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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

together His Tryal was Printed by his Party with several Speeches Memorandums c. his Deportment before he went and upon the Scaffold as likewise many Additional Discourses of Politicks Divinity c. making a pretty large Quarto the compleatest body of Enthusiasm I ever saw tending to this main end That in Right of Jesus Christ and his People 't was justifiable to stand up against any Government Controll and Subvert at Pleasure In like manner he would have run on at his Execution and because not suffer'd to defend the Treasons he had for 20 Years together continually acted would have it a violation of every Free-born Englishman's Right But then for his Religious deportment he declar'd to have such Signs of Special Salvation they are the very words of his Prayer as to assure himself a place no lower than the Right hand of Jesus Christ St. Paul was but a weak Brother in comparison to him who after many years labour in the Gospel could not promise himself to have attain'd or were already made perfect c. whereas this Commonwealth Apostle set the Crown upon his Tryal of Sir H. V. p. 89. head the first day of his Spiritual Birth and even whilst here in the Body was made partaker of Eternal Life in the first fruits of it But why should we mention St. Paul when in his last Agony he so Blasphemously emulated our Blessed Saviour himself for instead of a Lord have mercy on my Soul Christ Jesus receive my Spirit or the like we are told his very last words of all at the Block were as followeth Father glorifie thy Servant in P. 95. the sight of men that he may Glorifie thee in the discharge of his Duty to thee and to his Country Could any thing but Hell inspire a man at this rate yet all his Speeches and Prayers are move or less one continu'd Rhapsody of such abominable Stuff I shall mention something of his Temporal Concerns partly for that our Author's relation is as opposite to truth as one Pole to the other Sir Henry Vane saith he was a Gentleman of an Ancient Family in the County of Durham whereas the Family they were of was directly South either in Kent or Essex as I am inform'd till the Old Fellow having well fleec'd himself at Court mov'd Northward upon this occasion Raby-Castle was in the Crown one of the finest Royalties in the North of England assign'd King Charles with other Lands when Prince of Wales for the support of his Family When come to the Crown the Parliament not supplying him to carry on the Spanish War as they had promis'd both his Father and Self he was oblig'd to assign it over to some Citizens for a Summ of Money giving them Power to lett Leases c. Old Sir Henry knowing this to be a considerable Purchase agreed with the Citizens for their interest and then got it confirm'd to him by the King upon easie terms we may well presume facilitated too by some undervaluings for when entertain'd there in his Expedition against the Scots and finding a magnificent Structure according to that old way of Building he pleasantly told him Sir Henry This is more than a heap of Stones When Cromwell gave the Rump their Quietus those few of them who had Country Seats retir'd thither this Hen. the 2 d. his Father being a little before Dead to Raby-Castle where because prohibited to do it any longer in the Government he Tyranniz'd over his Tenants and Neighbours obliging the former to take new Leases as not allowing those they had from the Citizens and seiz'd upon an Estate to the value of 200 l. per Annum which had been Purchas'd by a charitable Gentleman out of the Mannor and given to the Parish of Stanthorp for Relief of the Poor support of the Free School and repair of the Church with many such-like Arbitrary Encroachments according to the plenitude of his Self-will'd Power The People we may imagine could not long brook such usage but at length took so much courage as to Petition Cromwell for Relief who referr'd it by especial recommendation to his Commissioners of the Seal and they finding Matter of Fact true did the Tenants Right to the great dissatisfaction of this Lord Paramount I have been the more particular in this relation upon a double account the one is to clear that great Man the Earl of Strafford whom I have frequently found censur'd by many otherwise his Admirers for taking the Title of Raby to his Barony supposing it to be old Vane's Paternal Estate whereas if taken when first made a Peer it was not in his Possession if otherwise when Earl the original Right continu'd in the Crown the King might dispose of the Honor to whom he pleas'd as he had done before of the Estate yet 't is thought the peevish old Secretary for this reason plotted the ruine of that incomparable Minister as both he and his Son conduc'd in many other things to that of their Master may such ingratitude in due time meet with an Act of Resumption The other thing I design'd to observe from the foremention'd relation is that men of Commonwealth Principles whatever noise they make of the Peoples Right Liberty Property c. where-ever they get into Power and Authority are more insolent and Arbitrary than any sort of Mankind uneasie Neighbours griping Landlords froward Masters exact from and impose upon all they have to do with And this rough self-will'd management of his own private concerns is an Argument to me much beyond our Author's authority that the good Conduct of their Marine Affairs at that time must proceed from others of a more sedate temper so warm a Brain and violent Spirit could not do any thing with judgment and discretion I cannot forbear to mention what his Friends tell us of his deportment after Condemnation some perswading him to make Submission to the King and endeavour the obtaining of his Life Tryal of Sir H. V. Pag. 81. he said If the King did not think himself more concern'd for his Honour and his Word than he did for his Life then he was willing they should take it nay I declare said he I value my Life less in a good Cause than the King can do his Promise with several such like Rants so abominably extravagant as if he studied to precipitate his own ruine but he treated God Almighty at the same impudent manner so that 't is hard to resolve whether his Blasphemies or Treasons were greatest for both which I presume it is that our Author and his Friends give him so high a Character commend his Eloquence Soundness of Judgment Presence of Mind Gravity Magnanimity and what crowns all Constant adherence to the Cause of his Country whereas Bedlam would afford us many of a much more steady temper and Newgate truer Patriots to the Nation 's Peace and Welfare Thus have I run over the Legendary Relation of our Republican Regicides as laid

confirmation for they vouchfafe it no other appellation than Tyranny perfect Tyranny in the harshest sence the word is now taken and that which all Free People ought to extirpate with the utmost abhorrency and detestation directly according with what I have already mention'd of their admired Sidney's Maxim that the People are sole Judges of their Superiors actions and foreseeing a very weighty Objection to lie in the way such a course would make the Remedy worse than the Disease give occasion of continual Tumults and Civil Wars he very slightly replies Civil War in Machiavel's account is a Disease Tyranny the Death of a State Some other Authorities might have pass'd better than Machiavel's but for want of better his must serve the turn had that unhappy Gentleman consider'd his fate it might have prevented his own which tho' for nothing else this dangerous Position most justly deserves that any man of sence should say Civil War is but a Disease can any thing be more Mortal to a State have not all Tyrannies commenc'd from thence with unavoidable Oppression and Slavery to whatever People fall under that worst of curses yet how far our Publishers have taken this infection appears in that they presume so boldly to use the same Epithet Tyranny all is Tyranny with them tho' never more was known than from the no Conduct of such rash unexperienc'd Phaetons and therefore to disswade them from any future attempts 't is my desire they would transferr that Admonition in their Close given the Presbyterians and apply it to themselves since altogether as agreeable A Revenge taken against those who will not let us possess all is a slender Satisfaction for the hazard of utter Ruine 3. There is but one thing more I will return upon these Critical Observers and that shall relate to their admired Author himself how they can justifie that Ostentation and Applause he so fulsomly assumes in every the most trivial undertaking the First Volume is more than one half stuff'd with such Vain-glorious Rhodamontades His defence of Warder Castle fills more Paper than Sir Francis Vere's Relation of the famous Ostend Siege when he was only block'd up to prevent his and his fellow Rebels plundering the Loyal Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood and could the King who good man was ill furnish'd that way and had greater occasion for them elsewhere have spared two or three large Battering-Pieces it would have been beaten about their Ears in as few Hours for want of which they were starv'd into a Surrender In like manner when Prisoner how vainly doth he relate the many importunities to forsake his Party and upon his resolving to continue Rebel what valuable Persons were proffer'd in Exchange as if the fortune of either Side had depended upon this great Almanzor's abetment when in truth tho' that cursed turn rais'd so much dust as choak'd the whole Kingdom yet his part in it was no more than Aesop's Fly he did what Mischief he could but his Vaunts far excell his Performances Neither was he valuable for any thing more in their Civil Transactions than a grough positive humor resolutely bent upon whatever his own will suggested of which unmanageable disposition he gave an early Specimen that little while he was at Trinity-College Oxon where the then President kept a strict Discipline and would frequently Moderate at the young Students Disputations himself It happen'd upon a time this Positive Sir was engag'd in an Argument about their Species Intentionales and Reales or some such like Topick for he confidently affirm'd something to be Real which was very far from it the good Dr. endeavour'd to convince him by this following instance The Fox wagging his Tail and seeing its Shadow upon the Wall said it was an Horn was that an Horn quoth he to Ludlow Yes it was a Horn a real Horn. Wherein he so pertinaciously persisted as the Old man fell into a little Passion and put an end to that debate with this resolve Well if it be a Horn then Toot it you fool you How it was express'd in Latin was not related but I had the Passage from a Right Reverend Person of great Eminency who sometime after was in the same Presidentship and upon a general Discourse of Fanatick Obstinacy gave this particular instance how naturally some mens Dispositions lead them thereto For at the same contradicting rate he went on in the whole course of his Life and tho' as heavy as Lead yet as stiff as Iron would bend to none but break all other mens Measures both good and bad that did not come up to his Levelling Projects for that was his common Epithet Ludlow the Leveller with two or three such Whimsical Nostrums of his as destructive to Humane Society as crude Mercury to the Natural body With the like Arrogant fondness he relates how earnest they were to compliment him into the Lieutenant-Generalship of Ireland whereas had not Pride and Pertinacy altogether blinded his vain mind half an eye might have discover'd there was no consideration of his Abilities in the Proposal but a trick of Cromwell's to remove him out of the way that the dark Designs he had in agitation here might receive no obstruction from such an unweildy fellow as might force him upon more Severity than was requisite in the infancy of his Usurpation And this surther appears upon Ireton's Death for he being next in Command should have in course come into the Chief whereas his name was never so much as thrown up among them but first Lambert was propounded and then Fleetwood top'd upon him as most proper to keep him under when his new Father-in Law should top them all and civilly detain him from coming home that he might not be as insolent to the Vsurper as he had been to his natural Sovereign We are now to follow him into Swisserland where he highly applauds the Reception they met with neither indeed could all Europe have afforded them a properer Place the Devil and Collier not being more alike than these Guests and their Entertainers yet the Character he gives them of the Illustrious High and Mighty Sovereigns and most Honoured Lords their Excellencies of Bern would make one think them the most August Assembly ever sat at the Helm of any Government the Roman Senate was nothing to them whereas in truth never such a Company of Clodpated Clowns assum'd the title of Magistrates but since agreeable both to Place and People they pass for tolerable there whom a more civiliz'd Nation would by no means endure at their first defection from the House of Austria as they had but few Gentry among them and fewer engag'd with them so they made an Order that none should be admitted into their new Establish'd Government and their Plebeianships have ever since proceeded accordingly without regard to Honor Integrity or Good Manners as their Strong Bodies and hardy Constitutions qualifie them for War so their necessitous condition engage them to Lease-out their Lives to that

bloody trade upon which account likewise they too often prostituted both Souls and Consciences in most perfidious violations of whatever Engagements they entred into as the French Spaniard and Milanese successively experienc'd one of these did since six them tho' at a dear rate upon their first Stipulation but is now upon better terms and may by degrees prescribe to them according to their own measures This Composition of Rocks and Cataracts was the Asylum of our Regicides and properly enough as already said for that both the Climate was most agreeable to their rough severe Dispositions and the Government the first Commonwealth Rebels as well Temporal as Ecclesiastick of these later Ages Nevertheless had our King been in any measure so sollicitous to apprehend or disturb him and his Fellows as they would hold the World in hand it might have been easily done 'T is own'd how much Geneva suspected their Power of Protection if demanded p. 104. and tho' Mr. Humelius one of the Bern Ministers who with the English Tongue had got the Fanatick Taint engag'd some in the Government to stand their Friends yet had our King assisted by his Brother of France's Recommendation press'd earnestly to have them deliver'd up to Justice 't is probable they would have given them notice to slip away the utmost kindness they could have shown Out-Laws and that for King-killing may find some private but no publick Abettors and whatever Government doth so ought to be adjudg'd a Common Enemy by all Monarchs in the World SECT II. MY next Province is to give the true Character of those Execrable Regicides whom Ludlow and his Publishers endeavour with so much art and daubing otherwise to represent for the little account they give of the Revolution doth not concern me and is withall so mean and trivial so deeply ting'd with the partiality and prejudice of a violent Faction as it looks more like an Invective than History taking every occasion to lash at those of his old Acquaintance who not having so deeply engag'd were not oblig'd so cursedly to persevere and inveighs against the King and Court as if still on th' other side the Water tho' it appear'd otherwise from his own Confession for finding how unsafe it was to stay longer in England he scamper'd away as well as he could and much applauds his own Conduct in the retreat pass'd incognito through France and arriv'd at that grand Sanctuary of Sedition and Schism Geneva where his first Letters from home inform'd him how ten of his Brother Regicides being accus'd of having in their several Stations contributed to the Death of the King had been Condemned and Executed p. 59. The Reflections he makes as to the Tryals being put off till the new Sheriffs came on is meer cavil for had Love the old Sheriff been never so factious and obstinate and return'd a Jury all of the same Kidney the Matter of Fact was so apparent and foul as they must have found them guilty or come under the same Praemunire But so great a concern as that necessarily required an extraordinary Commission and the many weighty affairs upon resetling a Nation so long in such a Chaos of Confusion would not permit their Tryals to come on sooner perhaps not so soon but for the approaching Term. He continues to carry on his Cavils against the Commissioners at some because they had been engag'd in the Rebellion with them at others because they adher'd to the King against it so that 't is not possible to please them unless permitted to judge in their own Cause or have it post-pon'd as the Welshman desir'd till the last Day whereas upon the whole there was never known a Commission of more able understanding Persons both for Law and Parts than sat upon that sad occasion nor any Tryal manag'd with more temper patience and all other kinds of fair carriage towards the Prisoners as the worthy Sir William Wyld then Recorder of London told them they forgat their barbarousness to the good King they would not hear him nor his just Allegations who shuffled now with all the dilatory impertinencies imaginable and the Court with an unwearied compliance let them go on And for this Author or rather his Friends to publish the quite contrary nigh Forty Years after is the heighth of baseness and by way of Penance might I prescribe it they should be oblig'd to Reprint for 't is very scarce The Tryal of the Regicides that the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth may appear and moreover all the Party oblig'd to read it too which I fansie would be very uneasie the Alchoran would down with them ten times better Yet this must be own'd Ludlow had certainly read those Tryals for the account he gives of his Friends what they said by way of Defence or Extenuation is taken almost verbatim from thence without the least notice of what was Rejoin'd upon them either by Court or Councel as to matter of Fact or Law Is such a man fit to write an History inform Posterity of the truth of things or his Publishers men of Reputation and Integrity to impose such things upon the World The first he gives us an account of in this Martyrology of Hell is his friend Harrison concerning whom because nothing is mention'd of his Parentage and Education as he constantly doth when worth taking notice of the World may know he was a Butcher's Son of Newcastle Vnderline Staffordshire plac'd Clerk to an Attorny in Clifford's Inn and when out of his time became a kind of Pettifogger in that way of Practice and was infamous enough for it which might occasion him when the War brake out to exchange his Pen for the Sword yet in this neither did he make any considerable advance till the Self-denying Ordinance open'd the way for such Mechanick Reformers when likewise tho' perhaps stout enough he was more beholding to his Confidence than Courage for having a Tongue well hung the effect of his pettifogging Profession by his Enthusiastical Preaching and great pretences to Piety he became admir'd by the Army and advanc'd by Cromwell to a Major-General being one of his chiefest Confidents and accordingly made use of by him to break the Presbyterian Junto convey the King from Hurst-Castle to St. James's in order to his Murder wherein he acted according to his descent with more than a Butcher's Cruelty This is Ludlow's Hero who when brought to the Bar did not sneak like Sir Hardress Waller but pleaded Not Guilty and justify'd the Sentence pass'd upon the King and the Authority of those who had Commission'd him to act as one of his Judges p. 61. and so continues his Cants and Flourishes impudently owning what he saw evidently prov'd alledging that it was done by Authority of Parliament and could not be question'd in any inferiour Court which being a point of Law he desir'd Councel might be assign'd on that head but the Court over-rul'd it Thus far Ludlow as to their