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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77280	Innocency and the blood of the slain souldiers, and people, mightily complaining, and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those forty knights and burgesses, or thereabouts, that sit in the House of Commons. For the violation of our capital fundamental laws and liberties, and those capital obligations mentioned in this my letter, in capital letters. Or a letter to an eight yeers speaker of the House of Commons. / By Cap. William Bray, from his indurance, illegal, un-Christian, and cruel gaol in Windsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4304; Thomason E568_12; ESTC R206251	25,812	21

according to your solemn desires that the people might say Amen Instead of Acting up to the nature of Oaths I must put UNFAITHNESS instead of Acting up to Covenants I must put TRUCE-BREAKINGS instead of Acting up to principles of Conscience I must put UNCONSCIONABLENESS instead of principles of serious Engagement I must put walking up to principles of DISHONESTY instead of VICTORIES and POWER to do good I must put walking as if you had no power at all and so denying the glory of God instead of walking up to principles of Agreement of the people I must put DELUSION and VARIANCE instead of walking up to principles of a true Fast I must put OPPRESSION and CRUELTY instead of walking up to principles of true honor I must put DISHONOR instead of acting up to the name of Parliaments I must put acting up like Corrupt minded men instead of acting up to principles of observation of a Sabbath I must put case and rest in wickedness and prophaneness of the Lords holiness instead of Magistracy I must put as God and Nature K. James and your selves have said Tyranny instead of Goverment according to the institution of God and the uncorrupt order of Nature I must say according to principles of DISORDER instead of walking up to a conscientious respect of the wounds of the Nation I must put walking unjustly causing more wounds inflamations and distempers both of friends and enemies and so to lay foundation for blood and cruelty instead of your rending a Parliament out of declared zeal for Justice I must put your rending a Parliament to carry on your own corrupt ambitious Interest tending to exalt your selves above the persons of your Brethren the Laws of God and Nature the Scriptures and all the Capital Obligations of Justice and Mercy instead of your true declared Nature of doing justice upon the King I must put you have cut him off to make your selves Kings and Lords over the peoples Laws and Liberties though not Titularly so instead of principles of Freedom I must put SLAVERY instead of Justice I put INJUSTICE instead of Mercy I must put UNMERCIFULNESS Hear O Heavens and judg O Earth O Lord hear and have mercy upon thy people and if it be thy will change the hearts of those that pretend to Righteousness and act contrary to as high Obligations as ever have been expressed by thy Self in Scriptu●● by thy Saints and Servants And therefore Master Speaker Let me desire your House in all seriousness and sincerity of Conscience to consider and weigh and turn from your iniquities and be a president to the Nation of Judgment and Justice and look upon the cruelty exercised towards me from first to last contrary to the Freedoms of the Nation and i● may be any mans case as well as mine And that it doth exhaust such Language from me contrary to my own temper and disposition of spirit And truly Sir though the General Lieutenant General and Commissary General they being men whom I have formerly honored much in subordination unto my God and the Freedoms of my Countrey may it may be thirst after my blood which is the Nations blood as Mr. St. John said against the Earl of Strafford A Nation is to be accounted unto for the loss of the meanest member as the Hart thirsts after the Riv●rs of waters though it were a more worthy thirst after the performance of those glorious Obligations in themselves and others which would cause peace of Conscience to themselves and joy peace and unity to all the wel-affected in the Nation But truly as for my life or blood I know that is the most they can take away and if the Lord should give them so much power I can use the former part of Christs prayer viz. Father forgive them but not the latter viz. For t●ey know not what they do For their glorious splendid Declarations declare their knowledg and if it were not my Fathers will or the Ordinance of the Eternal GOD That innocent blood under the Altar should cry out I should desire That there might be no Vengeance taken for me for it shall suffice me that I go unto God and shall cease in imperfection and sin and be out of the race of the new glorious ambitious tyranny and perfideousness of the Earth the tyranny of Death is but short and I hope the Lord will m●ke it sweet unto me to give testimony to himself for the land of my nativity And to add unto the former Tyrannies and bondages exercised towards me A pretty while after my first coming I was denied the free and just access of many of my friends unto me to give me a visite by the Tyrannical Governor Whitchcock contrary to Law Reason or Christianity for which thing he had no Warrant at all from the House but your Arbritrariness made him also to ingratiate himself for it is well known he is but a friend to the Army and you for his own ends stretch beyond the bounds that indeed you had set him and so he hath acted as if he were Lord and Master of you as well as of our supream Laws Liberties and safeties and for ought I know he intends to be the Janizary to murder me under his illegal jurisdiction and indeed I heard that L. G Cromwel himself should call him a Sot or some such like name whereas he is made a Justice of the Peace and Qu●rum and furthermore I could not have so much leave of him to have the Christian society of Mr. Bacon here in the Castle but I must be fain to hear their Priests here in the Castle or none concerning whom I hear abundance of hypocrisie and dissimulation and also though Lieut. General Cromwel gave order to Whitchcock the Governor to use Mr. Bacon with all civility and respect and though he is also convinced in his conscience as he hath declared to some that I will not stir yet he maliciously and unrighteously hath not given me that liberty and freedom that he might though he hath given many of the late Kings party far greater viz. Parol● c. But Sir let me tell you if I had never so much liberty and freedom I would not for millions of the gold of Ophir betray the Cause of my Country so as to flinch and indeed you may imprison and destroy my body but my spirit you cannot and the lively appearance of my blood may rise in others when you think it may be forgotten if I am murdered butchered massacred starved or poysoned or what not by the enemies of the Lord and my Countries just Laws Libertie and safeties for they may do one as well as any thing else they have done and if you mean by liberty of Conscience to take such large liberty of conscience to your selves farwel all maner of Justice and Peace and the dealings with me are contrary to the prime undeniable Laws of Nature and capitall obligations of mankinde and which Presbyterians Episcopals Independents c. that have had any unbiased reason in them have granted before the blood of War and by such actions as these all the blood that hath been shed which is also of ten thousand times and unexpressibly of more value then all the treasure that hath been spent is not worth a farthing and truly Sir as one saith writing against the cruelty of the Spaniards to the Native people of Mercico as I remember calling themselves Christians as you do That it is not good to measure the God of the Christians by the actions of those that are called his servants If there be any sparks of God or humanity in you it may be you may consider a bleeding Nation Sir I pray read this to the House and ● further desire That the names of those men may be certified to the Nation that committed me contrary to those capital Obligations in capital Letters that the Nation may know their Friends and that the Christians and good Common-wealths-men in the House may clear themselves to the Nation from such abominable Facts tending to the total subversion of humane society and consequently all Ch●istianity if they please for I beleeve the hearts of true Christians will be truly pierced with such usage When Paul reasoned of Temperance and Judgment to come Felix trembled And I have read as I remember when Tully pleaded for Liggurius Caesar trembled and the Bills of Accusation sell out of his hands And Master Solicitor Cook saith in King Charls his Case page 38. There are but two things desirable to make a dumb man eloquent namely a good Cause and good Judges the former I have sufficiently and the later I want The first procures justice of Heaven the second justice upon Earth So in great haste I remain The Lords and the Peoples William Bray July 17. 1649. FINIS

I was turned out of the Councell and was not so much as admitted liberty to speak only this very little after expressed though I did desire it often which barbarous and unchristian dealing Inhumanity and Incivility I was much offended at for what could be done more by a Star Ch●mb●r-Councell and High Commission-Court of Prelates and Lords against the rights of ●he People and a harmlesse and undenyable liberty of conscience unlesse humane society as we●l as pure Religion be subverted and in the Councell before I was turned out the Generall told me I was none of the Army because I had no new Commission to whom I answered as I remember to this purpose That I was of the Army as much as Col Reynolds that t●ld you in the C●uncell b●fore all that he h●d no new Commission yet he gave his Vote and also that I was of the Army according to Common Ingagement speciall ingagements Christianity and reason Next of all I wondred that my Vote was then demanded in Counsell if not of the Army Next of all by the Vote of the House for the establishment of the Regiment then in being and not for Col. Reynolds to raise a Regiment next of all my employment for the guard of the King by the authority of the Army and my faithfulness charges and troubles as to the publike but out I must per fas nefasque I profess Sir I could see no safety at all in their Laws and Liberties and I saw that the conscientious Officers and Souldiers of the Army were ready to be destroyed in their Liberties Freedoms and persons at pleasure by such practises which they eminently condemned in the King I saw also that it might extend to those Members that are left in Parliament to make them absolute slaves to such particular Interested parties and designes and to make them to act timorously dishonorably and guiltily contrary to those capital Obligations that I have recited in capital Letters in my Books and that they might serve them also as they had served me when they had served their ends I saw also that it might extend to the embasing of future Representatives and Parliaments and to make them to act ignobly dishonorably illegally and unconscionably to the dishonor of the Lord and ruine of humane society and according to the rules of some men that have corrupted their ways and walked contrary to Law Reason and Christianity and that divine anointment that doth give the name and a describe a Christian And I saw also that if I did not speak I should encourage the General and Grandees in evil practice against their own bodies and souls as well as against the peoples liberties and safety though the sweetness and the deliciousness of their then present power and their extream and abundant causeless enmity and prejudice towards me and private insinuations and influence upon the General for their own advantage to the peoples as well as my ruine which cou●se and practice is extream prejudicial to Common-wealths and destructive to humane society and Christian principles would not permit them to consider And truly Sir let me tell you and let me appeal to the Lord and the people that are rational godly and conscientious whether I could have done less then I did Truly Sir I may say Si crimen erat crimen amoris erat but I have committed no c i me at all and you may keep your favor and grace I will not accept of any such thing falsely called favor tending to the betraying of the rights of my native Countrey and to justifie you in those things that you must answer for before the Lord and the people and also seeing I am perswaded in my own conscience that neither the greater friend or enemy to the Nation can blemish me in my proceedings herein for before I did walk in an undeniable and peaceable Parliamentary Appeal against the General I went unto his Quarters because I had an order from Colonel R●ynolds to waite upon him expressing an order as from the General Counsel and so I told him as I remember I was come to wai●e upon his Excellency to know his pleasure he told me he wondered that the General Councel did not secure me for speaking tending to division I answered That they might have done it if they had pleased and that I thought it would have been very harsh and that I did not know who could question my fidelity and that what I had said was just and spoken in temperance moderation and conscience as might be spoken without offence to any godly and consciencious man told him I was for unity in righteousness as much as any man but if I had spoken of unity and left out righteousness it would it may be have been more pleasing and that by my conversation it should appear and that I had been strangely dealt with as to my former business as that though I was justifiable and declared so to be by Lieut. General Cromwel yet I was deluded under the notion of a Fast yet I ingaged against the Insurrection when courted to far greater honor on the other hand which Hen●y Li●bu●n that traytor that had influence upon him to my prejudice did embrace to the Nations prejudice and danger and since I told him I had been at neer two hundred pound charges and damages in my last cause as to the keeping up of my Troop neer half a year and to be dealt with so twice together I thought it not just he told me I might make my charges appear in private and have satisfaction I answered that was nothing as to the nature of Right or Justice he told me that a civill imployment in the Commonwealth would be more advantagious for me and wherein I might do the Commonwealth more service I told him I was not free to accept of any such place or so to imploy my self untill the Nation was more setled and in a way of enjoyment of their Rights and I could not in my conscience be satisfied that I could do the Nation more service then in that way and therefore I did desire him to suspend the giving out of any Commission unto another untill the business was determined in Parliament he asked me whether I would offer to trouble the Parliament with it I told him I did not think the Parliament would account Justice a trouble to them that had manifested to the world as if they had so much zeal for Justice and for my part I did intend to bring both businesses upon the Stage because in my conscience I did look upon it to be a business of a publique Nature so I did desire his Excellency again to suspend the giving out of any Commission till the business was determined in Parliament he told me he had given out a Commission already I answered he might better recall or suspend it then give away anothers right as Mr. Soliciter Cook saith in King Charls his Case pag 21 Possession is a