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<P>THE Several Speeches, DISPUTES, AND Conferences, BETWIXT The Gentlemen of the Black Roll (Actors in that mo&s;t horrid and bloody Tragedy, again&s;t our late Gracious Soveraign Lord King <HI>Charles</HI> of ever glorious Memory) and divers of the Independant party, in the Common Dunge|on at Newgate.</P>
<P>WITH Several Remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages and Ob&s;ervations on the Lives and Practi&s;es of tho&s;e unhappy and Trayterous Politicians.</P>
<P>ALSO The Names of divers; And their private procee|dings and in&s;tructions to their Friends.</P>
<P>London, <HI>Printed for</HI> George Horton, 1661.</P>
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<HEAD>The &s;everal Speeches, Di&s;putes, and Conferences, betwixt the Gentlemen of the Black Roll&punc; (Actors in that mo&s;t horrid and bloody Tra|gedy, again&s;t our late Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles) and divers of the Indep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ndant party, in the Common Dungeon at New|gate, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>NOt to in&s;ult on the mi&s;eries of the late Actors in that black and bloody Tragedy of our Martyr|ed Soveraign, but clearly to undeceive &s;uch light judgements which are blown by every Wind into a &s;everal Opinion; I &s;hall here in&s;i&s;t upon &s;ome ob&s;ervati|ons on &s;undry of their particular behaviours, where the Candid Reader weighing in an equal Ballance their black and bloody lives, will ea&s;ily finde that their burning zeal was but an <HI>iguis &s;atuus</HI> to lead the re&s;t of their Crew to the &s;ame de&s;truction: But I hope they will be more wi&s;e, and by the&s;e mens deaths learn &s;ome other way to happine&s;s then through the ruines of their King and Country. <HI>Blood will have Blood, and murther</HI> (e&s;pecially of Kings) <HI>never pa&s;&s;eth unrevenged;</HI> as appears by the&s;e Gentlemen of the Black Roll, whom we &s;hall trace according to their lives
<PB N="2" REF="3"> and actions: And fir&s;t we &s;hall begin with &s;ome ob&s;erva|tions on Col <HI>Jones:</HI> If old Age could free a man from puni&s;hment, then had Mr. <HI>Iones</HI> a good plea in the Court of Antiquity; his gray Hairs &s;hewed much Gravity, but Reverence is not due to Traytors: To be zealous in a bad Cau&s;e, argues a Con&s;cience fit for Villainy, and this was his condition; &s;o zealous was he for the Cau&s;e, that rather then Trea&s;on &s;hould cool, and the &s;tonie hearts of the Kings unrelenting Judges by delay melt into pity, or fall back unto their own obedience, he not onely urgeth a &s;peedy murther, but lea&s;t they &s;hould want a Jury, he him&s;elf will be Fore-man: To &s;hew that he was not onely Old in years but Vice; and had learned that delay was dangerous in a bad cau&s;e. But gray Hairs mu&s;t not goe down with peace to the Grave, when Murther and Trea|&s;on re&s;t unaccompted for: Had <HI>Zimri</HI> peace who &s;lew his Ma&s;ter? &s;uch peace may all Traytors &s;inde! To kill a man had been a &s;in unpardonable by the Law of Nature and the Land; <HI>But to kill a King!</HI> Nay, a Gracious King, under who&s;e Wings &s;ome of the&s;e Traytors &s;ought pro|tection, was a Villany that Future Ages will blu&s;h at.&mdash;But now to &s;peak of the re&s;t of the&s;e Traytors.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Life of</HI> Gregory Clement.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Gregory Clement</HI> was a man hardly, worth the mention, con&s;idering the wickedne&s;s of his lewd life; He was a Mer|chant by his fir&s;t profe&s;sion, but failing therein, and gro|wing into a de&s;perate fortune, thought to thrive by merchandizing in Bi&s;hops Lands, wherein he got a con&s;i|derable e&s;tate: He was turned out of the Rump Parlia|ment for lying with his Maid at <HI>Greenwich,</HI> but was received among&s;t them again at their return after <HI>Olivers</HI> interruption. His guilty Con&s;cience and his Ignorance to|gether, would not &s;uffer him to make any plea at the Bar, or &s;peech or prayer at the Gallowes; for being there, he
<PB N="3" REF="3"> was a&s;ked whether he had any thing to &s;ay before the Hangman did his Office, he &s;aid, <HI>No;</HI> upon which Exe|cution was done, and being quartered, his Head was &s;et upon <HI>London</HI> Bridge, and his Limbs di&s;po&s;ed of on the Gates of the City: But &s;omething touching Mr. <HI>Gregory Clement</HI> take as followeth.</P>
<P>Perhaps the Reader may think it &s;trange that there is &s;o little &s;aid of <HI>Gregory Clement,</HI> who &s;uffered with the re&s;t; therefore this onely is to be &s;aid more, (which is known to many) That Mr. <HI>Clement</HI> was very &s;ilent both at the time of his Impri&s;onment in Newgate&punc; and at the time and place of his Execution at <HI>Charing Cro&s;s:</HI> Onely thus it is &s;aid, That he expre&s;t his trouble to &s;ome friend, in the Pri&s;on, for yielding &s;o far to the importunity of his Rela|tions, as to plead guilty to the Indictment: And though he &s;pake little at the place of Execution, yet &s;o far as could be judged by &s;ome di&s;cerning per&s;ons that was near him, he departed this life in peace.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Ob&s;ervations on</HI> Gregory Clement.</HEAD>
<P>Were there a Coun&s;el &s;o learned in the Law that (con|trary to that old rule, <Q><HI>Cau&s;a patrocinio non cuna major erit</HI></Q>) could ca&s;t &s;o fair a glo&s;s on a bad Cau&s;e, that Ju&s;tice it &s;elf would &s;toop to his Rhetorick, que&s;tionle&s;s he might have found a Client: See here a man called to the Bar to an|&s;wer Trea&s;on in the highe&s;t degree that thought can fan|cy, &s;truck mute with the horrour of his Con&s;cience: Happy had he been if Nature had forgotten to have made a Tongue, but far more happy if he had never needed one to plead his own Guilt at the Bar of an offended Ju|&s;tice: I can &s;ay but little, where he &s;carce &s;aith any thing him&s;elf; onely this, That if dying for the Good Old Cau&s;e, dipt in the Kings blood, only can make a Saint-like Martrydom, and Martyrdom be the onely way to be &s;a|ved, I &s;hall never go to Heaven.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Some additional pa&s;&s;ages of Col.</HI> Scroops, <HI>Col.</HI> Jones, <HI>and Mr.</HI> Cooks, <HI>with his Letter to his Daughter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Col. <HI>Scroop</HI> when a friend asked him at parting, How he did? an&s;wered him, Better and better I thank God every moment, my life doubles upon me and multiplies. He al|&s;o heard him &s;ay when there was mention made that there were &s;ome endeavours for his pardon&punc; That onely would prove a &s;nare to him, but he was fully &s;atisfied what to do, and would not prejudice his Con&s;cience to &s;ave his life. He al&s;o heard him when one was di&s;cour&s;ing to him of the happine&s;s of Heaven, and telling him it con&s;i&s;ted in 3 things, <HI>viz.</HI> A perfect Communion with God, A perfect Conformity to God, and, A perfect Enjoyment of God. He made this an&s;wer&punc; Tho&s;e three things you mention are but one, we are entring into it, and can tell. And that friend asking him further about it, he &s;aid, That God was but one pure Act, and in whom there was no &s;ucce&s;&s;ion or di&s;tinction of acts, and that Souls led forth in his Spirit were in a manner made like to him, for their enjoying was their conformity and communion, and one was all, in which he &s;eemed to be &s;wallowed up, and even then got &s;o far into Heaven, that all &s;eemed to be but one Act with him. Some friends being pre&s;ent, heard both him and Col. <HI>Jones</HI> &s;ay: You can &s;ay, God is better then all the World, and &s;ay it truly; but you cannot &s;ay it with &s;o much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eeling and experience as we can; we finde he is &s;o indeed.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Remarkable pa&s;&s;ages of Col.</HI> Jones <HI>in Pri&s;on.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Col. <HI>Iones</HI> the night before he &s;uffered, told a friend, he had no other temptation upon him but this, Lea&s;t he &s;hould be too much tran&s;ported and carried out to neg|lect
<PB N="5" REF="4"> and &s;leight his life; &s;o greatly was he &s;atisfied to dye in that cau&s;e. The day he &s;uffered, he gra&s;ped a friend in his Armes, and &s;aid to him: Farewel, I could wi&s;h thee in the &s;ame condition with my &s;elf, that thou mighte&s;t &s;hare with me in my joyes.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Mr.</HI> Cooks <HI>&s;peeches to his Wife.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Mr. <HI>Cook</HI> &s;peaking to his Wife a little before his death, &s;aid: My Lamb, now I am going where I &s;hall meet the Saints all of one minde, which thou knowe&s;t was the de|&s;ire of my heart, to &s;ee thee at another time &s;aith he; in|deed, my Lamb, if I might have my choi&s;e now, I would not de&s;ire life, for I could not live where I might not en|joy the Liberty of my Con&s;cience, and when I can do no|thing for God, what &s;hould I live for: O welcome &s;weet Death, thy &s;ting is out, ble&s;&s;ed be God, <HI>I</HI> do embrace thee with rejoycing: Thou art a good Porter that will &s;ud|denly open to me the Gates of Eternity; O tho&s;e everla|&s;ting Gates will my Father &s;et open to receive me: O ble&s;|&s;ed be God for Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Fountain of all Mercies; Lord Ie&s;us I come flying to Thee upon the wings of Faith, I come Lord full &s;ail to Thee, Lord Ie&s;us receive me: That which the World counts &s;hame, &s;aith he, I count it my Ioy, my Crown, and my Glory.</P>
<P>A little before his parting with his Wife, &s;he laid her head in his bo&s;ome and wept, whereat he &s;aid: My dear Lamb, let us not part in a &s;hower, God hath wiped away all tears from my eyes, ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord.</P>
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<HEAD>Mr. Cooks <HI>Letter to his Daughter</HI> Free-love Cook, <HI>October the</HI> 15th. 1660. <HI>a little before his death.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My deare&s;t Child,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Let thy name</HI> Free love, <HI>put thee in minde of the free love of God in Chri&s;t, in giving thee to me and thy dear mother, and
<PB N="6" REF="5"> know&punc; &s;o &s;oon as God gives thee any under&s;tanding, that thou art the childe of one that God counted worthy to &s;uffer for his &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ke, and to &s;eal to the truth of his Law and Go&s;pel with his blood, which will he a great honour to thee in the judgement of all that truly love and fear God: I leave thee to the Lord, who I know will take care of thee, and be thy Portion, &s;o thou &s;halt never want: Learn with all &s;peed to read the Scriptures, and to un|der&s;tand them, and have a great care to &s;erve God, and &s;tudy to love Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and be obedient to thy dear Mother, and good Grandmother, and thy loving &V;ncle and Aunt</HI> Ma&s;&s;ey: <HI>I pray thee never learn any pride, but be humble and meek, and co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rteous, and wait upon Gods Ordinances; love the Word more then thy appointed Food: When the Lord &s;hall plea&s;e to alter thy condition, be &s;ure to marry one that is Gracious, and a man that feareth God; be &s;ure to prefer Grace before Wealth and Parts; for a little wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h the fear of God, is better then great Ri|ches with an ungodly man. The Lord make thee Religious, for Beauty is vanity, and Favour is deceitful;</HI> But a Woman that feareth the Lord, &s;he &s;hall be prai&s;ed. <HI>If the Lord give thee Children, be &s;ure to bring them up &V;irtuou&s;ly and Religi|ou&s;ly, in the Nurture, Admonition, and fear of the Lord: I charge thee never to marry without the con&s;ent of thy dear mo|ther, if &s;he be then living: In all thy Actions have an eye to Eternity, and never do any thing again&s;t the light of thine own Con&s;cience; know that thy dear Father is going to Heaven to thy dear Brother, and be &s;ure &s;o to live, that by Gods Grace thou m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ye&s;t follow after. If God give thee ability, I charge thee to do good to thy Friends and all Gods people; and if my la&s;t Will may be of force, do not violate it in the lea&s;t. So I leave</HI> Gods <HI>ble&s;&s;ing with thee, p-aying for thy Temporal and Eternal hap|pine&s;s, and re&s;t,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy loving Father, John Cook.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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