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A36431 The VVord of God, to the citie of London, from the Lady Eleanor: of the Earle of Castle-Haven: condemn'd, and beheaded: Aprill 25. 1631. &c. Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652. 1644 (1644) Wing D2018; ESTC R214580 4,596 20

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in the Church of England I doe believe the Canonicall Scriptures and that they are written by the inspiration of the holy spirit I doe beleive the Booke of Common Prayer as it is allowed in the Church of England to be a good for me in those dayes for the service of God and to use the same and for the rest of my beleife I doe referre it to the true Orthodox faith of our Church of England And from the Articles received at this present in the Church of England and confirmed by authority of Parliament I doe not differ in any point renouncing all the superstitions and errors taught or beleived in the Church of Rome or any other Church in which faith I will God willing continue to my lives end in Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand this first of May 1631. Castle-haven LJkewise of whose Letter makeing bold to shew the beginning thereof When without MERCY Castaway how well resolv'd He was who had such ill luck at one and Thirty Reveale O Daniel J send thee 1631. farewells with thankes for thy letter and advice But J am bound for Nineveh And having bidden Tarshish farewell Not fearing death J doe not desire life CASTLE-HAVEN ANd for more manifestation of what nature this unnaturall strange trespasse Whereof this man Mer Lord Audeley was accusd his undeserv'd death is referd to Geneses 38. Judahs sonnes Er his eldest and O N an his trespasse And how the Lord slew them both with her disguising putting off her widowes garment with child by whoredome Tamer travaling with twinns those sonns with that ominous Scarlet or Red thread bound c. And therefore shall but name them the contrivers of it Ann his wife and his brother Ferdinando the one for envie she being an Heire and such a notorious one O Ann The other a perverted Papist wanting no malice wherefore to cut him off some time gone that way astray too but recald himself no aspertion was held too soule for him And for saving her honour an adultresse by promisd preferment a Page and a fo●t man was brought forth Those VVitnesses rewarded in their kind condemned out of their owne mouths like sillie Sheep for their labour Who came against a Peere of two Kingdomes as Broadway by name charged with that breach made on her The other one Fitz Patricke or O Donel a very Vagarant Accusing himselfe of O Nans uncleannesse or trespasse with his LORD Vpon his Oath beleev'd which had never received the Sacrament or at least but one kind before him that thrice tooke it upon his death And one never heard to have an Oath come out of his mouth That in that kind he was not guilty never intending to reserve oathes to that purpose to make himselfe forsworne before his death And so much for those twinns or fellow-servants Themselves falling into the pit dig'd for another though guilty of that as much as those Babes Then born Yet worthy of no other witnes out of their owne mouths Therefore the Executioner or Man-midwif as the one helps them into the world be others out of it This work though sooner dispatched where Jrelands heavie blow at hand inclusive in these And after came his Brother with the Red thred c. Also farther for the time of the yeare about sheep-shering time or S. Georges feast as Times circumstance requisit when it came to passe of the LORD Keepers giving sentence Keeper of the great Seale made Lord high Steward That Judge Judah like in this though not acknowledged condemned one more righteous then himselfe Yet discerne J pray you whose are these the Signit or Seale the Staffe or white Rod and Bracelets or Color of what office these are the Ensignes And more over how it came to passe with him behold his own brother Sir Ferdinando Touchet what end he came to That day twelve moneth in the morning at the same houre his brother was condemn'd how he dyed suddainly which had polluted his owne Nest or House the just hand of God displeased This unnaturall brother in a House of Office or the like stroke● dead coming but from the Tennis on Holborn Hill without any servent with him This O Nan ready to be torn in peices before the breath out of his body some their hands in his pockets Others for his Clothes was found thus by His Servants which came to aske for HIM Thus rewarded as They no other deserved JVDAS-like rather then of Judahs Race or Kind Luke 21. in betraying HIM betrayed by Friends and Bretheren so openly Mervin LORD AVDELEY of the Manor of Straw-Bridge which never suspected or did know that the VVord to be of his house or appertaining to Parsonages and Tithes that Mat. 25. Thou knewest J reap where J sowed not and gather where J have not strawed VVhere although the Arch B. of Canterburies burying his Lords money as it may well be no little or hidden of that kind in the earth with the loosing of his head also tyed up with that Napkin or Kircheife the one gone to his owne place Little-Ease or Esaus Rest The other a cheife Peere though his hard hap to loose his Head first yet neverthelesse in Abrahams bosome or Paradice as his Saviour saying I come to save that which is lost Luk. 19. As when the ancient of dayes his returne shewed there so referd to Malachi shall come as a swift witnesse in judgement against adulterers adultresses and false swearers and for Tithes that robery and the like For yee have Rob'd me c. So come LORD and cut off such an evill time deferre us not FINIS AS these farther the summe and substance of the matter shew'd in Luke the 19. and Mat. 25. When the day of judgement immediately followes like as those servants three of them no obscure ones doubtlesse to their account called then So lastly with the Earle of Castle Haven betrayed and his sentence follows theirs as slow The Earle of Strafford Deputy c. And the Arch BB. VVhich could plead no Ignorance as referd to his own mouth those Traytors for evidence of the end so long waited for Anagram Eleanor Audeley