Front of the High Court of Justice as their President and judges him that was the Judge of the Law and now I even tremble to think how I saw him the day of the Kings Tryal in Scarlet with a heart and conscience as deep dyed as his Gown most divilishly inhumanely staining that white innocency of the Kings Majesty with approbrions and wicked language which I dare not mention in this place unless I give occasion of making that sad wound to bleed afresh in the sight of all tender and truly pious Christians This wicked and unparralleld murder was not called to account in his Life but he lives though in a very timerous condition and acts as President to the Councel of State afterwards and hath given him by those who thought that by taking of Gods anointed they did the Devil good service several considerable Revenues both in Hampshire and Cheshire and among the rest lives though not securely in the Deanary of Westminster where for his safeties sake he built his Study on the top of Westminster Abbey higer than the like was ever seen before getting as nigh Heaven as he could whilst he lived as not expecting to come there when he dyed All the time of Olivers short Reign he acted not But the Rump Parliament coming into play again he is again reinstated in his former Presidentship and is made the prime Lord Comissioner of the great Seal of England But Lambert turned out the Parliamen again he raves now like one stark mad flinging out of the room in usury and calling them all Traytors and whilst the Committee of Safety sate he seeing now that all things would make for the Kings interest goes home takes his Bed never comes abroad more his wicked body was tortured wiih many distempers languishing in much pain and misery insomuch that he was often reported and really thought to be dead before he truly was his conscience being seared he repented not of his aforesaid wicked practises and at last this miserable man passed through the aforesaid much afflicted and tormented body to the immediate Judgment of God and no doubt is gone to his place his body was burned in Westminster Abbey The Life of Doctor Dorislavs DOctor Dorislavs formerly a Doctor of the civil by him made the uncivill Law was by an order of this corrupted piece of the Parliament made one of the chief Councel with Mr. Ask and Mr. Cooke to contrive and prepare a charge against the King and very confidently he appears in the Court against him seconding Mr. Cooke in his wicked demanding of Justice against the King This Dr. Dorislavs pleaded that the King ought to answer the Court and not in the least to question their authority which proved his own death at â—ast for not long after he being sent into Holland in the nature of an Agent from the Parliament was stobbed in his lodging in the Hague by some resolute persons who likewise not questioning their own authority resolved to make him a part example of the Kings Murder his body was brought from Holland to Baynards Castle in Thames Street from thence privately interred accompanied with some pretended mourners in Westminster Abbey The Life of Thomas Hammond THOmas Hammond of Surry and of no great fortune there He went out into the Army one of the Life guard of the Earle of Essex and was afterwards made Lieâ—ytenâ—â— Gen. to the traine of Artillery under the Lord Fairfax this Col Hammond afterwards was preferred to have the custody of the King at the Isle of Wight and there not only undutifully but very sawcily and peremptorily behaved himself towards him not suffering the King to have any papers about him but what he would first peruse and when the Parliament made those Votes of non addresses as it hath been credibly reported Letters were write to this Col. Hammond by Oliver Cromwell who found that nothing could be done in their own affaire till the King were taken off that he should either remove the King out of the way or prison him by one means or other Upon which Mr. Osborn then being in the Country writs a letter to the House that Major Rolfe had confest that such a Letter was written to Hammond to the aforesaid purpose but that Hammond had a good allowance for keeping the King and therefore would not do it because he would not loose his allowance and desired the said Mr. Osborn to joyn with him in conveighing the King to some private place and then they would do with him what they pleased This business was strangely hudled up in the House the Army party therein arguing that Osborn was a Malignant and no notice was fit to be taken of his words others said that the Examination of the business was a Malignant design to draw Col. Hammond to this Town that so the King might make his escape in the Cols absence But although the business was then husht up yet Mr. Osborne and others offered to confirme the design and that Rolfe was appointed to pistol the King but still they endeaver to abscond the truth Rolfe is sent up by Col. Hammond with letters to the House and therein denies the business and although the thing appeared plain notwithstanding Rolfe with a trembling voice not halfe loud enough to make a satisfactory answer pleads at the House Bar that there wâ—s no such thing he was suddainly conveyed out of the way by the Army Hammond was never so much as questioned Presently after the design being carried on for the Kings Murther this Col. Hammond presents to the House a Scandalous libel called the Agreement of the people which contained nothing else but a desire of the Kings tryal and a subversion of the ancient Laws of the Land which was ordered to be printed although not a hundred part of the people had not the least thought thereof And the next thing is the bringing the King to his tryal in Westminster Hall instead of the pretended making him a glorious King and bringing him home to his Parliament and this Col. Hammond contrary to the advice and to the great greife of Dr. Hammond appeared as one of the Kings Judges and afterwards became one of the great promotets of the Tyrannical usurper and in the year 1654. When Oliver took the Protectorship upon him Col. Hammond is sent into Ireland as one of the Privy Counsel of that Nation Charles Fleetwood was made Lord Deputy and Milts Corbet Câ—l Thomâ—â—son c. were made of the same Councell wâ—â—â— him for Oliver durst not trust such near him who had so lately betrayed the King as conceiving they would do the like by him but Col. Hammond being landed at Dublin his Councelship was soon ended For before a fortnight was ended he dyed of a spotted Feaver there very suddenly and unexpectedly dying senecless and therefore no accompt can be given whether he repented of that horrid murther or no Fleetwood and his factious crew gave him
to go along with him which he did and as he pretended at that time not knowing his design But coming with him into the Parliament-house and observing the disorder he put them into by reason of his intention to dissolve them he began to think that those Members intended to perpetuate themselves and that there were others whom he said God would finish his work by and hereupon he sided with Cromwell commanding the Speaker to come out of his Chair but he said he would not come out unless he were pull'd out to which Harrison said Sir I will lend you my hand which the Speaker giving him he came out of his Chair and so that piece of a Parliament were then interrupted But Cromwell now seeing the way was layd open for himself to usurp and having kill'd to take possession puts Harrison upon the work of dissolving that mock Parliament which being done they now contrive which way to call such a Parliament as would do what they pleased and this was that which was called the praying Parliament of which Praise-God Barebone was a Member These were not chosen by the Countrey but by Cromwell and Harrison but after they â—ad played with the Goveâ—â—ment â—wo or three months these were â—ikewise in like manner dissolved And now these two stand in competition who should be greatest in â—his earthly Kingdom But Cromwell having an Over-vote with the Officers of the Army gets the head â—f Harris n and will either make â—im bow to his designs or break â—im in pieces which Harrison refuâ—ing to do lays down his Commission and Command together and â—as ever after the Usurpers Prisoâ—er being carried from Castle to Castle through most parts of the Nation like an exiled Malefactor â—n which condition he continued for â—ome years untill he was released â—y the Rump Parliament whom â—otwithstanding he would not acâ—nowledg but looks for the immediate Reign of our Saviour upon the â—arth There was little more observable in the passages of his Life but what were immediate forerunners of his Death Maj. G. Lambert having made an escape from the Tower had pre-engaged some factious persons in the Countrey of which this Harrison was one to raise Forces against the King who was now voiced in most parts of the Nation to be returning home But Harrison was taken in the very point of time wherein he intended to have headed a Party and was brought Prisoner to the Tower of London where he continued some months before he was arraigned in the Old Baily He being brought to the Bar seemed to flight and unconcern himself in the Tryal his Conscience being feared was not at all penitent for being instrumental in shedding the innocent bloud of that pious Prince But saying That although other Kings had been privately assassinated yet what he had done was in â—â—e face of the Sun and in the fear 〈◊〉 the Lord. He was found guilty â—y his Jury and was condemn'd to â—e hang'd drawn and quartered On Saturday the 13 day of October â—e was brought from New-gate conâ—ucted by a Troop of horse and some 〈◊〉 the Trained Bands and attended â—y the Sheriffs Officers being drawn â—n a Sledg through the streets to â—hairing-Cross where a Gallows was â—â—ected for his execution All the â—ay as he went he endeavoured to â—iscover to the world the undaunâ—edness of his spirit by the smiles of â—is countenance which notwithâ—aÌ„ding would not do for he betrayed 〈◊〉 himself much fear by an agony of â—wet and the more than ordinary â—â—embling and shaking of his â—oynts Being come to the Gallows he â—scended the Ladder where he â—pake to the following effect That all that had been done in the late War was by the strange and wonderful Providence of Almighty God That all the Windings and Turnings that had been seen in the late Changes had been ordered and contrived by the same Providence That by this Providence he was drawn in to be an unhappy Instrument in the Kings Death And the same all wise-disposing Providence had brought him to that End After he had spake a little time to the same purpose he went to Prayers and then began to make himself ready for the Executioner He bare up his spirits as much as could be to flight Death having taken a strong Cordiall in the morning to that purpose His last words were That now he was going to the Lord Jesus and should at the last Day come again with him iâ— Glory to judg the Kings and Princes of the Earth and those that haâ— been his Judges He was not so much thrown off the Ladder by the Executioner but went as readily off himself After which the sentence was executed upon him his members were cut off and with his bowels burnt his Head was severed from his body and on Tuesday following set on Westminster-Hall Gate and his four Quarters were ordered to be set upon the Gates of the City of London Thus ended He that did betray Hâ—s King and Countrey made a prey Of Law and Gospel and did spend His chiefest skill to puâ— an end To Kingly Power and throw down Both the Kings â—itle and his Crown The Life of Colonel Iohn Iones COllonel John Jones came of mean Family in Wales was 〈◊〉 man of no repute before thâ— Warre he was sent up to Londoâ— to be an Apprentice but was plâ—ced as a Serving-man to a Gentlâ— man and afterwards was preferred to Sir Thomas Middleton Lorâ— Mayor of London with whom hâ— lived many years in the said capacity but the Warres comming on hâ— like the rest thought it would bâ— good fishing in troubled waters hâ— went forth at the beginning of thâ— Warres a Captain of foot and bâ— his factious principles which at thaâ— time was the only way to get into preferment he was taken notice of and was countenanced and advanced by the Cromwelian party by reason whereof he was chosen a Parliament man in an absent place and by degrees came to be made Governour of Anglesey in North Wales and several other successive imployments And now the same party thirsting after the blood of the King this John Jones is made a chief instrument in prosecuting that horrid Murther and an eminent blood-hound in pursuing this innocent game he set his hand to the Act for constituting that Court of Injustice and likewise signed and sealed that black warrant for the Execution for which service he gained more and more in the esteem of those wretched men and was suddenly after sent with Corbet Ludlow c. one of the Commissioners of Parliament so called for the Government of Ireland iâ— which place it is admirable to thinâ— with what state and tyranny he caâ—ryed himself persecuting all thaâ— were contrary to his principles taking up old Laws concerning thâ— brewing of Beer and Ale and puâ—ting them in execution with rigour plaguing all the houses in Dubliâ— that sold drink and not suffâ—rinâ— any one to be in any publique imployment that was seen to go intâ— an
pitch on a fitter man unto whom to direct that wicked Warrant for to see the Kings murther performed That morning this horrible act was to be committed Cromwel sends for this Hacker with Col. Phaire and Col. Huncks and would have those three to sign a Sub Warrant for the Kings murther the last two refused but Col. Hacker subscribes to whatsoever Cromwel himself had Written for that purpose This Col. Hacker likewise by virtue of the said unwarrantable Warrant from that High Court of Injustice goes to Col. Thomlinson who had then the custody of the Kings person and demands the King from him carries him in the middest of his own Regiment through St. James Park conducts him through the Gallery to the Banqueting House and from thence brings him upon the Scaffold and there stands according to his pretended Warrant to see that bloody and unparaleld Execution Afterwards he continues in the Army sides with all parties that have the Government and was a Col. in the Army at the very time when the King came home and being seized and examined in order to find out the mystery of this Regicide he vvas sent to the Tower of London and shortly after vvith the rest brought to his Tryal His Tryal vvas very short in regard he could not deny the aforesaid actions of his in that unparaleld business and being asked by the Court to whom he directed his Sub warrant to strike the fatal blow he answered that he did not know for Cromwel bid him write somthing and bid him put his hand to it but whose hand he put in for that purpose he could not tell This being all his plea he was soon brought in guilty likewise And on Friday following he vvas drawn from Newgate on a Hurdle to Tyburn vvhere he spake very little for himself onely left the vvhole business of prayer to be carried on by Col. Axtel vvho performed it for them both after vvhich being ended he vvas onely hanged and being cut down he vvas put in a Heâ—se vvhich was there brought to carry bâ—ck his Body his Son hath begged the same from the King vvho granted him his Fathers body vvithout quartering and accordingly buried the same in the City of London As for Quarter Master William Hewleâ— in regard that though he be Condemned yet is Reprieved in order to a clear discovery of this wicked act I shall leave his Character and Description to the time when Justice shall likewise make him an Example for putting on a Vizor on his Faces and a Frock on his Body for such a horrid purpose There are eighteen more Condemned viz. Sir Hard ess Waller William Hevenningham Isaac Pennington Hen. Ma tin Gilbert Millington Roâ—ert Titch urn Owen Roe Robert Lilbuâ—n Henâ—y Smith Edmund Harvey John Dowâ—s Vincent Potter Augustine Gaâ—land George Fleetwood Simoâ— Mâ—yne Thomas Wâ—it James T mple Peter Temple of whom I think nâ—t convenient to write â—ny thiâ—g of their lives til I shall be prepared to give an account alâ—o of the manner of their deaths These are close prisoners in the Tower of London till the pleasure of the Parliament shall be declared concerning them Several others there are viz. William Say John Barkstead Sir Michael Livesly Miles Corâ—et Thomas Woogan Mr. Love Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Eâ—ward Denby John Dixwel Thomas Challoâ—er John Lâ—sle William Cawley John Okey Will. Goff John Hewson Valentine Wanton Ed Whaley Edw. Ludlow Cor. Holland Who vvander about the World as Vagabons like Cain vvith they cry of blood at their Heels vvho at last vvill â—o question be found out by the All searching hand of divine Justice and brought to receive a condigne punishment fâ—r their horrible Treason of whom also in time we shall give you a more perfect account And thus I conclude the story of these few wretched and miserable Traytors whose Limbs are set up as Lots Wife 's Pillar of Salt the remarkable examples of the Almighties just punishment that thus would imbrew their hands in the Sacred blood of his own Anointed which was so far a Deicide as Kings are called Gods upon the Earth and which ought to be the prayers of all truly Christianized That God would cleanse the City and Nation from the guilt of that precious blood so inhumanely and unchristianly shed as before sail and keep these Nations from Rebellion and privy Conspiracy from all false Doctrine and Heresie that no Jesuitical plots from abroad or Anabaptistical or Schismatical consultations at home may he ever able to raise Sedition in the people or distâ—â—â— the peace of the King The Life of Henry Ireton HEnry Ireton Son-in-Law to Oliver Cromwell a man full of wicked policy and contrivance and his Fathers chief Councellour and second in all his undertakings he arives at Comisary Gene. in the Army very factious in his Principles and a great encourager of all that were such A great Promoter of the Kings Death one that stood in the margent of Olivers enterprize in that wicked murder he was not only of the High Court of Justice but took upon him with Major Gen. Harison c. the appointing of the time place and manner of the Kings Execution After which he goes over with his Father Cromwell into Ireland and by him is left Lord Deputy thereof here he made victorious in the reducing of many Garisons there and at last sets down before Limerick which Siege was the last that ever he made for not long after the surrender of that City he dyed of the Plague his Death was very suddain and strange to the Army but however he was sent into England carryed to Summerset House where his Father mocks his Body with that vain glory which himself had often declared against and a Funeral in great state is made by the Army interring him among the Kings of England and Iretons Wife Oliver Cromwels own Daughters ordered by her Fathers means 2000 pound in money and 2000 pound per Annum out of the Land of Goran in Ireland being of the Lands belonging to the Marquess of Ormond which he hath now repossed again according to an Act of Parliament made in that behalf Oliver erects a Tomb for this victorious Sectarian Champion with his Effigies and his Wifes lying by him in King Henry the sevenths Chappel which is since ignominiously broken down and no footstep lest of his remembrance in that royal and stately memorial of our English Kings and his name is now as rotten as his Carcass perished through the wickedness of his bloody Life The Life of John Bradshaw JOhn Bradshaw borne in Cheshire and better sure it had been if he had nere been born a man although brought up in that honourable practice of the Law yet a shameful and most wicked destroyer of the very foundation and corner stone thereof he was made Judge of the County Palatine of Chester and afterwards of the Sheriffes Court in Guild-hall London and from thence most auda tiously and impudently he appears in the
Francis Allen. FRancis Allen a Citizen and Gold Smith of London and Lived Over against St. Dunstans Church neer Temple Bar was a great stickler against the King and one that had no way to improve his now decaying Estate but by siding with the rising Sectaries by which means he was made one of the Commissiâ—ners for their Customs and a Trustee for Sale of the Lands of the Bishops Deans and Chapters And the time coming on wherein his Soveraignes bloud was to be spilt he appears a forward Designer of that wicked Act and accepts very readily of the imployment of one of the Kings Judges where he appeared every day to propagate the Murther and was a great encourager of others to doe the same He likewise Signed to the warrant for the Execution and was ever after a continued Rumper and a great enemy of Olivers because he dissolved them and I think it will not be unseasonable to insert in this place part of a mock hymn which was made pretendedly by Mr. John Goodwin although onely a Jeer made in imitation of the like Drollery which he made and caused to be Sung in his Church Then spake one Allen of the City at which we gave a shout Who said indeed it was great pitty we should be thus turn'd out But Cromwell answered him again and said t' was such as he That were the Spunges of the land and now must squezed be Which indeed in some case was not said amisse for he arrived at a very vast estate by being a Customer and one of the Treasurers for sale of the King Queen and Princesse Lands at VVorcester house and of the lands belonging to the pretended Delinquents at the Lord Cravens House in Drury lane besides he compassed a considerable Estate out of the Lands of the Bishop of Chester at a very inconsiderable rate He dyed much about the time with Oliver Cromwell at his assumed house at Fox-hall and presently after him dyed his Wife also leaving their illegal and ill-gotten Estate to his Brother Deputy Allen a Herald Painter in London whose Heirs I doubt will have little cause to glory in it The Life of Thomas Andrewes ALderman Thomas Andrewes was at first a Linnen Draper upon Fish-street hill but improved his Estate better by the times then by his Trade for which purpose he was made a Treasurer for Plate Money and one of the Treasurers at War for which he received three pence per pound he was likewise one of the Commissioners for the Customes and with his brother Allen was likewâ—se one of the Treasures for sale of the Lands of the late King Queen and Prince c. These imployments being gainfull to him made him take any course to maintaine and propagate the power by which he received them whereupon he sides with the Kings Murtherers and appears at that Court as one of his Judges and at last signes likewise the Warrant for Execution And now having had a hand in the King's bloud he is resolved to blot out the Name thereof For in the year 1649. Alderman Reynoldson Lord Mayor of London in whose Mayoralty an Act was set on foot for the abolishing of Kingly Government and for the declaring our now Soveraigne then Prince a Traytor which was Ordered to be proclaimed in the City of London But honest Alderman Reynoldson refused to be present at that wicked Proclamation and publiquely and plainly told them he would not publish any such thing and for such his denyal was fyned two thousand pounds and three months Imprisonment yet notwithstanding this Alderman Andrews accepts of the place of Maior in his absence proclaimes the Act against Kingly Government and serves out the remaining part of Alderm Reynoldson's Government as if he had been legally chosen to doe the same and the next yeare succeeding was chosen himselfe by the City Lord Mayor of London He arrived at very little notice afterwards unlesse a Knighthood from the Protector which he but little while enjoyed although he was a principal Man at the proclaiming Richard Cromwell after the Usurpers Death He had very many Children most of his Sons got their Estates in Imployments under him but never lived to enjoy them for to his continued grief he was hardly out of Mourning for one before he had occasion to mourne for the losse of another At last a Suit of law coming upon him for a wrongfully detain'd sum of money which he injuriously kept in his hands of another Mans he dyed suddenly full of years in the Year 1659. and had he lived a Yeare longer three that had been Lord Maiors of London in Twenty years time had held up their hands at the same Barre where they had Condemned many Wretched persons which had not so much deserved it as themselves The Life of Col. John Venn COl John Venn was a Citizen of London likewise and as I have heard a decaying Tradsman he was taken notice of for his more then ordinary forwardnesse against the Kings interest when the Wars increased his Factious Principles increased too by reason whereof he was made Governour of VVindsor where he had the opportunity to encrease his Estate not onely by the Plunder of the Countrey thereabouts but by getting into his possession much of the Kings houshold stuff Hangings Linnen c. He was a chief Consultator with the wicked Councel of the Army at VVindsor and gave his Vote among them to Murther the King Mr. Christopher Love afterwards Martyr'd Chaplaine to his Regiment who instructed him in better Principles then he afterwards profest and about the year 1645 or 1646 this Col. Venn took a house in Aldersgate-street London for the onely reason that he might be near unto Mr. Love who then preached at St. Annes Church Aldersgate not far from Venns Lodging and about the year 1647 this professed Religious Collonel being to remove from thence to a place called Brumley near Kensington by reason of which distance he could not enjoy as he pretended the benefit of Mr Lov 's soul searching preaching whereupon he hired the Author of this small Treatise to be a constant Hearer of M. Love and to take his Sermons in Short-writing who made it his businesse all the weeke following to transcribe them again into a legible hand whereby what Mr. Love preach'd one Sunday at St. Anns was the next Sunday re-preach'd by Col. Venn in his own Family And yet this wretched Man acts contrary even to these Principles in the year 1648 he forsook both Mr. Love and his Religion too and sides with the then prevailing factious party and is nominated one of the Judges of the King who by this time they had contrived to put to Death to the great affliction and more then ordinary trouble of spirit of Mr. Love Finally he was one of the Judges of the King and most impudently sate among them he signed likewise to that blacke Authority that caused that unheard of Execution and lastly he proved a great enemy to
Mr. Love whom formerly he so earnestly thirsted after and would not appeare to helpe him either in his Imprisonment Confinements or Death But at last he himselfe was not much regarded The judgements of God followed him in a troubled Conscience and at last going to Bed very well with his wife he was found dead by her the next morning no persons that were with him that night nor his wife that lay by him being in the least sensible of his approaching end The Life of Sir William Constable SIR VVilliam Constable was one of those who appeared eminently against Kingly power he was a Colonel in the Parliaments Army and a great Sider with the Sectarian part thereof his Estate was engaged for Debt and he knew no way to recover his Decays but by saying and doing as those wretches commanded He sold his Estate to Sir Marmaduke Langdale for twenty thousand pounds and afterwards beggs it againe of the Parliament for that as he said Sir Marmaduke Langdale was a Delinquent and so his Estate was in their Dispose his thus decay'd fortune made him side with the Conspirers of the King's Death and he was one of his Judges and set his Hand and Seal for taking away the Life of the King and did as much as in him lay for transplanting and removing the very Name memory thereof He died in the Reigne of the last usurping Tyrant that I pray England may ever have The Life of Sir John Danvers SIR John Danvers was a Collonel in the said Army was Brother to the Earle of Danby who he proved to be a Delinquent in that Rump-Parliament whereby he might overthrow his will and so compasse the Estate himselfe he sided likewise with the Sectarian party was one of the King's Judges and lived afterwards some years in his sin without repentance But drawing near to his Death I have cause to believe that he repented of the wickednesse of his Life for that then Mr. Thomas now Dr. Fuller was conversant in his Family and preached severall times at Sir John Danver's desire in Chelsey Church where I am sure all that frequented that Congregation will say he was instructed to repent of his misguided and wicked Consultations in having to doe with the Murther of that just Man He died but how I cannot give an account and hath no Question received his Judgement The Life of Isaac Ewer ISaac Ewer began his Estate with the Wars and increased therein according to the successe thereof he was a Colonel at Colchester Siege and there was at the Councell of War upon Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle he was one of the Kings Judges Signed the Warrant for the Murther afterwards went with Cromwell into Ireland he was at that unheard of bloudy Quarter which was given to 4000 five hundred accomplisht Men at Tredagh in Ireland where none in Armes escaped their Murther although many of them laid down their Armes upon promise of their lives which notwithstanding they Murthered he was afterwards at the Siege of Clonmel in Ireland and from thence at Waterford where the Town being taken he died suddenly after of the Plague and was there buried The Conclusion ANd thus you see how Evil pursued these wicked Men who thus thirsted after the bloud of their Soveraign Nay I say of one of the most Pious Princes as ever Ruled the English Scepter A King who had no other fault but his too much Clemency wherewith his nature did abound whose Piety was as Transcendent as his Clemency immoveable as the Rock which neither the unruly VVaves of Sedition impetuously breaking thereupon nor the Boysterous and Irresistable winds of persecution could work into the least complyance or disturb in his resolved stedfastness one that like the Palme Tree that could flourish with the greater splendor by how much he was Prest with ponderous inconveniences and with our Saviour could bear the Crosse with as much ease as he did his Crown and improve his Afflictions to the right use for which God Originally intended them he could Spurne at the Glittering Glory of an Earthly Crown and handling Christs Crown of Thornes could by the eye of Faith discern an immortal and eternal Crown of Glory His Patience under Gods Afflicting hand was like that of St. Paul's farre above all that the world could doe to abuse it and not only so but rejoycing in his Tribulation also The Imprisonment of his Body could not in the least confine his mind but rather give the greater advantages to his heavenly Soul for nearer and more desired converses with the King of Kings No undutiful or unhandsome usage which he received from the meanest of his People could Aggravate him into any passionate reflections or exasperate above the degree of his sweet and complacent Temper he could not be wrought beyond the bounds of his reason although he had to do with unreasonable Men nor was ever heard to use any expressions of Gaul and Wormwood towards those that gave him Gaul and Vinegar to Drink he blessed those that cursed him he prayed for those that persecuted him and he desired that those who would not suffer him to live with them in his Earthly Kingdome might be received with him into the Capacious Kingdome of Heavenly Glory His Charity was as Vniversall as that required from a Vniversal Christian viz. To the greatest and most eminent of his forward Adversaries to those who spit in his Face he desired that their Faces might shine with the Vnction of the Spirit and others who Vilifyed him with crying out Justice and Execution against him he prayed that their sinne might be forgiven and that they might not receive that Justice upon themselves which they called for unjustly to be Executed upon him Nay and further he did often declare that he did as freely forgive all the world with as much freedom as he did hope to be forgiven and named one particular person among the rest saying viz. I forgive Miles Corbet too One who made it the greatest â—f his study to stretch abused law Arguments against the King and aggravating the Kings demanding Justice against the Five Members with all the exasperating circumstances imaginable which was the chief Original cause of the future civil and unhumane Bloudshed yet our most Pious and charitable Prince had charity even for this Man His moderation was known unto all men far above all mortal rules or observations take him which way you will either as Man a Christian or a KING and in all three you shall find him to abound in his moderation his private Life as a Man was above the reach of envy to Tax him with any thing that might Blot or Staine his blamelesse conversation His Christianity caused him to comply with the Peevish Precipitate Distempers of the times hoping thereby to allay that furious Fire which broke out among the Giddy headed People And this our Gracious Soveraigne throwing the water of his compassionate Christianity thereon to quench it it proved like water cast on Lime burn'd and smoak't with the greater Violence His Kingly moderation far exceeded the other two for he Stooped and Condiscended even to things below himself that he might let all the wâ—rld see his readinesse to comply with any thing that might gratifie their distempered and infatuated frenzy which though nothing could do he yet retained his aforesaid serious and moderate temper and having at that time to deal with a contradicting and gainsaying People he moderately contrives all things as much as in him lay to reconcile and make up their ruined and irrecoverable Breaches And lastly His moderate Diet his temperance in all other affairs his constancy to his Queen his fixed Religion his heavenly Inclinations his continued Devotions his melting Clemeny and his abused Charity do all like so many Foiles shew the blacknesse of that Barbarous Action of Butchering such a Pious Prince the parallell of whom cannot be Sampled among the now Peaceable Kings of the Earth In a word His very Enemies could give him no worse a caracter then what is contained in this dimidium of his reall worth which is represented but in dead colours which no dâ—ubt but a more curious Pen will represent to it's lively Species Some have said as Cornet Joyce that if ever King of England went to Heaven our Glorious Martyr King Charles did who laid down his Life and rather would loâ—â— his Prerogative then the People shouâ—â— loose their Priviledge Oliver Croâ—well himself said that he was a vnwise and Pious Man but that he wiâ—â—Vnfortunate in his War And Cook said he was Wise and a Graciouâ— Prince but that he must Dye and Monarchy with him And this was he whom these miserable Men Sentenced to Death as a Murtherer and a Traytor whom Divels must acknowledge as one whose pure conversation might cause his Name to be Registred in the Calanders of the Sainted Martyrs valuing not so much his own as the Lives and Safeties of his People A Gentleman standing at his sad interment threw this Distick into the Vault Non Carolus magnus nec Carolus quintus Sed Carolus Agnus hic Jacet intus FINIS