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A54409	The life and death of King Charles the first written by Dr. R. Perinchief: together with Eikon basilike. Representing His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings. And a vindication of the same King Charles the martyr. Proving him to be the author of the said Eikon basilike, against a memorandum of the late earl of Anglesey, and against the groundless exceptons of Dr. Walker and others.; The royal martyr: or, the life and death of King Charles I.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; White, Robert, 1600-1690, engraver.	1697 (1697)	Wing P1596; ESTC R219403	131,825	310

Exchange and leaving the Arch void they writ over Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus But the Providence of God hath shewed them to be not only deceivers but also deceived For that Just Prince hath of His own Seed to sit upon His Throne And Posterity shall wonder at the Vanity as well as the Falseness of those men that they should think to destroy the Memory of that Prince whose true and lasting Glory consisted not in any thing wherein it was possible for Successors to shew the Power of their Malice but in a solid Vertue which flourisheth by Age and whose Fame gathers strength from multitude of Years when Statues and Monuments are obnoxious to the flames of a Violent Envy and the Ruines of Time Besides this they take care to suppress all those more Lively figures of Him and most lasting Statues His Writings and therefore force from My Lord of London whom they kept prisoner all those Papers His Majesty had delivered to him and make a most narrow search of his Cloaths and Cabinets lest any of those Monuments of Piety and Wisdom should escape to the Benefit of Mankind Yet by the gracious Goodness of the Almighty God to their eternal infamy and for a perpetual Record of the King 's great Vertues there escaped their Search and was published to the World The Book of His Meditations and Soliloquies In the Composition of which a Sober Reader cannot tell which to admire most either His incredible Prudence His ardent Piety or His Majestick and truly Royal Style Those parts of it which consisted of Addresses to God corresponded so nearly in the Occasions and were so full of the Piety and Elegancy of David's Psalms that they seemed to be dictated by the same Spirit His very Assassinates confessed the goodness of the Book though they were ashamed He whom they had murthered should be the Author For Bradshaw in his Examination of Royston who Printed it asked him How he could think so bad a man for such would that Monster have this Excellent Prince thought to be could write so good a Book Therefore they laboured by all ways and means to suppress it as the greatest witness against them to Posterity and which would make them odious in all Generations For the Blood of the Holy Wise and Eloquent leaves eternal stains of Infamy upon those that spill'd it because no man reads their Works but they curse those cruel hands which cut the veins and stopp'd the streams of so much Goodness and we esteem them harbarous and inhumane Monsters who did not Reverence the Persons of those whose Writings we admire But their fury became ridiculous while they thought by their present power to corrupt His Memory and take off the admiration of the following Ages for the more they hindred the Publication the more earnestly it was sought after yet they endeavoured it another way and therefore hired certain mercenary Souls to despoil the King of the Credit of being the Author of it Especially one base Scribe naturally fitted to compose Satyres and invent Reproaches who made himself notorious by some licentious and infamous Pamphlets and so approved himself as fit for their service This man they encouraged by translating him from a needy Pedagogue to the Office of a Secretary to write that Scandalous Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Invective against the King's Meditations and to answer the learned Salmasius his Defence of Charles the First But all was in vain for those that were able to judge of Styles found it must be the same Pen which wrought these Meditations and drew those Letters which the Faction had published for His. Others that were not able to satisfie themselves by such a Censure were assured of it by the Relations of Colonel Hammond that was His Keeper who did attest to several Persons that he saw them in the King's hand heard Him read them and did see Him to correct them in his presence The Arch-Bishop of Armagh did also affirm to those he conversed with that he was employed by a Command from the King to get some of them out of the hands of the Faction for they were taken in His Cabinet at Naseby And Royston that Printed them did testifie to those that enquired of him that the King had sent to him the Michaelmas before His death to provide a Press for some Papers He should send to Him which were these together with a design for a Picture before the Book which at first was Three Crowns indented on a Wreath of Thorns but afterwards the King recalled that and sent that other which is now before His Book Thus these several Testimonies did secure the faith of the World against the Slanderers and made their endeavours as contemptible as themselves were hateful While the Parricides were seeking for fresh Occasions to express their Malice the whole Kingdom was composed to Mourning and Lamentation for never any King not only of the English but of whatsoever Throne had His death lamented with greater Sorrows nor left the World with a higher regret of the People When the news of His Death was divulged Women with Child for grief cast forth the untimely Fruit of their Womb like Her that fell in Travel when the Glory was departed from Israel Others both Men and Women fell into Convulsions and swounding Fits and contracted so deep a Melancholy as attended them to the Grave Some unmindful of themselves as though they could not or would not live when their beloved Prince was slaughtered it is reported suddenly fell down dead The Pulpits were likewise bedewed with unsuborned Tears and some of those to whom the living King was for Episcopacie's sake less acceptable yet now bewailed the loss of Him when dead Children who usually seem unconcerned in publick Calamities were also affected with the news and became so prodigal of their Tears that for some time they refused comfort even some of those who sat as Judges could not forbear to mingle some Tears with His Blood when it was spilt Many composed Elegies and serious Poems to preserve the memory of His Vertues to express their own Griefs and to instruct the Mournings of others and their Passions made them above their usual Strain more elegant Many who writ the Acts of His time did vindicate His Honour and divulged the base Arts of His Enemies even while their Power was dreadful Men of all Sorts Degrees and Sects there being none among which He had not some Admirers then freely and without Envy recounted His several Vertues which now appeared as great as Mortality refined by Industry was capable of For though Prosperity makes the Severest tryals of Vertues yet Adversity renders them most Orient As the night best acquaints us with the Splendor of the Stars That which first challenged their Wonder was the Composure and Inclination of His Soul to Religion His Majesties Religion which He used not as an Artifice of Empire but as the Ornament and Comfort of a private breast

being come to the end of the Park He with much Alacrity went up the Stairs leading to the long Gallery in White-Hall and so into the Cabinet-Chamber where He continued some time in Devotion while they were fitting the Theatre of His Murther While these things were acting the Lord Fairfax who had always forborn any publick appearance in the practices of this Murther had taken up as is credibly reported some Resolutions either in abhorrency of the Crime or by the Solicitations of others with his own Regiment though none else should follow him to hinder the Execution This being suspected or known Cromwell Ireton and Harrison coming to him after their usual way of deceiving endeavoured to perswade him that the LORD had rejected the King and with such like Language as they knew had formerly prevailed upon him concealing that they had that very morning signed he Warrant for the Assassination they also desired him with them to seek the LORD by Prayer that they might know his mind in the thing Which he assenting to Harrison was appointed for the Duty and by compact to draw out his profane and blasphemous Discourse to God in such a length as might give time for the Execution which they privately sent to their Instruments to hasten of which when they had notice that it was past they rose up and perswaded the General that this was a full return of Prayer and God having so manifested his pleasure they were to acquiesce in it There was likewise another attempt made by Col. Downes who had disturbed them in their Court to obstruct them in their Execution for it is said that he endeavoured to make a Mutiny in the Army to hinder the Wickedness but the hast of the Assassinates prevented him While these men acted their Wickedness by Prayers to the lasting reproach of Christianity the King after He had finished His Supplications was through the Banqueting-House brought to the Scaffold which was dress'd to terrour for it was all hung with Black where were attending two Executioners in Disguises and the Axe and the Block prepared But it prevailed not to affright Him whose Soul was already panting after another Life And therefore He entred this ignominious and gastly Theatre with the same mind as He used to carry to His Throne shewing no fear of death but a Solicitude for those that should live after Him Looking about He saw divers Companies of Horse and Foot so placed on each side of the Street and about the Scaffold that the People could not come near Him and those that saw could not be Hearers therefore omitting that Speech which it was probable He would have spoken to the People He spoke to the Officers and those that were then about Him that which is now printed among His Works Having ended His Speech He declared His Profession of Religion and while He was preparing for the Block He expressed what were His Hopes for all the Righteous have such in Death saying I have a good Cause and a Gracious God on my side I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the world After this composing Himself to an Address to God having His Eyes and Hands like forerunners lifted up to Heaven and expressing some short and private Ejaculations He kneeled down before the Block as at a Desk of Prayer and meekly submitted His Crowned Head to the pleasure of His God to be profaned by the Axe of the disguised Executioner● which was suddenly severed from His Body by one strong stroke So fell CHARLES the First and with Him expired the Glory an● Liberty of Three Nations Thus the King finished His Martyrdom but His Enemies not their Malice who extended their Cruelty beyond His Life and abused the Headless Trunk Some washed their hands in the Royal Blood others di●● their staves in it and that they might indulge their insatiate Covetousness as well as their boundless Inhumanity they sold the chips of the Block and the sands that were discoloured with His Blood and exposed His very Hairs to sale which the Spectators purchased for different uses Some did it to preserve the Reliques of so Glorious a Prince whom they so dearly loved Others hoped that they would be as means of Cure for that disease which our English Kings through the Indulgence of Heaven by Their touch did usually heal and it was reported that these Reliques experienced failed not of the effect And some out of a brutish malice would have them as spoils and trophees of their hatred to their Lawful Sovereign Cromwell that he might feed his eyes with Cruelty and satisfie his sollicitous Ambition which aspired at Monarchy when the Lawful King was destroyed curiously surveyed the murthered Carcass when it was brought in the Coffin into White-Hall and to assure himself the King was quite dead with his fingers searched the wound whether the Head were fully severed from the body or no. Afterwards they delivered the body to be unbowelled to an infamous Empirick of the Faction together with the rude Chirurgions of the Army not permitting the King 's own Physicians to this Office who were all most implacable enemies to His Majesty and commanded them to search which was as much as to bid them so report whether they could not find in it Symptomes of the French disease or some evidences of Frigidity and natural impotency that so they might have some colour to slander Him who was eminent for Chastity or to make His Seed infamous But this wicked design was prevented by a Physician of great Integrity and Skill who intruding himself among them at the Dissection by his Presence and Authority kept the obsequious Wretches from gratifying their Opprobrious Masters And the same Physician also published that Nature had tempered the Royal Body to a longer life than commonly is granted to other men And as His Soul was fitted by Heroick Virtues to Eternity so His Body by a Temperament almost ad pondus made as ne●● an approach to it as the present Condition 〈◊〉 Mortality would permit Failing in these Opportunities of Calumny with more Impudence and Rancor they us● other ways to make Him odious and rase the Love of Him out of the People's heart● They conclude from the outward unhappinesses of His Reign unto an hatred of God against Him and with the same Confidence as they inrolled themselves in the List o● the Saints and entred their own names in the Book of Life they blotted His out and placed Him in some of the dark and comfortless Cells of the damned and they commonly professed it among the Disciples of the Faction as an Article of their belief that i● was impossible for Him or any of His party to be saved Not content with these Injuries to His Body and Soul they endeavour likewise to murther His Memory For they pull'd down His Statue which was placed at the West end of S. Paul's Church and that other in the Old

unsensible He told a faithful Servant of His that the Conspirators had kept Him for two Months under a want of Linen and Shirts But said He I scorned to give them that pleasure as to tell them I wanted Thus all the strokes of Fortune upon His Magnanimous Soul were but like the breaking of Waves upon a Rock of Diamonds which cannot shake but only wash it to a greater Brightness But though He knew not how to submit to the Power of Men His Patience yet He would tremble under the Frowns of God His great Spirit made Him not unquiet or furious under the Corrections of the Almighty But with a wonderful Patience a Vertue not usual with Kings to whom the bounds of Equity seem a restraint and therefore are more restless in Injuries He did submit to the Will of His eternal Sovereign He never murmured nor repined at that Providence which had given Him plenty of tears to drink But His Meditations still breath the Justice of God and the Holiness of all His ways with Him He would take Occasions from displeasing Occurrences to thank God that had fitted Him for the Condition he had brought Him unto For when He marched after His Carriage in pursuit of Essex into the West one of them broke in a very narrow Lane which made Him stop till an intolerable Showre of Rain came pouring upon Him from which that He might seek for a Shelter in the Neighbouring Village His Courtiers offered to hew Him out a way through the Hedge with their Swords but He refused and when they wondred at it He lifting up His hat and Eyes to worship the Fountain of All Grace said As God hath given me Afflictions to exercise My Patience so He hath given me Patience to bear My Afflictions The Indignity He received from Hotham provoked no Curse from Him nor could the Injuries from Scotch and English move Him to any thing more than Prayers for God's sanctifying them to Him He wanted not Temptations to Passion from His own Party for in a Letter to the Queen He tells Her that She could not but Pity Him in His Condition as to them yet He so managed their several Humours and so cherished their Expectations with Patience and Meekness that they quietly waited for a return of His Fortune When He was in His Captivity at Carisbrook under the strictest Restraint those that attended Him never almost observed Him but chearful and pleasant in His Discourses and sometimes breaking out into pleasing Reparties and Jests When in the Treaty at Newport where He had occasions of Passion daily administred by the Perverseness to Peace of the Party He was to deal with one of the Commissioners was importunate with Him for more Concessions and minded Him of His saying That if there were another Treaty it should not lie in the power of the Devil's Malice to hinder Peace the King answered It would be so when there was a Treaty but as for this it could not be thought a Treaty but He was like the man in the Play that cryed out he had been in a Fray and when they asked him what Fray he replyed there was a Fray and no Fray for there were but three blows given and he took them all So this is a Treaty and not a Treaty for there be many Concessions but I have made them all Another time when He met one of the Presbyterian Ministers near His Chamber enquiring for Captain Titus who then waited on Him and had been faithful to Him in that Service the King told him He wondred he would have any more to do either with Titus or Timothy since he fared so ill in medling with them in his Disputes about Episcopacy the day before These shewed how free His Soul was and uncontrolled in the greatest and most displeasing perplexities He would never take any indirect courses to avoid the Cross nay He scrupled at such expedients as some deemed most conducing to His great end For at the Treaty in the Isle of Wight there being offered to Him an expedient to secure His Conscience and satisfie the Commissioners in the Propositions about the Church and it being urged by a great and faithful Counsellour that He must grant what possibly he could to preserve His own Life for the good of the Church for it was said her safety depended on His with a present and pious indignation He replyed Tell not Me what I should do for saving of My Life but what I may do with a safe Conscience God forbid that the Life or Safety of the Church should depend upon My Life or upon the Life of any mortal man and I thank God I have a Son whom I have reason to believe will love the Church as well as I do Another time a little after the Treaty was ended Dr. Morley shewing to Him a billet he had received by the Lady Wheeler the King's Laundress who often conveyed much Intelligence from an Officer of the Army that the King's Death was resolved on His Majesty answered I have done what I can to save My Life without losing of my Soul I can do I will do no more God's will be done In the Pomp of His Murther wherein He was made a Spectacle to the World Angels and Men no Tryals were ever greater nor ever were any better born the Parricides found it was easie to take away His Life but impossible His Honour and Patience His Passions being then so low and quiet that the natural Infirmity of His Speech did not in the least measure appear which uses to be most evident in the smallest discomposure of the Spirit After the Regicides had passed their Decree for His Assassination and caused Him to be persecuted with all the Indignities of the fanatick Souldiers there fell from Him nothing like Passion or Indignation but that He gave the Authors of those Impieties the title that was due to them for when my Lord of London came to Him which was not till eight a Clock on Saturday Night He told him My Lord that you came no sooner I believe was not your fault but now you are come because these Rogues pursue My Blood you and I must consult how I may best part with it Yet even this was spoken without any Fury or Violence for though all about Him was tumultuous with Horror Destruction and Contempt His Soul seemed unconcerned enjoyed a Calm Serenity and was full of its own Majesty This Vertue made Him forget He was a Prince born to Command and only consider that He was a Christian whose Calling obliges to Suffer He had found out a way to Glory by Humility For the supreme Power His Humility to which nothing can be added hath no better way to encrease than when secured of its own Greatness it humbleth it self And the Dignity of Princes is in nothing farther from Envy and Danger than in Humility He despised the converse of none though poor if honest He shewed to Sir Philip