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<NAME>Simon Charles</NAME>
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<P>THE IRISH MARTYR. Or, A true Relation of the Lamentable Sufferings of Mr <HI>John Trewman,</HI> who by the cruelty of that Tyrant, the Earle of <HI>Strafford,</HI> late Lord Lievtenant of <HI>Ireland,</HI> was hang'd, drawn and quarter'd in <HI>Carick<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">argus,</HI> for his expre&s;&s;ions of love and good will to the SCOTS, in the&s;e late times of troubles. Expre&s;&s;ed In an Information from the Wife of the &s;aid Mar|tyr, and by two Speeches of his own; the one in Pri&s;on, and the other upon the Scaffold.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>F. C.</HI> &amp; <HI>T. V.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>THE IRISH MARTYR.</HEAD>
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<P>_THe late Troubles about cau&s;es of Religion, are not unknowne unto the three King|domes, to the great griefe of but many, e|&s;pecially of the late death of <HI>Iohn Trew|man,</HI> who by the cruelty of the late Lord Deputy of <HI>Jreland</HI> Earle of Strafford, was lamentably put to death, for avowing the Scotti&s;h Covenant and defending of the truth with the Scotti&s;h Nation, for which the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Trewman</HI> was condemned, hanged, Beheaded, and Quartered, his head put on the Ca&s;|tle of <HI>Carickfergus,</HI> at the place where before he was Pri&s;oner untill the Day of his Death, and likewi&s;e his Quarters put on the foure Ports of the &s;aid Towne: untill for the infection thereof they were taken down and buried, to the great griefe of many beholders, in &s;uch an Honourable cau&s;e to be &s;o lamentably Execu|ted: And not contented with the cruell u&s;age of his per&s;on, did moreover take from his poore wife and Children all his Lands and goods, to the value of one Thou&s;and Pound Sterling: Not leaving his Wife
<PB N="2" REF="3"> 3 pounds, and &s;ome Rings of Gold, which were in the pur&s;e, but did take the &s;ame from her, upon the day of her Husbands Execution, which &s;hould have kept alive her Five Fatherle&s;&s;e Children, as likewi&s;e did not leave her &s;elfe any furniture for her owne body. So that the poore Woman and her Children, are put to mi&s;ery and want. More particular Information may be gathered out of the two following Speeches, of the &s;aid worthy Martyr, which were taken from his owne mouth.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>IOHN TREWMAN'S</HI> Fir&s;t Speech &s;poken in the <HI>PRISON.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_TO all Chri&s;tians who are de&s;irous to know the Cau&s;e of my Suffering in this trou|ble&s;ome time of per&s;ecution, there was &s;ent into the North part of <HI>Ireland</HI> as I do conceive, in this furnace of affliction, by the Lord Deputy or &s;ome of his In&s;truments, one who named him&s;elfe Captaine <HI>Ieyles,</HI> and told when he came home to my hou&s;e, he knew that I was borne in Yorke-&s;hire, and did in all his whole conver&s;e with me much revile the Bi&s;hops, and much prai&s;e the Scot|ti&s;h Nation: For &s;tanding &s;o Valorou&s;ly to the truth of the Go&s;pell, I not thinking the lea&s;t evill thought of him but very much did lament his ca&s;e and my own likewi&s;e, that we could not have the liberty of the Go&s;pell in the purity of it, without mixt with Super|&s;tition and Idolatry, wherupon &s;aid <HI>Jeyles,</HI> if you will Mr. <HI>Trewman,</HI> I could doe the Scots good &s;ervice, and de&s;ired me that I would write letters in his behalfe, to Scotland which &s;implie I did: But &s;o it was that after he had catched me in the Spiders Webb, being as all the Country knows, not &s;ent for me onely, but for to In&s;nare greater men of much more Worth, but e&s;pe|cially Sir <HI>Iohn Clatworthie</HI> &s;omtime my Landlord, whom the Lord did pre&s;erve from his wicked enterpri&s;es, at
<PB N="4" REF="4"> length I was &s;ent for, by great Troupes of hor&s;es to <HI>Dublin</HI> after he had received my letters, whether to the Earle of Strafford, or to which of his In&s;truments I know not: As al&s;o which did much vexe my Soule, Two of my Chri&s;tian acquaintance, <HI>John Findlay</HI> and <HI>Alexander Blaye,</HI> who I tould him, would &s;ee him tran&s;|ported to Scotland, notwith&s;tanding we never came neer them, were &s;ent for by Troupes al&s;o &amp; lay a long time in Dublin with me in Boults in the clo&s;e layle: All chri&s;tian People Iudge, whether this fellow was Iudas or not, Oh for better times! I tru&s;t in the Lord my po&s;teritie &s;hall yet &s;ee it, albeit they be Young: the Lord will have a care of my poore Wife and them: I remember, A freind &s;aid to me by the way as I came from Dublin to this place, oh Sir, I would you had ne|ver &s;een this Fellow: no &s;aid I, for I have laid my compt that although this wicked weede, that hath &s;prung from the <HI>Deputy,</HI> hath expo&s;ed me to die, an Innocent man, as the mo&s;t perver&s;e in all this Kingdome knows; yet I would not have mi&s;&s;ed it for ten thou&s;a~d worlds, if it had not beene for my Simplicity, and unwarine&s;&s;e with him in this: Alas I thought my &s;elfe as wary and wi&s;e as the mo&s;t men, but let him that thinkes he &s;tan|deth take heed lea&s;t hee fall: yet let them torture me, I hope all will worke for the good of my poore Soule. For I have ever found all things worke together, for the well of Gods people, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>JOHN TREWMANS</HI> la&s;t Speech upon the Scaffold, taken from his own mouth by divers Auditors.</HEAD>
<P>_MY Chri&s;tian Freinds, you have long knowne me in this Country, without &s;pot or blame in the World, for my dealing in any worldly affaires, it is true, Corruption of nature &amp; humane frailty none can Iu&s;tifie them&s;elves of: This man that is cau&s;e of my death knows that from my heart I prayd for our King, that God would inable him to be a true defender of the Faith as he was &s;tiled, and here on my death this was ever my chiefe care in private and publike. I have had much to doe with God in Dublin, and here in <HI>Carickfergut,</HI> to carry with me to death the Te&s;timony of a good Con|&s;cience: I do here behold yonder poore Land of Scotland; O ble&s;&s;ed Land, thou wilt yet through the power of <HI>God</HI> revenge my Innocent blood, it is forthee O Land I die here this <HI>Day:</HI> Come, I will &s;igne it with my hand, and ere it be one halfe houre with my blood: good Freinds, Remember me to the two other &s;uffe|rers in Dublin, for here on my Death, they are Inno|cent of any thing, either concerning me, or this fel|low: now doe your Office Executioner, to a true faith|full
<PB N="6" REF="5"> Subiect to the King, as hereafter doubt you not will be found, for many more Lives will goe in this cau&s;e be&s;ides mine: Farewell my deare Wife and Children, and Chri&s;tian Freinds in my pre&s;ence, &amp;c.</P>
<P>HOLD, All my good Freinds &s;ome words more, pray the Lord to &s;trengthen my Faith, that I may arive in new <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> ere it be long, and de&s;ire, and reque&s;t the Iudge <HI>Mayarte,</HI> if he may without danger of my Lord Deputy, not to mangle my Body as he hath given Iudgment, and to take care of my Wife and Children: The Lord be with you all, and &s;end you better times, <HI>O</HI> LORD <HI>my Saviour receive my Soule.</HI></P>
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