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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77287	True excellency of God and his testimonies, and our nationall lawes against titular excellency. Or, A letter to the General his excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, with a complaint and charg against tyrannicall Whitchcock the Governour of Winsor for arbitrarily, designingly and maliciously walking contrary to the Scriptures of God, and the laws and liberties of the people. / From Captain VVilliam Bray at his un-Christian indurance there.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4315; Thomason E571_32; ESTC R206130	11,419	8

the Sheriffe and not delivered c. The Castle or Fortresse shall be beaten down without recovery and all the damages that the people hath sustained in his beasts c. shall be restored him by the Lord or by him that took the beasts if he have whereof and if he have not whereof he shall have it of the Lord See Lieut. Col. Lilburn that Patriot in his Bo●k called the Peoples Prerogative Bro. Rio● 2. 3. 52 H. 3. 3. 13. Ed. 1. 32. V.N.B. fol. 43. 44 Regist fol. 85 52. H. 3. 21 Regi fol. 81 fitz N. B fo 68. F. But now there is not so much c●re of mankind though Christ declares Gods providentiall care of humane nature of the h●lt of a mans head nor mentioning my engagement unto bloud and faithfulnesse for Laws and Liberies as there is provision for beasts no not that provision that the laws of Nature the Land and especially Christianity provides O brave Representative Justice as you and they call your selves Oh brave General of an English Army for Laws and Liberties who hath declared against arbitrariness under his hand in several Declarations to King and Parliament and more then that violently opposed his Lords and Masters and Benefactors under a pretence of Justice If the meer being of Policy alias Knavery and Force is in this our generation good and just then the cruelty and murther of the Lord Jesus was good and just which any honest man or Christian abhors to imagine then the murther committed upon other saints and servants of God was just then resolved designing robbers and murtherers upon the high-way are holy and just men then the Kings cause was good and would have been as good as yours every whit if he had been but Conquerour and yet you arraigned him at your Bar for a Tyrant a Traytor and a Murtherer But this way of unrighteousnesse I had much jealousie in my spirit before the Kings blood was taken away would and will come to passe dest●uctive to the Laws of God Nature and the Land And indeed when I came unto you from the Tro●ps being with others sent with an assurance from them to your Excellency they did by me assure you that if there was cord alnesse justice and impartiality and the laws of settlement justice and freedom to the Nation in futur as you had declared you aimed at they would if God and Nature c●lled for it spill their blo●d as water to accomplish those ends for the Nation under your conduct And truly Sir I must professe as in the presence of the Lord I was as cordial to you and your person i● order and subordination to that supreme end and the honour and love I b●ar to m● God and my Country as to my own body and spirit But I must confesse my judgment was the Tryall of the King would not be so justifiable bu● by a new speedy and free Parliament as I told one of your Secretaries and divers others in the Gallery at White-hall and I looked upon the Laws Rights Freedoms and safeties of the peop●e to be that alone that would justly satisfie them make ● good issue of the Wa● and make a generall peace in the Nation according to mutuall agreement and concord in common and plain principles of Scrip●ures and common reason as Mr Solicitor Cook said against King Charles in his Case pag. 22. But I went again suddenly into the country and having not been there long I had information of the break●ng and rending of t●e House of Commons part of which was done before I went out of Town and the declared pretence was bruited abroad that they joyned in the Scotish Invasion and a little after that I heard of the erect●on of a Court of Justice and of the resolution of the Grand●es intention to try the King before a new Parliament and before they went through the Rights of the People which when I he●rd made me fetch a deep and hearty sigh in my own spirit for my Country to consider it and what insecurity there was to the peoples Rights Justice Freedom and Peace which the Army spake so much of in the Remonstrance from St. Albans the 16 of Novemb. last against the King and Parliament declaring against the inordinate temper of spirit to bre●k the bonds of Law and Magistracy and to fly above the due bounds of Order and Government against interest and that the King would not stop or bogle at principles of ●evenge falshood cruelty faith or oath pretences will power oppression corrupt forms without law or rooted in the Law against awfull reverence and idolizing of persons offices and dispensations to fit for Ecclesiasticall and Civil Tyranny against vain-glory hypocrisie Tyranny and in summ of all against arbitrary power in any over the peoples Laws Liberties and Properties against the hardship of imprisonment used to Patriots that had appeared to assert the common Liberties the severall designations of some to the slaughter some to exile others to prisons all to the misery of one sort or other and that the Kings injustice and arbitrariness was the cause of the War and innocent blood and of all the evill consequents and concomitants thereunto and not the oppressed with other enamouring and unparallell'd language and expressions pages 4. 10. 14. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 26. 29. 30. 31. 32. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 65. 66. 67. 68. 70. See also the former Declarations pag. 10. 14. 39. 40. 41. 42. c. Mr Cooks Book against King Charles pag. 37. 38. 42. c. Let the Lord and the people that are unbiased Judge whether they do not ●●e●d in th● s●me steps But the main ●●●n and strain of my affections was to the Rights of the people is the Lord Almighty knows and the security of the Laws and Liberties and the Lord bears me wi●nesse I have yet stood to that against all temptations of proffered honou● or revenge and ●o I trust shall as I have shewed in my Book her● re●ited I do n●t sp●ak this n●ither so as to r●pine against the mighty h●nd of the Lord in that the Kings life was taken away or to stir up any heart-burnings in any against you or any other for I do abhor it though man many times may do things out of wicked and unholy ends which the Lord doth in time discover for I am satisfied in my conscience and judgment a before the Lord and I will decl●re it though I were to perish that I beleev● the King was guilty of the blood of the people and the violation of the peoples Laws and Liberties But your guil●iness will be far more if you apost●tize and defer● that supreme end even the just Laws and Liberties of the Nation for which we fought and were formerly made and also the inlargement of ou● freedoms and safetie And for the enjoyment of justice and freedom I can live I thank the Lord my strength the m●st High with satisfaction under any Government whether M●n●●chy

gods Tyrants cannot abide Law and Settlement and their cruelty is their ruine Just Authority is to lift up the afflicted and oppressed and by their authority to bridle domesticall wrong to strengthen the diseased to heal that which is sick to binde up that which is broken to bring again that which is driven away to seek that which is lost and not with force and crueltie to rule Ezek. 34.4 Therefore I do in the name of the Lord of Hosts and the most excellent God the God of Justice and Mercy demand Freedom from my illegall Bonds and reparations therefore to the honour of the Lords Justice the acknowledging of his name and to the keeping of your Faith and the honour of our Laws and Liberties and lay you self at the foot of God Scriptures and Laws And to this end and purpose that the Lord may be acknowledged in Judgment I do propose that M. Cook your Orator against the King may be made Judge betwixt us and may have an Oath given him of impartiall Judgment without fear favor or affection and that you may choose any whom you will so many to so many of my friends of the Army or out to be my Antagonist in a publick audience and writers on both sides and I wil engage to prove the dealings with me are illegal barbarous and Tyrannical contrary to the Laws of God and Nature the nation the scripture your own declarations the declarations of Parliament and all the Capital obligations of justice and mercy that ever I heard of in the world And though you have given him lately much worldly estate and honour yet I will trust the Lord with the innnocency and splendor of my cause and I hope the Lord will make righteousnesse in his Spirit Supream to all honour glory and safety according to his own word● so I rest From my illegall cruel arbitrary imprisonment under an unnaturall and unholy Ty●ant in Windsor Castle The Lord his weake and unworthy servant and in the peoples cause William Bray My Dedication and Supplication to God my Maker and Father OH Lord Thou who art indeed excellent t●e great Commander of all the world who turnest all thing upside down who hast the hearts of all men in thy hand and canst make the greatest persecutors and affl●cting powers of darknesse stoop to thee Oh Lord my God and Father great are my enemies one who is called Excellency But oh Lord it is thou alone art Excellency faith●uln●ss● and truth and the others are Crowel Ireton H●s●●rig Harrison and Whitchcock under those Tyrannicall hand I am my cause is the cause of thy people the generall cause of Justice and Freedom Thou knowest the sincerity of my spirit oh Lord my enemie● are in great honour and power by the peoples blood labours and treasure If it be thy holy will let them acknowledg thee God of the whole earth whose name and power hath made great changes in the world Let them in ther conversations acknowledge the Scriptures and testimonies of thy selfe the laws and liberties of thy people without respect of persons If not oh Lord put a hook in their nostrils and a bridle in their jaws that they may not use wicked and crafty policy and the treasure of thy people make them destroy one another against their laws and liberties Uniteth people that are sincere to thee and one to another in righteousnesse and judgement make up thy J●wels and shew some w●● or other some evident testimony of love to thy people against the bloody designs of thine and their enemies under what cloak or forme soever they appear in the world keep me stedfast unto thy self against a●l the bloody intentions of my close politick and mighty enemies and l●t thy name and honour be ex●lted as indeed it is whether in persecution or freedom And if oh Lord they have such murtherous thoughts towards me as O Lord thou knowest their actions are hitherunto wicked enough and if they bring forth the wickedest and extreamest into action O Lord let me continue constant in thy strength unto the de●th and make me willingly to imbrace my condition and give testimony to thy self and to the testimonies of thy self in Scripture in spirit in my own heart the testimony of my enemies themselves and the enemies of our Lawes and Liberties Purge me also O Lord oh purge me whilst I am in this mortality and let me dye before I die So prayes thy weak servant and one of thy sons in my cruel bondage as to men and freedom as to thee Whilest th' Authour striveth for his Countries good An under-Tyrant thirsteth for his blood His Gaoler Whi●chcock arbitrarily Heapeth upon him greater Tyranny Our deer-bought Freedom now 's not worth a straw Let all men judg when Whitchcock's will 's a Law FINIS