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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29139	A true relation of the proceedings, examination, tryal, and horrid murder of Col. Eusebius Andrewe by John Bradshaw, President of the pretended High Court of Justice, and others of the same court published by Francis Buckley ...	Buckley, Francis, Gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4155; ESTC R19632	53,776	80

a man who hath had his hand in blood viz. Mr. Bartin Hazelrigge in a duel for which arraigned c. A person trying viz. a Juror and in this way of Tryal he is such ought to be a freeman viz. not only free in person but in his prejudicating opinion which he is not having published that the respondent was the greatest Traytor in England and that there was enough under his hand to hang him the Respondent Sir William Roe Captain John Stone two of my tryers were imployed to examine the Respondent on the 2. of July 1650. and brought with them all the evidence against him and therefore in their capacity of my triers by the rule in Challenges they are challengeable and incapable to sit The last Will and Testament of Collonel Eusebius Andrewe 14. of August 1650. IF it be the unalterable and uncontrollable will of God that I Eusebius Andrewe Esquire shall for my manifold and high provocations of his Divine Majesty be shipwrackt by that storme which at present impendeth over my head I most humbly and cheerfully submit unto such his good will and pleasure freely and from the bottome of my heart forgiving my betrayers prosecutors and Judges and all other my injurers as I desire him for his Sons my Saviour Christ Jesus sake to forgive me my many and enormous transgressions and do lay down my life though under his present wrath yet with a sober confidence of his reserved favour And desire that my body may be privately interred in the Parish Church of Alhallowes Barkin London as neer as may be to the Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury there with him to expect a joyful Resurrection at the comming of Christ to Judgment of which through his merits and through them only I am right well assured I beseech God to bless my Daughter Matilda Andrewe and to supply unto her what by my improvidence the accidents of the late tempestuous times in which I could not swim to Riches without the drowning of my conscience is in my being taken away become deficient and that he would preserve her from want and dishonor and from being by any evil Counsel or Example led aside into the foul errors of this Nation in matters concerning her Souls health And to that end I hereby give her and the whole world an account of that faith and profession wherein by Gods assistance I shall be found at my death and shall seal with my blood and in which I pray to God she and all my dear friends whom I spare to name because I love them may live and die I renounce all dependance upon the Pope and Church of Rome and that out of a serious consideration of their adulterate errors and doctrines inconsistant with the truth and light of the Gospel and not meerly out of habit as being bred a Protestant nor out of the general noyse now made against them as if all the evil in the Land were from them For so abominable have been the actions of the Presbyterians on the one side and the Sectarians on the other that if I had not both found my conscience and judgment unsatisfied in the the Romish Doctrine and my soul comforted in hope of Gods returning in favour to his late mutilated Church I had long since profest my self a Roman Catholick rather then have submitted to the multiplyed Tyranny of the one or the Babylonish confusion of the other I have hitherto liv'd and resolve by Gods gracious aid to dy a true protestant that is to say a member of that Church and professor of that faith and obedient to that discipline which hath been professed and maintained and exercised in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth King James and Charles the Martyr which I trust God will again restore to its former purity and power I look upon the Presbyterian as upon one whose discipline is inconsistent with and improper for the natural and long habituated Government of this Kingdome and Church and the Author of all this Lands mischeifs in the supplanting that ancient and Apostolical Governance by Bishops and the taking away of the life of the King by exposing him to the madness of the Independent by their first opening the gap to Anarchy and confusion in Church and State by breaking the Golden Chain of either due prerogative I consider the Independent as fire out its place which is alwayes mischievous who hath already given earnest in his making a superstructure upon the Presbyterians basis for his performing the whole work of confusion upon Religion and Law if God prevent not by confounding their politick Councils as much as themselves have done their Fanatick opinions God in his good time put a hook in their nostrils and their Leviathans Of those to whom I am any wayes indebted I ask their pardon it not being my intendment in case God had pleas'd to have preserv'd me from the snare and violence under which I am fallen to have been to my power irresponsible to any I desire such who approve my profession to cover my faults in their charity and to let me be sweet in their memory As for the rest I wish them a seasonable repentance but set no price upon either their opinion or report Vivat Rex currat Lex floreat grex fiat voluntas Dei modo inruinâ meâ EUSEBIUS ANDREWE 14. Aug. 1650. A Letter from a friend to Colonel EUSEBIUS ANDREWE Friend YOu have been long the subject of my prayers now take my councel while I am not able to do what I would accept of what I can I hope I shall not need divert your thoughts from the fears and terrors of death you are too well acquainted with that Monster to shrink at his menaces you know the Statute All men once to die your death is accellerated by the malicious machinations of a bad man under the name of friend if he had not betrayed you a Feaver or other violent disease or 1000. other mischiefs would have done it a few inches of time are cut from your life be not you offended to hasten to your immortality you would have been glad to have been freed from your prison let not your soul be clouded while it hastens to its glory do not look to the next causes of suffering so much as to that providence which orders all things wisely to the glory of his name and the salvation of your soul I attest your own conscience Had you died under the bloody hand of War or in the height and heat of your youthfull aberrations could you have appeared so chearfully before the great Tribunal as now in this time of humiliation and preparation you may May be the unworthy condition of your betrayer works your dispositions to high indignations yet your dear Saviour betrayed by as great a pretender said no more but Dost thou betray me with a kiss Strange way it was then but from that arch-traytors example it s now become familiar Do not