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A85844 The bloody court, or, The fatall tribunall being a brief history and true narrative of the strange designs, wicked plots, and bloody conspiracies carryed on by the most sordid'st, vile, and usurping tyrants in these late years of oppressions, tyranny, martyrdome and persecutions ... Gauden, John, 1605-1662. 1660 (1660) Wing G343A; ESTC R225669 13,587 18

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the whole Court at which the Court stood up Cromwel and Ireton rising up the two formost and readiest in the Court though they knew themselves the very hinderers of the setiing the peace of the Kingdom and the chief causers of the Kings ruine in disswading him from Treating with the Commissioners of shoth Kingdoms The King after Sentence stood up vo speak but Bradshaw told him that after the Sentence he might not speak neither w●u'd he hear him but gave command to the Go●rd to withdraw the Passoner The King said that he might speak after Sentence and then he would have spoke but the ●a●rd opened the B●r where they put the King and Bradshaw rese to depart so that they sleighted the Kings words Whereupon the King turning himself to come forth said If I your King an●●ot suffered to speak for my self what Justice can my People expect to have These were the last words the King spoke in Westminster-hall as the King passed from the C urt through the Souldiers the Souldiers with a loud shout tryed Execution Execution and with such fierceness that I which steed neat the King tren●bled with fear least they would have Murdered him in the H●ll but it séems it was but to fright him and distemper his well-composed Spirit This was the hurry of all about him immediately after the Sentence Is the King condemned What Is he now going to his Execution Is it to night or the morrow morning Thus they tryed in his Ears on purpose to am … him some they say reviled and mocked him and others with indignation spit upon him yet was he not disturbed in his Soul so much as to tread one foot awry or to show the least discontent in his Majestick and Royal countenance He was carried from Sir Robert Cottons to St. James where he had the liberty of his Chaplain allowed him who spent that last Sabbath of his on Earth with much comfort and joy together all that Holy day he spent in Holy Meditations as Hearing Reading and Praying and trimming up his Celestial Spouse his Soul for her Celestial Bridegroom which he every hour looked for The Lords Day being done he spent the most part of the long night in Devout Prayer never putting of his cloaths a worthy Lady told me that a Souldier which Giarded him by stealth heard the King alone at Prayer who prayed so sweetly so fervently and so charitably that he thought if ever any King had communion with God on Earth it was he he did confess his sin and his Families and Peoples in with much debasedness of Spirit and prayed heartily for Remission and for those his Persecutors pardon and for establishing of the true Protestant Religion After this manner spent he the night The next morning being very desirous to see his Children that were in England with much ado they were permitted to go to visit their imprisoned and condemned Father At this time they 〈…〉 through the Kingdom in a Pamphlet that the Presbyterian Ministers such as Mr. Calamy Mr. Case Mr. Love Mr. Jenkins c. that they were content to have the King Tryed Condemed and Deposed but not Beheaded 〈◊〉 I suppose that same malicious knaves or ignorant fools brought 〈◊〉 his for 〈◊〉 saying That the Presbyterians brought his Neck to the Block and the Independents cut it off but the 〈…〉 did that 〈…〉 themselves and 〈◊〉 Hugh Peters's Sermon of binding Kings in chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron and 〈…〉 the Imiprisoning Trying 〈◊〉 and going about to Behead the King The Lady Elizabeth and the Duke of G●ocester being come to weep in their condemned Royal Fathers B●some the King with pleasant countenance and voice blessed them and 〈…〉 speaking thus to the Lady Elizabeth SWeet heart I am glad you are come for though I have not time to say m●e● to you yet I have that to say to you which I have not to say or leave in writing with another for you for su●● is their cruelty toward me that they will not permit me to write to you nor any of my children The King s●●ing the sorrowful young L●dy weep most ●it●er●y ●nd torment her s●lf wit● grief he out of pity to her sa●● I pray thee do n●t grieve nor torment thy self for me for though I shall be put to Death to morrow yet the Death that I shall dye will be a Glorio is Death for I dye for the Lawes of my Kingdome and the Libertie of my People and the maintainance of the true Protestant Religion in which I would have you well grounded and therefore admonish you to read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiasticall Policie and Bishop Lands book against Fisher which will ground you against Popery I have this day forgiven all mine Enemies and I hope God will forgive them and I do command you and all the rest of your Brothers and Sisters to forgive them and tell my dear Wife your Mother that my thoughts have never straied from her but she hath alwayes been next my heart and my love shall be the same to her to my last minute I charge you and your Brother to be obedient to her and be sure to love your Brothers and Sisters to whom I would have you send my Blessing with commendation to all my Friends And my dear Daughter God Almighty preserve thee from all my Enemies whom I charge you to forgive but never to trust them for they have been most false to me and false to the Parliament that intrusted them and I ●ear to their own Souls and now thou art parting with thy Father my dear Daughter do not goe away grieving from me for though I dye I shall dye a Martyr and I doubt not but the Lord will settle my Son in my Throne for which I am this day thrown and and you my children will be more happy then you could expected to have been if I had lived All this and much more he said to the Lady Elizabeth instructing the young Duke his Son to learn betimes to serve and fear the Lord and he would provide for him It would have drawn water out of a Rocke-heart to have seen the sad parting of this Solitary Condemned Imprisoned King and his dear Children The poor Lady went away wéeping not onely Tears but Blood and Blood in great abundance so that the Physitians concluded that she would bléed to Death The King sadly parting with his beloved Children for they parted never to fée each other more he forth with betook himself to private o●●●es knowing the time of his departing out of this World drew on apace not having many hours more to live this night also he spent its trimming up his Lamp for to meet his Bridegroom who was near at hand not putting off his cloaths all night he altogether neglected his body for the good of his precious soul The next morning as if the day of Iudgement had béen co●ue they awaked him with a Trumpet not to tell him the Resurrection