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<HEAD>The High Court of Ju&s;tice at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> arraigned at the Bar in the <HI>Old Bayley</HI> at the Se&s;&s;ions-Hou&s;e; WHERE, Tho&s;e that adjudged and murthered the Royal Per&s;on, and Sacred Maje&s;ty of King CHARLS the Fir&s;t, are for that horrid Fact brought to their Legal Tryal, according to the known Laws of the Land.</HEAD>
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<L>THe manifold Changes that have hap'ned of late,</L>
<L>To the rich and the poor, to the Church and the State,</L>
<L>To Princes, Plebeans, to Pe&s;ants and P&eacute;ers,</L>
<L>Within the circumference of twenty years,</L>
<L>May teach us to &s;&eacute;e</L>
<L>In every degr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>There's nothing is certain, but uncertainty,</L>
<L>For who would have thought in the time of the War,</L>
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<L><HI>The High Court of Ju&s;tice &s;hould come to the Bar?</HI></L>
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<L>No power but the High Court of Heaven could tell</L>
<L>What fate &s;hould befall to that High Court of Hell,</L>
<L><HI>Hugh Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ers, Jack Hew&s;on, Cook, Carew</HI> and <HI>Scot,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tom Harri&s;on, Hacker,</HI> and <HI>Jones</HI> had forgot,</L>
<L>(As now it appears</L>
<L>In the&s;e latter years)</L>
<L>Gods High Court of Iu&s;tice hath overcome theirs,</L>
<L>In &s;pight of Rebellion, Plots, Plunder and War,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Their High Court of Ju&s;tice is brought to the Bar,</HI></L>
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<L>What Villains but they could have &s;entenc'd a King</L>
<L>In whom all the graces of Princes did &s;pring.</L>
<L>Their hearts were more hard than <HI>Barbarians</HI> are</L>
<L>To bring &s;uch a Prince from the Throne to the Bar,</L>
<L>A Monarch that meant</L>
<L>All love and content,</L>
<L>Vnto the Church, and the State, and Parliament,</L>
<L>Which they did cut off by a Council of War,</L>
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<L><HI>But now their High Court is brought down to the Bar.</HI></L>
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<L>It was a great &s;in 'gain&s;t their con&s;cience, I'me &s;ure,</L>
<L>That no Law or Go&s;pel could ever indure,</L>
<L>Although with a colour of purene&s;s they did it,</L>
<L>And under the Mask of Religion they hid it,</L>
<L><HI>Jack Hew&s;on</HI> and <HI>Jones</HI></L>
<L>St. <HI>Hugh</HI> and his bones</L>
<L>To be the Kings Iudges did &s;it upon Thrones,</L>
<L>But now they are coupled like &s;laves as they are,</L>
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<L><HI>And their High Court of Ju&s;tice is brought to the Bar.</HI></L>
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<L>They &s;et up a new Law for to murther him,</L>
<L>But 'tis a good old Law that &s;hall hang up them,</L>
<L>The&s;e brave men of war and bold Champions mu&s;t now</L>
<L>In <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> for't make a new randezvow,</L>
<L>Like Rogues they mu&s;t rally,</L>
<L>And from <HI>Newgate</HI> &s;ally,</L>
<L>Vnto the &s;ad Se&s;&s;ions-hou&s;e in the old <HI>Bayley,</HI></L>
<L>And there to be try'd, as all murtherers are,</L>
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<L><HI>For their High Court of Ju&s;tice &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<L>Their many &s;ucce&s;&s;es and victories got,</L>
<L>Vpon the poor <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> and <HI>Scot,</HI></L>
<L>Per&s;waded them that they &s;hould live with their trea&s;ure</L>
<L>In freedome, in &s;afety, in plenty and plea&s;ure</L>
<L>That they could not fall</L>
<L>From places &s;o tall,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they had gotten the Devil and all;</L>
<L>But now they do finde that in &s;pight of the War,</L>
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<L><HI>Their High Court of Ju&s;tice, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<L>Your Sectaries that did all fight for our goods.</L>
<L>Renounce all your Actions, and leave you i'th' &s;uds,</L>
<L>Your fa&s;ting and praying on other mens Lands</L>
<L>Have brought your necks under the hang-mans com|mands,</L>
<L>The people do moan,</L>
<L>The Gallows doth groan,</L>
<L>Till you have a&s;cended the thr&eacute;e legged Throne,</L>
<L>Where you &s;hall be mounted as Murtherers are,</L>
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<L><HI>Who&s;e High Court of Ju&s;tice, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>Hugh Peters</HI> lies terribly under the la&s;h,</L>
<L>H&eacute;e now mu&s;t for&s;ake both the world and the fle&s;h,</L>
<L>His Mi&s;tre&s;s and h&eacute;e mu&s;t b&eacute;e parted, and then</L>
<L>The Butcher may have his own Brindle again,</L>
<L>The Gentleman you</L>
<L>Did call fool good <HI>Hugh,</HI></L>
<L>At this time may que&s;tion you who's the fool now,</L>
<L>Such politick knaves the greate&s;t fools are,</L>
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<L><HI>When High Court of Ju&s;tice, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<L>When you flatter'd <HI>Oliver</HI> up in his &s;in,</L>
<L>You did not &s;uppo&s;e that the King would come in,</L>
<L>When you made Religion your Baud and your Punk</L>
<L>You &s;carce thought upon the Lord General <HI>Monk,</HI></L>
<L>When for Wedding-Rings,</L>
<L>You fought again&s;t Kings</L>
<L>You little did think to b&eacute;e hagn'd in the &s;trings,</L>
<L>From henceforth let all Polititians beware</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Their High Court of Ju&s;tice will come to the Bar.</HI></L>
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<L>They &s;ay <HI>Hew&s;on's</HI> taken, I wi&s;h it be true,</L>
<L>Hee was a bold knave, give the Devil his due,</L>
<L>The thr&eacute;e corner'd Shop-&s;tall hee now mu&s;t a&s;cend,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Dun</HI> will prepare him a Coblers-end;</L>
<L>H&eacute;e ro&s;e up in ha&s;te,</L>
<L>But falls down as fa&s;t,</L>
<L>And now the blinde Cobler will lo&s;e Awl at la&s;t,</L>
<L>For &s;uch ha&s;ty ri&s;ers, their puni&s;hment are,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>When High Courts of Ju&s;tice are brought to the Bar.</HI></L>
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<L>Bold <HI>Harri&s;on</HI> (as the wilde rumour doth run)</L>
<L>Will iu&s;tifie this bloody fact hee hath done;</L>
<L>But let him take h&eacute;ed le&s;t for &s;uch a great &s;laughter</L>
<L>His &s;oul m&eacute;et an High Court of Iu&s;tice hereafter,</L>
<L>A Court that controuls,</L>
<L>I pity their &s;ouls,</L>
<L>And &s;hall pray for them when St. <HI>Pulchres</HI> bell towls</L>
<L>God's milde Courts of mercy for penitents are,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>When High Court of Ju&s;tice, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<L>I wi&s;h they had never de&s;erved this Tryal</L>
<L>But bathing their guilty hands in the blood Royal,</L>
<L>I griev'd when his Maje&s;ty lo&s;t his dear breath;</L>
<L>More than I &s;hall joy at his Murtherers death;</L>
<L>God ble&s;s our good King</L>
<L>From Trea&s;on &s;oul &s;pring,</L>
<L>And give him tho&s;e Ioyes that are everla&s;ting;</L>
<L>Rejoyce and be glad all that innocent are,</L>
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<L><HI>For the High Court of Ju&s;tice is brought to the Bar,</HI></L>
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<HEAD>The Names of tho&s;e bloody Per&s;ons, who &s;ate, gave Judgement, &amp; a&s;&s;i&s;ted in that horrid and dete&s;table Murther of King Charles the fir&s;t, (of ble&s;&s;ed memory) who&s;e E&s;tates both real and per&s;onal are to be &s;ecured.</HEAD>
<P>IOhn Brad&s;haw, Serjeant at Law, Pre&s;i|dent of the pretended High Court of Ju&s;tice, I. Li&s;le, W Say, O. Cromwel, H. Ireton, E&s;quires. Sir Hard. Waller, Valen. Walton, Tho. Harri&s;on, Ed. Whaley, Tho. Pride, I&s;aac Ewers, E&s;quires. Lord Gray of Groby. Sir J. Danvers Kt. Sir Tho. Maleve|rer Baronet. Sir. J. Bourcher Kt. W. He|veningham <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> I&s;aac Pennington Alder|man of London. W. Purefoy, H. Martin J. Bark&s;tead, J. Blacki&s;ton, Gilb. Milling|ton, E&s;quires. Sir W. Con&s;table Baronet. Ed. Ludlow, J. Hutchin&s;on, E&s;quires. Sir Mich. Live&s;ey Baronet. R. Tichbourn, O. Roe, R. Lilburn, Ad. Scroop, Rich. Deane, J. Okey, J. Hew&s;on, W. Goffe, Corn. Hol|land, J. Cary, J. Jones, Miles Corber, Fr. Allinn, Pereg. Pelham, J. Moore, J. Aldreds H. Smith, Hum. Edwards, Greg. Clement, Tho. Woogan E&s;quires. Sir. Greg. Norton, Knight. Ed. Harvy, J. Ven, Tho. Scot, E|&s;quires. Tho. Andrews Alderman of Lon|don. W. Cawly, Anth. Staply, J. Downes, Tho. Horton, Tho. Hammond, Nic. Love, Vincent Potter, Aug. Garland, J. Dixwel, G. Fleetwood. Sim. Meyne, Ja. Temple, P. Temple, Dan. Blagrave, and Tho. Waite E&s;quires.</P>
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<HEAD>The Names of tho&s;e exempted from Par|don.</HEAD>
<P>John Li&s;le, William Say, Jo. Bark&s;tead, Cornelius Holland.</P>
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<P>London, Printed for F. Grove on Snow-hill, Entred according to Order.</P>
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