Kingdomes
Parliament, to pre&s;erve who&s;e Privileges the people of this Nation are under &s;o
many Oaths and Covenants. I call them the Parliament of the Commonwealth,
to di&s;tingui&s;h them from the Kingdomes Parliament.</P>
<P>2. In &s;aying <HI>I am an offending Suppliant,</HI> my meaning is only that I have offended
them who&s;e new Laws I confe&s;&s;e I have broken.</P>
<P>3. In &s;aying, <HI>the Con&s;ideration whereof</HI> (that is, that my life is given me for a
moneth longer, which is as a Re&s;urrection from the dead) <HI>melteth my heart</HI> I doe
confe&s;&s;e, &s;ence of their kindne&s;&s;e doth more gaine upon me than the feare of death;
what I writ to Mr. <HI>Scot,</HI> I &s;till affirm, <HI>Their di&s;plea&s;ure might have broken my bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">es,
but their mercy hath broken my heart.</HI> I confe&s;&s;e it hath done &s;o: This favour hath
much won my heart towards them in love and thankfulne&s;s, as they are Gentlemen
(who had my life in their hands) but not &s;o as to comply with them in a State-in|tere&s;t,
to promote and maintain their pre&s;ent Government.</P>
<P>4. In &s;aying <HI>I am more deeply &s;en&s;ible, than ever, of my &s;in again&s;t God,</HI> I ble&s;&s;e God
I am &s;o, my Impri&s;onment, and the &s;entence of Death pa&s;t upon me, hath made me
to &s;earch more narrowly into my heart and wayes, and cau&s;ed me to &s;ee my &s;inful|ne&s;&s;e,
un&s;erviceablene&s;&s;e, and unprofitablene&s;&s;e in the Lords vineyard, for which
he may ju&s;tly cut me off as a withered branch, and lay me a&s;ide as a u&s;ele&s;&s;e ve&s;&s;ell,
wherein he will take no plea&s;ure. It would be a &s;otti&s;h &s;tupidity in me, &s;hould not
all the&s;e &s;harp and bitter afflictions make me more &s;en&s;ible of my &s;in again&s;t God;
nor dare I excu&s;e my &s;elf to be withont &s;in in my late actings, that is, in the man|ner
of management thereof, being too open and indi&s;creet, and too credulous of
men; the&s;e, and other infirmities did cleave to the&s;e actings, as there doth failings
cleave to the works of my calling, and to all my duties, yet I have never thought
the facts I have done in their own nature to be &s;infull, but lawfull. I cannot con|ceive
it to be a &s;in again&s;t God, to de&s;ire in my prayers to God as a private man,
that there might be an Agreement between the King and the Scots, upon the inte|re&s;t
of Religion, and terms of the Covenant, or to be pre&s;ent when Letters were
read, which were either &s;ent from or to the hone&s;t Covenanting party in <HI>Scotland;</HI>
nor can I believe it to be a &s;in to move for money for the relief of Major Generall
<HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> (who had been &s;o u&s;efull for, and in&s;trumentall in the good of this Nati|on)
and that not for a military u&s;e (that was di&s;claimed by me) but namely for a &s;up|ply
of his per&s;onall nece&s;&s;ities. I know no &s;in in this, yet this is all that was pro|ved
again&s;t me, for which I am condemned to dye.</P>
<P>5. When I &s;ay <HI>I am &s;orrowfull for my high crimes and offences again&s;t the Parlia|ment
in my late and great mi&s;carriages.</HI> I de&s;ire three things may be taken notice
of, 1. The rea&s;on why I call my late actings high Crimes and offences again&s;t
the Parliament, becau&s;e they were the very words of my Charge. I was charged
with High Trea&s;on, and other high Crimes and offences. To the fir&s;t I &s;till plea|ded
<HI>Not Guilty,</HI> the &s;econd I confe&s;t before the High-Court, that I was guilty of
tho&s;e things which their Laws counted high Crimes and offences, in concealing
what my accu&s;ers had done. Secondly, I doe in the&s;e words mention the object of
the&s;e high Crimes and offences, not again&s;t God, but again&s;t the Parliament (&s;o
called for di&s;tinctions &s;ake) Thirdly, I call my late actings great mi&s;carriages
(not &s;ins) becau&s;e I did mi&s;carry as to the manner of managemement, and as to the
de&s;ired i&s;&s;ue and event, that there might be a healing of breaches, and compo&s;ing
of differences among the godly in both the Nations.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="7">
6. In &s;aying <HI>I have highly violated the Lawes of this Common-wealth,</HI> I call them
thus to di&s;tingui&s;h them from the old and fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">,
which I have not broken in any thing that I have done.</P>
<P>7. In &s;aying I have <HI>by the high violation of their Lawes rendred my &s;elfe guilty
of the &s;entence of Death ju&s;tly pa&s;t upon me by the high Court of Iu&s;tice,</HI> I would be
rightly under&s;tood in the&s;e words, that they might not be wre&s;ted beyond, or
contrary, to my intendment; that you may fully apprehend what I ayme at in
this expre&s;&s;ion, I de&s;ire you would take notice of a few particulars. 1. I do not
&s;ay I am proved to be guilty of the &s;entence of death, but I have rendred my &s;elfe
guilty, &amp;c. that is, though they have not proved, yet I confe&s;&s;e it, I have done
tho&s;e things (contrary to their late Acts) which are puni&s;hable with death by their
cruell Lawes; &s;o that if the Reader marke my words, I do not place my guiltine&s;&s;e
of the &s;entence of death upon the things proved again&s;t me, but upon the things
done by me. And when I &s;ay <HI>The &s;entence of death is ju&s;tly pa&s;t upon me by the High
Court of Iu&s;tice,</HI> I do not place the ju&s;tice of the &s;entence on the clearne&s;&s;e or
&s;ufficiency of the proof, (for there was no trea&s;onable fact (as they call it)
proved again&s;t me by two Witne&s;&s;es) but upon my violation of their Lawes;
that is, I had done tho&s;e things which are puni&s;hable (by their bloody Lawes)
with death; I did violate their Lawes, and upon my violation of their Lawes,
not upon the clearne&s;&s;e of the evidence, do I acknowledge the &s;entence of death to
be ju&s;tly pa&s;t upon, by their bloody and tyrannicall Lawe;: for although eight
Witne&s;&s;es came in again&s;t me, yet they were very deficient in their evidence, &s;ome|times
they contradicted one another, they did not agree among them&s;elves;
&s;ometimes a Witne&s;&s;e contradicted him&s;elfe; none of the Witne&s;&s;es proved, that
ever I received Letter, that ever I writ Letter, that ever I collected, gave or
lent one peny of money, yet I am condemned to dye; I confe&s;&s;e I did write two
Letters, and did give a &s;mall &s;umme of money, (not upon any Military accompt)
both which facts are adjudged Trea&s;on by their new Acts, in which regard I
do acknowledge the &s;entence of death is ju&s;tly pa&s;t upon me, that this was the &s;ence
that I intended, many friends who were with me in the Tower can beare Wit|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Thirdly, In a &s;ence (though a rigid and forced &s;ence) I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e,
the &s;entence may be &s;aid to be ju&s;t, for although there was no &s;ingle per&s;onall
fact proved again&s;t me which made me guilty of Trea&s;on; yet my facts being
(they &s;ay) of a continued time, and complicated nature, I cannot deny, but upon
the whole matter, they have by rigid collections, and &s;trained con&s;equences,
hookt me within the generall clau&s;e of the Act of Augu&s;t the &s;econd 1650. <HI>To
abett, countenance, or incourage the Scoti&s;h Nation, or the Forces adhering to
them,</HI> which is declared to be Trea&s;on. There was no Act but this could reach
me, and no particular clau&s;e in this Act but the&s;e generall words of abetting,
countenancing, or incouraging the Scoti&s;h Nation, or the Forces adhering to
them, for which I was condemned. I do not deny but I might in a &s;ort be
brought under &s;ome of the&s;e generall words, if the Members of the High Court
would put a har&s;h and rigid interpretation (as they have done) upon what was
proved again&s;t me; they might have put a more candid and faire interpretation
upon what was proved again&s;t me; if they had not been led more by Intere&s;t than
by Con&s;cience, they might have &s;aved their Oathes and my life too; I believe
&s;ome of them &s;aid in their Con&s;ciences at lea&s;t, we find no cau&s;e of death in this
<PB N="10" REF="8">
man, but others mighty &s;ay, as the Iewes to <HI>Pilate,</HI> you are no friends to <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI>
you are no friends to the State, if you condemne not this man to dye. Others of
them haply may through blindne&s;&s;e and partiality be &s;o bound up in their Con|&s;ciences,
as <HI>Herod</HI> was, that he mu&s;t cut off <HI>Iohn Baptist's</HI> head for his Oath &s;ake;
&s;o, for&s;ooth, becau&s;e they had &s;worne to execute ju&s;tice upon all that came before
them, according to tho&s;e Acts, they by forced inferences, and tortured collecti|ons,
bringing me under one clau&s;e of the Act of Augu&s;t 2. 1650. thought they
were bound by their Oathes to condemn me, &s;o to avoid the appearance of perjury
they commit murther, as <HI>Herod</HI> did in cutting off <HI>Iohn Bapti&s;t's</HI> head, pretending
that he &s;hould break his Oath if <HI>Iohn Bapti&s;t</HI> did not lo&s;e his head.</P>
<P>Fourthly, Though I &s;hould grant the &s;entence to be ju&s;t according to their
rigid inferences, and &s;trained and forced collections, yet I do not by &s;uch (no
nor yet by any) acknowledgment of mine, ab&s;olutely ju&s;tifie the &s;entence. To
clear this in a few words, take notice, a &s;entence may be &s;aid to be ju&s;t in a
two-fold &s;ence, or con&s;ideration. Fir&s;t, In an ab&s;olute &s;ence. Secondly, In a
re&s;pective or relative &s;ence and Con&s;ideration. F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;t, A &s;entence is then &s;aid to
be ju&s;t in an ab&s;olute &s;ence in the generall, when for the &s;ub&s;tance of it, it is &s;uch
that no inju&s;tice can be charged upon, that is, when it hath all tho&s;e requi&s;ites, and
ingredients, that are required to, and are nece&s;&s;ary for, the making up &s;uch
a &s;entence, and they are chiefly the&s;e three. Fir&s;t, That the Law or Lawes
which are proceeded by, be for the matter and &s;ub&s;tance of them con&s;onant and
agreeable, at lea&s;t unto generall rules of Scripture. Secondly, That the Mini|&s;ters
of tho&s;e Lawes be &s;uch who are Lawfully de&s;igned and deputed to the ma|nagement
<HI>and exerci&s;e of</HI> them. And thirdly, That in their &s;entence they walke by,
and proceed according to the &s;ub&s;tantiall rules and directions given them in tho&s;e
lawes; and where the&s;e three things concurre to a &s;entence, it may be &s;aid to
be ju&s;t in an ab&s;olute con&s;ideration, and when it mi&s;&s;eth it in any of the&s;e, it can|not
truly and rightly bear the domination of &s;uch a &s;entence; now that the &s;en|tence
pa&s;t upon me, was a ju&s;t &s;entence in this ab&s;olute con&s;ideration, I have not,
and I hope never &s;hall, acknowledge.</P>
<P>But then &s;econdly, A Sentence may be &s;aid to be ju&s;t in a re&s;pective or relative
con&s;ideration; that is, as it hath reference to, and re&s;pects tho&s;e Lawes which are
the ri&s;e and foundation of it: Now, though a Sentence &s;hould mi&s;&s;e it in the two
fir&s;t re&s;pects of a Sentence ab&s;olutely ju&s;t, that is, though the Lawes proceeded by
&s;hould be vitious for the matter of them, and the Mini&s;ters of them V&s;urpers, that
have no right nor title to the exerci&s;e, either of tho&s;e, or any other Laws, yet if their
proceedings be &s;uch, as that the Sentence being laid to the line, and weighed in the
ballance of tho&s;e Lawes, &s;hall be found in any &s;ence (yea, though a &s;trained and for|ced
&s;ence) to be a &s;entence according to, and that holds proportion with tho&s;e
Laws, or any other Clau&s;e or Clau&s;es of them, in this &s;ence, and &s;o far, the Sentence
may be &s;aid to be ju&s;t, ju&s;t not &s;imply and ab&s;olutely, but only in reference and re|lation
to tho&s;e Lawes.</P>
<P>And when I acknowledge the Sentence to be ju&s;t, I under&s;tand it in this &s;ence,
<HI>viz.</HI> according to their rigid and forced inferences from their unju&s;t and cruell
Lawes.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> If it be demanded, what was the rea&s;on that I refu&s;ed formerly to menti|on
a word about the ju&s;tice of the Sentence in any &s;ence, yet afterwards do
it?</P>
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<HI>Sol.</HI> I &s;hall give you a brief and (I hope) &s;atisfactory account to both parts of
this Que&s;tion; I &s;hall fir&s;t give you the rea&s;ons why I formerly refu&s;ed to &s;peake
a word about the ju&s;tice of the &s;entence, then give you rea&s;ons why I did &s;peak
&s;omething to it in my la&s;t Petition.</P>
<P>The rea&s;ons why I formerly refu&s;ed to mention a word (in my three fir&s;t Petiti|ons)
about the ju&s;tice of the Sentence, are the&s;e.</P>
<P>1. Le&s;t I &s;hould harden the hearts of my unju&s;t Judges; they them&s;elves confe&s;t
mine was as intricate and dubitable, a Ca&s;e as ever came before them, to finde by
what Act, and by what Clau&s;e in that Act I was found guilty, therefore they &s;pent
more time about my tryall, than about any Mans &s;ince their High-Court was e|&s;tabli&s;hed.
I refu&s;ed therefore to &s;ay that was Ju&s;tice, which God will &s;ay is Murder
in the great day of their account, and which them&s;elves could hardly &s;ay was ju&s;t,
untill by the &s;ubtill in&s;inuations, and rigid inferences and Collections of the Law|yers
(of that Court) they hook't me within the compa&s;&s;e of tho&s;e generall words,
To abett, countenance, or encourage.</P>
<P>2. Le&s;t I &s;hould injure my Godly Brethren who &s;hould be afterwards tryed.
The mo&s;t they proved again&s;t me by two Witne&s;&s;es, was prefence at the hearing of
Letters read: Now I thought with my &s;elfe, &s;hould I confe&s;&s;e the Sentence ju&s;t, I
&s;hould pre-judge my Brethren, and in effect, &s;ay the Sentence would be ju&s;t again&s;t
them, as well as again&s;t me; upon this ground I refu&s;ed to &s;ay the Sentence was
ju&s;t; but this rea&s;on is of no force now, for all my Brethren in the Tower, who were
engaged in the &s;ame bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, they have either confe&s;t, or intend to confe&s;&s;e a|gain&s;t
them&s;elves.</P>
<P>3. I could not be informed (upon di&s;cour&s;e with divers of the Members of the
High-Court) what per&s;onall fact of mine (proved again&s;t me) made me guilty of
Trea&s;on by any publique Act of theirs, nor could I under&s;tand by any of them, if
they did proceed <HI>Secundum allegata, &amp; probata,</HI> how they found me guilty of
Trea&s;on; all the refuge they had to run to, was this, That I was an abetter, coun|tenancer
or encourager of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, and forces adhering to them; and
upon that Clau&s;e they &s;entenced me. Now, when I &s;aw &s;ome of my Judges could
give me no more &s;atisfactory rea&s;ons of their Sentence, it made me the more to
doubt of the ju&s;tice of the Sentence, even according to their own Lawes; upon
the&s;e grounds I forbore to &s;peak of the ju&s;tice of the Sentence: in mentioning the
ju&s;tice of the Sentence, I did not u&s;e lightne&s;&s;e, or &s;hew ficklene&s;&s;e, but what I did
it was upon &s;olemn and &s;erious advice and con&s;ideration.</P>
<P>The rea&s;ons why I did &s;ay the Sentence of Death was ju&s;tly pa&s;t upon me, are
the&s;e.</P>
<P>1. Becau&s;e I knew I had done tho&s;e things which their cruell Lawes puni&s;h with
Death, as I did write a Letter to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and gave a &s;mall &s;um of money to him,
both which are puni&s;hed with death; yet they proved neither of the&s;e; &s;o that I
place the ju&s;tice of the Sentence, not upon the &s;ufficiency of the proof, but upon
my violation of their bloody Lawes.</P>
<P>2. I had not &s;o much hopes, that &s;aying in any &s;ence the Sentence was ju&s;t would
formerly &s;o much advantage me as now I have, therefore would not give &s;o likely
an offence for &s;o unlikely and uncertain an advantage.</P>
<P>3. I con&s;idered with my &s;elf, that the Sentence of the Court (whether ju&s;t or
unju&s;t as to my acknowledgment) was but a nice controver&s;ie in Law, not a clear
Ca&s;e of Con&s;cience in Divinity. I did not refu&s;e to &s;ay the Sentence was in any
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&s;ence ju&s;t, as if I thought it were a &s;in in its own Nature to &s;ay that by their Laws
the Sentence was ju&s;t, I never loaded my Con&s;cience with that, but I forbore
it out of Chri&s;tian prudence; I would not harden my Judges, nor in&s;nare my
Brethren.</P>
<P>4. The la&s;t rea&s;on why I did &s;ay the Sentence was ju&s;t, is this, becau&s;e my Judges
did upon the evidence bring me under the&s;e generall and comprehen&s;ive words, <HI>To
abett, countenance, and encourage the</HI> Scoti&s;h <HI>Nation.</HI> The&s;e words are of &s;uch a la|titude,
that they might bring me under them by forced inferences, &s;trained con&s;e|quences,
and rigid interpretations; &s;o that in this &s;ence (<HI>this rigid &s;ence</HI>) the Sen|tence
may be &s;aid to be ju&s;t. Yet for all this that hath been &s;aid, my Judges have
great cau&s;e to be troubled, as</P>
<P>1. For &s;itting in &s;o arbitrary, illegall, and tyrannicall a Court. 2. That they
judged me upon &s;uch incompetent, in&s;ufficient, and uncertain evidence. 3. That
they judged me to dye by &s;uch an Act, they indeed are to be judged as Traytors
who made the Act, not I who broke it. 4. For being &s;uch va&s;&s;alls to tho&s;e who
Commi&s;&s;ionate them, mo&s;t of them having offices, or places of profit from the
State, are in fee with the State, and for that very rea&s;on are not competent
per&s;ons to be judges of matters of Fact again&s;t any mans life; indeed the Iudges of
the Land are onely Judges of matters of Law, and may be in fee with the State, may
receive a yearly revenue, but the Jury who judge of matters of Fact, ought not to
be in fee with the State; therefore by Law the Pri&s;oner at the Bar, may lawfully
except again&s;t 35 if he &s;ee ju&s;t cau&s;e, either in that, or any other regard. 5. They
have great cau&s;e to be troubled, that when they could not prove one Trea&s;onable
fact again&s;t me by their new Laws, either that I ever writ Letter, or received or
&s;ent Letter, or gave one penny of money, when, I &s;ay, they could prove neither
of the&s;e again&s;t me, that they judge me to dye upon &s;uch a <HI>quirk</HI> in the Act, and
by &s;uch har&s;h interpretations force my actings to come under tho&s;e generall words,
<HI>abetting, countenancing and encouraging,</HI> I am bold to &s;ay, that Trea&s;on was ne|ver
made by &s;uch generall words, as <HI>abetting, countenancing and encouraging,</HI> in any
State or Kingdom in the world, but in ours by our Commonwealth-men; and &s;ome
of my Iudges have confe&s;t, there was never &s;uch generall words found in any Law to
make a man guilty of Trea&s;on: Ignorant men talk of the <HI>Norman</HI> &s;lavery, but there
is no &s;uch &s;lavery in the world as this is, for a man to dye upon &s;uch words as the&s;e;
for ought I know &s;peaking well of a <HI>Scotch</HI> man may be judged abetting, and look|ing
lovingly on a <HI>Scotch</HI> man may be judged conntenancing, and &s;peaking comfor|tably
to a Scotch man may be judged encouraging; &s;o that if a man &s;peak well of, or
look lovingly on, or &s;peak comfortably to any of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, he may, for
ought I know, be brought under this unmercifull and cruell Act as well as I.
Though I am not the fir&s;t &s;entenced to death by the flew Acts, yet I am the fir&s;t
Man in <HI>England</HI> &s;entenced to dye by tho&s;e generall words of <HI>abetting, countenan|cing
and encouraging,</HI> which are not found in any ancient Laws or Statutes, and
which no Iury in <HI>England</HI> would have Condemned me upon, as Lawyers have
informed me. What will after-ages &s;ay of the&s;e proceedings, but that this kind
of ju&s;tice is extremity of rigor, and that there is a talent of unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e to one
dram of ju&s;tice found in this &s;entence? I am very confident, that after my
head is off my &s;houlders, &s;ome of my Iudges will have terrif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ed &amp; troubled Con&s;ci|ences,
as <HI>Herod</HI> had after he had cut off <HI>John Baptist's</HI> head, he thought he had &s;een
<HI>Johns</HI> Gho&s;t, which was nothing el&s;e but meerly the reflections of his naturall Con|&s;cience
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for his cruell murder of that innocent man: And I hope and beleeve I
&s;hall have more peace of Con&s;cience in undergoing the &s;entence on a Block, than
they will have for inflicting the &s;entence when they come to lye upon their death|beds.
I pray God lay not my blood to their charge.</P>
<P>This is all I have to &s;ay touching the Narratory part of my 4 Petitions. I proceed
now to ju&s;tifie the &s;econd part of my Petitions, which is the Promi&s;&s;ory part; as I
have declared nothing that is &s;infull in the former, &s;o I have not promi&s;ed any
thing that is &s;infull in the latter. Before I &s;hall undretake to ju&s;tifie what I have
promi&s;ed, I &s;hall premi&s;e a few particulars. 1. Had I been free, I &s;hould have
promi&s;ed them nothing, becau&s;e I owe them nothing. 2. I promi&s;e them onely
Negatives, which I may lawfully make to a company of High-way robbers, if they
will &s;pare me life, when &s;ome of their &s;ociety would &s;pill my blood. Now, that I
might &s;atisfie the world in what promi&s;es I have made, I &s;hall lay them down in or|der,
as they are in my Petitions.</P>
<P>In my fir&s;t Petition I did onely promi&s;e, That <HI>for the remainder of my dayes I
would lead a peac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">able and quiet life in all godline&s;&s;e and honesty, and that in my place
and calling I would endeavour the peace and welfare of this Common-wealth.</HI> The fir&s;t
part of this promi&s;e is my duty, as I am a Chri&s;tian, it was the Apo&s;tles prayer in 1
<HI>Tim.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">. 2. therefore ought to be my practice. The &s;econd part of this promi&s;e is my
duty as I am an Engli&s;hman, <HI>to endeavour the peace and welfare of this Common|wealth.</HI>
where by Common-wealth I under&s;tand not this form of Government in
oppo&s;ition to a Kingdome, but by Common-wealth, I under&s;tand the whole
Body or Community of the people of this Nation, I &s;hall endeavour their peace
and welfare as I am a native of this Nation.</P>
<P><HI>In my &s;econd Petition I promi&s;ed only this,</HI> To endeavour in my place and Calling
the compo&s;ing of differences among the godly, and pre&s;erving &s;pirituall peace and love
throughout the Churches of the Saints, as well as the civill peace and welfare of this
Common-wealth. <HI>And I further promi&s;ed,</HI> neither to plot, contrive, or de&s;igne any
thing to the hurt of the pre&s;ent Government, and, if it be required, to put in further
&s;ecurity for performance thereof. <HI>In which words I promi&s;e four things.</HI></P>
<P>1. <HI>In my place and calling to compo&s;e differences among the Godly.</HI> It would be
my &s;in to widen differences, it is my duty to compo&s;e them. I would have Chri&s;t's
Coat without rent, as well as without &s;pot. I can truly &s;ay for the breaches among
the Godly I have had &s;ad thoughts of heart, the grief of my heart hath been for
the Divi&s;ion, and the de&s;ire of my &s;oule, for an Vnion, and clo&s;ure of the differences
that are among&s;t us. Oh that my body could make up that breach, I would ca&s;t it in,
or my blood &s;oder the differences, I would let it out with gladne&s;&s;e, for the attain|ment
of &s;o de&s;ired an end.</P>
<P>2. <HI>To pre&s;erve &s;pirituall peace and love throughout the Churches of the Saints.</HI>
It is my duty not only to endeavour to re&s;tore peace and love where it is not, but to
pre&s;erve it where it is.</P>
<P>3. <HI>To pre&s;erve the civill peace and welfare of this Common-wealth,</HI> which is the
&s;ame with that promi&s;e in the fir&s;t Petition; by Common-wealth I under&s;tand,
not a form of Government, but the whole body, or Community of the people of
this Nation. I promi&s;e to &s;eek their civill peace and Vnion. I am bound to the
two fir&s;t as I am a Chri&s;tian, and to the latter as I am an Engli&s;hman.</P>
<P>4. <HI>Neither to plot, contrive, or de&s;igne any thing to the hurt of the pre&s;ent Govern|ment,
and if it be required, to put in further &s;ecurity for the performance of the &s;ame.</HI>
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In which promi&s;e I doe not ab&s;olutely binde my &s;elf to doe nothing again&s;t this
pre&s;ent Government, &s;o as not to pray, or not to preach again&s;t their V&s;urpations
and Oppre&s;&s;ions, but I doe confine my promi&s;e to <HI>Not plotting, contriving or de|&s;igning
the hurt of the pre&s;ent Government,</HI> that is, that I &s;hall not engage in any
plot, contrivement or de&s;igne again&s;t them who are in pre&s;ent power, and this
promi&s;e I had re&s;olved to keep, had they given me my life, though I might have
opportunity and &s;ecrecy to carry on &s;uch plot, contrivement, or de&s;igne again&s;t
them. Such a Negative promi&s;e as this, in &s;uch a ca&s;e of extremity as I am now in,
I might lawfully make to a company of Theeves, when they have their knife at my
throat, or their &s;words at my heart, I may lawfully promi&s;e to them, that I will
neither plot, contrive, nor de&s;ign to hurt them, to way-lay them, and take them; I
promi&s;e no more to the pre&s;ent power, and this I &s;hould make good, and if I might
not be believed, I did offer &s;ecurity for the performance hereof; Yet were I at
liberty, at my free choice, I &s;hould not promi&s;e &s;o much unto them, nor would I
advi&s;e others to engage them&s;elves in the lea&s;t unto them, yet it would not offend
me, if any man in the condition I am in did promi&s;e &s;o much, if he would promi&s;e
no more.</P>
<P>In my third Petition <HI>I promi&s;ed and offered further &s;ecurity, neither to plot, con|trive
or de&s;igne the &s;ubver&s;ion of this pre&s;ent Government, accounting it as a brand of
the highe&s;t ingratitude to imploy my life again&s;t you, if I &s;hall by an act of grace and
favour receive a new life from you.</HI> In which words, I be&s;eech the Reader to ob|&s;erve,
my promi&s;e is only Negative, I make no po&s;itive promi&s;e to them of a
concurrence with, or acting for this pre&s;ent Government; this is the &s;ame pro|mi&s;e
<HI>in terminis</HI> with that in the &s;econd Petition, only there is an additionall clau&s;e
here, <HI>viz. That I account it as a brand of the highe&s;t ingratitude, to imploy my
life again&s;t them, if I &s;hould by an Act of grace and favour receive a new life from
them.</HI> I do not &s;ay I &s;hall imploy my life for them if I &s;hould receive my life from
them, that I dare not do, yet I will &s;ay I will not imploy my life again&s;t them,
and this promi&s;e I would have kept, had they given me my life, as long as I had li|ved
under their pre&s;ent Government.</P>
<P><HI>In my fourth petition I promi&s;ed that I would</HI> neither plot, contrive or de&s;igne,
any thing prejudiciall to the pre&s;ent Government, but in my place and calling oppo&s;e
any Malignant de&s;igns what&s;oever, (whether in this or the neighbour Nations&punc;)
that may tend to the ruine of this Common-wealth. <HI>And a while after I promi&s;ed,</HI>
never to imploy that life again&s;t you, I &s;hall receive from you, but bold it my duty
to lay out my life for the glory of God, the good of his people, the peace and &s;afety
of this Commonwealth. <HI>I have promi&s;ed four things in this Petition, the law|fullne&s;&s;e
whereof (as the ca&s;e &s;tands) I &s;hall &s;ufficiently evince.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>I promi&s;ed neither to plot, contrive, or de&s;igne any thing prejudjciall to the
pre&s;ent Government.</HI> This is the &s;ame, <HI>in terminis,</HI> with what is promi&s;ed in my
&s;econd and third Petitions. To vindicate which, I refer my Reader to what I &s;aid
there.</P>
<P>Secondly, I promi&s;ed <HI>In my place and calling to oppo&s;e any Malignant de&s;ignes
what&s;oever (whether in this or the neighbour Nations) that may tend to the ruine
of this Common-wealth.</HI> In which words I de&s;ire the Reader to take notice. Fir&s;t,
That I hold my &s;elf &s;till bound to oppo&s;e malignant de&s;igns as much as ever I did,
I &s;till retaine as great a di&s;like of a Malignant intere&s;t as ever. Secondly, When I
mention Malignant de&s;igns, I do not under&s;tand the hone&s;t <HI>Scots</HI> undertakings, in
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pre&s;erving their King, Country, Religion and all again&s;t the invaders, to be a
Malignant de&s;igne; farre be it from me I &s;hould once imagine it; but by Malig|nant
de&s;igns, I mean &s;uch which the Covenant expre&s;&s;eth, the Covenant brandeth
them for Malignants, Incendiaries, and evill in&s;truments, who divide the
King from his people, or one of the Kingdoms from another; they are the Ma|lignants
which I did oppo&s;e, and &s;hould oppo&s;e, who did labour by Arms to force
the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, this the Cavaleers would have done but could
not, but this the Army hath done. Thirdly, I do not &s;ay I &s;hall oppo&s;e all de|&s;igns
that may tend to the ruine of the Government of the Common-wealth, but
that may tend to the ruine of the Common-wealth, that is, to the ruine of the body
of the people of this Nation.</P>
<P>Thirdly, I promi&s;ed <HI>Never to implo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> that life again&s;t you I &s;hould receive from
you.</HI> This is the &s;ame, <HI>in termin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> with that in my third Petition; could they
give me a thou&s;and lives, I would not imploy one for them, yet if they had given
me my life, I would not imploy that life again&s;t them.</P>
<P>Fourthly, I promi&s;ed <HI>To lay out my &s;elfe for the glory of God, the good of his
people, the peace and &s;afety of this Common-wealth.</HI> That is not the Govern|ment
of this Common-wealth, but of the Community or whole Body of the
people; I thinke there is none that will que&s;tion the lawfullne&s;&s;e of this pro|mi&s;e.</P>
<P>Thus you have &s;een to a tittle both the Narratory and Promi&s;&s;ory part of all my
Petitions, wherein I have declared, and promi&s;ed, nothing that will &s;trengthen this
Government, that doth contradict my Principles, wound my Con&s;cience, or
ju&s;tly offend my Godly Brethren. I promi&s;e nothing in a way of active concur|rence
or complyance with their State Government, neither to preach or pray for
them, fight or act for them in the lea&s;t. Thus I have ju&s;tified the lawfullne&s;&s;e of
the titles of my Petitions, &amp;c. Al&s;o of the matter of them, both of the Narratory,
Promi&s;&s;ory, and Petitionary part of them. I now begin to ju&s;tifie my practice, in
giving in a Narrative of the whole tran&s;action. This I did not out of con&s;traint,
but voluntarily. In my Narrative offence is taken at two things. Fir&s;t, That I
accu&s;e my &s;elfe. Secondly, That I accu&s;e others, yet at fir&s;t I did refu&s;e to doe
either. To this I &s;hall give a clear and &s;atisfactory an&s;wer, to ju&s;tifie what I have
done. It is true, before I was condemned to dye I deemed it again&s;t the Law of
Nature to accu&s;e my &s;elfe, and again&s;t the law of love to accu&s;e my Brother,
therefore then would do neither. And I am &s;till of this judgment, before a man
&s;ees his accu&s;ers face to face, and is convicted, I would not have a man confe&s;&s;e
a word in a ca&s;e of that nature as mine is; but as the ca&s;e &s;tands with me, being a
condemned man, I conceive it is not again&s;t the Law of Nature to confe&s;&s;e again&s;t
my &s;elfe, nor again&s;t the Law of Love to confe&s;&s;e again&s;t my Brethren, who are
partakers with me in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; I &s;hall begin with the fir&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> To prove the
lawfulne&s;&s;e of my practice in giving in a Narrative of what I had done; This is not
forced from me, I offered this from the begining (I mean &s;ince I was condem|ned,
I would not do it before) to let them know what I had done in this
whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but it would not be accepted unle&s;&s;e I would name other men,
which I was then loath to do, but, upon further con&s;ideration, I afterwards incli|ned
to it.</P>
<P>The Rea&s;ons which induced me to give in a Narrative of what I my &s;elf had done
(I being now a condemned man) are the&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="16" REF="11">
Fir&s;t, As &s;elf ju&s;tification can do me no good, &s;o &s;elf accu&s;ation can do me no
hurt; before I was <HI>convicted</HI> I would not confe&s;&s;e a word, that were to make me
guilty of mine owne blood, if out of my owne mouth they &s;hould condemn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
me; then confe&s;&s;ion might have been a prejudice to me, but now it can be
none.</P>
<P>Secondly, My acknowledgment may &s;often, and &s;weeten, the &s;pirits of tho&s;e
toward me, in who&s;e hands my life is, remove many prejudices out of their
minds, that I am not ob&s;tinate or perver&s;e, when they &s;hall &s;ee me deale
with them with an ingenuous freedom, and openne&s;&s;e of heart to them.</P>
<P>Thirdly, I do it to take off jealou&s;ies. out of the minds of them who are in
power, who &s;urmi&s;e plots and de&s;ignes carrying on again&s;t them, who
&s;u&s;pect there is not a full di&s;covery of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; upon this ground
therefore I &s;hall di&s;cover what I well remember, and di&s;tinctly know in this bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Fourthly, I am willing the world &s;hould know the wor&s;t I have done, there|fore
I &s;hall acknowledge, not only what is proved again&s;t me, but tho&s;e things
none in the World could accu&s;e me of, they are &s;uch things as I need not, I
ought not be a&s;hamed of, <HI>viz.</HI> That I de&s;ired, as a private man, there might be
an agreement between the King and the Scots, upon the intere&s;t of Religion,
and tearms of the Covenant; or that I relieved <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> with money, not upon
any Military accompt&punc; but meerly as a &s;upply for his per&s;onall nece&s;&s;ities, &amp;c. the&s;e
are things I am not, I need not, be a&s;hamed of.</P>
<P>Fifthly, If I &s;hould now conceale what I had do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">, the World would thinke
w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;e of it than it is, <HI>and wor&s;e of me than I am.</HI></P>
<P>Sixthly, I intend upon the Scaffold to make an acknowledgment of what I have
done, and why may I not do it before? I need not, ought not, be a&s;hamed to
ju&s;tifie what I have done, upon the Scaffold, I have done nothing either by the
Lawes of God or of this Nation for which I ought to dve, although by their
bloody Lawes, they have condemned me to dye. The&s;e are the rea&s;ons why I
have confe&s;t again&s;t my &s;elfe. I am now to give rea&s;ons why I have in my Nar|rative
confe&s;t again&s;t other men, when before I did refu&s;e to doe it.</P>
<P>To this al&s;o I &s;hall give a brief yet &s;atisfactory account; it is true, before I was
condemned I would not accu&s;e any man, becau&s;e then my te&s;timony haply would
be looked upon as valid in Law again&s;t them&punc; &s;o that in that ca&s;e, I had rather
lay downe my owne life than be in&s;trumentall in taking away the life of another
man. I might have had my owne life given me for a prey, would I have but in|formed
again&s;t other men, and &s;o devoted their lives for a &s;acrifice to the bloody
rage of men, but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;till with&s;tood it. I then was, and &s;till am of this principle, to
judge it better to be a &s;ufferer with the Brethren&punc; than an accu&s;er of the
Brethren, <HI>e&s;pecially</HI> when my accu&s;ation may turne in the lea&s;t to their pre|judice.</P>
<P>The rea&s;ons which &s;wayed with me to name other men in my Narrative, are
the&s;e.</P>
<P>1. Becau&s;e my Te&s;timony (being a condemned man) is not valid in Law, and &s;o can
do them no harm, as to E&s;tate or Life.</P>
<P>2. I do name tho&s;e per&s;ons only, who are already di&s;covered, and certainly known
to tho&s;e in power; &s;hould <HI>I goe about to vindicate</HI> them, I &s;hould do them no good,
and now I do nominate them. I can do them no hurt.</P>
<P><PB N="17" REF="11">
3. Mo&s;t of the per&s;ons I have named, have given me their Con&s;ent that I &s;hould
name them; &s;o that them&s;elves being Judges, they thought I could do them no
injury.</P>
<P>4. Mo&s;t of the per&s;ons I have named in my narrative, have of their own accords
confe&s;&s;ed as much (if not more) than I have &s;poken concerning them; yea before
I have &s;ent in my narrative (for I am one of the la&s;t, though my danger is the grea|te&s;t)
they have &s;ent in theirs, and confe&s;&s;ed again&s;t them&s;elves more than I have
mentioned in my narrative.</P>
<P>Thus I have &s;poken as briefly as the matter would permit, to ju&s;tifie the Title
and Matter of my Petitions, and the giving in of my Narrative; This I doe, becau&s;e
I would give no offence either to Jew, or Gentile, or the Church of God.</P>
<P>There are other &s;candalous a&s;per&s;ions and &s;landerous reports ca&s;t upon me, which
I mu&s;t endeavour to &s;atisfie the world about. I have publikely made 3. &s;o|lemne
and true Prote&s;tations, both on the fir&s;t and la&s;t day of my appearing be|fore
the High Court of Ju&s;tice, the truth wherof I &s;till &s;tand to maintaine; it is
bruited abroad, that both by the Te&s;timony of the Witne&s;&s;es, and by my owne
Confe&s;&s;ion I have contradicted my own Prote&s;tations, which is mo&s;t notoriou&s;ly
fal&s;e, I did therefore in the end of my Tryall declare, that it was my rejoycing, that
though 8. Witne&s;&s;es came in again&s;t me, yet none of them did contradict or fal&s;ifie
my 3. Prote&s;tations; I had rather dye, than any &s;hould make my glorying voyd,
yea, I had much rather be made a Sufferer than a Lyar. <HI>In going</HI> about to vindi|cate
my &s;elf in the&s;e particulars, I &s;hall give you the rea&s;on why I made the&s;e Pro|te&s;tations,
becau&s;e the Charge was &s;o black and foule again&s;t me, of corre&s;ponding
with the <HI>King, Queen, Iermin,</HI> and <HI>Piercy,</HI> of rai&s;ing great &s;ums of Money for the
<HI>Scots</HI> to maintaine a War again&s;t this Nation, &amp;c. To remove prejudices from the
minds of my Judges, and of the hearers then pre&s;ent, I did make the&s;e three Prote|&s;tations,
the truth whereof I &s;tand now to ju&s;tifie and &s;eal with my blood.</P>
<P>1. <HI>The fir&s;t Prote&s;tation I made before the High-Court was this; viz.</HI> That I
never writ any Letters either to the King of <HI>Scots,</HI> or the Queen his Mother, or to the
Church or State of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or to any particular per&s;on of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, &s;ince
the beginning of the Warres between ENGLAND <HI>and</HI> SCOTLAND,
to this day.</P>
<P>This fir&s;t Petition hath not been fal&s;ified, either by the Te&s;timony of my accu|&s;ers,
or my own Confe&s;&s;ion. None of the 8. Witne&s;&s;es did prove that I ever writ
a Letter, yet, I confe&s;&s;e, I did write one to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and another to
<HI>Bamfield</HI> in <HI>Holland, yet</HI> my Prote&s;tation is not fal&s;ified, for they are both of the
<HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> not of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation; though I did write to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> who was in the
<HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, yet is he not of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation; &s;o my Prote&s;tation
holds true.</P>
<P>2. <HI>My &s;econd Prote&s;tation was this,</HI> That I never received any Letters writ to
me, either from the King of <HI>Scotland,</HI> on the Queen his Mother, or the Church or
State of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in the generall, or from any other particular per&s;on of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI>
Nation, from the beginning of the Warres between the two Nations to this day.</P>
<P>This Prote&s;tation is true al&s;o, and hath not been contradicted by my own Con|fe&s;&s;ion,
or any of the Witne&s;&s;es, only Capt. <HI>Potter</HI> did &s;wear, That he received a
Letter from Colonell <HI>Bamfield</HI> with a great <HI>L.</HI> on it, and that there were enclo&s;ed
Letters from 4 <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Lords and from Mr. <HI>Bayly</HI> a <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Mini&s;ter. He &s;aid in
his Examinations: before the Committee of the Councell of State, That he concei|ved
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the Letter from <HI>Bamfield</HI> was writ to me; but before the High-Court, being
on his Oath, he could not &s;ay &s;o; nay, he &s;aid he thought it was not writ to me;
nor can I imagine why Colonell <HI>Bamfield</HI> &s;hould write to me, for I had never
heard from him, or writ to him before; nor did I ever &s;ee his face. But if <HI>Bomfields</HI>
Letter with a great <HI>L.</HI> written on it, had been writ to me, yet my Prote&s;tation is not
contradicted, for <HI>Bamfield</HI> is an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> man, not a <HI>Scotch</HI> man: Now my Proteftation was, That I received no Letters writ to me from any of the Scoti&s;h Nation,
&s;ince the Wars began. Moreover, the Letters from the 4 <HI>Scotch</HI> Lords, and Mr.
<HI>Bayly</HI> the <HI>Scotch</HI> Mini&s;ter (which were enclo&s;ed in <HI>Bamfields</HI> Letter) had not a great
<HI>L.</HI> written on them, as <HI>Bamfields</HI> Letter had, and were not writ to me; and had
tho&s;e Letters from the <HI>Scotch</HI> Lords, and the <HI>Scotch</HI> Mini&s;ter been written to me
(which they were not) yet my Prote&s;tation is not fal&s;ified, for Captain <HI>Potter</HI>
received them, opened them, read them, before he &s;hewed them to me, he kept
them and carried them away, as was confe&s;t in open Court, but I did neither,
nor did I write an An&s;wer to tho&s;e Letters from the <HI>Scotch</HI> Lords, or the <HI>Scotch</HI>
Mini&s;ter; indeed I did write to <HI>Bamfield</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI> but he is of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> not
of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation: &s;o my Prote&s;tation not contradicted.</P>
<P>My third Prote&s;tation was this, <HI>That I never collected, gave, or lent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ne penny of
money to &s;end into</HI> Scotland, <HI>or any foreign parts, either to the King, Queen, Church&punc;
or State of</HI> Scotland, <HI>or to any particular per&s;ons of the</HI> Scoti&s;h <HI>Nation, &s;ince the be|ginning
of the Wars unto this day.</HI> As to the&s;e three particulars I have &s;aid it, and
doe &s;ay it againe, I am as innocent as my harmle&s;&s;e Child that is not 3 years old.
This third Prote&s;tation is true al&s;o, though I did &s;end 5 l. to one <HI>Bamfi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ld</HI> in <HI>Hol|land,</HI>
and 10 l. to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> in <HI>Scotland,</HI> for they are of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> not of the <HI>Sco|ti&s;h</HI>
Nation; Yea, though I did give money to relieve poor <HI>Scotch</HI> men, pri&s;oners,
and others here in <HI>London,</HI> yet this contradicts not my Prote&s;tation, for therein I
&s;aid, I did not give money to &s;end into <HI>Scotland,</HI> or any other fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">eign parts, to any
per&s;ons of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation; but I did not &s;ay I did not give here in <HI>London</HI> to
any per&s;on of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, I did relieve many of the poor <HI>Scotch</HI> pri&s;oners
who were taken at <HI>Dunbar</HI> fight, and brought to <HI>Black-wall:</HI> Yet this doth not
fal&s;ifie my Prote&s;tation; though I did give money to poor <HI>Scotch</HI> men in <HI>London,</HI>
yet I &s;ent none into <HI>Scotland</HI> to any <HI>Scotch</HI> per&s;on &s;ince the Wars began,
to this day.</P>
<P>When I fir&s;t put pen to paper, I did not intend to look fo far back as the Try|all,
but becau&s;e the Tryall is &s;o mi&s;-repre&s;ented, and mi&s;-reported in &s;ome Bookes
in Print, e&s;pecially in that lying Book, called, <HI>The Plea for the Common-wealth,</HI>
and becau&s;e many black and hideous things are laid to my Charge, of which I am
not guilty. Wherefore I &s;hall doe two things, 1. Lay down what none of the 8.
Witne&s;&s;es did prove again&s;t me. 2. Give a brief Extract of what they did prove
again&s;t me, that &s;o the World may be &s;atisfied upon what I was Condemned to
dye.</P>
<P>None of the 8. Witne&s;&s;es did prove in Court.</P>
<P>1. That I writ Letter to the King of <HI>Scots,</HI> or Queen, or <HI>Jermin,</HI> or <HI>Piercy,</HI> or
to any other per&s;ons in foreign parts, either in or of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, &s;ince the
Wars began, to this day.</P>
<P>2. Or, that ever Letter was writ in my Hou&s;e, or in any place el&s;e where I
was pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>3. Or, that ever I directed, ordered or per&s;waded any others to write.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="12">
4. Or, that I did know of any per&s;on that did write Letters into <HI>Scotland,</HI> or any
foreign parts.</P>
<P>5. Or, that ever I &s;ent, or gave my con&s;ent to the &s;ending away of any Letters
into <HI>Scotland,</HI> or any forein parts.</P>
<P>6. Or, that ever I received any Letter from <HI>Scotland,</HI> or any foreign parts.</P>
<P>7. Or, that I ordered any other per&s;on to receive Letters for me.</P>
<P>8. Or, that ever I did &s;o much as read any Letter in my Hou&s;e, or any where
el&s;e, that did come from <HI>Scotland,</HI> or from foreign parts.</P>
<P>9. Or, that ever I collected, gave, or lent any money, either for the King of
<HI>Sc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ts,</HI> the Queen his Mother, the Church and State of <HI>Scotland</HI> in the generall,
or for any particular per&s;ons, either in, or of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation, &s;ince the beginning
of the Wars to this day.</P>
<P>10. Or, that ever I invited any foreign Forces to invade either <HI>England</HI> or <HI>Ire|land.</HI></P>
<P>11. Or, that I was, in the lea&s;t, privy to, or accquainted with any preparations or
endeavours tending to the rai&s;ing of inte&s;tine in&s;urrections at home, or joyning
with any foreign Inva&s;ions from abroad. None of the&s;e particulars were proved
again&s;t me, yet I was condemned to dye; which doth manife&s;t to the world, that I
I am put to death rather upon an intere&s;t of State, than Principles of Con&s;cience;
rather to put a terror upon others, than for the merits of the Facts I have don
my &s;elf, yet my Oppre&s;&s;ors &s;lay me, and hold them&s;elves not guilty.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t that was proved again&s;t me, was this, That I was pre&s;ent at mee|tings
in &s;everall Fa&s;ts, to begge a ble&s;&s;ing on the Treaty between the King and
the <HI>Scots,</HI> that there might be an Agreement between them, upon the intere&s;t
of Religion, and termes of the Covenant; That I was &s;everall times pre&s;ent
at my Hou&s;e when Letters were read, that either were &s;ent to, or received from
<HI>Scotland;</HI> That I moved for money for <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Titus</HI> (yet one of the Witne&s;&s;es
&s;wore that it was not upon a Military account) to maintain the War in <HI>Scotland,</HI>
but meerly to relieve the per&s;onall nece&s;&s;ities of <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Titus;</HI> That two of
the Witne&s;&s;es brought Fifteen pound for <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Titus</HI> to my Hou&s;e, viz.
<HI>Potter</HI> brought Ten pound, and <HI>Far</HI> brought Five pound, but neither charged
me that I received it. Here I de&s;ire the Reader to take notice, that though 8.
Witne&s;&s;es came in again&s;t me, yet no two of them did concurre in their
Te&s;timony to prove any one thing again&s;t me, unle&s;&s;e that I was pre&s;ent
at the bearing of Letters read, which other men brought to my Hou&s;e. As
for all other things, though two Witne&s;&s;es might &s;ometimes &s;peake <HI>ad idem,</HI>
yet not to the &s;ame thing, <HI>eodem tempore.</HI> 'Tis true, two &s;wore that I moved
for money, yet one &s;wore I did it in a meeting, the other &s;wore I did it to
him alone at another time, But le&s;t it &s;hould be thought I am too favoura|ble
in my own Cau&s;e, I have here made an Extract, out of the Depo&s;itions
of the Witne&s;&s;es, that &s;o you may &s;ee the wor&s;t that is proved again&s;t
me.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="document">
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<HEAD>A brief Extract or Collection out of the Depo&s;itions of the Witne&s;ses
against Ma&s;ter LOVE.</HEAD>
<P><HI>The fir&s;t Witne&s;&s;e was Captain Potter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>POtter</HI> &s;ware,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Potter</HI> the fir&s;t Wit|ne&s;&s;e that came in a|gain&s;t me.</NOTE> he brought ten pounds to my hou&s;e, which he intended for <HI>Ma&s;ey</HI>
and <HI>Titus,</HI> he laid it downe in my Parlour, 5. or 6. being pre&s;ent, but proved
not that I &s;aw him, or bid him lay the money down, or that I received it, I can truly
&s;ay I did neither.</P>
<P><HI>Potter</HI> &s;ware he did receive Letters, one from <HI>Bamfield,</HI> another from four
Lords in <HI>Scotland, viz. Argile, Loudon, Lothian,</HI> and <HI>Bellcarris,</HI> and another from
Mr. <HI>Bayly,</HI> on the &s;uper&s;cription was a great <HI>L.</HI> but &s;aid it was not to me, but he
&s;aid he &s;hewed them me, and &s;ome others at my hou&s;e, and when he came in he
&s;aid, Mr. <HI>Love,</HI> I have nues to &s;hew you; in one of the Letters there was a motion
for ten thou&s;and pound, but, &s;aid he, we all di&s;liked that motion, di&s;&s;ented
from it, and re&s;olved to &s;end a Nagative An&s;wer, yea he might have &s;aid, that
I was the man that di&s;&s;waded them from doing any thing in that bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Potter</HI> &s;aid, An An&s;wer to tho&s;e Letters was brought and left at his &s;hop he &s;aid
he thought it came from me and Dr. <HI>Drake,</HI> but, God is my Witne&s;&s;e, I neither &s;ent,
carried, nor left, Letter at his &s;hop in all my life.</P>
<P><HI>Alford</HI> &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Alford</HI> the &s;econd Witne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>William Drake</HI> held a Corre&s;pondence with <HI>Scotland,</HI> but he knew
no Mini&s;ters that knew this.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, That after he came from <HI>Callis</HI> he brought to <HI>William Drake</HI> a Nar|rative
from Captaine <HI>Titus</HI> of all his proceedings at <HI>Ier&s;ey,</HI> and how the Ca|valeers
abu&s;ed him, and al&s;o brought a Copy of a Letter from the King, he &s;aid,
this was read at my hou&s;e.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, There was a Commi&s;&s;ion and in&s;tructions read at my hou&s;e, a little be|fore
the Treaty at <HI>Bredah,</HI> to Authori&s;e the Lord <HI>Willoughby, Bunce, Ma&s;&s;ey, Titus,
Graves,</HI> to u&s;e their intere&s;t in the King, and in the <HI>Scots,</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners to
agree in their Treaty upon the terms of the Covenant.</P>
<P>I de&s;ire you to take notice, that this was the only meeting I was at about an agree|
ment between the King and the <HI>Scots,</HI> and at this meeting I did declare again&s;t the
&s;ending this Commi&s;&s;ion and in&s;tructions, as being an act of high pre&s;umption, for
private men to Commi&s;&s;ionate, and an act of notorious fal&s;hood to &s;ay this was
in the names of the Presbyterian party, when none knew of it but tho&s;e pre&s;ent,
but it &s;eems it was &s;ent away by <HI>Alford</HI> without my knowledge or con&s;ent; indeed
<HI>Alford</HI> &s;ware, that I was pre&s;ent, but could not &s;ay that 4 directed in it, yea he
contradicted him&s;elf, in &s;aying at one time the Commi&s;&s;ion and In&s;tructions were
agreed upon, and at another time, that they were read at my hou&s;e but not agreed
upon.</P>
<P><HI>Alford</HI> &s;aid, After <HI>Dunbar</HI> fight, that there was a Letter which was &s;aid to
come from <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> relating how many were lo&s;t, writ for Arms by the way of
<HI>Holland,</HI> he &s;pake al&s;o of his owne and <HI>Titus</HI> nece&s;&s;ities, being &s;trangers in <HI>Scot|land,</HI>
he &s;aid all waved the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e for Arms, but a propo&s;ition was made for
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&s;upplying tho&s;e Gentlemens nece&s;&s;ities, without reference to armes, or any &s;uch
thing, the &s;umme was either 200, or 300. l. He &s;aid, that I did move for the con|tribution
of money, but mentioned no &s;umme, nor could he &s;ay the money was
rai&s;ed, I doe verily beleeve the &s;umme promi&s;ed to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Titus</HI> was
never gathered, nor &s;ent unto them from <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Huntington</HI> &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hunting|ton the 3d. Witne&s;s.</NOTE> That in the heginning of <HI>March,</HI> 1649. he was at my Hou&s;e,
where he heard a Commi&s;&s;ion read by <HI>William Drake,</HI> written in Characters, to
be &s;ent to the Lord <HI>Willoughby, Bunce, Ma&s;&s;ey, &amp;c.</HI> and &s;aid that I &s;hould &s;ay,
upon the hearing of it read, <HI>Come, come, let it goe,</HI> which in the pre&s;ence of God
I declare, is notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e; yea another of the Witne&s;&s;es &s;aid, that all the Com|pany
was again&s;t &s;ending it.</P>
<P><HI>Bains</HI> could not te&s;tifie a word concerning me.</P>
<P><HI>Adams</HI> &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Baines the 4th. Wit|ne&s;s. Major <HI>A|dams</HI> the 5th. Wit|ne&s;s.</NOTE> he could not &s;ay Mr. <HI>Love</HI> had a hand in Letters &s;ent to <HI>Scotland,</HI>
or in Letters of &s;ending moderate Propo&s;itions to the King.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, that when <HI>Alford</HI> returned from <HI>Callis,</HI> he brought with him a Narra|tive
from <HI>Titus,</HI> and a Copy of a Letter from the King, but he could not &s;wear the
Letter was read at Mr. <HI>Love's</HI> hou&s;e. The Narrative from <HI>Titus,</HI> was to give ac|count
how he was ill u&s;ed by the Cavalier party.</P>
<P>He &s;aid there was a motion about a Commi&s;&s;ion and In&s;tructions to be drawn
up, and &s;ent, but by whom he could not &s;ay, he could not &s;ay it was agreed to be
&s;ent, it was read in Mr. <HI>Love's</HI> &s;tudy, and Mr. <HI>Love</HI> was there &s;ome part of the
time.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, the &s;ub&s;tance of the In&s;tructions, was to u&s;e all Arguments they could
to move the King to give the <HI>Scots</HI> &s;atisfaction, to take the Covenant, but he could
not &s;ay, that he heard Mr. <HI>Love</HI> &s;ay, <HI>Come, come, let it goe.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Adams</HI> being ask'd, whether was there not a Letter, &s;ent from <HI>Piercy</HI> for mo|ney
to be &s;ent to the King, read at Mr. <HI>Love's</HI> hou&s;e? he &s;aid, no certainly; he &s;aid
he &s;aw &s;uch a Letter in <HI>Ma&s;ons</HI> hand.</P>
<P>He being asked, whether about <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1650. a Letter was not &s;ent from <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI>
to &s;ome here, that he had back friends in <HI>Scotland;</HI> complaining, he could not be
promoted there, and whether was not this communicated at Mr <HI>Love's</HI> hou&s;e? he
an&s;wered, no certainly.</P>
<P>And being demanded, whether Mr. <HI>Love</HI> was not named to draw up a Letter to
be &s;ent to <HI>Scotland?</HI> he &s;aid, I was not named, but him&s;elfe was, and &s;ome
others.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, one <HI>Sterkes,</HI> whom be took to be a <HI>Scots</HI> Agent, met &s;ometimes at
Mr. <HI>Love's</HI> hou&s;e. I de&s;ire you to take notice, that this <HI>Sterkes</HI> was no <HI>Scots</HI>
Agent, he was not in <HI>Scotland</HI> for 12 years before, and he told me him&s;elf, that he
was no Agent.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, there were eight or ten meetings in Ma&s;ter <HI>Love's</HI> hou&s;e, within
two years.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, when <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey's</HI> Letter was read Mr. <HI>Love</HI> was there, it did declare
the poverty of his Condition.</P>
<P>Being asked, whether Mr. <HI>Love</HI> did not write down the &s;ummes that each
would give to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> he &s;aid, that I had a Pen in my hand, did write &s;omething,
but he knew not what I did write, but particular men did write their &s;ummes,
but he could not &s;ay, that I writ either names or &s;ums.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, at a meeting at my hou&s;e, I being &s;ometimes pre&s;ent, there was a Let|ter
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read penned by Mr. <HI>Love</HI> and Dr. <HI>Drake,</HI> but being askt why he thought Mr.
<HI>Love</HI> penned it, he &s;aid, meerly becau&s;e of the language of it. This Letter was de|clared
to be &s;ent to the A&s;&s;embly of the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and this was after
<HI>Dunbar</HI> fight. This Letter was read in my hou&s;e, it is true, but never written by
me.</P>
<P>He mentions a Letter in the nature of a Declaration to be &s;ent to <HI>Scotland,</HI> pen|ned
either by Mr. <HI>Love</HI> or Dr. <HI>Drake,</HI> but I know nothing of this, I remember no
&s;uch thing, but afterwards he &s;aid he had no ground to &s;ay Ma&s;ter <HI>Love</HI> penned
it.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, he conceived me to be a corre&s;pondent, but could not &s;ay that I was
&s;o.</P>
<P><HI>Iaquell</HI> &s;aid,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Ja|quell</HI> the 6th. Wit|ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> that the Narrative <HI>Alford</HI> brought from <HI>Titus</HI> at <HI>Callis</HI> was read
in my Hou&s;e, but could not &s;ay that the Copy of the Kings Letter was read there.
He &s;aith, that I was not in the room when he came in, and that I went out
oftentimes.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, <HI>Potter</HI> received Letters from <HI>Bamfield,</HI> and the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Argyle,</HI>
and brought them to my hou&s;e, and that <HI>Potter</HI> read the Letters, in one of the Let|ters
there was a motion for five thou&s;and pounds, but it was refu&s;ed by all, none li|king
of that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, it was thought convenient the Me&s;&s;enger &s;hould have money, but could
not &s;ay that I agreed to give him any.</P>
<P>Colonell <HI>Barton</HI> &s;ware nothing again&s;t me,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">rton</HI> the 7th, Wit|ne&s;&s;e Captain <HI>Fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> the 8th. Wit|ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> but only that I was at a Fa&s;t at his
hou&s;e, but could not tell whether I exerci&s;ed there or no.</P>
<P>Captaine <HI>Far</HI> &s;ware, that at the ending of the Treaty at <HI>Ier&s;ey,</HI> a Letter was
&s;ent from <HI>Titus,</HI> to de&s;ire &s;ombody to be &s;ent to <HI>Callis,</HI> to take an account of
his Negotiations; &s;aid, this Letter was read in my Study, and that I was pre&s;ent;
and &s;aid, it was agreed <HI>Alford</HI> &s;hould go, being his Sonne was gone from him. I
de&s;ire the Reader to ob&s;erve how Captaine <HI>Far</HI> for&s;wears him&s;elfe, and contradicts
another mans te&s;timony, for <HI>Alford</HI> &s;ware, he was never at my hou&s;e till after he
came from <HI>Callis,</HI> yet <HI>Far</HI> &s;aith, he was there before; that he was de&s;ired at
my hou&s;e to go to <HI>Callis,</HI> yet <HI>Alford</HI> &s;wears he was never at my hou&s;e till he returned
from <HI>Callis.</HI></P>
<P>Captaine <HI>Far</HI> &s;aid, when <HI>Alford</HI> gave an account, at his returne from <HI>Callis,</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
was at my hou&s;e, but he could not &s;ay that I was pre&s;ent, but, he &s;aid, I was ab&s;ent
&s;ometimes.</P>
<P>He &s;aid, at a meeting at my hou&s;e, <HI>William Drake</HI> read papers under the
name of Commi&s;&s;ion and In&s;tructions, they were read in the company, but they
were not agreed upon, becau&s;e private per&s;ons could not do &s;uch a thing as give
Commi&s;&s;ion, &amp;c.</P>
<P>He conceived the Commi&s;&s;ion was in the name of the Presbyterian party,
but could not &s;ay &s;o; he &s;aid <HI>William Drake</HI> undertook to draw up the In&s;tru|ctions,
but he could not &s;ay they were drawn up, or &s;ent. He &s;aid, that tho&s;e that
were named Commi&s;&s;ioners, they were to advi&s;e but not to treat in the behalf of
the Presbyterian party.</P>
<P>After the fight at <HI>Dunbar,</HI> a Letter from <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t both with money
and arms, was read, but he &s;aid he came in late and did not hear it read; he could
not &s;ay po&s;itively &s;uch a Letter was read, but that I told him &s;o, and that I told him
we could not do it.</P>
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He &s;aid, that I told him we had agreed to rai&s;e a &s;umme of money for <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI>
and <HI>Titus,</HI> either 250 li. or 300 li. He &s;aid that I asked him what he would do, &s;o
he brought five pound and laid it upon my Table when &s;everall per&s;ons were in
the room; and being askt whether I was in the room, he &s;aid, yes, my Lord, but
he could not &s;ay any els was, &s;o he contradicted him&s;elf; before he &s;aid &s;everall
per&s;ons were pre&s;ent, now, he &s;aid, he could not tell that any els but my &s;elf was in
the room; yea, he could not &s;ay that I received it, or &s;ee him lay it downe, or
bid him lay it downe; and further he &s;aith, he doth but conceive that the money
was for <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> or <HI>Titus.</HI></P>
<P>He could not &s;ay that I was privy to the Negotiation with <HI>Titus,</HI> nor that I
was pre&s;ent at the reading of the Copy of the Kings Letter, which <HI>Alford</HI>
brought from <HI>Callis,</HI> nor that I was pre&s;ent whil'&s;t that the Narrative was
read.</P>
<P>He being askt, whether I did &s;end <HI>Alford</HI> to <HI>Callis,</HI> or agree to the &s;ending of
him? he an&s;wered that he thinks I did not.</P>
<P>He being askt, whether I gave my con&s;ent to the &s;ending away of the Commi&s;&s;i|on?
he an&s;wered, that he could not &s;ay that I was there when it was &s;ent a|way.</P>
<P>And being askt, whether I did not prote&s;t again&s;t it? he an&s;wered, that it was a|greed
by all that the Commi&s;&s;ion &s;hould not be &s;ent.</P>
<P>He being askt, whether he thought that I received the five pound he laid on
my table? he an&s;wered no, but he thought another did receive it, and named
who.</P>
<P>Thus you have an extract of all the eight Witne&s;&s;es have depo&s;ed without exten|&s;ion
or omi&s;&s;ion of any materiall pa&s;&s;age in any mans Te&s;timony. I wi&s;h from my
heart that all the Depo&s;itions, together with my Defence made in Court, were
truly publi&s;hed by an impartiall hand, then I &s;hould be confident the Reader would
ju&s;tifie me, though the High Court have condemned me. Being now upon the Te|&s;timony
of the Witne&s;&s;es I crave leave to in&s;i&s;t a little larger upon it than I at fir&s;t
intended, that I may manife&s;t the more clearly, the in&s;ufficiency, fal&s;ne&s;&s;e, and
contradictorine&s;&s;e thereof; what the Evangeli&s;t ob&s;erves touching the accu&s;ers of
Chri&s;t, I may without vanity &s;ay of mine, that they did not agree among them|&s;elves,
one Witne&s;&s;e &s;ware one thing, and another &s;ware the quite contrary,
yea they did not only contradict <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ne another, but &s;ometimes contradict them|&s;elves,
as I have made appear more fully in my defence before the high Court. I
did never &s;ee Witne&s;&s;es more confounded than they were&punc; &s;o that though their
Te&s;timony did condemne my per&s;on, yet I (nay them&s;elves) have condemned
their owne Te&s;timony; So that may I &s;ay, without vanity, that promi&s;e is made
good, <HI>I&s;a. 54. 17. Every tongue that &s;hall ri&s;e up in judgement again&s;t thee thou &s;halt
condemn, this is the heritage of the &s;ervants of the Lord.</HI> To evidence this to the world,
I &s;hall give you a brief, and true relation, of &s;undry remarkable pa&s;&s;ages concerning
the Witne&s;&s;es, either before, or in, or after, the Tryall, which will, If not nul|lifie,
yet invalidate and di&s;parage their, Te&s;timony, in the thoughts of judicious
and impartiall men. I &s;hall begin with the fir&s;t Witne&s;&s;e, which was Captaine <HI>Pot|ter.</HI>
I be&s;eech you take notice, concerning him, of the&s;e particulars. Fir&s;t, If ever
his te&s;timony be publi&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Captain <HI>Potter</HI> the fir&s;t Wit|ne&s;s&punc;</NOTE> he doth rather ju&s;tifie than accu&s;e me, he fa&s;tens no|thing
capitall upon me; yea, &s;econdly he &s;wears, he met at my hou&s;e &s;ometimes
on a friendly, &s;ometimes on a Chri&s;tian account, or to hear news, that was the
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wor&s;t he did &s;wear about the meeting at my hou&s;e. Thirdly, He &s;wore in Court,
that till Ma&s;ter <HI>Prideaux</HI> remembered him of &s;ome things out of the examinations of
other men he could not remember them, or &s;peak to them, yet things done &s;o
long agoe, and forgotten by a man are counted to be &s;ufficient proof again&s;t me.
Fourthly, he was threatned with death if he would not, and promi&s;ed his life by
Mr. <HI>Prideaux</HI> and Mr. <HI>Scot</HI> if he would confe&s;&s;e what he knew, and Witne&s;&s;e again&s;t
me. And becau&s;e he did not &s;wear to every addition and agravation again&s;t me, put
into his examination (by Capt. <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> Clerke of the Committee) which he di&s;co|vered
in Court, and &s;aid, all was not his, therefore he is condemned to dye, and
in great danger to lo&s;e his life.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Witne&s;&s;e was Major <HI>Alford,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Major <HI>Al|ford</HI> the 2d. Wit|ne&s;s.</NOTE> he was in much trouble before he came
in again&s;t me, he told his Si&s;ter, and other Friends, they would put him to death,
if he did not te&s;tifie again&s;t me; but now he &s;ees me condemned, he is filled with
&s;hame, that he cannot walk the &s;treets, and with &s;orrow, that he can neither &s;leep,
nor eat his bread with comfort. Yea, Mr. <HI>Cranford</HI> coming once to vi&s;it him, did
finde him lying on his bed in a dark room, in much di&s;quiet of minde; he told Mr.
<HI>Cranford,</HI> that nothing did trouble him &s;o much in all his life, as his witne&s;&s;ing a|gain&s;t
me, and were it to do again, he would never doe it, if he had ten lives to
lo&s;e. Mr. <HI>Cranford</HI> told me this, that he heard it from <HI>Alfords</HI> own mouth. I hear
that he is not well, but I believe I may &s;ay <HI>agrotat animo magis quam corpore,</HI> and
that he hath great cau&s;e to be.</P>
<P>The third Witne&s;&s;e was Major <HI>Huntington,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Major <HI>Hunting|ton</HI> he 3d. Witne&s;s,</NOTE> a man who&s;e face I never &s;aw but
once at my hou&s;e, nor &s;ince, but at my Tryall: He is not only a di&s;&s;embling fellow,
but a mo&s;t perjured wretch; he did hardly &s;wear one true word, as relating to
things done at my hou&s;e, yea, as to me, he &s;ware mo&s;t fal&s;ly that I &s;aid of the Com|mi&s;&s;ion,
<HI>Come, come, let it goe,</HI> which is a mo&s;t notorious lye; yea, Captain <HI>Far,</HI>
another of the Witne&s;&s;es who was then pre&s;ent, &s;ware the quite contrary, that all
the Company was again&s;t the &s;ending the Commi&s;&s;ion, and did allege the rea|&s;on
that I gave again&s;t it, That private men had not power to Commi&s;&s;io|nate,
&amp;c.</P>
<P>The fourth Witne&s;&s;e was Lieutenant Colonell <HI>Baines,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Leiutenant Colonell <HI>Baines</HI> the 4th. Wit|ne&s;s.</NOTE> that Arch-Apo&s;tate from
his fir&s;t Principles, he told the Court a long &s;tory, but did not, could not &s;ay
one word concerning me, &s;o he went as wi&s;e as he came.</P>
<P>The fifth Witne&s;&s;e was Major <HI>Adams,</HI> who is a Mon&s;ter among men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Major <HI>A|dams</HI> the 5th. VVit|ne&s;s,</NOTE> and will
be, I am per&s;waded, a monument of Mi&s;ery to all that know him; I have many
things to &s;ay concerning him. Fir&s;t, He was a hired Witne&s;&s;e again&s;t me; one
Major <HI>Cobbet</HI> (a pragmaticall fellow) was imployed by Mr. <HI>Scot</HI> to &s;ubborne this
Major <HI>Adams,</HI> and did &s;o, and to that end did give him 10 l. to that purpo&s;e, I
&s;eeing him &s;tand by me in the Court, did charge this <HI>Cobbet</HI> with it; all the eva|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ion
he had was this, that he lent the 10. l. to Major <HI>Adams</HI> his Wife, becau&s;e he
thought he was poor, yet I could have produced Witne&s;&s;es in Court (but the High|Court
would not permit it) to prove, that <HI>Adams</HI> had received a va&s;t &s;umme of
money from Mr. <HI>Scot,</HI> and from others by Mr. <HI>Scots</HI> appointment, to betray me,
and the re&s;t of the Mini&s;ters and Citizens now in the Tower; &s;o that we may &s;ay
of this <HI>Adams,</HI> as <HI>Nehemiah</HI> did of <HI>Shemaiah,</HI> that &s;uborned Prophet, <HI>Neh.</HI> 6. 12,
13. <HI>And &s;o I perceived God had not &s;ent him, for</HI> Tobiah <HI>and</HI> Sanballat <HI>had hired
him. And therefore was he hired, that they might have matter for an evill report, that
they might repr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ach me</HI> Peradventure, God may fill him with &s;uch horror of
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Con&s;cience, and con&s;ternation of minde before he dies, that he may bring back the
money, the price of my blood, to tho&s;e <HI>Tabiahs</HI> and <HI>Sanballets</HI> who hired him, as
<HI>Judas</HI> did in trouble of Con&s;cience bring back the 30 pieces of Silver to the Prie&s;ts
and Phari&s;es, who did hire him to betray Je&s;us Chri&s;t. Secondly, This <HI>Adams,</HI>
would ordinarily come once or twice a week to my hou&s;e un-invited, on purpo&s;e, I
now perceive, to in&s;nare me; he would be very inqui&s;itive after Newes from <HI>Scot|land,</HI>
and would be very free to offer me money, and asking, whether I knew of no
publique u&s;e that required money? but, as the Lord ordered it, I never received a
penny from him. Thirdly, This wretched <HI>Adams</HI> hath been in pay with Mr. <HI>Scot</HI>
above the&s;e 12 moneths, yet he was not to di&s;cover him&s;elf, but to cary him&s;elfe
as formerly, that &s;o he might in&s;nare hone&s;t men with the le&s;&s;e &s;u&s;picion. This,
this is the onely man who hath accu&s;ed 13. Godly Mini&s;ters, many worthy Citi|zens;
all who are now in trouble, were brought to Pri&s;on upon his &s;ingle In|formation.
I &s;peak this upon knowledge; for by a &s;peciall providence I have gotten
a copy of his Informations he hath given in to Mr. <HI>Scot:</HI> Yea, he hath informed of e|very
private Fa&s;t that he him&s;elf was at, &s;ignified what per&s;ons were pre&s;ent, who
preacht and prayd, and what they prayed about the State; he hath accu&s;ed many
of the &s;ecluded Members al&s;o. There hath been &s;uch a continuance in, and con|texture
of &s;tudied wickedne&s;&s;e, and all under a high pretence of Profe&s;&s;ion, that I
think there is not &s;uch a Parallel in the whole world. Oh! I do wonder how this
wretch can &s;leep by night, or eat his bread by day, with any comfort, who hath bin
the cau&s;e of 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> Godly Mini&s;ters Impri&s;onment, and of the withdrawing of others
from their Families and Pulpits. Oh! I dur&s;t not lye under this mans guilt for
10000 Worlds. Fourthl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">, to cover all this wickedne&s;&s;e, they mu&s;t accu&s;e him of
High-Trea&s;on, clap him clo&s;e Pri&s;oner, yet underhand they did maintaine him
there; yea, he did &s;hed tears, and pretend trouble, that he was forced to come in
again&s;t me. He told Mi&s;tris <HI>Jackson</HI> in the Poultrey, that he did not know whe|ther
he had not better chu&s;e to be hanged, than to &s;wear again&s;t me; yea, he took
a cup of Wine or Beer (in the pre&s;ence of Mr. <HI>Spencer</HI> a Mini&s;ter, and his Son, who
lives in the Poultrey) wi&s;hing it might be his poy&s;on, if either he had accu&s;ed me, or
would accu&s;e me. This Mr. <HI>Cranford</HI> told me he had from Mr. <HI>Spencer</HI> him&s;elfe.
All this was to cover his wickedne&s;&s;e, that he might not be &s;u&s;pected to be a hired
or &s;uborned witne&s;&s;e. And herein you may &s;ee the fal&s;ene&s;&s;e and wretchedne&s;&s;e of
this man, he that pretended trouble and &s;orrow before he did come in a Witne&s;&s;e
again&s;t me, now di&s;covers impudency, impenitency, and hardne&s;&s;e of heart, after he
hath maliciou&s;ly &s;worn again&s;t me, to take away my life; the Lord open his eyes,
and touch his heart, that he may at length &s;ee, and bewaile his great
wickedne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The &s;ixth Witne&s;&s;e was Mr. <HI>Jaquell.</HI> I dare not &s;ay he accu&s;ed me out of &s;tudi|ed
knavery,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Ja|quell</HI> the 6th. Wit|ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</NOTE> as <HI>Adams</HI> did, but onely out of ba&s;e feare and Cowardize, to &s;ave his
own life he would ca&s;t away mine. Concerning Mr. <HI>Iaquell</HI> I &s;hall mention but a
few particulars Fir&s;t. He did fully re&s;olve, before he was taken into Cu&s;tody,
neither to accu&s;e him&s;elf, or any other; yet, through fear, did both. Secondly,
when he was brought in open Court to be a Witne&s;&s;e again&s;t me, he did, for at
lea&s;t half an hour, refu&s;e to &s;wear, or to be a Witne&s;&s;e again&s;t me, yea, when
he came fir&s;t in the Court, be &s;aid he was a clo&s;e pri&s;oner, accu&s;ed of the &s;ame crim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
that I was accu&s;ed of, that he was not a competent Witne&s;&s;e again&s;t me, yea, he
&s;aid oftentimes that he could not in Con&s;cience be a Witne&s;&s;e again&s;t me; the
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Coun&s;ell for the Common-wealth, and the Court did &s;till pre&s;&s;e him to take his
Oath again&s;t me, yet he did &s;till refu&s;e; he was fined 500 l. and &s;ent out of the
Court; and immediately he was called into the Court again, and urged to take his
Oath, and threatned if he would not; they told him they had fined him 500 l. for
refu&s;ing to &s;wear again&s;t me; upon this he was more yielding to take his Oath, yet
he did not take his Oath as any of the re&s;t did, but did only put up his hand by his
buttons, and when I asked him, whether he was under an Oath? he an&s;wered, that
he was as good as under an Oath; at length he did mutter out that he was under
an Oath, but yet &s;ince I was condemned his owne wife came to me, told me
how much her husband was troubled for what he had done, and did a&s;&s;ure me,
that her husband told her, that he did not looke upon him&s;elf as under an Oath.
Thirdly, when this poor man heard that I was condemned to dye, then in the an|gui&s;h
of his Soule he did write me a Letter, wherein, among other things, he did
confe&s;&s;e he had done me wrong, and de&s;ired me to forgive him the wrong he had
done me, and had this pa&s;&s;age among the re&s;t in his Letter, which I have tran&s;cri|bed
to a word. <HI>Surely</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>in that day that I &s;hall hear of your life being vio|lextly
taken away, mine will be but a little comfort to me, being an in&s;trument in ta|kin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
away of yours.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;eventh Witne&s;&s;e was Colonell <HI>Barton.</HI> Hee had nothing to &s;ay again&s;t
me,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">arton</HI> the 7<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">. Witne&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> Captain <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> the 9th. Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">|ne&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> but that I was once at his hou&s;e at a Fa&s;t, of which I am not a&s;ha|med.</P>
<P>The eighth Witne&s;&s;e was Captain <HI>Far.</HI> He was &s;o a&s;toni&s;hed and confoun|ded,
that he could not &s;peak an entire &s;entence of him&s;elf; but only what he was
prompt by Mr. <HI>Prideaux.</HI> He was &s;o &s;truck with fear, that &s;ometimes he &s;pake
Non-&s;ence, otherwhile fal&s;hoo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">, and otherwhiles &s;pake manife&s;t Contradictions
to him&s;elfe: The poor man was &s;o amazed, that he knew not what he &s;aid, or
what he d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">d, but Mr. Atturney had his Examinations, which were taken in private,
and patcht together by Mr. <HI>Scot,</HI> and Captain <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;hop,</HI> and by the help of tho&s;e pa|pers,
Mr. <HI>Prideaux</HI> made a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">hift to rubbe up his &s;lippery memory, and to helpe his
&s;low tongue; And Mr. <HI>Prideaux</HI> perceiving that Captain <HI>Far</HI> was likely to marre
his own evidence, had he been let alone to him&s;elfe, therefore Mr. <HI>Prideaux</HI> helps
him at a dead lift, and puts to Captain <HI>Far</HI> no le&s;&s;e than four&s;core and eighteene
Que&s;tions, or leading Interrogatories a thing which I think was never heard of
before practi&s;ed, in any Court &s;ince <HI>William</HI> the Conquerours dayes, untill then&punc;
yet by the poor mi&s;led Members of the Court this was well accepted of, though I
did prote&s;t again&s;t it as a mo&s;t illegall practice. Now I am Condemned, I am in|formed,
that this Captain <HI>Far</HI> is much troubled to thinke of my death. Touching
the&s;e 8 Accu&s;ers I will &s;ay but this, they did pro&s;ecute my life, to pre&s;erve their own;
I have done with them, I pray God begin with them, to humble their hearts, and
&s;hew them their &s;inne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">, that they may &s;ee, and fear, and do no more &s;o wickedly;
for my part I would not change Conditions with them they are in a &s;inning, but I
onely in a &s;uffering Condition. I had rather be a Sufferer with the Brethren,
than an Accu&s;er of the Brethren. I have more peace and quietne&s;&s;e who am to
dye, than they will have who have bought their lives at &s;o dear a rate, as with the
price of my blood.</P>
<P>Having &s;poken largely about my Witne&s;&s;es, I &s;hall mention but a word about
the partiality of my Iudges. I think there was never &s;uch violent, indirect procee|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ings
to take away the life of a Mini&s;ter, &s;ince the Reign of Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> to this
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day. They &s;uffered the Examinations of the Witne&s;&s;es, compo&s;ed by Mr. <HI>Scot</HI> and
Captain <HI>Bi&s;hop,</HI> to be read in Court, which is contrary to Law and Ju&s;tice, and the
Cu&s;tomes of all Courts. They commanded the Scaffolds to be put up the fir&s;t day,
when my black and bloody Charge was read, and the Witne&s;&s;es produced in Court,
but pulled down the Scaffolds when I made my Defence<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">, not caring how many
heard my Charge, nor how few heard me to clear my &s;elfe. And they gave me
but from Saturday till Wedne&s;day to make my Defence, although the Depo&s;itions
were to write out, which were 28 &s;heets of paper, which I was to peru&s;e and an|&s;wer.
Though they pulled down the Scaffolds when I made my defence, yet they
put them up again, when the Coun&s;ell for the Common-wealth were to make
their Reply to my Defence; All this was that I might lye under more di&s;advan|tage
in the judgement of the Spectators. Yea, &s;uch was the partiality of the Court,
that they refu&s;ed to hear my Witne&s;&s;es, when produced them in Court. And af|ter
they had a&s;&s;igned me Coun&s;ell, they rejected two of them, one of them could
not be there, and the fourth, <HI>viz.</HI> Mr. <HI>Hales,</HI> was not acquainted with my ca&s;e, I
never &s;pake with him untill halfe an hour before the Court &s;ate, he never &s;aw nor
read the Depo&s;itions, yet they would not allow my Coun&s;ell a days time to &s;tudy
my ca&s;e, but he mu&s;t plead then, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">x tem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ore,</HI> or not at all. Oh extremity of Ri|gour!
yea further, though I had a Notary to write for me, yet have they taken
away all the Books from him&punc; &s;o that nothing &s;hall come to the publique view, but
with what additions or alterations they plea&s;e, to my greater di&s;advantage; but
my hope is, that &s;ome faithfull Pen or other h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">th writ my Defence, and the
Witne&s;&s;es Depo&s;itions, and according to them let my Innocency be judged by in|different
and unprejudicated men. But enough of this.</P>
<P>I have but one thing more to doe in this vindication of my per&s;on and mini&s;try,
and that is to an&s;wer a grand objection which is brought again&s;t me, <MILESTONE UNIT="Object."> <HI>viz.</HI> That all
the blood of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">lana</HI> is charged upon me, and the re&s;t of my Brethren whom
they call my Confederates. <MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> To take off this fal&s;e and mo&s;t notorious &s;lander, I
&s;hall di&s;patch the&s;e 3. particulars, <HI>viz.</HI> 1. Give you &s;omething to ob&s;erve in the
generall. 2. Manife&s;t that I have no hand in the War with our dear Brethren of
<HI>Scotland.</HI> 3. Lay down Arguments drawn from in&s;tances of Scripture, clearne&s;&s;e of
rea&s;on, &amp; intere&s;t of State to prove the unlawfulnes of the <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">gli&s;h</HI> Arm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">'s invading
of <HI>Scotland;</HI> then conclude with &s;ome Demon&s;trative &s;ugge&s;tions, what may be
the intollerable mi&s;chiefes, &s;ad cor&s;equence, and unexpre&s;&s;ible calamities that may
befall the Godly party in both Nations, if the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army prevaile over our
brethen of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to &s;ubdue and conquer them.</P>
<P>1. Touching this Objection, I &s;hall give you &s;omething to ob&s;erve in generall,
that is this, That the&s;e men do as <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ro</HI> did, &s;et <HI>Rome</HI> on fire, and then charge the
Chri&s;tians with it; &s;o do the&s;e new Common-wealths men put two Kingdomes
on fire, blow the &s;parks of di&s;&s;ention into a flame, &s;o cau&s;ing a mighty Combu&s;ti|on
and Conflagration, yet charge it upon us, who pour out tears to quench the
burning which their lu&s;ts and ambition (who affect only earthly domination &amp;
rule over their brethren) hath kindled in the Neighbour Nation. As the Gun|powder
Traytors charged that plot of blowing up the Parliament (which them|&s;elves
onely contrived) upon the Puritans, who were ever Friends, never Ene|mies
to Parliaments, till this Apo&s;tate Generation of men &s;tood up; &s;o doe the&s;e
Trayterous Hereticks lay la&s;ting Seeds of Divi&s;ion between the two Nations, in|vade
<HI>Scotland,</HI> imbrue their hands in their Brethrens blood, &s;lay them with a rage
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reaching up to Heaven, &s;pill their blood like water on the ground, yet we mu&s;t be
charged with all this blood, who have had no hand in, but a dete&s;tation of the In|va&s;ion
of the Neighbour Nation; the Lord judge bttween them and us.</P>
<P>What act have I done (my Enemies them&s;elves being Judges) to make me guil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">y
of the blood &s;pilt in <HI>Scotland?</HI> Did I ever encourage <HI>Cromwell</HI> to invade <HI>Scotland?</HI>
or ever invite the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation to invade <HI>England?</HI> let <HI>Cromwell</HI> and his Confe|derates
look to it, the bloud of <HI>Scotland</HI> will cry in the eares of him who is the a|venger
of blood, who hath &s;aid, The Earth &s;hall not cover the blood of her &s;lain;
I may &s;ay as <HI>Elijah</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Ahab,</HI> It is thou, and thy Fathers hou&s;e, that hath trou|ble
<HI>I&s;rael;</HI> &s;o it is not I, but <HI>Cromwell, Vane, Brad&s;haw,</HI> and the re&s;t of that Crew,
who have troubled <HI>Scotland.</HI> When God comes to make Inqui&s;ition for blood, they
will be charged with all the blood of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>If they will &s;ay, The King had not agreed with the <HI>Scots,</HI> had it not been for me
and my Confederates, and &s;o by con&s;equence I am guilty of all the blood &s;hed in
<HI>Scotland.</HI> To this I &s;ay,</P>
<P>1. If I, by any &s;trained con&s;equence, &s;hould be found guilty of the blood of
<HI>Scotland,</HI> then <HI>Cromwell</HI> and his Army, who did actually and cruelly &s;hed their
blood, are directly guilty of all the blood &s;hed in <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>2. By no kind of con&s;equence can the guilt of <HI>Scotland's</HI> blood be charged on
me: I would fain know what act I have done, that hath a remote tendency to the
&s;heding of blood in <HI>Scotland;</HI> Can I be &s;aid by Con&s;equence to be guilty of the
blood of <HI>Scotland,</HI> only for praying the King may agree with the <HI>Scots</HI> upon the
intere&s;t of Religion, and terms of the Covenant? there is no more con&s;equence in
this, than to &s;ay <HI>Tenterden</HI> Steeple is the cau&s;e of <HI>Goodwin</HI> Sands; nor no more
con&s;equence, than in the Ie&s;uits Argument, that becau&s;e CHRIST did feed
the multitude with five Loaves and two Fi&s;hes; therefore there mu&s;t be &s;even
Sacraments.</P>
<P>Thirdly, For my part I am a man of &s;uch an ob&s;cure &s;tation, that it was not
within my &s;phere to be able to doe any thing to promote the Agreement between
the King and the <HI>Scots,</HI> otherwi&s;e than by my poor prayers. I was at no meeting
(as I remember) to promote that end (Fa&s;t onely excepted) but one at my hou&s;e,
at which time <HI>William Drake</HI> propounded this que&s;tion, What we &s;hould do to pro|mote
the Agreement between the King and the <HI>Scots</HI> at the Treaty at <HI>Bred<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">h?</HI> he
drew out &s;ome papers written in Characters, which he called, <HI>A Commi&s;&s;ion and
In&s;tructions to &s;everall per&s;ons in</HI> Holland <HI>to u&s;e their I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">tere&s;t to fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ther the Agree|ment
between the King and the</HI> Scots. When I heard it, I declared my &s;elf again&s;t it,
as being an act of high pre&s;umption for private per&s;ons to &s;end Commi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ion and
In&s;tructions, and an act of notorious fal&s;hood to &s;ay it was in the name of the
Presbyterian party, when none knew thereof but tho&s;e pre&s;ent, that I know of;
yea one of the Witne&s;&s;es, <HI>viz.</HI> Captain <HI>Far,</HI> &s;wore that all the Company were a|gain&s;t
&s;ending them. I know no more that I have done to promote the Agree|ment,
yet the blood of <HI>Scotland</HI> is charged upon me. But &s;uppo&s;e I had done a
hundred times more than I did, to promote the Agreement between the King and
the <HI>Scots,</HI> upon the intere&s;t of Religion, and terms of the Covenant, yet how can
I be ju&s;tly charged with all the blood of <HI>Scotland,</HI> for de&s;iring the King &s;hould a|gree
with that Kingdom who had proclaimed him King? What law of God, or
of the Land, have I broken, if I had done &s;o? the Covenant counts them Malig|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ants,
Incendiaries, and evill In&s;truments, that de&s;ire or endeavour the con|trary,
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<HI>videlicet,</HI> Divide the King from his people, or one of the Kingdoms from
another.</P>
<P>3. I &s;ay no more concerning this, I &s;hall be more large in the 3d. <HI>viz.</HI> Lay
down &s;ome Arguments to prove the unlawfulne&s;&s;e of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army's invading
<HI>Scotland.</HI> Yet I intend not to handle the ca&s;e of Inva&s;ion, to &s;hew in what ca&s;es on|ly
an Inva&s;ion of another Nation in a Ho&s;tile manner is lawfull: I am from all my
books, that I cannot con&s;ult with Ca&s;ui&s;ts in that point; all that I &s;hall doe at pre|&s;ent,
is to give &s;ome Scripture in&s;tances, that may hint unto us the unwarrantable|ne&s;&s;e
of the War with that Nation of the &s;ame Religion, and in Covenant with us;
and then give rea&s;ons and con&s;iderations, drawn from intere&s;t of State, again&s;t the
unlawfull Inva&s;ion of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Had God given me life, I intended a large Trea|ti&s;e
concerning the U&s;urpation of the Government of <HI>England,</HI> and the unlaw|fulne&s;&s;e
of the Inva&s;ion of <HI>Scotland;</HI> but my collections being lo&s;t and taken away,
they mu&s;t dye with me; I hope more able hands will write again&s;t the Inva&s;ion,
though they cannot fight again&s;t the Invaders.</P>
<P><HI>I will offer but a few Scripture in&s;tances that may &s;ugge&s;t &s;omething again&s;t
this bloody War with our Brethren in Covenant with us. Read</HI> Amos 1. 9.
10. 11. 12. I will not turn away the puni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ment of <HI>Tyrus</HI> becau&s;e they have delive|red
the whole cap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ivity to <HI>Edom,</HI> and remembred not the brotherly Covenant. <HI>So that</HI>
Scotland <HI>may &s;ay as in</HI> Obadiah, <HI>ver.</HI> 7. The men of my confederacy that were at
peace with me have deceived me, and prevailed again&s;t me.</P>
<P>Yea the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> did to <HI>Scotland,</HI> as <HI>Edom</HI> did to <HI>I&s;rael, Amos 1. 11. Edom</HI> did pur&s;ue
his brother with the &s;word, and did ca&s;t off all pitie, and his anger did teare continu|ally;
did not <HI>Cromwell</HI> do &s;o to <HI>Scotland,</HI> wor&s;e than <HI>Edom</HI> to <HI>I&s;rae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI> let <HI>Dunbar</HI>
fight te&s;tifie, and the wor&s;e than butcherly u&s;age afterwards of the pri&s;oners there
taken; I may &s;ay to <HI>Cromwell</HI> as God &s;aid to <HI>Edom,</HI> for thy violence again&s;t thy
Brother <HI>Jacob</HI> [thy Brother <HI>Scotland</HI>] &s;hame &s;hall cover thee, and thou &s;halt be
cut off for ever, <HI>Obad.</HI> v. 10. then in <HI>Obad.</HI> v. 13, 14, 15, it is &s;aid, <HI>Thou &s;hould'&s;t not
have entred into the ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e of my people, in the day of their calamity, yea thou &s;hould'&s;t
not have laid hands on their &s;ub&s;tance in the day of their calamity, neither should'&s;t
thou have &s;tood in the cro&s;s way to cut off tho&s;e of his that did e&s;cape, neither &s;hould&s;t thou
deliver tho&s;e of his that did remaine in the day of di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</HI> Then it followes, <HI>As thou
ha&s;t done, it &s;hall be done to thee, thy reward &s;hall returne upon thine owne head.</HI> I
&s;hall mention one Scripture Hi&s;tory that is pertinently applyed and publi&s;hed in
Print,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 28. 9. 10</NOTE> entituled, The Hi&s;tory of <HI>Pek<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">h,</HI> it is worth your peru&s;all; <HI>Pekah</HI> King of
<HI>I&s;rael</HI> did &s;infully invade <HI>Jud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">h,</HI> had the wor&s;er Cau&s;e, and the le&s;&s;er number, yet
prevailed over <HI>Iudah,</HI> then &s;aid <HI>Oded the Prophet, becau&s;e the Lord was wrath with
Iudah he hath delivered them into your hand, and yee have flaine them in a rage reach|ing
up to Heaven, and now ye purpo&s;e to keep under the Children for Bond-men, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">d
Bond-women unto you, but are there not with you, even with you, &s;ins again&s;t the
Lord your God, &amp;c?</HI> And doth not <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ell</HI> do this to <HI>Scotland,</HI> as <HI>Pekah</HI> did to
<HI>Iudah?</HI> Nay he is not &s;o mercifull, for <HI>Pekah</HI> returned the Captives, re&s;tored
the &s;poyle, arrayed them, and &s;hoo'd them, gave them to eat and to drinke, and
carried all the feeble of them upon A&s;&s;es, &amp;c. 2 <HI>Chron. 28. 15. Cromwell</HI> is &s;o ac|cu&s;tomed
to works of cruelty, that he is far from &s;hewing &s;uch acts of mercy to his
Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> as <HI>Pekah</HI> did to his Brethren of <HI>Iudah.</HI> There is one Chapter
in <HI>Ezekiel,</HI> that I have often thought of, which cannot be more aptly applyed to
any in the World than to <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and the re&s;t of the invaders of the <HI>Scot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h</HI> Na|tion
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it is the 35 of <HI>Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">kiel</HI> v. 5. to the end, <HI>Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t had a perpetuall h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">|tred,
and ha&s;t &s;hed the blood of the Children of I&s;rael by the force of the &s;word in
the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end, therefore as I
live &s;aith the Lord, I will prepare thee unto bloud, and bloud shall pur&s;ue thee,</HI> and
v. 10. <HI>Becau&s;e thou ha&s;t &s;aid, The&s;e two Nations, and the&s;e two Countries shall be
mine, and we will po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e it, whereas the Lord was there, therefore as I live &s;aith
the Lord, I wil do according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou ha&s;t
u&s;ed out of thy hatred against them, and I will make my &s;elf knowne among&s;t them
when I have judged thee, &amp;c.</HI> It is in Scripture record accounted a more deplora|ble
judgment to have Nations of the &s;ame Religion, and under the &s;ame Govern|ment
to wage War one with another, than to have a War with any other Nati|ons
what&s;oever, read 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15. 5, 6. Nation &s;hall ri&s;e again&s;t Nation, that is
the Kingdome of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> again&s;t the Kingdom of <HI>Iudah,</HI> who were of the &s;ame Re|ligion,
and al&s;o under the &s;ame Government, during the Reignes of <HI>Saul, David,
Solomon,</HI> and part of <HI>Rehoboams,</HI> &s;o in 2. <HI>Chron. 28. 9, 10. per totum,</HI> many in|&s;tances
out of Scripture might have been produced to &s;ugge&s;t to you how unwar|rantable
a thing it is for <HI>Cromwell</HI> with his <HI>English</HI> Army to invade, &s;poyle, and
lay wa&s;t, their poor Brethren of <HI>Scotland.</HI> We are commanded <HI>Zech. 7. 9. 10. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">o
&s;hew mercy and compa&s;&s;ion every man to his neighhour, oppr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e not the Widdow nor the
Fatherl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s, nor the &s;tranger, nor the poor, and I t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">none imagine ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ll again&s;t his
Brother in your heart;</HI> and the rea&s;on may be drawn from <HI>Mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">chy 2. 10. Have
we not all one Father? hath not one God created us? Why doe we deal treacherou&s;ly
every m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">n again&s;t his brother, by prophaxing the Covenant of our Fathers?</HI> I have
no more to &s;ay in this matter, but will &s;ay of <HI>Cromwell,</HI> though he may pro&s;per
for a while again&s;t the people of God, yet I may &s;ay of him as God did of <HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ho|jakim,
Tkine eyes and thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e heart are not but for thy covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and for to &s;hed
innocent bloud, and for oppre&s;&s;ion, and for violence to do it; therefore, thus &s;aith the
Lord,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 22. 17, 18, 19.</NOTE> <HI>They shall not lament for him, &s;aying, ah my brother, or, ah my &s;i&s;ter, they
shall not lament for him, &s;aying, ah Lord, or ah his glory, he shall be buried with the
buriall of an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;e, &amp;c. Ier.</HI> 22. 17, 18&punc; 19.</P>
<P>I am in the next place to give &s;ome rea&s;ons to prove the unlawfullne&s;&s;e of the in|va&s;ion
of our Brethren of SCOTLAND, I &s;hall lay down a few con&s;iderations
whereby you may &s;ee the evill nature, and dangerous con&s;equence of this
War.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t; This Warre with <HI>Scotland</HI> is wor&s;e than the former war intended again&s;t
<HI>Scotland</HI> in the year 1640.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fir&s;t rea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">on may be by compa|ring t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">is with the fir&s;t War.</NOTE> it is wor&s;e in many regards: 1. The Fir&s;t war was called
<HI>Bellum Epi&s;copale,</HI> this may be called <HI>Bellum Haereticale,</HI> (if I may &s;o &s;ay) the fir&s;t
War would have brought in Popi&s;h ceremonies, this War brings in damnable
Here&s;ies, and helli&s;h bla&s;phemies; by the fir&s;t they would have &s;crued up Monar|chy
into Tyranny, by this they will pull down Monarchy, and turne all to A|narchy.
2. This War in the year 1650. is wor&s;e than that intended about the
yeare 1640., becau&s;e then we were not under &s;o many Covenants, and Engage|ments
one towards another as now we are, <HI>Cromwell</HI> invaded them after a Cove|nant
and Articles of Agreement for a&s;&s;i&s;tance made with them, after help and Bro|therly
a&s;&s;i&s;tance received from them, yet he hath forgotten the Brotherly Cove|nant,
with them, and all the kindne&s;&s;es we have had from them in the day of out
deep di&s;tre&s;&s;e. Thirdly, This war hath not &s;uch an Authority as the former had,
the fir&s;t was rai&s;ed by the King and his Councell, this by <HI>Cromwell</HI> and a Faction.
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Fourthly, the Souldiers, many of them, doe behave them&s;elves wor&s;er than the
Souldiers the King and Bi&s;hops did rai&s;e again&s;t the <HI>Scots</HI> at fir&s;t; the Kings Sol|diers
were but ignorant and prophane, the&s;e many of them Hereticks and Bla&s;phe|mers;
tho&s;e did pull down Cro&s;&s;es and Pictures, the&s;e pull downe Ordinances;
tho&s;e drunk with Wine or Strong Drink, but the&s;e drunk with Error, having a
&s;pirit of gyddine&s;&s;e and contradiction again&s;t the Truth, which is the wor&s;t &s;ort
of drunkenne&s;&s;e. Fifthly, far wor&s;e in the event al&s;o; in the Kings and Bi&s;hops
war not above 14 &s;lain one both &s;ides, but in this war <HI>Cromwell</HI> with a more cruel
and bloody minde hath mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly &s;laine at lea&s;t 10000 of the Scoti&s;h Na|tion,
&s;ince he entered <HI>Scotland,</HI> oh the bloody cruelty of this man!</P>
<P>2. A &s;econd rea&s;on may be taken from the time when <HI>Cromwell</HI> invaded them;
it was not when <HI>Scotland</HI> was over-run with malignity, during the time of <HI>Hamble|tons</HI>
prevalency, but it was when the power of that Kingdome was in the hands of
the mo&s;t Religious and Covenanting Party in <HI>Scotland,</HI> after <HI>Hamblitons</HI> Army was
de&s;troyed, and <HI>Montro&s;&s;e</HI> defeated; and the godly party who managed the cau&s;e
of God for the&s;e 14 years faithfully, had all the power of that Kingdome in their
hands, then <HI>Cromwell</HI> invaded them, which to me is an evident Demon&s;tration,
that the inva&s;ion of <HI>Scotland</HI> was by the in&s;tigation of Je&s;uites, and the Papi&s;ts
Party to root out the Prote&s;tant Party in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">cotland,</HI> and to bring their per&s;ons in
va&s;&s;alage and thraldome as to their civill Liberties.</P>
<P>3. A third Rea&s;on may be drawn from the &s;light grounds <HI>Cromwell</HI> had to in|vade
<HI>Scotland,</HI> becau&s;e they would not be a Common-wealth, therefore they &s;hall
not be a People; becau&s;e they will not break their Covenants, therefore <HI>Cromwell</HI>
will break them; becau&s;e the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> will not lay their Con&s;ciences wa&s;te, he will lay
their land wa&s;te and make it de&s;olate; becau&s;e the <HI>Scots</HI> are for a Scripturall Pres|bytery,
and a well-regulated Monarchy, for found doctrine and the power of
godlyne&s;&s;e, therefore it is that <HI>Cromwell</HI> is &s;o much their Enemy. Whatever els
may be pretended, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">et the&s;e were the true grounds why <HI>Cromwell</HI> and the re&s;t of
the Ie&s;uited Spani&s;h Faction did invade the neighbour Nation.</P>
<P>4. A fourth rea&s;on may be taken from the wicked ends <HI>Cromwell</HI> aims at in
his invading <HI>Scotland, viz.</HI> merely to &s;atisfie his ambitious and covetous de&s;ires to
be ab&s;olute Lord of the E&s;tates, Liberties and Lives of all the people in the&s;e 3. Nati|on;
it doth not content him to have one Kingdome, <HI>viz. Ireland</HI> for <HI>Ireton</HI> his
Son, nor another Kingdome, <HI>viz. England</HI> for him&s;elf, but he mu&s;t have <HI>Scot|land</HI>
al&s;o. His end is as was that of the Children of <HI>Ammon</HI> invading <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> in
<HI>Amos 1. 13. That they might inlarge their borders;</HI> his end, and the end his Souldi|ers
aim is like that of the <HI>Chaldaeans,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Amos 1. 13.</NOTE> <HI>that bitter and ha&s;ly Nation to march thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ugh
the bredih <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">f the Land, to po&s;&s;e&s;s the dwelling places that are not theirs;</HI> his end is
like that of <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">unt</HI> Seir,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hab. 1. 6.</NOTE> <HI>who &s;aid, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">he&s;e two Nations, and the&s;e two Countreys &s;hall
be mine, and wee will pa&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them.</HI> So &s;aith <HI>Cromwell,</HI> the&s;e two Nations, and the&s;e
two Countrves, <HI>viz. England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;hall be mine, and I will po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them;
nor will all this content him, he &s;eeks to be an univer&s;all Monarch, like that <HI>Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">l|daean</HI>
Monarch in <HI>Hab. 2. 56. He is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who ex|largeth
his de&s;ire as hell, and cannot be &s;atisfied, but gathereth unto him all Nations,
and heapeth unto him all people, but &s;hall not all the&s;e take up a taunting proverbe a|gain&s;t
him, Woe to him that encrea&s;eth that which is not his,</HI> &amp;c. We puni&s;h him
with death who breakes open a hou&s;e and robs but one Family, but what a thou|&s;and
deaths doth he de&s;erve, who breaks into a Kingdome, and robbes many
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thou&s;and Families, even a whole Nation. The Prophet <HI>Hab akkuk</HI> pronounceth
<HI>A woe to him that builds a Town with blood, and e&s;tabli&s;heth a City by iniquity. Hab.</HI>
2. 12. What a woe then &s;hall befall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> that doth not build Townes with
blood, but de&s;troys many Townes by blood, but builds up none? that doth not
&s;tabli&s;h a City, but de&s;troyes many Cities in <HI>ENGLAND</HI> and <HI>SCOTLAND</HI>
by Iniquity?</P>
<P>5. A fifth rea&s;on may be drawn from the Covenant and Treaties between the two
Nations. I begin with the Covenant &s;o far as it concerns <HI>Scotland.</HI> In the fir&s;t Ar|ticle
we promi&s;e <HI>to endeavour the pre&s;ervation of the reformed Religion in the Church
of</HI> Scotland, <HI>in Doctrine, Worship, Di&s;cipline, and Government:</HI> But <HI>Cromwells</HI> inva|ding
<HI>Scotland</HI> tends directly to the de&s;truction of the reformed Religion in <HI>Scot|land,</HI>
both in Doctrine, by the many Here&s;ies the Army &s;preads among&s;t them, and
in Wor&s;hip, by tho&s;e who are above Ordinances, and in Di&s;cipline and Government
by tho&s;e that are inveterate enemies to the Presbyteriall Government, and are mo&s;t
of them for Independency, or Anabapti&s;me, Browni&s;me, or Sceptici&s;me, &amp;c. In
the third Article we promi&s;e <HI>to pre&s;erve the liberties of the Kingdoms:</HI> But <HI>Crom|wells</HI>
invading <HI>Scotland,</HI> brings <HI>England</HI> under guilt, and <HI>Scotland</HI> under beggery
and &s;lavery. In the fourth Article we promi&s;e, <HI>That we &s;hall endeavour the di&s;co|very
of all &s;uch as have been or &s;hall be Incendiaries, Malignants, or ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ll In&s;tru|ments,
by hindring the Reformation of Religion, dividing the King from his people, or
one of the Kingdomes from another.</HI> If the&s;e things be the brands that the Covenant
puts upon <HI>Incendiaries, Malignants, or evill In&s;truments,</HI> then is not <HI>Cromwell</HI> and
his Faction the great Incendiaries, Malignauts, and evill In&s;truments, who have
hindred the Reformation of Religion, nay blemi&s;hed the very name, and de|&s;troyed
the very face of Religion? and have they not divided the King from his
people, not only by interrupting his agreement with the Parliament, and dividing
him from them, but by dividing his head from his body? and have not they divi|ded
one of the Kingdoms from another, and by this unju&s;t inva&s;ion laid &s;uch &s;eeds
to di&s;&s;entions, and irreconcileable differences, as are likely never to be healed, yea
&s;o divided as never likely to be united together any more? In the fifth Article it is
&s;aid, <HI>Where as the happine&s;&s;e of a ble&s;&s;ed peace between the&s;e Kingdomes, denyed in
former times to our pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">genitors, is by the good provide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ce of God granted unto us, and
hath been lately concluded and &s;etled by both Parliaments, we shal each one of us indea|vour
that they may remaine conjoyned in a firme Peace and Union to all po&s;terity.</HI> Let
the world judge whether <HI>Cromwell</HI> and his invaders have endeavoured that the
Kingdoms may remain in a firme peace and union to all po&s;terity; he was &s;o far from
endeavouring to have this Union kept to all po&s;terity, that he di&s;&s;olved this Uni|on
within &s;even years after he promi&s;ed to pre&s;erve this Union, for he took the Co|venant
in the yeare 1643. and entred <HI>Scotland,</HI> in a bloody Ho&s;tile manner, in the
yeare 1650. Thus you &s;ee <HI>Cromwells</HI> inva&s;ion of <HI>Scotland</HI> is repugnant to the
whole &s;cope and tenour of the Covenant; it is contrary to the Articles of the Trea|ty
between both Kingdoms; for this is one among the re&s;t, That one Nation &s;hall
not wage war with each other, but give three moneths warning before hand; but Cremwell did not not give three dayes warning to Scotland before he invaded their
Land.</P>
<P>6. I may draw the &s;ixth rea&s;on from the judgement of the Parliament, when free
and full, they were &s;till aver&s;e to any breach with, and war again&s;t, their Brethren
of <HI>Scotland,</HI> as knowing it would endanger the Prote&s;tant Religion, and godly par|ty
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in both the Nations. I well remember the King called a Parliament here in <HI>Eng|land</HI>
in <HI>April</HI> 1640. on purpo&s;e to rai&s;e money to carry on the Warre again&s;t
the <HI>Scots,</HI> but the Parliament utterly refu&s;ed to grant any money to &s;o
ill a purpo&s;e, and did all they could to di&s;&s;wade the King from the Warre with
<HI>Scotland,</HI> publiquely prote&s;ting again&s;t the War as di&s;honourable, and dangerous
to Religion, and both Kingdomes; whereupon, through the de&s;ignes of the Pre|lates
and Popi&s;h party that Parliament was di&s;&s;olved, within 10 dayes after it was
called. Although the di&s;&s;olving that Parliament was a great grief of heart to all
the godly in this Nation, yet it was a rejoycing, that the Parliament refu&s;ed to en|gage
in the War of <HI>Scotland.</HI> After this, there were publique Thank&s;givings
throughout all <HI>England,</HI> enjoyned by King and Parliament, for the Pacification be|tween
<HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>If the wi&s;dome of the Parliament in the year 1640. judged it unlawfull to wage
War again&s;t <HI>Scotland</HI> upon the &s;ollicitations of the King and Bi&s;hops, becau&s;e
they would obtrude Popi&s;h Ceremonies upon that Nation, may not we judge it
much more unlawfull to wage War with <HI>Scotland,</HI> to bring Bla&s;phemies, Here&s;ies,
and Slavery upon them, and that after we have had a Brotherly a&s;&s;i&s;tance from
them, and have entered into Covenant with them? There are l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="3 letters">e pretences to ju|&s;tifie
the War with <HI>Scotland</HI> in the year 1650, by <HI>Cromwell,</HI> than in the year 1640.
when the King intended to wage war with them.</P>
<P>7. A &s;eventh Rea&s;on may be drawn from the intollerable mi&s;chiefs, &s;ad con&s;e|quences,
and unexpre&s;&s;ible calamities likely to befall the Prote&s;tant and Covenan|ting
party in the 3. Kingdoms, the mi&s;chiefs and &s;ad con&s;equences of <HI>Cromwells</HI> in|vading
<HI>Scotland,</HI> I &s;hall reduce to 8. heads.</P>
<P>1. The War with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels is by this means neglected, and lengthened
out; had <HI>Cromwell</HI> &s;taid in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and had but one half of the Souldiers he hath
now in <HI>Scotland,</HI> in all likelyhood the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Wars had been ended long before
now, the Rebels de&s;troyed, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had had a quiet and peaceable po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion
of that Land. But <HI>Cromwell</HI> (through the coun&s;ell of the Pope, King of
<HI>Spaine,</HI> and the Ie&s;uites) had rather fight with the Prote&s;tant covenanting party in
<HI>Scotland,</HI> than with the Rebels of <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>2. By this means mo&s;t grievous and burden&s;ome Taxes are continued and increa|&s;ed.
I &s;hall mention one thing, which to the vulgar may &s;eem incredible, <HI>viz.</HI>
That the Iuncto at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> have (by the Exci&s;e, Cu&s;tomes, Seque&s;trations and
Taxes) received more money in one year, than all the Kings of <HI>England,</HI> put them
all together, &s;ince the Conque&s;t, did rai&s;e upon their Subjects for &s;uch a &s;pace of
time, yet the Kings called Oppre&s;&s;ors, and the&s;e called Saints, &amp;c.</P>
<P>3. A totall eradication of the Presbyteriall Government in both the Kingdoms.
Presbytery is the But, at which the Prelates of old, and the Sectaries of late, have
&s;hot their invenomed Arrows.</P>
<P>4. A great indangering of all the Prote&s;tant Churches and States in <HI>Europe.</HI>
The Kingdomes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> make up the greate&s;t Body of the Prote|&s;tant
Religion in Chri&s;tendome, being be&s;t able to defend them&s;elves, and &s;uc|cour
other Reformed Churches, when indangered and de&s;igned to ruine by Po|pi&s;h
Enemies, therefore the di&s;countenancing of the Covenanting party in <HI>Eng|land,</HI>
and the ruining of them in <HI>Scotland,</HI> is the readie&s;t way to indanger, conquer,
ruine all other Reformed Churches in the World; and how will this imbolden
and encourage Popi&s;h Adveraries to invade and ruine the Prote&s;tants whiles
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they &s;ee <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> (who make up the greate&s;t Body of the Prote&s;tant
Religion in Chri&s;tendome) engaged in an un-Brotherly and un-Chri&s;tian War
between them&s;elves, and weakning, impoveri&s;hing, and de&s;troying each o|ther?</P>
<P>5. <HI>Cromwells</HI> inva&s;ion of <HI>Scotland,</HI> is an extraordinary ground of joy to the
Pope, and all his Confederates. Had the Conclave of <HI>Rome</HI> plotted together,
they could not wi&s;h a more happy and hopefull de&s;igne to advance the intere&s;t
of <HI>Rome,</HI> and Catholick Religion; that doth more glad and gratifie the Popi&s;h
party, than to &s;ee the Prote&s;tant party in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> ruining one ano|ther.
I have read a very remarkeable &s;tory of a great Politician in <HI>France,</HI> that
is, Cardinal <HI>Richelieu, That a little before his death be left In&s;tructions and advice
with the late</HI> French <HI>King, that he would u&s;e his utmo&s;t endeavour to foment the late
differences between the King of</HI> England <HI>and the Parliament, and, if it were po&s;&s;ible,
by the &s;ollicitations of his In&s;truments, to draw the Hou&s;e of Commons in</HI> England
<HI>to change their Government, from a Kingdome into a Common-wealth; by which
means</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Scotland <HI>would be imbroyled in warres one again&s;t another,
which is the onely and be&s;t policy of all to weaken and de&s;troy the Prote&s;tant Reli|gion,
and advance the intere&s;t of</HI> France, <HI>and Catholique Religion.</HI> The truth of
this &s;tory is a&s;&s;erted by an <HI>Italian</HI> of good note and credit, and publi&s;hed by him,
and Printed in <HI>Italy, anno</HI> 1645.</P>
<P>I &s;hall &s;ay no more touching this particular, but only this; that I doe verily
beleeve <HI>Cromwels</HI> invading <HI>Scotland</HI> in the year 1650. makes it a year of Iubilee
in <HI>Rome;</HI> but a year of &s;lavery to <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and a year of &s;orrow
to all the Prote&s;tant Churches round about us; which puts me upon the next &s;ad
con&s;equence of this war, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>6. It will be, and is a great grief and &s;adning to all Prote&s;tant States and
Churches round about us; when they con&s;ider how we who have lived under
one King, united in one Covenant, ingaged in one and the &s;ame Quarrell, that
we &s;hould ruine and de&s;troy one another, and that with &s;uch bloody rage, and
cruell hatred as we doe; what a grief is it to them to con&s;ider, that we who might
have been their he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">pers, are our own de&s;troyers, neither able to a&s;&s;i&s;t them abroad,
nor defend our &s;elves at home?</P>
<P>7. It will lay la&s;ting foundations of irreconcileable di&s;cord between the two
Nations, That we who were the deare&s;t Friends, will be to each other the grea|te&s;t
Enemies.</P>
<P>8. There will be a toleration of all Here&s;ies and Bla&s;phemies in the Church,
and an increa&s;ing of all oppre&s;&s;ion and violence in the State. The&s;e two u&s;ually
goe together. <HI>Iudges</HI> 5. 8. They cho&s;e new Gods, then was there War in their
Gates. The&s;e, with manifold more inconceivable mi&s;chiefes are likely to ari&s;e,
by rea&s;on of <HI>Cromwels</HI> groundle&s;&s;e and unwarrantable inva&s;ion of our neighbour
Nation.</P>
<P>The la&s;t work I have now to doe about this vindication of my &s;elf, is to take off
&s;ome a&s;per&s;ions and &s;landers unju&s;tly laid upon me.</P>
<P>1. Some report that I am under great fears of death, that much terror and trem|bling
laies hold upon me.</P>
<P>To which I &s;ay, That through the &s;ence of the pardoning mercies of God,
through the blood of &s;prinkling,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 2. 14.</NOTE> the bitterne&s;&s;e, fear, and &s;ting of death is much
abated; that I am delivered from the fear of death, to which all the former part
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part of my life I was &s;ubject unto bondage; I &s;peak it without vanity to the prai&s;e
of Gods glorious grace, I formerly have had more feare at the pulling out of a
Tooth, than now I have at the thoughts of the cutting off my head. I mention it
to the prai&s;e of God, who &s;upported me, the hearing of the Sentence of Death
pronounced again&s;t me in the Court, did no whit di&s;may me, I had as much calm|ne&s;&s;e
and quietne&s;&s;e in my minde, at that very ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">e, as ever I had in all my life
yea &s;ince I have been condemned, I ble&s;&s;e God, I have not had one troubled
thought, nor broke one hours re&s;t, nor forborne one meals meat, yea the very
night before I was to &s;uffer, I &s;upt as heartily, and &s;lept as &s;weetly, as ever I did
in all my life; the hopes I have of an eternall life, doth &s;wallow up the fears of a
temporall death.</P>
<P>2. <HI>Objection,</HI> But yon confe&s;&s;e you have &s;inned, therefore you are put to death
for your &s;inne.</P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> I have indeed, and I ought to confe&s;&s;e my &s;inns again&s;t God, &s;o con|demne
my &s;elf, and ju&s;tifie God, acknowledging that I have &s;inned, and he is
righteous in all that is come upon me, &s;o that it is ju&s;t with the mo&s;t high to
cut me off in the mid&s;t of my dayes, and in the mid&s;t of my Mini&s;try; but yet I
never &s;aid that I had &s;inned again&s;t God in the particular facts for which that cru|ell
&s;entence was pa&s;t upon me; I &s;ay &s;till as I did at the Bar, when I received the
&s;entence of death, that God did not condemne me, when I was judged, that
neither God nor my own Con&s;cience did condemne me of &s;in; I have tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ed their bloody Lawes, it is true, yet not broken any command of God in &s;o doing,
they have &s;inned in making &s;uch Lawes, not I in breaking them. I am far
from thinking that I have &s;inned in what I have done, to de&s;ire the King might
agree with the <HI>Scots</HI> upon the intere&s;t of Religion, and the terms of the Cove|nant,
to relieve that gallant Gentleman Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> to pray for and
endeavour after the good of the Godly in the neighbour nation of <HI>Scotland,</HI> who
are Brethren in Covenant with us; I count all this my duty, not my &s;inne; yet
I deny not, but as infirmities doe cleave to my duties, &s;o in the way of mannage|ment
of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, inadvertency, indi&s;cretion, and too much openne&s;&s;e might
cleave to the&s;e actings of mine, but that the thing it &s;elf was evill that I never have,
never &s;hall confe&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>3. <HI>Object.</HI> Some are not a&s;hamed to &s;ay, that I am a debaucht per&s;on, that I have
been guilty of uncleanne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> This I declare in the &s;ight of God is mo&s;t abominably fal&s;e; as <HI>Luther</HI> &s;aid
of him&s;elf, That he was not tempted to covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e: &s;o through the grace of
God, I can &s;ay it without vanity or fal&s;hood, I have not been tempted to unclean|ne&s;&s;e.
I know no ground of this report but this, that on Ea&s;ter-day night la&s;t was
&s;ix yeare, one of my name, Ma&s;ter <HI>Edward Love,</HI> a Chaplain in the Army, was
que&s;tioned before Ju&s;tice <HI>Rich,</HI> dwelling about Chancery Lane, for being found
in bed whith a Whore, now becau&s;e he was one of my name, &s;ome Malignants
did charge it upon me, but that gro&s;&s;e lye was &s;oon quelled, but is now revived,
and &s;ugge&s;ted to &s;ome in pre&s;ent power, on purpo&s;e to exa&s;perate them again&s;t me:
But why &s;hould I be troubled at the&s;e &s;landers? my betters have been fal&s;ly accu&s;ed
as well as I; two Harlots accu&s;ed <HI>Athana&s;ius</HI> that he was uncleane with them,
when he was the Cha&s;te&s;t man of that age; <HI>Beza</HI> was accu&s;ed of drunkenne&s;&s;e and
uncleanne&s;&s;e al&s;o, who was free from both; the Je&s;uits accu&s;ed <HI>Calvin</HI> that he had
the foule di&s;ea&s;e, that he was eaten up of V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">min; yea the Lord Je&s;us was accu&s;ed
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to have a Devill, though the fulne&s;&s;e of the God-head dwelt in him:</P>
<P>4. <HI>Object.</HI> It is reported that I was unnaturall to my Parents, that I would not re|lieve
them in their nece&s;&s;ities.</P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> I am loth to commend my &s;elfe, yet when another mans mouth doth
accu&s;e me, it is lawfull for my owne to prai&s;e me. My duty and Naturall affecti|ons
to my parents hath abounded, as I had great cau&s;e, for their tenderne&s;&s;e and
care in my education, they have been dead above &s;even years &s;ince; it is true,
they had a competent livelyhood in the World, but fell to decay, and when they
were nece&s;&s;itated, I &s;peak it truly, when I was not worth 20 li. in all the world, my
parents had ten of it.</P>
<P>5 <HI>Object.</HI> It is reported that I neglected Mr. <HI>Erbury,</HI> who was the means of my
conver&s;ion and education, that when he was plundred in WALES, and
came to ENGLAND in a nece&s;&s;itous condition, that I would not relieve
him.</P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> As for Ma&s;ter <HI>Erbury,</HI> though he is fallen into dangerous opinions, yet,
he being my &s;pirituall Father, I do naturally care for him, as <HI>Timothy</HI> did for
<HI>Paul,</HI> my heart cleaves to him in love, more than to any one man in the World;
I &s;peake to the prai&s;e of God, he was the in&s;trument to my conver&s;ion, near twen|ty
years agoe, and the means of my education al&s;o in the Vniver&s;ity, for which
kindne&s;&s;e, the half I have in the World, I could readily part with for his reliefe.
It is true, about eight or nine years &s;ince, he was plundered in <HI>Wales,</HI> and did
come to &s;ee me at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> Ca&s;tle, but a Sonne could not make more of a Father,
than I made of him, according to my ability; when I had not twelve pounds in
all the World, I let Ma&s;ter <HI>Erbury</HI> have &s;ix of it, indeed he afterward gave me a
hor&s;e, for which I received not much above forty &s;hillings; yea I procured him a
place in the Army, to be Chaplaine to Major Generall <HI>Skippons</HI> Regiment, where
he had eight &s;hillings a day.</P>
<P>6 <HI>Object.</HI> Others &s;ay that what I denyed in Court, was afterward proved again&s;t
me, and then I did confe&s;&s;e it.</P>
<P><HI>Sol.</HI> This is a manife&s;t untruth; tho&s;e Prote&s;tations I made the fir&s;t day of my
Tryall, I made them al&s;o the la&s;t day, rejoycing that they were not fal&s;ified nor
contradicted by any of the 8 Witne&s;&s;es; but I have &s;poken to this more largely be|fore.</P>
<P>If other &s;landers &s;hall be ca&s;t upon me, I hope you will have &s;o much charity,
not to believe reports rai&s;ed upon me, when I &s;hall be &s;ilent in the Grave, not
able to &s;peake in my owne vindication. This I &s;ay without vanity of fal&s;hood,
I have been kept for the&s;e twenty years, from the time I fir&s;t knew God, from fall|ing
into any &s;candalous evill, but only into tho&s;e infirmities of unavoydable and
dayly incur&s;ion, unto which all the Godly are &s;ubject in the cour&s;e of their pilgri|mage.
I love not to &s;peak in my own prai&s;e, yet I judge it lawfull when other mens
mouthes fal&s;ly accu&s;e me, my owne mouth may mode&s;tly commend me.</P>
<P>As an Appendix to what I have already written, I have but a few things to de&s;ire
the Reader to take notice of.</P>
<P>1. I am informed that there is &s;omething blotted out of my la&s;t Petition, after it
went from me, without my knowledge or con&s;ent. To a&s;&s;ure all the World that I
was no Malignant, I did put this clau&s;e in my fourth Petition, <HI>That in my place
and calling, I &s;hould oppo&s;e all Malignant de&s;igns, whether in this or the Neighbour
Nation, that may tend to the ruin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> of this Common-wealth.</HI> Somebody blotted out the
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word [Malignant] and would thereby hold the world in hand, as if I &s;hould
engage to oppo&s;e the King and <HI>Scots</HI> which are now entred <HI>England,</HI> which was
far from my Heart; I judge it no Malignant de&s;igne for the <HI>Scots</HI> to defend
their Nation, and the Title of their King, upon the intere&s;t of Religion, and
terms of the Covenant, this is an hone&s;t and ju&s;tifiable de&s;igne. Indeed Mr. <HI>Owen</HI>
and Mr. <HI>Bond</HI> were with me in the Tower, and de&s;ired me to put it out, but I told
them I could not doe it, becau&s;e I &s;aid, though I would be lookt upon as one that
would oppo&s;e Malignant de&s;ignes, yet I would not be lookt upon as one that
would oppo&s;e the hone&s;t <HI>Scots,</HI> or as if I thought their actings were Malignant
de&s;ignes. I &s;ent the Petition to Sheriffe <HI>Titchburn,</HI> if he ob&s;erved it, he will ju|&s;tifie
me that the word Malignant was in the Petition. Whether they have blot|ted
out any thing more, or put any thing in, God knows; I am not a&s;hamed to
own the Petitions. I have given you the Sub&s;tance of them in my vindication. I
de&s;ire you to take notice al&s;o, that by [Common-wealth] I do not under&s;tand
the pre&s;ent Government, (I wi&s;h that were ruined) but by Common-wealth I
under&s;tand the Body or Community of the People of this Nation, I &s;hall in my
place and calling oppo&s;e any Malignant de&s;ignes that may tend to their
ruine.</P>
<P>2. I de&s;ire you to take notice, that it is very likely they will not publi&s;h the
Depo&s;itions of the Witne&s;&s;es in Court, but the private Examinations taken from
them in private, and patcht together by Mr. <HI>Scet,</HI> and Captain <HI>Bi&s;hop;</HI> they were
not a&s;hamed to produce them and read them in open Court, and &s;ome of the Wit|ne&s;&s;es
had &s;o much hone&s;ty left, as to di&s;&s;avow them in open Court. Believe
nothing (beloved) but what was &s;worn in open Court, nor all that neither, for
&s;ome of the Witne&s;&s;es &s;wore fal&s;ly, as I made appear in my Defence.</P>
<P>3 I de&s;ire the Reader to take notice, that there is a lying Pamphlet put forth,
entituled, <HI>A &s;hort Plea for the Common-wealth.</HI> In which there are many gro&s;&s;e
lies, e&s;pecially in things which relate to me. It is not fit for me to enter the Li&s;ts
with him; It becomes not a dying man to write of Controver&s;ies, which will be|get
di&s;pute; therefore I &s;hall not an&s;wer the Book, though I could ea&s;ily do it,
but only &s;um up the many Lies he relates concerning me; As</P>
<P>In Page 3 &s;econd Edition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fir&s;t lye,</NOTE> He in&s;inuates, he is loath to &s;ay it out for &s;hame, or
to name me, yet he would deceive the Reader, by &s;aying, <HI>The meetings of the&s;e
Traytors here, produced the fir&s;t Treaty at the</HI> Hague. And el&s;ewhere he &s;aith, <HI>That
I am chief of the&s;e Traytors;</HI> &s;o that in the lump, he is willing to have the Reader
believe as if I were at tho&s;e meetings, when I was at none, neither about the Trea|ty
at the <HI>Hague,</HI> nor the Treaty at <HI>Ier&s;ey</HI> neither, till both were di&s;&s;olved. In|deed
<HI>Alford, Adams, Far, &amp;c.</HI> who were my accu&s;ers, were at tho&s;e meetings
from fir&s;t to la&s;t, as they them&s;elves confe&s;t; yet &s;uch was the wi&s;edome of Mr.
<HI>Scots</HI> Councell of State, they mu&s;t be acquitted, and I executed, that know nothing
of all tho&s;e meetings.</P>
<P>In Page 7. &s;econd Edition. He &s;aith, <HI>For what Mr.</HI> Love <HI>is concerned to &s;ay
nothing of what preceded</HI> Titus <HI>his going to</HI> Ier&s;ey. Here he would in&s;inuate al&s;o, as
if he could &s;ay &s;omething of me before <HI>Titus</HI> his going to <HI>Ier&s;ey,</HI> which he cannot
doe, if he could, he would not have &s;pared me.</P>
<P>In Page 7.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Second lye</NOTE> &s;econd Edition. <HI>That one was &s;ent to</HI> Titus <HI>from my hou&s;e, and that
he returned, and gave an account at my &s;tudy.</HI> The latter part is true, he that was
&s;ent to <HI>Titus</HI> did give an account of his journey at my Hou&s;e, but the fir&s;t part is
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a Lye; if it were a Truth, why would he not name the man, as he doth others? bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
for fear that every one who heard the Tryall at the High Court would have bin
able to cry &s;hame upon him. Major <HI>Alford</HI> was the man was &s;ent to <HI>Titus</HI> to <HI>Cal|lis,</HI>
but not in my hou&s;e; for <HI>Potter</HI> &s;wore <HI>Alford</HI> was &s;ent when they met at a
Tavern, yea <HI>Alford</HI> him&s;elf &s;wore, that it was <HI>William Drake</HI> that de&s;ired him to
meet <HI>Titus</HI> at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">allis;</HI> and &s;wore al&s;o, that he was never within my hou&s;e, nor e|ver
&s;pake with me, till after he returned from <HI>Callis;</HI> yet this impudent fellow, the
Author of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ea,</HI> doth charge me with it.</P>
<P>In Page 7. &s;econd Edition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Third lye.</NOTE> He &s;aith, <HI>That upon the debate of &s;ending a Com|mi&s;&s;ion,</HI>
that I &s;hould &s;ay, <HI>Come, come, let it goe,</HI> which is a gro&s;&s;e lye; indeed
<HI>Huntington</HI> did &s;wear thus in Court, but was for&s;worn; I was again&s;t &s;ending the
Commi&s;&s;ion, and gave rea&s;ons again&s;t &s;ending it, yea Capt. <HI>Far</HI> &s;aid upon Oath,
and that 3 times together that the Company were again&s;t &s;ending it, becau&s;e pri|vate
per&s;ons had not power to Commi&s;&s;ionate, &amp;c.</P>
<P>In Page 8.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fourth lye.</NOTE> &s;econd Edition. He &s;aith, That <HI>a Letter wrote with B. on it, brought
to Capt.</HI> Potter <HI>from</HI> Bamfield, <HI>and &s;aid by the Party that left it at</HI> Potters, <HI>that it
came from Mr.</HI> Love. Captain <HI>Potter</HI> did not affirm this in Court, indeed he &s;aid
he thought it came from me, or Doctor <HI>Drake,</HI> but for my part I never brought,
nor &s;ent Letter to his &s;hop in all my life.</P>
<P>In Page 9.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fifth lye.</NOTE> &s;econd Edition. He &s;aith, <HI>That I made 3 dreadfull Prote&s;tations, that
I never wrote Letter to the King, Queen,</HI> Iermin, Piercy, Titus, Ma&s;&s;ey, <HI>&amp;c. That
I never received Letter from any of them, That I never contributed any money <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">or
gathered any for the King, &amp;c. or</HI> Ma&s;&s;ey <HI>and</HI> Titus, &amp;c. This is a loud Lye, it is
well there are many Witne&s;&s;es to contradict him; and &s;urely, if the Author of
this Book had not ea&s;t off all fear of God, and regard to the good name of his
Brother, he could not be &s;o impudent, as to affirm that the&s;e were my Prote|&s;tations.
I never named <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> or <HI>Titus</HI> in my Prote&s;tations, for then I had
prote&s;ted a fal&s;hood, (which I dur&s;t not doe) I did write a Letter to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> and
did contribute money to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Titus,</HI> yet my Prote&s;tations are not contra|dicted;
for I Prote&s;ted, I writ no Letter to the King, Queen, Church, or State
of <HI>Scotland,</HI> in the generall, or to any particular per&s;on of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Nation.
The truth of this I &s;hall &s;tand to. For though I did write and give money to <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI>
yet my Prote&s;tation is not fal&s;ified, for he is of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> not of the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Na|tion.</P>
<P>In page 9.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sixth lye.</NOTE> &s;econd Edition. He &s;aith, That <HI>at my Examination I made &s;uch a deep
and generall profe&s;&s;ion of my Innocency, though the proof, and his Confe&s;&s;ion at the
Court contradicted it, &amp;c.</HI> The fir&s;t part of this Speech is true, the latter no|toriou&s;ly
fal&s;e. As to the Que&s;tions propounded to me, about Corre&s;pondence
with the King, Queen, &amp;c. writing a Letter to the Church of <HI>Scotland,</HI> or &s;en|ding
<HI>Titus</HI> to <HI>Ier&s;ey;</HI> as to the&s;e things I &s;aid I was innocent, and &s;o I &s;ay &s;till.
But as for the latter part of his words, That the proof, and my Confe&s;&s;ion at the
Court contradicted my An&s;wer at my Examination, that's abominably fal&s;e;
though he was not a&s;hamed to &s;ay &s;o in the generall, yet he dur&s;t not in&s;tance
in any particular, nor will any other in my life time, whil&s;t I can an&s;wer for my
&s;elfe. I do affirm this to all the World, That at my Examinations I did deny no|thing
that was true, nor would I confe&s;&s;e any thing that was Criminall. And
becau&s;e I am belyed, about my examination before the Committee, and may be
more abu&s;ed after I am dead, therefore I am nece&s;&s;itated to di&s;cover that jugling
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and ba&s;ene&s;&s;e of Mr. <HI>Scot,</HI> and Captain <HI>Bi&s;hop,</HI> about my Examination, which I
thought never to have made publique. Whiles I was examined before the Com|mittee,
that pragmaticall fellow Captain <HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> (who, I &s;uppo&s;e wrote this lying
Book) did put in 6 or 8 lines into my Examinations, which I never &s;aid; he &s;uppo|&s;ing
I would be &s;o mea&s;e-mouthed as not to read it, or to put my hand to his for|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">eries
with out any more adoe: But I did, to his &s;hame make him blot out at
lea&s;t 6 lines in my Examination, which was but very &s;hort; Some of the Com|mittee
did ingenuou&s;ly &s;ay &s;ometimes, that I did not &s;peak &s;uch words as Captain
<HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> did put in. By his abu&s;e of me, who would not be abu&s;ed by him, I can|not
but think how he injured other men. I did refu&s;e to put my hand to it, &s;eeing
I was abu&s;ed by Captain <HI>Bi&s;hop,</HI> but told them, if they would give me a Copy of
it, I would &s;ub&s;cribe my hand; but they denyed me a Copy, which made me &s;u&s;|&s;pect
they did not intend to deale fairly with me; as I found true &s;oone after.
About 3 weeks after I was examined, Mr. <HI>Prideaux,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Scot</HI> came to examine
me in the Tower; I &s;till refu&s;ed to accu&s;e my &s;elfe; Mr. <HI>Scot</HI> &s;hewed me a Paper,
told me it was the Examination taken from my mouth; he read it to me, when I
&s;aw and heard it, I renounced it, told him plainly it was a forged paper, that it
was not mine. He replyed, it was that very individuall paper that was written and
taken from my mouth; and that he him&s;elf did endor&s;e it with his own hand.
To this I reply, whether he endor&s;ed it, or no, I could not &s;ay, but I can &s;ay, and
do affirm, the paper was not mine, and I gave him two evident and undenyable
Demon&s;trations that it was not the paper written at my Examinations.
For, 1. In that paper there were many lines blotted out, but in this there were
none. 2. In the paper &s;hewed me at the Tower was written to this effect, That
I &s;hould &s;ay, I was not pre&s;ent at the reading or hearing of any Letters read from
<HI>Scotland,</HI> which I never &s;aid; and I did put him in minde, that I refu&s;ed to An&s;wer
that Que&s;tion, Whether I was pre&s;ent when Letters were read? Becau&s;e (&s;aid I)
then your next Que&s;tion will be, Who el&s;e was pre&s;ent? So I mu&s;t accu&s;e others,
which I &s;hall not doe: And then, further, if I &s;hould &s;ay I was not pre&s;ent, and
you could prove that I was pre&s;ent at the hearing of any Letters of News from
Foreign parts, you would taxe me of a fal&s;hood, which none &s;hall be able to
fa&s;ten upon. This did &s;omewhat &s;ilence, and &s;atisfie Mr. <HI>Scot,</HI> that it was not the
paper that was taken at my Examination; wherefore, I be&s;eech the Reader not
to beleeve any thing that &s;hall come forth, either pretended to be my Exami|nation,
or the Examinations of other men again&s;t me, they are but the Forgeries
and Contrivements of Mr. <HI>Scot</HI> and Capt. <HI>Bi&s;hop.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mr.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Seventh lye. In page <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;econd E|dition.</NOTE> Love <HI>would have denyed the juri&s;diction of the Court, had he not remembred
what it co&s;t his Ma&s;ter</HI> Charls. <HI>He behaved him&s;elf exceeding haughtily, prevar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">|cating
uncivilly, &amp;c.</HI> El&s;where the man &s;peaks more than I did, but here he
&s;peaks le&s;&s;e than I did, in the former part of his &s;peech; here he &s;aith, I would
have denyed the juri&s;diction of the Court; if I had not remembred, &amp;c. I con|fe&s;&s;e
I did deny the juri&s;diction of the Court, and did declare before the Court,
that they were not a legall Court of Judicature, to judge me for my life; that it
was my birth-right to be tryed according to the Lawes of this Land, which was
to be by a Iury of my neighbourhood, and when they told me they were as a
Iury, then I replyed, I have liberty by the Lawes of this Land, to except again&s;t
35 of them. Though they did deny me a legall Tryall, yet a nece&s;&s;ity was put
upon me to plead to cleare my owne innocency. But the latter part of his &s;peech
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is notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e, I leave my &s;elf to be judged by the &s;pectators, whether I did
behave my &s;elf exceeding haughtily, prevaricating, untivilly, as this man doth accu&s;e
me.</P>
<P>In Page 11.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The eighth lye.</NOTE> &s;econd Edition. He &s;aith, That <HI>I did not acknowledge the Lawes or
Authority, by which I was judged, to be the Lawes of the Land, but that I &s;aid in
my Petition, by [your Lawes] I am ju&s;tly condemned, which &s;aid he, my Brother<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
Ma&s;ter</HI> Calamy <HI>in&s;tructed me in, to put me out of all hopes of mercy, that his good
tricks, and the re&s;t of his clo&s;e Brethren, might not come to light.</HI> This common
lyer &s;tumbles upon a truth now and then; the fir&s;t part of the words are true, <HI>viz.</HI>
That <HI>I did not acknowledge the Authority, or Lawes, by which I was judged, to be
the Lawes of the Land;</HI> and that I called them [your Lawes,] this is mo&s;t true,
and for this very rea&s;on I called them [your Lawes] to di&s;tingui&s;h them from the
Lawes of this Nation: But the following words are notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e; As fir&s;t,
That I &s;hould &s;ay in my Petition, (the fir&s;t he mu&s;t mean, for the clau&s;e [your
Lawes] is not in the other) by Your Lawes I am ju&s;tly condemned, I never &s;aid
&s;o in that Petition. He that will be &s;o &s;hamele&s;&s;e to fal&s;ifie my Petitions, which
are made &s;o vi&s;ible, will not be a&s;hamed to belie my words. Secondly, To &s;ay
that Ma&s;ter <HI>Calamy</HI> in&s;tructed me to call them Your Lawes, that is fal&s;e al&s;o.
Thirdly, to &s;ay it was that Ma&s;ter <HI>Calamies</HI> good tricks might not come to
light; he hath done nothing that he may be a&s;hamed to owne before the
Sunne.</P>
<P>In Page 18 &s;econd Edition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ninth lye.</NOTE> He &s;aith, That <HI>when Ma&s;ter</HI> Peters, <HI>and Col<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">|nel</HI>
Okey <HI>&s;pake to me, I railed on them, and called them a company of Hereticks, and
Schi&s;maticks, that the cur&s;e of God is on you and will de&s;troy you, I will not have to
do with you:</HI> This is fal&s;e al&s;o. If this man hath belied others in his booke whom
he names, as he hath done me, there is not one true page in all his book; yet this
lying book mu&s;t be Printed by <HI>Du-Gard,</HI> Printer to the Councell of State,
for&s;ooth. I &s;ee all is not to be taken for truth that comes from that Coun|cell.</P>
<P>In Page 20 &s;econd Edition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The tenth lye.</NOTE> He &s;aith, That <HI>Mr.</HI> Love <HI>and my confederates (as hath
been proved by the Court) have a&s;&s;umed to them&s;elves a &s;upreme power in Authori|&s;ing
by Commi&s;sion, &amp;c.</HI> I wonder the man is not a&s;hamed to fa&s;ten this on me,
who did declare it was an Act of high pre&s;umption, for private men to take upon
them to Commi&s;&s;ionate; yea one of the Witne&s;&s;es did po&s;itively &s;weare, that
tho&s;e that met when that Commi&s;&s;ion was read, were again&s;t &s;ending the Com|mi&s;&s;ion,
becau&s;e private men could not give Commi&s;&s;ion; yea none of the
Witne&s;&s;es did &s;weare, that I a&s;&s;ented to this Commi&s;&s;ion, but only <HI>Huntington,</HI>
who &s;ware fal&s;ly in it &s;elf, and contradictorily to the Te&s;timony of another Wit|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>In Page 20 &s;econd Edition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ele|venth lye.</NOTE> He hath the&s;e words, <HI>They have kept</HI> Ma&s;&s;ey <HI>and</HI>
Titus <HI>their agents in</HI> Scotland, <HI>received and gave advice concerning rai&s;ing parties
in</HI> England, <HI>likewi&s;e concerning many Arms, and bringing over foraigne Souldiers,
Generalls, Shipping, &amp;c. all which Mr.</HI> Love <HI>hath held forth to be according to his
judgment, Con&s;cience, and Covenant.</HI> If this man were not an Athei&s;t, or an Anti|&s;cripturi&s;t,
the example of <HI>Ananias</HI> and <HI>Saphira</HI> might make him tremble, le&s;t
he &s;hould be &s;tricken downe dead, with a lye in his mouth; did any Witne&s;&s;e,
&s;ay of me, that ever I gave advice to rai&s;e parties in <HI>England?</HI> or to bring over
foraigne Souldiers, Generalls, Shipping? yet this fal&s;e and deceitfull man, will
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make the world believe, as if this were proved again&s;t me; indeed I declared
before the High Court, that it was according to my Iudgement, Con&s;cience,
Covenant, to de&s;ire as as private man, that the King might agree with the
<HI>Scots</HI> upon the intere&s;t of Religion, and tearms of the Covenant, rather
than joyne in with Papi&s;ts and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebells. And this I &s;till &s;tand to as my judg|ment.</P>
<P>The&s;e and many other Fal&s;hoods might be found in this book, if I &s;hould make
a thorough &s;earch into it. He calls it <HI>A &s;hort Plea,</HI> but I may call it a long lye;
and it is not for the honour of the pre&s;ent Government, to have a common lyer to
be a pleader for their Common-wealth.</P>
<P>Having thus fini&s;hed the third particular, which I de&s;ired the Reader to take
notice of, I now come to a fourth.</P>
<P>I de&s;ire the Reader to take notice of the ju&s;tice of the men in pre&s;ent power,
tho&s;e men who did &s;end Letters to the King, Queen, <HI>Iermin, Piercy,</HI> who did
&s;end <HI>Titus</HI> an Agent to <HI>Ier&s;ey,</HI> the&s;e men mu&s;t be acquitted, but I, who did not
thus, mu&s;t be condemned and executed. I may aptly apply that latine Proverbe,
<HI>Dat veniam corvis, vexat cen&s;ura columbas;</HI> or el&s;e that <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Proverbe, Some
men may better &s;teal a hor&s;e, than another look over the Hedge.</P>
<P>5. I de&s;ire the Reader to take notice of the bloody policy of the men in pre&s;ent
power, as al&s;o of the &s;implicity and folly of the Members of the High Court, the
Politicians that &s;ate at &s;terne, did make &s;ome of the &s;illy Members of the High
Court believe, that to pre&s;erve the honour of the State I mu&s;t be condemned,
for two of the High Court told me, they mu&s;t condemne me for the honour of
the Parlinment; and if they did condemne me, yet the Parliament would par|don
me, if I would but Petition them for mercy; by this means they inveagled the
High Court to pa&s;&s;e the bloody &s;entence of death upon me with the le&s;&s;e regret of
Con&s;cience.</P>
<P>6. I de&s;ire all men to take notice, that there hath not been &s;uch an eager, fu|rious
and unju&s;t pro&s;ecution of a Mini&s;ters blood, &s;ince the dayes of Queen <HI>Mary,</HI>
as there hath been of mine. For, fir&s;t, Although no two Witne&s;&s;e did prove any par|ticular
fact that was trea&s;onable by their new acts, yet I mu&s;t dye. Yea, Second|ly,
Though the Reverend Mini&s;ters of <HI>London,</HI> the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Kent,</HI> and of
<HI>Worce&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> did Petition in my behalf, yet they will have my blood. Thirdly,
Though divers Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> and many of them of their owne party, did Pe|tition
for me, and &s;o did my owne Congregation, and divers other wayes and
means u&s;ed for the pre&s;ervation of my life, yet &s;o thir&s;ty are they after my blood,
that nothing will &s;atisfie them but my death. Fourthly, Yea, although divers of
tho&s;e who are Members of the High Court of Ju&s;tice did u&s;e their utmo&s;t intere&s;t to
pre&s;erve my life, yet all the&s;e applications, together with mine and my Wifes, are
ineffectuall, they rather hearken to the bloody &s;olicitations of a Malignant, Here|ticall,
and Ie&s;uiticall party, who thir&s;t after my blood, than to the de&s;ires of many
Godly and peaceable minded men.</P>
<P>7. I de&s;ire the Reader to take notice, that although the Independent Mini&s;ters
did Petition for my reprieve (for which I thank them) yet they refu&s;ed to joyn
with the Presbyterian Mini&s;ters to Petition for my life, unle&s;&s;e they would do
tho&s;e things which they could not do to &s;ave their owne lives; I &s;ay they refu&s;ed
to joyn with them to Petition for a Pardon, unle&s;&s;e they would owne the pre&s;ent
Power, declare again&s;t the <HI>Scots,</HI> and &s;uch like hard tearms would the Indepen|dent
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Brethren, tye the Presbyterian Mini&s;ters too, els they would not joyn with
them to beg for my life, &s;o that it &s;eems their aime was more at the bringing over
the Mini&s;ters to joyn with the State faction, than out of any ayme to &s;ave my
life.</P>
<P>8. I de&s;ire the Reader to ob&s;erve, that &s;ince the days of Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> there hath
been no Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ter &s;o unchri&s;tianly dealt withall, as I have been, and re|ceived
&s;uch hard mea&s;ure, and that from tho&s;e, who profe&s;&s;e Religion, as I have
done, which I &s;hall plainly evince by undenyable demon&s;trations. Fir&s;t, They
hired one Witne&s;&s;e with va&s;t &s;ummes of money, promi&s;es of preferment, to betray
and in&s;nare me, and bring in evidence again&s;t me. Secondly, They threatned o|ther
of the Witne&s;&s;es with death, if they would not te&s;tifie again&s;t me. Thirdly,
They &s;ent &s;everall per&s;ons to me to the Tower, to di&s;coue&s;e and di&s;pute with me,
on purpo&s;e to intrap and in&s;nare me Fourthly, They put up large Scaffolds on
the fir&s;t day of my Tryall, when the bloody charge was read again&s;t me, that the
greater number might hear it, and be prejudiced again&s;t me, but pulled them down
againe, when I was to make my defence in my own ju&s;tification, that &s;o my de|fence
might be &s;mothered; then put the Scaffolds up againe, when the Councell
for the Common-wealth pleaded again&s;t me. Yea, Thirdly, They took away
the writings and books which my Notary took in Court, that &s;o nothing might
come to light, but what plea&s;eth them&s;elves; &s;o that they will put in and put
out pa&s;&s;ages about my tryall as &s;hall make mo&s;t for their advantage, and my
prejudice. Sixthly, they rejected two of the Councellors which them&s;elves had
a&s;&s;igned me, that they &s;hould not plead for me, becau&s;e they had not taken the
Engagement. Seventhly, They would not alow Mr. <HI>Hales,</HI> who was one of my
Councell to have an hours time to prepare him&s;elf to plead in my ca&s;e, but he mu&s;t
plead pre&s;ently or not at all; although, as I told the Court, I never &s;aw Ma&s;ter
<HI>Hales</HI> till that morning, &s;o could not acquaint him with my ca&s;e, nor did Mr.
<HI>Hales</HI> ever &s;ee the Depo&s;itions of the Witne&s;&s;es, yet for all this they would not al|low
him one dayes time to &s;tudy my ca&s;e; yet it plea&s;ed God to a&s;&s;i&s;t Mr. <HI>Hales,</HI>
that he did plead <HI>ex tempore,</HI> to overthrow the Charge, proved it illegall, &amp;c.
They were &s;o &s;ilenced at, and a&s;hamed of, their illegall proceedings, that after
my Notary had written a while, they forbade him to write any more, which they
never did before; they were afraid le&s;t Mr. <HI>Hales</HI> pleading in my behalfe &s;hould
come to light. Eighthly, They have rai&s;ed lying and &s;landerous reports of me, on
purpo&s;e to kill my name, as well as murder my Body. Ninthly, Whereas I &s;ent
Colonel <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> with a Petition to <HI>Cromwell,</HI> to de&s;ire him to mediate to the
Hou&s;e for my life, upon his returne to <HI>London</HI> with &s;everall Letters in my behalfe,
they have clapt him clo&s;e pri&s;oner, would not &s;uffer him to come near me &s;o that
I know not what he did in my behalfe&punc; yea, they &s;ecured his Letters, would not
&s;uffer them to be delivered to tho&s;e to whom they were directed, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;o there might
be no &s;ollicitations for the pre&s;ervation of my life; &s;o that all the co&s;t I am at in
&s;ending is in effectuall by this means, although it hath already co&s;t me, for two Me&s;|&s;engers,
above one hundred and five pounds, yet the great kindne&s;&s;e and labour of
love the two Gentlemen expre&s;t, is never the le&s;&s;e acceptable to me, although it
be not &s;ucce&s;&s;efull for me. Tenthly, Although I do not envy the &s;afety, or de|&s;ire
the ruine of others, yet I cannot but take notice of the rage of &s;ome men towards
me, that I mu&s;t dye, yet others live, who have been corre&s;pondents from the be|ginning,
who have &s;ent Letters to the King, Queen, <HI>Iermin, Riercy,</HI> who &s;ent
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<HI>Titus</HI> over as an agent to <HI>Jer&s;y,</HI> (which I never did.) All this <HI>Alford, Adams,</HI> and
<HI>Far,</HI> who are my accu&s;ers, have done, yet they mu&s;t be acquitted, and I execu|ted;
I mention not this out of envy to them, I have none in my heart towards them;
I wi&s;h their Lives, not their deaths; but the rea&s;on why I mention this is, to let
the world &s;ee why their rage is thus again&s;t me, it is not for the merit of my
facts, for then they &s;hould puni&s;h others, who are far more guilty, but it is meer|ly
their rage again&s;t my per&s;on, and calling, as I am a Mini&s;ter, and becau&s;e I will
not pro&s;titute my Con&s;cience to their ambition and u&s;urpation. Eleventhly, The
High Court would not allow the common privilege, to have Witne&s;&s;es for me
heard, though I earne&s;tly de&s;ired; I had many Witne&s;&s;es ready in Court&punc; who
could have te&s;tified many things to invalidate and take off the Te&s;timony of &s;ome
of the Witne&s;&s;es, but I could not have that ordinary favour granted me. Twelfthly,
Yea, they have done that to me which was never done to any, <HI>viz.</HI> They have
kept me clo&s;e pri&s;oner from the 10th. of Augu&s;t, till the very day of my execution,
that none but my Wife had leave to come to me, others who got to me came but
by &s;tealth and connivance, there is no robber nor murderer at Newgate, but after
they are condemned, any friends have liberty to come to them, but I mu&s;t not
have the favour which every murderer and robber hath; will not the righteous Lord
judge for this? I doubt not but he wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">l; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">hey who have &s;hewed judgement with|out
mercy, may find no mercy another day, yet from my heart&punc; beg mercy for
them, who would &s;hew no mercy to me; I pray God forgive them, who would not
forgive me. God is my record I do not dye with a revengefull heart, yet I do be|lieve
God will, before this generation pa&s;&s;e, avenge my blood, and that by &s;ome
&s;ignall providence. I will minde you but of one pa&s;&s;age in Scripture, and &s;hall con|clude,
in 2. <HI>Chron.</HI> 24. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. King <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;h</HI> remembred not the kindne&s;&s;e
which <HI>Iehoidah</HI> the Prie&s;t had done him, but did &s;lay his Sonne, <HI>viz. Zechariah;</HI>
and when <HI>Zechariah</HI> died, he &s;aid, The Lord look upon it and require it; then
what followes, it is &s;aid, It came to pa&s;&s;e, as the end of the year, that the Ho&s;ts
of <HI>Syria</HI> came up again&s;t <HI>Ioash,</HI> and they came to <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> and de|&s;troyed
all the Princes of the people, and &s;ent the &s;poyle of them unto the King of
<HI>Dama&s;cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> but I pray ob&s;erve what a &s;ignall providence of God was in this, for
in ver&s;e 24. it is &s;aid, The Army of the <HI>Syrians</HI> came but with a &s;mall company of
men, and the Lord delivered a very great Ho&s;t into their hand, &s;o that they exe|cuted
judgment again&s;t <HI>Ioash.</HI> For my part, I am no Prophet, nor do I pretend to
a prophetick &s;pirit, yet this per&s;wa&s;ion I have &s;trongly &s;etled upon my heart, now
I am a dying, that <HI>Cromwell</HI> and his Confederates &s;hall be de&s;troyed, that they &s;hall not dye the common deaths of men; and my per&s;wa&s;ions are, that there are
not many years between them and ruine, yea though there were no <HI>Scots</HI> in <HI>Scot|land,</HI>
nor no King and his Army in <HI>England,</HI> yea I am confident their downfall is
at hand; how it &s;hall be I imagine not, but that it &s;hall be I doubt not.</P>
<P>The la&s;t part of this Appendix was written the 20 of Augu&s;t, the la&s;t day but
one before my death. This Vindication, together with the Appendix was made by
me, and written with my own hand, &s;o I te&s;tifie</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>CHRISTOPHER LOVE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>From the Tower of <HI>London,</HI>
<DATE>Augu&s;t 20. 1651.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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