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A62165	A vindication of Colonell Sandys his honour and loyalty from a declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester October 11, 1642 : vvhich is here also republished with it.	Sandys, Edwin, 1611 or 12-1642.; Sandys, Edwin, 1611 or 12-1642. Declaration of Col. Edwyn Sandys in vindication of himself.	1642 (1642)	Wing S671; ESTC R19920	5,620	16

A VINDICATION OF COLONELL SANDYS His Honour and Loyalty from A DECLARATION pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester October 11. 1642. Which is here also republished with it Printed Anno M. DC XLII The Declaration of Col. EDWYN SANDYS in Vindication of himselfe from those calumnious Aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Falkland and Secretary Nicholas Published and subscribed with his owne hand at the Randevouze at Worcester Octob. 11. 1642. in the presence of Sergeant Major Berry Thomas Cox Doctor of Physick Captain Walter Long Captain Robert Long Lyonell Copeley Muster master Generall Iohn Rushworth Clerke Assistant to the Commons House of Parliament IT pleaseth God yet to detaine mee in that condition that my pen and not my sword must vindicate mee from the aspersions which the Letters of the Lord Falkland and Secretary Nicholas have cast on my Reputation and fidelity in that cause in which I was lately and still stand engaged Both these persons charge mee that I should say That death did not so much trouble mee as that I had endeavoured to defend so bad a cause which I was driven unto as well by my owne ambition as by perswasion of other men and that I wished that all the Actions of the Parliaments Forces might hereafter be unsuccessefull and especially that I should desire God and the King to forgive mee this great sinne of Rebellion c. They that know mee well know that I have not so much vanity as to thinke any discourse necessary for my defence in this case yet that I may stand cleere as well in the thoughts of strangers as of my friends I thought fit to render this account to the world The apprehension of death never hitherto so neerly toucht mee but that if God shall once restore mee to my former strength I shall by his help with as much alacity and I hope courage endeavour to defend and maintaine with my dearest blood this so good a cause as ever I was at first engaged in it Not my Ambition prompted mee unto it but a legitimate and ardent desire of advancing that cause which I conceive honours the meanest of them that are imployed therein nor was I drawne into this businesse by any Perswasions but such as were backed by the best of Arguments the maintaining of the true Religion the honour and security of my Prince the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and the whole Kingdome such a successe I pray for to the designes of the Parliament and in particular to this Army under the Command of his Excellencie the Earle of Essex as by the best of men can possibly be desired both on His Majesties Person and this whole Kingdome And lastly I professe to the whole World that my conscience did when I was in the gieatest danger of death and doth still cleare mee from the guilt of Rebellious or tumultuous thoughts and that the most puissant motive which carried mee on to this Action was loyalty to my Soveraign love to my Religion and Country They certainly thought mee dead when they writ these Letters and by this means hoped to have served their ends upon some feeble unresolved spirits But I wonder they should write there are so many hundreds of our men slain when it is most apparant that the number both of them that dyed in the place and since never amounted to thirty persons their losse no way inferiour to ours considering their great advantage of place and that they were at least double for number There was indeed a Divine who I thinke was the Deane of Worcester who came to mee to the house where I was first taken up and accompanied mee to the place where I now lye hee continually urged and pressed my conscience how great a sinne I was guilty of in taking up armes against my Soveraigne I was not then in case to entertain him in discourse onely at last answered him I never had nor ever would take up Armes against my Soveraigne but ever should be ready to lay my life and whatsoever was deare unto mee at His feet of this judgement and resolution I still am and solemnely make this Protestation in the same sence I have here already declared and according to the sense of the Parliament in all their Declarations of which I hope with Gods blessing upon my recovery to give further testimony to the World by the continued engagement of my life and fortune in this so just and honourable a cause EDWYN SANDYS At the Rendesvouze at Worcester the 11. of Octob. 1642. To Colonell Edwin Sandys Sir I have this very Octob to chanced upon a Printed Declaration pretended to goe out under your name the Title of it premising A vindication of your selfe from some calumnious aspersions of my Lord Falkland and Mr. Secretary Nicholas It will hardly obtaine credit with men of free and disingaged understandings that personages of so much trust and honour should over-lightly adventure their owne fames by imposing calumnies upon anothers I therefore little doubt but that these honourable personages had their grounds from some such good hands as might either take up some part of the report from your owne mouth or from some others whom they credited Such as heard it at first or second hand from those that visited you upon your bed at Worcester at such times as you felt more ease from your wounds and more wounds from your Conscience For I cannot thinke but that among those many visitants you might utter more of the same kind of remorses then you did unto my selfe But leaving those honourable personages to the vindication of such particulars as you charge upon them in the generall I am induced to answer thus much for them for that to my selfe in pretence of your cosin Mr Iohn Sandys you were so free and ingenuous in your acknowledgements and Confession The person of your Confessor I perceive you have mistaken by reason perhaps of that Canonicall coat in which I visited your selfe and such other dying men before you as I could come at in the field and time of battell but that mistake may be rectified at our next meeting In the meane time if your memory were not then as weake as your body and that you still continue in the same ingenuity which I left you you will not cannot deny the generalls and scope of these passages to be true which you here find asserted and which upon my credit I will justifie to the world and if you please unto your selfe at our next meeting What you shall here find goes under the name of a Minister of Prince Ruperts as the copie of it was at first given abroad I had no time to alter it or saw I any cause to change any thing I had written in it Some Notes of the Conference betwixt Colonell Sandys and a Minister of Prince Ruperts THe Minister being met in the field by my Lord Andover was advised to visite Colonell Sandys and to exhort

him to repent of his sinnes who finding the wounded Colonell in a little house presented unto him among his other sinnes the unhappinesse of his present condition to suffer in so bad a cause This with some expressions of remorse he acknowledged and withall professed that if it were to doe againe he would never appeare in it Then the Minister diswading the people of Worcester from stripping him contented one of them by taking off one of the Colonells spurres and giving them to him but with this condition that hee should carry up Master Sandys his legges and upon this consideration that if so hee did the spurres would then hurt the bearer But the Colonell feeling the chayre uneasie the Minister borrowed a sheet of the house to carry him into the Towne At all this was his Cozen Master Iohn Sandys present and with the Minister went all the way with the Colonell and housed him at the Green-Dragon in Worcester There the Minister left him for a while Not long after came Serjeant Major Francklin to the Colonell and brought Master Catenby the Surgeon to dresse him To whom the Colonell said Woe woe to evill Counsell and happy are they that doe not take it with other words to the like purpose as the Serjeant Major told the Minister at first since which time the Surgeon hath by word of mouth justified it to the Minister The Minister now returning first put the Colonell in minde of the haynousnesse of the sinne of Rebellion that it was as the sinne of Witchcraft and that God had commanded Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live which doome was now likely to fall upon him for God had found him out in his sinne He acknowledged himselfe to have fallen into the sinne of Rebellion and that God was just in his Judgements professing therewithall his sorrow and remorse for it Upon which the Minister returned That herhaps if ever he recovered the same arguments from others and inconsideratenesse in himselfe might againe endanger to draw him to continue in his Rebellion At which words a little heaving up his hand he professed He would rather have it cut off then ever againe lift it up against the King Nor did he at this profession make any mention at all of the Parliament or conjoyne their cause with the Kings Indeed said the Minister you have no reason to appeare against the King if you well considered the cause and that His Majestie was but inforced to take up defensive Armes for the Reformed Religion His owne Crowne the Lawes and Liberty of the Subject And therefore there was much difference betwixt the two causes of the warre these that suffered on the Kings side being a kinde of Martyrs Whereupon the Colonell acknowledged the Justnesse of the Kings cause and that he had observed a speciall blessing of God to goe along with it by the extraordinary successes of it To this the Minister replyed Sir I am witnesse to all these words of yours but doe you give me leave to testifie this repentance of yours unto the world This he freely desired him to testifie and askt God forgivenesse withall praying for the King and for a blessing upon his cause and proceedings The Minister then added Sir I have one sinne more to presse your conscience with Sir you are descended from a Bishop and your family hath beene raised from the Church therefore the spoyle and outrage committed by you in Canterbury Church was more abhominable in you then in another man To which with some quicknesse he replyed That it was much against his minde and that so soone as he heard what his men were doing he ranne among them with his Pole-Axe to beat them off untill he had like to have beene hewen in peeces by them The Minister added Sir it uses to be required of men dying for their offences to reveale something that may doe right to the party wronged Wherefore Sir it would much ease your conscience and make the King some part of satisfaction to discover the secret of the great designe against him Of which when by one or two earnest denyalls he professed himselfe ignorant The Minister then desired him to discover what strength the Parliament Forces were of He said he could not tell How strong said the Minister are their Foot Not considerable sayes he Why Sir said the Minister you were present lately at their Muster on Dunsmore-Heath and could you neither by your owne observation nor from the report of others make judgement of their numbers Were they 8000 or 10000 or 16000 Neither said the Colonell not above 6000 or 7000. How strong then are their Horse Seventy Troopes said the Colonell At which the Minister making some doubt and wonder On my faith its true said he it s no time now to dissemble you meane Dragooners and all said the Minister No onely Troopers said the other of my knowledge Then the Minister renewed the motion before made in the little house by the field concerning the perfecting of his Will for which he desired him to come againe a day or two after So the Minister perceiving him faint unwilling therefore to speake much and desirous to take rest tooke his leave his Cozen Sandys and a Servant remaining still with him in the Chamber His Cozen can affirme all this and since told the Minister that the Colonell said much more to him in testimony of his repentance And among the rest he bade me report this passage for one That he asking him Cozen what meant you being a Gentleman of so faire estate to ingage your selfe in this Treason The Colonell replyed to him That he was so farre drawne in before he was aware that he knew not how to come off without the danger of his head This will his Cozen justifie to him Sir TO this Testimony of your Confession some passages in your Vindication provoketh me to subjoyne this Postscript And first to that page 7. of your Declaration yours if it be which I much suspect where you seeme to excuse your selfe from taking up Armes against your Soveraigne and that you thinke your understanding the cause in the sense of the Parliament Declarations can justifie you Plainly Sir I was more watchfull upon you then so to be deceived by words of doubtfull or double sence Your expressions were cleare and explicite such as best became a Penitent and dying man nor did you ever so much as once referre your selfe to any sence of the Parliament Declarations And if upon recovery you ever ingage your selfe against the King in this cause and sense let your owne hand then lifted up be witnesse with me against you Take heed Master Sandys of equivocating with God and his Annoynted or of dallying with imprecations But I will hope you to be sincere and reall and that this Declaration if yours was but forced from you The other points that I finde my selfe provoked to give answer to are first concerning the numbers on both sides slaine in battaile at Worcester Though truely Sir with no delight God knowes doe I remember much lesse glory in the numbers of slaine Countrey-men yet Sir whereas the Souldiers ordinary phrase after a victory is The more bloud the more honour I cannot but take notice of the diminution of honour which those valiant Princes Lords Gentlemen and Souldiers on the Kings party have received by your affirming your losse never to have amounted to thirty persons and that our losse was no way inferiour to yours considering our great advantage of place and that we were at least double for number In confutation of all which in one period let the Reader till a larger Narration can be published be pleased to accept of this little First That if we count right there were more then that number of thirty found dead in the field after the victory More then that number also chased into Worcester and there either slaine or as our Souldiers supposed when they gave them over deadly wounded More also then so many Prisoners All which wounded and captived men Prince Ruperts noble clemency gave free life and liberty unto We heard also by Townesmen and such as dwelt by the river and bridge which your defeated Troopes fled over that more then that number were taken up drowned As for the slaine on the Kings side on my credit we could never heare of five which is just so many as your side lost Colours Secondly for the plate 't was a plain field upon a hill the place chosen by your selves to charge in where the difficulty of your little ascent to it was fully recompenced by your having both Winde and Sunne of us As for inequality of numbers you Sir had ten Troopes and the Prince had fourteene but scarce halfe of them charged as being sent to guard the Towne and Lane that led to it Thus Sir praying that by continuance in the same royall minde I left you your selfe may confute this supposed Vindication I remaine as ready either to serve or informe you as I then was for I heare you are yet living FINIS