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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70797	The royall martyr. Or, King Charles the First no man of blood but a martyr for his people Being a brief account of his actions from the beginnings of the late unhappy warrs, untill he was basely butchered to the odium of religion, and scorn of all nations, before his pallace at White-Hall, Jan. 30. 1648. To which is added, A short history of His Royall Majesty Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. third monarch of Great Brittain.; King Charles the First, no man of blood: but a martyr for his people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.; W.H.B.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2018A; ESTC R35297	91,223	229

of Officers in their Remonstrance of the 16 November 1648. made to the Parliament call the putting down of Monarchy and the establishing of their unjust ends the publick interest originally contended for on the Parliaments part and the Declaration and Votes of those that call themselves the Commons of England in Parliament assembled 1 January 1648. affirm the bringing of Delinquents to punishment which if they had been Delinquents is certainly a part of the Kingly Office the main if not the onely end of making this War And in another place thereof acknowledges the rooting out of Episcopacy and bringing Delinquents to punishment to be the onely motives that induced them to undertake this War And though Achan will neither confess nor be brought to punishment till the wrath and never-failing judgement of God shall bring them and their sons and their daughters and their successes and the Asses that follow them to be consumed in the field of Achor and the Fig-leaves which they have patched together to palliate and hide their nakednesse cannot keep out the eyes and understanding of a ruined Nation bleeding under the burden of their iniquity but whether ever confessed or never will be as plain as the most infallible demonstration they were never necessitated to make a War but were so far from the Justification of a defensive War as that they were altogether in the offensive For beside all that hath been said to prove them guilty of the blood and misery of this Nation who can think or be believed if he should be so mad as to say it That they were forced to make a War for that was none of their own or to take away tenures in Capite which was a principal Flower of his Crown or for a Reformation of Religion was already the envie and ambition of the best of the Reformed Churches or to commit Sacriledge and abolish Episcopacy which at the least was of Apostolical institution or to preserve the Statute of 25 E. 3. concerning what was Treason when they themselves committed most of the Treasons were mentioned in it and more than their forefathers and the makers of that Statute ever thought on But that we may do all the right we can to them have done so much wrong and the better carry on our judgements to a certain conclusion of that which God and all good and just men know to be true enough it will not we hope be impertinent in this our search and disquisition of the truth to proceed to the enquiry CHAP. V. Whether the Parliament in their pretended Magistracy have not taken lesler occasion to punish or provide against Insurrections Treasons and Rebellions as they are pleased to call them ALl in the neighbourhood of their Proceedings that know but any thing of them can tell it The Parliament have not been wanting to their own preservations and purposes in the exercise of the greatest jealousie vigilancy terror and authority over those they could get within their jurisdiction Witnesse Edward Archer who was whipt and punished almost to death for speaking but his ill wishes to the Earl of Essex when he was marching out of London with their Army against the King the imprisonment of their own Members for speaking against the Sense and Cabal of the House of Commons men and women old and young shut up under Decks ready to be stifled a ship-board upon suspition that they affected the King hanging of the two Bristol Merchants Master Bourchier and Master Yeomans for an endeavour to deliver to deliver up Bristol putting Colonel Essex out of the Government of that Town upon suspition of favouring the enterprise hanging of Master Tomkins and Master Chaloner for a purpose to force the delivery up of some factious men to Justice banishing Master Waller an eminent Member of the house of Commons for the contrivance of it searching the houses of forraign Ambassadors and intercepting and opening their Letters beheading Sir Alexander Cary for an intention to deliver up Plimouth and Sir John Hotham who adventured first of all to set up their authority and was magnified and almost adored for it for an intention only to deliver up Hull to the King executing of his son for joyning with his father in it hanging Master Kniveton one of the Kings Messengers but for bringing his Majesties Proclamation to London for the adjourning of the Term being a greater mis-usage then Davids Messengers received from King Ammon imprisoning starving and undoing of any that durst but own the King or send or bring any Message from him or his party or that did but give any aid or assistance to him to which their Oaths and Consciences and the jugling Covenant they themselves took and forced upon them did oblige them shooting and cannonading of the Queen when she came but to aid her husband and chasing and shooting after her at Sea a year after when she was going back into France from him sequestring wives and mothers that did but relieve their husbands and childrens wants when they returned out of the Kings service putting thousands of the Orthodox Ministers out of their Benefices and livelihoods for using the Common-Prayer-Book preaching true Doctrine and obedience to the King or praying for him at the same time when they pretended liberty of Conscience and prescription of Religion voting the Prince a Traitor for wishing well or being in company with his Father for he was too young to do any thing else for him and making or rather supposing charges of High Treason against those that either fought for the King or counselled him how to defend himself for but obeying the known Lawes they themselves made the world believe they made some part of the War for ordering all to die without mercy that did but harbour the King when he fled in a disguise before their Armies condemning men by a Court Martial after the War was ended and shooting them to death but for words or intentions And if this and many things more might be said of it be not enough what means so many Sequestrations and the bleating and lowing of mens Sheep and Oxen taken away from them since the Warre was ended but for words spoken either for the King or against them husbands and fathers undone for what their wives or children did without their privity the Mayor of London and divers Aldermen imprisoned but upon a suspicion of joyning with the Scots or something in pursuance of the Covenant they forced them to take or else would have undone them for refusing of it Garrisons and Armies with free-quartering and Taxes kept up after the War was ended and the people like sheep devoured to maintain them so much complaining in our streets and taking away the fifth part of many men in whole Counties as Essex Kent c. for joyning with some of the Kings Forces or for being forced to send provisions to them when they took up Arms some in pursuance of the Covenant and others of them to deliver the King