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<P>THE CHARGE AND IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED Again&s;t the Bloody JUDGES of our late Royal-Martyred KING CHARLES.</P>
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<ITEM>His <HI>Majesties</HI> Proclamation, touching the horrid Murtherers of His Royal Father of ble&s;&s;ed memory; and the mo&s;t horrid and Execrable Trea&s;on committed upon the Roy|all <HI>Diadem, Crown, Scepter,</HI> and <HI>Dignity,</HI> contrary to the known Laws of the Land, and the <HI>Peoples Liberty.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>With the Re&s;olves of <HI>Parliament,</HI> touching <HI>Hugh Peters,</HI> and Cornet <HI>Joyce,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Wicked Actors that committed the mo&s;t Barbarous and horrid Murther in cutting off the precious Head of our late Gracious Lord and Soveraign King <HI>CHARLES.</HI></ITEM>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>G. Horton,</HI> living near the Three Crowns in Barbican, 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>The Royal Summons.</HEAD>
<P>_THe po&s;itive judicial Law of God, is; <HI>That who|&s;oever &s;heddeth mans blood, by man &s;hall his blood be &s;hed. Gen.</HI> 9.6. And the rea&s;on is there ren|dred, becau&s;e &s;uch de&s;troy Gods Image where|in man is made: And the cry of blood (if not puni&s;hed by man) is &s;o great. <HI>Gen.</HI> 4.10. That the Lord comes down from heaven to call the murtherer to account, and by &s;ome vi&s;ible, and remarkable judgements or other, to &s;tigmatize this &s;in, as the&s;e following examples will more fully manife&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> Murtherers ought to be puni&s;hed with death. <HI>Gen.</HI> 9.6. <HI>Exod.</HI> 21.12. Prov. 28.17. <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.10. No recompence is to be taken for it, <HI>Num.</HI> 35.32, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> For it defiles the Land. <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 4.2 3. Its diligently to be &s;ought out. <HI>Deut.</HI> 21.1, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> God puni&s;heth it head. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 55.23. It excludes from heaven. <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.1. <HI>Rev.</HI> 21.8. Sundry other Scriptural Examples might we here in&s;tance; As in the ca&s;e of <HI>Pharaob, Abimelech, Ab&s;alom, Mana&s;&s;eh, A|hab,</HI> and <HI>Jezabel, Zimri, Herod, Shallum, Manahem, Baa|nah, Rechab,</HI> and <HI>Cain,</HI> the latter being cur&s;ed by God for murthering his Brother, <HI>Gen.</HI> 4. The other two preceding,
<PB N="4" REF="3">were &s;lain by the command of <HI>David,</HI> for killing their Lord <HI>I&s;hbo&s;heth.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;hall not &s;uch who are guilty of <HI>Innocent Blood,</HI> nay <HI>Royal Blood,</HI> be called to an account? yes, otherwi&s;e God forbid. In order whereunto, the Lords and Commons A&s;|&s;embled in Parliament, taking into their &s;erious and Chri|&s;tian con&s;ideration, the mo&s;t horrid and execrable Trea&s;on and Murther committed upon the Per&s;on and again&s;t the Life of our late Lord and Soveraign King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, Declared their ab&s;olute dete&s;tation again&s;t &s;o abhorred an Act; And having made a large progre&s;s upon the Act for a General Pardon and Oblivion, It was the Re&s;ult of both Hou&s;es; That Colonel <HI>Harri&s;on,</HI> Collonel <HI>Bark&s;tead, Thomas Scot, Cornelius Holland, John Li&s;le, William Say,</HI> and <HI>John Jones,</HI> be exempted from the benefit of the Act for a General Pardon, and Oblivion, for murdering of His Royal Maje&s;ty, of ble&s;&s;ed memory.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, that <HI>Andrew Broughton,</HI> one of the Clerks to the pretended High Court of Ju&s;tice, and <HI>Edward Dendy,</HI> Sergeant at Arms to the &s;aid pretended High Court, be likewi&s;e excepted from the benefit of the Act for a Ge|neral Pardon; and the other per&s;ons al&s;o who were con|cerned in the cutting off the head of His late Maje&s;ty of ever glorious memory, to be al&s;o excepted: Hereupon the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament Ordered, That <HI>George Joyce (that &s;on of Perdition)</HI> commonly known by the name of Cornet <HI>Joyce,</HI> and <HI>Hugh Peters (one of Baals Butcherly Prie&s;ts)</HI> be taken into Cu&s;tody, and that the Ser|jeant at Arms attending the Parliament, do take the &s;aid <HI>George Joyce,</HI> and <HI>Hugh Peters,</HI> in &s;afe cu&s;tody, which was accordingly performed.</P>
<P>And whereas there are divers other per&s;ons who &s;ate, gave judgement, and a&s;&s;i&s;ted in that horrid and dete&s;table
<PB N="5" REF="3">Murder of our late Lord and Soveraign King <HI>Charles,</HI> of never dying memory, being deeply guilty thereof, and of that mo&s;t horrid and bloody Trea&s;on, have out of the &s;en&s;e of their own guilt, lately fled and ob&s;cured them&s;elves, whereby they cannot be apprehended and brought to a per|&s;onal and legel Trial for their &s;aid Trea&s;ons according to Law: His Maje&s;ty therefore by the Advice of the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, hath comman|ded a Proclamation to be publi&s;hed, &s;ummoning all &s;uch per&s;ons therein &s;pecified, to appear and render them&s;elves within fourteen dayes, under pain of being exempted from Pardon.</P>
<P>The&s;e are tho&s;e, that Ambitiou&s;ly a&s;pired to that exce&s;s of Dominion, as if them&s;elves &s;hould never be brought to Judgement; whereas, indeed, the Dignity of the Throne, and the Soveraignty of the Scepter, is no Boon of Fortune, or thing of chance; for <HI>Promotion cometh neither from the Ea&s;t, nor from the We&s;t, nor from the South;</HI> neither by con|federacy of De&s;igns, nor fortuitou&s;ne&s;s of Events: But, Government is <HI>Gods</HI> Ordinance, and Governours are all ac|countable to Him as Supream; the highe&s;t Empire, it is <HI>&s;ub Jove Emperium, God is the Judge, he pulleth down one, and &s;etteth up another;</HI> And when he does it by Divine Ordinati|on, it is a Regular Providence, putting a <HI>period</HI> to the <HI>Royal Line</HI> of one Family, and by transferring the right of Power to another. And whom <HI>GOD</HI> &s;ets up by a Divine Ordina|tion let them look to't, who re&s;i&s;t his lawfull Dominion: For, <HI>in the hand of the Lord there is a Cup,</HI> a Cup of Wrath, <HI>who&s;e Wine is red and full of mixture;</HI> That is, who&s;e Judge|ments are grievous and full of horrour. And where He finds a Di&s;obedience to ju&s;t Authority, there he powrs forth of his Cup of Fury; The top whereof, the &s;imple and &s;e|duced
<PB N="6" REF="4">&s;hall drink to their Cha&s;ti&s;ement and Correction, but the maliciou&s;ly wicked &s;hall drink up all, nay, &s;uck out the dregs thereof to <HI>their temporal ruine and eternal destruction.</HI> But, as for the Execution of this Wrath, we mu&s;t leave it un|to <HI>God;</HI> for our mo&s;t Gracious Soveraign <HI>Charles the Second,</HI> by Inheritance and <HI>Divine Providence,</HI> King of <HI>Great Brittain, &amp;c.</HI> is full of Clemencie and Meekne&s;s, and may truly be &s;tiled <HI>The Mirrour of Princes;</HI> as appears by his late graci|ous Pardon: But many being deeply guilty of that mo&s;t dete&s;table and bloody Trea&s;on, in pa&s;&s;ing Judgement and Sentence of Death upon our late Martyred King <HI>Charles the Fir&s;t</HI> of happy memory; and endeavouring to e&s;cape the hand of Ju&s;tice by flight; His mo&s;t Sacred and inimitable Maje&s;ty <HI>Charles the Second,</HI> by the advice of His Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, commanded the en|&s;uing <HI>Proclamation</HI> to be forthwith publi&s;hed, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A <HI>Proclamation</HI> to &s;ummon the Per&s;ons therein named, who &s;ate, gave Judgement, and a&s;&s;i&s;ted in that horrid and dete&s;table <HI>murther</HI> of his Maje&s;ties Royal Father of ble&s;|&s;ed memory, to appear and render them&s;elves within Fourteen dayes, under pain of being exempted from Pardon.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of <HI>England, Scot|land, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all Our loving Subjects of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Gr&eacute;e|ting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>We taking notice by the information of Dar Lords and Commons now A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, of the mo&s;t horrid and execrable Trea&s;on and Marder committed upon the Per&s;on, and again&s;t the Life, Crown and Dignity of Our late Royal Father <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t of ble&s;&s;ed Memory: And that <HI>John Li&s;le, Willi|am Say,</HI> E&s;quires, Sir <HI>Hardre&s;s Waller, Valentine Wauton, Ed|ward Whalley,</HI> E&s;quires, Sir <HI>John Bourchier</HI> Knight, <HI>William Heveningham</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>I&s;aac Pennington</HI> Alderman of <HI>London, Henry Martin, John Bark&s;tead, Gilbert Millington, Edmund Ludlow, John Hutchin&s;on</HI> E&s;quires, Sir <HI>Michael Live&s;ay</HI> Bare|net, <HI>Robert Tichborne, Owen Roe, Robert Lilburn, Adrian Scroope, John Okey, John Hew&s;on, William Goffe, Cornelius Holland, John Carew, Miles Corbet, Henry Smith, Thomas Wogam, Edmund Harvey, Thomas Scot, William Cawley, John Downs, Nicholas Love, Vincent Potter, Augu&s;tine Garland, John Dixwel, George Fleetwood, Simon Meyne, Jame; Temple, Pe|ter Temple, Daniel Blagrave</HI> and <HI>Thomas Weight</HI> E&s;quires, be|ing deeply Guilty of that mo&s;t dete&s;table and Bloody Trea&s;on, in &s;itting upon, and giving Judgement again&s;t the Life of Our Royal Father; And al&s;o <HI>John Cooke,</HI> who was imployed there|in as Sollicitor, <HI>Andrew Broughton</HI> and <HI>John Phelps,</HI> who were imployed under the &s;aid per&s;ons as Clerks, and <HI>Edward Denby</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="5">who attended them as Serjeant at Armes, have out of the &s;ence of their own Guilt lately &s;ted and ob&s;cured them&s;elves, whereby they cannot be apprehended and brought to a per&s;onal and legal Trial for their &s;aid Trea&s;ons according to Law. We do there|fore by the Advice of Our &s;aid Lords and Commons, Command, Publi&s;h, and Declare by this Our Proclamation, That all and every the per&s;ons before named &s;hall within Fourteen dayes next after the publi&s;hing of this Our Royal Proclamation, per&s;onally appear and render them&s;elves to the Speaker or Speakers of Our Hou&s;e of P&eacute;ers or Comnions, or unto Our Lord Mayor of Our City of <HI>London,</HI> or to the Sheriffs of Our re&s;pective Counties of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> under pain of being excepted from any Par|don or Indempnity both for their re&s;pectivs Lives and E&s;tates: And that no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall pre&s;ume to harbour or conceal any of the per&s;ons afore&s;aid, under pain of Mi&s;pri&s;ion of High Trea&s;on.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>White-Hall</HI> <DATE>the 6th. day of <HI>June</HI> 1660. in the Twelfth year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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