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A77280 Innocency and the blood of the slain souldiers, and people, mightily complaining, and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those forty knights and burgesses, or thereabouts, that sit in the House of Commons. For the violation of our capital fundamental laws and liberties, and those capital obligations mentioned in this my letter, in capital letters. Or a letter to an eight yeers speaker of the House of Commons. / By Cap. William Bray, from his indurance, illegal, un-Christian, and cruel gaol in Windsor Castle. Bray, William, 17th cent. 1649 (1649) Wing B4304; Thomason E568_12; ESTC R206251 25,812 21

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according to will and power but now power in them used worse is not the same Pag. 39 40.41.42 That Justice and Righteousness then was one of the witnesses of God then it is now the same That they were no Emissary A●my h●red to serve any Arbitrary power of State but their Arbitrary power of State That th●y were sensible of complaints Arbitrariness Oppressions and Injustice but now a man cannot have Justice from these they have left in the House for them That they would not have an absolute or Arbitrary power f●und in any could not wish to have it in any whom they most confided in or who should appear most of their opinion and Principles is this truth That they were for Parliamentary authority rightly constituted when wil it be performed when they please or when the people please ●nd that they should not be during pleasure or hav● an unlimited power and so an advantage to perpetuate injustice without end or remedy but now the party they left must Pag. 61. that a liberty of d●ss●nt● should be in the House of Commons that the people might see who was fa●th●ul I wish we had the Grandees Speeches Printed to the Nation since they made such a purge● that the Privledges of Parliament should not be extended to private wrong or publique ras●h●● but their power and priviledg may extend to private and publique wrong without controul because Parliament Priviledges as well as r●yall Prerogative may be perverted and ●bused but theirs not Charged severall Memb rs that they inv●ded infring●d and indeavour●d to overthrow the rights of the people and obstructed Justice to the damage of many Commoners if so then is it not much more now And their last Remonstrance from St A●bans pag. 10. Cried out the people w●re mad● to depend main●y upon the King for all and are not the people made to depend upon them for all whether Justice or no Justice that his Interest was made necessary to all that other pretences were but made use of to serve his ends end to make an easie way to set up him and his Interest above all let rational m●n judg whether their practise is not so Page 16 17. That no Common C●un● l or Parliaments should check him Dare the Parliament check him when I cannot have a hearing against him that all orbitrary powers might be exercised at pleasure by himself and such as he pleased to d r●v● the same unto do not the Grandees tread in the same steps aboundingly that snares and chains were laid upon conscienci●us and z●alous men to countenanc● blinde reverence of persons sit for Popery and Slav●ry is not the Generals c. end the same according to his works p. 21. rend ing it a b●and of d●shonor and infamy in him to pr●f●r such a● had a mixture of ambition and v●in g●o●y ●●ndring them fit to 〈…〉 a●d greatn●ss for the injoying some share t●erein to th●mselv●s are not such m n ●hei● only d●rling● witness their actions for me to spe●k to these more then golden wo ds is but A●ram in●o ma●● are Oh then ●igh and mighty God and Judge Judge thou the cause of thy people remember the blood that hath been spilt for our Laws and Liberties to purchase our peace and safety And ●ir Solicitor ●eok your Orator in his bo●k st lled K●●g Charls his Case which will be an everlasting monument against you if you continue to walk unjustly p●g 3● saith he the King deported himself as a God and saith he innocent blood will aff ight more then twelve legions of Devils do not they deport themselves as Gods when they act as living above Law Do you do justice that you might live unjustly did you cut him off to send him to be accountable to God that would not be accountable unto man that you might live here in the same principle and practice as unaccountable unto men would it not be just with God if you tread in the same pathes to inflame and raise up the spirits of your brethren the Commoners to make you accountable unto God also Are not the Lords wayes past finding out and is not he just in all his Judgments pag 38. that an accursed principle of Tyranny lodged within him viz. to be accountable to none but to God which have turned our waters of LAW into blood have not the fruits of the same principles though they have pretended other principles as the King did viz. That his Monarchy was not an absolute but a well bounded Monarchy by Law been actually seen in them and are not they in a leading way to turn water of Law into blood and blood pag. 38. that he had been of Counsell against felons and prisoners but that he never moved the Court to Judgment against any felon or to keep any man in prison but he trembled at it in his thoughts as thinking it would be easier to give an account of mercy and indulgence then of any thing that might look like rigour but now my spirits saith he are of another temper but you imp●ison the innocent against Law Reason Christian Principles your own Declarations the Vowes Covenants Ingagements and imprecations of ●arliament and you have proceeded higher then any to ingage you to Iustice viz. the blood of the King to b●ot page 42. that sentence was not only against one Tyrant but tyranny it self therefore saith he if any of them shall turn Tyrants or consent to set up any kinde of Tyranny by a Law or suffer any unmercifull domineering over the persons Consciences or estates of the free people of this Land They have pronounced sentence against themselves But do not they endeavor to secure themselves against the Laws of heaven and nature and to act by unreasonableness meer power and force by which accursed principle the Lord Jesus and all Christians have been murthered formerly by corrupt Authority Oh Lord arise and judge and behold how they make v●yd the blood of thy people and what is their declared zeal and impartiall Justice upon the blood of the King come unto You have imprecated the wrath and vengeance of Heaven and Earth to light upon you if you did not maintain the Fundamentall Laws and Liberties of the people and call upon the people to say AMEN and that you had no aimes at your selves but wholly at the publique see and compare together the first part of the book Dec. pag. 17. 18. 214. 264. 266. 267 400. 462. 464. 466. 673. 588. 666 573. 692. Is not God just I am troubled at your condition though I rejoyce in my own Again you have revoked one Fast day and made another and declared that there was much guilt in taking Gods name in vain And that there was a proneness to relapse into the former condition of Tyranny and superstition But I hope you did not resolve it when you said you were prone to it And you desire that God would heal the division of your Land But do you goe the way of