Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84218	An exact relation of the tryall & examination of John Morris, governour of Pontefract-Castle, at the assizes held at York: together with his speeches, prayers, and other passages immediately before his death, the 23. of Aug. 1649. Whereunto is added, the speech of Cornet Blackburne, executed at the same time.	Morris, John, 1617?-1649.; Blackborne, Michael, d. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing E3699; Thomason E572_27; ESTC R201952	8,072	11

expresse words and Letter I conceive I ought to dispute it and my businesse better weighed My Lo Puleston Well Sir you are found guilty therefore hold your peace Col Mor. If I must suffer I receive it with all alacrity and cheerfulnesse and I thanke God I shall dye for a good cause and the testimony of a good Conscience for which had I as many lives as there are Stars in the Firmament I would sacrifice them all for the same Court Sheriffe Gaoler take them away or I le take you away Col Mor. Well I beseech God blesse King CHARLES and fight for all those that fight for him or have fought for him The Confession of Collonell John Morris and some passages betwixt the prison and place of Execution VVHen he was brought out of prison looking upon the Sledge that was there set for him lifting up his eyes to Heaven knocking upon his breast he said I am as willing to go to my death as to put off my doublet to go to bed I despise the shame as well as the Crosse I know I am going to a joyfull place with many like expressions When the Post met him about St. Jame's Church that was sent to the Parliament to Emediate for a repreive and told him he could not prevaile in it he said Sr I pray God reward you for your pains I hope and am well assured to finde a better pardon then any they can give my hope is not in man but in the living God At the place of execution he made this profession of his faith his breeding his cause he had fought in Gentlemen first I was bred up in the true Protestant Religion having my education and breeding from that honoured house my Deare Lord and Master Strafford which place I dare boldly say was as well governed and ruled as ever any yet was before it I much doubt better then any will be after it unlesse it please God to put a period to these distracted times this Faith and Religion I say I have been bred in and I thank God I have hitherto lived in without the least wavering and now I am resolved by Gods assistance to dye in Those paines are nothing if compared to those dolours and pains which Jesus Christ our Saviour have suffered for us when in a bloody sweat he indured the wrath of God the pains of hell and the cursed and shamefull death which was due to our sinnes Therefore I praise the Lord that I am not plagued with farre mâ—re grievous punishment that the like hath befaln others who undoubtedly are most glorious and blessed Saints with Christ in heaven It is the Lords affliction and who will not take any affliction in good part when it comes from the hand of God and what shall we receive good from the hands of God and not receive evill and though I desire as I am carnall that this cup may depart from me yet not my will but thy will be done Death brings unto the godly an end of sinning and of all miseries due unto sin so that after death there shall be no more sorrow nor cry or paine for God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes by death our souls shall be delivered from thraldome and this Corruptible body shall put on incorruption and this mortall immortality Therefore blessed are they that are delivered out of so vilde a world and freed from such a body of bondage and corruption the soul shall enjoy immediate Communion with God in everlasting blisse and glory it takes us from the miseries of this world and society of sinners to the city of the living God the Celestiall Jerusalem I blesse God I am thought worthy to suffer for his Name and for so good a cause and if I had a thousand lives I would willingly lay them down for the cause of my King the Lords Anointed the Scripture commands us to feare God and honour the King to be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as supreame or to those that are in Authority under him I have been alwayes faithfull to my Trust and though I have beene most basely accused for betraying Leverpool yet I take God to witnesse it is a most false aspersion for I was then sick in my bed and knew not of the delivering of it till the Officers and Souldiers had done it without my consent and then I was carried prisoner to Sr John Meldrum afterwards I came down into the countrey and seeing I could not live quietly at home I was perswaded by Collonell Forbes Collonell Overton Lievetenant Collonell Fairfax whom I took for my good friends to march in their Troopes which I did but with intention still to doe my King the best service when occasion was and so I did and I pray God to turne the hearts of all the souldiers unto their lawfull Soveraigne that this land may enjoy Peace which till then it will never doe and though thou killest me yet will I put my trust in thee wherefore I trust in God he will not fail me nor forsake me Then he took his Bible and read divers Psalmes fit for his own occasion and consolation and then put up divers prayers some publickly and some privately the publicke was this which followes A Prayer WElcome blessed hour the period of my Pilgrimage the term of my Bondage the end of my cares the close of my sighs the bound of my travels the goal of my race and the heaven of my hopes I have fought a long fight in much weaknesse I have finished my course though in great faintnesse and the Crown of my joy is that through the strength of thy grace I have both kept the true faith and have fought for my Kings the Lords Annointeds cause without any wavering for which and in which I die I doe willingly resign my flesh I despise the World and I defie the Devill who hath no part nor share in me and now what is my hope my hope Lord Jesu is even in thee for I know that thou my Redeemer livâ—st and that thou wilt immediatly receive my Soul and raise up my body also at the last Day and I shall see thee in my flesh with these eies and none other And now O Lord let thy Spirit of comfort help mine infirmities and make supplication for me with sighs and groans that cannot be expressed I submit my self wholly to thy will I commit my Soul to thee as my faithfull Redeemer who hast bought it with thy most precious Blood I confâ—sse to all the world I know no name under heaven by which I may be saved but thine my Jesu my Saviour I renounce all confidence in any merits save thine I thankfully acknowledge all thy blessings I unfainedly bewail all my sins I stedfastly beleeve all thy promises I heartily forgive all my Enemies I willingly leave all my Friends I utterly loath all earthly comforts and I entirely long for thy coming Come Lord Jesus come quickly Lord Jesus receive my Spirit The Private were to himself his hat being before his eyes after this he put up divers short Ejaculations As I know my Redeemer liveth Father unto thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed it O God thou God of truth Lord Jesus receive my Spirit and many of the like and so he yeelded to Death The Speech of Cornet Michael Blackburn immediately before his Death August 23. 1049. It is expected I should say something and indeed it is my desire to say something and but a little I Am not a Gentleman by birth but my Parents are of an honest quality and condition I was brought up in the Protestant Religion and in that Religion I have lived and in that I now die I have some five or six yeers since ingaged in this War wherein I had no other end or Intention but to doe my King true and faithfull service according to my duty and the dictate of my Conscience I have not done so much service as I desired but I have been alwayes faithfull to him and wish I could have done him more and for his son the King that now is I wonder any man of this Kingdom should have the boldness or impudencie to lift up his hand against him to keep him from his Crown whereof he is Heir apparent and hath as good right and title to it by his Birthright as any man living hath of his Inheritance or Possession I pray God blesse him forgive all my Enemies and Lord Jesus receive my Spirit FINIS

AN EXACT RELATION OF THE TRYALL EXAMINATION OF JOHN MORRIS Governour of Pontefract-Castle At the Assizes held at York Together with His Speeches Prayers and other passages immediately before his death the 23. of Aug. 1649. Whereunto is added The Speech of Cornet BLACKBURNE Executed at the same time Printed in the Yeare 1649. An Account of the Passages concerning the Tryall of Col IOHN MORRIS and Cornet BLACKBURNE at the Assizes at the Castle of York before Iohn Puleston and Baron Thorpe Justices of Assizes the 16. of August Anno Dom. 1649. COlonel Morris being demanded to hold up his hand refused and the Indictment was read against him for Treason for leavying War against the late King and the Parliament upon Stat. Ed. 5. The Court desired him to plead Guilty or Not Guilty Col. Morris Ans My Lords under correction I conceive this Court hath not power to try me in this case I being a Martiall man I ought to be tryed by a Councel of War Court Sir What doe you say Are you guilty or not guilty This is the second time you have been asked Sir if you will not answer the third time we shall know what to doe Are you guilty or Not guilty Col. Morris My Lords I still conceive I ought not to be tryed here if I have done any thing worthy of death I appeale to a Martiall Court to my Lo Fairfax Major Generall or a generall Councel of War You have not any president for it either for you to try me in this way or me to suffer by it Court Are you guilty or not guilty This is the third time Col. Morris My Lords if your Honours will force me to plead I conceive I am not guilty Court How will you be tryed Col. Morris My Lords I was never at any Bar before I am ignorant herein Court Tell him what to say Upon that some neere him tell him By God and the Country Col. Mor. By God and the Country After that challenge is made for Col Morris to except against any of the Jury Master Brooke a great man for the Cause comes first retorned to be sworne as Fore-man of the Jury Col Mor. My Lords I except against this Brooke Court Sir he is sworne and you speake too late Col Mor. My Lord I appeale to himselfe whether he be sworne or no. Mr. Brook Sir I am not to answer you but the Court My Lord I did not kisse the Booke Court Sir that is no matter it 's but a Ceremony Col Mor. My Lords I beseech your Honours that I may except against him I know him as well as I know my right hand to be my Enemy Clark of assize Sir he is recorded sworne there is do disputing against the Record Col Mor. My Lords I must Submit to your Honours after that Col Morris challenges 16 Men and my Lord Puleston thinking Col Morris tedious in excepting against so many Answers Sir keep within your compasse or I will give you such a blow as will strike off your head Col Mor. My Lords I desire nothing but Justice for by the Statute of 14 Hen. 7. fol. 19. I may lawfully challenge 35 men without shewing any cause to the contrary Court It is granted After a full Jury the Indictment read and Evidence for the State very full that Col Morris was Governour of Pontefract which Morris being very Modest and Civill did not contradict any thing untill his time of answer Col Mor. My Lords I humbly desire a Coppy of my Indictment that I may know what to answer I conceive I may pleade speciall as well as Generall Court Sirs you cannot by the Law Col Mor. My Lords I conceive there is point of Law in it and I humbly desire to have Councell for I conceive by the Law being attainted for High Treason I ought to have Councell by the Statute 1 Hell 7. fol. 23. Court Sir I tell you you cannot have it Col Mor. Then my Lords I conceive I am not any way guilty to the Indictment for Treason My Lords It is said to be against the King his Crowne and against his Peace whereby my Lords I can make it appeare I have acted onely for the King and nothing against him which may appeare hereby by my Commission The Court looks upon it and Answers Court Sirs you are deceived this is false it is from the Prince Col Mor. My Lords It is very well knowne my Lord Fairfax hath his Commission derived from the Parliament and upon that he grants Commission to his Officers which is all one and the same The Prince hath his from his Father and I have mine from the Prince which is full Power he being Captain Generall of his Majesties Forces Court Sir have you nothing else to say Col Mor. My Lords under Correction I conceive it is sufficient for by the same power all Judges Justices of Peace your Lordships your Predecessors and all other Officers did act by the same power and all processe and writs of Law were acted and Executed in his name and by his Authority Court His power was not in him but the Kingdome for he was in trust for the Kingdome the Kings High-way and the Kings Coyne being so called is not his owne but his Subjects and his Naturall power and Legall power are different Col Mor. My Lords under Correction I conceive his Legall and Personall power are undevisable all one and cannot be seperated Court Sirs all is one if the King bid me kill a man Is this a sufficient Warrant for me to pleade no Sir it is unlawfull Sir have you no more Col Mor. Sirs I beseech your Honours give me leave I am upon my Life Court Speake what you will Sir you shall be heard Col Mor. Your servant my Lord then my Lords I conceive I have acted nothing against the Parliament for that which I acted It was for the King and since the abolishing of Regall power I have not medled with any thing against the Parliament for that act was but inacted the 14 of Iuly last and before that time and act of Abolishing Kingly-government that Princely Palace which I kept by his Commission was demollished my Lords I beseech your Honours that my Commission may be read to give satisfaction to the Court. My Lord Puleston Sir it will doe you no good you may as well shew a Commission from the Pope all is one Col Mor. My Lords I desire your Lordships doe me that Justice My Lord Thorpe For my part I am willing if my Brother be not against it My Lord Puleston Sir we held it for Law to be void it is to no purpose Col Mor. Then if your Lordships be not pleased to doe me that justice that it may be read I desire it may be restored me againe Upon that Col Morris received his Commission unread My Lords it seemeth strange that your Honours should doe that which was never done the like before never any of

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