Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	witness_n	world_n	write_v	69	3	4.7620	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63139	The tryall and condemnation of Col. Adrian Scrope, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Thomas Scott, Mr. Gregory Clement, Col. John Jones, who sate as judges upon our late Soveraigne Lord King Charles their several answers and pleas at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, Friday the 12th of October 1660, before the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer appointed by His Majesty for that purpose.	Scrope, Adrian, 1601-1660, defendant.; Carew, John, d. 1660, defendant.; Scott, Thomas, d. 1660, defendant.; Clement, Gregory, d. 1660, defendant.; Jones, John, d. 1660, defendant.	1660 (1660)	Wing T2137; ESTC R17315	4,151	10

impudence to sit among them and afterwards Sealed to that bloody Roll whereupon he was Executed Severall Witnesses being Examined spake to this effect That they saw him several days in that Court sitting among those who were called the Kings Judges and particularly on the 27. day of January 1648. on which day the Sentence passed also knew that to be his hand which was to the Warrant for the Kings Execution And for Establishing A High Court of Justice Whereupon the Prisoner was asked what he had to say for himself who answered that he came not there to deny any thing that he had done that whereas what was done in the case was Ushered in with these words Not having the Fear of God before his Eyes He did declare it was not done in such a Fear But in the Fear of the Holy and Righteous Lord the Judge of the Earth Where at the Court was much Troubled and Disturbed that he should make God the Author of their Treason and Murther But he went on to this purpose When this came about there was an Ordinance where in my name was set which when I saw I stroke it out I leave it to the Lord to Judge I thought not well of it and so was very unwilling to appear in it there being as I thought enough beside me to be imployed in it and therefore I speak the truth as it is in Jesus to shew how I had the Fear of the Lord before me I say as to what I did was upon this account I did it first in Obedience to the then Supreame Authority of England and after the Lord gave answer to Solemne appeals Running on after this rate the Court were wearied with his discourse and put him on to plead to his Indictment He desired he might declare the grounds whereupon the Parliament proceeded and give the Grounds and Reasons of the Fact To which the King's Council said Then you must needs confesse it Whereupon he acknowledged that he was there and proceeded against the Act of Parliament But was told as the Court had often said before That neither the Lords nor the Commons jointly or severally had any power without the King and that the Power then in being had not the least colour of Authority for what they did and that it was not a thing to be debated without denying our Allegiance that the Subject can hold up his hand against his Soveraign After the Lord Annesley made a learned Speech declaring the illegality of their proceedings that when a Treaty was concluded with the King and accordingly all things like to be settled he some others had contrived and designed to keep the far greater part of the Members out against their Allegiance the Lawes of the Land and against the priviledges of Parliament c. making themselves an arbitrary Parliament and driving away the rest c. But Mr Carew being not able to say any thing in defence of his high charge the Jury never went out for it but presently brought him GVILTY Mr. Scot was brought next and after all the Formalities of the Court were over he first pleaded the Priviledge of a Parliament Man several Witnesses were produced against him That he so gloried in the death of the King as to say That he desired it might be written upon his Tombstone to th' end all the world might know it as also other things which exprest his malicious forwardnesse in that horrid Murther The main part of his pleading was to justifie the Authority of the Rump-Parliament which being so often answered before need not here be incerted The Jury soon concluded with him likewise and found him Guilty Mr. Gregory Clement petitioned the Court to wave his plea of not Guilty which the Court granting he confest the Indictment Col. John Jones confest that he was present at giving Sentence against the King only denied the form of the Indictment whereupon a Jury was without his excepting against any quickly sworn and according to his own Confession found him Guilty The Judge in a very Learned Speech endeavoured to make them sensible of the hainousness of the Sin and perswading them to Repentance prayed God to have mercy upon them and read their Sentence upon all together You shall go from hence to the place from whence you came and from that place shall be drawn upon a Hurdle to the place of EXECUTION and there shall HANG by the NECK till you are half Dead and shall be cut down Alive and your Privy-Members cut off before your Face and thrown into the Fire your Belly ript up and your Bowels Burnt your Head to be Severed from your Body your BODY shall be divided into Four QUARTERS and Disposed as his Majesty shall think fit All were Shackled with Fetters and carried to the Presse-yard FINIS