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A88195	An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, and his son in law Henry Ireton Esquires, late Members of the late forcibly dissolved House of Commons, presented to publique view; by Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilburn close prisoner in the Tower of London, for his real, true and zealous affections to the liberties of his native country. In which following discourse or impeachment, he engageth upon his life, either upon the principles of law ... or upon the principles of Parliaments ancient proceedings, or upon the principles of reason ... before a legal magistracy, when there shal be one again in England ... to prove the said Oliver Cromwel guilty of the highest treason that ever was acted in England, and more deserving punishment and death then the 44 judges hanged for injustice by King Alfred before the Conquest; ... In which are also some hints of cautions to the Lord Fairfax, for absolutely breaking his solemn engagement with his souldiers, &c. to take head and to regain his lost credit in acting honestly in time to come; ... In which is also the authors late proposition sent to Mr Holland, June 26. 1649. to justifie and make good at his utmost hazard ... his late actions or writings in any or all his books.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2116; Thomason E568_20; ESTC R204522	95,549	77

upon them unto the distressed and oppressed Commons or people of this Nation yea the setling of which principles is that that will thereby make it evident and apparent unto all rationall and understanding people in the world that the reall and hearty good and welfare of the people of this Nation hath cordially and in good earnest been that that their souls have hunted for and thirsted after in all the late bloody civill wars and contests All the Contests of the Kings party for his Will and Prerogative being meerly Selvish and so none of the peoples interest and the contest of the Presbyterians for their ●●ke-bate dividing and hypocriticall Covenant no better in the least and the present contest of the present dissembling interest of Independents for the peoples Liberties in generall read the following Discourse pag. 27 28 29 meerly no more but Self in the highest and to set up the false saint and most desperate Apostate murderer and traytor Oliver Cromwel by a pretended election of his mercinary souldiers under the selfe name of the godly Interest to be King of England c. that being now too too apparently all the intended Liberties of the people that ever he fought for in his life that so he might rule and govern them by his Will and Pleasure and so destroy and envassalize their lives and properties to his lusts which is the highest treason that ever was committed or acted in this Nation in any sense or kinde either first in the eye of the Law or secondly in the eye of the ancient but yet too much arbitrary proceedings of Parliament or thirdly in the eye of their own late declared principles of reason by pretence of which and by no rules of Law in the least they took away the late Kings head and life which it there were any Law or Justice in England to be had or any Magistrates left to execute it as in the least there is not I durst undertake upon my life plainly evidently and undeniably to make good the foresaid unparalleld treasons against the foresaid Ol. Cromwel upon against all the three forementioned principles viz Law Parliament and Reason yea and to frame against him such an Impeachment or Indictment which way of Indictments is the true legall and only just way of England to be tried at the Common Law higher and greater then all the charges against the fourty four Judges hanged for false and illegal Judgments by King Alfred before the conquest which with their crimes are recorded in the Law Book called The mirror of Justice Printed in English for Matthew Walbank at Grayes Inn gate 1646. page 239. 240. 241. 242. 243. 244. 245. See also page 196. 197. 207. ibid. Or then the impeachment or accusation Of the Lord chief Justice Wayland and the rest of his brother Judges and Lawyers tormented in Edward the first his time and mentioned in Speeds Chronicle fol. 635. Or then the impeachment in Parliament against Judg Thorp who for taking small bribes against his oath was condemned to die in Edward the third his time of whom you may read in the 3. part Cooks Institut fol. 155 156. and in Mr. Pyms Speech against the Earl of Strafford in the Book called Speeches and Passages of Parliament pag. 9. Or then the impeachment 〈◊〉 a charge of the dethroned King Edward the second in full Parliament the maner of whose dethroning you may notably read in Speeds Chronicle fol. 665. Or then the many Articles of impeachment of the dethroned King Richard the second in full Parliament recorded at large in the Chronicles or History of Will. Martin fol 156. 157. 158. 159. the 8. 10. 12. 15. 21. Articles of which I conceive must remarkable as to the people which are extraordinary well worth the reading for in them the King himself in those dark days of Popery is charged To have perverted the due course of the Law or Justice and Right and that he destroyed men by information without legal examination or tryal and that he had declared the Laws of the Kingdom were in his own Erest just the same thing do Mr. Peters and other mercenary Agents of the Grandees of the Army now constantly declare of them and that by himself and his own authority just Cromwel and Ireton like onely much short of them he had displaced divers Burgesses of the Parliament and had placed such other in their rooms as would better fit and serve his own turn Or then the impeachment of the Lord chief Justice Tris●lian who had the worship or honor in Richard the second his time in full Parliament to be apprehended in the forenoon and hanged at Tiburn in the afternoon with his brother Judges viz. Fulthorp Belknay Care Hot Burge and Lockton or their associates Sir Nicholas Bramble Lord Mayor of London Sir Simon Burley Sir William Elinham Sir John Salisbury Sir Thomas Trevit Sir James Bernis and Sir Nicholas Dodgworth some of whom were destroyed and hanged for setting their hands to Judgments in subversion of the Law in advancing the Kings will above Law yea and one of them banished therefore although a dagger was held to his brest to compel him thereunto Or then the indictment of those two grand and notorious traitorly subvertors of the Laws and Liberties of England Empson and Dudley Privy Counsellors to Henry the seventh recorded in Cooks 4. part Institut fol. 198. 199 read also fol 41. ibid. and 2. part Instit fol. 51. Or then the impeachment of that notorious wicked and traiterous man Cardinal Woolsey by King Henry the eight his Privy Councel recorded in the 4. part Cooks Instit fol. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. Read especially Artic. 17. 20. 21. 23 25 26. 30. 31. 33. 35. 38. 42. in all which he is charged with Arbitrariness and subversion of the Law Or then the impeachment of the Shipmoney Judges who in one judgment did as much as in them lay destroy all the Properties of all the men in England read the notable Speeches against them in Speeches and Passages Or then the impeachment of the Bishop of Canterbury in the late Parliament Or then the impeachment of the Lord Keeper Finch Earl of Strafford Secretary Windebank Sir Richard Bolton Lord Chancellor of Ireland John Lord Bishop of Derry Sir Gerrard Lowther Knight Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland and Sir George Ratcliff all whose impeachments are recorded in a Book intituled Speeches and Passages of Parliament from November 1640. to June 1641. Pag. 76. 77. to 83. and 117. 118. to 143. and 174. and 256. 257. 258. Or then the Articles or charge against the two Sir John Hothams the elder of which kept the King out of Hull the beginning of these Wars when the House of Commons durst not command him positively to do it although they were effectually put upon it by a motion from the younger then sitting in the House and yet they were both beheaded as Traytors for but endevoring to

with them for though Mr Speaker this House voted to this effect That the King seduced by evil councel had made War against the Parliament and people and that they are traitors that assisted * 1 part Book Decl. pag. 259 260 508 509 576 722 914. him And further declared That he had set up his Standard against the Parliament and people and hereby put the whole Kingdom out of his protection contrary to the trust reposed in him contrary to his oath dissolving Government thereby and that he in his own person marched up in the head of an Army by force of Arms to destroy the Parliament and in them the whole Kingdom their Laws and ‖ 1 part Book Decl. pag. 580 584 587 617 639 690. Liberties And yet Mr Speaker with the same breath declared The King is the fountain of justice and that he can do no † 1 part pag. 199 304. wrong and forc'd the people to take Oaths and Covenants to preserve his person and yet at the same time gave the Earl of Essex and all those under him Commission To fight with kill and slay all that opposed them and declared the King in his own period marched in the head of an Army to oppose and destroy them and yet gave them a Commission to fight for King and Parliament So that Mr Speaker here is riddle upon riddle and mysterie upon mysterie which doth even confound and amaze the people and put them into Woods and Wildernesses that they could not see or know where they are or what to think of themselves or of the Parliament or of the King only this they very well know that their burthens are greater now then ever they were before and that they have been made fools in pretendingly fighting for liberty which hath brought them into bondage And that though it was formerly declared the King had no Negative voyce or Legislative power but is bound by his Oath to passe all such Laws as the people folk or Commons shall * 1 part Book Decl. pag. 205 ●06 208 268 269 270 705 706 707 708 710 713 714. chuse Yet now the Parliament send unto him again and again for his concurrence to their acts as though the giving of life soul and power to their actings were indi●putably and inseparably inherent in him and as though now their consciences told them they must crave pardon of him for all the actions they have done without him and against him O riddles and unfathomable mysteries sufficiently able to make the people desirous to be ignorant of their liberties and freedoms and never to hear of them more especially considering they have paid so dear pretendedly for the injoyment of them and yet after five years fighting for them know not where to find one of them But Mr Speaker they were told that in this petition the people had clearly held out unto them and that upon the undeniable principles of reason and justice the Kings Rights the Parliaments and their own and that the two former were and of right alwaies ought to be subservient to the good of the latter and they were told it was not so much persons as things that they doted upon and therfore undoubtedly those that should really hold out justice and righteousnesse unto the people was those that they would be in love with and therfore in mercy to our selves and in love and compassion to our native Country it was pressed that every man that desired to fulfill his end in coming into the World and to be like unto his Master in doing good should vigorously promote and further this just and gallant Petition as the principall means to procure safety peace justice and prosperity to the Land of our Nativity and knit the hearts and spirits of our divided Country-men in love again each unto other and in love unto us which they could not chuse but afford when they should visibly see we endeavoured their good as well and as much as our own there being all the principall foundations of freedom and justice that our hearts could desire or long after in this very petition And if our greatest end were not accomplished in our prosecuting of this petition viz. the Parliaments establishing the things therein desired yet the promoting of it would beget understanding and knowledge in the people when they should hear it and read it and discourse upon it and if nothing but that were effected our labour would not be totally lost for nothing did more instate Tyrants in the secure promotion of tyrannie then ignorance and blindnesse in the people And therfore for the begetting of knowledge it was requisite it should be promoted as also for healing of the divisions amongst the people and knitting them together in love that so their minds might be diverted from studying the destruction each of other to study the destruction of Tyrants that would in time destroy them all And Mr Speaker there was one in the company that made a motion to this effect That he did conceive it was more requisite at present speedily to second the Armies Declaration with a petition to encourage this House vigorously to go on to prosecute their late gallant Votes of Non-Addresses for so they were called to which was answered That in this petition was contained more then was in all all their Votes for it struck at the very root of all that Tyrannie that had enslaved and would enslave us viz. the Negative voyce in King and Lords both which the Votes did not and it was impossible that there could be an active Member in the House of Commons but knew that this petition was promoting all over the Kingdom which did abundantly declare greater encouragement to all those Members of the House that really intended good unto the Commonwealth then possible could be in a single complementall petition signed with 4 or 5000 hands such a petition being rather fit to puff them up then upon reall grounds to strengthen and encourage them fully to mind the peoples good and there was never a Member of the House whose design in the largest extent was no more then the pulling down of the King that so he might be a King himself but of necessitie he must receive more satisfaction and encouragement from the knowledge of the promoting this gallant unparallel'd petition which is a clear demonstration to the Parliament that those that promote it clearly understand that the King and the Lords Tyrannie and their liberties are inconsistent then he could do from a bare complementary petition which would also be dangerous to our selves in quashing the vigorous prosecuting of this that contained the ultimate of our desires and the sum of all those things that in this World we desired to make us happy But Mr Speaker it was again objected That seeing this petition struck so much at the House of Lords as it did who lately it was said had concurred with this House in their gallant Votes against the

ye worthie Trustees Let not your ears be any longer deaf to our importunate cries let not our destruction be worse then that of Sodom which was overthrown in a moment Let us not pine away with famine and be worse then those who die by the sword Oh dissolve not all Government into the prime Laws of Nature and compel us to take the naturall remedie to preserve our selves which you have declared no people can be deprived of (bb) (bb) See your Declaration of the 19 of May 1642. 1 book Declarat pag. 207. And your Declaration of Novemb. 1642. pag. 690. 726. 728. as also pag. 150. See the Armies book of Declarat p. 39. 40. O remember that the righteous God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty and judgeth among the gods and saith How (cc) (cc) Psal 82.1 2 3 4. long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy and rid them out of the hands of the wicked And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. Now judge O Heavens and give your verdict O ye sons of men where the Treason is in this Petition for which M. Wildman and I as the chief prosecuters thereof deserved seven months imprisonment as Traitors therefore or rather doth it not declare that Cromwel and the rest of his fellow-hinderers of the promotion and accomplishment of the just things therein contained the establishing of which would have in the eye of reason prevented all the late Wars and all the desperate hazards that were run thereby are as grand enemies to the Liberties and Freedoms of England as any of those ever were whom they have destroyed and as grand Traitors to their trust as ever piss'd against a wall meerly soly and only seeking themselves and their own tyrannicall domination by all their actions their pretences being but meer stalking-horses thereto as most cleerly appears by CROMVVEL'S own Majors Impeachment of him to the Parliament the copy of which thus follows Sundry REASONS inducing Major ROBERT HUNTINGTON to lay down his Commission Humbly presented to the Honourable Houses of PARLIAMENT 2 August 1648. HAving taken up Arms in defence of the Authority and Power of King and Parliament under the command of the Lord Grey of Warke and the Earl of Manchester during their severall imployments with the Forces of the Eastern Association and at the modelling of this Army under the present Lord General having been appointed by the honourable Houses of Parliament Major to the now Regiment of Lieutenant General Cromwel in each of which imployments I have served constantly and faithfully answerable to the trust reposed in me And having lately quit the said imployment and laid down my Commission I hold my self tied both in duty and conscience to render the true reason thereof which in the generall is briefly this Because the Principles Designes and Actions of those Officers which have a great influence upon the Army are as I conceive very repugnant and destructive to the honour and safety of Parliament and Kingdom from whom they derive their Authority The particulars whereof being a Breviate of my sad Observations will appear by the following Narrative First That upon the Orders of Parliament for disbanding this Army Li. Gen. Cromwel and Commissary General Ireton were sent Commissioners to Walden to reduce the Army to their obedience but more especially in Order to the present supply of forces for the service of Ireland But they contrary to the trust reposed in them very much hindred that service not only by discountenancing those that were obedient and willing but also by giving incouragement to the unwilling and disobedient declaring that there had been much cruelty and injustice in the Parliaments proceedings against them meaning the Army and Commissary Generall Ireton in further pursuance thereof FRAMED THOSE PAPERS AND WRITINGS THEN SENT FROM THE ARMY TO THE PARLIAMENT AND KINGDOM saying also to the Agitators that it was lawfull and fit for us to deny disbanding till we had received equall and just satisfaction for our past service Lieutenant-Generall Cromwell further adding That we were in a double capacity as Souldiers and as Commoners and having our pay as Souldiers we have something else to stand upon as Commoners And when upon the Rendezvouz at TRIPPLE-HEATH the Commissioners of Parliament according to their Orders acquainted every Regiment with what the Parliament had already done and would further do in Order to the desires of the Army the Souldiery being before prepared and notwithstanding any thing could be said or offered to them by the Commissioners they still cryed out for Justice Justice And for the effecting of their further purposes advice was given by Lieutenant Generall Cromwel and Commissary Generall Ireton to remove the Kings Person from Holdenby or to secure him there by other Guards then those appointed by the Commissioners of Parliament which was thought most fit to be carryed on by the private souldiery of the Army and promoted by the Agitators of each Regiment whose first businesse was to secure the Garrison of Oxon with the Guns and Ammunition there from thence to march to Holdenby in prosecution of the former advice which was accordingly acted by Cornet Joyce who when he had done the businesse sent a Letter to the Generall then at Kyton acquainting his Excellency that the King was on his march towards Newmarket The Generall being troubled thereat told Commissary Generall Ireton that he did not like it demanding withall who gave those Orders He replyed that he gave Orders only for securing the King there and not for taking him away from thence Lieutenant-Generall Cromwel coming then from London said that if this had not been done the King would have been 〈◊〉 away by the Order of the Parliament or els Colonel Graves by the advice of the Commissioners would have caryed him to London throwing themselves upon the favour of Parliament for that Service The same day Cornet Joyce being told that the General was displeased with him for bringing the King from Holdenby he answered that Lieut. Gen. Cromwel had given him Orders at London [a] [a] And I John Lilburn have heard from very good hands I will not now say from the Cornets own month that it was delivered to to him in Cromwels own Garden in Drury-lane Colonel Charles Fleetwood being by to do what he had done both there and at Oxford The person of the King b] b] And yet see the Generals Letter from Cambridge of 6 June 1647 of the Kings providential or accidentall coming to them without the privity of him or any of his Officers Armies book of Declarat p. 22. being now in the power of the Army the businesse of Lieutenan-Generall Cromwel was to court his Majesty both by Members of the Army and several Gentlemen formerly in the Kings Service into a good opinion and belief of the proceedings of the Army as

refreshed considering so desperate things were charged upon me by the Priest So enquiring if any of them could tell me where Master Sergeant was I was answered He was with the Speaker and the Earl of Manchester in the Queens Court and going up thither to finde him I found him ready with his Mace to usher the Keepers of the Great Seal unto the Chancery Court So standing in their way as they were to come out I had a minde to face them to see how they would look upon me and after they passed by I could see the Speaker lay his head to the Earl of Manchesters Whereupon they both turned about and stared wishfully upon me and so did the three Judges that followed them which were if I mistake not Judg Rowls Judg Phesant and Baron Atkins and I looked as wishfully upon them with an undaunted countenance thereby demonstrating that unspotted Innocency cheared my heart and so down stairs they went and I followed them at their heels to the Chancery with an earnest desire to know the matter more fully of Master Sergeant and truly to know what their House had done upon it who within a little while coming out of the Court I had my opportunity to speak with who looked very strangely upon me as though I were now a destroyed man at which I smiled and told him If ever the House of Commons in their lives had true ground and cause to thank me for any service that ever I had done them with my tongue it was for that nights Discourse and my there pleading their Cause and Interest And much more Discourse to the same purpose as is before mentioned we had but I grated very much upon Master Speakers unjust and unrighteous dealing with me And I told him I conceived this was one of his new plots or the Earl of Manchesters For guilty conscienced men are always afraid of the shakings of an Aspine-leaf and would frame and contrive out of their own brains new plots and then themselves bring them to light as contrived against the State and Parliament That so they might thereby blast all sorts of men that were likely to pinch them And truely I told him they were to mine own knowledg very good at these tricks for I knew them both of old at which he was distasted and told me the House had taken off my former Order for my going abroad and had remanded me to the Tower again and had sent an Order to the Lieutenant of the Tower to morrow morning to bring me up to their Bat as a prisoner I told him it was but like all the rest of their just dealings towards me and in this I told him they cleerly demonstrated to the whole Kingdom That they had less Justice within their brests then was in the Heathen and Pagan Roman Judges that had nothing but the light of Nature to guide them in their judgment and yet would not condemn Paul before they heard him though his Adversaries laid greater things to his charge then all the men in England are able justly to pretend against me And as for my going again prisoner to the Tower I told him I would now never go upon the old score voluntary while my eyes were open And I further told him to this effect That if their hearts were not totally hardened and their souls scaled up to do wickedness for ever they would blush for shame so much as to talk of committing me to prison before now after above seven yeers waiting upon them they had done me some reasonable proportion of Justice but now again to commit me to prison after eleven or twelve yeers as heavy sufferings as ever Englishman that I read of endured to the exhausting me of all that ever I have in the world yea and more too by running into debt to buy me bread and to keep almost three thousand pounds of my Corn from me by force and violence and to commit me to prison again without any maner of provision in the world for me and mine to live upon after I have made so many mournful cryes and moans unto them What is this else but to be more cruel then the very Cannibals themselves who always feed fat those men that they intend to eat and devour and were it not more justice in them to cause their Guard of Halberders to knock my brains out and so put a period to my days and miseries then again to send me prisoner to the Tower either to be starved or eat the stone walls which is impossible For as the Spirit of God saith by Jeremy in his Lamentations Chap. 4.9 Better are they that die by the sword then they that be slain with hunger And he gives this Reason of it For the last pines away stricken through for want of the Fruits of the Field whereas he that is slain quickly endures little or no pain And how they can conceive in the eye of Reason laying all things together how I should thus long live and subsist without miracle especially contesting with all the great corrupt Interests of England who have scores and hundreds of mercinary pencionary emissaries in the City and Countrey with their lyes and falshoods to rob me of my Reputation and Credit and with their groundless reproaches to bespatter me and make me as black as a Chimny Sweeper and render me as a man not fit to live in civil or moral Society is beyond my Reason to apprehend My Prayer BUt O thou Just Righteous Powerful and Compassionate God that sensibly hath been my God and guide about these twise seven years that hast often refreshed my soul with those far and soul satisfying refreshments that hath made my heart sing and be merry in the midest of many deaths and which hast made me lightly esteeme the cruel malice of all my fierce and murdering Enemies O thou glorious God that hath taken me by the arme when I have been ready to fall and by whose power alone I have been kept upright before thee in the midst of many soul piercing temptations and by whose sweetnesse discovered unto my soul I have been drawn after thee with ready willingnesse of spirit though backwardnesse of flesh to follow thee whithersoever thou goest keep now for the glory of thy name-sake my heart sincere and upright before thee that I neither flag fall nor start aside like a broken bow but may stick close unto thee and to that justice and purity that shines gloriously in thee to the death O Thou compassionatest and sweetest God who in all the afflictions of thy people art afflicted with them and hast said thou hearest their cries and bottellest up their tears O now in the greatnesse of straits when my soul is indeavoured to be over-whelmed hear now in heaven the habitation of thy greatnesse and protect and deliver me from the cruell and bloudy rage of thy once SEEMING servant CROMWEL who if my soul is now able to judge is visibly become a

pray That Lieutenant Colonel Lilburn and Master Iohn Wildman may be forthwith enlarged our selves secured and with the test of our Countrymen encouraged in a peaceable manner to make their addresses to this Honorable House and to render fruitlesse the practises of all such as under any coate shall seek to sow discord between you and yours And your Petitioners shall pray c. Iames Worts Roger Sawyer Henry Giding Tho. Chapman Valent. Elsign Dennis Liddall George Brown Edward Pardo Tho. Goddad Tho. Culles Tho. VVilliams Iohn Merihust Mich. Reeve Iohn North. Iohn VVells Ed. Floyd Rob. Bagesse Iohn Sowden Rob. Levite Andrew Dedman This Petition thus subscribed was as I remember delivered to the House of Commons the very same week Master Wildman and my self was first imprisoned as Traytors in reference to the foresaid Petition but this Petition was to no purpose nor took no effect which rightly weighed is a clear demonstration we were not imprisoned for miscarriage in mannaging the Petition but meerly and barely out of malice and hatred at us for promoting zealously a Petition that tended effectually to the ease of the People of their grievances and make us really Free-men and therfore from hence c. And let all unbiased people judge whether Cromwel and his Associates or my selfe and those he hath nicknamed Levellers be the real Traytors disturbers of the peace and the malicious and wicked hinderers of the Settlers of their Freedoms but to fill up this sheet and so to conclude I shall because I often use it here insert the Charge against the King which thus followeth The CHARGE of the Commons of England against CHARLES STVART King of England Of high Treas●n and other high Crimes exhibited to the High Court of Justice Saturday the 20 of January 1648. The Court being sate and the prisoner at the Barr M. Cook Solicitor General spake thus My Lord In behalf of the Commons of England and of all the people thereof I do accuse Charles Stuart here present of High Treason and high Misdemeanors And I do in the name of the Commons of England desire the Charge may be read unto Him Which the Clerk then read as followeth THat the said CHARLS STUART being * * Then his induction is better then theirs that come in by absolute conquest and now govern us by the sword as slaves admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited Power to govern by and according to the Laws of the † † But H. Peters saith there is now no Law but the sword and the wil and pleasure of those that now rule by it See his discourse with mee 25. May 1649. p. 4. 5. Land and not otherwise And by his Trust Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the People and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties Yet nevertheless out of a wicked Design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his ‖ ‖ Cromwels and the rest of the great Sword-mens constant practice will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People Yea to take away and make void the foundations thereof and of all redress and remedy of mis government which by the fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdom were reserved on the peoples behalf in the right and power of frequent and successive Parliaments or National meetings in Councel He the said Charles Stuart for accomplishing such his Designs and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in His and Their wicked practices to the same Ends hath trayterously and maliciously levied VVar against the present Parliament and the People therein * * And so hath Cromwel and Ireton c. which I will prove upon my life and therefore as traitors ought to dy much more then the King who till now hath by Parliaments c. themselves been often declared not to be subject to the penall part of the Law Represented Particularly upon or about the 13 day of June in the yeer of our Lord 1642 at Beverly in the County of York And upon or about the 30 day of July in the yeer abovesaid in the County of the City of York And upon or about the 24 day of Aug. in the same yeer at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where he set up his Standard of war And also on or about the 23 day of October in the same yeer at Edg-Hill and Keinton-field in the County of Warwick And upon or about the 13 day of Novemb. in the same yeer at Brainford in the County of Middlesex And upon or about the 30 day of Aug. in the yeer of our Lord 1643 at Cavesham-Bridg neer Reading in the County of Berks And upon or about the 13 day of October in the yeer last mentioned at or neer the City of Glocester And upon or about the 13 day of Novemb. in the yeer last mentioned at Newbery in the County of Berks And upon or about the 31 day of July in the yeer of our Lord 1644 at Cropredy-Bridg in the County of Oxon And upon or about the 30 of Septemb. in the yeer last mentioned at Bodmin and other places neer adjacent in the County of Cornwal And upon or about the 30 day of Novemb. in the yeer last mentioned at Newbery aforesaid And upon or about the 8 day of June in the yeer of our Lord 1645 at the Town of Leicester And also upon the 14 day of the same month in the same yeer at Nas●●y-field in the County of Northampton At which several times and places or most of them and at many other places in this Land at several other times within the yeers aforementioned and in the yeer of our Lord 1646 He the said Charls 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 invasions from forrain parts endeavoured and procured by Him and by many other evill wayes and meanes He the said CHARLES STUART hath not only maintained and carryed on the said War both by Land and Sea curing the yeeres before mentioned but also hath renewed or ●●used to be renewed the said War against the Parliament and good People of this Nation in this present (*) (*) Of which years war Cromwel Ireton by their cheating jugling hindering the setling the liberties of the Nation are were m●re guilty of by thousands of degres then the King or any of his party and if they had been but honest to their primitive engagements the wars had never been upon whose heads alone principally all the blood shed in those wars lyes say I Iohn Lilburn year 1648. in the Counties of Kent Essex Surrey Sussex Middlesex and many other Counties and places in England and Wales and also by Sea And particularly He the said Charles 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 Parliament intrusted and imployed for the safety of the Nation being by him or His Agents corrupted to the betraying of their Trust revolting from the Parliament have had intertainment and Commission for the continuing and renewing of war and hostility against the said Parliament and People as aforesaid By which Cruel and Unnaturall wars by him the said Charles Stuart levyed continued and renewed as aforesaid much Innocent blood of the (*) (*) But I am sure the chief prosecutors of this charge have made us now perfect slaves and are most superlatively 〈◊〉 of all that in the next words followeth Free-People of this Nation hath been spilt many Families have been undone the Publick Treasury wasted exhausted Trade obstructed and miserably decayed vast expence and damage to the Nation incurred and many parts of the Land spoyled some of them even to desolation And for further prosecution of His said Evill designs He the said Charles Stuart doth still continue His Commissions to the said Prince and other Rebels and Revolters both English and Forrainers and to the Earl of Ormond and to the Irish Rebels and Revolters associated with him from whom further Invasions upon this Land are threatned upon the procurement and on the behalf of the said Charles Stuart All which wicked designs Wars and evill practises of him the said Charles Stuart have been and are carryed on * * mark this well for the advancing and upholding of the personall interest of Will and Power and pretended Prerogative to Himself and His Family against the Publick Interest Common Right Liberty Iustice 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 Charles Stuart hath been and is the Occasioner Author and Contriver of the said Unnaturall Cruel and Bloody Wars and therein guilty of all the Treasons Murthers Rapines Burnings Spoiles Desolations Damage and Mischief to this Nation acted or committed in the said wars or occassoned thereby And the said Iohn Cook by Protestation saving on the behalf of the (*) (*) Which as they carry their businesse they judge to be no more but Cromwel Ireton Bradshaw Haslerig all the rest being really their slalves in several degrees People of England the liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Charge against the said CHARLES STUART and also of replying to the Answers which the said CHARLES STUART shall make to the Premises or any of them or any other 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 Charles Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick Implacable Enemy to the Common wealth of England And pray That the said CAARLS STUART King of England may be put to answer all and every the Premises That such Proceedings Examinations Tryals Sentence and Judgment may be thereupon had as shall be agreeable to Justice FINIS