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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90439	The triall of the honourable Colonel Iohn Penruddock of Compton in Wiltshire, and his speech: vvhich he delivered the day before he was beheaded in the castle of Exon, being the 16. day of May 1655. to a gent. whom he desired to publish them after his death. Together with his prayer upon the scaffold, and the last letter he received from his vertuous lady, with his answer to the same. Also the speech of that piously resolved gent. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the parish of Enford, and County of Wilts, Esq; beheaded there the same day.	Penruddock, John, 1619-1655.; Grove, Hugh, d. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing P1431; Thomason E845_7; ESTC R207278	15,459	19

habet etiam coercionem ut delinquentes puniat coerceat again he saith Omnes sub Rege ipse nullo nisi tantum Deo non est inferior sibi subjectis non parem habet in regno suo this shewes us where the true power is You shall find also That whoever shall refuse to aid the King when war is levied against Parl. Rol. num 7. Rex consuetudo Parliament 11 H. 7 Chap. 1. him or against any that keep the King from his just Rights offends the law and is thereby guilty of Treason Again All men that adhere to the King in personall service are freed from Treason by Law and yet you tell me of a Statute which makes my adhering to my King according to Law to be high Treason Pray let it be read At. Gen. Sir You have not behaved your self so as to have such a favour from the Court. Col. Pen. Sir I require it not as a favour but as my Right At. Gen. Sir You cannot have it Col. Pen. If I cannot have it these Gentlemen that are the Jurors have not affended you their verdict reaches to their souls as to my life pray let not them go blindfold but let that Statute be their guide At. Gen. Sir The Jury ought to be satisfied with what hath been already said and so might you too Col. Pen. Sir I thank you you now tell me what I must trust to Mr Attorney then made a large speech in the face of the Court wherein he aggravated the offence with divers circumstances as saying I had been four years in France and held a correspondency with the King my Master of whom I had learned the Popish Religion That I endeavoured to bring in a debauch'd lewd young man to engage this Nation in another bloudy war and that if I had not been timely prevented I had destroyed them meaning the Jurors and their whole families I interrupted him and said Col. Pen. Mr Attorney you have been heretofore of Councell for me you then made my case better then indeed it was I see you have the faculty to make men believe falsehoods to be truth too At. Gen. Sir You interrupt me you said but now you were a gentleman Col. Pen. Sir I have been thought worthy heretofore to sit on the bench though now I am at the bar Mr Attorney then proceeded in his speech and called the witnesses Then I said Sir You have put me in a bears skin and now you will bait me with a witnesse But I see the face of a gentleman here in the Court I mean Captain Crook whose conscience can tell him that I had articles from him which ought to have kept me from hence Captain Crook hereupon stood up and his guilty conscience I supposed advised him to sit down again after he had made this speech that is to say he opened his lips and spake nothing The severall witnesses now come in Mr Dove the Sheriff of Wilts and others my charity forbids me to tell you what many of them swore I shall therefore omit that and only tell you that one of our own party and indeed I think an honest man being forc't to give his evidence I said My Lords it is a hard case that when you find you cannot otherwise cleave me in pieces that you must look after wedges made of my own timber The vertuous Cryer of Blanford being asked what were the words I used in the proclaiming King Charles at the market he said I declar'd for Charles the Second and setling the true Protestant Religion for the liberty of the Subject and Priviledge of Parliaments Then I said to the Attorney Generall and the whole Court you said even now that I had learn'd of the King my Master the Popish religion and endeavoured to bring him in your own witnesse tells you what and whom I would bring in and that it was the true Protestant and not the Popish Religion his Majestie is of and intends to settle I urged divers cases to make the businesse but a Riot as my Lord of Northumberlands pretending it was for the taking of Taxes and that the power was not declared to be where they say it is I required the Judges to be of Councell for me and told them it was their duty Commissioner Lisle told me I should have no wrong but he meant Right but Judge Rolls and Nicholas confessed themselves parties therefore would say nothing Then I told the Court if I had seen a Crown upon the head of any person I had known what had been Treason the Law of England would have taken hold of me out of the respects it has to Monarchy there was no such land-marks before me therefore I conceive I cannot be guilty of what I am charged with And my Lord and Mr Attorney you here indict me for a Treason committed at Southmoulton in Devonshire and gentlemen ye swear witnesses against me for facts done in other Countries Sarum Blanford and Southmoulton are not in a parish You puzzle the Jurors with these circumstances pray go to the kernell and you Gent. of the Jury save your labour of taking those notes Mr Attorney then addressed himself to the Jury and to be short after the space of half an houre long gave them directions to bring me in guilty this being done I craved the favour from the Court that I might speak to the Jury which being allowed I said to them as followeth or to the same effect Gent. You are called a Jury of life and death and happy will it be for your soules if you prove to be a Jury of life You have heard what hath been said to make my actions Treason and with what vigour many untruths have been urged to you I have made appear to you that there can be no treason but against the King that the Law knowes no such person as a Protectour Mr Attorney pretends a Statute for it but refuseth the reading thereof either to me or you vilifies me at pleasure and tells you I am a Papist and would bring in the Popish Religion and that if I had not been timely prevented I had destroyed you I hope you are also satisfied of the contrary from the mouth of one of the bitterest witnesses You are now judges between me and these Judges Let not the majesty of their looks or the glory of their habits betray you to a sinne which is of a deeper dye then their scarlet I mean that sinne bloud which calls to heaven for vengeance Gent. you do not see a hair of my head but is numbred neither can you make any one of them much lesse can you put breath into my nostrils when it is taken out a sparrow doth not fall to the ground without the providence of God much lesse shall man to whom he hath given dominion and rule over all the creatures of the earth Gent. look upon me I am the Image of my Creatour and that stamp of his which is in my

is too late to tell you what I have or rather have not done for you how turned out of doores because I came to beg mercy the Lord lay not your bloud to their charge I would fain discourse longer with you but dare not Passion begins to drown my Reason and will rob me of my devoire which is all I have left to serve you Adieu therefore ten thousand times my dearest dear and since I must never see you more take this prayer May your Faith be so strengthened that your Constancy may continue and then I know heaven will receive you whither grief and love will in a short time I hope translate My dear Your sad but constant wife even to love your ashes when dead Arundel Penruddock May the 3. 11 a clock at night Your children beg your blessing and present their duties to you The last letter from the honourable Colonel Penruddock in answer to his vertuous Lady MY DEAREST HEART I Even now received thy farewell letter each word whereof represents unto me a most lively Embleme of your affection drawn with thy own hand in water colours to the figure of a deaths head My dear I embrace it as coming first from God and then from Man for what is there done in the City that the Lord hath not permitted I look upon every line of thine as so many threads twisted together into that of my life which being now woven my meditations tell me will make a fit remnant for my winding-sheet Upon the reading thereof I may say with the Prophet I should have utterly fainted but that I believe verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living As this is mine my dear so let it be thy consolation When I think what a wife and what children I go from and look no further I begin to cry O wretched man that I am But when my thoughts soar higher and fix themselves upon those things which are above where I shall find God my Creatour to my Father and his Son my Redeemer to my Brother for so they have vouchsafed to term themselves then I say aside those relations and do of all love my dear desire thee not to look towards my grave where my Body lies but toward the heaven where I hope my Soul shall gain a Mansion in my Fathers house I do stedfastly believe that God hath heard the prayers of my friends and thine and mine and how knowest thou O woman whether thou hast not saved thy husband Let those considerations raise thy spirits I beseech thee and that for Gods sake and mine though I ly among the children of men which are set on fire against me yet under the shadow of the Almighties wings I will hide my self till this tyranny be overpast The greatest conflict I have had in this extremitie was my parting with thee the next encounter is to be with Death and my Saviour hath so pulled out the sting thereof that I hope to assault it without fear Though the Armies of men have been too hard for me yet I am now listing my self under the conduct of my Sovereign and an Army of Martyrs that the gates of hell cannot prevail against My dear I have now another subject to think on therefore you must excuse the imperfections you find here I have formerly given you directions concerning my children to which I shall referre you May the blessing of Almighty God be upon thee and them and may there not want a man of my name to be ready to be a sacrifice in this cause of God and his Church so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure I shall now close up all with desiring you to give a testimony for me to the world that I die with so much Charity as to forgive all my enemies I will joyn them in my last prayers for my friends Amongst which you and my children are for my sake obliged to pay a perpetuall acknowledgement To Mr Rolles and his Lady and my cousin Mr * Nota bene Mr Sebastine Isack although he seemed very sollicitous for Col. Penruddock in his life since his death hath been very unworthy to his memory contrary to his promise to the said Col. in his life and hath done contrary to the will of the dead the trust reposed in him the principles of honour and much unbecoming a Gent. Sebastine Isack for their great sollicitations on my behalf If I should forget this City of Exeter for their civilities to my own self in particular indeed to all of us I should leave a reproach behind me I will give them thanks at my death and I hope you and yours will do it when I am dead My dear heart I once more bid thee adieu and with as much love and sincerity as can be imagined I subscribe my self Thy dying and loving Husband Jo. Penruddock Exon May 7. and the * Note when this letter was writ Colonel Penruddock did not know other then that he was to die the same day last year and day of my date being the year of my Saviour 1655. The Speech of the Honourable Colonell Penruddock the greatest part whereof he delivered upon the Scaffold in Exon Castle the 16. day of May 1655. the whole he left with a Gent. and friend of his written with his own hand which is as followeth Together with the manner of his being beheaded As he was ascending the Scaffold baring his knees and humbly bowing himself he used these words This I hope will prove to be like Jacobs ladder though the feet of it rest on earth yet I doubt not but the top of it reacheth to Heaven When he came upon the Scaffold he said O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God who hath given me victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Then with abundance of Christian chearfulnesse he spake to the people as followeth GENTLEMEN IT hath ever been the custome of all persons whatsoever when they come to die to give some satisfaction to the world whether they be guilty of the fact of which they stand charged The crime for which I am now to die is Loyalty but in this age calld high Treason I cannot deny but I was at South-moulton in this County but whether my being there or my actions there amount to so high a crime as high Treason I leave to the world to the Law to judge Truly if I were conscious to my self of any base ends that I had in this undertaking I would not be so injurious to my own soul or disingenuous to you as not to make a publick acknowledgement thereof I suppose that divers persons according as they are biassed by their severall interests and relations give their opinions to the world concerning us I conceive it impossible therefore so to expresse my self in this particular as not to expose both my judgement and reputation to the censure of many which I shall

leave behind me Because I will not put others therefore upon a breach of charity concerning me or my actions I have thought fit to decline all discourses which may give them a capacity either to injure themselves or me My Tryall was publick and my severall examinations I believe will be produced when I am in my grave I will refer you therefore to the first which I am sure some of you heard and to the later which many of you in good time may see Had Captain Crook done himself and us that right which a Gentleman and a Souldier ought to have done I had not now been here The man I forgive with all my heart but truly Gentlemen his protesting against those Articles he himself with so many protestations and importunities put upon us hath drawn so much dishonour and bloud upon his head that I fear some heavy judgement will pursue him Though he hath been false to us I pray God I do not prove a true prophet to him Nay I must say more that coming on the road to Exon he the said Captain Crook told me Sir Joseph Wagstaffe was a gallant Gentleman and that he was sorry he was not taken with us that then he might have had the benefit of our Articles but now said he I have beset all the Country for him so that he cannot escape but must be hanged He also questioned me as I passed through Salisbury from London whether he had given me conditions Which I endeavouring to make appear to Major Butler he interrupted me and unwillingly confess 't it saying I profered him four hundred pounds to perform his Articles which had been a strange profer of mine had I not really conditioned with him And I told him then having found him unworthy I would have given him five hundred pounds believing him to be mercenary To make it yet farther appear I injure him not by stiling him unworthy after these Articles were given he profered to pistoll me if I did not perswade another house to vield which then were boldly resisting To which my servant Iohn Biby now a prisoner replyed I hope you will not be so unworthy as to break the Law of Arms. Thus much I am obliged to say to the honour of the Soulderie that they have been so far from breaking any Articles given to others that they have rather bettered them then otherwise It is now our misfortune to be made presidents and examples together but I will not do the Protectour so much injury as to load him with this dishonour since I have been informed that he would have made our conditions good if Crook that gave them had not abjur'd them This is not a time for me to enlarge upon any subject since I am now become the Subject of death But since the Articles were drawn by my hand I thought myself obliged to a particular Justification of them I could tell you of some souldiers which are turned out of his troup for defending those conditions of ours but let that passe and henceforward in stead of life liberty and estate which were the Articles agreed upon let drawing hanging and quartering bear the Denomination of Captain Crooks Articles However I thank the Protectour for granting me this honourable Death I should now give you an accompt of my Faith But truly gentlemen this poor Nation is rent into so many severall opinions that it is impossible for me to give you mine without displeasing some of you However if any man be so criticall as to enquire of what faith I die I shall refer him to the Apostles Athanasius and the Nicene Creed and to the testimony of this Reverend gentleman Dr Short to whom I have unbosomed my self and if this do not satisfie look in the thirty nine Articles of the Catholick Church of England to them I have subscribed and do own them as authentick Having now given you an accompt concerning my self I hold my self obliged in duty to some of my friends to take off a suspicion which lyes upon them I mean as to some persons of Honour which upon my examination I was charged to have held correspondency with The Marquesse of Hartford the Marquesse of Winchester and my Lord of Pembrook were the persons nominated to me I did then acquit them and do now second it with this protestation That I never held any correspondency with either or any of them in relation to this particular businesse or indeed to any thing which concern'd the Protectour or his Government As for the Marquesse of Winchester I saw him some twelve years since and not later and if I should see him here present I believe I should not know him And for the Earle of Pembrook he was not a man likely to whom I should discover my thoughts because he is a man of a contrary judgement I was examined likewise concerning my Brother Freke my Cousin Hastings Mr Dorrington and others It is probable their estates may make them lyable to this my condition but I do here so far acquit them as to give the world this farther protestation that I am confident they are as innocent in this businesse as the youngest child here I have no more to say to you now but to let you know that I am in charity with all men I thank God I both can and do forgive my greatest persecutours and all that ever had any hand in my death I have offered the Protectour as good security for my future demeanour as I suppose he could have expected if he had thought fit to have given me my life certainly I should not have been so ungratefull as to have imployed it against him I do humbly submit to Gods pleasure knowing that the issues of life and death are in his hand My bloud is but a small sacrifice if it had been saved I am so much a Gent as to have given thanks to him that preserved it and so much a Christian as to forgive them which take it But seeing God by his providence hath called me to lay it down I willingly submit to it though terrible to nature but blessed be my Saviour who hath taken out the sting so that I look upon it without terrour Death is a debt and a due debt and it hath pleased God to make me so good a husband that I am come to pay it before it is due I am not ashamed of the cause for which I die but rather rejoyce that I am thought worthy to suffer in the defence and cause of Gods true Church my lawfull King the liberty of the Subject and Priviledge of Parliaments Therefore I hope none of my alliance and friends will be ashamed of it it is so far from pulling down my Family that I look upon it as the raising it one story higher Neither was I so prodigall of nature as to throw away my life but have used though none but honourable and honest means to preserve it These unhappy times indeed have been very fatall