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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35082	A copy of the letter from His Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell, sent to the members of Parliament called to take upon them the trust of the government of this common-vvealth : which began on Munday the fourth of June, 1653, the day appointed by the letters of summons from his Excellency the Lord Gen. Cromwell for the meeting of these gentlemen : with severall transactions since that time.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing C7054; ESTC R5464	33,160	60

Dominions thereunto belonging and other high Treasons tending to involve the Common-wealth in a new bloody war To which charge of High Treason the said Gerard and Vowel pleaded Not guilty pretending much ignorance and that they were innocent of the knowledge of any such designe and did very much presse the Court to grant them Counsell to advise withall and that they might be tried by a Jury which being not to be granted unto them and waved severall Witnesses were produced upon their Oaths to make appear what they were charged with as John Wiseman Dr. Hudson a blind man Mr. Charls Gerhard Brother to the Prisoner Capt. Dale one Mr. Wharton and others who did sufficiently prove That Mr. Gerrard was to command the party who were to murder his Highnesse the L. Protector as he was going to Hampton Court with thirty Horse and that the said Gerrard had engaged to bring 25 of the 30 and Maj. T Henshaw was to bring 5 more and it was also proved against him that he with Maj. Henshaw and the Witnesse J. Wiseman did view the severall Guards at Whitehall the Mewes and St. Jameses and had computed and designed 600 Horse as sufficient to seize and secure those Guards appointing also a party of Horse to march into Tuttle-fields as friends and so to fall upon the forces then mustering and cut them off It was also proved against him by his Brother Mr. Charles Gerrard that he was at severall meetings at his own Chamber near Essex house and at other places with Maj. Henshaw and Finch and others about this designe and particularly at Mr. Jones his House in Rose street in Covent Garden where in a Chamber Henshaw and Finch gave an account that they had each of them listed 800 men to be ready at a dayes warning severall other things were proved which he obstinately denied but confest his name was much used therein but was no intent Actor And for Mr. Vowell severall Witnesses upon their Oaths did testifie that he was at many meetings with Henshaw Finch Gerhard and other of the Plotters to contrive the management of this businesse being a person thought more fit to be a Councellor then an Actor and his reward should have been to be Master of Suttons Hospitall and it was also proved against him though he could not act himselfe yet he promised to procure those that should act and did engage one Capt. Billingsley who undertook to provide Riders for the Horses who should be taken out of Islington fields it was also proved his buying of Pistols and many other things sufficient to prove his hand deep in the businesse And for Somerset Fox he confessed so much as saved the Court much trouble in examining witnesses His part was to engage as many Apprentices and Citizens of London as he could in the businesse that so when the falling on was upon the Guards at White hall the Mewes and St. Jameses and Col. Ingeldsbies Regiment in Southwark and the rest of the Plot was in agitation there might be a rising and tumult made purposely in the City to imploy what force was there that no help might come elsewhere and the Lord Mayor was to have been seized and carried to proclaim Charls Stuart King at the Exchange and Dr. Wharton was to see him proclaimed yet notwithstanding all these witnesses Gerhard and Vowell denyed they knew of any thing of such a designe but they were not so satisfied but that a base design was intended too unworthy for a Gentleman to have his hand in as did further appear by the testimony of John Wiseman who did relate his going over into France with his brother in Law Maj. Henshaw where they met the said Mr. Gerhard at Paris and there had free accesse to the pretended King of Scots about this designe and received great encouragement in the businesse from Prince Rupert whereupon Henshaw and Wiseman returned into England and Mr. Gerhard came over about 3 weeks after to put the businesse in agitation immediately upon his arrivall the said Henshaw Finch c. repaired to his lodging near Essex house and received an account of the busines and so proceeded to act as the said Wiseman testified The Witnesses being all examined and the Prisoners heard what they could say for themselves the Attorney Gen. Solicitor Gen. and the Councell for the Commonwealth summ'd up all the Evidences and drew them into severall heads which they presented to the Court with the Prisoners at the Bar as objects of their Justice the said Gerhard and Vowell still remaining obstinate The Prisoners were commanded back to the Tower July 6. The Portugall Ambassadors Brother and the rest we●e againe brought to their Tryall at the Vpper Bench at Westminster and a Jury of 12 men whereof 6 Denizes and 6 Aliens Impannel'd and swore The Ambass Brother pleaded very hard his ignorance in the Lawes of England and desired Councell but that was denied and he told That the Court were of Councell equall and alike to him as to the Common-wealth and would doe according to Law and the Justice of the Cause Hereupon many Witnesses were sworn and examined and upon full hearing of the Evidence and what the Prisoners could say the Jury withdrew and in a short time returned and delivered their Verdict by their Foreman all agreeing finding them all 5 guilty of the murther and Felony for which they stood indicted whereupon Judgement was afterwards pronounced after a short speech made by the L Chief Justice Rolls in the name of the Court That they should return from whence they came and from thence be carried to the place of Execution there seveally to be hanged by the neck till they are dead The day appointed Saturday but the Prisoners moved for respite till Monday which was granted This afternoon also the High Court of Justice sat in Westminster-hall and there was brought before them Mr. Gerard Mr. Vowel and Mr. Fox who were demanded what they had more to say for themselves Gerhard and Vowell spake much to excuse themselves notwithstanding what had been proved against them after which the L. President Lisle made a learned speech to convince them of the desperate wickednesse of their designe and how fully the Charge had been proved and what punishments the Law had provided in such cases after which the Sentence of the Court was read severally to all three to this effect That upon mature consideration of the Treasons and Murthers plotted and contrived by them against his Highnesse the Lord Protector and the Common-wealth and raising a bloody war in the same the Court did adjudge them to be hanged by the neck untill they be dead Mr. Gerhard desired the Execution might be altered that he might be beheaded or shot to death and therefore petitioned to the Lord Protector About 4 in the afternoon Mr. John Gerhard was brought to the Scaffold on Tower-hill his behaviour was sprightly the substance of his discourse Cavalier-like boasting himselfe of the