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A true relation of the proceedings, examination, tryal, and horrid murder of Col. Eusebius Andrewe by John Bradshaw, President of the pretended High Court of Justice, and others of the same court published by Francis Buckley ...
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Buckley, Francis, Gent.
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Nunc dimittis to Tower August 19. 1650. Your old and constant Friend EUSEBIUS ANDREWE The last speech of Colonel EUSEBIUS ANDREWE on the Scaffold on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. THe Lieutenant of the Tower delivering the Colonel to the Sheriff said he had brought him thus far on his journey The Col. replied I hope I shall neyther tyre in the way nor go out of it When he came on the Scaffold kissing the Block he said I hope there is no more but this block between me and heaven After he had been some while on the Scaffold he spake to the people as followeth Christian Gentlemen and good people your business hither this day is to see a sad Spectacle a man brought in a moment to be unmann'd cut off in the prime of his years taken from further opportunity of doing service to himself his friends the Common-wealth or especially to God It seldom happens but upon very great cause and though truly if my general known course of life were enquired into I may modestly say there is such a moral honesty as some may be so forward as to expostulate why this great judgment is fallen upon me But know I am able to give them and my self an answer and out of this brest to give a better account of my Judgment and Execution then my Judges themselves or you It 's Gods just displeasure towards me for my sins long unrepented of many judgments withstood and mercies slighted therefore doth my gracious father chastise me with this correction that he may not lose me and I pray you assist me with your prayers that this rod may not be fruitless That when under his rod I have laid down my life by his staff I may be comforted and received into Glory I am very confident by what I have heard since my sentence there is more exceptions made against the proceedings against men then ever I made my Tryers had a Law and the validity of that Law is indisputable for me to say against it or to make a question of it I should but shame my self and my discretion In the strictness of the Law something is done by me that is applyable to some clause therein by which I stand condemned the means by which I was brought under that interpretation of that which was not in my self intended maliciously being testimony given by persons whom I pitty so false yet so positive that I cannot condemn my Judges for passing Sentence against me accorcing to legal justice for equity lies in higher brests For my accusors or rather betrayers I pitty and am sorry for them they have committed Judas his crime I wish and pray for them St Peters tears and I wish other people so happy they may be taken up betimes before they have drunk more blood of Christian men possibly less deserving then my self It is true there have been several addresses made for mercy and I will lay the obstructions to nothing more then my own sins and seeing God sees it fit I having not glorified him in my life I shall do it in my death I am content I profess in the face of God particular malice to any one of the State or Parliament to do them a personal injury I had never for the cause in which I had a great while waded I must say my engagements and pursuance in it hath laid no scruple upon my conscience it was upon principles of Law whereof I am a professor and upon principles of Religion my judgment rectified and my conscience satisfied that I have persued these wayes for which I bless God I find no blackness upon my conscience nor have I put into the bed-role of my sins I presume not to decide controversies I desire God to glorifie himself in prospering that side that hath right with it and that you may enjoy peace and plenty here when I shall enjoy my God In my conversation in the world I do not know where I have an enemy with cause or that there is a person to whom I have regret but if there be any whom I cannot recollect under the notion of Christian men I pardon them as freely as if I had named them yea I forgive all the world as I desire my heavenly Father for his Christ to forgive me For the business of Death it is a sad Sentence in it self if men consult with Flesh and Blood But truly without boasting I say it or if I do boast it is in the Lord I have not to this minute had one consultation with Flesh about the blow of the Axe or one thought of it more then my pasport to Glory I take it as an honor and I owe a thankfulness to those under whose power I am that they have sent me hither to a place however of punishment yet of some honor to dye a death somewhat worthy my Blood and this courtesie of theirs hath much helped towards the satisfaction of my mind I shall desire God that those Gentlemen in that sad Bed-rol to be tryed by the High Court of Justice that they may find that Really there that is Nominal in the Act An High Court of Justice or Court of High Justice High in its Righteousness not in its Severity no more clouded with the Testimony of folk that sell Blood for gain Father forgive them and I forgive them as I desire thee to forgive me I desire you now to pray for me and not give over praying until my last moment that as I have a very great load of sins so I may have the wings of your prayers assisting those Angels that shall conveigh my soul to Heaven And I doubt not but I shall there see my Blessed Saviour and my gallant Master the King of England and another Master which I much honor my Lord Capel hoping this day to see Christ in the presence of the Father the King in the presence of him my Lord Capel in the presence of them all and my self with them and all Saints to rejoyce for evermore Dr. Swadling You have this morning in the presence of a few given some account of your Religion and under general notions or words have given account of your Faith Charity and Repentance then speaking to the standers by if you please to hear the same questions asked here you shall that it may be a general Testimony to you all that he dyeth in the favour of God To the Colonel Now Sir I begin to deal with you you do acknowledg that this stroke you are by and by to suffer is a just punishment laid upon you by God for your former sins Col. Andrewe I dare not only not deny it but dare not but confess it I have no opportunity of glorifying God more then by taking shame to my self and I have a reason of Justice for justifying God in my own besome which I have intrusted to yours Dr. You acknowledg you deserve more then this stroak of the Axe and that a far greater misery is due
to you even the pains and torments of Hell that the damned there indure Col. I know it is due in righteous judgment but I know again I have a Satisfaction made by my elder Brother Christ Jesus and then I say it is not due it 's due to me but acquitted by his Mediation Dr. Do you believe to besaved by that Mediation and no other Col. By that and that only renouncing all Secondary Causes Dr. Are you truly and unfeignedly sorry before God as you appeare to us for all these sins that have brought you hither Col. I am sorry and can never be sorrowfull enough and am sorry that I cannot be more sorry Dr. If God should by a miracle not to put you to a vaine hope but if God should as he did to Hezekiah renue your days what life do you resolve to lead hereafter Col. It is a question of great length requires a great time to answer men in such streights would promise great things but I would first call some friends to limit how far I should make a Vow that I should not make a rash one and so offer the Sacrifice of fooles but a Vow I would make and by Gods help endeavour to keepe it Dr. Do you wish health and happiness upon all lawfull authority and government Col. I doe prize all obedience to lawfull Government and the adventuring against them is sinful and I do not justifie my self what ever my judgment be for my thus venturing against the present Government I leave it to God to judg whether it be righteous if it be it must stand Dr. Are you now in love and charity with all men do you freely forgive them Col. With all the world freely and the Lord forgive them and forgive me as I freely forgive them Dr. You have for some late years laid down the Gown and took up the Sword and you were a man of note in these parts where you had your residence I have nothing to accuse you for want of diligence in hindring in doing of injuries yet possibly there might be some wrong done by your Officers or those under you to some particular men if you had your Estate in your hands would you make restitution Col. The wrongs themselves you bring to my mind are not great nor many some things of no great moment but such as they are my desire is to make restitution but have not wherewithal Dr. If you had ability you would likewise leave a Legacy of thankfulness to Almighty God something to his poor Servants to his Lame members to his Deaf members to his Dumb members Col. My will hath been alwayes better then my ability that way Dr. Sir I shall trouble you very little farther I thank you for all those heavenly Colloquies I have enjoyed by being in your company these three days and truly I am very sorry I must part with so heavenly an associate we have known one another heretofore but never to Christianitie before I have rather been a Schollar to learne from you then an instructer I wish this Stage whereon you are made a spectacle to God Angels and the World may be a School to all about you for though I will not diminish you sins nor shall I conceal or hypocrize my own for they are great ones between God and my self but I think there is few here have a lighter load upon them then you have if we consider things well and I only wish them your repentance and that measure of faith God hath given you and that measure of courage you have attained from God and that constant perseverance God hath crowned you hitherto with Col. His Name be praised Here the Doctor prayed with him almost a quarter of an hour after which the Colonel turning himself again to the people spake as followeth One thing more I desire to be clear in There lyeth a common imputation upon the Cavaliers that they are Papists and under that name we are made odious to those of the contrary opinion I am not a Papist but renounce the Pope with all his dependencies where the distractions in Religion first sprung up I might have been thought apt to turn off from this Church to the Romish but was utterly unsatisfied in their Doctrine in point of Faith and very much as to their Discipline The Religion I Profess is that which passeth under the name of Protestant though that be rather a name of distinction then properly essential to Religion but that Religion found out in the Reformation purged from all the Errors of Rome in the Reign of Edward the 6th practised in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles that blessed Prince deceased that Religion before it was defaced I am off which I take to be Christ's Catholick though not the Roman Catholick Religion Then he turned himself to the Executioner I have no reason to quarrel with thee thou art not the hand that throws the Stone I am not of such Estate to be liberal but here is 3l for thee which is all I have now tell me what I lack Executioner Your hair to be turned up Col. Shew me how to fit my self for the Block After which his doublet off his hair turn'd up he turned himself about to the people and prayed a good while before he lay down to the Block He spake to the people as followeth There is none that looks upon me though many faces and perhaps different from me in opinion and practice but hath something of pity in it And may that mercie that is in your hearts fall into your own bosomes when you have need of it And may you never find such a block of sin to stand in the way of yout mercy as I have met with I beseech you joyn with me in Prayer Then he prayed leaning on the Scaffold half a quarter of an hour Having done he had some private conference with Dr. Swadling then he taking his leave of the Sheriff and his friends kissing them and saluting him next him he prepared himself for the Block kneeling down said Let me try the Block which he did After casting his eyes and fixing them very intentively above he said When I say Lord Jesus receive me Executioner then do thy office then kissing the Axe he lay down and with as much undaunted yet Christian courage as possibly could be in man did he expose his Throate to the fatal Axe his life to the Executioner and commended his soul into the hands of God as into the hands of a faithful and merciful creator through the Meritorious passion of a gratious Redeemer Saying the forementioned words his Head was stricken off at one blow Vera copia exam. FINIS * This is mentioned because the Speaker I his Brother hold me in jealousie and were both accused by that printed paper * This error in time as some others both of substance and circumstance are rectified upon better memory by some following papers sent to the Lord