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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93810	Royal and other innocent bloud crying aloud to heaven for due vengeance. Humbly represented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And with all humble dutifull submission dedicated to the two high and mighty princes, James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester, his sacred Majestyes Royal brethren. By George Starkey, a true honourer and faithfull friend of his country.	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5287; Thomason E1032_7	32,297	47

bring thee to it The proverb is so true of none as of such murtherers as these who destroy not their natural fathers but the father of their Country subvert its lawes and make the land groane with illegall oppressures proscricptions and bloud-shed Should God in judgement suffer them to have such another day as they would certainly hugge and improve the opportunity so you and your posterity should first feel their requitall of this favour in procuring their pardon they of all others would not suffer any to live at least to inhabit among them who could say I or my father saved them or their fathers from deserved executions for the like crimes before and this now is the recompence 98. And perhaps although their children borne long since and men growne before they became involved in such guilt may prove better than their fathers yet from such as hereafter may become fertile among them what a pestilent brood may come into the World who by Gods law stand accursed and lie irremissibly under the bands of death If a bird constantly lay such an Egge as will produce a young one like her selfe we cannot in reason expect children to proceed from them better than the fathers The Jewes have a witty observation nor perhaps untrue That Agag King of Amal●k during those two years which he abode with Saul and verily thought the bitterness of death had been past begat a Son from whom lineally came that Haman the Agagite who in Mordecai's time had like to swallow up the whole Jewish Nation in his unsatiable thirst of revenge because one who sate in the Kings gate would not bow to him The morall is very seasonable and sadly to be thought upon these bloud-guilty Traytors who in justice are sonnes of Death whom God would have cut off in the midst of their dayes who are beyond all but foolish pity which as the proverb truly hath it ruines oftimes a City may become the future fathers of such a pisti lent brood as may revenge Gods quarrell in the neglect of justice upon them to the very fourth generation of such who are chiefly concerned in it Nor is it unlikely but our present Lambert may be a branch of that bloudy Archrraytor of his name who long ago did such mischiefe in England 99. Though their lives be spared yet future credit and repute its unlike they or their children ever will get in these Kingdomes till the memory of them be buried in forgetfullness So that whether they have Estates left or no their bare lives will serve to produce much and great mischiefe They have long been accustomed to villanies of a prodigious bigness And scorn now to serve the Devill in sneaking employments Great Rogues too lazy to dig nor will beg so long as England hath enemies They are acquainted with all the petty instruments of villany three in Kingdoms and if they cannot set them on work themselves can and will recommend their abilityes to forreigne Princes that bear England little good will what happiness can we expect but these will obstruct prove Remoras to and retard What mischiefe hatched but they will promote and cherish no trusting their good nature who have discovered themselves prodigies therein no hoping for their repentance who have been seared in their consciences with twelve years practise of the most heart-hardning villanies 100. If any hopes should appear in them of repentance 't is pity but it should be promoted with execution of that deserved doom which God requires to be brought upon them which to differ especially to acquit them from is in effect to cause those who chiefly procure this indemnity for them to injoy neither life or happiness longer than they can hinder it They have been long acquainted with such butcheries and imperious usurpation so as to be courted on that score by Kings dreaded at home seared abroad and admired by nations far distant this hath scrow'd up their minds to that Generous pitch of impiety that rather than live neglectedly or in contempt they will spare two pence at any time although but masters of a groat in all to by a faggot which may fire their native Country then they will warme their hands and rejoyce at the flame 101. Their long experience although in an usurped way hath rendred them dangerous persons to be interested against their native country the hopelesness of their pardon upon any future score of rebellion or Treason would incourage any Prince to trust them very far who shall be ingaged against England These are great incarnate devills every one of them is collective a name of number and there are in these Kingdomes a multitude of close villians of their own complexion who are of inferior ranks and orders yet mischievous enough in their kind whom these formerly State-Angles shining in usurped Glory falling now to be State-Devills will draw along with them as Lucifer did his train after him or as the Dragor in the Apocalyps drew the starrs with his tail these will still by reason of their close agents who will ingratiate themselves as nigh the very Court and grand Counsels of the Nation as possible learne and betray your most choice and secret counsells and resolves to those where it will be little for the Nations advantage to have them known 102. Believe it confidently my Lords and Gentlemen it will be thus besides the probability of the thing you have his Warrant and threatning to assure you of it whom you shall never taxe with breach of his word No sooner shall these be acquitted but of your own number one shall be Lenthall another Haslerigge another Vane a fourth Mildmay a fift Whitlock a sixt Mounson a seventh Saint-Johns and so on in Gods esteem and account and who then so fit to execute his vengeance against you but these very persons because you neglected to do it upon them when God requir'd And every man of you representing a County City or Borough what may be the lot of England I tremble to think 103. Thus my Lords and Gentlemen I have given you some brief but serious considerations not but that I think your wisedomes much more able to ventilate and apprehend them than I to suggest but knowing your many imployments will hardly if at all admit most of you to think on these things out of the walls of your joynt deliberation besides that so many intercessors and friends are dayly made to you in their behalfe as gives you little leisure so profoundly to examine things as one of far inferiour parts to the least of you may do being without interruption I shall in brief touch some things which may be objected in their behalf 104. Those who plead for them do it under the notion of moderation and for the most part use such arguments as these first Gods manner of bringing this about without stroke or bloud and therefore conclude this providence speakes that if any yet as little bloud ought to be shed as possibly

all the Nations round about whom they had spared contrary to command besides all which pretences by Saul no doubt alledged for that slaughter committed upon them the quality of him and them makes his case and ours of no comparison together He a King and they contemptible drudges of a cursed Generation But with us sworn subjects murther'd their Soveraign the very tongues mouths and lips that had vo'wd solemn allegiance to him and to hazard life in his preservation and to defend with him his Queen and Progeny presume to condemn to death the same Royall Person proclaim Traytors his Queen and Sonnes yea all that shall adhere to them and assert their so oft confirmed title by so sacred and religious oaths This certainly next to our blessed Saviours murther was most black and hortible 40. Besides with Majesty fell Nobles and Gentlemen Divines and Citizens of as great repute as any the Land afforded who were as undoubtedly Innocent as cruelly slaughtered yea their crime objected was honesty the pretence of taking them off was a colourable mock-justice yet in their own conscience they knew their Courts to be only Snares and Engines to do such work which by no known Law of the Land nor in any regular form of proceeding could be effected If then Saul's bloudy-fact were revenged with three yeares famine and after that with the death of Seven of his Sonnes I tremble to think what vengeance the Lord may take of us for this bloud unless our most honourable Lords and those other worthy Patriots of the English Nation the House of Commons by their pious wisdom and just severity against unpardonable malefactors scatter that black cloud of Gods judgments which is already gathering and who knowes how soon it may overspread the whole Kingdom 41. Breaking Parliaments subverting Laws horrible Oppression by Confiscations Sequestrations decimations Imprisonments frequent sending out of Town setting up Usurpers making the Nobles more contemptible than any generous Spirits could bear are unparallel'd Treasons and being against man more directly may be famous objects of Pardon even to astonishment but to indemnifie such horrible guilt of bloud is to presume to do that on Earth which God will never set his seal to or confirm in Heaven It is for man to exceed his Commission which presumption he and his Posterity may have cause to bewail with bitter tears when it is too late to remedy 42. My Lords and Gentlemen although in a Parliamentary way of Convention with his Majesties Royal assent concurring you have great I had almost said unlimited power which is true in a sense nothing that is mearly humane can bound you yet there are bounds set even to you by the hand of God himself no less dreadfull than the bounds of Sinai which you cannot transgress but you streight incurre the displeasure of a revenging Deity whose Angel with his flaming sword is forthwith over your head and speedy Judgement ready to overtake you and treading upon your heels Nor will this be your private sin but as persons in trust you contract a fatal score whereof God alone knows how many thousands must be the Pay-masters One of those immovable bounds is the guilt of bloud which debt if you remit as to the penalty it were well if you could cross it out of Gods book but that 's impossible bloud only is to be the payment though it is in your choyce whether this shall be guilty or other innocent bloud which God as a Soveraign Lord perhaps will take and place both the former and latter to their account at whose door neglect lies 43. Believe it my Lods and Gentlemen the persons concerned in that detestable murther of his Majesty are not all comprised in the list of those who sate in the High Court of Mock-justice that day when sentence was past that whole pretended Court or rather pack of Bloud-hounds were but the tool and instrument in the hand of some devilish Workman Journey 〈◊〉 employed by others who contrived the Plot and set them on work among whose number some were more actively daring and openly appeared as well to give countenance to as incourage the rest who were persons qualifyed to serve their turn and pickt here and there as they came to hand others of the grand contrivers were more wary and reserved who for fear of after-reckonings slipt behind the Curtain gave aim unto and directed the Actors Haslerig Vane Lenthall and others of that gang had as deep hand in that Crimson fact as any who were present at sentence or confirmed it under hand and Seal 44. That there is no pleading for murther where all are prin cipalls the Law of our land makes evident less for Royall murther as is clear by that Scripture-rule which saith Who can lift up his hand against the Lords anointed and be guiltless and most plainly confirmed by the pattern of David who commanded that foolish Amalekite forthwith to be slain who in hope of reward accused himself that he had at the request of Saul dispatcht his life when past hope of recovery by reason of his mortall wounds sending him to his long home with this farewell thy bloud be upon thine own head forasmuch as thou hast confest the lifting up thine hand against the Lords anointed 45. Yet as the first plotter and contriver of a horrid fact if especially he stand by and encourage advise assist justify and reward the Actor is the more unpardonably guilty so those who appointed an high Court of Justice nominated the persons commissi●●ated impowered and warranted them in what they were to act were indeed the superlatiue Traytors and most guilty of bloud 46. And among those there are yet degrees some were professed Lawyers and could not be ignorant of the Law of the Land their conscience told them in the very act of endeavouring to try their King for life in such an unheard of Court themselves were above all most transcendent Traytors 47. In which crew as all 〈◊〉 Subjects so many were his Majesties actuall servants as Vane Mildmay Danvers Holland and others whose fact surpasseth so far the rest as it is more detestable for a servant than for a stranger to kill his Master by our Law made petty Treason and more severely punished Some were servants in favour and places of more than ordinary trust and were rewarded so largely as argued a bountifull Prince and them on that account Monsters in nature who durst abet much more actually commit such a villany upon so gracious a Lord so loving and bountifull a Master 48. Their declarations after the fact challenged the imagined repute thereof to themselves for as they m●●e no scruple to call themselves the Parliament and supream power of England so they ascribed to themselves the abolishing Kingship and accordingly rejected the whole line of the murther'd King declar'd for a Common-wealth whithout King or House of Lords fram'd and imposed upon all an engagement to that purpose which argues plainly that