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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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1660
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Wing B4155; ESTC R19632
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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