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<P>The Bloody Court; OR, The Fatall Tribunall:</P>
<P>BEING A brief Hi&s;tory, and true Narrative, of the &s;trange De&s;igns, wicked Plots, and Bloody Con&s;piracies, carryed on by the mo&s;t &s;ordid'&s;t, vile, and U&s;urping Tyrants, in the&s;e late Years of Oppre&s;&s;ions, Tyranny, Martyrdome, and Per&s;ecutions: DISCOVERING,</P>
<P N="1">I. The Poy&s;onous A&s;ps, King-killing Ba&s;ilisks, weeping Hypocrites, and devouring Caterpillars, who in their Damnable Trea&s;ons have far &s;urpa&s;&s;ed the <HI>Powder-Con&s;piracy,</HI> &s;ecretly contriving, but openly acting the Murther of our late Gracious King <HI>Charles,</HI> the ruine of all the Royal I&s;&s;ue, the everthrow of all our Laws, the blowing up of all Parliaments, the &s;ubverting of the whole State of Government; and the &s;etting up of a con&s;u&s;ed <HI>Babel,</HI> watered with the blood of the <HI>KING</HI> and His People.</P>
<P N="2">II. An Exact De&s;cription of the&s;e hard-hearted <HI>Bel&s;hazzars,</HI> infamous <HI>Impo&s;tors, Luciferian Brats,</HI> wicked <HI>Schi&s;maticks,</HI> cruel <HI>Hypocrites,</HI> de&s;perate <HI>U&s;urpers,</HI> Damnable <HI>Blood-&s;uckers,</HI> both of King and Nobles, who with Iron Hands, and Adamantine Hearts, would al&s;o have pull'd our pre&s;ent Lord and Soveraign out of the Arms and Embraces of His Loyal and Liege Sub|jects.</P>
<P N="3">III. The Bloody Tragedy of all Tragedies, again&s;t King, Lords, and Commons: the &s;everal Scenes, pre&s;enting their mo&s;t horrid Villanies; and the mo&s;t barba|rous and Tyrannical Ma&s;&s;acre that was ever heard of &s;ince the World began, con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">ted among&s;t the Grandees of the Independent Sword-men, again&s;t the chief Royali&s;ts and Presbyterians, both Nobles, Gentry, and Citizens; with the manner how it was prevented; and the expo&s;ing of the&s;e B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">ff-Grandees, and in&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">ing proud Officers, to their <HI>Needles, Hammers, La&s;ts, Slings, Carts,</HI> and <HI>Flails;</HI> and all true Subjects to enjoy their Rights.</P>
<P><HI>Printed for</HI> G. Horton; And publi&s;hed by a Rural Pen, for general &s;atisfaction.</P>
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<HEAD>The Bloody Court; OR, The Fatal Tribunal.</HEAD>
<P>THe Crown of <HI>England</HI> was the anciente&s;t Chri&s;tian Crown in the World and that which had tho&s;e two famous Pil|lars, Religion and Law, the pure&s;t and be&s;t in the world to under-prop it, which made it &s;o Renowned: But our late V&s;urping Tyrant, and his King-killing <HI>Ba&s;ilisks,</HI> holding a Con|fedaracy with the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Faction, endeavoured a &s;upplanting of the Magi&s;tracy and Mini&s;try, the Laws of the Land; and the Religion of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> had not the Hone&s;t Royali&s;t, and Sober-min|ded Presbyter proved a &s;trong Defence and Fortre&s;s again&s;t that Blood-&s;ucking and Ie&s;uitical Facti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n, who lay &s;o occultly at the Helm of Government, and pretended (&s;o cunningly) to act all for the Pro|te&s;tant Religion: yet under the Vizard of Hypocri&s;ie and Rebellion, they pretend a Reformation&punc; but through a Sea of innocent Blood, as we &s;hall plainly de&s;cribe in the following Hi&s;torical di&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ur&s;e, with is their &s;etting up a <HI>High Court of In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;tice,</HI> and a pretended Council of State, to be two during High-Courts: The one, for the ordering the great affairs of the Kingdom; the other to judge and determine mat|ters Criminal. Here old <HI>England</HI> became vi&s;ibly in its Government a new <HI>Spain:</HI> And it's worthy of ob&s;ervation to note, That <HI>Corne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Joyce,</HI> having with a party of &s;ouldiers (by Order from <HI>Cromwel</HI>) &s;ei|zed on the Kings per&s;on at <HI>Newport</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> by breaking open the door in the night when the King was in Bed, and taking him thence, and bringing him over the water to <HI>Hur&s;t</HI> Ca&s;tle, Colonel <HI>Har|ri&s;on</HI> was by <HI>Cromwel</HI> &s;ent with a &s;trong party of hor&s;e to guard the King, from thence to <HI>Wind&s;or.</HI> And immediately the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> their bloo|dy Court was erected: and the Trial of Our gracious Soveraign pro|claimed: which terrible Eccho, re&s;ounded with &s;o much horrour and dete&s;tation&punc; in the ears of all Loyal hearts that they abhorred the very thoughts of &s;o mon&s;trous and barbarous an Act. And notwith&s;tanding,
<PB N="4" REF="3">all <HI>Remoras</HI> being removed (wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> right under the proceeding of the Popi&s;h F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">tting in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> that ever was committed upon the face of the Earth, &s;ince the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">|ring of our ble&s;&s;ed Lord and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">) to work they goe, having the King in their clutches again he being the onely Prote&s;tant King in the World; this good King had neither Wife nor Children admitted to come near him, nor Friend, nor Chaplain, nor Servant of his own, wherein he could take the lea&s;t comfort, either in di&s;cour&s;e, or in behol|ding their countenances: He had no body to &s;peak his mind unto, no body to &s;ympathize with him, or &s;o much as to be&s;tow a &s;ight upon him, in his &s;olitary and di&s;con&s;olate condition, but like another <HI>David,</HI> when his Wife and Children were gone, and he had no Hou&s;e to put his head in; Then did tho&s;e about him &s;peak it openly, <HI>That they would put Him to Death, and that not in a pa&s;&s;ion, but &s;oberly, as if it were a pious meritorious work, to kill the onely pious Prote&s;tant King in the World.</HI></P>
<P>The good King through his great &s;ufferings and unheard of afflictions both of body and mind, wherewith God was plea&s;ed to exerci&s;e him, became a pattern of patience, and will be &s;o to all po&s;terity; For un|der all tho&s;e reproaches which he heard with his Ears, and read with his Eyes, again&s;t his Crown, Dignity, Per&s;on, Name, and Po&s;terity; notwith&s;tanding the violence offered to him in the mid&s;t of the Night, in breaking into his Chamber, and taking him out of his Bed, carrying him partly by Land and partly by Sea to <HI>Hur&s;t</HI> Ca&s;tle, from thence to <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> from <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> to <HI>St. James;</HI> in all which he was not heard &s;o much as to &s;peak evil of his Adver&s;aries, or to u&s;e a bitter word, or demean him&s;elf impatiently; but as a Lamb leaving to the &s;laughter, &s;o meek was he in tho&s;e mercile&s;s Butchers hand. At St. <HI>James</HI> he was kept until the Scaffold were erected in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-hall,</HI> where it was reported that not onely the Officers ca&s;t foul reproaches of Ty|ranny and Murder into his face, dayly and hourly, but oft times the Common-&s;ouldiers by blowing of Tobacco (which he could not indure) by beating of Drums at un&s;ea&s;onable hours clo&s;e by him, did extreamly abu&s;e him; be&s;ides there mo&s;t uncivil words to his very face, yet was he patient under all, being abu&s;ed and reviled, he reviled not again. At la&s;t Colonel <HI>Tomlin&s;on</HI> was the Kings Goaler, who&s;e high commenda|tions above all other men in the Army, was this; <HI>That he dealt ci|vily with the King.</HI></P>
<P>On <HI>January</HI> the <HI>20th. 1648.</HI> The pretended High Court of Iu&s;tice &s;ate, a certain man called <HI>Brad&s;haw,</HI> a Coun&s;ellor at Law, who being
<PB N="5" REF="3">a man of a fluent Tongue, and bold, and it &s;eems alwayes a bitter man again&s;t the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ing, was found out, and by promi&s;es of great prefer|ment and of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">matteas, was ea&s;ily per&s;waded to be the man to act the part of a Iudge, or rather of a God, and take upon him to Iudge and Condemn the Prote&s;tant King: This Fellow they made a Searlet Ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">on for him, that he might look like &s;ome body above his Fellows; they gave him al&s;o a &s;trange name, <HI>they Dy'd him in Red,</HI> and dipped him by the name of my <HI>Lord Pre&s;ident!</HI> yet he had his name before he had his Red coat, for it &s;eems they were in &s;uch ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> to di&s;patch this pi|ons king, who &s;tood in the way to hinder their de&s;ignes, that the bu|&s;ine&s;s was come to the la&s;t day, ere the Taylor, as I take it, had done that garment, which made him the Scarlet coloured Bea&s;t (he was full of Bla&s;phemy before) this Bla&s;phemous Bea&s;t was made the Iudge, and one <HI>Cook,</HI> a Fellow that had formerly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed out of the Kingdome, whether his knavery, or Poverty, or both drove him, I cannot tell, but one or both I am &s;ure: This Fellow (as I am in|formed by a Gentleman of worth) was forced beyond Sea to beg for his Food; being an <HI>Engli&s;h-man,</HI> and having <HI>Latine</HI> enough to beg his living by, he re&s;orted to the Colledges of <HI>Engli&s;h Je&s;uites,</HI> where like <HI>Perfius</HI>'s Parot, his Belly taught his Tongue his Fluencie. I menti|on this onely, what intre&s;t the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> had in this fellow by pre in|gagements: This Fellow, when he asked for Bread, they gave him <HI>Scorpious</HI> doubtle&s;s, which made the <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Faction chu&s;e him above all others, to be a Solicitor General to mannage a Charge of Trea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> again&s;t a Prote&s;tant King in his own Dominions: Be con&s;ident, a true <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> dares not be &s;o ba&s;e a Traytor, nor any, but an Apo|&s;tate <HI>Engli&s;h-man,</HI> be &s;o ba&s;e a &s;candal to his Nation, but they were hall fellow well met at this Court; here might a man have beheld the iuice of that Toad <HI>Mariana,</HI> &s;welling up each &V;illain in the Court to &s;pet Venom in the &s;ootie&s;s Face of his Royal Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>My intention in this &s;hort Di&s;cour&s;e is not to eatch Womens Affe|ctions, but to inform mans Iudgements, otherwi&s;e it were very ea&s;ie, I think to make the &s;enie&s;t heart to &s;pring a floud of Tears, or &s;plit in &s;hivers, to read this Tragedy.</P>
<P>Turns Natures order up&s;ide down, transform how you can to make a prodigy, it cannot he &s;o horrid, or &s;o di&s;mal a &s;pectacle, as here I could not pre&s;ent the Reader.</P>
<P>Could you &s;ee a company of ugly filthy Goal-birds, with their Fer|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ors on, ri&s;e up, lay hands upon the innocent Iudge: and clap their Fetters on his Leggs, place him at their Barr, call him the Male<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">or,
<PB N="6" REF="4">and pa&s;s the Sentence of Death upon him? Could you &s;&eacute;e this Iudge wich patience &s;ubmit to the ugly and unju&s;t Sentence of thefs Bloody Rogues, and meekly &s;uffer him&s;elf to be led to the place of Ex|ecution, and there have his innocent Head &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">bered from his Shoulders? Yet there is ten times a more horrid &s;ight to be &s;een in this, then that can be: But I mu&s;t pa&s;s it over, lea&s;t when I get into it, I know not how to get out, onely take the&s;e &s;ew touches, which is well wor|thy of ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>There was never &s;o much Maje&s;ty and meekne&s;s &s;een together in a|ny man that was but a meer man, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d was made that we can r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d or ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r of, as was in this Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">; this cau&s;e much the more, by how much be i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed his Enemies reproaches, which were mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> bit|ter and cruel: He had &s;o much Maje&s;ty at his fir&s;t appearing at the Court before them, that he made his Iudge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> tremble at his apo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">, and &s;o much m&eacute;ekne&s;s in his replyes to their reproaches, that it then thawed the frozen Bawels of tho&s;e rigid Clowns his Iudges, to a kind of inward re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">nctancy; ask &s;ome of their Con&s;ciences whether this is not true? they do confe&s;s it.</P>
<P>It &s;hould &s;&eacute;em &s;ome of them had been enquiring of <HI>Lilly</HI> the Sorcerer whither they &s;hould take away his life, to whom he rep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ed. <HI>That if the Head of his Staff fell off, His Head would fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l off al&s;o:</HI> And the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ry fir&s;t day the King was brought before them, they h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d Bemi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ched the Head of his &s;taff to fall off, which made them that were his Iudges, con|fident of &s;ucce&s;s in their Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>They drew a formal Charge again&s;t the King, wherein they charged him as a Tyrant, a Traytor, a Murderer, and a Publick Enemy to the Commonwealth: After the Charge was read, <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> de&s;ired him that he would an&s;wer to his Charge.</P>
<P>The King with an amiable grave countenance beholding his Ene|mies, and joyning with it &s;uch m&eacute;ek language&punc; &s;o full of d&eacute;ep and &s;olid Rea&s;on, made his Enemies admire and applaud him, and his friends to w&eacute;ep bitterly for him. The King would not (becau&s;e in Con&s;cience he could not) acknowledge their Authority; if he had, he had betray|ed the Liberties of his People; For if the King &s;hould have granted (which was the onely thing they de&s;ired) the legality of their Court; what Subject dur&s;t have denied it? Therefore the King &s;aid (and that truly) he &s;tood for his Peoples &amp; Liberties, and the Peace of his Countrey, not allowing to have his Subjects cut off illegally.</P>
<P>It was admirable to &s;&eacute;e this Heroick Prince bear up indauntedly under all tho&s;o di&s;couragements with which he was oppre&s;&s;ed: He had
<PB N="7" REF="4">at his Right hand <HI>Cook</HI> calling for Iu&s;tice again&s;t the Traytor, the Murderer, the Tyrant, and the Pub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ick Euemy of the Kingdom; on the Right hand and on the left, at lea&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">enty Halbert&eacute;ers; directly before him <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ily and p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rt <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ptuo&s;ly interrogating, revi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|ling, and &s;la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ing of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">; behind <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-hall,</HI> there were thou&s;ands of Souldiers, who when the King turned his face, and looked down on them, they cryed out aloud (being taught before hand what to &s;ay) <HI>Ju&s;tice, Ju&s;tice, Ju&s;tice.</HI></P>
<P>The King has brought Four rimes to his publick Tryal before the&s;e Bloody-minded-men, and &s;till benied their Authority, and proved it (as well he might) to be no legal Authority, whereupon the two next dayes they &s;ate not publickly, but privately in the Painted Chamber, where they were drawing up the Sentence to Murder the mo&s;t &s;potle&s;s and innocent King.</P>
<P>I &s;hould have mentioned in due place, that when the Commons had Voted the High Court of Iu&s;tice to &s;it, they adjourned them&s;elves un|til their time of &s;itting was out; and al&s;o how <HI>Cromwel</HI> a little before they took this Traytorous Enterprize in hand, called for a Fa&s;t, to &s;eek God in a bu&s;ine&s;s of &s;o great concernment: This Fa&s;t the Hou&s;e kept, and the Souldiers at <HI>White-hall.</HI> At the &s;ame time did the <HI>Presbyte|rian</HI> Mini&s;ters Fa&s;t and Pray to prevent the mi&s;cheifs that <HI>Cromwel</HI> was acting again&s;t the Church and State, the Magi&s;tracy, and the Mi|ni&s;try of <HI>England.</HI> After <HI>Cromwel</HI> had done Fa&s;ting, they pre&s;ently proc&eacute;e ded to the Tryal of the King; He and <HI>Ireton</HI> who had promi&s;ed the King to e&s;tabli&s;h him, and they were the verie&s;t Knaves and. Vil|lains that ever-lived <HI>(They &s;aid)</HI> if they did not perform every tittle that they promi&s;ed him; the&s;e two errand Knaven and Villains (from their own mouths I judge them &s;o were there in my &s;ight at the Court of Iu&s;tice to take away his life.</P>
<P>The Citizens of <HI>London</HI> and the <HI>Presbiterian</HI> Mini&s;ters (for mond <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">irred to &s;ave the Kings life) hearing that they were &s;itting in the Painted Chamber, to draw up the Sentence of Death again&s;t the King, went boldly to General <HI>Fairfax</HI> and acquainted him with the &s;in, and the dangerous con&s;equence of &s;uch a horrid Murder: The General was fully convinced of it, and thereupon re&s;olved to call a General Rende|vous, and in the head of the Army to Declare again&s;t it; in the mean while he re&s;olved to pot to the High Court of Iu&s;tice, and &s;top all their Proc&eacute;edings again&s;t the King.</P>
<P>Therefore he &s;ought for his Lieutenant General <HI>Cromwel,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ding him, told him, he was much troubled and un&s;atisfied in his
<PB N="8" REF="5">mind about the proceedings of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ich Court of Iu&s;tice again&s;t the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ng and therefore came on purpo&s;e to ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> to prec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed no fur|ther until the Hou&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tiand &s;ate again: <HI>Crom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">el</HI> told his General, That he al&s;o had the &s;ame trouble upon his &s;pirit concerning the &s;aving of the Kings life, they were now about his lift, he did confe&s;s, and what to do he knew not; onely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aid, he &s;aw God an&s;weting their prayers, and going before their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ts: They had &s;ought God by Fa|ding, and tho&s;e of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> opinion had &s;ought God by Fa&s;ting, but God &s;eemen to cro&s;s their prayers, and they &s;eemed (meaning the Presbiterians, to him to he in the dark, and de&s;erted. Let us there|fore (&s;aid he) as we have &s;een the Providence of God, an&s;wering our prayers hitherto when we have &s;ought him &s;o let us before we pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> any further in &s;uch a weighty bu&s;ine&s;s, goe fir&s;t to God in prayer, and wait; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s God may be &s;een in his Providence while&s;t we are at prayer: the General was content to u&s;e all pious means: Hereup|on <HI>Cromwel</HI> &s;tops the General from prohibiting the Court of Iu&s;tice, to proceed any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> again&s;t the King until prayer was done in the mean time <HI>Cromwel</HI> privately &s;ends <HI>Ireton</HI> from <HI>White-hall</HI> to the Painted Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> (to them there drawing up the Sentence) to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|ni&s;h it, Seal it, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">thwith di&s;per&s;e them&s;elves: while&s;t <HI>Ireton</HI> goes, <HI>Cromwel</HI> keeps the General at prayer, and holds him there <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> than upon his knows) almo&s;t two hours, till <HI>Ireton</HI> returned again and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Cromwel</HI> (who prayed all that while) drew to a conclu&s;ion; <HI>Cromwel</HI> pretending now in all ha&s;te to goe to the Court of Iu&s;tice, to &s;top proc&eacute;edings again&s;t the King, was told by <HI>Ireton</HI> in the Generals hearing, that they had &s;igned the Sentence again&s;t the King, and were then, even then newly broke up, and gone to their &s;everal homes, <HI>Cromwel</HI> pretended that this was immediate Providence, and an e|minent and gracious return of prayer and we ought not in any wi&s;e <HI>(&s;aid he)</HI> but to <HI>admire</HI> and be &s;ilent, and wait upon the Providence of God, and &s;&eacute;e what the i&s;&s;ue will be, for certain it mu&s;t be glorious when it comes in the Arms of prayer. With &s;uch and &s;uch Saint <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ror<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ions, did by cozen the hone&s;t General, and made him return, fru|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">trate of his purpo&s;e, under pretence of u&s;ing holy means to attain his own purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Cromwel</HI> by this Religions cheat haring put the bu&s;ine&s;s pa&s;t recal|ling, pretended to tho&s;e Ladies and Gentlewomen that &s;olicited him about the pre&s;ervation of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Kings life, That none was &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;irous to &s;ave the King as he, and therefore gave out, that the wor&s;t they &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to him, was onely to bring him on the Scaffold to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters"> him, that
<PB N="9" REF="5">he might yeeld to tho&s;e things that wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> for the good of the Kingdome<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Thus the Officers of the Army had leave to tell their Souldiers&punc; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hen thought no otherwi&s;e, as they &s;olemaly vowed and &s;wore after|wards.</P>
<P>But to the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ory in order as it lieth: <HI>January</HI> the 27th. being <HI>Saturday,</HI> the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">h Court of Iu&s;tice (as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e called them&s;elves) met, and now <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> had got on his Red<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">coat, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> he comes, at|tended with <HI>67</HI> of is party that &s;ate with him: a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ang&s;t whom were <HI>(tho&s;e two Sons of Perdition) Cromwel</HI> and <HI>Ireton.</HI> The King came from Sir <HI>Robert Cotton<HI>'s</HI></HI> hou&s;e G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rded with Souldiers, and the Mace before him; when he came into the Court and turned him&s;elf a|bout, looks down the Hall, and every way about him; the Souldiers (who were now taught a new Le&s;&s;on) cryed out, <HI>Execution, Execu|tion,</HI> in the Kings Ears; to astoni&s;h him with the horrid thoughts of &s;adden death.</P>
<P>The King perceiving by the Red Gown on <HI>Brad&s;haws</HI> back, and by the cry of the Souldiers, that they intended that day to pa&s;s their Sen|tence of Death on him, de&s;ired to be heard; and the rather, becau&s;e it did conduce exc&eacute;eding much to the good of the Kingdom, for the peace of it and the good of the People in it; which he prote&s;ted he aime<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> at more then his own particular good: Therefore he de&s;ired to be heard (before they pa&s;&s;ed Sentence on him) before the Lords and Commons in the Pain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Chamber: there he had&punc; &s;omething to &s;ay to them which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y concerned both and that which would be worth the hearing it not, he gave them leave to be the Iudges, and lay the blame on him: However &s;uch a delay <HI>(he &s;aid)</HI> could not be prejudicial to them and this demand he thought, being it &s;o much concerned the well-fare of the Kingdom, and the life of a King it might ea&s;ily be granted him&punc; but it they refu&s;ed to grant him this rea&s;onable reque&s;t, he would prote&s;t a|gain&s;t them as men that were not reall for the Liberty of the Subject and Peace of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>The Court withdrew for half an hour&punc; and then returned again with this An&s;wer to the King. <HI>That they had been too long delayed by him already, and therefore notwith&s;tanding all the profers of Peace to the Kingdom, and Liberty to the Subject, they were re&s;olved to proceed to Sentence and Judgement.</HI></P>
<P>The King profe&s;&s;ed it was the Kingdoms welfare and peace, more e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en his own life, that he look <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> at cha&s;fly; and a delay of a day or two <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r night give Peace to the Kingdom whereas an ha&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> I idgement way bring that trouble to the Kingdom, which the Child anbo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ay re|pent
<PB N="10" REF="6">it; And therefore <HI>(&s;aid the King)</HI> I do again out of their duty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> to God and my Countrey, de&s;ire that I may be heard by the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber; to this <HI>Brad&s;haw the Pre&s;ident</HI> replyed, This was but that he had &s;aid before, and therefore the Court de&s;ired to hear what he would &s;ay before they did proc&eacute;ed to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">entence; this I &s;ay (&s;aid the King) that if you will hear me, I do not doubt to give &s;atisfaction to you, and to my People, and therefore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> do <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">re you (as you will ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">er it at the Dreadful day of Iudg|ment) that you will con&s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r it once again.</P>
<P>The Lord onely knowes what th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> King had to &s;ay to them, but it was doubt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;omething of great importance, and that which lay with|in his Brea&s;t, which he would f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ve r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">led before he died; but the&s;e unrea&s;onable any Bloody-mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ded men, who&s;e onely de&s;ign was to drink his innocent Blood, would not hear him, but after they ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> expro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">hed him, called him the greate&s;t of Tyrants, and u&s;ed many Bla&s;phemens Speeched again&s;t him, cau&s;ed a Bold Fellow to &s;tand us and read a Sentence, which was to &s;ever the Royal Head of <HI>Charles Stewart,</HI> King of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> from his Body: After it was read, &s;aid <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> (&s;tanding up) this is the Sentence and Iudgement of the whole Court, at which the Court &s;tood up: <HI>Cromwel</HI> and Ireton ri&s;ing up, the two formo&s;t and readie&s;t in the Court, though they knew them&s;elves the very hinderers of the &s;etiing the peace of the Kingdom, and the chief cau&s;ers of the Kings ruine, in di&s;&s;wading him from Treating with the Commi&s;&s;ioners of &s;hoth Kingdoms.</P>
<P>The King after Sentence &s;tood up vo &s;peak, but <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> told him that after the Sentence he might not &s;peak, neither w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">u'd he hear him, but gave command to the Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rd to withdraw the Pa&s;&s;oner: The King &s;aid that he might &s;peak after Sentence and then he would have &s;poke, but the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">rd opened the B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r where they put the King, and <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> re&s;e to depart, &s;o that they &s;leighted the Kings words: Where|upon the King turning him&s;elf to come forth, &s;aid, <HI>If I your King an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ot &s;uffered to &s;peak for my &s;elf, what Ju&s;tice can my People expect to have?</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e were the la&s;t words the King &s;poke in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-hall,</HI> as the King pa&s;&s;ed from the C urt through the Souldiers, the Souldiers with a loud &s;hout tryed, <HI>Execution, Execution,</HI> and with &s;uch fierce|ne&s;s, that I which &s;teed neat the King, tren<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">bled with fear, lea&s;t they would have Murdered him in the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, but it &s;&eacute;ems it was but to fright him, and di&s;temper his well-compo&s;ed Spirit: This was the hurry
<PB N="11" REF="6">of all about him immediately after the Sentence: <HI>Is the King condem|ned? What? Is he now going to his Execution? Is it to night or the morrow morning?</HI> Thus they tryed in his Ears on purpo&s;e to am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"> him, &s;ome they &s;ay, reviled, and mocked him, and others with indigna|tion &s;pit upon him, yet was he not di&s;turbed in his Soul &s;o much as to tread one foot awry, or to &s;how the lea&s;t di&s;content in his Maje&s;tick and Royal countenance.</P>
<P>He was carried from Sir <HI>Robert Cottons</HI> to St. <HI>James,</HI> where he had the liberty of his Chaplain allowed him, who &s;pent that la&s;t Sab|bath of his on Earth with much comfort and joy together, all that Holy day he &s;pent in Holy Meditations, as Hearing, Reading, and Praying, and trimming up his Cele&s;tial Spou&s;e (his Soul) for her Cele&s;tial Bridegroom&punc; which he every hour looked for.</P>
<P>The Lords Day being done, he &s;pent the mo&s;t part of the long night in Devout Prayer, never putting of his cloaths: a worthy Lady told me, that a Souldier which Giarded him, by &s;tealth, heard the King a|lone at Prayer, who prayed &s;o &s;weetly, &s;o fervently, and &s;o charitably, that he thought if ever any King had communion with God on Earth, it was he, he did confe&s;s his &s;in and his Families and Peoples in with much deba&s;edne&s;s of Spirit, and prayed heartily for Remi&s;&s;ion, and for tho&s;e his Per&s;ecutors pardon and for e&s;tabli&s;hing of the true Prote|&s;tant Religion: After this manner &s;pent he the night.</P>
<P>The next morning being very de&s;irous to &s;ee his Children that were in <HI>England,</HI> with much ado they were permitted to go to vi&s;it their im|pri&s;oned and condemned Father.</P>
<P>At this time they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> through the Kingdom in a Pamphlet, that the Presbyterian Mini&s;ters &s;uch as Mr. <HI>Calamy,</HI> Mr. <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> Mr. <HI>Love,</HI> Mr. <HI>Jenkins, &amp;c.</HI> that they were content to have the King Tryed, Condemed, and Depo&s;ed; but not Beheaded: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> I &s;uppo&s;e, that &s;ame malicious knaves or ignorant fools brought <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> his for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aying, <HI>That the Presbyterians brought his Neck to the Block, and the Independents cut it off;</HI> but the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> did that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> them&s;elves, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Hugh Peters</HI>'s Sermon of <HI>binding Kings in chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> the Imipri&s;oning. Trying, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word">, and going about to Behead the King.</P>
<P>The Lady <HI>Elizabeth</HI> and the Duke of <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oce&s;ter</HI> being come to weep in their condemned Royal Fathers B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ome, the King with plea&s;ant countenance and voice ble&s;&s;ed them, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;peaking thus to the Lady <HI>Elizabeth.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>SWeet heart, I am glad you are come; for though I have not time to &s;ay m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> to you, yet I have that to &s;ay to you which I have not to &s;ay, or leave in writing with another for you; for &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> is their cruelty toward me, that they will not permit me to write to you, nor any of my children.</HI> The King &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ing the &s;orrowful young L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">dy weep mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd torment her &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lf wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> grief he out of pity to her&punc; &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">: <HI>I pray thee do n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t grieve nor torment thy &s;elf for me, for though I &s;hall be put to Death to morrow, yet the Death that I &s;hall dye will be a Glorio is Death; for I dye for the Lawes of my Kingdome and the Libertie; of my People, and the maintainance of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, in which I would have you well grounded, and therefore admoni&s;h you to read Bi&s;hop <HI>Andrews</HI> Sermons, <HI>Hookers</HI> Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Policie, and Bi&s;hop <HI>Lands</HI> book again&s;t <HI>Fi&s;her,</HI> which will ground you again&s;t Popery.</HI></P>
<P><HI>I have this day forgiven all mine Enemies, and I hope God will forgive them, and I do command you, and all the re&s;t of your Bro|thers and Si&s;ters to forgive them; and tell my dear Wife your Mo|ther, that my thoughts have never &s;traied from her, but &s;he hath al|wayes been next my heart, and my love &s;hall be the &s;ame to her to my la&s;t minute: I charge you and your Brother to be obedient to her, and be &s;ure to love your Brothers and Si&s;ters, to whom I would have you &s;end my Ble&s;&s;ing, with commendation to all my Friends: And my dear Daughter, God Almighty pre&s;erve thee from all my Enemies, whom I charge you to forgive, but never to tru&s;t them; for they have been mo&s;t fal&s;e to me, and fal&s;e to the Parliament that intru&s;ted them, and I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ear to their own Souls; and now thou art parting with thy Father (my dear Daughter) do not goe away grieving from me, for though I dye, I &s;hall dye a Martyr, and I doubt not, but the Lord will &s;ettle my Son in my Throne, for which I am this day thrown, and and you my children will be more happy, then you could expected to have been if I had lived: All this and much more he &s;aid to the La|dy <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> in&s;tructing the young Duke his Son, to learn betimes to &s;erve and fear the Lord, and he would provide for him: It would have drawn water out of a Rocke-heart, to have &s;een the &s;ad parting of this Solitary, Condemned, Impri&s;oned King, and his dear Chil|dren.</HI></P>
<P>The poor Lady went away w&eacute;eping, not onely Tears, but Blood, and Blood in great abundance, &s;o that the Phy&s;itians concluded, that &s;he would bl&eacute;ed to Death.</P>
<P>The King &s;adly parting with his beloved Children (for they parted
<PB N="13" REF="7">never to f&eacute;e each other more). he forth with betook him&s;elf to private o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">es, knowing the time of his departing out of this World drew on a|pace, not having many hours more to live; this night al&s;o he &s;pent its trimming up his Lamp for to meet his Bridegroom, who was near at hand, not putting off his cloaths all night; he altogether neglected his body for the good of his precious &s;oul.</P>
<P>The next morning, as if the day of Iudgement had b&eacute;en co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ue, they a|waked him with a Trumpet, not to tell him the Re&s;urrection was come, but to rai&s;e him up to goe to his Grave this &s;ound was to him the le&s;s terrible, by how much the le&s;s it was unerepected, for he was quickly ready: This was on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 30th. of <HI>January 1648.</HI></P>
<P>About Ten of the C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ock, with a party of <HI>500</HI> S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">diers before the King, add a party of <HI>500</HI> behind him, and about <HI>30</HI> Partizans on each &s;ide him, he was Guarded through St. <HI>James</HI> Park to <HI>White-hall,</HI> Dr&punc; <HI>Juxon</HI> being allowed to goe alonge with him as his Chap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">in.</P>
<P>The King had prepared him&s;elf for the Sacrament, re&s;olving to eat a &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">tual Brookfall before he took his long jeuruey to the &s;piricual <HI>Je|ru&s;alem.</HI></P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Juxon</HI> at the Sacrament following the Prote&s;tant Liturcy of <HI>England,</HI> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">o the Le&s;&s;ons appointed for that day, the &s;econd Le&s;&s;en b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|ing <HI>Matth. 27.</HI> Providence &s;o ordeving it that Chri&s;t would not onely give him&s;elf &s;lain (to this Royal Martyr of his) in the Sacrament for his &s;upport in his &s;ufferings but lay before his eyes the pattern of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">wer &s;afferings for him to follow.</P>
<P>The King asked, whether that were the Le&s;&s;on appointed for the day, the Bi&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> told him it was, where the King exceedingly refo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ced, as &s;eeing the glorious hand of his <HI>Saviour</HI> &s;peaking as it were from Heaven to him, and re&s;olving that doubt which he had in him, whether he had be&s;s refu&s;e to &s;ubmit to the puni&s;hment as he did not &s;ubmit to the guilt, he there prieci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ing how his innocent <HI>Saviour</HI> &s;ubmitted to the puni&s;hment, who had no guile faund in him, re&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ved (being a &s;in|ner) to &s;ubmit willingly to the Hand of God, and to lay down his life without &s;turg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ing, as his ble&s;&s;ed Lord and <HI>Saviour</HI> had left him a pat|ter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">: With much devotion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oy, and &s;piritual li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eline&s;s, he was ob&s;er|ved to receive the <HI>Sacrament,</HI> after which there was a &s;udden me&s;&s;ags same unto him, as it on purpo&s;e to di&s;turb him, that he man &s;p&eacute;edily par|pace him&s;elf for the Gla&s;s was turned and he had but that hour near to live, which me&s;&s;age, was as an Arrow that through the heart of the Bi|&s;hop, and the ri&s;h that loved the King: whereupon the King &s;aid to the Bi&s;hop, <HI>My Lord, do not you pity me, well, after one hour is expired, I &s;hall pity you, and all the People in my Kingdom.</HI></P>
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<P>As he came through the Banqueting, hou&s;e, there they had plac&ecirc;d his C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ffin in his Eye, purpo&s;ely to deject him, and &s;trike him with ter|rour when he came on the Scaffold and &s;aw the Block, the Pullies, and Devi&s;es, which were made to bring him, as an Ore to the &s;laugh|ter, and to force him to the Block, in ca&s;e he re&s;u&s;ed to loy nown his Royal Neck there on: He lifted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">p his Eyes towores Heaven and &s;aid, <HI>I am a Sinner, and willing to &s;ubmit my &s;elf to the puni&s;hing Hand of GOD; but not to the Unju&s;t Sentence of Men.</HI></P>
<P>He made a Sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ech up<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">th <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters">old, out of which I &s;hall onely re|cite this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;&s;age, becau&s;e I will not be tedious.</P>
<P>The Peoples I therty, He proves con&s;i&s;ts in Government, for the maintainance of their Government, he &s;aith, he was condemned.</P>
<P><HI>Sirs, &s;aith he, it was for this that now I am come here; If I would have given way to an Aroitrary way, for to have all Lawes changed according to the power of the Sword, I needed not to have come hi|ther; and therefore I tell you, and pray God it be not laid to your charge, That I am the <HI>Martyr</HI> of the People.</HI></P>
<P>After his Speech, he called for his Night ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. and putting it on, prepared him&s;elf to &s;uff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r that puni&s;hment his Enemies had Iudged him unto. The Sun &s;hined that morning very clear without intermi&s;|&s;ion, until the King came to the F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tai Block, and lay down, and then at that in&s;tant a Dark thick Cloud covered the face of the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n, which for a time &s;o con&s;timeed, in&s;om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ch, that a Gentle woman <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">anding br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e to behold this Dreadful Tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">edy; cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed out, <HI>Look, look, Sir, the Sun is a&s;hamed, and hideth his Face, as loathing to &s;ee this Florrid Mur|der!</HI> immediately upon her words the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">atal Blow was given, &s;uch a one again&s;t Chri&s;tian Religion, as all the D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">vtis in Hell could not &s;trike at once, &s;o dreadfall a peruicious blow ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">in.</P>
<P>This Bloddy &s;troke being &s;truck upon the Royal Neck of the onely Prote&s;tant King in the World, it &s;&eacute;emed rather to fall upon the Peo|ple th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n the King; for &s;o &s;oon as it fell upon his Neck, the People cry|ed o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t with &s;o grievous and doleful a cry. as I n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">vec heard before; it rai&s;ed a flood of teares, which &s;pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ng out of the Eyes of all that had Ears to hear and Hearts to under&s;tand the Trea&s;on, from the Noble to the Beggar; I ob&s;erved that day, was a w&eacute;eping day; I &s;earce &s;aw a Shop of the thou&s;ands I beheld that day, wherein I &s;aw not w&eacute;eping Eyes, with Hands wringing each other to expre&s;s the angui&s;h of their Hearts.</P>
<P>The Presbyterian Congregations in the City of <HI>London</HI> for the mo&s;t part a&s;&s;embled together; all, or the mo&s;t part of the night before the
<PB N="15" REF="8">King was to &s;uffer to pray for him, if it were the will of God to pray him out of trouble, however to prepare him for his &s;ufferings, and to carry him through them with the comforts of the Holy Gho&s;t: Never did King goe to Heaven in a greater Cloud of Prayers and Tears, then this King; and never was their greater mourning for the lo&s;s of any King then this: I think there was &s;carce a Prote&s;tant in the World, to whom the true Relation came, but &s;hed tears for him; I have tal|ked with Travellers who can tell more then this, how much the King was mourned for, e&s;pecially when they &s;aw his Book, which is Tran|&s;lated into all Languages almo&s;t, and &s;ent into every Countrey.</P>
<P>At this time there was a con&s;ultation held among&s;t the Grandees of the Sword-men, concerning a Ma&s;&s;acre <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the cheif Royali&s;ts and Pre&s;|byterians, both Noble, Gentrey, and Citizens, of the chief of whom they had a Li&s;t, as al&s;o &s;ome in Pri&s;on: This was (as I was by &s;e|veral hands informed) carried in the Affirmative, until one (more politick then the re&s;t) ro&s;e up, and told them. It was the ready way to have their own Throats cut; &s;ince now they had the Army at <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and the Army divided into Levellers, and others, which Level|lers were falling off more and more, and therefore this Blade, like <HI>A|chitophel,</HI> gave Councel wi&s;ely, faying, That they had time enough to deal with them hereafter, without the running of &s;o de&s;perate a ha|zard.</P>
<P>This was the &s;topping of that Bloody Massacre and there was good ground for it; for <HI>Lilburn, Osburn, Overton, Prince,</HI> and <HI>Walwin,</HI> perceiving them&s;elves cheated of their de&s;ign, and that <HI>Cromwel</HI> called them in onely to keep them quiet, not to yield to any of their demands; and perceiving that <HI>Cromwels</HI> de&s;igns were to bring old <HI>England</HI> into the <HI>Spanni&s;h</HI> Mode, <HI>that is,</HI> to &s;et up a Council of State to manage the Affairs of State, and an Inqui&s;ition, or High Court of Iu&s;tice, to Iudge in matters Criminal; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> into what a Tyrannical road he was got, like open-hearted men did declare to the World, That the way was Tyrannical, and again&s;t the Liberty of the People, and did prote&s;t again&s;t <HI>Cromwel</HI> as a deceitful Seducer, and a &s;ubtil Hypocri|tical Traytor.</P>
<P>The&s;e Libellers (as they ba&s;ly called them) did lie as a cro&s;s Bar in the Popi&s;h Factions way, which hinored from wedding the Blood of the Prote&s;tants, as they intended.</P>
<P>However they &s;hewed their intentions&punc; for within a Moneth we had News from &s;everal parts of &s;ame Mini&s;ters that were &s;hot for praying <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk">r the King, and Preaching for the Covenant.</P>
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<P>Or, <HI>Calton,</HI> a Pious, Gra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">aru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Mini&s;ter of <HI>London,</HI> was within a Main &s;o after the King was out off, appreben <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> a L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">aytor, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">yt into. Pri&s;on, for praimor th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t God would <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">rifore the late Kings Son to his I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t Right; after they had out off the Parter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> King, they pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ded to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">t off the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">at Prote&s;tant Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s it of <HI>Europe</HI> a of peclaily tho&s;e that had op<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;en it any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> heretofore the Pop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">|tion: They had three in&s;ure M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">es of the Land <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">old, Du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|milton,</HI> the Earl of <HI>Holland,</HI> into the Lord <HI>Capel;</HI> the&s;e three who were &s;incere Prote&s;tants and protect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es of the Dri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">odot Government, and Lawes of the Kingdom the&s;e had their Heads chopped e&s;t in one was upon one Block <HI>Hamilton</HI> in <HI>Holland</HI> they owen a grut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> too <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">. o|ver &s;ince they broke the Poor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;ion, in making up the breach <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> the two Nationa in <HI>1639</HI> no being &s;hite <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">nents of procuri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ent to the over thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> King of the Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ction, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
<P>About this time tho&s;e of the Lower Hou&s;e, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Telves the Supreain Authority of the Nation, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> as a Fr&eacute;e State, &s;ent to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> of <HI>London</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> about a R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">conciliation and A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> betwixt, them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> they would not take away the Church Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">en a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> but father <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">|grea&s;e them.</P>
<P>The M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ter of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> made this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">. That before they knew in what, and how far they would require them to comply with them, they would give no po&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> an&s;wer.</P>
<P>At this thur <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">erton, Prince, W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">lvin, no Lilburn,</HI> who were of the Levelling party, were ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> one a our of <HI>Cromwels</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ctions &s;ince I had no li&s;e of them before he called them waints and now he call<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> them Divels, and Giddy headed Fellowe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">; what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r: they ope<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ly Declared again&s;t the pre&s;ent Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">llei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, Tyran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ical, and coutrary to the Liberty of the People of <HI>England;</HI> for which they were I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">pri&s;oned in the Tower, which much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">laged <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> party, whereby Provideuce &s;o ordeced it that they laid over to the World in Hele Printed beeks, the &s;ecret under hand Plotting of <HI>Cromwel</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eron with the Popi&s;h Faction wai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> Popi&s;h P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">irty, to prome<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> them|&s;eives to the Crown.</P>
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