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A93810	Royal and other innocent bloud crying aloud to heaven for due vengeance. Humbly represented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And with all humble dutifull submission dedicated to the two high and mighty princes, James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester, his sacred Majestyes Royal brethren. By George Starkey, a true honourer and faithfull friend of his country.	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5287; Thomason E1032_7	32,297	47

able to effect it certainly there lies on them as much guilt as Satan could furnish them with or their own reprobate natures contract 19. But God hath been mercifull unto these poor bleeding Kingdomes so far as to defeat at length their plots who wanted nothing of will to render us compleatly perpetually and irrecoverably miserable they wanted not mallice in which they were in placable and inveterate nor industry wherein indefatigable nor preparation for which most vigilant nor design in which they beheld us with scorn and triumph groaning forth our last despairing sighs and lying beyond hope or remedy under the clawes of their most merciless rage but God alone hath given them this unexpected check to the glory of his goodness and undeserved grace be it spoken there is nothing left us to boast of who could only sit down and groan out our sighs to him by reason of our oppressures and burdens but neither did nor knew we to help our selves in the least 20. This Divine disposure of affaires after so wonderfull a manner seemes by way of duty to suggest unto us two things 1. First how infinitely we stand obliged to that good God who hath been so eminently and unexpectedly gracious unto us 2. Secondly what justice he now requires and expects should be done on them whose insolencies and monstrous impieties cannot be overlooked unless we resolve to bring upon our selves and intaile upon our posterity such curses as may make them abhor the remisenes and neglect perhaps the very memory of their fathers 21. The former of these I shall touch briefly and so pass it over it being far more readily owned known and acknowledged to be a duty than carefully and conscienciously practised which indeed will be performed very lamely and superficially unless the latter be more diligently heeded and seriously attended 22. Let us in the first place therefore all with hearts and hands lifted up to the most high with thankfull prayses celebrate his name publish and make known this his great goodness especially endeavour the speedy amendment of our lives the irregularity of which hath no doubt been the continued cause which provoked God to bring and so long to exercise us with so many so great and perplexing miseries 23. Let us confess bewayle and humble our selves for our past ingratitude that injoying so great and invaluable pledges of Divine favour we made so few and unsutable returnes of them 24. Let us repent our undutifullness toward superiours contempt of Authority study of change and want of love one towards another which provoked God to give us up to men of base extraction and worse principles and to let servants rule over us 25. Let us hereafter prize Gods offers of Love to us in his Church nor loath heavenly Manna any more as we have done instead of which we have for a long time been fed in the Swines trough with huskes not yet fatisfied therewith These reflections I hope will be made in our breasts and such like returnes we shall give in remembrance and acknowledgment of this undeserved unlooked for yea almost miraculous deliverance 26. In reference to the second head I shall humbly take leave to lay open my breast in speaking my conscience and discover my love and faithfullness to the Nation in addressing my self with all possible duty and respect unto our most honourable Lords add worthy Commons however a weak and unworthy Orator 27. Right honourable and truly deserving Patriots it lies now in your power and under God is wholly left at your dispose to make these Nations either really and compleatly or apparently and in part only happy perfectly to cure or to palliate their disease to give them totall easment or for a short time to leave them sound at bottom or in danger of a relapse and breaking out again with no less Anguish perhaps full as much or more danger to the body than before 28. His sacredly Royall and most gracious Majesty hath committed things wholly to your dispose nor do I cuestion but your piety and prudence will lead you to respect him as Gods deputy here on earth yearather to look beyond him to God himself who by his meanes betrusted you with his power nevertheless expects the execution thereof according to his revealed will as you will answer the contrary at your perill in that great and dreadfull day of Judgment 29. To acquit the guilty and condemn the Innocent are equally abominable in his presence who is the God of Justice and truth 30. Besides the murder of his most sacred Majesty of happy memory against whose life to conspire is death without mercy by the known Lawes of the Land there have been frequently committed other horrible bloudy murthers the registers of which are every day sold among us but far more exactly kept on record in Gods Book nor sooner shall the guilt of them be taken off from a private score on Earth and not revenged but it will forthwith be entred down upon the publick or Nations score in the book of the most righteous God who usually taketh the vengeance thereof into his own hand 31. My earnest prayer to God in your behalf is and shall be that you will not involve your selves with the Nation in innocent bloud by acquitting the most notoriously guilty in that kind which ever England nourisht or groan'd under the ready way to provoke God to revenge it upon the whole Nation especially the City What a plague may follow this lenity if exercised which the Lord avert he only knowes who perhaps waits but your finall determination before he give it fatal Commission Si quid delirant Reges plectuntur Ac●●vi Perhaps the nearest relations or dearest friends may be so signally swept away from the chiefe authors of these crying murtherers indemnity As may at once both convince them of sinfull compassion and pierce their bleeding hearts with ten thousand forrowes Pray God I may not prove a Prophet nor do I speake it but with deprecation only faithfullness unto you compels me thus to utter my selfe and lay open my breast to your Honours and wisedomes 32. Believe it my Lords and Gentlemen Seven or ten is not a competent number to be exposed to justice and those most of them fled out of reach when sevenscore at least are over head and eares dipt and beyond excuse concerned in that amazing murder of Majesty as to guilt in the eye of mans law though I believe not all alike involved in the unpardonable aggravations of knowledg and malice 33. But besides that abominable murder severall more private but as cruell have been committed on divers persons both of rank and esteem as might be instanced in the Lords Capell Hamilton Holland with many Knights and Gentlemen of worth as Lucas Lisle Hide Andrewes Penruddock Grove Burleigh Love Gerard Vowell Bushell Hewit Slingsby Ashton Bettely Stacy with others for whose bloud when the holy and just God shall make inquisition he will find no legall reckoning

all the Nations round about whom they had spared contrary to command besides all which pretences by Saul no doubt alledged for that slaughter committed upon them the quality of him and them makes his case and ours of no comparison together He a King and they contemptible drudges of a cursed Generation But with us sworn subjects murther'd their Soveraign the very tongues mouths and lips that had vo'wd solemn allegiance to him and to hazard life in his preservation and to defend with him his Queen and Progeny presume to condemn to death the same Royall Person proclaim Traytors his Queen and Sonnes yea all that shall adhere to them and assert their so oft confirmed title by so sacred and religious oaths This certainly next to our blessed Saviours murther was most black and hortible 40. Besides with Majesty fell Nobles and Gentlemen Divines and Citizens of as great repute as any the Land afforded who were as undoubtedly Innocent as cruelly slaughtered yea their crime objected was honesty the pretence of taking them off was a colourable mock-justice yet in their own conscience they knew their Courts to be only Snares and Engines to do such work which by no known Law of the Land nor in any regular form of proceeding could be effected If then Saul's bloudy-fact were revenged with three yeares famine and after that with the death of Seven of his Sonnes I tremble to think what vengeance the Lord may take of us for this bloud unless our most honourable Lords and those other worthy Patriots of the English Nation the House of Commons by their pious wisdom and just severity against unpardonable malefactors scatter that black cloud of Gods judgments which is already gathering and who knowes how soon it may overspread the whole Kingdom 41. Breaking Parliaments subverting Laws horrible Oppression by Confiscations Sequestrations decimations Imprisonments frequent sending out of Town setting up Usurpers making the Nobles more contemptible than any generous Spirits could bear are unparallel'd Treasons and being against man more directly may be famous objects of Pardon even to astonishment but to indemnifie such horrible guilt of bloud is to presume to do that on Earth which God will never set his seal to or confirm in Heaven It is for man to exceed his Commission which presumption he and his Posterity may have cause to bewail with bitter tears when it is too late to remedy 42. My Lords and Gentlemen although in a Parliamentary way of Convention with his Majesties Royal assent concurring you have great I had almost said unlimited power which is true in a sense nothing that is mearly humane can bound you yet there are bounds set even to you by the hand of God himself no less dreadfull than the bounds of Sinai which you cannot transgress but you streight incurre the displeasure of a revenging Deity whose Angel with his flaming sword is forthwith over your head and speedy Judgement ready to overtake you and treading upon your heels Nor will this be your private sin but as persons in trust you contract a fatal score whereof God alone knows how many thousands must be the Pay-masters One of those immovable bounds is the guilt of bloud which debt if you remit as to the penalty it were well if you could cross it out of Gods book but that 's impossible bloud only is to be the payment though it is in your choyce whether this shall be guilty or other innocent bloud which God as a Soveraign Lord perhaps will take and place both the former and latter to their account at whose door neglect lies 43. Believe it my Lods and Gentlemen the persons concerned in that detestable murther of his Majesty are not all comprised in the list of those who sate in the High Court of Mock-justice that day when sentence was past that whole pretended Court or rather pack of Bloud-hounds were but the tool and instrument in the hand of some devilish Workman Journey 〈◊〉 employed by others who contrived the Plot and set them on work among whose number some were more actively daring and openly appeared as well to give countenance to as incourage the rest who were persons qualifyed to serve their turn and pickt here and there as they came to hand others of the grand contrivers were more wary and reserved who for fear of after-reckonings slipt behind the Curtain gave aim unto and directed the Actors Haslerig Vane Lenthall and others of that gang had as deep hand in that Crimson fact as any who were present at sentence or confirmed it under hand and Seal 44. That there is no pleading for murther where all are prin cipalls the Law of our land makes evident less for Royall murther as is clear by that Scripture-rule which saith Who can lift up his hand against the Lords anointed and be guiltless and most plainly confirmed by the pattern of David who commanded that foolish Amalekite forthwith to be slain who in hope of reward accused himself that he had at the request of Saul dispatcht his life when past hope of recovery by reason of his mortall wounds sending him to his long home with this farewell thy bloud be upon thine own head forasmuch as thou hast confest the lifting up thine hand against the Lords anointed 45. Yet as the first plotter and contriver of a horrid fact if especially he stand by and encourage advise assist justify and reward the Actor is the more unpardonably guilty so those who appointed an high Court of Justice nominated the persons commissi●●ated impowered and warranted them in what they were to act were indeed the superlatiue Traytors and most guilty of bloud 46. And among those there are yet degrees some were professed Lawyers and could not be ignorant of the Law of the Land their conscience told them in the very act of endeavouring to try their King for life in such an unheard of Court themselves were above all most transcendent Traytors 47. In which crew as all 〈◊〉 Subjects so many were his Majesties actuall servants as Vane Mildmay Danvers Holland and others whose fact surpasseth so far the rest as it is more detestable for a servant than for a stranger to kill his Master by our Law made petty Treason and more severely punished Some were servants in favour and places of more than ordinary trust and were rewarded so largely as argued a bountifull Prince and them on that account Monsters in nature who durst abet much more actually commit such a villany upon so gracious a Lord so loving and bountifull a Master 48. Their declarations after the fact challenged the imagined repute thereof to themselves for as they m●●e no scruple to call themselves the Parliament and supream power of England so they ascribed to themselves the abolishing Kingship and accordingly rejected the whole line of the murther'd King declar'd for a Common-wealth whithout King or House of Lords fram'd and imposed upon all an engagement to that purpose which argues plainly that

they know that the crime objected is indeed no crime by the Law of the Land They who give commission under the pretended Seal of England for trying such offenders by nominated Commission ers yet know that very Commission to be illegal and unwarrantable and yet intended as an Engine to remove some out of the way that are before marked for destruction they lastly who prosecute the Prisoners at the Barre of such a Court The Judge also who sits in Judgement upon and pronounceth sentence against them though both Judge Attorney and Sollicitor know the Prisoners not to deserve so much as bonds by the known fundamental Laws of the Land and the Power by which they pretend to Act to be usurped and illegal nay contrary to Law which they in formality are sworn to maintain and execute Justice accordingly all these doubtlesly are a pack of Conspirators against the Innocent bloud which is thus shed by them and most cruel unpardonable murtherers this for less publick butcheries committed upon the score of pretended High Courts of Justice 59. Two private cases remains yet as namely that of Lucas and Lisle and the other of Penruddok and Grove The former were shot to death in cool bloud by sentence of a Court Mattial the latter condemned by that great Prevaricator Glyn who caused them to be indicted for taking up Arms against Cromwell upon that Law which makes it Treason to levy War against the King no Law being then hatched to secure that Usurper and although the Prisoners pleading to the endictment defended themselves unanswerably and made it appear by that very Law that Oliver was the Traytor in making War upon them who proclaimed and fought for that King whom he opposed yet this most unrighteous Judge made the Law violently to speak against it self by his interpretation and so condemned the most innocent Prisoners whom afterwards with others upon the same score he caused to be executed for which if ever Judge in England deserved exemplary death certainly he fell as much if not more 60. Thus most honourable Lords and Gentlemen having spoken concerning the persons who they are give me leave to adde some considerations which speak them uncapable of Indemnity unless we intend such vengeance to follow their Pardon which God if it be his will prevent and by the way I shall obviate what objections may be brought against this impartial Justice or arguments to the contrary 61. Consider I beseech you First the crimes and the men whether or no they be fit objects of Mercy Pardon and Indemnity Secondly if they be whether it is convenient and expedient to let them find so great a measure of it and taste it so largely and I doubt not but upon enquiry your wisdoms will with me conclude in the negative notwithstanding what ever may be indiscreetly argued in favour of them 62. In order then to proceed First presents it self their Fact and next their manner of acting Lastly their behaviour after it in all which it is too manifest that as they are beyond and above Pardon so they are below pity 63. Their crime my Lords and Gentlemen is Murther of it self unpardonable but in them aggravated by Perjury Malice inhumane Cruelty justifying thereof under pretence of Religion and the better to secure themselves from Justice they spared no manner of Villany which a dextrous pernicious wit could prompt or a seared conscience commit Their murther hath this astonishing addition or rather Complement of guilt in that its object was their King to whom they were most sacredly and religiously obliged by reiterated Oaths not only impoled but by themselves voluntarily made and solemnly entred into this is the crime of many nay most of them besides other private murthers which on their part have the aggravations of malice and inhumane cruelty on the sufferers that they were persons of Piety Esteem Honour and Faithfulness to their King and Countrey of whom several excelled in true worth all their Martherers together 64. My Lords and Gentlemen if to murther a private man of no esteem little worth perhaps vicious debauched and a burthen to those with whom he lives deserve death unpardonably and our Law justly condemns and executes in such a case the murtherers though perhaps many and otherwise each far surpassing the party slain shall our King worth ten thousand Subjects our eminent Lords Gentry our godly Divines and Citizens be murthered by the worst of the Nation for real worth and among so many murtherers so few be pick'd out of whom many fled to be made examples when they can be catcht when the whole number if taken amounts not to the fourth part of those who by them have been formally butchered besides the numberless multitude of those who have been otherwise slain starved ruined and destroyed by means of that first Heaven-daring butchery Shall Henry Martin that infamous Lecher who having among Strumpets consumed his Patrimony hath long lain in Gaole to the defrauding his Creditors be accounted when he is taken a competent Sacrifice in lieu of his Sacred Majesty Lord Capel Hamilton and Holland so Cornelius Holland the Linke-boy who hath nothing of Estate but what is the price of bloud and reward of his villanies be given up to Justice when he is catcht also in revenge of Hewits Slingsby's Yeomans and Butchers bloud Thomas Scot that Saint who besides his other villanies most ungraciously paid his wife Grace in the same coin which he in exchange of greater pieces received from his girls at a vaulting School but peppered her so the wrong way that she stank the sooner and lies buried in Westminster be made exemplary when he likewise comes to hand in lieu of Mr. Love Gibbons Bushel Col. Gerard and Vowel and so the rest Or must all these be made the price of Royal bloud only Certainly Gentlemen this will be to value his sacred Person less than the Scots did who sold him in life for two hundred thousand pounds not because they esteem'd him worth no more but because that was all they could get for him Had his murtherers been twise as many his worth and value was so inestimable that all had made too mean a sacrifice for his bloud 65. That murther of his Sacred Majesty brought upon them all the bloud which had been shed in England and was the cause of all the rest which was shed in Ireland and Scotland The King in wisdom foresaw the end of the War levied against him and therefore defended himself So many of the Parliament as were sincere abhorred as by their declarations appeared those very thoughts for which end they framed a vow and protestation and after joyned with the Scots in their League and Covenant not suspecting this Viper hidden under the green hearbs raised therefore as Commissionated all their forces for the Kings defence whereas his murther at last verified the Prediction of his Majesty gave the lye to all the Parliaments pretences and made it appear that this