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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

The Army's Martyr OR A more ful RELATION of the barbarous and illegall 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 VVith 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 WITH A PETITION Of divers well-affected persons AND A LETTER Of Lieut. Col. Jo. Lilburn and M. Ri. Overton Presented To the GENERAL in his behalf 1 KING 2.5 6. The blood of War shed in the time of Peace Cries out for vengeance or our Freedoms cease Printed at London in the Yeer 1649. THE ARMIES MARTYR c. WHereas I have been truly informed from many honest and consciencious persons of the life and death of this gallant man M. Lockier I thought good out of that duty I owe unto him for to give a perfect and full Relation of the whole matter cause of his death for the full satisfaction of all persons that desire to be truly informed And knowing that it is the duty of every man that lives in a Common-wealth to be as instrumentall as he can in discovering any thing that may be of Publick concernment And considering that it is the common practice of Machiavils to colour over their cruell and unjust actions with the vizor of some great good or prevention of some great evill to the Nation or place where the thing was committed the better to deceive the simple and wellminded people And to keep on that veile of hypocrisie which they have cast over the face of the Common-wealth that they might not question their abominable actions both towards this poor innocent and their juglings with the whole Nation I have therefore taken a little paines to put forth a Narrative of the cause of this their bloody proceedings against him that people may be possessed that their holinesses may erre and be guilty of as much innocent blood if they continue in the courses they have walked in of late as ever Queen Mary or any Tyrants before her Thus then to the matter on Tuesday Aprill the 24. 1649. there came orders for the Troop to march forth of the City and the Souldiers being unwilling to march forth without mony to defray their Quarters desired pay to put them in a capacity to pay their Quarters there and be enabled to give satisfaction to the Country which they were to march into which desires of theirs being not fulfild they went unto the foure Swannes where their Colours were and secured them for the present untill they had the pay that was due to them being invited by some of Cap. Groves Troop who had secured their colours before them well then here was a months pay provided for them but the Clark affirmed that there was 11 dayes pay due more to them then that months and would have laid five pound with the Quartermaster of the truth of it But when Col. Whaley came and they disputed how much they were behind he came down the yard and said there was but five dayes pay due to them But whether this was a plot of his to cause this stirre or trouble I know not but surely it was the trick of a knave in so doing but to the matter while they were in dispute about their marching away there came a fortnights pay out of Essex for them and on Tuesday night there was an alarm in their quarters about some plot as they say to destroy the Generall and some Officers and some papers cast abroad to that effect a meer plot of the Grandees as is conceived the better to countenance their illegall proceedings on some Citizens that night which because the Souldiers did not march were not ashamed to put it upon them though they never knew of it at which time of the alarm or as they were to goe to their quarters Captain Savage told them that they should come receive a fortnights pay more betimes in the morning that they might march away whereupon they prepared for the march some having received their monies but when some came for it he told them they could not nor should not receive it though other Troops had because they refused to march the day before whereupon they kept their Colours and would not march except they were made up equall in pay with the rest of the Regiment But yet so reasonable they were in their demands that they told Col. Whaley and M. Swallow and their Capt. that if they might have but the fives dayes pay which they acknowledged was due to them with an engagement from their Officers to pay them a days pay every day as they were upon the march till they were made up equall with the Regiment and a passing by what had been done on both sides they would march away presently No they should not have it because they did not march out to a Rendevouz of the Regiment the day before to Mile-end green although there were not many above 40 of the three Troopes that marcht forth and came in againe Yet at length Col. Whaley said that if their Captain should draw out six men of them and carry them before the Generall they should have it but they were unwilling that any should be taken out seeing all had refused marching being forced thereunto by their unjust command in commanding them to march without their pay to satisfie their quarters at length the Generall and Lieutenant Generall came very furiously breathing forth nothing but death to them all being fetch'd and animated on by that forsworn and perjured tyrannicall Knave Chillington who can take what he please out of the Souldiers pay for to maintain him in his Domineering courses But oh how bloody and red did Cromwel look and the Generall told them that they should be hanged all and that they did deserve to be hanged presently in the Court whereupon a Souldier or two went down the Gallery and desired his Execellency to hear their just desires No he would not hear them there but they must march away presently to White-hall with those Troops that came to guard them thither there being no resistance offered on the Souldiers part nor sword drawn though they have reported since there were but Whaley drew his and Chillington drew his to cut a Souldier from whose back he rent his cloak But so much do they thirst after the bloud of those that shall dispute a command of theirs whether right or wrong all is a case to them when it comes to diminish from their lawlesse wils for it was disputed and affirmed by an Officer of the Army at the Spittle that souldiers must obey their commands and not question it though it be to kill a man or steal an horse that to prison they must and the next day to a Councel of War as they