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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25841	The Army's martyr, or, A more ful relation of the barbarous and illegal proceedings of the court-martiall at White-Hall upon Mr. Robert Lockier who was shot to death in Paul's church-yard upon the 27 day of April, 1649, and a brief narrative of the cause thereof : with his Christian carriage and deportment, and his dying speeches to all his fellow-souldiers at the time of his execution as an everlasting witnesse of his integrity to the rights and freedoms of the Common-Wealth.	Lockier, Robert, d. 1649.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1649 (1649)	Wing A3714A; ESTC R24189	16,468	16

And for me to pray as long as you see me live that God would carry forth my heart as now you see me carried forth to which I answered I am overjoyed M Lockier to hear such expressions come from you in which I saw so much Religion as that it was for me a good pattern ●o learn by and not take upon me to instruct one so able as you are Lockier said The Lord stablish and strenthen you and fit you for his work And not onely you but all my dear friends to whom I desire you to commend me dearly to and for whom I shall pray while I breathe that God would enable them to stand up faithfully and couragiously for the good of their Country and Liberties And I pray you let not this death of mine be a discouragement but rather an incouragement for never man died more comfortably then I do And after he and I had embraced each other he spake a few words to the Officers and then he desired to speak with his Sister and Cousins but what passed betwixt them I know not And then I heard not what he said to them but from good hands of them that were close to him he said thus Fellow souldiers I am here brought to suffer in behalf of the People of England and for your Priviledges and Liberties and such as in conscience you ought to own and stand to But I perceive you are appointed by your Officers to murder me and I did not think that you had had such heathenish and barbarous principles in you as to obey your Officers in murthering of me when I stand up for nothing but what is for your good And then I heard Colonel Okey say with other Officers What do you endeavour to make the souldiers mutinie Martial away with him And setting him in the place where he was to suffer he pulled off his loose Jacket and Coat and Belt and gave them some to one and some to another and after that he went to prayer again in his shirt without his dublet and after prayer he stood in the place of execution and all this while with abundance of courage and undauntedness for when I desired him to put something upon his face and cover it he thanked me for my love but he said his cause was so just as that he feared not the face of death and therefore he stood looking with a gallant courage in their faces and then came up to the men that were to shoot him which were six Musketiers he lifted up his eyes to God and desired that when he gave them a signe they should shoot which was the lifting up of both his hands and immediately he lifting up his hands they all six shot off their Muskets and so died this gallant Heart M. Watson I asked him how it was with him in relation to his eternall condition and whether that which he had done was not out of passion and told him that he was to depart this life the hour of his death was very neer therefore I desired him if any thing lay upon his Spirit that he would declare it to me he replyed I have been a servant to them a long time and been faithfull I am burdened in my Spirit because of their unjust proceedings and for my condition at present I praise God it is well with me and I praise God out of obedience to God I have served my Country and for that I first ingaged I little thought that they would have proceeded so harsh against me to single me from the rest of my fellows the fault being one and the same not that I am sorry that I am singled out by my self for I am joyfull that I must dye to excuse them but I see their aime is at my blood and when they have it they may then be satisfied though that will give them little satisfaction as to righteousnesse yet I praise God I am fitted for it and have a witnesse from God that I have served my generation with uprightnesse so farre as I had understanding and seeing God hath been so pleased to dispose of me let it come and welcome death is nothing it stoppeth my progresse from sorrow to sorrow I am sure I have a smiling conscience within me and the love of the Father made out to me through the Son and for death I praise God I fear it not and so dear friend I leave thee to the disposall of the Almighty hoping to meet thee in word I meane in spirit though now we are divided by death I desire you would joyne in prayer with me which we did Mr. Bunting told him That he had heard very well of him that he was an honest consciencious man and that much of God appeared in him for which he was glad now he was appointed to die it was good for him to make preparation he having been one of the chief promoters of the late mutinie which might have occasioned the shedding of much bloud for which he was sentenced by the Councel of War to be shot and said that the Councel was very tender in their dealing towards them and that they desired not to shed bloud though there were 14 more guilty yet but him to die however his intention might be good yet a Mutinie being of such an high nature could be adjudged no lesse then death Ans Sir I am condemned or brought here to dye I bless my God I can freely submit unto it having learned to look death in the face hoping by the merits of the Lord Jesus to have life and salvation I have done nothing whereof I am accused I am sentenced as I think by their sixt Article to suffer An Officer then stept in and said that he did before the Councel acknowledge that he was the chief of the mutinie which mutinie deserved death which presently was denied saying that he was no more concerned then the rest and for them to take away his life was very partiall and unjust but I pray God forgive them and us all our sins that it be not laid to their charge I am sure their dealings with me is bloody for them to take away my life for a supposed crime for that which might happen besides I never went forth to uphold a Martiall Law to be executed in a time of peace it being too cruel for any freeborn Englishman to live under I went voluntarily forth being invited by declarations of Parliament to stand by them in the defence of the just rights and freedoms of this Nation for which I have engaged my life and for the freedoms and liberties of the people I now suffer An Officer steps in and said it was in your own choice you might have left the Army if you would for why should you continue under the power of it and not to obey Ans I am sure I have been faithful I never betray'd my trust Severall of the Officers desiring him to retire if possible they might disturbe him it may

be he would be private the time is but short therefore think of death I bless the Lord I can willingly submit to dye he then withdrew for a while and prayed and came again discoursing a little with the Officers called for his Sister and Friends there came to the Souldiers that were to shoot him and said I freely forgive you and all the world I pray sister forgive them I am sorry to see that you should be brought to obey your officers to murther me for you stand as if you were the men appointed to murder me I pray God forgive you I doe Whereupon the Officers thrust him away and said he would make a mutinie among the Souldiers take him away so being not permitted to speak to them they shot him c. saying they were sorry to see him dye so A mutineer he lived and so he died But as he was honorable in his life and at his Death so he was as honorably buried to the trouble of many of his enemies who could have been contented to have his memoriall to be buried in oblivion that their wickednesse might not be had in remembrance But I beleeve he did not so much offend them in his life but his death shall be a greater terrour to them in crying for vengeance on their heads the guilt of whose blood doth trouble many of them already as I hear However he is gone to his grave in peace with confidence in Gods love tto him through Jesus Christ where he shall rest in his grave and at last stand up in his Lott having his Portion amongst the Just and crowned with the loving kindnesses and enjoyment of God To his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX Generall of the English Forces The humble addresses of divers well affected persons in behalfe of all those that are under restraint or censure of the Councel of War or Law-Martiall May it please your Excellency FOrasmuch as the Petition of Right and other the known Laws of the Land do expresly provide against the exercise of Martiall Law upon Souldiers or others in times of peace all Courts of Justice being open and that the deprivation of life thereby in such times hath been adjudged in Law no lesse then murther And forasmuch as you have declared to all the world That the Army under Your Excellency's Command was not a meer mercinary Army hired to serve the Arbitrary ends of a State but that they took up arms in judgement and conscience for your own and the Peoples just Rights the principall whereof are contained in the foresaid Laws and Petition of Right And finding neverthelesse those our undoubted Liberties never more encroached upon by the Military power and Law-Martial Souldiers and others of late being frequently seized restrained and adjudged to death and to reproachfull punishments without any regard to the Law of the Land and tryall of twelve sworne men of the neighbourhood as is manifest in your present proceedings against those Souldiers and others now under restraint and censure of the Councell of war Hereupon we conceive our selves bound in conscience in behalf of the Liberties of the people of England to intreat and claim the benefit of those Liberties contained in the Petition of Right and other the good Lawes of this Land and that all persons now under restraint or censure of the Councel of War or Martiall Law may be remitted to the tryall of twelve sworn men of the neighbourhood and be proceeded against by due processe of Law which I humbly conceive your Excellency and the whole army are both by Law and your many Declarations engaged to perform and whereby only you will render your self acceptable to the present and honorable to future Generations Robert Shaw Thomas Moulson George Atkinson Thomas Hawes Thomas Frisbe Walter Allen. Aprill 27. 1649. M. Robert Shaw and the rest went with this Petition after that came to White-hall there related to the prisoners what they had done in the business then M. Atkinson addressed himself at M. Lockiers request to the Marshall General acquainted him with the particular carriage in the business how they had drawn up a Petition to the General and did desire he would stay till they had an Answer He replyed that if so they should wait upon the Generall for an answer and meet him at Pauls for there he was appointed to suffer And to that end Mr. Shaw Mr. Atkinson and others went to the Generall whom they found at Grays Inn in Sir Thomas Withringtons Lodgings and with much adoe were admitted to speak with him Unto whom Mr. Atkins spake to this effect May it please your Excellency We are come in the behalf of a poor distressed man that is appointed this day and almost ready to die in whose behalf we only desire your Excellency be pleased to pardon or but to reprieve him till to morrow And we are the rather incouraged thereunto by Reason of your wonted mercy in this particular To whom he replyed You come here about the saving of a souldier who is already condemned by the Councell of Officers under me and for a great crime of mutinie wherein were ingaged many more besides him at least 15 and I think in such a high businesse as this is you never knew a Generall to pardon so many as I have done and now he is to suffer by course of Martiall Law and it being past it cannot be recall'd To which we answered Your Excellency hath shewen much mercy to poor men in the like nature that did deserve more to die then he did Therefore we were imboldened to sue to your Excellency for him to which he answered That he conceived he deserved to suff●r as he did and that it did behove us if we were his friends to prepare him for another world and not to do as we do to countenance him in any thing that is not regular nor safe for he had like to have made a great fraction in the City and Army and for that he is to die and it lies not in my power to preserve him Then we did beseech his Excellency to reprieve him but till to morrow but he would not condescend to neither And so much passed to this effect but nothing at all obtained from him The Copy of a Letter written to the Generall from Lieut. Col. Jo. Lilburn and M. Rich. Overton Arbitrary and Aristocratical prisoners in the Tower of London the 27 of April 1649 in behalf of Mr. Robert Lockier tyrannically ordered to be murdered by the pretence of Martiall Law by the Councel of War at White-Hall M. George Ash M. Joseph Hockley M. Robert Osburn Mr. Matth. Heyworth Mr. Tho. Goodwin all of Captain Savage his Troop in Col. Whaley's Regiment who by the said Councel were adjudged to cast lots for their lives and one of them to die In which it is by Law fully proved That it is both Treason and Murder for any General or Councel of War to execute any Souldier in