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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

viz. Justice and Mercy both which Ministrations amongst men are the foundations of Peace and not Tyranny and Policy If the two last kiss each other contrary to the Ordinances and Scripture of God and good will and peace amongst men with Laws and Liberti●s of a Nation they commonly fall together But as for the Act of Favor and Mercy Do you think it good to have the National Fundamental Right of the People strangled in claiming of Iustice against any person or persons and to be unjustly unreasonably and un●Christianlike imprisoned and then cover injustice with an Act of Grace Favor or Mercy Are the attributes of God given unto men for no other use but to be abused and converted into such sinister and politique ends It is indeed an honor to have the conduct of an Army of 20000. men to obey the Commands of Iustice to defend the Innocent but the contrary is most ignonimious It is more honorable to have an Army to preserve the blood of one innocent from cruelty and arbitrariness then to destroy many nocents though indeed the principle of the great Infidel Turk is to destroy twenty innocents rather then one nocent thereby thinking to terrifie the people th ugh he oftentimes misses his aym thereby The Scripture doth manifest the attributes of Gods favor and mercy to sinners above the attributes of justice to offenders How much more should you care for the liberty and blood of the innocent of a Nation especially seeing so many capital obligations do lie upon you Contrary to the second part of the Lord Cooks Instit fol. 52. 53. 315. 318 391. 615. 616. 1 Part of the Book Declar. of Parl. 38. 37. 201. 845. And the Votes upon the Impeachment of the ten Members The Petition of Right the third of King Charls The Act that abolished the Star Chamber The deliberate and resolved opinion of all the Judges of England the third yeer of Kings James in answer to the twenty and two Objections of Archbishop Bancroft and the whole Clergy But Sir I am imprisoned contra●y to the Laws of God Nature and the Land and the legal Birth-right of the people and sent unto the Military Jurisdiction of him that I have appealed against c●ntrary to Reason or Christianity Generals are no crimes in Law the Warrant by which I am committed is in General terms Vers 14.29 Cap. of Magna Charta and the Exposition upon them The second part of Inst fol. 29. 46. Rot. Parl. 5. R. 2. n. 45. Rot. Parl. 1. H. 4. n. 14 79. 5. H 4. cap 6. 11. H. 6 c. 11. and 15. 4. H. 8. c. 8. 1. 2. Ph. Ma. c. 10. 4. part Instit fol. 25. 1. part Book Declar. p. 48. 278. Again Sir Law-makers are not to be Law-executors because the benefit of all Appeals would be then destroyed and the people left without all remedy which the Law of Love Justice and safety abhor though they ought to question the male Administrators of Justice or corrupters thereof which is my Case and therefore they are not to male-administer as the Apostle saith Thou that teachest another teachest thou not thy self all power judiciall is committed to divers Courts in the judgment of Gascoign Chief Justice and therefore the King could not command but by matter of Record according unto Law Sir Edw. Cook upon the 3. Ed. 1. cap 15. but especially upon these words or commandment of the King and saith Mr. St. John against the Earl of Strafford it is of higher jurisdiction dare leges then to judg by them and it is beneath the glory and honor of Legislators to be executors of the Law And now I shal declare unto your House more ful●y then I have yet done in my Appeal the Reasons why I did Appeal against the Generall as also his injustice towards me First that I might give some stops to the cu●rant of Injustice to the people and secondly that I might have redress of my own wrongs and insupportable injuries but you shall see how the General hath walked and acted against me viz When I was committed at Ware R●nd●zvous and when my Adversaries could not produce any thing materiall against me as Mr. S xb●y told me was confessed by Commis General I●eton he having viewed the Charge against me and my Answer but there being nothing against me the det●rmination was it should seem to make a composure with the p●isoners and to make a unity under the notion of a Fast the next day after the Fast the prisoners were sent for and a● the time there was a seeming contending betwixt Li●u● Gen. Cromwel and Commis General I●●ton who should speak to us Of Ware Randezvous at that time there was a report by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lilburn that the Levell●rs int●nded to murder the King which blemish seemingly l●y upon u● that were Prisoners chiefly because we were wel-named so and Colonel Eyers my self and others petitioned the General that Lieut. Gen. Henry Lilburn might discover the person that used these words such principles being an abomimination to our spirits and we should rejoyce to have such a one known but it was never done Our Petition was Printed in Lieut. Col. John Lilburns Book but this report was only to g●t the CAVALRIE to joyn to destroy the Levellers so called by whomsoeever it was designed the Lord knows and judges though Master Quarterm●n afterwards told me though I wished he had told me before that Commis General had polickly predetermined to speak and what to say but the words he used with much demureness solemness of countenance the Emblem of a Saint or Hypocrite as many can witness were these viz That God did incline the hearts of the General and General Counsel to desire a union embracing one another in love with many circumlocutions according to his politique intentions but the sum and substance of my Answer was that I wa● confident in my cause yet I would not deny unity if God had wrought the spirit of condiscending in them for I told them I looked upon the condiscending to be of their party I would be glad that the glory of love might be reciprocal but yet I spake a little in justification of my self as to my principles against the common enemy which did endeavor to Court the Regiment the Engagements and Declarations of the Army and the agreement of the people and the just authority of the General at which Lieut. Ge●eral smote his h●nd to his heart which should demonstrate the Christianity Sincerity and unfraudulency of a man and professed that he believed that I was a godly man and that I was iustinable I told him I wondered that there had been such Calumniating Papers Printed concerning me he made it strange and could have had something drawn up to my vindication against Calumny in Print and would have had me drawn it my self there I told him for my part I did not so much value