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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

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 Boūtefe 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 impiet● of the fact of which for their pre●en●ed S●●ctit● they must not acknowl●●ge themselves as ●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

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 F●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 h●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 mali●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

saith I am afraid the bloud that hath been shed hath not those Returns for which the War was begun and in another place adviseth all men to be obedient and submit to the King and lastly prayes God to scatter them that delight in War In which good words and prayer we also will conclude with him as more desirous and concerned in that Harmony of Peace leaving the discord of his other words which are quite contrary to these as Saul was mad when the Musick ceased to such who like Quakers delight in and can rellish nothing but absurdities Next let us glean after Miles Corbet one that also pretends no malice and a sort of ignorance to the Kings Death and yet saith be had been a Parliament man in all the Parliaments of the late King where by reason thereof he must have often took the Oath of Alleigance could not but be well versed in the dispute of the Prerogative which he knew was asserted and maintained by the Laws and likewise knew the Constitution of Parliaments and what Power and Jurisdiction each Estate had he acknowledgeth the mercy of his Majesties Restitution to his people and that private Interests should give way to publick yet he comes to the vomit again owns a Juncto of the Commons for a lawfull Authority saith he will not justifie the Kings death and yet clans in a Salvo and Reservation to please his party because he will not offend others So that in effect he said nothing and leaves a good inuendo to the Faction to think he would have spoke our if he might have been permitted But Consider a little further for all his great shew of Piety and you shall find him another man This is that Corbet which was Chearman to the Committee of Examinations the great Pryer into the Lanses of the Government and the Ruins of the Kingdom besides many hundred Families without any more adoe then a close illegal order from that Committee were quite undone Examination serving for Tryal Sentence and Execution yet Mr. Corbet hath legally underwent them all being tryed by a due course of Law as he himself acknowledged This is if we said no more he that murdered the best and most vertuous Prince in Europe and who afterwards so tyrannously oppressed the people in Ireland who have spent so ma●y groans for themselves that they cannot spare him an Oh hone And that you may perfectly know what sort of Christian he was it is he whose most known name was Corbet the Jew This almost spent discourse will bestow its last effort upon languishing Baxter a kind of Prodigy of Fortune yet a great admirer of Providence though he rever talkt lesse of it then here His Bottel was his prompter and he was wise to hear the others speak before him for else he might have said nothing at all but that he was sick and could not however it amounts to very little more being a meer Crambe or repetition of what they spoke He insisted mainly upon his Comfort it is supposed he meant his Cordial and the Spirit of Life not of Grace for that never appeared in any of his actions they were so impious and unjust especially to the bails for the Kings Friends He used the same unmethodical way as Witches do when they pray backward not to say to the same purpose and his Language was as significant to charm his Congregational Brethren This man hath such a load upon him for his baseness that it is in vain to charge him with any thing more and therefore he ought not to be vouchsafed an Answer to this unquestionable and transcendent guilt against the King whose blood he mingled with every penny and Preferment he got In conclusion it may be presumed they knew not what to say as their Crime wanted precedent so it wants a Plea or defence and therefore they have recourse to any thing which stuft out with the old specious shews of Piety they think still shall deceive the World FINIS