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The last words of Thomas Lord Pride taken in short-hand by T.S., late clerk to his Lordship's brew-house.
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Wing L534A; ESTC R41176
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Land and Funerals make it black Land our Ministers make it blew Land But if I never answer for killing any thing but Beares I shall do well enough Were I arraign'd it could not be Murther but Beare-slaughter nay I killd them in my own defence for they would have killd mee which is more then can be said for putting many a thousand to death O but they say I killd them not fairly but shot them dead in cold blood And am I the first that did so have wee not done it over and over I kild them as wee killd Lucas and Lisle two as brave men as the King had any what would they have mee bayt them to death do I look like a Beare-ward or should I knock them in the head like an Oxe there is a Major Generall can do that better then I. I remember one now a great Lord who speaking against Strafford said Beasts of Prey ought to have no Law shall wee grant that to Beares which wee deny'd to Strafford A Cavalier told mee that this was but a Quibble upon the word Law for there is said hee no Law for Beasts but that a man may kill them for his use and the more sudden and less payn the better and if a Hare or Stag have Law that is liberty to run 't is not for their but for our sakes to prolong our sport in their destruction However that Quibble was seasonable then and did our worâ— upon Strafford and Canterbury But mark how both sides plead so mee the one say's Beasts of Prey must have no Law the other say's There is no Law for Beasts so both say 't is lawfull for mee to kill the Beares No matter how hang them shoot them chop of their heads send them to Jamaica any way is best For can there be Beasts more Malignant then Beares I look'd but in my Almanack and there I found two Doggs and two Bears among the Starrs and those I dare say are Malignant Starrs for within two lines the great Beare is callâ—â— Charles Wayn By this you 'l imagine Malignants are in Heaven but wee and they shall scarce meet in one place for els t' were madness in us to kill them because thereby wee send them to bee happy But They as well as Wee would fain live and would have good Estates as they had before and as Wee have now 't is in our Power whether They shall live but not whether wee our selves shall dye for though our Army bee as strong to day as yesterday yet our own Bodies draw nearer Death Behold it in mee and remember Naseby which made us what wee are how the King 's best men when the Victory was Theirs took a bottomless fancy of running all away having done the like before at Marston moore I have known six-thousand and no Cowards neither fly all like Bedlems when no enemy was within seaventeen miles and if they were all examâ—n'd upon Oath they could not tell why And they say that one poor wooden Horse at Troy did more then all our Army in the Indies 'T is certain no Woman is so fickle as an Army I speake not for my self for 't is well known I have done my part sure I have killd better things than Beares and killd them as men should bee killd eyther in the field or in a High Court of Justice the best Cavalier among them all the King himself I Judg'd to the Block my Lord Hewson is my witness for hee sate next to mee Perhaps they think my Lord Hewson and I not fit to bee Judges because of our Trades but let them shew mee one Text of Scripture where Brewers and Shoomakers are forbidden to bee Judges I confess in Juries of Life and Death wee except against a Butcher as blooded in slaying of sheep and Calves but if hee onely kill Beares and Men hee may bee either a Juror or a Judge I knew a Judge did use to mend Stockings I spare his name because hee did a Business for mee and 't is as lawfull to mend Shooes as Stockings and if a Judge may bee a Cobler a Cobler may bee a Judge As for mee 't is true I have born a Sling which made a Knave call me Sr Thomas Slingsby but I made the Slingsbies shorter for it by one and that one shorter by the Head and had done as much for young Mordant but that having drank White-wine that morning I stept forth to the Wall and before I could return Mordant was quit Thus the Life of Man is but a pissing while But what if I have born a Sling did not David so too the difference is Hee laid by his Sword and took up a Sling and I layd by my Sling and took up a Sword Kings Lords and Gentlemen take mony for their Land others sow it and sell the Corn to us wee advance it to good Beer and Ale and then sell the Drink to those Kings Lords and Gentlemen and thus the Cup goes round They sell for mony and Wee sell for mony and if a Shilling had a Tongue as well as a Face it would say Sir I am but twelve pence whether you meet mee in the Brewhouse or in the Exchequer 'T is true there are divers sorts of Shillings some are Brass impudent Rogues who when diâ—covered are nayl'd to a Post some are â—ead heavy dull Beasts that will not goe others are right Metall but clipt poor decimated things that would goe and cannot But Brass is Bâ—â—ss and Silver is Silver at Court and at Pye-corner I was as waâ—m in my Leather Jacket as in my Scarlet Cloak 'T is strange what an eye-sore that Cloak was to some as if the Garment it self could sin indeed wee had a man that us'd to hang his Cloke in my Brew-house as Country folk hang Wooll over pales of Water to make it weight and so though not Hee yet his Cloak was a Drunkard But Cloake or Jacket I was the same man I never deny'd but still kept my Trade and if others had done so a hundred thousand Lives had bin sav'd at last I got to be Brewer to the Navy and if each man had drank like the Whale at Greenwich I could have fill'd them all for I had three Brew-houses one at London another at Kingston and a third at Edenburgh And why not I have three Brew-houses as well as Assembly-men three Benefices they were my Livelyhood as theirs were their Livings One of those fellowes at Margarets Westminster who had four Preferments given him by the State would needs teach us how to live by a Word You 'll ask said he what Word is that 't is Faith get Faith and I 'll undertake you may live Gentleman like but that Rascall brake his own word with me and dyed Twelve pound in my debt I grant he was first that told me my Surname came from a King of Rome call'd as I remember Turkquintus Suparbus there were seven of those Kings but they are long since