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A90655	King Charles the First, no man of blood: but a martyr for his people· Or, a sad, and impartiall enquiry, whether the King or Parliament began the warre, which hath so much ruined, and undon the kingdom of England? and who was in the defensive part of it?	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1649 (1649)	Wing P2008; Thomason E531_3; ESTC R203147	60,256	72

in the beginning of this Parliament accepted of one for the Countie of Yorke Gave His People to understand That Hee had awarded the like Commissions into all the Counties of England and Dominion of Wales to provide for and secure them in a legall way lest under a pretence of danger and want of Authority from His Majestie to put them into a Military postu●e they should bee drawne and engaged in any opposition against Him or His Just Authority But 21. June 1642. The Lords and Commons in Parliament Declaring The Designe of their Propositions of raising Horse and Moneys was to maintaine the Protestant Religion and the Kings Authoritie and Person and that The Forces already attending His Majestie and His preparations at first coloured under the pretence of a guard being not so great a guard as they themselves had constantly for 6. moneths before did evidently appeare to bee intended for some great and extraordinary designe so as at this time also they doe not charge the King with any manner of action of Warre or any thing done in a way or course of Warre against them and gave just cause of feare and jealousie to the Parliament being never yet by any Law of God or man accounted to be a sufficient cause or ground for Subjects to make a Warre against their Soverainge did forbid all Mayors Sheriffes Bayliffes and other Officers to publish His Majesties said Letter to the Citie of London And declare that if Hee should use any force for the recovery of Hull or suppressing of their Ordinance for the Militia it should bee held a levying Warre against the Parliament and all this done before His Majestie had granted any Commission for the levying or raising of a man and lest the King should have any manner of provision of Warre to defend Himselfe when their Army or Sir John Hotham should come to assault Him Powder and Armes were every where seized on and Cutlers Gun-smiths Sadlers and all Warlike Trades ordered not to send any to Yorke but to give a weekely account what was made or sold by them And an Order made the 24. day of June 1642. That the Horses which should bee sent in for the Service of the Parliament when they came to the number of 60. should bee trayned and so still as the number increased 4. July 1642. The King by His letter under His signe Manuall commanded all the Judges of England in their circuits to use all meanes to suppresse Popery Riots and unlawfull assemblies and to give the People to understand His Resolution to maintaine the Protestant Religion and the Lawes of the Kingdome and not to governe by any Arbitrary way and that if any should give the King or them to understand of any thing wherein they held themselves grieved and desired a just reformation Hee would spedily give them such an answer as they should have cause to thank Him for His Justice and favour But the same day a Declaration was published by both houses of Parliament Commanding That no Sheriffe Mayor Bayliffe Parson Vicar Curate or other Sir Richard Gurney the Lord Mayor of London not many dayes before having beene imprisoned for proclaming the Kings Proclamation against the bringing in of Plate c. should publish or Proclaime any Proclamation Declaration or other Paper in the Kings name which should bee contrary to any Order Ordinance or Declaration of both houses of Parliament or the proceedings thereof and Order That in case any Force should bee brought out of one County into another to disturbe the Peace thereof they should bee suppressed by the Trayned Bands and Voluntiers of the adjacent Counties Shortly after Sir John Hotham fortifieth the Towne of Hull whilest the King is at Yorke seizeth on a Ship comming to Him with provisions for His Houshold takes Mr. Ashburnham one of the Kings Servants Prisoner intercepts Letters sent from the Queene to the King and drowneth part of the Countrey round about the Towne which the Parliament allowes of and promise satisfaction to the owners 5. July 1642. They Order a subscription of Plate and Horse to bee made in every Countey and list the Horse under Commanders and the morrow after Order 2000. men should bee sent to relieve Sir John Hotham in case the King should besiege him to which purpose Drummes were beat up in London and the adjacent parts to Hull The Earle of Warwick Ordered to send Ships to Humber to his assistance instructions drawne up to bee sent to the Deputie-Lievetenants of the severall Counties to tender the Propositions for the raising of Horses Plate and Money Mr. Hastings divers of the Kings Commissioners of Array impeached for supposed high Crimes and misdemeanours and a Committee of five Lords and ten of the house of Commons ordered to meete every morning for the laying out of ten thousand pounds of the Guild-hall moneys for the buying of 700. Horse and that 10000. Foote to bee raised in London and the Countrey bee imployed by dirction of the Parliament and the Lord Brooke is furnished with 6. peeces of Ordnance out of the Tower of London to fortifie the Castle of Warwick And 9. July 1642. Order That in case the Earle of Northampton should come into that County with a Commission of Array they should raise the Militia to suppresse him And that the Common Councell of London should consider of away for the speedy raising of the 10000. Foote and that they should bee listed and put in Pay within foure dayes after 11. July 1642. The King sends to the Parliament to cause the Towne of Hull to bee delivered unto him and desires to have their answer by the 15. of that moneth and as then had used no force against it But the morrow after before that message could come unto them they resolve upon the Question That an Army shall bee forthwith raised for the defence of the Kings Person and both houses of Parliament and those who have obeyed their Orders and Commands in perserving the true Religion the Lawes Liberties and the Peace of the Kingdome and that they would live and dye with the Earle of Essex whom they nominate Generall in that Cause And 12. July 1642. Declare That they will protect all that shall be imployed in their assistance and Militia And 16. July 1642. Petition the King to forbeare any preparations or actions of Warre and to dismisse His extraordinary guards to come neerer to them and harken to their advice but before that Petition could bee answered wherein the King offered when the Towne of Hull should bee delivered to Him hee would no longer have an Army before it and should bee assured that the same pretence which tooke Hull from him may not put a Garrison into Newcastle into which after the Parliaments surprise of Hull Hee was inforced to place a Governour and a small Garrison Hee would also remove that Garrison and so as his Magazine and Navy might bee delivered

August 1642. being some dayes after the Earle of Bedsord had marched with great forces into the West that His Subjects might bee informed of His danger and repaire to His succour seteth up His Standard at Nottingham being a thing of a meere legall necessity if Hee would have any at all to come to help Him and not forfeit and surprise those that by tenure of their Lands or by reason of offices fee's or annuities enjoyed under Him were more immediately bound to assist Him And yet here Hee must weepe over Jerusalem and once again intreate the Parliament and His Rebellious Subjects to prevent their owne miseries and therefore sends the Earles of Southampton and Dorset to the Parliament to desire a Treaty offering to doe all on His owne part which might advance the Protestant Religion oppose Popery and Superstition and secure the Lawes and Liberties of his Subjects and just priviledges of Parliament Which after severall scornes put upon those noble Messengers as denying the Earle of Southampton to come and sit in the house of Peeres a right by birth and inheritance due unto him and causing the Serjeant at Armes of the house of Commons to goe before him with the Mace as they use to doe before Delinquents They refuse to accept of unlesse the King would first take downe his Standard and recall his Declarations and Proclamations against them To which the King the 5. Sept. 1642. notwithstanding the Earle of Bedford had with great forces in the meane time besieged the Marquis of Hartford in the Castle of Sherb●r● in Dorset-shire replying That hee never did declare nor ●●er intended to declare both his houses of Parliament to bee traytors or set up his Standard against them much lesse to put them and the Kingdome out of his protection And utterly protesting against it before God and the World offered to recall his Declarations and Proclamations with all cheerefullnesse the same day that they should revoke their Declarations against those had assisted him and desiring a Treaty and conjuring them to consider the bleeding condition of Ireland and the danger of England undertakes to bee ready to grant any thing shall bee really good for his Subjects which being brought by the Lord Falkland one of his Majesties Secretaries of State and a Member of the house of Commons and not long before in a very great esteeme with them all the respect could bee afforded him being to stand at the Barre of the house of Commons and deliver his Message unto them had only an answer in a printed Declaration of the Lords and Commons returned unto him That it was Ordered and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That the armes which they have beene forced to take up or shall bee forced to take up for the preservation of the Parliament Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome shall not bee laid downe untill his Majestie shall withdraw his protection from such Persons as have beene voted by both houses of Parliament to bee Delinquents or that shall by both houses of Parliament bee voted to bee Delinquents which after their mad way of voting might have beene himselfe his Queene or his Heire apparent and leave them to the Justice of Parliament according to their d●merites to the end that those great Charges and damages wherewithall the Common-wealth hath beene burdened since his Majestie departed from the Parliament might bee borne by the Delinqua●ts and other Malignant and dis-affected Persons and that those who by Loans of money or otherwise at their charges have assisted the Common-wealth or shall in l●●e manner hereafter assist the Common-wealth in times of extreame danger and here they would also provide for future freinds and quarrells may bee re-paid all sums of money ●ent for those purposes and satisfied their charges susteyned out of the estates of the said Delinquents and of the Malignant and disaffected partie in this Kingdome And to make good their words 8. of September 1642. Before their answer could come unto the Kings hands Ordered certaine numbers of horse and foote to bee sent to Garrison and secure Oxford and the morrow after before the King could possibly reply unto it their Lord Generall the Earle of Essex marched out of London against Him with an Army of 20000. men horse and foot gallantly Armed and a great traine of Artillery to attend him notwithstanding all which and those huge impossibilities every day more and more appeared of obtaining a Peace with those were so much afraid to bee loosers by it as they never at all intended it The King must needs send one message more unto them to try if that might not give them some occasion to send Him gentler conditions and therefore 13. September 1642. Being the same day they had impeached the Lord Strange of high-treason for executing the Kings Commission of Array and Ordered the propositions for furnishing of horse plate and money to bee tendred from house to house in the Cities of London and Westminster and to bee sent into all the Shires and Counties of England to bee tendred for the same purpose and the names of the refusers to bee certified Mr. May one of the Pages to the King comes to the Lords house in Parliament with a message from Him bearing date but two dayes before That although Hee had used all wayes and meanes to prevent the present distractions and dangers of the Kingdome all His labours have beene fruitlesse that not so much as a treaty earnestly defired by Him can bee obtained though Hee disclaimed all His Proclamations and Declarations and the erecting of His Standard as against His Parliament unlesse Hee should denude Himselfe of all force to defend Him from a visible strength marching against Him That now Hee had nothing left in His power but to expresse the deepe sence Hee had of the publique misery of the Kingdome and to apply Himselfe to a necessary defence wherein Hee wholy relied upon the providence of God and the affection of His good People and was so far from putting them out of His protection as when the Parliament should desire a treaty Hee would piously remember whose blood is to bee spilt in this quarrell and cheerefully embrace it But this must also leave them as it found them in their ungodly purposes for the morrow after being the 14. day of September 1642. Mr. Hampden one of the 5. Members by this time a Collenell of the Army brings letters to the house of Commons from the Parliaments Lord Generall that hee was at Northampton in a very good posture and that great numbers of the Countreys thereabouts came in dayly unto him and offered to march under him and that so soone as all his forces that are about London shall come unto him which hee desires may bee hastened hee intended to advance towards His Majesty and it was the same day voted That all things sealed by the Kings Seale since it was carried away by the

Lord Keeper Littleton should bee Null and of no force in the Law and that a new Seale should bee provided The King therefore seeing what Hee must trust to 19. September 1642. Being at Wellington in Shrop-shire in the head of such small forces and friends as Hee could get together for the Parliament that very day had received letters That the King but the weeke before having a muster at Nottingham there appeared but about 3000. foote and 2000. horse and 1500. dragoones and that a great part of His men were not provided with armes made His Protestation and Promise as in the presence of almighty God and as Hee hoped for His blessing and protection to maintaine to the utmost of His power the true reformed Protestant Religion established in the Church of England and that Hee desired to governe by the knowne Lawes of the Land and that the Libertie and propertie of the Subject should be preserved with the same care as His owne just rights and to observe inviolably the Lawes consented to by Him in this Parliament and promised as in the sight of almighty God if Hee would please by His blessing upon that Army raised for His necessary defence to preserve Him from that Rebellion to maintaine the just priviledges and freedome of Parliament and governe by the known Lawes of the Land In the meane while if this time of Warre and the great necessity and straights Hee was driven to should beget any violation of them Hee hoped it would bee imputed by God and man to the Authours of the Warre and not to Him who had so earnestly desired and laboured for the Peace of the Kingdome and preservation thereof and that when Hee should faile in any of those particulars Hee would expect no aide or reliefe from any man nor protection from Heaven And now that the stage of Warre seemes to bee made ready and the parliament partie being the better furnished had not seldome shewed themselves and made severall traverses over it for indeede the King having so many necessities upon him and so out of power and provision for it might in that regard only if Hee had not beene so unwilling to have any hurt come to His People by his own defending of Himselfe bee backward and unwillingly drawn unto it wee may doe well to stand by and observe who cometh first to act upon it 22. Of September 1642. The Earle of Essex writeth from Warwick that hee was upon his march after the King and before the 6. of October following had written to the Countie of Warwick with all speede to raise their Trained bands and Voluntiers to resist his Forces if they should come that way and to the three Counties of Northampton Lecester and Darby to gather head and resist him if hee should retire into those parts and by all that can bee judged of a matter of fact so truely and faithfully represented must needes bee acknowledged to have great advantages of the King by the City and Tower of London Navy Shipping Armes Ammunition the Kings Magazine all the strong Townes of the Kingdome most of the Kingdomes plate and money the Parliament credit and high esteeme which at that time the People Idolized the fiery Zeale of a Seditious Clergie to preach the People into a Rebellion and the People head-long lie runing into the witcheraft of it When the King on the other side had little more to help him then the Lawes and Religion of the Land which at that time every man began to mis-conster and pull in peeces had neyther men horse armes ammunition ships places of strength nor money not any of his partie or followers after the Parliament had as it were proclaimed a Warre against Him could come single or in small numbers through any Towne or Village but were either openly assaulted or secretly betrayed no man could adventure to serve or owne him but must expose Himselfe and his Estate to bee ruined either by the Parliament or People or such as for malice or profit would informe against him All the gaines and places of preferment were on the Parliaments part and nothing but losses and mis-fortunes on the Kings No man was afraid to goe openly to the Parliaments side and no man durst openly so much as take acquaintance of his Soveraigne but if hee had done a quarter of that which Ziba did to David when hee brought him the 200. loaves of bread or old Barzillai or Ittay the Gittite when hee went along with him when his sonne Absolom rebelled against him They should never have escaped so well as they did but have beene sure to bee undone and sequestred for it So much of the aff●ctions of the People had the Parliament cosened and stolne from them so much profit and preferment had they to perswade it and so much power to enforce those that otherwise had not a minde to it to fight against him Who thus every way encompassed about with dangers and like a Partridge hunted upon the Mountaines marcheth from Shrewsbury towards Banbury perswading and picking up what help and assistance His better for of Subjects durst adventure to afford Him in the way to which On Sunday the 23. of October 1642. for they thought it better to rob God of his Sabboth then loose an opportunity of murdering their Soveraign T●e Earle of Essex and Parliament Army powring in from all quarte●s of the kingdom upon him had comp●ss●d Him in on all sides and before the King could put His men in battell Aray many of whom being young country fellows had no better armes then clubs and staves in their hands cut out of the hedges and put His two young Sonnes the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Yorke in the guard of a troope of horse at the further end of the field and had finished a short prayer a bullet of the Earle of Essex's Cannon graz●d at His heeles as hee was kneeling at His prayers on the side of a b●●ke for Blague a villaine in the Kings Army having a great Pension allowed Him for it had given notice in what part of the field the King stood that they might the better know how to shoot at him But God having a greater care of his Annointed then of their Rebellious pretences so ordered the hands of those that fought for the King as the Earle of Essex was so loaden with Victories as hee left five of His men for one of the Kings dead behinde him lost his baggage and Artillery retired back to Warwick and left the King to blesse God in the field where Hee supped with such Victualls as the more Loyall and better naturd neighbours sent him when the worser sort refused to do it and lying there all night sent warrants out the next day to the neighbour Parishes to bury the dead drew off His ordnance and marched to Banbury and yet hee could not forget to pitty those were at such paynes and hazard the day before to murther him but before

every one that will intrude upon it all that is in the Law concerning our Lives Estates Liberties and Religion made voide and dependant upon their Arbitrary Independent power all that is in the Law concerning Navigation the Kings protection of his people certainty of Customes Trade and entercourse leagues and correspondencies with Forraigne Princes expired or anihilated and all that our forefathers have obtained by way of Lawes and Settlement and certainty of Estate are now at dispose of our vote-mongers who insteede of a most Pious and gracious King governing by knowne Lawes have set us up 43. or 50. Kings and ten times as many more Knaves and Fooles who will govern by no Law but such as they shall call Lawes and make themselves can bee accusers witnesses and Judges at one and the same time and if neede bee condemne and take away mens Estates first and try them after two or three yeares Petitioning for it a bondage and slavery in the generall more then ever any of our ancestours tasted of For the Romans whose Justice and moralitie at home and vertue and temperance abroad made them free enough from Tyrany did but make them as Tributaries The Picts made but temporary incursions and a wall could bee made against them The Saxons and Danes brought us good Lawes and Willians the Conquerour was conterted to restore them And all that succeeded him since understood a government by Lawes to be their own as well as the Peoples security but this which they have now brought upon us and would keepe us under is a misery beyond that was suffered under the 30. Tirants of Athens Spartan Ephori or Romes Dece●●virat for there were something of Lawes and Rules to governe by The Children of Israel in the Egyptian sl●very had a property in their goods and cattell and were at liberty to serve a better God then that of their masters and though they had their burdens doubled upon them were not kill'd imprisoned or fequestred for Petitioning against the sense of Phareah The Jewes in Captivitie had so much libertie of Conscience allowed to them as to play upon their Harps and sing the Songs of Syon in a strange Land The frozen Russians though so dull and ignorant as when they are asked any matter of State or difficultie make answer God and the great Duke knoweth breath not under so arbitrarie and lawlesse a government The Grecians had not their Lawes Religion Liberties as wee have all at once taken from them nor o●n the sufferings of them or any other vassals of the Ottoman port or those that live under the Crim Taertar equall the one ●alie of our English Slavery Into which we had never fallen or come at all or so long groned under had wee but served God and the King as wee ought to have done and not wrested the sence as well as the plaine words of the Scripture and the Laws of the Land to enable the sonnes of Zerviah to bee too hard for us and bring all manner of mischiefe confusion and wickednes upon us more then Romes and Constantinoples Antichrist ever brought upon a People from which the King had delivered us if we had not Cursed Reviled Prayed Contributed Fought against him for endeavoring to Protect us How gracious then was hee who endured the heate of the day and cold of the night to preserve a great deale more for us then Nabals Sheepe could amount unto yet being worse used then ever David was for it could not tell how so much as to threaten to doe that which David had so great a mind to doe but fought as long as hee could to protect them would not so much as defend themselves but did all they could to raine those that defended him And how much was hee beyond Codrus the Athenian King the Romane Curtius or Decij if all that the Ancients wrote of them were true who sacrificed themselves but not their Estates and Posterity to preserve the Publique and how good beyond example or the Credit of any history who made himselfe a Martyr for his peoples Lives and Liberties endured so many deaths and suffered more indignities then all the Kings of England put together have ever endured to preserve a people have for a great part of them either by Rebellion or an accursed Newtrality helped to ruine him and when hee knew whatsoever Conditions or Propositions hee should bee forced to yield unto would by the Law of God as well as the Civill and Common Law the Lawes of Nature and Nations and the dictates of every common mans reason and apprehention have beene void in the very making of them and could not have reached to his posterity and that if hee would but have surrendred up his people and gone along with their new masters in their Arbitrary and Tyrannicall government as some of his last words upon the Scaffold plainly intimate and sided with 20. or 30. of the Faction and delivered up the Sheepe to the Wolves hee might no doubt have had a good part of the Fleece to his owne share or but with Sampson have pleased himselfe with revenge and delivered up a people to Slavery were at so mu●h expence of Treasure and Blood and their owne Soules to bring their Soveraigne to it might have worne the title of a King and played the wanton with Sardanapalus in the company and delight of women pleased his pallate with Vitellius his pride if hee had any with Bassianus his crueltie if hee could ever have beene guilty of it with Commodus and with Childerick the lazie King of France in a Chariot deck't with garlands whilst others governed for him beene at certaine times of the yeare only exhibited to the People and like the Minotaure of Creete wallowed in the laberinth of Parliament priviledges and devoured his people did notwithstanding refuse to doe any thing might help himselfe either to purchase his owne quiet or so great a Libertie and would neither for any good might come to himselfe or any evill might bee cast upon him and his posterity bee perswaded or threatned from the protection of his People who if hee had not taken more care for them then they did for themselves must if hee had yeilded to all the Parliament propositions for then they might have imagined mischiefe by a Law have from time to time beene engaged in any Warre their task-masters had a mind to put them upon must have beene excised plundred sequestred ruined and undone sworne and forsworne constrayned to sweare to do a thing to day and the next day sweare not at all to doe it The sonne set to kill his Father and brothers forced to fight one against another and have all their holydayes turned to thanks-giving dayes that they are undone or fasting dayes that they may bee undone soone enough And if at any time that thing they call a Parliament should think it fit to make a directory to the Alchoran and to order every man to turne