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A93810	Royal and other innocent bloud crying aloud to heaven for due vengeance. Humbly represented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And with all humble dutifull submission dedicated to the two high and mighty princes, James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester, his sacred Majestyes Royal brethren. By George Starkey, a true honourer and faithfull friend of his country.	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5287; Thomason E1032_7	32,297	47

all the Nations round about whom they had spared contrary to command besides all which pretences by Saul no doubt alledged for that slaughter committed upon them the quality of him and them makes his case and ours of no comparison together He a King and they contemptible drudges of a cursed Generation But with us sworn subjects murther'd their Soveraign the very tongues mouths and lips that had vo'wd solemn allegiance to him and to hazard life in his preservation and to defend with him his Queen and Progeny presume to condemn to death the same Royall Person proclaim Traytors his Queen and Sonnes yea all that shall adhere to them and assert their so oft confirmed title by so sacred and religious oaths This certainly next to our blessed Saviours murther was most black and hortible 40. Besides with Majesty fell Nobles and Gentlemen Divines and Citizens of as great repute as any the Land afforded who were as undoubtedly Innocent as cruelly slaughtered yea their crime objected was honesty the pretence of taking them off was a colourable mock-justice yet in their own conscience they knew their Courts to be only Snares and Engines to do such work which by no known Law of the Land nor in any regular form of proceeding could be effected If then Saul's bloudy-fact were revenged with three yeares famine and after that with the death of Seven of his Sonnes I tremble to think what vengeance the Lord may take of us for this bloud unless our most honourable Lords and those other worthy Patriots of the English Nation the House of Commons by their pious wisdom and just severity against unpardonable malefactors scatter that black cloud of Gods judgments which is already gathering and who knowes how soon it may overspread the whole Kingdom 41. Breaking Parliaments subverting Laws horrible Oppression by Confiscations Sequestrations decimations Imprisonments frequent sending out of Town setting up Usurpers making the Nobles more contemptible than any generous Spirits could bear are unparallel'd Treasons and being against man more directly may be famous objects of Pardon even to astonishment but to indemnifie such horrible guilt of bloud is to presume to do that on Earth which God will never set his seal to or confirm in Heaven It is for man to exceed his Commission which presumption he and his Posterity may have cause to bewail with bitter tears when it is too late to remedy 42. My Lords and Gentlemen although in a Parliamentary way of Convention with his Majesties Royal assent concurring you have great I had almost said unlimited power which is true in a sense nothing that is mearly humane can bound you yet there are bounds set even to you by the hand of God himself no less dreadfull than the bounds of Sinai which you cannot transgress but you streight incurre the displeasure of a revenging Deity whose Angel with his flaming sword is forthwith over your head and speedy Judgement ready to overtake you and treading upon your heels Nor will this be your private sin but as persons in trust you contract a fatal score whereof God alone knows how many thousands must be the Pay-masters One of those immovable bounds is the guilt of bloud which debt if you remit as to the penalty it were well if you could cross it out of Gods book but that 's impossible bloud only is to be the payment though it is in your choyce whether this shall be guilty or other innocent bloud which God as a Soveraign Lord perhaps will take and place both the former and latter to their account at whose door neglect lies 43. Believe it my Lods and Gentlemen the persons concerned in that detestable murther of his Majesty are not all comprised in the list of those who sate in the High Court of Mock-justice that day when sentence was past that whole pretended Court or rather pack of Bloud-hounds were but the tool and instrument in the hand of some devilish Workman Journey 〈◊〉 employed by others who contrived the Plot and set them on work among whose number some were more actively daring and openly appeared as well to give countenance to as incourage the rest who were persons qualifyed to serve their turn and pickt here and there as they came to hand others of the grand contrivers were more wary and reserved who for fear of after-reckonings slipt behind the Curtain gave aim unto and directed the Actors Haslerig Vane Lenthall and others of that gang had as deep hand in that Crimson fact as any who were present at sentence or confirmed it under hand and Seal 44. That there is no pleading for murther where all are prin cipalls the Law of our land makes evident less for Royall murther as is clear by that Scripture-rule which saith Who can lift up his hand against the Lords anointed and be guiltless and most plainly confirmed by the pattern of David who commanded that foolish Amalekite forthwith to be slain who in hope of reward accused himself that he had at the request of Saul dispatcht his life when past hope of recovery by reason of his mortall wounds sending him to his long home with this farewell thy bloud be upon thine own head forasmuch as thou hast confest the lifting up thine hand against the Lords anointed 45. Yet as the first plotter and contriver of a horrid fact if especially he stand by and encourage advise assist justify and reward the Actor is the more unpardonably guilty so those who appointed an high Court of Justice nominated the persons commissi●●ated impowered and warranted them in what they were to act were indeed the superlatiue Traytors and most guilty of bloud 46. And among those there are yet degrees some were professed Lawyers and could not be ignorant of the Law of the Land their conscience told them in the very act of endeavouring to try their King for life in such an unheard of Court themselves were above all most transcendent Traytors 47. In which crew as all 〈◊〉 Subjects so many were his Majesties actuall servants as Vane Mildmay Danvers Holland and others whose fact surpasseth so far the rest as it is more detestable for a servant than for a stranger to kill his Master by our Law made petty Treason and more severely punished Some were servants in favour and places of more than ordinary trust and were rewarded so largely as argued a bountifull Prince and them on that account Monsters in nature who durst abet much more actually commit such a villany upon so gracious a Lord so loving and bountifull a Master 48. Their declarations after the fact challenged the imagined repute thereof to themselves for as they m●●e no scruple to call themselves the Parliament and supream power of England so they ascribed to themselves the abolishing Kingship and accordingly rejected the whole line of the murther'd King declar'd for a Common-wealth whithout King or House of Lords fram'd and imposed upon all an engagement to that purpose which argues plainly that

those who were the Major part of that Junto who voted an high Court of Justice and who conferred upon them such power were the plotters and Authors of what was by the others acted the first of the two most inexcusable though all unpardonable 49. Besides these there were contrivers of Petitions that all great offendors might be brought to justice which were accordingly framed and presented both from the City and mutinous Army by which his sacred Majesty was at first designed to be made a bloudy sacrifice under the notion of the greatest offendor being brought to justice Adjutant Generall Allen at the disposition of Usurping Richard wrote a Pamphet to remind the grand Officers how the Army were in a wilderness of difficulties in the year 1647. and how they at Windsor severall dayes together had sought God by fasting and prayer and how he at last brought them to an unanimous resolve that they would fight the Scots and labour to quell the threatning insurrections in severall parts and in case God answered their prayers they would as a religious return of thankfulness revenge the bloudshed committed in these Warres upon that bloudy man as he was pleased to stile his Sacred Majesty of blessed memory So that there was a conspiracy in the Army with a part of the house of Commons to murther the King long before who therefore pretending fear with their Speaker fled to the Head-quarters were brought back by the Armies force the Commons House purged the Lords House turn'd out of doors Here my Lords and Gentlemen was the plot after which an high Court of Justice was called and impowered to put what before was contrived in execution 50. Nor were they ignorant of what villany they went about or the way must be made by breaking the Seal Royall and maing a new one because the King could not be judicially procee●ed against without commission nor any commission in force against him signed with his own Seal which argued as premeditated so desperate malice joyned with knowledg sufficient they understood the fact its difficulty as well as its danger yet resolved to leap over mountaines themselves rather than not perform this butchery 51. Mr. Milton in answer to Salmasius gives the whole glory of this Heroick action as he call'd it to the English Parliament And indeed it was properly their act originally the Judges did but only represent them acted by their Commission who in this are inexcusable also that they took a Commission and put it in execution against their undoubted King which involved them alike in the guilt of perjury and Treason being equally sworn to his Allegiance and by this act however Commissionated they were questionless murtherers 52. This Honourable house of Commons in their late answer to his Majesties most gracious Letter have this like expression that the abhorred villanies perpetrated upon his Majesties Royall Father of blessed memory could never possibly have been brought to that pass had not their priviledges been so shamefully violated first that of Englands Parliament nothing was left remaining but a Mock-Junto By that discovering their judgments to be that they who in order to that butchery committed such unheard of Rapes upon the Parliament were of all others far the most guilty And therefore deserving most severe punishment 53. To come now to the high Court of justice and take a view of their proceedings some sate to the last and passed the sentence actually under their hands and Seales others sate at first only some sate till the last and then disappeared All are alike guilty for his Sacred Majesty demurr'd at first to the Jurisdiction of the Court they who then sate asserted their own jurisdiction declaring that they were satisfied in it Commanded him to plead positively and to own the Court or else the default should be marked for a contempt this was in effect his Majesties doom he as a constant assertor of the Lawes and Liberties of the Nation was unsatisfied with their Autority and resolved rather to dy than by a Plea to own them a jurisdiction at all much less over him their King these peremptory villanies assert their own Jurisdiction tye him up to answer or to be recorded for his Contempt upon which account the third default was to be accounted final then some with-drew and account themselves thus excused from his bloud by not sitting at last when sentence was given yet protest not against the proceedings of the rest when as in truth they impounded as I may say shackled his Majesty and fitted him for the block with-drawing out of a guilty fear when the blow was to be given being assured that there were Bloud-hounds enough left sitting to worrey him not a man more than other can be excused of the murther unless it appear that they shewed their dissatisfaction and dislike of proceedings to be the cause of their refusing afterward to sit 54. Lastly no doubt but many pretended divine Oracles are equally guilty with the rest who counselled contrived and incouraged these villanies which ended in murther and vouched the holy Writ for their warrant to provoke to the attempt and defended the fact afterward both by preaching and writing the Priest who confessed and absolved the Powder-traytors was found as guilty and suffered as deeply as any among them Peeters and Goodwyn may be named and many more pointed at but these two were as Joab to the vvoman of Tekoah they had a hand in the whole from beginning to end yea so far are they more punishable but how much they abused Scripture to defend and as it were entitle God himself to the murther 55. To descend from this black subject and bloudy discourse to take a view of more private murthers tragical enough yet for which something may be said in behalf of many concerned therein 56. When grave learned and able Lawyers shall declare the Authority of a pretended High Court of Justice to be lawfull and personally act therein either as President as L●sle or by drawing up charges against Prisoners and calling them before such to the Barre aggravating crimes against them solliciting for Justice to be done on them in the name of the Common-Wealth and in all things avowing them a Court of Judicature I marvel not if many men unskil'd in the Law sit among the rest and act confidently 57. If the Facts for which they are tryed be by Lawyer declared high Treason and Capital and Witnesses procured to testifie the same how suborned is not now the subject of our Enquiry nor how prompted in their Evidence by the Attorney General if Lawyers affirm the tryal to be carryed on according to Law and some reputed godly Divines assure them the way is of God no wonder if the Prisoner be convicted and condemned and yet God forbid half the Judges guilty of murther or bloud though concurring in sentence 58. However those who advise the erecting such a Court out of design to butcher the Parties intended for tryal because

Tragedy was the end of all those several years wars and incredible civil blond shed Good God! Should these men now be pardoned what can be imagined but that the Parliament in their Vowes and Covenant did all both Lords and Commons prevaricate and juggle The detestation of a fact is ever judged by the animadversion made upon it Talk till Doomes-day yet none will believe that the Lords and Commons abhorre that murther and repute it the Nations infamy resent 〈◊〉 Vows Oaths and Covenants broken therein when th●●ontrivers Plotters and horrible Actors are almost all pardoned by whole sale except a few who in effect have pardoned themselves by flight 66. My Lords and Gentlemen because of Oaths and Swearing this Land hath a long time mourned not so much for that Oaths were made but because no better kept If you were serious in what you swore you cannot but revenge the shamefull breach thereof with all imaginable severity trust me lenity herein will speak aloud to your reproach both while you live and while your memory lasteth that you are pretty well satisfied as to the fact when you dismiss with free pardon such a gang of Malefactors Religion hath been scandalized so fowly by this means the Protestant especially that were it only to shew your detestation thereof such counsels would take no place in your honourable breasts It is the only convincing Argument that you were immovably firm to your Oaths and Vowes when you are irreconcilable to those who with such abominable aggravations broke them 67. Those who at present are remote from you and for futute shall be long after you can take notice of no ground of so large an extent of Pardon but that you either judge the fact not deserving greater punishment or that you are afraid to do Justice upon them and to speak plainly such lenity as is pretended I hope not intended in this Case will leave such a blot upon your Honours and Wisdoms as cannot be born with credit nor wiped off by any possible future zeal or industry He who is easily perswaded to re nit so grosse villanies will alwaies leave a suspicion that he would not hardly have been perswaded to be concerned therein had not politick considerations more than conscience deterred him It is the glory of a man to pass by the greatest injury done to himself without any revenge but to forgive what is done against Gods Majesty with the like readiness and facility argues that such a man hath but little honour for God 68. My Lords and Gentlemen its possible for any man to be so out of reach of othe● 〈◊〉 not to be exposed to their observations censures and 〈◊〉 ●…ersions nor is it in your power to regulate them but every man will follow the dictates of his own reason and what appears thereto 69. The grounds of this over-flowing mercy and inlarged bowels of compassion believe it will be judged one or all of these Either a low esteem you had of his Sacred Majesty or a private dislike of him which makes you account his removal out of the way some considerable balance to counterpoise the execrable horrible Treachery and perjurious cruelty committed in his death or that you give some credit to the imputations laid against him and so reckon him as deserving the thing he suffered though perhaps you disliked the manner Or that you were your selves guilty herein more than you would willingly have known and therefore pardon so many least they should speak plainer of your selves than you would be willing to have heard Or that notwithstanding your Oaths and Covenants you intended the same thing in your own way and method and so were only prevented Or that you under-hand consented to what was acted and most of you by a patient withdrawing upon seclusion of the forty Commoners gave opportunity to what was afterward perpetrated 70. These suspicions my Lords and Gentlemen though I hope ye believe them false and groundless yet on my credit are more than whisper'd among very sober men upon occasion of this too comprehensive act of grace which is expected and would make viler than dirt the bloud not only of many worthy state-Martyrs and his sacred Majesty himself but also of all those whose lives have been prodigally spent to subdue the King and his friends and bring him into a capacity of becoming the subject of so abominable a Tragedy as also of rejecting and keeping in exile his matchless for reall worth and yet by unparalell'd villany proscribed heir with two Incomparable pieces of true Princely gallantry the Royall Dukes of York and Gloucester The grinding oppressors also of these three Nations wherein all the Kings put together since the Conquest have been exceeded will be notably rewarded when out of more than an hundred unpardonable Murtherers besides incomputable numbers of high traytors perhaps five shall dye and thirty or forty of those be squeezed a little in their Estates who have causelessly ruined many hundreds sequestred and forced to monstrous unreasonable compositions many thousands totally confiscated the Estates of six times their number and by taxes excises impositions decimations frequent imprisonments forged plots and fines thereupon have beggar'd a thousand at least for every man designed for nominall confiscation of Estate which indeed will prove scarce the plucking away by law one third part of what they before violently and cruelly ravisht from the true owners without all colour of Law rather against it 71. My Lords and Gentlemen can it be imagined that William Lenthall who had for a fee five pounds for every compounder whose number was reckoned by one to be fourscore thousand suppose really half the number which was the least besides other places of vast prodigious gain enjoyed by him above board nor will any rationall man question but he had private wayes of indirect gain beyond what can be made now appear upon confiscation will be found the Master of one tith of what he is beyond contradiction owner questionless no such villaines as he alwayes had that of reason to fear what we se hapned nay they had no rationall ground to hope for so long prosperity in villany upon which jealousy he and many of his stamp no doubt made such secret provision that spating their life on such termes is like a School-boyes whipping when over the fear proving more than the smart they have time and occasion given to laugh at the supiness of their Judges and to please themselves how they give the first the soundest and most smarting blow 72. Who would not if they had opportunity again be such Rogues upon the like termes be as cruell as possible as guilty as wit can invent the Devill suggest or a cursed disposition make commit villanies to the utmost extent of power stop only where it is not possible to go further continue as long as by Hellish policy is devisable oppress the Nation till nothing be left further to squeeze yet at last when our own