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A88631	The loyall sacrifice presented in the lives and deaths of those two eminent-heroick patternes, for valour, discipline, and fidelity; the generally beloved and bemoaned, Sir Charls Lucas, and Sir George Lisle, knights. Being both shot to death at Colchester, five houres after the surrender.	Philocrates.	1648 (1648)	Wing L3364; Thomason E1202_2; ESTC R202768	35,584	133

dissented it was not his fault but the deep apprehension and resentment of their wrongs And blame them not for when a wounded Patient opens his wounds and is rejected by that hand where he may be cured he must needs hold him either a negligent or incompassionate Artist that leaves him remedilesse by suffering his sore to rankle or gangreene when it was in his power to allay his grief or to cure it This was the case of that County They opened their wounds they discovered their griefs they applyed themselves to the Parliament for redresse but their suite produced no cure That usuall complement of thanks was returned them for their care and so dimiss'd in no better condition then when they came Such fruitlesse effects did those County Petitions returne to their abused Patients This it was which commenced that quarrell which if assistant Counties had seconded as they stood both by promise engaged and their owne interests intrusted might have redounded more to their advantage then any probable opportunity unlesse some successefull influence be derived from this present Treaty will in an age afford them As for Sir BERNARD GASCOYN they were to be commended for their civility in reprieving him he being a stranger and an Italian But never did any Savage Nation were it Turkish or any other Heathen execute the like tyranny and cruelty upon such frivolous pretences as is well observed in cold Blood Now the occasionall motive of the Garrisons yeilding to Mercy was as followeth Having made an end of all their Provision nay even of those creatures which Nature had not a long Siege brought them to extreame indigence would have wholly loathed to make food on and in this exigent having no offer of conditions from the Enemy who had sufficient intelligence of their necessity but such as were most ignoble the Officers being resolved either to purchase their liberty in despight of the Enemy or to sell their lives at as dear a rate as they could propounded to the Souldiers a resolution to breake through which being approved by the greater part they signed this ensuing Ingagement We whose names are here under-Written do in the presence of Almighty God protest against all conditions that are or shall be sent by the Enemy by which our liberties may be infringed and our honour blasted And we do upon our honours solemnely ingage our selves not to desert one another nor the Foot till by Gods assistance we have forc'd our passage through all that shall oppose us or to perish in the Act Which we attest this 23 of August 1648. This conclusion reflecting so directly upon the preservation of their honour desiring nothing more then to make way for their safety by their swords and by that meanes to decline the surprize of a mercilesse Foe was resolved to be put in execution by the Councell of War on Friday night Aug. 25. But when all was in readinesse and nothing more expected then the pursuit of this attempt Some of the Greatest dissenting from that opinion hindred the proceeding pretending that the designe in hand might be acted with no lesse conveniency the next day The reason whereof is diversely argued for this frivolous delay and in their respects highly prejudiciall might be imputed either to a remisnesse of spirit or a falling off in their affections from the Commanders So apt is the mis-guided zeale of some to distemper the best intentions Schismes in subjects of faith have ever bred the greatest distractions in resolutions or debates of State whether publiquely or privately grounded We shall ever find in these such spirits of contradiction as they affect nothing more then to oppose though they can render no other cause save onely their disgust to the person who was the proposer This the Poet quickly observed These mixt zeales do ever bring Ruine to Subject State and King LUCIL Dis-affection being ever a broacher of different opinions and generally seconded by as unhappy conclusions The Besiegers all this while wanted not their active Teazers and instruments within to perswade the Common Souldiers whose highest pitch was personall safety that the Gentry had resolved before next morning to quit them These suggested whisperings bred a most dangerous Mutiny which put the Gentlemen in that Engagement to such an extasie being by the divisions wholly deprived of all meanes of safety and hope by their Valour to escape the Enemy because it was not possible for Horse to break through the Line without Foot and Pioners as they were constrained to yeild O comfortlesse refuge after a twelve weeks Siege unto the Mercy of those Mercilesse Foes who sport themselves in the ruines and triumphs of honour Delighting to inbath their remorselesse hands in the purple streamings of this unfortunate Island and like eagre Nimrods to hunt for the precious life and blood by the direction of their diametricall leavell of all the Nobility and Gentry of England Thus have you heard how these unsubdued spirits were inforced to yeild by meanes of that Mutinous rout Neither indeed to use the Comedians words could any thing lesse be expected From a raw promiscuous rude Vncivilized Multitude AFRAN Upon these particulars of this discourse we have insisted the longer purposely to returne satisfaction to sundry persons of quality who have desired much to receive a certaine relation not onely of those occurrents during their Siege but of the reasons of their yeilding after so long debate and joynt resolution of fighting to the last man and acquitting themselves of the Enemy or dye with honour Thus much may suffice being received from one that was an Eye-Witnesse and a Person of honour ingaged in the businesse Now are we to descend to the last Sceane of this Tragick Act. An Act of honour to the Sufferers but of horror to the Actors And herein take a serious survey of every passage and posture in these two Noble Knights before they tooke their last farewell of the world What a chereefull and magnanimous resolution their gracefull deportment gallantly presented upon their suddaine doome to suddaine death Though the Message of death be the terriblest Summons that can come to Nature yet you shall hear how bravely it may be entertained by Christian Valour Such fame-spreading Palms cannot be prest so low but they will mount higher Ireton that messenger of Ire was the man which brought them the newes Upon whose entrance and Message Sir CHASLES LUCAS with much cheerefulnesse and alacrity demanded by what Autherity whether by an Ordinance of Parliament or a Councell of War or the command of the Generell IRETON answered it was by Ordinance of Parliament declaring all such as should be found in Armes to be proceeded against as Traytors and Rebels c. Whereat Sir CHARLS replyed smiling in scorne Alas poor souls how ye deceive your selves As if the just defence of the Antient Laws Liberties and Priviledges of a Kingdom the advancement of the style and Prerogative of our SOVERAIGNE were in the capacity of

MERCY was writ like Draco's Laws in Letters of blood shall be shewne you afterwards Now should it be demanded what reason could there be for the Besieged to hold out so long and by their continued resistance to bring both themselves with the rest of the Inhabitants into such misery and fearfull distresse especially seeing there appeared no hope at all of raising that lasting Siege nor of the Generals remove till he had finished his designe Besides their pertinacy and aversion from such reasonable conditions as in the beginning were proposed to them could but highly incense the Generall and bring them as afterwards it did to extreamer termes upon intelligence of their necessitous condition that they might either be inforc'd to perish through famine or necessarily surrender the Towne To this I answer that there were two main reasons that induced them to stand upon their own defence to the defiance of the Enemy First was that not only the County wherein they were beleagred but other Counties too had ingag'd themselves upon their fidelity a strong gage of assurance amongst good men that they would really joyne in assistance with them and stand in defence of their just Liberties re-estating of their Soveraigne in His regall Throne and disbanding of all onerous and unnecessary Forces pretensively levied in this Kingdome with a resolute purpose of labouring to suppresse all Sects Schismes or Divisions that might any way darken the Light of the Church or disturb the peace and tranquillity of the State But this strong ingagement procured an easie dispensation For these faithfull Assistants proved their mortall Assaylants So as none were more ready to lend an helping hand to the Enemy after some braving menaces delivered by the Army So as we may conclude here all those firme hopes which these Noble Gentlemen reposed in these diffiding Counties were quickly thawed and resolved to nothing This it is for persons of Quality to ground their reliance on the Aegyptian Reedes which will sooner pierce the hand of the undertaker then support him But this disease in all these late distempers and distractions as never State was farther out of her wits has been so Epidemicall as it may admit the better excuse for I have scarcely knowne any County that has not grievously laboured of this infirmity The Motion and Action of Armies got them allyance and fresh assistance what way soever they Marched yea and caused most Counties to renounce their first Principles by no other Argument then the brandish of a Sword Another reason to induce and till them on to the continuance of this Siege was their daily expectance of relief not only from these neighbouring Counties whose joynt promise had strongly ingaged them to their assistance but from the North neither were their hopes built on weak grounds For a person of quality and an experienc'd Vigilant Valiant Commander though some late overtures have rendred him unfortunate confidently assured them of a speedy expedite relief as appeared by his Letter directed to Sir CHARLES LUCAS to this effect being truly transcribed after the Originall Copie Sir YOur Gallantry in Resolution Action during that fierce furious Siege of COLCHESTER hath already confirm'd in us that noble opinion which we ever retain'd of you in all your undertakings both for Spirit and Knowledge Valour acquites it self best in extreames Of this your loyall prowesse hath given an ample testimony We here who truly love and honour you and who with some of our best and choycest Forces hope in a very short time to Relieve you could not retaine lesse then a deep resentment of the diversion of those noble-disposed Royalists who ingaged their Persons as their intendments visibly appeared for your Succour with the premature fall of that active spark of true Native Honour the Lord FRANCIS VILLIERS upon whose surprized and disarmed Body report informes us that such inhumanity by a Mechannick hand was committed as Barbarisme it self would conceive Horror to be an Actor in a Subject of such Cruelty But what shall either you or we collect from these tragick overtures but the implacable hate and heat of an odious perfidious Foe flaming frō a furious desire of imbruing his treacherous hands in the blood of all such as professe themselves faithfull Servants in defence of their Princes honour safety of their Country her just and auncient Liberties For which we Fight and for preservation of which we shall ever hold it a devotionall Loyalty to ingage our persons fortunes whatsoever is most dear unto us The Cruelty they shew to ours might prescribe us a Rule what to doe when it shall please God that we be which we hope ere long to be Masters of the Field But revenge in actions of cruelty shall ever be as far estranged from our thoughts as theirs since first these Civill unnaturall Wars were broached have been frō harbouring Loyalty or compassion Mean time these mens designes who push at nothing lower then Crownes yet should you unlock the Cabinets of their hearts make Crownes their Objects may afford both you and us who stand in defence of a just Cause and no private Interest as God is our witnesse this usefull Lesson † † Had Sir CHARLES with his constant Loyall friend Sir GEO LISLE observed this lesson upon which they ever unanimously fixed and had to death pursued if their resolution had not been by the Common Souldiers who make personall safety their only Object with other treacherous Instruments betrayed they had not so experimentally tryed the Mercy of a remorselesse Enemy to be Cruelty But if God have a Bottle for our teares he has surely in store a Vyal for our Blood so innocently shed To him then let us commit their Cause who is the just Avenger Rather to sacrifice our Lives to a noble and memorable Fate then to submit to an imperious mercilesse Foe Hold out brave Sir continue your resolution pursue your Sallies let not their numerous Recruites amate you give me leave for the true zeal I bear to our Cause and love to your Person to enforce this needlesse advice you need little doubt but if SKIPPONS power of inlisting men be abridg'd as we hear it is that these Recruites or fresh Supplies can continue long Sedition have it never so specious pretences nor powerfull favourites it will at one time or other be unmask'd and shew its own deformity which shewn those who followed her and foolishly fawned on her will become much asham'd that their misguided judgments should be ever taken with so deceiving a beauty Now to enliven the hopes of all that brave and honourable Cavalry there with you Think every Evening how we are one dayes March nearer you then we were in th' Morning and that our heartiest wishes goe along with you as we are confident within few dayes with our hands to assist you And to confirme the apparancy of these hopes you may be pleased herewith to receive an Abstract of our proceedings together