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<P>THE SPEECHES OF Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, AND John Bradshaw.</P>
<P>Intended to Have been &s;poken at their Execution at <HI>Tyburne, Jan.</HI> 30. 1660. But for many weightie Rea&s;ons omitted.</P>
<P>And now Publi&s;h't by <HI>MARCHIAMONT NEEDHAM</HI> And <HI>PAGAN FISHER</HI> Servants, Poets, and Pampleteers to his Infernal Highne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<P>Imprimatur,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>THO. DUN, <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed and are to be &s;old at the Old Exchange, and in <HI>West|min&s;ter</HI>-Hall 1660. <ADD>Feb. 6</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>Cromwell's SPEECH AT THE GALLOWS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>GENTLEMEN,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT being a thing commonly expected at this place to &s;peak &s;omething; I &s;hall not break that good old cu&s;tome, (although I mu&s;t needs confe&s;&s;e, I have broken all el&s;e that lay in my power.) In truth Friends, it is a cold Sea&s;on, and therefore I hope, if I do not &s;peak &s;o much as you may expect, I being grown an old man, you will pardon me; But here is my good Lord <HI>Brad|&s;haw,</HI> to whom I &s;hall refer my &s;elf to &s;peak the re&s;t: And
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fir&s;t <HI>hum&mdash;hauc</HI>&mdash;you mu&s;t under&s;tand, (which I &s;hould have been loth you &s;hould, but that you know alreadie) That I was the Son of a <HI>Brewer,</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Elie,</HI> which I need not to have told you, for it is vi&s;ibly to be &s;een in my <HI>No&s;e,</HI> being the colour of his <HI>Copper;</HI> I am loth to &s;ay ei|ther He, or I were Gentlemen, becau&s;e many here would be apt to give me the lye. However, for my part I followed al|waies Gentlemens exerci&s;es; Swearing, Whoreing, Drink|ing, and other the like commendable qualities, whil&s;t I was a young man; When I grew more in years, I grew more cunning, and having play'd the Fools part before, I play'd the Knaves now; and by my plau&s;ible carriage, and oppo&s;ing in a high nature all Government and Order in Church and State, I won the love, and notice of all the Hair-brain'd Se|ctaries of tho&s;e times, (who afterwards was very &s;erviceable to my ambitious thoughts, And to let you know what little rea&s;on I have to love learning, I was expel'd the <HI>Univer&s;itie,</HI> but I think I was even with them &s;ince.</P>
<P>I was forthwith made a Committee-man, and how I be|haved my &s;elf therein, is notoriou&s;ly known. I think I did not at all &s;werve from the fir&s;t con&s;titution of that Office, as you may read in that elegant Character of a Committee-man, gi|ven by Mr. <HI>John Cleaveland,</HI> to which I refer you. But I was not contented with this preferment alone, which made me &s;eek further, (and indeed though I have none of the be&s;t Faces, I quickly found 'twas well approved off for a Warlike or Ammunition Face, having the advantage of a light from my <HI>No&s;e,</HI> in all dark, and Warlike Stratagems, (not excepting Plundering it&s;elf) by which I quickly found a nearer way to get Wealth, then by Brewing; For I fell to hopping from a Captaine to a Collonel, and &s;o on till I got to be a Gene|rall; and now I am fairly hop't hither, what cheats I acted on
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God and man, you all too well know, and therefore I need not name them: But I mu&s;t tell you I loved, I, and that my own Daughter <HI>Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ypool,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, and <HI>John Lambert</HI>'s Lady too; I think &s;hee loved me too, her Husband came to preferment by it; and let him, when he comes hither, tell you the re&s;t, which I know will not be long after&punc; You will wonder I am &s;o ingenious to confe&s;&s;e this; Why truly I will tell you, and I &s;peak in pre&s;ence of two of my loving Friends by me, I did much more, that was in private, which you may wonder at, &s;hould I tell; but I was ju&s;t in it, (I would not do unju&s;tly for a World) 'twas according to my agreement with the old Gentleman, that the King of <HI>Sweden</HI> keeps his Court with, where I am &s;ure we &s;hall be very merrie; And I think, if I am not mi&s;taken, we have laid a de&s;igne; which if we do not differ among our &s;elves, we may carry on with &s;ucce&s;&s;e; But oh the violencie of &s;ome cur&s;ed Ca|vele<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;h &s;pirits, (I think there are not many) but tho&s;e few may &s;poile all; and hinder that good work of Refor|mation we intend. But I &s;hall hang, draw, plunder and decimate them; And indeed, it will be an un&s;peakable comfort to my &s;pirit to go through with &s;o good a work; nay, I hope to make them as good and orderly as my &s;ouldiers were here; and I doubt not but to rai&s;e great &s;ums for the poore Prote&s;tants in <HI>Piedmont,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, and it &s;hall be my care they &s;hall never have it. But &s;ince I &s;peak of Caveleers, I cannot forget <HI>George Monck,</HI> I thought he had been &s;urely one of us; but he may be glad I left a fool to my &s;on, he had never had his ends el&s;e; but let it pa&s;&s;e, 'tis not the fir&s;t time the devil was cheated by a Monk. And now, good people, I find my &s;elf &s;pent: I have only one or two words more, and that is in behalf of two old &s;ervants of mine <HI>Hills</HI> and <HI>Field:</HI> truly, they were my Prin|ters
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and &s;ervants: the fir&s;t was a great Sufferer before my power was, and I think unju&s;tly, 'twas only for having but two wives (a venial &s;in I think); I wi&s;h the&s;e may be enter|tained or &s;uffered to follow their Trades, and <HI>I</HI> dare under|take to &s;end them work, and for an earne&s;t <HI>I</HI> de&s;ire they may print this my Speech.</P>
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<P>Whereupon he was turned off the Ladder, almo&s;t be|fore he had done, and now lies buried under the Gal|lows.</P>
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<HEAD>His EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<L>Here lies Ignominious Du&s;t,</L>
<L>Which was the only Seat of Lu&s;t:</L>
<L>A man, and yet a Mon&s;ter too,</L>
<L>That did both King and State undo:</L>
<L>'Tis &s;aid by all this is his doom,</L>
<L>And that he ne're de&s;erv'd a Tomb.</L>
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<HEAD><HI>Ireton</HI>'s Speech at the Gallows.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dear Friends,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT is the Cu&s;tome of this place to &s;peak, although in|deed I am very unwilling, but it being an ordinary thing on this occa&s;ion, you will not be denied; I mu&s;t indeed confe&s;s that <HI>I</HI> have been ab&s;ent from you a long time, but yet my Spirit was ever with you, and in continual coun&s;el with my Father <HI>Nol</HI> and <HI>Brad&s;haw;</HI> but before I left you, I perfected my bu&s;ine&s;s in &s;ending the King into a better world, though I thought other; yet &s;ince I have been in pur&s;uit of him many a time, and made much enquiry after him, but could never find him, nor hear of him, where I have been: It may be &s;ome may wonder if I &s;hould here declare my &s;elf a Gen|tleman. I am &s;ure <HI>I</HI> have a very fair Coat of Arms to &s;hew &s;or't, though I confe&s;s I bought them.</P>
<P>Truly Friends, I think the Good Old Cau&s;e had not &s;o well pro&s;pered, in ca&s;e I had not went Agent to the other world; whither I had not &s;o &s;oon went, but that I thought I might meet many of the Cavaliers there, and be a continual plague to them, by the Intere&s;t <HI>I</HI> had in the black Prince. Indeed I mu&s;t needs &s;ay he &s;hew|ed me a great re&s;pect at my fir&s;t arrival, e&s;pecially when I did but name my Father <HI>Cromwel</HI> and <HI>Brad|&s;haws</HI> names to him, though at fir&s;t he took my Father
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in law to be <HI>Dick</HI> his Son: but when <HI>I</HI> informed him he formerly went by another name in his youth, he quickly remembred him, but why &s;hould I trouble you with this at this time: I am come hitherto give an account to the Law for my former tran&s;actions, ('tis &s;trange a man &s;hould give account for that he never cared for) but although you may for breach of them condemn me, and the&s;e my Friends, yet we have very good Friends whither we are going, and &s;uch as love tho&s;e be&s;t, as are of our Principles: And now I &s;peak of Principles; I ought to tell you what they are, but you know them too well already, however I mu&s;t be talking if I can|not do any thing. Well, were our Army alive, I think we &s;hould not &s;tand thus on Confe&s;&s;ions; but it mat|ters not, we have not been a&s;hamed of wor&s;e actions then the&s;e, and why &s;hould we be afraid now: We have that I am &s;ure in us will carry us through ten thou&s;and of the&s;e di&s;graces, and bring us &s;afe to our own homes; We have <HI>I</HI> a&s;&s;ure you a remnant left among you, that will &s;tand for and ju&s;tifie us, though at la&s;t they &s;tand where we do: A remnant I &s;ay of tho&s;e Agitating &s;pi|rits that were in my dayes, that will &s;tand clo&s;e by the <HI>Good Old Cau&s;e,</HI> though they are &s;ure to meet with Hell and Damnation in the end, which they need not doubt of; and if you all well under&s;tood your &s;elves, you would be of my minde; <HI>Friends,</HI> wonder not if I have not men|tion'd any thing of Religion, for I &s;o much loved the thing, that I ever hated the name, and am an utter enemie to all that pretend to it; and for the Law, <HI>I</HI> think in all my actions you may &s;ee <HI>I</HI> never owned that: But indeed, <HI>I</HI> had almo&s;t forgot to tell my title of Honour, which was Lord Deputy of <HI>Ireland, Noll Cromwells</HI> own &s;on (though
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&s;ome thought J vvas only &s;o by Law) but you know J would never indure that term in all my life: And &s;o now I hope I have &s;atisfied you all, yet no more then you knew before, therefore you are all fools to &s;tand &s;o long in the cold for nothing, and &s;o good night to you; for I am going where I &s;hall be warm enough: Only remem|ber me to my Brother the Lord Major that was, who if you had had any wit, you had never made choice of &s;uch a Fool, who (though my Brother) hath no more wit then his Hor&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>His EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<L>Thus ends he that did betray</L>
<L>His King and Country, made a prey</L>
<L>Of Law and Go&s;pel, and did &s;pend</L>
<L>His chiefe&s;t skill to put an end</L>
<L>To Kingly Power, and throw down</L>
<L>Both the Kings Title, and his Crown.</L>
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<HEAD><HI>Brad&s;haw's</HI> Speech at the <HI>Gallows.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Good People,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am here become a &s;ad Spectacle to you this day, and indeed I ever thought I &s;hould arive here one day; If I &s;hould tell you where I was born, it would be to no purpo&s;e, becau&s;e my Country hath di&s;owned me; I was bred to the profe&s;&s;ion of the Law, a <HI>Judge,</HI> nay, a <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> too, and all to &s;erve this old Gentleman, (poynting to <HI>Cromwell.</HI>) I found out the fir&s;t invention for giving opprobrious, wicked, and villanous language to Kings; for which we are now come to a recompence here, but &s;eeing our de&s;igns thrive no better here, we will &s;ee what we can do in the other World. And truly, I am only now &s;orry that this good Gentleman, and I &s;hould ever differ, con&s;idering we &s;erv'd both one Ma&s;ter, and how alike we were in every thing, not only in our Faces, but even in our very lives and death, being all of a mettle too. But the truth is, he had a King in his Belly, and I had a Common-wealth in mine; and to tell you, I thought by it, I was the biger man, and yet I mu&s;t &s;tudy the confu&s;ion of the Law on the top of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Abby,</HI> in a little Room; and he mu&s;t have all <HI>Whitehall</HI> to him&s;elf; indeed Friends, you cannot but judge this unju&s;t, and this was the ri&s;e of our
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difference, and though he made me cro&s;&s;e the Cudgells to him, yet at la&s;t I got po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of <HI>White</HI>-Hall, and a <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> I was there too, for I cannot love to go back|ward in my honours, for the &s;ame place is kept for me where I am going, el&s;e I &s;hould quarel there too, and &s;et all in a flame; and if Old <HI>Nick</HI> be not too cunning for us, we &s;hall &s;poile his Monarchy, and make it a Chri&s;tian Common-wealth. And truly I think <HI>James Harrington</HI> hath hit it as well as may be, and for my part, I was angry he did not put my Name as Author of it, becau&s;e I was ever noted that way beyond him; and now to be a Com|mi&s;&s;ioner of the Great Seal, is a fine thing indeed, I hope I &s;hall have that place too, el&s;e I &s;hall not be plea&s;ed, and be&s;ides there's a great deal of rea&s;on for it, nor do I co|vet to have all neither, but my &s;hare, my &s;hare. But Gentlemen, I am too too worldly at this place; you expect to hear &s;omewhat of my Religion, and for my part, I never knew any &s;uch thing in a Common-wealth, except the Jewi&s;h Religion, and truly that I would be &s;oone&s;t of, did I love any, becau&s;e they Crucify'd their King; and truly I may be thought a Jew for the &s;ame thing; but though I love the practice, I hate the Religion, it having been &s;o much defaced in my Dear Friend and Brother <HI>Miles Corbet;</HI> as to the love of my Country, indeed I would do much for her, and if &s;he would but go with me where I am going, I am confident I could procure her to be the Senior Common-wealth, and &s;hould take place of <HI>Holland,</HI> in &s;pite of their Butter Boxes, although <HI>I</HI> mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e they are to be highly commended too, for their Religion.</P>
<P>Thus far you may ea&s;ily under&s;tand me, I think, and were I not &s;ufficiently known, I &s;hould tell you much more, but I think there is one generall mi&s;take among you
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all, in thinking me to be an able Lawyer, indeed Friends I mu&s;t needs clear me&s;elf, and profe&s;&s;e my ignorance of that, which my thinks you may ea&s;ily under&s;tand by my continual practice again&s;t either Law or Rea&s;on, and therefore that doubt is ea&s;ily clear'd: Truly Friends, my ca&s;e now, may be &s;ome of yours hereafter, and therefore I tell you one thing for your comfort, you talk, and ma|ny talk of a thing call'd Con&s;cience, trouble of Con&s;ci|ence; truly I mu&s;t tell you, I beleeve there is no &s;uch thing, if there were, &s;ure I might have been acquainted with it, having ventured far in &s;earch of it; thereof take my coun&s;el and cour&s;e, and you will never fear that, and indeed 'tis only a fear. Well Friends, you have warme Cloth on, and do not much feel the cold, but let me tell you I do, being but thin clad, on purpo&s;e for my journey, being to go into a very hot Country, where, if it be any of your fortune<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to come, Gentlemen you &s;hall not want a <HI>Pre&s;ident,</HI> I'le promi&s;e you that: And now I think I have &s;poken more then you expected I &s;hould, and there|fore I may now freely take my leave of you, for here's &s;o good company goes along, that I would not &s;tay behind upon any termes, and &s;o I wi&s;h you all a good night.</P>
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<HEAD>His EPITAPH.</HEAD>
<L>Law lies a bleeding, Monarchy&punc;</L>
<L>Ext<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ngui&s;ht, &s;ure the Law mu&s;t die.</L>
<L>Yet both revive, and <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI>'s made</L>
<L>A &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> example to his Trade.</L>
<L>His end to all<HI>'s</HI> a good take heed,</L>
<L>How they the bounds of Law exceed.</L>
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