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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

God And do not you divide if you deal unjustly The Kings Fast was on a Friday and he dealt unjustly the Parliaments Fast on a Wednesday and now you have changed the Fast a day neerer to the Kings If your injustice be the same what materiall difference between a Thursday and a Friday Fast Doth not Arbitrariness and injustice cause division The Psalmist saith Ps 85.10 Righteousness and Peace doth kiss each other and not Tyranny and peace or policy and peace Z●ch 8 16 17 19 Execute ye the Judgment of truth and peace love the truth and peace Isay 58 4 5 6. Zach. 7 5 6. When ye fasted and mourned the fifth and s v●n●h mon●th even those s●venty years did yee at all fast unto me and when ye d●d ●at and wh●n y● did d●ink d●d you not eat for your selves and drink to your selves Oh Lord arise and judge between thy people and the Grandees of the peoples Army and Parliament and oh Lord convert them if it be thy will and let them not be any longer as if th●y were supream to Iustice and Freedome and let them be that in deed which they have been often in word Sir Let me tell you I have observed your Ordinance for observation of the Sabbath also but this is also delusive to the people if you do not rest from wickedness arbitrariness and cruelty according to the constitution and end of authority both by God and the people for the Sabbath signifies a rest to the people of God What is a Magistrates keeping a Fast or a Sabbath once a moneth or a seventh day of a week if he acts arbit●ariness illegally and cruelly contrary to the Laws of God Nature and the Land six of the seven Those three Students and only three that I have read of Trinity Colledg in Cambridge that writ in your justification of your proceedings against the King say That when any man or men through depraved principles of tyranny usurp over Conscience naturall or civill Rights he loseth the notion of a Magistrate because he goes contrary to the end of Government of the fundamentall Laws of safety to the people and when Res Publica comes to be Res Privata it ceaseth to be a Commonwealth and is then tyranny Again I desire you to consider that the part of the Solemn Oath and Covenant which you have taken which relates to the Rights Freedoms and Laws of the people is just unanswerable irrevokable essentiall substantiall and binding though the person of the King and Lords be taken away by you do you intend to King it and Lord it over our Laws and Liberties Psal 15.1.4 Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacl● he that swoareth to his own hurt and changeth not But you have sworn the good and not hurt of the people and your own good and not hurt in it but if you leave the good of the people and consequently your own true honor and good and act Arbitrarily and unfaithfully you leave peace of conscience to your selves and peace and satisfaction to the people I should be glad for the peoples sakes and your sakes if you can be free from the guilt of Perjury in the sight of the Lord and the people that are impartial Good Iosiah rent his cloaths when the Book of the Law was found and when the Ordinances were not kept and it was the Wisdom Justice and Honor of the Parliament in their Primitive constitutions for which they had the incomparable love of the people before they did divide and subdivide into faction and parties to inquire into the just Laws of the Nation and into the highest Reason for inlargement of our freedoms and complained against the King for exceeding the just limits of Honor and Law but how shall the people be assured of the perfection of Freedom by these men when those just and righteous Laws of God and Nature and the Nation formerly and already made as Laws and wrung from Polititians Tyrants Conquerors Vsurpers and contended for this eight or nine years unto precious blood are so much violated Truly Mr. Speaker let me tell you we shall never have peace untill Authority come to lay down Interest and to act as Magistracie as Authority What do Interests tend to and meer power but to murder and destruction and to make a Nation miserable though one man great full of war and to make a second Germany of England Interests tend to nothing but to this viz. Suppose an Independent it may be murdered to day or unjustly dealt withall to his ruine and the Inquisition for the Innocent blood may be is secured by an Interest A Presbyterian it may be murdered to morrow and the murder it may be secured by an Interest had an Episcopal also who though he hath it may be justly paid his Fine and Composition for his Delinquencie and is in Law and Reason excluded as to matter of Power according to the Judgments of Parliaments and a just Agreement of the people because he hath used it against the peoples Laws and Liberties yet he cannot have personal Justice in futurity according to Law and Reason because of Interests and so a Nation is in the rode way to destruction and then every Interest it may be endevors being enraged to revenge the murder and injustice because they cannot have legal or judicial Judgment and so all Interests are slaves to one Interest and all are engaged against one as well as may be one against another if any such thing is up called Interest and act above contrary unto and without LAW And truly Mr Speak●r let me tell you as I have already proved and shall prove by Law Reason and Ch●istianity Those fourty Gentlemen in the House or thereabouts have committed me illegally partially and interessedly contrary to CAPITAL Obligations of God to man man to God and mankinde common undeniable indisput●ble and binding Principles of NATURE LAW REASON SCRIPTU●ES DECLARATIONS upon DECLARATIONS IMPRECATIONS OATHS COVENANTS CONSCIENCE INGAGEMENTS VICTORIES VICTORIES AGREEMENTS FASTS HONOR the very name of PARLIAMENTS * Sabbaths Magistrates Gov●●nment Wounds Bloodshed BLOOD BLOOD both of friends and enemies rendring a PARLIAMENT out of zeal for Justice The blood of the KING declared to stand in the way of the peoples RIGHTS FREEDOM JVSTICE MERCY Just Laws are made to batter down all the walls of unmercifulness arbitrariness and cruelty and to justifie Freedom and the force of a Nation should be to maintain the just Laws and Liberties of the people the contrary is Cruelty and Murther You have made the late KING a notable spectacle amongst the rarest examples of worldly fragility and this was declared and pretended to be for acting contrary to the R●ghts of the people which engaged him unto abundance of blood for his own safety though his extravagancies in Government and Arbitrariness amongst the people might have been composed certainly if his end had not been to carry on an absolute domination over the peoples Laws Liberties and

persons And the corruptions of his heart and Government and of his evil Councellors caused jealousies and fear of his own life and honor whereas he might have had both if he would have stooped to the Laws and Liberties of the people and the peoples Representatives and free Parliament but his heart was hardened as Pharaohs for judgment It is a sad thing when a man hath committed injustice or murther contrary to the plain inbred Light of Nature and the Laws of Scripture and Nations and goes on to commit more and more murther and injustice for his personal safety whereas a Christian had rather die in his innocency then commit murther or out of design to do injustice The Law of England is said to be extream tender and favorable of a mans liberty and freedom See Sir Edward Cooks 29. Chapter of Magna Charta 2 part Instit sol 42. also 189 515. Because the Gaol in the eye of the Law is a bad or hard mansion or dweling 4 Edw. 3. cap. 3. They that will unjustly and arbitrarily imprison they are in a forward way to adde to their impiety and to commit murder upon the people Injustice is a Tyrants rode way to murder and the harbenger of Tyrants in all ages And I shall desire you for your own sakes to avoyd that Rock of Injustice and Oppression for there are many eyes upon you besides the eyes of the eternal Majesty of God And the sin of blood is of a Skarlet Dye and of a crying Nature Gen 49.6 7. O my soul joyn not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their self will th●y digged down a wall Cursed be their anger for it was since and their wrath for it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Though Davids wound was healed by remission yet the blemish remained that blood should never depart from his house for the blood of one Vriah Num 35.31 33 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer that is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death Blood defileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it 1 Kings 2.5 6. Moreover thou knowest what Joab the son of Zerviah did to me and what he did to the two Captain of the Hosts of Israel unto Abner the son of Ner and unto Amasa the son of Jether whom he sl w and sh●d the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loyns and in his shooes that were on his feet Do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his hoary head go to the grave in peace Exod. 21.14 If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die And Doctor Stoughton or Doctor Sibbs as I partly remember I have read speaking of it saith How sweet is life to those that have been prod●gal of the blood of others No subject saith he had murdered more then Joab When Proclamation was made in Israel That who ever should smite the Jebusites first should be the chief and Captain Joab was the man no man was more constant to the Weal of Israel non so successful in victories yet he was called to reckon for his old sins and must repay blood to Amasa and Abner Murder in Authority is the greatest murder and the violation of Laws and Liberties by Authority is the greatest violation But concerning the Act of Grace and Favor Forgiveness and favor is good in its due place and in truth is acceptable to God and men but out of its place it s a delusion of Antichrist and a lie An Act of favor and grace is indeed shewn when a man is an offender in the eye of the Law Reason and Christianity but surely a man is not an offender in the same thing wherein he is offended and destroyed in his Liberty or Right contrary to Law Reason or Christianity when he is denied the benefit of Justice a Hearing or Tryal as I have been and how destructive this is to the Rights of the Nation let the world Judg. If a Law had been made to that end it had been unjust in it self and voyd but no Law being made it s supersuperlatively Tyrannical contrary to Law and Scripture Deut. 11.3 8 Numb 15 30. Rom. 4.15 and contrary to the pretended Agreement of the General and General Councel of Officers pag. 23. in four or five particulars by the Law of England The faith and reputation of the General is violated that I have not Justice any Act or Agreement against the Laws of God or Nature is a meer nullity Master Solicitor Cook in King Charls his Case citing also E. L●ci●sters Case Page 23. and 1 part of the Book D●clarations pag. 207 690. Those things that are evil in their own nature cannot be the subject of any command or order any obligation of obedience upon them by any Authority whatsoever When you should do a man Justice you wrong him and to hinder Justice and hide the wrong in the peoples eyes you pretend a Politique Act of Grace and Favor Is not this Politique Tyranny in grain Mercy and Justice are two glorious attributes of God and they ought to be truely imitated and resembled by men that are true Governors or pretended ones And the not walking up to it makes a man guilty of prophaning the attributes of God and his Ministrations to men and for a man to have an Act of favor or grace before he is legally and judicially convicted of a crime If I were an offender indeed yet unless I was an offender in Law and Reason it would be but Injustice to grant an Act of Pardon for an offender must die in Law and Judgment before he can be said to be capable of Mercy But I am in Law a freeman as I have shewed you though I am by force and arbitrariness a prisoner and I am a prisoner in walking in an undeniable Christian warrantable legal and fundamental Right of the people and of just Government How improper is it and contrary to the Nature of just Iudgment and Reason And how contrary to the nature trust and very name of a Parliament which very name doth hold forth That it ought to do things according to the rational unbiassed and deliberative discourse of the Minde without fear favor or affection Fabritius and Cato would not swa●ve from the Rules of Iustice and Vertue You profess your selves Christian Common-wealths men But as for the Act of Favor and Mercy I wish those had it that stand in need of it And let me tell you in my oppression Honor would t●uly be seen in that But indeed there is no honor but dishonor in falsly stiling the glorious attributes of God

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

viz. Justice and Mercy both which Ministrations amongst men are the foundations of Peace and not Tyranny and Policy If the two last kiss each other contrary to the Ordinances and Scripture of God and good will and peace amongst men with Laws and Liberti●s of a Nation they commonly fall together But as for the Act of Favor and Mercy Do you think it good to have the National Fundamental Right of the People strangled in claiming of Iustice against any person or persons and to be unjustly unreasonably and un●Christianlike imprisoned and then cover injustice with an Act of Grace Favor or Mercy Are the attributes of God given unto men for no other use but to be abused and converted into such sinister and politique ends It is indeed an honor to have the conduct of an Army of 20000. men to obey the Commands of Iustice to defend the Innocent but the contrary is most ignonimious It is more honorable to have an Army to preserve the blood of one innocent from cruelty and arbitrariness then to destroy many nocents though indeed the principle of the great Infidel Turk is to destroy twenty innocents rather then one nocent thereby thinking to terrifie the people th ugh he oftentimes misses his aym thereby The Scripture doth manifest the attributes of Gods favor and mercy to sinners above the attributes of justice to offenders How much more should you care for the liberty and blood of the innocent of a Nation especially seeing so many capital obligations do lie upon you Contrary to the second part of the Lord Cooks Instit fol. 52. 53. 315. 318 391. 615. 616. 1 Part of the Book Declar. of Parl. 38. 37. 201. 845. And the Votes upon the Impeachment of the ten Members The Petition of Right the third of King Charls The Act that abolished the Star Chamber The deliberate and resolved opinion of all the Judges of England the third yeer of Kings James in answer to the twenty and two Objections of Archbishop Bancroft and the whole Clergy But Sir I am imprisoned contra●y to the Laws of God Nature and the Land and the legal Birth-right of the people and sent unto the Military Jurisdiction of him that I have appealed against c●ntrary to Reason or Christianity Generals are no crimes in Law the Warrant by which I am committed is in General terms Vers 14.29 Cap. of Magna Charta and the Exposition upon them The second part of Inst fol. 29. 46. Rot. Parl. 5. R. 2. n. 45. Rot. Parl. 1. H. 4. n. 14 79. 5. H 4. cap 6. 11. H. 6 c. 11. and 15. 4. H. 8. c. 8. 1. 2. Ph. Ma. c. 10. 4. part Instit fol. 25. 1. part Book Declar. p. 48. 278. Again Sir Law-makers are not to be Law-executors because the benefit of all Appeals would be then destroyed and the people left without all remedy which the Law of Love Justice and safety abhor though they ought to question the male Administrators of Justice or corrupters thereof which is my Case and therefore they are not to male-administer as the Apostle saith Thou that teachest another teachest thou not thy self all power judiciall is committed to divers Courts in the judgment of Gascoign Chief Justice and therefore the King could not command but by matter of Record according unto Law Sir Edw. Cook upon the 3. Ed. 1. cap 15. but especially upon these words or commandment of the King and saith Mr. St. John against the Earl of Strafford it is of higher jurisdiction dare leges then to judg by them and it is beneath the glory and honor of Legislators to be executors of the Law And now I shal declare unto your House more ful●y then I have yet done in my Appeal the Reasons why I did Appeal against the Generall as also his injustice towards me First that I might give some stops to the cu●rant of Injustice to the people and secondly that I might have redress of my own wrongs and insupportable injuries but you shall see how the General hath walked and acted against me viz When I was committed at Ware R●nd●zvous and when my Adversaries could not produce any thing materiall against me as Mr. S xb●y told me was confessed by Commis General I●eton he having viewed the Charge against me and my Answer but there being nothing against me the det●rmination was it should seem to make a composure with the p●isoners and to make a unity under the notion of a Fast the next day after the Fast the prisoners were sent for and a● the time there was a seeming contending betwixt Li●u● Gen. Cromwel and Commis General I●●ton who should speak to us Of Ware Randezvous at that time there was a report by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lilburn that the Levell●rs int●nded to murder the King which blemish seemingly l●y upon u● that were Prisoners chiefly because we were wel-named so and Colonel Eyers my self and others petitioned the General that Lieut. Gen. Henry Lilburn might discover the person that used these words such principles being an abomimination to our spirits and we should rejoyce to have such a one known but it was never done Our Petition was Printed in Lieut. Col. John Lilburns Book but this report was only to g●t the CAVALRIE to joyn to destroy the Levellers so called by whomsoeever it was designed the Lord knows and judges though Master Quarterm●n afterwards told me though I wished he had told me before that Commis General had polickly predetermined to speak and what to say but the words he used with much demureness solemness of countenance the Emblem of a Saint or Hypocrite as many can witness were these viz That God did incline the hearts of the General and General Counsel to desire a union embracing one another in love with many circumlocutions according to his politique intentions but the sum and substance of my Answer was that I wa● confident in my cause yet I would not deny unity if God had wrought the spirit of condiscending in them for I told them I looked upon the condiscending to be of their party I would be glad that the glory of love might be reciprocal but yet I spake a little in justification of my self as to my principles against the common enemy which did endeavor to Court the Regiment the Engagements and Declarations of the Army and the agreement of the people and the just authority of the General at which Lieut. Ge●eral smote his h●nd to his heart which should demonstrate the Christianity Sincerity and unfraudulency of a man and professed that he believed that I was a godly man and that I was iustinable I told him I wondered that there had been such Calumniating Papers Printed concerning me he made it strange and could have had something drawn up to my vindication against Calumny in Print and would have had me drawn it my self there I told him for my part I did not so much value