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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71120	A true and impartial relation of the whole matters concerning the proceedings of several councels of war, against W. Tompson, a free commoner of England which may serve for a refutation to a scandalous paper, entituled, The vindication of Lieutenant General Cromwel, and Commissary General Ireton, and the late proceedings against the said William Tompson at White-hall, where he remains prisoner / now published by him for the better satisfaction of the kingdome.	Thompson, William, d. 1649, defendant.	1648 (1648)	Wing T1870; ESTC R7762	10,448	12

with severall other of the general Officers I being called into the Councel I demeaned my self with all civillity and respect as they were Gentlemen but withall declared that I could not in the least submit unto them as a Court having power to take Cognizance of any reall or supposed crime that could be laid to my charge I being by their own Votes no Member of the Army but I declared That if they had any thing to lay to my Charge the ordinary Courts of Ju●●ice were all open and free where I should be ready to answer what could be legally objected against me but they not regarding what I said in this nature went on to procced against me according to Marshall law though it is now a time of Peace They asked me several Questions concerning my letter and my plea which at Windsor was delivered to the General and whether I would own it or no I declared I did own it as my Act and give it in as my ultimate resolution but Lieutenant General Cromwell asked me if I was a Gentleman free Commoner which I took as a jeer and asked him if that the word free Commoner was become a derision amongst them that did pretend to be a Court of Justice Upon which he called me a mutinous fellow and began to make an Apology for himself concerning taking me from the House of Commons door who did not scruple to say That was the first time he see me since I had run from Windsor but I going to make an answer to what he spake he bid me hold my tongue The Judge-Advocate began to reade my Protest so at present I was deprived to give him an answer but then the Judge-Advocate had made an end of reading I told him of his ●●eat mistake as is before mentioned concerning his first time of his meeting with me then he told me I was not so good as my word in not keeping on my Hat according to my protest I answered there was no time past but that I might perform my promise in that particular then turning to the Generall ●old him I had nothing more to declare unto them then what I had already said so I should humbly take my leave So going towards the door I put on my hat but Richard Laurence Marshall Generall in the presence of his Excellency and the Councell struck me a box on the eare and also struck off my hat and laid violent hands upon me after which I manifested my selfe more resolvedly declaring them to be actuall destroyers of the Lawes and liberties of England and so were become the greatest Apostates in the World for they had declared to preserve the Lawes ●nd liberties as aforesaid in all their Engagements and Remonstrances published to the ●ew of the Kingdome upon which I threw Magna-charta and the Petition of Right upon the Table before them then presently Lieutenant Generall Cromwell commanded I should be taken away and laid in Irons and I was presently forced into a little room near by where I continued with a guard upon me but within some few hours I was called to come into the Court but I denyed to go saying That I could not be so much a traitor to my own and the Kingdoms liberties as to betray them into the hands of tyrants and further I said My legs should not be so much serviceable to my body as to carry me But notwithstanding this the Marshals men told me If I would not goe they must carry me so I being not able to resist their power by reason of their strength I resolved to manifest my integrity to my native Countries Freedom by being meerly passive in their hands whereupon I set me down and they carried me by the legs and armes before the Generall and as they brought me so I lay then Commissary Generall Ireton begun to aske me severall questions but I replyed I scorn'd to answer him in the least to betray my liberty as aforesaid and withall declared I was meerly in their hands because they were stronger then I even in the same nature of Theeves and murderers But he continued in asking me questions as I lay upon the floor I stoping my ears deni'd to hear them they carried me back in the same nature as they brought me in after some two or three hours I was cal'd in again to go hear my sentence but I being passive they carried me in as before mentioned but the General then was gone I was commanded to stand up but I told them That I was unwilling my legs should bear me to stand before them but by force I was holden up then I stopt my eares they commanded my hands should be pulled from my ears then I said unto them They might murder me if they would for I was in their power And I further said I scorn'd their mercy and despised their cruelty for it was all one to me to die by a sword bullet or halter from them as from a common enemy while I was thus speaking the Judge-Advocate read three Articles of War the first was That no man shall utter any words of sedition or uproare upon pain of death The second was That no man should stay above three daies in the Army except he was actually listed in some Troop or Company upon pain of death The third was That no man shall contemne the Court when they are sitting in Court of Justice upon pain of death he further said The Councel had found me guilty of those three Articles and I must die for it and the Councell had done me so much favour as I should be shot to death I answered in these words Be it known unto you that I scorn to beg favour at your hands or to petition for my life I said my bloud would be required at their hands then the Lieutenant Generall asked me by whom I said surely the Righteous God will revenge the guilt of innocent bloud but then they expressed their great sorrow for me I answered I did not value their sorrow but wisht them to be sorrow for themselves and be carefull to keep their heads on their shoulders and withall I said unto them That the God whom I served would make me able and also willing to be cast into the hottest fiery-furnace that they could provide for me rather then I should stoop or kneel in the least unto that Image which they endeavour to set up thereby to betray the Liberties and Freedomes of my dearest Country in the hands of Tyrants and oppressors Then Lieutenant Generall Cromwell commanded that I should be kept close prisoner and that I should not be admitted to have either pen inke or paper which was accordingly obeyed The Marshal-General gave command that I should be cast into the low prison and to be laid in Irons Yet they have not allowed one farthing of maintenance since the time of my first imprisonment Thus curteous Reader I have given you a clear and impartiall relation of the substance of all that ever was objected or alleadged against me from the beginning untill this present day in which I have not in the least endeavoured to clear my self from the fruits of infirmity or passion But as for the scandals fixed upon me in the later end of that paper called The Vindication concerning my communicating of other mens goods and doing what I will I conceived ariseth from my own folly in the quarrel at the first spoken of I desire my life may not be measured by one simple action for such contentions ●● aforesaid are certainly rather from passion then solid reason and yet I ●ight probably live if one without sin or folly were to throw the first stone ●t me I have not in the least endeavoured to throw dirt upon any but give clear and full relation of the whole businesse though in many particulars ●●●inst my self for which if I have deserved punishment I desire to suffer it 〈◊〉 a lawfull way If any shall question the truth of this relation I desire my ●ife should depend upon no surer foundation then the truth hereof And thus taking my leave whether living or dying I shall by Gods graci●us assistance persist in the profession of my integrity to my dearest Countries Liberty and Freedomes with faithfulnesse to those principles which the Army under the Command of Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX who are now my Judges once Declared Dated at White-hall the place of my illegall captivity the 12. day of March 1647. William Tompson FINIS