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A88631	The loyall sacrifice presented in the lives and deaths of those two eminent-heroick patternes, for valour, discipline, and fidelity; the generally beloved and bemoaned, Sir Charls Lucas, and Sir George Lisle, knights. Being both shot to death at Colchester, five houres after the surrender.	Philocrates.	1648 (1648)	Wing L3364; Thomason E1202_2; ESTC R202768	35,584	133

line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty This was the ready way to make fame the foundation of a Family Seeing nothing can be properly said to be Ours but what takes life from the merit or repute of those actions of Ours For whatsoever is derived to us from Ours is Others and not Ours Give me leave then in behalfe of this noble Paire to summe up all with this positive Conclusion He shoots his shafts at the Moone who out of a Malignant humour makes it his labour to darken the Splendor of goodnesse and honour It is said when His Majesty heard the newes of their Deathes that out of a pious compassion and princely affection which He bare to their persons He burst forth into teares which that Hebrew Intelligencer interprets softnesse or effeminacy as if it beseem'd no virile spirit to compassionate the losse of a friend Whereas if that seditious Rabbi had ever repair'd to those Tents of Israel whereto he sometimes incouraged the People against their Soveraign He might have seene a David that Conquerour of Goliah shed teares for an Absolon and a Jonathan Our best Master for a Lazarus and the approaching ruines of a Hierusalem Nay if ever his small portion of learning would have suffer'd him to have been vers'd in prophane Histories He might have found Marcellus eyes dropping teares for Syracusa That sweet-temper'd Tytus for the miseries of Judea Variety of Examples in all Stories what singular arguments of Princely compassion eminent'st personages even in their greatest Victories have expressed towards those Princes or People whom they had Conquered But such as are not capable of sense in their pate nor pen may be held excused if they fall short in their apprehension of humane suffering nay of common sense They whose incompassionate hearts are so congealed as their eyes know not how to resolve into teares when they see reall Professors of Valour exposed to immerited censures especially when a good Cause was the Object of their resolution partake too much of Savage to retein the Stile of Men. Seeing as the Comick well observed nothing that is humane should be estranged from humanity What uncivill and disgracefull affronts were pressed by the Conquering Party upon the poor Captives I shall very sparingly relate to passe by others this one Instance shall serve for all A Gentleman of quality being presently after Surprize of the Town stript of his Apparrell to his skin poor ragged cloathes of a Common souldier given him in exchange Neverthelesse in this ungentile habit he was advised by one who pretended himself his friend to repaire to the Generall where he promised him accesse to petition his Excellencies favour for his Parol that he might by that means labour his inlargement either by Exchange or Money Thither he came in this tatter'd habit with an old brimlesse Hat and Boots that had estrang'd themselves from their Soales which when that brave insulting Conqueresse beheld She was pleased out of her feminine spirit to entertaine this distressed petitioner with this scornfull Salute Is this one of your Gentlemen of Colchester when the bosome of the softer and more compassionate ' Sexe became so steeled what might be lookt for at their hands with whom remorce had never acquaintance Now I appeal to your candid Censures who scorn to be Servants to the Time or Shadows to unjust Conquests what clemency could be expected by their Captives from such imperious Enemies to be shewn them in respect of their lives whose prophane hands abstained not from violation of those just obsequious honours done to the dead Amongst our Ancient Heathens this was a Crime admitted no pardon Yet observe one passage more and you shall see with what impunity these mercilesse times can dispence with the inhumanest actions Not to hold you in suspence it was thus The body of that noble and ever memorable Knight Sir CHAR being to be buried with his Ancestors a civill curtesie which he much desired before his death and entred the Vault where his Predecessors had been usually interred Some of those insolent and inhumane Souldiers upon opening of the Monument wherein diverse Bodies lay wrapt in lead intending it seemes to discover their barbarisme in the highest measure forbore not only to cut away the lead wherein those Bodies were infolded but to pull off the very haire O matchlesse impiety which grew upon their Scalps whereof diverse among them made them Hat-bands and Bracelets which they no lesse contemptibly then disgracefully wore glorying as it seemes in their pillage of those native remains and Ornaments of the dead This they did in a despite and grounded hate to his Family after such time as they had acted their cruell tragedy O inexemplary fury If such brutish spirits be not timely subdued England will lose both name and nature and become Barbarian If the Memorials of the Dead those last houses their Vrns may not be secured from violence what safety may Civill societies presume to have Exceptions are easily taken by a Conquering hand nay pressed before occasion offered If revenge be so implacable as it cannot finde satisfaction upon Earth but it must dive into the Earth to appease it in what a securelesse condition be those placed who standing in defence of their Countries honour and Title of a Soveraigne expose themselves to their oversivelling power who stand at distance with the stile of Soveraignty and pronounce all such loyall affected hearts their profest Enemies who hold the contrary It is reported of that magnanimous Semiramis amongst many other memorable Observances that she caused this Inscription to be written upon her Monument Whosoever he be that shall come this way and by his repaire to this place shall digge up this Monnment let him be confident of finding an infinite masse of Treasure under it It was the fortune of Victorious Cyrus to arrive there and seeing this Inscription he accounted himselfe happy in the purchase of such a Booty Having then commanded the Tombe to be open'd and search'd to the bottome He found no Treasure as he expected under it but this wholsome reproof subscribed None but wretched worldlings whose thoughts are cemented to earth would rake into the ashes of the Dead This could not chuse but nettle Cyrus to be so deluded yet caused he this † Miles crat qui unam bracteolam furtìm surripuit quo reperto contumeliosae mortis paenas luit ib. in Annal. pers apud Polib Monument to be decently repaired without expression of the least violence upon the Ashes of this Semiramis in revenge of so maine an affront He made good use of her admonition preferring it as he after professed before all that masse of Treasure which he expected under it And was not this more commendable in an Heathen then for a malicious Christian who pursues nothing more eagerly then revenge to lay his abusive hand upon the pious remaines of the Dead These should rather have been motives to Mortification then

MERCY was writ like Draco's Laws in Letters of blood shall be shewne you afterwards Now should it be demanded what reason could there be for the Besieged to hold out so long and by their continued resistance to bring both themselves with the rest of the Inhabitants into such misery and fearfull distresse especially seeing there appeared no hope at all of raising that lasting Siege nor of the Generals remove till he had finished his designe Besides their pertinacy and aversion from such reasonable conditions as in the beginning were proposed to them could but highly incense the Generall and bring them as afterwards it did to extreamer termes upon intelligence of their necessitous condition that they might either be inforc'd to perish through famine or necessarily surrender the Towne To this I answer that there were two main reasons that induced them to stand upon their own defence to the defiance of the Enemy First was that not only the County wherein they were beleagred but other Counties too had ingag'd themselves upon their fidelity a strong gage of assurance amongst good men that they would really joyne in assistance with them and stand in defence of their just Liberties re-estating of their Soveraigne in His regall Throne and disbanding of all onerous and unnecessary Forces pretensively levied in this Kingdome with a resolute purpose of labouring to suppresse all Sects Schismes or Divisions that might any way darken the Light of the Church or disturb the peace and tranquillity of the State But this strong ingagement procured an easie dispensation For these faithfull Assistants proved their mortall Assaylants So as none were more ready to lend an helping hand to the Enemy after some braving menaces delivered by the Army So as we may conclude here all those firme hopes which these Noble Gentlemen reposed in these diffiding Counties were quickly thawed and resolved to nothing This it is for persons of Quality to ground their reliance on the Aegyptian Reedes which will sooner pierce the hand of the undertaker then support him But this disease in all these late distempers and distractions as never State was farther out of her wits has been so Epidemicall as it may admit the better excuse for I have scarcely knowne any County that has not grievously laboured of this infirmity The Motion and Action of Armies got them allyance and fresh assistance what way soever they Marched yea and caused most Counties to renounce their first Principles by no other Argument then the brandish of a Sword Another reason to induce and till them on to the continuance of this Siege was their daily expectance of relief not only from these neighbouring Counties whose joynt promise had strongly ingaged them to their assistance but from the North neither were their hopes built on weak grounds For a person of quality and an experienc'd Vigilant Valiant Commander though some late overtures have rendred him unfortunate confidently assured them of a speedy expedite relief as appeared by his Letter directed to Sir CHARLES LUCAS to this effect being truly transcribed after the Originall Copie Sir YOur Gallantry in Resolution Action during that fierce furious Siege of COLCHESTER hath already confirm'd in us that noble opinion which we ever retain'd of you in all your undertakings both for Spirit and Knowledge Valour acquites it self best in extreames Of this your loyall prowesse hath given an ample testimony We here who truly love and honour you and who with some of our best and choycest Forces hope in a very short time to Relieve you could not retaine lesse then a deep resentment of the diversion of those noble-disposed Royalists who ingaged their Persons as their intendments visibly appeared for your Succour with the premature fall of that active spark of true Native Honour the Lord FRANCIS VILLIERS upon whose surprized and disarmed Body report informes us that such inhumanity by a Mechannick hand was committed as Barbarisme it self would conceive Horror to be an Actor in a Subject of such Cruelty But what shall either you or we collect from these tragick overtures but the implacable hate and heat of an odious perfidious Foe flaming frō a furious desire of imbruing his treacherous hands in the blood of all such as professe themselves faithfull Servants in defence of their Princes honour safety of their Country her just and auncient Liberties For which we Fight and for preservation of which we shall ever hold it a devotionall Loyalty to ingage our persons fortunes whatsoever is most dear unto us The Cruelty they shew to ours might prescribe us a Rule what to doe when it shall please God that we be which we hope ere long to be Masters of the Field But revenge in actions of cruelty shall ever be as far estranged from our thoughts as theirs since first these Civill unnaturall Wars were broached have been frō harbouring Loyalty or compassion Mean time these mens designes who push at nothing lower then Crownes yet should you unlock the Cabinets of their hearts make Crownes their Objects may afford both you and us who stand in defence of a just Cause and no private Interest as God is our witnesse this usefull Lesson † † Had Sir CHARLES with his constant Loyall friend Sir GEO LISLE observed this lesson upon which they ever unanimously fixed and had to death pursued if their resolution had not been by the Common Souldiers who make personall safety their only Object with other treacherous Instruments betrayed they had not so experimentally tryed the Mercy of a remorselesse Enemy to be Cruelty But if God have a Bottle for our teares he has surely in store a Vyal for our Blood so innocently shed To him then let us commit their Cause who is the just Avenger Rather to sacrifice our Lives to a noble and memorable Fate then to submit to an imperious mercilesse Foe Hold out brave Sir continue your resolution pursue your Sallies let not their numerous Recruites amate you give me leave for the true zeal I bear to our Cause and love to your Person to enforce this needlesse advice you need little doubt but if SKIPPONS power of inlisting men be abridg'd as we hear it is that these Recruites or fresh Supplies can continue long Sedition have it never so specious pretences nor powerfull favourites it will at one time or other be unmask'd and shew its own deformity which shewn those who followed her and foolishly fawned on her will become much asham'd that their misguided judgments should be ever taken with so deceiving a beauty Now to enliven the hopes of all that brave and honourable Cavalry there with you Think every Evening how we are one dayes March nearer you then we were in th' Morning and that our heartiest wishes goe along with you as we are confident within few dayes with our hands to assist you And to confirme the apparancy of these hopes you may be pleased herewith to receive an Abstract of our proceedings together

TREASON or REBELLION But We that are conquered must be What you pease to make us And desiring time but to live but till Tuesday morning that they might not enter the Lists before they were made ready for the encounter nor be thrust out of the World on a sudden with all their sins about them it was denied Which no Christian heart indued with humanity would have done for a world Upon wich deniall Sir CHARLES replyed Do not thinke I wish this out of any desire to live or escape that death I am doom'd to for were life a thousand times preciouser then it is I should scorne the estimate of it being taken at your hands But I have some addresses to make some peace-offerings to present to God above and also to some relations here below if I might have a little time but since it will not be the will of God be done and I am ready for Execution † IRETON after such time as he had denied him this civill curtesie told him how he had brought a long with him the Generals Chaplaius to advise comfort and prepare him before his end if he were pleased to make use of them But he ansered he desired none of them craving onely for his Spirituall helpe so much favour that the Lord CAPELS Chaplaine might be admitted to him to whom he could more freely communicate his thoughts and discover his griefes Which was granted At seaven a clock at night they were both brought forth to be be shot at the place appointed they shewed themselves of undaunted Resolutions Their courage and countenance the same when the actors of their Execution presented themselves before them Ireton † These Assassinats who triumph in the ruines of honour and imbrue their hands in the untainted blood of Loyall Valour must expect an heavie censure For as they make humanity a stranger to their Nature So are they seldome knowne to die naturall deaibs God has already showne his judgment on Rainsborough Obsequies be they solemnized with never so much magnificence though they bestow sumptuous Lodgings upon their Corpse They cannot expiate the memory of their crimes nor with innocence cloathe a guilty cause The more God defers the more he infers Rainsborough and Whaley who is reported to have shewne himselfe more generously disposed notwithstanding that former disgust betwixt him and Sir GEORGE LISLE in disswading the Generall from this inconsiderate Act came to be Spectators as well as Actors in this inhumane Tragedy whom Sir Charles told that he had often lookt death in the face both publique and private and now they should see he was not affraid to die Having retired himselfe a while in prayer with a pious humble commendation of his soul into the hands of God he stood up as one who meant to entertaine the stroake of Death with a resolute Station And with a kinde of Religious indignation for never was passion in such a spirit more sweetly subdued pulling downe his Hat setting his Armes a Kembow that was his posture tearing open his Doublet he exposed his naked Brest wherein such matchlesse Valour and Loyall Honour had been lodged and crying out Now Rebels do your worst he was immediately dispatched His sorrowfull Servant a sad spectator of his Death was surprized with such passion for the losse so deare a Master as he earnestly besought those Executioners to dispatch him too for life was to him a torment A Gentleman of quality and disciplin'd in Service and Commandes abroad being present at his death upon his returne hither to the City protested in the company of sundry persons of account That he had in his time seene many die but never any with more Christian nor Souldier-like resolution Adding these words That it Was a great pitty that a Valiant man should fall into the hand of such an Enemy as preferred revenge before an act of mercy Sir GEORGE LISLE's turne was next who beholding that sad spectacle the dead Body of his dearest friend fell upon it and kissed it as if he meant to breath into it another soule Not a passionate expresse but bedewed with a Funerall teare with a free but true relation of his vertues and indowments of which this ungratefull Nation was not worthy Often would he redouble these words In how short a moment has a brave spirit expired well this priority was due to thee but I shall not be long behind thee my death which is now at hand shall restore thee to me This with the assured hopes I have in Him that made me shall make my translation cheerfull My divorce from such a friend injoynes me to hasten to him It is not death I fear had I a thousand lives I should willingly Sacrifice them all to confirme my Lyoalty After this standing up and taking five pieces of Gold out of his pocket being all he had left he gave one to his Executioners and the other foure he sent to foure friends in London Then turning to the standers by he said Oh how many do I see here about me whose lives I have saved in hot blood and now must mine be taken away in cold blood most barbarously Sure the like was never heard of among the Goths and Vandals or the veriest Barbarians in the World in any Age. But what dare not those Rebels and Traytors do that have Imprisoned and could willingly cut the throat of their King for whose deliverance from His Enemies and Peace to this distracted Kingdom these my last Prayers shall be presented Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst to me After which words and a few invocations upon the Name of Jesus he was also dispatched as he stood in an heroick posture courting grim death with a spritely countenance and a greedy expectation Thus fell this matchlesse paire of Worthies and in them Their Honour who adjudg'd them to so injurious a censure For what inducing reasons there were or might be alledg'd to move their implacable Enemies to this un-Military president of cruelty no intelligence were it never so colourably palliated by their own Favourites could ever yet appear so reall as to returne satisfaction to any clear or equally-ballanced judgement So far as may concerne their personall worth they shall little neede to be either further displayed or distinguished For Sir CHARLES he was known to be an accomplish'd Souldier an high prizer of his honour a perfect Master both of the ancient and moderne Militia accounted as eminent in the Command of Horse a service wherein he had been ever imployed and singularly improved as the most experien'd Commander in Europe Being in a word such a Man of men and Patterne of active Loyalty as he was all that Sir GEO LISLE in a gallant emulation aimed to be whom as he dearly tendred so he seriously imitated and now in the end nearly seconded being reputed a most knowing and obliging Commander for the Infantry and of such discipline and courage that he led them as in a