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A30964	The speeches and prayers of John Barkstead, John Okey, and Miles Corbet together with severa[l] passages at the time of their execution at Tyiburn [sic], the nineteenth of April, 1662, with some due and sober animadversions of the said speeches.; Selections. 1662	Barkstead, John, d. 1662.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.; Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B816; ESTC R305	18,945	39

be and approves himself of the Congregational way that allows those Sects and prospered by them and thinks so to rise again He acknowledgeth the King ruleth from God not from the people yet grieveth not that he murdered his most God-like Father He confesseth a scruple nay his aversness at the first mentioning of this murther in the House or Juncto of Commons yet is not sorry at all after the bloody perpetration See Colonel Berkstead As to the Cause God hath owned it As to the Government as now it is I have and shall as long as I have breath pray for it I was no Contriver in the murder of the King Seriously such absurdities as these are would become no crime but this for should an ordinary malefactour have said so they would have judged him fit onely for Bedlam First the Good Cause is justified that 's the Major God hath owned it as it was the Canting term in all their successes and which Needham the great Friend of this Person hath used in every Pamphlet That 's not yet done with they will adhere to that still there 's no pitty to be had from any but such as were Complices in that Next as to the Government he hath and shall as long as he lives pray for it The time is not set when he begun it is determined when it shall end And now he will pray as long as he lives But why not this before or else why now This Government was the same which he endeavoured to extirpate and our late blessed Soveraign's vertues and goodness as great pardon this just Comparison as any Prince's living What new incongruous strange kindness and affection is this of a sudden Reader be not partial These words are his own not foysted in or disjoynted from the entire sense preceeding as upon the review you will find And then for a Corollary or Conclusion He was no contriver of the King's Death This is a tacite confession of his guilt because he would so ward the imputation of it he seems to disallow it in saying he Contrived it not he appears to have liked it in that he sealed it 'T is the same thing when a piece of work passeth through many hands and is finished by another for that man to say he medled not with it yet certainly Col. Berkstead a man of that Toust as he saith here of himself could not but know what was a doing from the time of that Contrivance as he terms it if he consented not to the first beginnings which may well be presumed from those endearments and neerness of Cromwell and he afterwards which may mind the Reader of a passage betwixt them One Time some Gentlemen coming about business to this Colonel then Lieutenant of the Tower and having stayed in Expectation of an Answer which they were Promised He at last came out in hast and told them that now he could not tarry by any means for that the Protectour had sent for him with this word that he would not stir one foot from the place where he stood till he came to him Besides may other mutual kindnesses betwixt them of which there may be occasion to speak hereafter It is time now to consider these persons and their Speeches more particularly wherein not to follow the order of their Sledges or their precedency in their way thither and because Col. Okey both for the priority and length of of his Speech which comprehends most of what the other said doth require it we will consider him first with this protestation that the Animadverter with many more serious persons is sorry the Col. hath given this only occasion to rake in his ashes for that he will not deny him his pâ—rsonal worth which â—â—deed for true valour was very eminent But all those Jewells are buryed in a Dunghill where a Hens foot not this Pen must scrape for them It is observable in him that he came nearer the purpose then any of the rest did confess from whence the designing of the Subversion of the Goverment came and what was the original of the Kings death viz. some mens Aims to make themselves great but whether this was not from some grudge to them being the same with Harrison's defence that he had snared nothing by the Revolution is thought no great a question For consider him from the rise of the War of so mean and despicable a Fortune and so unfit to reform any thing but his own condition by his Sword and no way remarkable for any Zeal save that of mony but for that that he was bred 16. years in the Discipline of our purer times when such Expressions and Countenances of Religion and Piety were as necessary as a Colonels Pay he had never been so throughly versed in the Concerns of gainful Godlinesse And it will and must seem a Paradox to all knowing-men for persons to become truly devout in an Army which certainly for Perjuries Sacriledge Disloyalty and Hypocrisies was the most notorious in all ages This is mentioned the rather because he so vehemently declaims against the vices of these times and presseth the practice of and living up of the Gospel and very notable is that place therein which he hath cited for his justification of his rebelling against the King His words with those are these I am justified to the Cause as the Parents of him that was born blind being asked how his sight came said he is of age let him speak for himself so say I. For here 's another miracle his eyes are now opened too he begins to see neer at hand he sees Trees and Men but so blind was he before that he could see nothing He now sees the King is to be prayed for and he confesseth he hath done it a good while but he could not see afar off to prevent I will not say everlasting Darknesse by a dutiful submission to his late Majesty 'T is to be confessed and deplored that the Sins of the Times are great and so much the worse that they are justly censured and taxed by such men as these whom the reprehended condemn as the most perdite sort of people in the world Yet notwithstanding t was a very remarkable something revengeful kind of censure in that time assembly and the after words that England with such sins could not stand 3 years was a kind of an Angry Prophetical menace and did seem to interpret that he would have it so but for his 3 Years prophecy of Desolation we may reckon them with the 3 days of Harrison's Resurrection and our late posterity may read them 300. years hence with old mother Shipton and Father Merlin He seems indeed very ingenuous in one place and as clear where he saith these words You see we have had many troubles c. and there was a vacancy to a single Person a great while and then the Nation earnestly desired Him who now reigneth and I wish he may reign gloriously for ever Again he

THE SPEECHES AND PRAYERS Of JOHN BARKSTEAD JOHN OKEY and MILES CORBET Together with severa passages at the time of their Execution at TYIBURN the nineteenth of April 1662. With some due and sober ANIMADVERSIONS On the said SPEECHES LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhill and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain 1662. To the Reader THis is to assure thee that first there is not a syllable to the best of the writers skill that took these Speeches at the place of Execution either added or deminished in the transcript either in favour or injury to the Dead secondly that as they are faithfully communicated so are they methodically digested for the better understanding and greater ease of the Reader with the intervenient discourses and passages and thirdly that they do not carry in them any dangerous or treasonable reflects upon the Govirnment that might prejudice them publsihing and give cause to their friends if they had not been brought to light to suppose there were some notable things in them which the Times would not indure It is wished that the disaffected people would comport themselves so in their lives as these men seem to instruct them here at their their deaths Therefore for the use and benefit sake which may redound to the Nation hereby it is thought good to produce them to light and conserve the only memories of these men famous for their Time and Places For further satisfaction there are also added some sober Notes and Animadversions on the said Speeches which are together here offered to thy perusal Farewell SPEECHES AND PRAYERS OF John Barkstead John Okey and Miles Corbet VPon Aprill 19. 1662. being the day appointed for the Execution of John Barkstead John Okey and Miles Corbet who were drawn on three several Hurdles from the Tower to Tyburn Barkstead was first brought to the the place of Execution then Okey and then Miles Corbet who mounted a Cart which was prepared for them to stand in whilest they spake to the people The first that ascended the Cart was Barkstead as soon as he was in he lifted up his eies to Heaven and said Blessed be God the Executioner having put the Rope about his neck and fastned it to the Gallowes he then sate down upon the side of the Cart After a little space the Sheriff said Colonel Barkstead I am commanded not to suffer you to speak any thing in justification of that horrid Act for which you come here to suffer Barkstead I cannot speak much by reason of the weakness of my body I desire to get as much refreshment as I can before I speak Some while after my Lord of Newport looking upon the Prisoner and smiling at him said Fâ—r wel Colonel Barkstead farewel B. You are a Gentleman I am sure I bless God I can say Death is not terrible to me and that is onely through Jesus Christ Executioner You may go on with your prayers B I desire to see my Brethren Sher. Sir are you sorry for the Fact for which you are brought here to suffer B. J shall be sorry for every thing that is a sin when the Lord sets home that to me J shall be sorry before God and men this must be from God alone Then he drank a little Cordial and said J bless God J have a better Comforter than this Then a gentleman said Sir you had me once a prisoner B. Then I hope I used you civilly if I have not I beg forgiveness as freely as I forgive all men I bless God I have an assurance through Jesus Christ to be happy One standing by said I Sir that may be within half an hour Barkstead being asked by a person of quality whether he were not troubled answered B. Sir I bless God I have no more trouble at this minute upon my spirit then I had upon my wedding-day The other two Prisoners being taken out of the Sledges and brought into the Cart Okey presently embraced Barkstead and kissed hâ—m and being about to speake one of the Sheriffs said to him Sir I must not permit you to speake any thing in justification of that horrid Act for which you are brought here to suffer Okey Sir I must not lye for God much less for you J hope you will give me leave to speake what lies upon my Conscience if asked whether guilty or not guilty Sher. Are you sorry Okey J hope J may speak what lyes upon my Conscience Soon after Colonel Okey standing up in the Cart Shewing a great deal of modesty and resolution in his department and looking upon the people spake as followeth Okey Mr. Sheriffs and Gentlemen the Providence of God hath brought me hither to suffer J shall not trouble you with that which J look upon me as superfluous which is to tell you my Family which of all the Families in Israel is one of the least and I the least of that Family It is not unknown to many here who hear me this day how I was called forth to serve God and my Countrey upon the service of the King and Parliament I served them faithfully to the best of my knowledge I bless God when I was called to the work I was perswaded it was for the glory of God and good of his people and had I had as many lives as hairs on my head I would have adventured them in that Cause I have nothing upon me as to that I am satisfied as to the Cause As the Parents of him that was born blind being asked how he came to his sight said He is of age let him speak for himself so say I. That which I have been adjudged for is the death of the late King I think most of you know I was none of the Councel that contrived it neither did I know any thing till I saw my Name inserted in a Paper I sate but once or twice but for malice or envy I never had any but prayed for him to the last hour What aims others had time did discover I have nothing upon my Spirit for that I have many hundred times not onely since I went out of England which is about two years but many times be-before begged that if I had any maliâ—e or hatred in my heart that God would make me sensible of it and I would confess it to God and before you all What other men aimed at I can say nothing to that there were some as it did appear had self-ends I never got any thing by i I was advanced to the Dignity of a Colonel before that I thank the Lord I have no trouble upon me for that A great disturbance being amongst the People he ceased speaking for a while then the Sherriffs said to him Sir you may go on Okey As I told you before so I say again there is no guilt upon my spirit which makes me the more comfortable at this hour I take this as the just and righteous hand of God

Col. Okey said in Scripture language Whose Asse or Oxe have I taken But he reckoned without his Host whom hath not he by assisting the Rebellion plundered and undone So far are they from making amends or acknowledging their publique injustice in spoyles and rapines of his Majesties good Subjects that they expostulate even concerning private injuries Such as devour Widows Houses and make long Prayers But let the Vae passe One thing also is very observable they agree almost to a word in speeches and prayer as to the sense and dye of the Congregational perswasion yet before this time at Constant and irreconcileable feud each of the 3. to other like Pilate and Herod they will joyn and unite in this Crime against the King though severed all along before and persevere unanimous in that In sum Posterity will never believe men could die at this rate who have seen and occasioned so much misery to this Nation by that onely fatal Treason against the Kings Life if any Machiavel of them can ascribe any other Cause for our late Confusions somewhat might be said in the behalf of this obstinacie but when they themselves confesse the ill consequences thereof and the effect best shews the Cause and yet slubber over and hide their iniquity what shall any rational man think of the estate of these men but leaving that to the supreme Judgment let us Consider what they have said a little neerer and we shall find the Imposture It is an unwelcome undertaking to any man to dispute with Dead mens words because it approaches the vanity of fighting with shadows and from whence no result or agreement can be expected or satisfaction given or received and besides it may be an imputation of in humanity But because in these fore-going Papers there is nothing new and nothing more to be looked from of any of those people for it is evident they are agreed in their Opinions at their Execution as they were at the Sentence of his Majesty This was thought not only requisite nor uncharitable to the memory of these men but a bounden duty to the Justice of the Laws as well as to the Divine Vengeance who signally triumphs in these mens ends to shew to the world the most parrallel Example of Achitophel in that the Counsells of these men against the King and for their own safety like their words here following are of no faith security or credit Some Due and Sober ANIMADVERSIONS ON THESE SPEECHES IT is not the meaning of this Postill or observations of these persons Speeches to make dirt of their dust by aspersing them or laying to their charge any more then what their own Confession hath implicitely declared but to solve those riddles and ambiguity of Expression which is used throughout these dying and their funeral Orations Whether it be the fate of these men as it was of those of Babel to be confounded in their language as they here ta their Death which will be evident by the ensuing Notes or to be divided in their minds as before the King 's most miraculous Restitution was most apparent or to be joyned together in their end persisting in the same hardnesse of heart and strange scelerate combination of not expressely acknowledging their guilt concerning the King let the Reader judge by what hath already passed in their History of Life and Death and what is added thereunto in the death of these men For just as the war began with a riddle so in these BouÌ„tefe us and great abbettors of it doth it expire Nay the very doubtful Oracle of the Times for King and Parliment is here brought into credit again and according to that equivocation the whole drift of their Speeches is guided that Satan may shew and assert the Scripture to his advandage that Rebellion is worse than witchcraft Not any person of those Regicides hath yet come to the point when the whole world hath proclaimed it the greatest villany in the world nay when themselves especially these had here by circumlocution and about-ways said as much witness that of Corbats It is the Honour of Protestants to be obedient to the known Laws as amounts to it But either through the extreme wickedness and impietâ— of the fact of which for their preâ—enâ—ed Sâ—â—ctitâ— they must not acknowlâ—â—ge themselves as â—f themselves guilty as Hypocrime is one of the Devil 's longest possessions or else out of infatuation and just judgement of God upon them that as they have so desperately and wilfully sinned they should as foolishly persist in it it so happens that none have given that Glory to God and justice to the world as to acknowledge any thing in that heinous matter save their pretended ignorance and that too by way of excuse to men who are subject to frailty and therefore with whom it may pass for a plea but not to the avenger of blood whom they have thought to illude with the same defence If this appears not to all men from the precedent and this late Execution of the same Complices in that Guilt more particularly in this last the Animadvertor thinks that the crime hath a Curse upon it like that of Cains to wander still in uncertainty to be a reprobate flagitiousness which yet none must or can wound or strike though still it be as odious as ever For herein in these Speeches as first of Colonel Okey we shall find words able to Condemn a Parliament partaker but for the very first years guilt of the War they are these I leave this to all my Brethren that they would wait in their places and see the Salvation of God rather than deliver themselves by any indirect means If his Majesty had given me my life or had I come in with the rest of the members I would have lived quietly and rather suffered any thing then done any thing against the known LAW I would have rather have suffered then taken any indirect ways Will not the world wonder to hear such words If these Speeches should be Printed in Forraign Countries they would never be able to distinguish or understand the meaning The known Law of England is not like their Good Old Cause that varied every day and was tuned by I know not what instruments Every man knew his Duty and Station by that and nothing but Poverty and Pride instructed men to forsake them Out of his own mouth this is enough where the Law is quoted to as much benefit to him and his Party as the Devil once did the Scripture That they agree in this mistaken though well applyed point I will not here cite all Colonel Okey's passages to this matter but reserve them till anon See Master Corbet Many Sects and Heresies have risen in our days and God hath appeared against them I desire his Majesty that now rules as he rules from God so he may rule for God When the business the King's Murder was mentioned I spake against it What Contradictions are here He appears to

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