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A74878 A brief review of the most material Parliamentary proceedings of this present Parliament, and their armies, in their civil and martial affairs. Which Parliament began the third of November, 1640. And the remarkable transactions are continued untill the Act of Oblivion, February 24. 1652. Published as a breviary, leading all along successiviely, as they fell out in their severall years: so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished. And for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times, which things are brought to passe, that former ages have not heard of, and after ages will admire. A work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity. Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649. Several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. 1652 (1652) Wing V294A; Thomason E693_2; ESTC R206997 57,270 63

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himselfe an unlimited and Tyrannical power to rule according to his will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People yea to take away and make void the foundations thereof and of all redresse and remedy of mis-government which by the fundamentall Constitutions of this Kingdome were reserved on the Peoples behalfe in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parl. or Nationall meetings in Councels He the sad Ch. Stuart for the accomplishment of such his Designes and for the protecting of himselfe and his adherents in His and Their wicked practises to the same Ends hath traiterously and maliciously levyed War against the present Parl. and the people therein Represented Particularly upon or about the 30 day of June in the year of our Lord 1642. At Beverley in the County of York and upon or about the 30 day of July in the yeare aforesaid in the County of the City of York and upon or about the 24 day of August in the same year at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where he sat up His Standard of War and also on or about the 23 day of October in the same year at Edge Hill and Keintonfield in the County of Warwick and upon or about the 30 day of Nov. in the same year at Brainford in the County of Middlesex and upon or about the 30 day of August in the year of our Lord 1643. at Cavesham Bridge neer Redding in the County of Berks And upon or about the 30 day of Octob. in the yeare last mentioned at or near the City of Gloucester and upon or about the 30 day of Nov. in the year last mentioned at Newberry in the County of Berks and upon or about the 31 day of July in the year of our Lord 1644. at Cropredy Bridge in the County of Oxon and upon or about the 30 day of Sep. in the year last mentioned at Bodmin and other places neer adjacent in the County of Cornwall and upon about the 30 day of Nov. in the year last mentioned at Newbery aforesaid and upon or about the 8 day of June in the year of our Lord 1645. at the Town of Leicester a●d also upon the 14 day of the same Moneth in the same year at Naseby field in the County of Northampton At which severall times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at severall other times within the years afore mentioned And in the year of our Lord 1646. He the said Ch. Stuart hath caused and procured many thousands of the free people of the Nation to be slain and by divisions parties and insurrections within this Land by Invasion from forreign parts endeavoured and procured by him and by many other evill wayes andmeans He the said C. Stuart hath not only maintained and carried on the said War both by Land and Sea during the years before mentioned but also hath renewed or caused to be renewed the said War against the Parliament and good people of this Nation in this present year 1648 in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Countries and places in England and Wales and also by Sea and particularly He the said Ch. Stuart hath for that purpose given Commissions to his Son the Prince and others whereby Besides multitudes of other persons many such as were by the Parl. intrusted and imployed for the Nation being by him or his Agents corrupted to the betraying of their trust and revolting from the Parl. have had entertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing of War and Hostility against the said Parl. and people as aforesaid By which cruel and unnatural Wars by him the said Charls Stuart continued and renewed as aforesaid much innocent blood of the Free-people of this Nation hath been spilt many Families have been undone the Publike Treasury wasted and exhausted trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoiled some of them even to desolation And for farther prosecution of his said evill Designes He the said Ch Stuart doth still continue his Commission to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forreigners and to the E. of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further Invasions are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalfe of the said Charls Stuart All which wicked Designes Wars and evil practises of him the said Charls Stuart have been and are carried on for the advancing and upholding of the personall interest of will and Power and pretended Prerogative to himself and his Family against the Publique Interest Common Right Liberty Justice and Peace Of the people of this Nation by and for whom he was entrusted as aforesaid By all which it appeareth That He the said Ch Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Unnaturall cruell and bloody Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murthers Rapines Burnings Desolations Damage and mischief to this Nation acted or committed in the said Wars or occasioned thereby And the said Iohn Cook by Protestation save on the behalf of the people of England the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other charge against the said Ch Stuart and also of replying to the answers which the said Ch. Stuart shall make to the premises or any charge that shall be so exhibited doth for the said Treasons and Crimes on the behalf of the said People of England Impeach the said Ch Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick and implacable enemy to the Common-wealth of England and pray That the said Ch Stuart King of England may be put to answer all and every the Premisses that such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgement may be thereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice The Kings last Speech made upon the Scaffold King I Shall be very little heard of any body here I shall therefore speak a word unto you here indeed I could hold my peace very well if I did not think that holding my peace would make some men think that I did submit to the guilt as well as to the punishment but I think it is my duty to God first and to my Country for to clear my self both as an honest man and a good Christian I shall begin first with my Innocency in troth I think it not very needfull for me to insist long upon this for all the wo●ld knowes I never did begin a War with the two Houses of Parliament and I call God to witnesse to whom I must shortly make an Account that I never did interd for to incroach upon their Priviledges they began upon me it is the Militia they began upon they confest that the Militia was mine but they thought it fit for to have it from me and to be short if any body will look to the dates of Commissions of their Commissions and mine and likewise