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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77280	Innocency and the blood of the slain souldiers, and people, mightily complaining, and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those forty knights and burgesses, or thereabouts, that sit in the House of Commons. For the violation of our capital fundamental laws and liberties, and those capital obligations mentioned in this my letter, in capital letters. Or a letter to an eight yeers speaker of the House of Commons. / By Cap. William Bray, from his indurance, illegal, un-Christian, and cruel gaol in Windsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4304; Thomason E568_12; ESTC R206251	25,812	21

persons And the corruptions of his heart and Government and of his evil Councellors caused jealousies and fear of his own life and honor whereas he might have had both if he would have stooped to the Laws and Liberties of the people and the peoples Representatives and free Parliament but his heart was hardened as Pharaohs for judgment It is a sad thing when a man hath committed injustice or murther contrary to the plain inbred Light of Nature and the Laws of Scripture and Nations and goes on to commit more and more murther and injustice for his personal safety whereas a Christian had rather die in his innocency then commit murther or out of design to do injustice The Law of England is said to be extream tender and favorable of a mans liberty and freedom See Sir Edward Cooks 29. Chapter of Magna Charta 2 part Instit sol 42. also 189 515. Because the Gaol in the eye of the Law is a bad or hard mansion or dweling 4 Edw. 3. cap. 3. They that will unjustly and arbitrarily imprison they are in a forward way to adde to their impiety and to commit murder upon the people Injustice is a Tyrants rode way to murder and the harbenger of Tyrants in all ages And I shall desire you for your own sakes to avoyd that Rock of Injustice and Oppression for there are many eyes upon you besides the eyes of the eternal Majesty of God And the sin of blood is of a Skarlet Dye and of a crying Nature Gen 49.6 7. O my soul joyn not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their self will th●y digged down a wall Cursed be their anger for it was since and their wrath for it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Though Davids wound was healed by remission yet the blemish remained that blood should never depart from his house for the blood of one Vriah Num 35.31 33 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer that is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death Blood defileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it 1 Kings 2.5 6. Moreover thou knowest what Joab the son of Zerviah did to me and what he did to the two Captain of the Hosts of Israel unto Abner the son of Ner and unto Amasa the son of Jether whom he sl w and sh●d the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loyns and in his shooes that were on his feet Do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his hoary head go to the grave in peace Exod. 21.14 If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die And Doctor Stoughton or Doctor Sibbs as I partly remember I have read speaking of it saith How sweet is life to those that have been prod●gal of the blood of others No subject saith he had murdered more then Joab When Proclamation was made in Israel That who ever should smite the Jebusites first should be the chief and Captain Joab was the man no man was more constant to the Weal of Israel non so successful in victories yet he was called to reckon for his old sins and must repay blood to Amasa and Abner Murder in Authority is the greatest murder and the violation of Laws and Liberties by Authority is the greatest violation But concerning the Act of Grace and Favor Forgiveness and favor is good in its due place and in truth is acceptable to God and men but out of its place it s a delusion of Antichrist and a lie An Act of favor and grace is indeed shewn when a man is an offender in the eye of the Law Reason and Christianity but surely a man is not an offender in the same thing wherein he is offended and destroyed in his Liberty or Right contrary to Law Reason or Christianity when he is denied the benefit of Justice a Hearing or Tryal as I have been and how destructive this is to the Rights of the Nation let the world Judg. If a Law had been made to that end it had been unjust in it self and voyd but no Law being made it s supersuperlatively Tyrannical contrary to Law and Scripture Deut. 11.3 8 Numb 15 30. Rom. 4.15 and contrary to the pretended Agreement of the General and General Councel of Officers pag. 23. in four or five particulars by the Law of England The faith and reputation of the General is violated that I have not Justice any Act or Agreement against the Laws of God or Nature is a meer nullity Master Solicitor Cook in King Charls his Case citing also E. L●ci●sters Case Page 23. and 1 part of the Book D●clarations pag. 207 690. Those things that are evil in their own nature cannot be the subject of any command or order any obligation of obedience upon them by any Authority whatsoever When you should do a man Justice you wrong him and to hinder Justice and hide the wrong in the peoples eyes you pretend a Politique Act of Grace and Favor Is not this Politique Tyranny in grain Mercy and Justice are two glorious attributes of God and they ought to be truely imitated and resembled by men that are true Governors or pretended ones And the not walking up to it makes a man guilty of prophaning the attributes of God and his Ministrations to men and for a man to have an Act of favor or grace before he is legally and judicially convicted of a crime If I were an offender indeed yet unless I was an offender in Law and Reason it would be but Injustice to grant an Act of Pardon for an offender must die in Law and Judgment before he can be said to be capable of Mercy But I am in Law a freeman as I have shewed you though I am by force and arbitrariness a prisoner and I am a prisoner in walking in an undeniable Christian warrantable legal and fundamental Right of the people and of just Government How improper is it and contrary to the Nature of just Iudgment and Reason And how contrary to the nature trust and very name of a Parliament which very name doth hold forth That it ought to do things according to the rational unbiassed and deliberative discourse of the Minde without fear favor or affection Fabritius and Cato would not swa●ve from the Rules of Iustice and Vertue You profess your selves Christian Common-wealths men But as for the Act of Favor and Mercy I wish those had it that stand in need of it And let me tell you in my oppression Honor would t●uly be seen in that But indeed there is no honor but dishonor in falsly stiling the glorious attributes of God

possibly much further oblige Sir your affectionate friend to serve you J. Reynolds Roch●ster 27. 1648. To the truly honorable Commissary General Ireton or Quarter Master General Gravener these present And accordingly I had orders by a Souldier of my Troop that I sent to Saint Albans from Quarter Master General Gravener for I rid to Windsor my self to speak with the Commissary General and mist of him Not long after Major Reynolds his Troop came up and then we had orders to march further North from Major R●yno●ds and at length having kept up my Troop neer half a yeer at length the Army had seized upon the King by order from the General Lieutenant General and Commissary General as I was informed by a very good hand and the King being at Hurst I was commanded by the Authority of the Army from Commissary General I●eton to Major Reynolds to Hurst Castle for the security of the King and had the gua●d of him two nights my self with part of my Troop not longer after that the King was commanded by order from our Regiment and we resigned up our Guard of him according to command and order unto Colonel Harrison After that we were designed to quarter in Hampshire and then after in Worcest●rshir● and the Regiment of Col●n●l R●ynolds was voted to be of the establishment of the Army by the house And the Officers and the Souldiers of the three Troops that were together desired me to carry an assurance in writing to the General That in order to righteousness freedom and justice and the establishment thereof to the people our blood should not be precious in our eyes but we would adventure it under his conduct against all Tyrants whatsoev●r I know not what one stiled a Christian General could desire more I s●e no re●s●n bu● t●at he should eminently desire that as his glory and honor and soon after discoursing wi h some and they telling me That it was the principles of some to cu● off the King out of meer policy I had an exceeding great astonishment in my spirit and wond●red what this would tend unto for I look upon meer policy to be a des uctive principle and a great dependency upon a mans own wit and which is more agreeable to the principles of the unnatural and unholy Turks then of Christians who destroy one another out of meer power and policy and to exalt themselves above those capital Obligations before expressed and I looked that Righteousness and Justice should be pe●formed out of sincerity and purity of principles according to Law Scripture Reason and Christianity Next of all I looked That the Laws Freedoms and Rights of the people so much spoken of in the Declarations of the Army did ov●r-ballance the blood of the King because that was the occasion of the late War and would always occasion misery and blood both of innocent and nocent in the defect thereof and so I had much affliction upon my spirit And next of all I looked upon many consciencious men as to the Rights of the people as Master Sprig Mr. B●con c. were for the preservation of his person though they were for the life blood and condemnation of him in Law Christianity and Reason as guilty of the River of blood in the Nation which was most suitable to my particular judgment mercy exalting it self over iudgment but being onely my particular iudgment I would not discover it to many because I would not be an occasion of division I having heard that the resolution of the Grandees was to cut off the King before they did go through with the eminent Freedoms and Rights of the people and that the King stood in the way of them And next of all I c●nsidered That the blood of his person could not be compared or recompense the river of blood that hath been shed for the Laws and Liberties of the people And I looked upon the Rights of the people to be that which would most of all satisfie all Interests in Peace in Law Love Freedom Honor and Justice I do not speak this neither to incourage any to a personal revenge nor yet against the execution of the King for I do abhor it no more th●n I indeed can speak against the Iustice of the Lord executed by J●hu upon the blood of Ahab and J●zebels family for the blood of Naboth but I would have a better use made of the declared execution of the King as guilty of the pre●ious blood and violation of the Freedoms of the people viz. In the supremacy of the Rights of the people and in the ministration of the Laws of Love Iustice and Freedom and then your blood should be as precious as my own in any contest against such spirits and the Laws of Freedom and Iustice was the onely declared substance of the Remonstrance from Saint Albans against the King and House which was most pa●t thereof penned as I was informed by an Officer by Commissary General Ireton Not long after the death of the King I went to London out of Worcestershire and was willing to take a view of things impartially and being soon after at a general Councell one day where there was a Letter delivered to the Generall and it being read in the Councell it was so disliked that it was presently put to the question whether it should be owned at all or no Many said that they did abominate it others said that they did disown detest and abhor it some others said they did own the good was in it but b●cause there were many expressions in it that tended to offence and division they did disown it At length it came to my Vote and the Generall looking upon me stedfastly I told him I was against the expressions in the Letter that gave offence as much as any man but I did perceive that by the Letter there was a complaint as if they had reason to be offended and that it related to the right of Petitioning which they conceived themselves abridged and molested in in a ●etition that was presented in Parliament and I so owned the Letter and desired that they might be called in I do not know what I c uld have said more or l●sse if I had respect to my own conscience not to offend it as well as unwillingnesse in my spirit n●t to give any just occasion of offence to them and I am not s●nsible that I gave any just occasion at all to Christians rationall or incor●upt men in the least punctilio and moreover it was my judgment and opinion delivered in Councell but suddenly aft●r that Col R●ynolds was ●elling me that there was a Civill impl●yment in the Common wealth provided for me in lieu of my Troop To whom I answered That I thought I had liberty to act according to my own freedom and no man hath power to dispose of my person as he please contrary to Reason Law Justice and R●ght By that I saw the conspiracy not long after that