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A true relation of the proceedings, examination, tryal, and horrid murder of Col. Eusebius Andrewe by John Bradshaw, President of the pretended High Court of Justice, and others of the same court published by Francis Buckley ...
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Buckley, Francis, Gent.
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a man who hath had his hand in blood viz. Mr. Bartin Hazelrigge in a duel for which arraigned c. A person trying viz. a Juror and in this way of Tryal he is such ought to be a freeman viz. not only free in person but in his prejudicating opinion which he is not having published that the respondent was the greatest Traytor in England and that there was enough under his hand to hang him the Respondent Sir William Roe Captain John Stone two of my tryers were imployed to examine the Respondent on the 2. of July 1650. and brought with them all the evidence against him and therefore in their capacity of my triers by the rule in Challenges they are challengeable and incapable to sit The last Will and Testament of Collonel Eusebius Andrewe 14. of August 1650. IF it be the unalterable and uncontrollable will of God that I Eusebius Andrewe Esquire shall for my manifold and high provocations of his Divine Majesty be shipwrackt by that storme which at present impendeth over my head I most humbly and cheerfully submit unto such his good will and pleasure freely and from the bottome of my heart forgiving my betrayers prosecutors and Judges and all other my injurers as I desire him for his Sons my Saviour Christ Jesus sake to forgive me my many and enormous transgressions and do lay down my life though under his present wrath yet with a sober confidence of his reserved favour And desire that my body may be privately interred in the Parish Church of Alhallowes Barkin London as neer as may be to the Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury there with him to expect a joyful Resurrection at the comming of Christ to Judgment of which through his merits and through them only I am right well assured I beseech God to bless my Daughter Matilda Andrewe and to supply unto her what by my improvidence the accidents of the late tempestuous times in which I could not swim to Riches without the drowning of my conscience is in my being taken away become deficient and that he would preserve her from want and dishonor and from being by any evil Counsel or Example led aside into the foul errors of this Nation in matters concerning her Souls health And to that end I hereby give her and the whole world an account of that faith and profession wherein by Gods assistance I shall be found at my death and shall seal with my blood and in which I pray to God she and all my dear friends whom I spare to name because I love them may live and die I renounce all dependance upon the Pope and Church of Rome and that out of a serious consideration of their adulterate errors and doctrines inconsistant with the truth and light of the Gospel and not meerly out of habit as being bred a Protestant nor out of the general noyse now made against them as if all the evil in the Land were from them For so abominable have been the actions of the Presbyterians on the one side and the Sectarians on the other that if I had not both found my conscience and judgment unsatisfied in the the Romish Doctrine and my soul comforted in hope of Gods returning in favour to his late mutilated Church I had long since profest my self a Roman Catholick rather then have submitted to the multiplyed Tyranny of the one or the Babylonish confusion of the other I have hitherto liv'd and resolve by Gods gracious aid to dy a true protestant that is to say a member of that Church and professor of that faith and obedient to that discipline which hath been professed and maintained and exercised in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth King James and Charles the Martyr which I trust God will again restore to its former purity and power I look upon the Presbyterian as upon one whose discipline is inconsistent with and improper for the natural and long habituated Government of this Kingdome and Church and the Author of all this Lands mischeifs in the supplanting that ancient and Apostolical Governance by Bishops and the taking away of the life of the King by exposing him to the madness of the Independent by their first opening the gap to Anarchy and confusion in Church and State by breaking the Golden Chain of either due prerogative I consider the Independent as fire out its place which is alwayes mischievous who hath already given earnest in his making a superstructure upon the Presbyterians basis for his performing the whole work of confusion upon Religion and Law if God prevent not by confounding their politick Councils as much as themselves have done their Fanatick opinions God in his good time put a hook in their nostrils and their Leviathans Of those to whom I am any wayes indebted I ask their pardon it not being my intendment in case God had pleas'd to have preserv'd me from the snare and violence under which I am fallen to have been to my power irresponsible to any I desire such who approve my profession to cover my faults in their charity and to let me be sweet in their memory As for the rest I wish them a seasonable repentance but set no price upon either their opinion or report Vivat Rex currat Lex floreat grex fiat voluntas Dei modo inruinâ meâ EUSEBIUS ANDREWE 14. Aug. 1650. A Letter from a friend to Colonel EUSEBIUS ANDREWE Friend YOu have been long the subject of my prayers now take my councel while I am not able to do what I would accept of what I can I hope I shall not need divert your thoughts from the fears and terrors of death you are too well acquainted with that Monster to shrink at his menaces you know the Statute All men once to die your death is accellerated by the malicious machinations of a bad man under the name of friend if he had not betrayed you a Feaver or other violent disease or 1000. other mischiefs would have done it a few inches of time are cut from your life be not you offended to hasten to your immortality you would have been glad to have been freed from your prison let not your soul be clouded while it hastens to its glory do not look to the next causes of suffering so much as to that providence which orders all things wisely to the glory of his name and the salvation of your soul I attest your own conscience Had you died under the bloody hand of War or in the height and heat of your youthfull aberrations could you have appeared so chearfully before the great Tribunal as now in this time of humiliation and preparation you may May be the unworthy condition of your betrayer works your dispositions to high indignations yet your dear Saviour betrayed by as great a pretender said no more but Dost thou betray me with a kiss Strange way it was then but from that arch-traytors example it s now become familiar Do not
to you even the pains and torments of Hell that the damned there indure Col. I know it is due in righteous judgment but I know again I have a Satisfaction made by my elder Brother Christ Jesus and then I say it is not due it 's due to me but acquitted by his Mediation Dr. Do you believe to besaved by that Mediation and no other Col. By that and that only renouncing all Secondary Causes Dr. Are you truly and unfeignedly sorry before God as you appeare to us for all these sins that have brought you hither Col. I am sorry and can never be sorrowfull enough and am sorry that I cannot be more sorry Dr. If God should by a miracle not to put you to a vaine hope but if God should as he did to Hezekiah renue your days what life do you resolve to lead hereafter Col. It is a question of great length requires a great time to answer men in such streights would promise great things but I would first call some friends to limit how far I should make a Vow that I should not make a rash one and so offer the Sacrifice of fooles but a Vow I would make and by Gods help endeavour to keepe it Dr. Do you wish health and happiness upon all lawfull authority and government Col. I doe prize all obedience to lawfull Government and the adventuring against them is sinful and I do not justifie my self what ever my judgment be for my thus venturing against the present Government I leave it to God to judg whether it be righteous if it be it must stand Dr. Are you now in love and charity with all men do you freely forgive them Col. With all the world freely and the Lord forgive them and forgive me as I freely forgive them Dr. You have for some late years laid down the Gown and took up the Sword and you were a man of note in these parts where you had your residence I have nothing to accuse you for want of diligence in hindring in doing of injuries yet possibly there might be some wrong done by your Officers or those under you to some particular men if you had your Estate in your hands would you make restitution Col. The wrongs themselves you bring to my mind are not great nor many some things of no great moment but such as they are my desire is to make restitution but have not wherewithal Dr. If you had ability you would likewise leave a Legacy of thankfulness to Almighty God something to his poor Servants to his Lame members to his Deaf members to his Dumb members Col. My will hath been alwayes better then my ability that way Dr. Sir I shall trouble you very little farther I thank you for all those heavenly Colloquies I have enjoyed by being in your company these three days and truly I am very sorry I must part with so heavenly an associate we have known one another heretofore but never to Christianitie before I have rather been a Schollar to learne from you then an instructer I wish this Stage whereon you are made a spectacle to God Angels and the World may be a School to all about you for though I will not diminish you sins nor shall I conceal or hypocrize my own for they are great ones between God and my self but I think there is few here have a lighter load upon them then you have if we consider things well and I only wish them your repentance and that measure of faith God hath given you and that measure of courage you have attained from God and that constant perseverance God hath crowned you hitherto with Col. His Name be praised Here the Doctor prayed with him almost a quarter of an hour after which the Colonel turning himself again to the people spake as followeth One thing more I desire to be clear in There lyeth a common imputation upon the Cavaliers that they are Papists and under that name we are made odious to those of the contrary opinion I am not a Papist but renounce the Pope with all his dependencies where the distractions in Religion first sprung up I might have been thought apt to turn off from this Church to the Romish but was utterly unsatisfied in their Doctrine in point of Faith and very much as to their Discipline The Religion I Profess is that which passeth under the name of Protestant though that be rather a name of distinction then properly essential to Religion but that Religion found out in the Reformation purged from all the Errors of Rome in the Reign of Edward the 6th practised in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles that blessed Prince deceased that Religion before it was defaced I am off which I take to be Christ's Catholick though not the Roman Catholick Religion Then he turned himself to the Executioner I have no reason to quarrel with thee thou art not the hand that throws the Stone I am not of such Estate to be liberal but here is 3l for thee which is all I have now tell me what I lack Executioner Your hair to be turned up Col. Shew me how to fit my self for the Block After which his doublet off his hair turn'd up he turned himself about to the people and prayed a good while before he lay down to the Block He spake to the people as followeth There is none that looks upon me though many faces and perhaps different from me in opinion and practice but hath something of pity in it And may that mercie that is in your hearts fall into your own bosomes when you have need of it And may you never find such a block of sin to stand in the way of yout mercy as I have met with I beseech you joyn with me in Prayer Then he prayed leaning on the Scaffold half a quarter of an hour Having done he had some private conference with Dr. Swadling then he taking his leave of the Sheriff and his friends kissing them and saluting him next him he prepared himself for the Block kneeling down said Let me try the Block which he did After casting his eyes and fixing them very intentively above he said When I say Lord Jesus receive me Executioner then do thy office then kissing the Axe he lay down and with as much undaunted yet Christian courage as possibly could be in man did he expose his Throate to the fatal Axe his life to the Executioner and commended his soul into the hands of God as into the hands of a faithful and merciful creator through the Meritorious passion of a gratious Redeemer Saying the forementioned words his Head was stricken off at one blow Vera copia exam. FINIS * This is mentioned because the Speaker I his Brother hold me in jealousie and were both accused by that printed paper * This error in time as some others both of substance and circumstance are rectified upon better memory by some following papers sent to the Lord