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A31028	Regicides, no saints nor martyrs freely expostulated with the publishers of Ludlow's third volume, as to the truth of things and characters : with a touch at Amyntor's cavils against our king's curing the evil, and the thirtieth of January fast : a supplement to the Just defence of the royal martyr / by the same author.	Baron, William, b. 1636.; Baron, William, b. 1636. Just defence of the royal martyr, King Charles I.	1700 (1700)	Wing B898; ESTC R15796	61,679	148

in relating what they Spake or Pray'd 't is usher'd in with that common Salvo to this effect and whoever will have patience to read over what is there related of or by them cannot imagine how any one unless truly Inspir'd not a Fanatick Pretender whose Memories generally are as weak as their judgments should carry off such abominable Presumptions and Religious Delusions wherewith every one of them according to that account were undoubtedly possess'd None of the Primitive Martyrs left the World with so much Assurance and Self-justification as these Wretches they doubted no more of Heaven than the Executioner of their Cloaths tho' they had as little reason to hope for it as Judas dying with less Remorse and Recognitions of their abominable Impieties never considering what others take for sound Doctrine that tho' their Consciences accus'd them not yet were they not thereby Justify'd since there is one greater than their Consciences and knoweth all things but what hath been in all Ages observ'd as to the ill management of Temporal Affairs may be here apply'd in a spiritual sence Quos vult perdere Deus prius dementat This Fanatick Legend of the Regicides with the foremention'd Tryals one of which proves them the most impudent Traytors ever subverted Government the other the most desperate Enthusiasts ever abus'd Religion are so cull'd and falsify'd by this our Author as to perswade the World they were true Patriots and great Saints with how little reason I shall make appear by a particular Survey of his Characters and with the greater Brevity because these general Remarks have gone very far therein To return therefore to Harrison from whom we digress'd who as our Author tells us justify'd the Sentence pass'd upon the King and the Authority of those who had Commission'd him to act c. the Court might have order'd an hasty Verdict and pronounc'd as quick a Sentence as he falsely suggests but they with unaccountable temper attended all his insolent Evasions and impudent Demands of Councel c. and would he have attended to any thing of Law or Reason must have been satisfy'd with their Over-ruling his Demands He trifled as much as contains between 3 and 4 Pages in a large Quarto of their Tryals before he would plead Guilty or Not Guilty till finding he would be entred Mute the same with Judgment he cry'd Not Guilty and for how he would be try'd it must be according to the Law of the Lord that of God and his Country being as he said vain words which nevertheless he was forc'd to come to which was the more foolish and humorsome in him for that being brought up in the Law he could not but understand that way of procedure to be a necessary Form and not to be dispenc'd with Neither can I take it for any thing more than a Fanatick Story that is a Lye when he tells us the Executioner was in a more than ordinary Dress or Place than usually assign'd him in Court where he is an Attendant in Course and by Office And if he declar'd going out of the Court after Sentence pronounc'd that he had no reason to be asham'd of the Cause engag'd in it was the greater shame for him and had he met with that barbarous usage the Royal Party is so falsely charg'd to have shown him it would have been but a just return With like rude and groundless Reflections he proceeds to the place of Execution where Chairing-Cross formerly stood that the King might have the pleasure of the Spectacle and inure himself to Blood p. 69. And was there no other reason to be given Yes surely not so much that the Court might look towards them as they toward the Banquetting-House out of which they led their Sovereign to the Slaughter And for the King 's inuring himself to Blood the Fanaticks had great reason to complain who hazarded his Life and shock'd his Monarchy by that fond impossibility of obliging them For his Execution and Declaration before it 't was according to his Life desperate Enthusiasm abusing Almighty God more by his Presumptions than had he absolutely defy'd him And here I had left this desperate Wretch but for one Passage which I am sure Ludlow did not like and 't is probable his friends will be as little pleas'd with in the foremention'd Fanatick Legend which begins with this Brother we are told the Sheriff sent three Divines to discourse him upon several heads whereof one was the breaking the Old Parliament to which he reply'd That was the Act and Design of Cromwell he knowing nothing of it till P. 3. call'd by him to go along as an Assistant that Morning it was done Yet afterward saith he I was glad of it as seeing they did intend to perpetuate themselves without doing those desirable things which were expected and longed for by the Lord's people and if the Lord's people were not satisfy'd with them I am sure all others were much less and yet we have a new Club of Politico's so much made up of contradiction as to applaud those contemptible Villains The next was Mr. John Carew a Gentleman of an Ancient Family saith Ludlow and that Family not a little asham'd say others he should so basely degenerate 'T is further said he was brought up to the Law altho' at his Arraignment he shew little Skill therein for that he would save to our Lord Jesus Christ his Right to the Government of these Kingdoms before he would plead Not Guilty I presume he had Enroll'd himself among the Fifth Monarchy Gang an unreasonable set of Men who might have liberty to expect Christ's coming as long as they please provided they would Submit to the present Government in the mean while but till then they will be Govern'd by none but themselves and of all Mankind none are so far from Christ's way of Governing How justly the Court stopt his impertinent Excursions is already mention'd and 't is like our Author to tell us what this Prisoner reply'd upon Mr. Arthur Annesly's particularly chargeing him with the Exclusion of the Members in 48. That it was strange to find a Judge upon the Bench give Evidence as a Witness in the Court this I say Ludlow terms an irregular Proceeding unbecoming a Court of Judicature and all the while stifles what the Lord Chief Baron Reply'd You are mistaken it is no Evidence but shews you what Authority that was an Authority of Forty six Members how is this Evidence a Judge sure may expostulate from his own Knowledge about any particular fully prov'd before as this whole Charge was Yet at the same rate is the Cavil carried on every thing caught at which may serve a turn tho' nothing mention'd to clear a Truth Nay sometimes he certainly obtrudes real fictions of his own for I no where find that their Enemies confess'd or commended their Harrison 's and Carew 's steddiness of Mind and contempt of Death but that their Friends took care they should go