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A88757	The last will and testament of Tom Fairfax, and the Army under his command: who now lie about Colchester, in a very sick and weake estate, past hope of life, and given up for dead, by their sworn doctors, the Earle of Norwich, the Lord Capell, and Sir Charles Lucas. Published by the command of the aforesaid doctors.		1648 (1648)	Wing L533; Thomason E451_38; ESTC R205301	4,640	10

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Of Tom Fairfax and the Army under his Command Who now lie about Colchester in a very sick and weake estate past hope of life and given up for dead by their sworn Doctors the Earle of Norwich the LORD Capell and Sir CHARLES LVCAS Published by the command of the aforesaid DOCTORS In a most sick and weak estate Tom and his Army lie But t is a strong and Powerfull Fate That Votes their misery Had they but so much light to see A● Cromwels snowt affords They would repent and converts be Vse prayers and not swords The Gowt is growne so virulent In Fairfax pockey too Hee 'l serve the thing call'd Parliament A nation to undo● But he decreaseth in his strength The Saints doe moulder still I sluggard but Resolv'd at length To write and print their will July .9th Printed in the yeare 1648. THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Of Tom Fairfax and the Army under his Command IN the name of Rebellion Blood Fury and Horror I Thomas Fairfax Generall of the Army now lying neere Colchester raised for the Destruction of his Majesties Person the known Lawes of the Land the Liberty of the Subject and the priviledge of Parliaments being at this time in a very sick and weak estate of a Disease called the Gowt which some call Scabiae Franciae others Morbus Gallicus and some Mechanicks the French Pocks but especially of the Disease called the Generall Revolt of the People from the Traeytors at Westminster and for that the Earle of Norwich the Lord Capell and Sir Charles Lucas my sworne Doctors have given out that I must not live long being gone past hope of recovery I therefore hold it expedient to make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following Jmprimis I give and bequeath my body to some dunghill or to the City Common shore that my name if it were possible might perish from the earth and my infamie cease among men my Soul I give to be disposed of at the pleasures of that once glorious Angel now the King of Gehenna who fell from heaven like lightning the sole Patron of me and my Faction Lucifer well knowing that by him I shall be courteously intreated and that hee will remember our former friendship so that where others are washt over head and eares in gulphes of liquid fire I shall but Tantalize in yee and exchange the Torrid for the Frozen Zone As in the world there are degrees of Evils So in the next there are degrees of Devils Give me thy Purgatory Lucian I Should then esteeme it but a jest to Die To see great Alexander cobling shoos Charlemaine sell blacking Caesar pulling crowes Tamberlaine practising the Taylors art And Pepin selling apples in a cart Drawne by one horse some such inferior place I hope of Pluto to obtain the grace Item I give and bequeath my Commission since I beleeve the Saints under my command must needs have one of eminent basenesse and known wickednesse to goe in and out before them to my dear brother the Earl of Denbigh whom I know to be a man sufficiently quallified for the worke whose very breath is as contagious as the Pestilence who with the toade sucks poyson out of the most clearest fountaines and whose face is as ominous as a Basalisk whose heart continually grates it self it with envy and fights with his gall for mastery which is the reason of that roade-poole setled in his face hee is the man whom I appoynt the Champion of Israel after my disease to fight the battailes of the Lord. Jtem I give and bequeath my perjury and treacheries when I delivered the King my master into the hands of Whaley at Hampton court and permitted Cromwel by a wile to be guilty of his own ruin by flying to the Isle of Wight notwithstanding I and Nel had solemnly sworne to him at New-market and at St. Albones that we woul procrue a present Personall Treaty and restore him to his lost greatnesse I say I bequeath that my perjury and disloyalty to the peculiar use of the crew at Westminster whom verily I now hate for that they suffer mee to lye here where I am each day buffeted by perpetuall sallies my army each day wasted and those that survive being in dread of Sir Marmaduke Langdales approach upon their backs and so to be pounded to their destruction and yet they send me no supplyes it seemes they are busy in packing up their goods for their journey either of men or money wishing them to adde it to all their former perjuries and Treacheries for I le assure them that the Projection of mee and Cromwel for the cleanly conveyance of his Majesties Person into the Isle of Wight may stand upon record for the most pernicious fallacy that ever hole instruments invented and that cursed Plot if well husbanded may procreate a thousand more as pernitious as that hath proved and as equally dangerous Item I give and bequeath six pounds per annum to be paid out of Delinquents estates not yet discovered to lack Hall the may-game of Cambridge who each weeke proclaymes himself in a sheet of nonsence blasphemye and treason by the name of the the quondam Libeller Britain●cu● which annuity I bestow on him to quit his charges for pen inke and paper for his maintenance I leave that to Lillie and Booker the infortunates of the State whose hireling hee is and who allow him money for tobacco and beere-besides a sundayes dinnir of beefe and pudding to raile against Elenctichus and the Scots Item I give and bequeath the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid out of mine own estate to Mr. Marshall that Geneva bull as a gratuity for his paines when he shall preach my funerall sermon which I would have him prate in S. Margarits church Westminster his auditory I would have to be these whom I nominate Imprimis Harry Martin Mr. Weaver and Mr. Scot of committee men Corbet the swarthy and Challenor the wall-eyd of citizens Warner the Mayor and Atkins the Alderman of the Army Ireton the Anabaptist and Rainsborow the leveller of the Lords Say the sychophant and Manchester the man-cater his text I would have to be even where himselfe listeth for the truth is I am not so well read in holy scripture as to remember any place pertinent to the purpose his Sermon finished let my body be decently wound up in the Ordinance of Indemnity for perchance it may purchase me some favour amongst my fellow-furies in hell though should I live it could not mittigate my censure and punishment on earth that done my body to born with all solemnity and cast into the open fields for the fowles of the ayre to feast upon me if perhaps they flie mee not for the sowrenesse of my flesh and for that I am like to have no tombe I desire that this Epitaph may be entred into the Iournall booke of the crew at Westminster but withall I