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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

and imposing upon a Free People and too by a Set of Men who had the Impudence with the same Breath to hold the People in hand they stood up for their Freedom yet of such Committees as there were several in London so did they proceed to Establish them in the Associated Counties and with the cursed prevalence of their Power the whole Kingdom thorough where every honest loyal Gentleman was forc'd to appear a Delinquent and be us'd at pleasure as you see in the foremention'd Order And this I cannot but further Observe as an unreasonable and most wilfull Partiality in our Prefacers and indeed all their Adherents that every thing from a Single Person is right down Tyranny and what all people who regard their Liberty may stand up against and justly defend themselves from but these Commonwealth Scorpions must not be complain'd of tho' their little fingers were all along thicker than the others Loins every Ordinance from them as Absolve and as severely Executed as the Grand Seignior's Bow-string What they further add that Cromwell's and his Basha's Tyranny compelled the People to suffer the return of Charles II. is altogether false for tho' they were not pleas'd in the least with his many perfidious Enterprizes which were all unmask'd in assuming the Supreme Power yet was it thought easier than the fordid Impositions of the fag end the worst part of a Parliament which had done so much Mischief to the Nation and from whose many Corruptions that glaring Meteor arose with so fatal an Aspect in our Horizon Besides he manag'd his Vsurpation with so much Art and Treachery as there was little hopes of the King's return during his Life tho' frequent Plots about it and some worthy Loyal Gentle-Men cut off upon that account indeed the Plots were thought most of his making the Common Stratagem of all usurp'd Powers But when he was gone to his proper place and his Sons half-witted management made way for the Rump's once more treading the Stage the Southern Sun's approach is not more certainly expected in the Spring than every one seem'd to be of our Old Establishments that Legal Monarchy and Rightful Succession which with so much Madness and Folly such a prodigious expence of Blood and Treasure had by several violent Factions been 20 Years oppos'd and it happen'd accordingly notwithstanding the divided Parties endeavour'd a Coalition and otherwise most indefatigably apply'd their last efforts to save themselves from the Gallows which their own Consciences could inform them how justly deserv'd and 't is a thousand pities they were more afraid than hurt The last Inference these Friends of the Author thought fit to raise is as groundless and false as any of the former charging Charles II. of Ingratitude to the Presbyterians who had so well deserv'd of him by betraying all into his hands c. whereas they never deserv'd well of him nor did him any good they could prevent 1. They never deserv'd well from him but on the contrary were the original Promoters and chief Managers for the Six first Years of all our National Miseries and Confusions 't was from their inducement the Scots began to disturb the happy Quiet and Repose both Kingdoms were in lay'd the Ground-work of our Rebellion by theirs paid them for it in a most profuse manner and thereby engag'd them to assist at a dead lift which wholly unking'd their Sovereign and made him become a prey to the Avarice of the one and Arrogance of the other which too shamefully appear'd by their insolent Rudeness and scandalous Restraint at Holmby and how far further they would have proceeded had not the Army taken him out of their hands may be well suppos'd from the continu'd course of that stubborn Crew for tho' their Janizaries having given them an Essay what they must expect by Excluding the most leading Members and threatening the rest a Treaty was condescended to in the Isle of Wight yet were the Preliminaries so Innovating and Dethroning so destructive to all Fundamentals in Church and State and therein so grating upon His Majesty's Honour and Conscience that he thought Death more eligible than such unreasonable Concessions which too their Dilatory Proceedings till the Army had suppress'd the last Efforts of Loyalty to rescue their Sovereign very much conduc'd to and might by a just and Honourable compliance have otherwise prevented This no man can deny to be a true tho' brief account of the Old King's treatment from that haughty self-will'd Set of Men. And that they would have been as imposing upon his Son could they have carried matters according to their own Minds is as little to be doubted whatever these men prate of betraying all into his hands The Comedian representing the Beggars at the choice of their King for it seems that Kingdom is Elective and such are always beggarly or thereby made so when voted brings in one of his ragged retinue haranguing him among others with this Expression Now thou art King who would not have thee so which was constantly apply'd by the old Cavalier Party to those empty Shews of Respect and hollow Acclamations of Praise wherewith they who forc'd and kept him out were most clamorous at his Restauration would have none thought so loyal faithfull and true as themselves Among the rest the Presbyterian indeed was most assuming for having the twelve years last past been kept with very great regret from doing any considerable Mischief by those viperous Sects which crawl'd forth of their own Bowels and upon this account out of Revenge rather than any good Principle held a correspondence with the King and his Adherents in Exile at the Restauration step'd before all the Loyal Sufferers which had constantly adher'd to the true interest of Church and Crown highly advanc'd in Honour Place and Profit so that quite contrary to these Prefacers impertinent Suggestions instead of the Presbyterians betraying all into the King's hands he betray'd himself and his Cause into theirs and as soon as opportunity serv'd they made several attempts to use him accordingly but the People were grown too much Libertines for their Rigours and the Monarchy was not so soon to have their Covenant Shackels forc'd upon it although they indeavoured most earnestly at the Restauration to have it upon the Isle of Wight Articles which their Cloak-men incessantly bellow'd for and their chiefs underhand strenuously indeavour'd the same among others this Passage is a clear Proof the hot Lord Hollis from the beginning a most violent Biggot in that Cause would to his dying day among his Confidents with great earnestness of Passion call Monk that Rogue because giving him and his Party a meeting at the Earl of Northumberland's he promis'd to bring in the King upon the Isle of Wight terms and basely fail'd them Now as I believe on the one hand he never intended to gratify them if such a Promise was made so could he not tho' really intended have brought it about for whatever his design

Fool. And this indeed is the sole Consolation any Man of Observation can have as to the no-Accomplishment of what their busie Heads have always in Projection they over-act their Parts have more Will but worse Management than their Predecessors whereof take this Instance There was one A. M. some Years since not only a great Imitator but Sub-Secretary to Milton when both their Commonwealthships most pitifully sneak'd to Cromwell's Tyranny this Person came afterward to make a Figure so far as to be a Representative was of a Reserv'd Conversation and Thoughtful Wit which he employ'd to do what mischief he could both to Crown and Church as occasion serv'd but did not venture at All as this Hot-spur doth without Regard to God or Man the Living or Dead Yet to show how these two agreed in their Characters I shall end all with this Passage When this Mr. M ll was dead an Admirer of his went to one of their own common Acquaintance whom he knew to have an ingenious Fancy that way and desir'd him to make an Epitaph upon their departed Friend which he set about and finishing gave it to the Person who made the Request who with a great deal of formality said it was very well but in his Judgment fell short of the Party 's just Deserts The Composer knowing how much he had done the contrary was so far concern'd as to go to work a contrary way and made another in Burlesque which ended thus Poëta mediocris Politicus minimus Christianus nullus Whether this Amyntor hath so much as a Mediocrity as to the first may be question'd but for the other two his little of the Politicks and no Christianity they are so altogether agreeable as nothing can be more his due but a Halter and thereto we remit him THE CONCLUSION 'T WAS an Observation long since of the Philosophers Odiorum acriores Causae quando iniquoe And the Reason given is very consistent The less say they such malevolent Tempers have from the Object the more they must supply from themselves make up the defect of demerit in the Person by the virulency of their own perverse Dispositions and malicious Calumnies That this hath been all along the practice of Man's corrupt Nature is apparent from numberless Instances in Prophane History though I shall mention but one or two from Sacred The Royal Prophet never more passionately complains than upon this account of all his Enemies none were so outragious as they Ps 35. 19. which hated him without a cause His 69. 4. familiar Friends in whom he trusted and upon whom he had laid the greatest obligations magnified themselves most against him And though this was literally true in the Psalmist's own Person yet in the Mystery he foretold it of our Blessed Saviour and accordingly he apply'd it to himself in the gross Infidelity of the Jews with their incessant Projects to take away his Life notwithstanding he had done among them the works which none other man did Jo. 15. 24 25. but this he tells us cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their Law They hated me without a cause How applicable this is to our Royal Martyr's treatment every eye may discover and I shall not here add any thing to what hath been already said either as to those barbarous inhumane Vsages wherewith our Christian Pharisees ●o Jewishly parallell'd their Predecessors there nor enlarge upon those Just Commendations the Wise and Good ever have and ever must acknowledge due to his most Sacred Memory And therefore I desire all who wish well to our Old Establishments upon which alone the Nation 's Peace and Welfare depends to take notice That the Design of this THIRD PART is not so much to vindicate the King as to caution the People against a new Set of King-killers For 't is my real Belief not that I would have them take it in Charity neither that those former thought nay knew their many odious Reflections upon that Monarch to be false but could not without such vile infernal Arts carry on the grand Intrigue they were so hot upon of Subverting the Monarchy Thus that Rump Buffoon Harry Marten declar'd publickly in the House If we must have a King he already so was as proper as any Gentleman in England and thereupon did freely own what he stood against was the Thing not the Person And many others upon the like Occasion were forced to blunder out the like Acknowledgments But when Cromwell and Ireton had made things ripe for his Murther then the Cue was given to blacken him all that they could which nevertheless struck at him most in his Politick Capacity Now to bring this down to our present Projectors so forward to revive that Good Old Cause they tread directly in the same steps and in order thereto with redoubled Impudence revive the Old Defamations What indeed they further entertain us with must be own'd altogether New but withal too imposing upon this Age of ours tho' too easily impos'd upon the Characters I mean given those of the Rump Oligarchy and Officers of the Army who suffer'd for no greater Offence than Ruine of King and Kingdom are so extravagantly fulsom and false as every one of the least Thought may justly suspect whatever they relate of other Matters to be as far from Truth Can any one imagine so foul an Original as they propound should be worth copying for that when first Drawn it appear'd most monstrous a kind of Gorgon could not be look'd upon without Horrour and Detestation How I say could this latter Brood these Sons of Innovation think to make us enamour'd with a Commonwealth when the only Persons they commend for the wise Administration thereof never had any thing of sober Sence or solid Principles as that Maggotty Hot-spur Sir H. Vane equally made up of Freak and Fury that Sink of all Immorality and Prophaneness Harry Marten Corbet the Jew Ludlow the Cynick with twenty or thirty more the most unclean and withal unweildy Beasts that were ever pack'd together in one Stall no more fit to be the Guardians of a Nation than so many Wolves to a Flock of Sheep neither is it possible for any one to cry up and applaud them as we find many now-a-days do did they not lie under the like Lycanthropy The Reflections likewise upon their Tryals are truly Commonwealthish that is most false and disingenuous as 't is hop'd hath been all along shown to the Satisfaction of every honest Man from such as are otherwise 't is not to be expected yet I could have told them there were several Gentlemen and some perhaps of both Houses earnestly press'd for a Bill of Attainder as of quicker dispatch without going through the tedious Forms of Law in so clear a Matter of Fact And certainly if such a Bill had been ever proper 't was here but the generality of the Nation were then grown so experimentally Wise and thereupon Considerate as to abhorr what they had seen so fatal in the Case of Laud and Strafford with numberless other Arbitrary Exorbitances which many of themselves had most sadly felt from every prevailing Junto Upon which account great care was taken that the whole Current of Affairs should be brought into the old Channel no Man question'd either for Estate or Life but according to the immemorial Vsages of our Ancestors and this was done with all Exactness imaginable against so horrid and withal so so unprecedented a Fact as the like was never seen nor heard of among the Children of Men. And that now after nigh Forty Years this Regular Procedure should be arraign'd basely represented and the worthy Judges of the Court impudently slander'd in the Remains forsooth of a Party so desperately engag'd as had he not fled from Justice would have been one of the first brought under its most deserved Severity is not a little surprising and yet to make it more all this is made Publick by a Cabal of Men with such high Elogium's upon their Persons and tacit Justifications of their Treasons as if none but Rebels and Regicides were worthy to Govern the Nation And this may add a further Surprize yet that such abominable Insolencies should be so tamely suffer'd as if we had a mind once more to come under their cruel Clutches which could the Innocent escape should never be my concern to see befall such as might prevent it if they pleas'd The only thing therefore I shall further recommend is a cautious Distrust of whatever these Part-taking Historians impose upon the World that we would Try their Spirits in a Civil as well as Religious sence by which means it will soon appear how much they have in each respect of the Old Pharisee the painted Sepulchre with a great deal of flourish and positive Ostentation to set themselves of whereas upon a thorough Search there is nothing to be found underneath but the rotten Bones of Malice and Self-Interest of Fraud and Factious Designs a reviving stale Lyes to foment fresh Mischiefs And were this Course truly taken would our Politico's now-a-days so numerous go to the bottom of Things not content themselves with a superficial View it would much abate their Critical Severities upon the Royal Cause the Management of Affairs during those miserable Distractions of Rebellion and Anarchy When the Battle is fought and Day lost every Pretender to the Blade will be forward to tell at least guess where the Courage or Conduct fail'd who had they been in Command might have shown greater Defects upon each account With as little regard to Candour and Judgment are the foremention'd Transactions most rashly run down since they cannot be presum'd to consider either on the one hand how difficult the Steerage was in those rough Seas nor on the other how much they expose themselves to the next Generation for greater Defects in much calmer Weather when all those violent Storms of Popular Rage and Zealous Frenzy are much abated and with due Application might have been quite down neither can it be otherwise expected but that After-days should be as forward as ours and perhaps with more Reason reflect what no Advances we have made upon many great Advantages On the contrary Religion hath been so long suffer'd to run a-float as 't is now scarce possible to retrieve her from being lost and in what Posture our Civil-Administrations stand we may not but they will presume to judge FINIS

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

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