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Cromwell's bloody slaughter-house, or, his damnable designes laid and practised by him and his negro's, in contriving the murther of His sacred Majesty King Charles I, discovered by a person of honor.
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Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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in the last and perilous times in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and manners It is hoped that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful and by you most miserable Kingdomes as he gives us grace utterly to abhorr your desperate sinsâ—â— So that we trust he will never suffer us by a Devillish Apostasie to fall from all Vows Oaths and Covenants to God and man by which we and our posterity are bound to God the Crown and our Countrieâ— only to have yours and the Dâ—vils absolution to mâ—ke a Coveâ—â—nt and Agreement with Hell and Death with your most irreligious â—nd damnable designs and practises No the sin and horrour of your wayes are now like Absaloms incestuous and noon-day Rapes discovered in the sight of the Sun and all the world Nor will the sâ—btilty of your soft and fained voyces like Syrens any more charm and enchant the honest people of England into such Beasts and Monsters â—s your selves are to whose hellâ—sh deformities you would have aâ—l others to conform They have seen and felt too much already of your cruel Hypocrâ—sies your devillish and strong delusions Have not your words been alwayes Soloecisms to your purposes and your practises contradictions to your pretenses Have you not as much as lies in your power and malâ—ce cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty perjury cruelty barbarity irreligion and confusion that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into after so many Sacred and Solemn Professions of Loyalty and Reformation to God and the world whom we called to wâ—tness upon our souls Agreeable to all which and to fill up the measure of our sins as if our Rebellion against God and the King were hitherto but a light and small matter by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death by the hands of cruel Edomites and cursed Amalâ—kites as you are which most deplorable calamity to us and this Naâ—ion we penitently look upon as the severest temporal stâ—oke which the wrath of God gone out against us can inflâ—ct upon us Yet your impudent Hypocrisie now seeks to obtrude upon us your wretched and abhorred Agreement The sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King Government without Authority Magistrates without Power a People without Laws a body without an head Sheep without a Shepherd Christians without Christ Churches without Ministers Ministers without Maintenance a Nation without Faiâ—h In a word you would have us live as men without souls without God wilfully degenerating to beasts without sense of vertue or vice shame or honour without fear of Hell hopes of Heaven or thoughts of Eternity and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites and Sodomitick Saints the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Heaven and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear Have you not already made the Name of these Pretestant and Reformâ—d Churches to stinck among â—ll Naâ—ions both Christian and Heathen through the dead flies and â—ot enâ—â—ss of your principles and maâ—â—â—rs Have you not â—urp 〈◊〉 the cunning and câ—ueltâ— oâ— tâ—â— most â—â—suâ—tick hâ—aâ—s aâ—d 〈◊〉 â—s â—â—ch as you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o◠〈…〉 an◠〈…〉 to advâ—â—ce 〈…〉 above that of Kings But you upon baser principles seek to subject the Regal Soveraignty to that of the People as you call it nor that you mean so in good earnest further then to delude the people and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all both King Prince Peers and People We appeal to all sober Christians whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy Inasmuch as they plotted secretly but you have peracted openly the murther of the King the ruine of all the Royal Issue the overthrow of all our Laws the blowing up of all Parliaments the subverting of the whole State and Government the devastation of your Countrey the abolition of all true Religion the extirpation of all Liberty Peace Order and Humanity Your Elder Brother Faux himself might seem a Saint compared to you whose New Light and Dark Lanthorn you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions Nor were the rest of those Powder Trayâ—ors so criminal as you if they had effected what they designed since they neither prâ—tended to that Saintshâ—p or that smooth precisenâ—sse which you have done nor had they upon them such signal ties of Publique and special Trust besides your many voluntary Obligations The total violation of all which renders your sins out of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably traiterous beyond what any Caâ—elines but your selves ever had the desperate boldnesse to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared râ—valry and enmity against King Parliament and Countrey we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with lesse shame and disdain your insolent and prevayling Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aâ—quiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyall regard to his Majesties safety Rights Honour and Posterity to whom some of your chief Commanders as they well know engaged their souls as much as was possible for any mortall men to doe devoting themselves to all the Curses of God tâ—mporall and eternâ—ll upon the breach and failer of their words to his Maâ—esty Adde to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartiall endeavouâ—s to settle all things in Peace Justice due Lâ—berty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and State may witnesse whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God our King and our Religion We the people of England of all sorts Lords Gentry Clergy and Commons do again and again declare to God and all the world the present Age and Posterity so long as the world shall endure our infinite abhorrence utter detestation and toâ—all dâ—sagreâ—ment from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further doe through Gods vengeance upon this Nation in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Villanies Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Almâ—ghty God not in order to the satiâ—faction of our private maâ—â—ce or desire of revenge on any of you though our parâ—icular injuries havâ— been many from you but oâ—â—y in order to the publiquâ— Vindication of Goâ—s glory the Hoâ—our of the Reformâ—d Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Natâ—on the wiping away those foul sins of Trâ—â—sâ—n Perjury Truce-breaking and Regall Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood
since their interest and advantage like yours lying in the destruction of others will â—asily tempt them to condemn any man At length you make a shift to pack not a high Court of Justice as you shamelessely style it but the basest Conventicâ—e of Injustice that ever was in the world In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game A very Medly and Râ—psody of the most ignorant shallow cowardly cruel weak debaucht and insolent fools or Athiests Hypocrites Traytors and Tyrants that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man Your President Bradshaw and your Clark Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt souls as any lived in their profession their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretense of ignorance in the Laws which are in no case more clearly expressely and seâ—verely contrary then in this of taking away the Kings life wherein they against all law duâ—y and conscience were as Judasâ—s â—hiefly imployed At last upon the wicked most unjust and cruel sentence of these mercenary unauthorisedâ— and Tyrannous Sycophants and Hucksters of Justice who must needs have their Commâ—ssion from him that is the Father of lyes the false Accuser the Old Murtherer the deceiving Serpent the Râ—aring Lion the Red Dragon the Dead Sea of cruelty and the sink of all Confusion the Damned and Damning Divel and not from God the Fountain of Justice the Father of Mercy the Institutor of Order the Author of Peace and the Commander of â—â—bjection to Lawâ—ull Kings in any â—â—tion imaginable further then the Divell may have Commission from God permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice to compell such a King so Great a Monarch of three Kingdomes their Undoubted Soveraign Lord to submit to theâ—r Arraignment Accusationsâ— and Sentence who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies without allowing him the lâ—beâ—ty of protâ—sting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority or of pleading for his own both Innocency and well known Priviledge Soveraignty and unquestionable Immunity according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdome which are exprâ—ssely against their trayterous and tyrannous proceedings as well as the nullity of their Authority After this without anâ— remorse or pity to their and our King to force a person of so excellent worth wisdome vertue honour and Majesty to bow down at the feet of so vile persons and then to Chop off hâ—s Head which was Sacred Crowned and Anoynted as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions A Butchery so barbarous that the common Headsman abhorred to do it nor may we think those bloudy Zealots were willing he should dâ—prive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice to inaugurate them in their Royall Priesthood by which their Schismaticall fury pâ—etends a title against or above all Lawfull Kings and Governours What Words what Teraâ— what Sihgs what oppressive Thoughts what secret and unutterable Reflectâ—ons of most stupifiâ—d and astonâ—â—hed Souâ—s are sufficient to measure the Immensity to weigh the burden to expresse or conceive the hâ—rror of this outragâ—ous sin and most flagitious villany Poor Prince after so many delusions so many lying Addresses made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army after so much patience so great demonstrations of excellent wisdome meeknâ—sse calmnesse and Christian gentlenesse to his very Enemies and Jaylours under infinite reproaches injuries and indignities even to the very spitting in his face after all those gracious condescendings by which he had reduced himself almost to the vâ—ry shadow and bare name of a King saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love and loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects that he might please all secure and satisâ—ie all purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodnesse capable to have softned even Devils themselves to be thus butcherâ—d by a Soldieâ—y and Schismaticall cruelty to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people who generally abominated so horrid inhumane unseen and unheard of a Spectacle whose Publique Faith besides their Personall Alâ—egiance was engaged for his Majestâ—es honour and safety what â—â—art can be large enough to equall the sorrow what â—yes can be Fountains sufficient to dâ—plore so unmerited a Fate befalling so excellent a Prince by the malice ambition cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies And all this Tragedy of Tragedies câ—rried on to such bloody conclusions under colour of Safety and Reformation at first afterward of satisfaction and Indempâ—ity to the Army in both which the Good King denyâ—d nothing that men of anâ— modâ—stâ— worth or ingenuity could expâ—ct or would dâ—sire Yet aâ—tâ—r â—â—fiâ—ite delusions and mutinous Insolencies committed against King Paâ—lâ—amâ—nt and People some impotent and ambâ—tâ—ous Tyrants who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their faces and on their Foreheads in the Army and Commons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice which must speedily be acted by themâ— least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their imployment uselesse as it hath long been burdensome and forceing their Buffe Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles their Hammers their Lasts their Slâ—ngs their Carts and their Flails should quiâ—e defeat those designs of power estate and all licentious profaneness both in Opinions and Practises which their Chief Officers and Levelling sticklers have all this while designed for themselves and their false giddy cruel covetous and unreasonable Faction through that power and influence which by their lyes forceries and hypocrisies they with the help of that mungrel Minister that Military Priest that modern Simon Magus thâ—t disguised Executioner that bloody Butcher of the King H P they have gained upon the Common Souldiery Upon whose simplâ—city and valâ—ur they have presumed tyrannously and trayterouâ—â—y to advance the meer will and pleasure of some Officers in the Army and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons over all the Lawes and Liberties the Lives Estates and Inheritances both of King Prince and People Yet after all these Scenes of various Villanies they have the impudence to glory as if they had done God good service and so extreamly pleased God and the People that they expect all should agree to their Plaâ—dite as if might and right were well met in the Army O you most seared Consciâ—nces you most Râ—bellious Souls against God the King and your own light you most accursed Doersâ— you deaf Adders whether you will hear or wâ—â—ther you will forbear know this That we the Christâ—an people and lâ—yall Subjects of England do in the bitternesse of our Souls declare â—s