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A85844	The bloody court, or, The fatall tribunall being a brief history and true narrative of the strange designs, wicked plots, and bloody conspiracies carryed on by the most sordid'st, vile, and usurping tyrants in these late years of oppressions, tyranny, martyrdome and persecutions ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G343A; ESTC R225669	13,587	18

Rendevous and in the head of the Army to Declare against it in the mean while he resolved to pot to the High Court of Iustice and stop all their Procéedings against the King Therefore he sought for his Lieutenant General Cromwel and ●●ding him told him he was much troubled and unsatisfied in his mind about the proceedings of the ●ich Court of Iustice against the ●●ng and therefore came on purpose to ve●●●e t●●● to prec●ed no further until the House ●●tiand sate again Crom●el told his General That he also had the same trouble upon his spirit concerning the saving of the Kings life they were now about his lift he did confess and what to do he knew not onely 〈◊〉 said he saw God answeting their prayers and going before their ●●●e●ts They had sought God by Fading and those of ●c●nt●●● opinion had sought God by Fasting but God seemen to cross their prayers and they seemed meaning the Presbiterians to him to he in the dark and deserted Let us therefore said he as we have seen the Providence of God answering our prayers hitherto when we have sought him so let us before we pro●●●● any further in such a weighty business goe first to God in prayer and wait ●●rth●●s God may be seen in his Providence whilest we are at prayer the General was content to use all pious means Hereupon Cromwel stops the General from prohibiting the Court of Iustice to proceed any 〈◊〉 against the King until prayer was done in the mean time Cromwel privately sends Ireton from White-hall to the Painted Ch●●●● to them there drawing up the Sentence to ●●nish it Seal it and ●●●thwith disperse themselves whilest Ireton goes Cromwel keeps the General at prayer and holds him there 〈◊〉 than upon his knows almost two hours till Ireton returned again and th●● Cromwel who prayed all that while drew to a conclusion Cromwel pretending now in all haste to goe to the Court of Iustice to stop procéedings against the King was told by Ireton in the Generals hearing that they had signed the Sentence against the King and were then even then newly broke up and gone to their several homes Cromwel pretended that this was immediate Providence and an eminent and gracious return of prayer and we ought not in any wise said he but to admire and be silent and wait upon the Providence of God and sée what the issue will be for certain it must be glorious when it comes in the Arms of prayer With such and such Saint ●●●e ●ror●ssions did by cozen the honest General and made him return fru●trate of his purpose under pretence of using holy means to attain his own purpose Cromwel by this Religions cheat haring put the business past recalling pretended to those Ladies and Gentlewomen that solicited him about the preservation of 〈◊〉 Kings life That none was s● desirous to save the King as he and therefore gave out that the worst they should 〈◊〉 to him was onely to bring him on the Scaffold to ●er●●●● him that he might yeeld to those things that wer● for the good of the Kingdome● Thus the Officers of the Army had leave to tell their Souldiers and ●hen thought no otherwise as they solemaly vowed and swore afterwards But to the H●●ory in order as it lieth January the 27th being Saturday the H●●h Court of Iustice as ●●e called themselves met and now Bradshaw had got on his Red●coat and 〈◊〉 he comes attended with 67 of is party that sate with him a ●angst whom were those two Sons of Perdition Cromwel and Ireton The King came from Sir Robert Cotton 's house G●●rded with Souldiers and the Mace before him when he came into the Court and turned himself about looks down the Hall and every way about him the Souldiers who were now taught a new Lesson cryed out Execution Execution in the Kings Ears to astonish him with the horrid thoughts of sadden death The King perceiving by the Red Gown on Bradshaws back and by the cry of the Souldiers that they intended that day to pass their Sentence of Death on him desired to be heard and the rather because it did conduce excéeding much to the good of the Kingdom for the peace of it and the good of the People in it which he protested he aime● at more then his own particular good Therefore he desired to be heard before they passed Sentence on him before the Lords and Commons in the Pain●ed Chamber there he had something to say to them which ●ap●y concerned both and that which would be worth the hearing it not he gave them leave to be the Iudges and lay the blame on him However such a delay he said could not be prejudicial to them and this demand he thought being it so much concerned the well-fare of the Kingdom and the life of a King it might easily be granted him but it they refused to grant him this reasonable request he would protest against them as men that were not reall for the Liberty of the Subject and Peace of the Kingdom The Court withdrew for half an hour and then returned again with this Answer to the King That they had been too long delayed by him already and therefore notwithstanding all the profers of Peace to the Kingdom and Liberty to the Subject they were resolved to proceed to Sentence and Judgement The King professed it was the Kingdoms welfare and peace more e●en his own life that he look 〈◊〉 at chasfly and a delay of a day or two ●●●th●r night give Peace to the Kingdom whereas an hast● I idgement way bring that trouble to the Kingdom which the Child anbo●a ●●ay repent it And therefore said the King I do again out of their duty 〈◊〉 o●● to God and my Countrey desire that I may be heard by the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber to this Bradshaw the President replyed This was but that he had said before and therefore the Court desired to hear what he would say before they did procéed to ●entence this I say said the King that if you will hear me I do not doubt to give satisfaction to you and to my People and therefore 〈◊〉 do ●e q●●re you as you will ad●●●er it at the Dreadful day of Iudgment that you will consid●r it once again The Lord onely knowes what th● King had to say to them but it was doubt●●l● something of great importance and that which lay within his Breast which he would f●●● h●●ve r●ve●led before he died but these unreasonable any Bloody-mi●ded men whose onely design was to drink his innocent Blood would not hear him but after they ha● expro●●hed him called him the greatest of Tyrants and used many Blasphemens Speeched against him caused a Bold Fellow to stand us and read a Sentence which was to sever the Royal Head of Charles Stewart King of England Scotland France and Ireland from his Body After it was read said Bradshaw standing up this is the Sentence and Iudgement of

the whole Court at which the Court stood up Cromwel and Ireton rising up the two formost and readiest in the Court though they knew themselves the very hinderers of the setiing the peace of the Kingdom and the chief causers of the Kings ruine in disswading him from Treating with the Commissioners of shoth Kingdoms The King after Sentence stood up vo speak but Bradshaw told him that after the Sentence he might not speak neither w●u'd he hear him but gave command to the Go●rd to withdraw the Passoner The King said that he might speak after Sentence and then he would have spoke but the ●a●rd opened the B●r where they put the King and Bradshaw rese to depart so that they sleighted the Kings words Whereupon the King turning himself to come forth said If I your King an●●ot suffered to speak for my self what Justice can my People expect to have These were the last words the King spoke in Westminster-hall as the King passed from the C urt through the Souldiers the Souldiers with a loud shout tryed Execution Execution and with such fierceness that I which steed neat the King tren●bled with fear least they would have Murdered him in the H●ll but it séems it was but to fright him and distemper his well-composed Spirit This was the hurry of all about him immediately after the Sentence Is the King condemned What Is he now going to his Execution Is it to night or the morrow morning Thus they tryed in his Ears on purpose to am … him some they say reviled and mocked him and others with indignation spit upon him yet was he not disturbed in his Soul so much as to tread one foot awry or to show the least discontent in his Majestick and Royal countenance He was carried from Sir Robert Cottons to St. James where he had the liberty of his Chaplain allowed him who spent that last Sabbath of his on Earth with much comfort and joy together all that Holy day he spent in Holy Meditations as Hearing Reading and Praying and trimming up his Celestial Spouse his Soul for her Celestial Bridegroom which he every hour looked for The Lords Day being done he spent the most part of the long night in Devout Prayer never putting of his cloaths a worthy Lady told me that a Souldier which Giarded him by stealth heard the King alone at Prayer who prayed so sweetly so fervently and so charitably that he thought if ever any King had communion with God on Earth it was he he did confess his sin and his Families and Peoples in with much debasedness of Spirit and prayed heartily for Remission and for those his Persecutors pardon and for establishing of the true Protestant Religion After this manner spent he the night The next morning being very desirous to see his Children that were in England with much ado they were permitted to go to visit their imprisoned and condemned Father At this time they 〈…〉 through the Kingdom in a Pamphlet that the Presbyterian Ministers such as Mr. Calamy Mr. Case Mr. Love Mr. Jenkins c. that they were content to have the King Tryed Condemed and Deposed but not Beheaded 〈◊〉 I suppose that same malicious knaves or ignorant fools brought 〈◊〉 his for 〈◊〉 saying That the Presbyterians brought his Neck to the Block and the Independents cut it off but the 〈…〉 did that 〈…〉 themselves and 〈◊〉 Hugh Peters's Sermon of binding Kings in chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron and 〈…〉 the Imiprisoning Trying 〈◊〉 and going about to Behead the King The Lady Elizabeth and the Duke of G●ocester being come to weep in their condemned Royal Fathers B●some the King with pleasant countenance and voice blessed them and 〈…〉 speaking thus to the Lady Elizabeth SWeet heart I am glad you are come for though I have not time to say m●e● to you yet I have that to say to you which I have not to say or leave in writing with another for you for su●● is their cruelty toward me that they will not permit me to write to you nor any of my children The King s●●ing the sorrowful young L●dy weep most ●it●er●y ●nd torment her s●lf wit● grief he out of pity to her sa●● I pray thee do n●t grieve nor torment thy self for me for though I shall be put to Death to morrow yet the Death that I shall dye will be a Glorio is Death for I dye for the Lawes of my Kingdome and the Libertie of my People and the maintainance of the true Protestant Religion in which I would have you well grounded and therefore admonish you to read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiasticall Policie and Bishop Lands book against Fisher which will ground you against Popery I have this day forgiven all mine Enemies and I hope God will forgive them and I do command you and all the rest of your Brothers and Sisters to forgive them and tell my dear Wife your Mother that my thoughts have never straied from her but she hath alwayes been next my heart and my love shall be the same to her to my last minute I charge you and your Brother to be obedient to her and be sure to love your Brothers and Sisters to whom I would have you send my Blessing with commendation to all my Friends And my dear Daughter God Almighty preserve thee from all my Enemies whom I charge you to forgive but never to trust them for they have been most false to me and false to the Parliament that intrusted them and I ●ear to their own Souls and now thou art parting with thy Father my dear Daughter do not goe away grieving from me for though I dye I shall dye a Martyr and I doubt not but the Lord will settle my Son in my Throne for which I am this day thrown and and you my children will be more happy then you could expected to have been if I had lived All this and much more he said to the Lady Elizabeth instructing the young Duke his Son to learn betimes to serve and fear the Lord and he would provide for him It would have drawn water out of a Rocke-heart to have seen the sad parting of this Solitary Condemned Imprisoned King and his dear Children The poor Lady went away wéeping not onely Tears but Blood and Blood in great abundance so that the Physitians concluded that she would bléed to Death The King sadly parting with his beloved Children for they parted never to fée each other more he forth with betook himself to private o●●●es knowing the time of his departing out of this World drew on apace not having many hours more to live this night also he spent its trimming up his Lamp for to meet his Bridegroom who was near at hand not putting off his cloaths all night he altogether neglected his body for the good of his precious soul The next morning as if the day of Iudgement had béen co●ue they awaked him with a Trumpet not to tell him the Resurrection

The Bloody Court OR The Fatall Tribunall BEING A brief History and true Narrative of the strange Designs wicked Plots and Bloody Conspiracies carryed on by the most sordid'st vile and Usurping Tyrants in these late Years of Oppressions Tyranny Martyrdome and Persecutions DISCOVERING I. The Poysonous Asps King-killing Basilisks weeping Hypocrites and devouring Caterpillars who in their Damnable Treasons have far surpassed the Powder-Conspiracy secretly contriving but openly acting the Murther of our late Gracious King Charles the ruine of all the Royal Issue the everthrow of all our Laws the blowing up of all Parliaments the subverting of the whole State of Government and the setting up of a consused Babel watered with the blood of the KING and His People II. An Exact Description of these hard-hearted Belshazzars infamous Impostors Luciferian Brats wicked Schismaticks cruel Hypocrites desperate Usurpers Damnable Blood-suckers both of King and Nobles who with Iron Hands and Adamantine Hearts would also have pull'd our present Lord and Soveraign out of the Arms and Embraces of His Loyal and Liege Subjects III. The Bloody Tragedy of all Tragedies against King Lords and Commons the several Scenes presenting their most horrid Villanies and the most barbarous and Tyrannical Massacre that was ever heard of since the World began cons … ted amongst the Grandees of the Independent Sword-men against the chief Royalists and Presbyterians both Nobles Gentry and Citizens with the manner how it was prevented and the exposing of these B … ff-Grandees and in s … ing proud Officers to their Needles Hammers Lasts Slings Carts and Flails and all true Subjects to enjoy their Rights Printed for G. Horton And published by a Rural Pen for general satisfaction The Bloody Court OR The Fatal Tribunal THe Crown of England was the ancientest Christian Crown in the World and that which had those two famous Pillars Religion and Law the purest and best in the world to under-prop it which made it so Renowned But our late Vsurping Tyrant and his King-killing Basilisks holding a Confedaracy with the Popish Faction endeavoured a supplanting of the Magistracy and Ministry the Laws of the Land and the Religion of the Church of England had not the Honest Royalist and Sober-minded Presbyter proved a strong Defence and Fortress against that Blood-sucking and Iesuitical Facti●n who lay so occultly at the Helm of Government and pretended so cunningly to act all for the Protestant Religion yet under the Vizard of Hypocrisie and Rebellion they pretend a Reformation but through a Sea of innocent Blood as we shall plainly describe in the following Historical disc●urse with is their setting up a High Court of In●ustice and a pretended Council of State to be two during high-High-Courts The one for the ordering the great affairs of the Kingdom the other to judge and determine matters Criminal Here old England became visibly in its Government a new Spain And it 's worthy of observation to note That Corne● Joyce having with a party of souldiers by Order from Cromwel seized on the Kings person at Newport in the Isle of Wight by breaking open the door in the night when the King was in Bed and taking him thence and bringing him over the water to Hurst Castle Colonel Harrison was by Cromwel sent with a strong party of horse to guard the King from thence to Windsor And immediately the … their bloody Court was erected and the Trial of Our gracious Soveraign proclaimed which terrible Eccho resounded with so much horrour and detestation in the ears of all Loyal hearts that they abhorred the very thoughts of so monstrous and barbarous an Act. And notwithstanding all Remoras being removed wh … right under the proceeding of the Popish F … in the … tting in 〈…〉 that ever was committed upon the face of the Earth since the … ring of our blessed Lord and 〈◊〉 to work they goe having the King in their clutches again he being the onely Protestant King in the World this good King had neither Wife nor Children admitted to come near him nor Friend nor Chaplain nor Servant of his own wherein he could take the least comfort either in discourse or in beholding their countenances He had no body to speak his mind unto no body to sympathize with him or so much as to bestow a sight upon him in his solitary and disconsolate condition but like another David when his Wife and Children were gone and he had no House to put his head in Then did those about him speak it openly That they would put Him to Death and that not in a passion but soberly as if it were a pious meritorious work to kill the onely pious Protestant King in the World The good King through his great sufferings and unheard of afflictions both of body and mind wherewith God was pleased to exercise him became a pattern of patience and will be so to all posterity For under all those reproaches which he heard with his Ears and read with his Eyes against his Crown Dignity Person Name and Posterity notwithstanding the violence offered to him in the midst of the Night in breaking into his Chamber and taking him out of his Bed carrying him partly by Land and partly by Sea to Hurst Castle from thence to Windsor from Windsor to St. James in all which he was not heard so much as to speak evil of his Adversaries or to use a bitter word or demean himself impatiently but as a Lamb leaving to the slaughter so meek was he in those merciless Butchers hand At St. James he was kept until the Scaffold were erected in Westminster-hall where it was reported that not onely the Officers cast foul reproaches of Tyranny and Murder into his face dayly and hourly but oft times the Common-souldiers by blowing of Tobacco which he could not indure by beating of Drums at unseasonable hours close by him did extreamly abuse him besides there most uncivil words to his very face yet was he patient under all being abused and reviled he reviled not again At last Colonel Tomlinson was the Kings Goaler whose high commendations above all other men in the Army was this That he dealt civily with the King On January the 20th 1648. The pretended High Court of Iustice sate a certain man called Bradshaw a Counsellor at Law who being a man of a fluent Tongue and bold and it seems alwayes a bitter man against the ●ing was found out and by promises of great preferment and of ●●●matteas was easily perswaded to be the man to act the part of a Iudge or rather of a God and take upon him to Iudge and Condemn the Protestant King This Fellow they made a Searlet Ga●on for him that he might look like some body above his Fellows they gave him also a strange name they Dy'd him in Red and dipped him by the name of my Lord President yet he had his name before he had his Red coat for it seems they were in such ha●● to dispatch this pions king