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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77280	Innocency and the blood of the slain souldiers, and people, mightily complaining, and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those forty knights and burgesses, or thereabouts, that sit in the House of Commons. For the violation of our capital fundamental laws and liberties, and those capital obligations mentioned in this my letter, in capital letters. Or a letter to an eight yeers speaker of the House of Commons. / By Cap. William Bray, from his indurance, illegal, un-Christian, and cruel gaol in Windsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4304; Thomason E568_12; ESTC R206251	25,812	21

according to will and power but now power in them used worse is not the same Pag. 39 40.41.42 That Justice and Righteousness then was one of the witnesses of God then it is now the same That they were no Emissary A●my h●red to serve any Arbitrary power of State but their Arbitrary power of State That th●y were sensible of complaints Arbitrariness Oppressions and Injustice but now a man cannot have Justice from these they have left in the House for them That they would not have an absolute or Arbitrary power f●und in any could not wish to have it in any whom they most confided in or who should appear most of their opinion and Principles is this truth That they were for Parliamentary authority rightly constituted when wil it be performed when they please or when the people please ●nd that they should not be during pleasure or hav● an unlimited power and so an advantage to perpetuate injustice without end or remedy but now the party they left must Pag. 61. that a liberty of d●ss●nt● should be in the House of Commons that the people might see who was fa●th●ul I wish we had the Grandees Speeches Printed to the Nation since they made such a purge● that the Privledges of Parliament should not be extended to private wrong or publique ras●h●● but their power and priviledg may extend to private and publique wrong without controul because Parliament Priviledges as well as r●yall Prerogative may be perverted and ●bused but theirs not Charged severall Memb rs that they inv●ded infring●d and indeavour●d to overthrow the rights of the people and obstructed Justice to the damage of many Commoners if so then is it not much more now And their last Remonstrance from St A●bans pag. 10. Cried out the people w●re mad● to depend main●y upon the King for all and are not the people made to depend upon them for all whether Justice or no Justice that his Interest was made necessary to all that other pretences were but made use of to serve his ends end to make an easie way to set up him and his Interest above all let rational m●n judg whether their practise is not so Page 16 17. That no Common C●un● l or Parliaments should check him Dare the Parliament check him when I cannot have a hearing against him that all orbitrary powers might be exercised at pleasure by himself and such as he pleased to d r●v● the same unto do not the Grandees tread in the same steps aboundingly that snares and chains were laid upon conscienci●us and z●alous men to countenanc● blinde reverence of persons sit for Popery and Slav●ry is not the Generals c. end the same according to his works p. 21. rend ing it a b●and of d●shonor and infamy in him to pr●f●r such a● had a mixture of ambition and v●in g●o●y ●●ndring them fit to 〈…〉 a●d greatn●ss for the injoying some share t●erein to th●mselv●s are not such m n ●hei● only d●rling● witness their actions for me to spe●k to these more then golden wo ds is but A●ram in●o ma●● are Oh then ●igh and mighty God and Judge Judge thou the cause of thy people remember the blood that hath been spilt for our Laws and Liberties to purchase our peace and safety And ●ir Solicitor ●eok your Orator in his bo●k st lled K●●g Charls his Case which will be an everlasting monument against you if you continue to walk unjustly p●g 3● saith he the King deported himself as a God and saith he innocent blood will aff ight more then twelve legions of Devils do not they deport themselves as Gods when they act as living above Law Do you do justice that you might live unjustly did you cut him off to send him to be accountable to God that would not be accountable unto man that you might live here in the same principle and practice as unaccountable unto men would it not be just with God if you tread in the same pathes to inflame and raise up the spirits of your brethren the Commoners to make you accountable unto God also Are not the Lords wayes past finding out and is not he just in all his Judgments pag 38. that an accursed principle of Tyranny lodged within him viz. to be accountable to none but to God which have turned our waters of LAW into blood have not the fruits of the same principles though they have pretended other principles as the King did viz. That his Monarchy was not an absolute but a well bounded Monarchy by Law been actually seen in them and are not they in a leading way to turn water of Law into blood and blood pag. 38. that he had been of Counsell against felons and prisoners but that he never moved the Court to Judgment against any felon or to keep any man in prison but he trembled at it in his thoughts as thinking it would be easier to give an account of mercy and indulgence then of any thing that might look like rigour but now my spirits saith he are of another temper but you imp●ison the innocent against Law Reason Christian Principles your own Declarations the Vowes Covenants Ingagements and imprecations of ●arliament and you have proceeded higher then any to ingage you to Iustice viz. the blood of the King to b●ot page 42. that sentence was not only against one Tyrant but tyranny it self therefore saith he if any of them shall turn Tyrants or consent to set up any kinde of Tyranny by a Law or suffer any unmercifull domineering over the persons Consciences or estates of the free people of this Land They have pronounced sentence against themselves But do not they endeavor to secure themselves against the Laws of heaven and nature and to act by unreasonableness meer power and force by which accursed principle the Lord Jesus and all Christians have been murthered formerly by corrupt Authority Oh Lord arise and judge and behold how they make v●yd the blood of thy people and what is their declared zeal and impartiall Justice upon the blood of the King come unto You have imprecated the wrath and vengeance of Heaven and Earth to light upon you if you did not maintain the Fundamentall Laws and Liberties of the people and call upon the people to say AMEN and that you had no aimes at your selves but wholly at the publique see and compare together the first part of the book Dec. pag. 17. 18. 214. 264. 266. 267 400. 462. 464. 466. 673. 588. 666 573. 692. Is not God just I am troubled at your condition though I rejoyce in my own Again you have revoked one Fast day and made another and declared that there was much guilt in taking Gods name in vain And that there was a proneness to relapse into the former condition of Tyranny and superstition But I hope you did not resolve it when you said you were prone to it And you desire that God would heal the division of your Land But do you goe the way of

I was turned out of the Councell and was not so much as admitted liberty to speak only this very little after expressed though I did desire it often which barbarous and unchristian dealing Inhumanity and Incivility I was much offended at for what could be done more by a Star Ch●mb●r-Councell and High Commission-Court of Prelates and Lords against the rights of ●he People and a harmlesse and undenyable liberty of conscience unlesse humane society as we●l as pure Religion be subverted and in the Councell before I was turned out the Generall told me I was none of the Army because I had no new Commission to whom I answered as I remember to this purpose That I was of the Army as much as Col Reynolds that t●ld you in the C●uncell b●fore all that he h●d no new Commission yet he gave his Vote and also that I was of the Army according to Common Ingagement speciall ingagements Christianity and reason Next of all I wondred that my Vote was then demanded in Counsell if not of the Army Next of all by the Vote of the House for the establishment of the Regiment then in being and not for Col. Reynolds to raise a Regiment next of all my employment for the guard of the King by the authority of the Army and my faithfulness charges and troubles as to the publike but out I must per fas nefasque I profess Sir I could see no safety at all in their Laws and Liberties and I saw that the conscientious Officers and Souldiers of the Army were ready to be destroyed in their Liberties Freedoms and persons at pleasure by such practises which they eminently condemned in the King I saw also that it might extend to those Members that are left in Parliament to make them absolute slaves to such particular Interested parties and designes and to make them to act timorously dishonorably and guiltily contrary to those capital Obligations that I have recited in capital Letters in my Books and that they might serve them also as they had served me when they had served their ends I saw also that it might extend to the embasing of future Representatives and Parliaments and to make them to act ignobly dishonorably illegally and unconscionably to the dishonor of the Lord and ruine of humane society and according to the rules of some men that have corrupted their ways and walked contrary to Law Reason and Christianity and that divine anointment that doth give the name and a describe a Christian And I saw also that if I did not speak I should encourage the General and Grandees in evil practice against their own bodies and souls as well as against the peoples liberties and safety though the sweetness and the deliciousness of their then present power and their extream and abundant causeless enmity and prejudice towards me and private insinuations and influence upon the General for their own advantage to the peoples as well as my ruine which cou●se and practice is extream prejudicial to Common-wealths and destructive to humane society and Christian principles would not permit them to consider And truly Sir let me tell you and let me appeal to the Lord and the people that are rational godly and conscientious whether I could have done less then I did Truly Sir I may say Si crimen erat crimen amoris erat but I have committed no c i me at all and you may keep your favor and grace I will not accept of any such thing falsely called favor tending to the betraying of the rights of my native Countrey and to justifie you in those things that you must answer for before the Lord and the people and also seeing I am perswaded in my own conscience that neither the greater friend or enemy to the Nation can blemish me in my proceedings herein for before I did walk in an undeniable and peaceable Parliamentary Appeal against the General I went unto his Quarters because I had an order from Colonel R●ynolds to waite upon him expressing an order as from the General Counsel and so I told him as I remember I was come to wai●e upon his Excellency to know his pleasure he told me he wondered that the General Councel did not secure me for speaking tending to division I answered That they might have done it if they had pleased and that I thought it would have been very harsh and that I did not know who could question my fidelity and that what I had said was just and spoken in temperance moderation and conscience as might be spoken without offence to any godly and consciencious man told him I was for unity in righteousness as much as any man but if I had spoken of unity and left out righteousness it would it may be have been more pleasing and that by my conversation it should appear and that I had been strangely dealt with as to my former business as that though I was justifiable and declared so to be by Lieut. General Cromwel yet I was deluded under the notion of a Fast yet I ingaged against the Insurrection when courted to far greater honor on the other hand which Hen●y Li●bu●n that traytor that had influence upon him to my prejudice did embrace to the Nations prejudice and danger and since I told him I had been at neer two hundred pound charges and damages in my last cause as to the keeping up of my Troop neer half a year and to be dealt with so twice together I thought it not just he told me I might make my charges appear in private and have satisfaction I answered that was nothing as to the nature of Right or Justice he told me that a civill imployment in the Commonwealth would be more advantagious for me and wherein I might do the Commonwealth more service I told him I was not free to accept of any such place or so to imploy my self untill the Nation was more setled and in a way of enjoyment of their Rights and I could not in my conscience be satisfied that I could do the Nation more service then in that way and therefore I did desire him to suspend the giving out of any Commission unto another untill the business was determined in Parliament he asked me whether I would offer to trouble the Parliament with it I told him I did not think the Parliament would account Justice a trouble to them that had manifested to the world as if they had so much zeal for Justice and for my part I did intend to bring both businesses upon the Stage because in my conscience I did look upon it to be a business of a publique Nature so I did desire his Excellency again to suspend the giving out of any Commission till the business was determined in Parliament he told me he had given out a Commission already I answered he might better recall or suspend it then give away anothers right as Mr. Soliciter Cook saith in King Charls his Case pag 21 Possession is a