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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62165	A vindication of Colonell Sandys his honour and loyalty from a declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester October 11, 1642 : vvhich is here also republished with it.	Sandys, Edwin, 1611 or 12-1642.; Sandys, Edwin, 1611 or 12-1642. Declaration of Col. Edwyn Sandys in vindication of himself.	1642 (1642)	Wing S671; ESTC R19920	5,620	16

A VINDICATION OF COLONELL SANDYS His Honour and Loyalty from A DECLARATION pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester October 11. 1642. Which is here also republished with it Printed Anno M. DC XLII The Declaration of Col. EDWYN SANDYS in Vindication of himselfe from those calumnious Aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Falkland and Secretary Nicholas Published and subscribed with his owne hand at the Randevouze at Worcester Octob. 11. 1642. in the presence of Sergeant Major Berry Thomas Cox Doctor of Physick Captain Walter Long Captain Robert Long Lyonell Copeley Muster master Generall Iohn Rushworth Clerke Assistant to the Commons House of Parliament IT pleaseth God yet to detaine mee in that condition that my pen and not my sword must vindicate mee from the aspersions which the Letters of the Lord Falkland and Secretary Nicholas have cast on my Reputation and fidelity in that cause in which I was lately and still stand engaged Both these persons charge mee that I should say That death did not so much trouble mee as that I had endeavoured to defend so bad a cause which I was driven unto as well by my owne ambition as by perswasion of other men and that I wished that all the Actions of the Parliaments Forces might hereafter be unsuccessefull and especially that I should desire God and the King to forgive mee this great sinne of Rebellion c. They that know mee well know that I have not so much vanity as to thinke any discourse necessary for my defence in this case yet that I may stand cleere as well in the thoughts of strangers as of my friends I thought fit to render this account to the world The apprehension of death never hitherto so neerly toucht mee but that if God shall once restore mee to my former strength I shall by his help with as much alacity and I hope courage endeavour to defend and maintaine with my dearest blood this so good a cause as ever I was at first engaged in it Not my Ambition prompted mee unto it but a legitimate and ardent desire of advancing that cause which I conceive honours the meanest of them that are imployed therein nor was I drawne into this businesse by any Perswasions but such as were backed by the best of Arguments the maintaining of the true Religion the honour and security of my Prince the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and the whole Kingdome such a successe I pray for to the designes of the Parliament and in particular to this Army under the Command of his Excellencie the Earle of Essex as by the best of men can possibly be desired both on His Majesties Person and this whole Kingdome And lastly I professe to the whole World that my conscience did when I was in the gieatest danger of death and doth still cleare mee from the guilt of Rebellious or tumultuous thoughts and that the most puissant motive which carried mee on to this Action was loyalty to my Soveraign love to my Religion and Country They certainly thought mee dead when they writ these Letters and by this means hoped to have served their ends upon some feeble unresolved spirits But I wonder they should write there are so many hundreds of our men slain when it is most apparant that the number both of them that dyed in the place and since never amounted to thirty persons their losse no way inferiour to ours considering their great advantage of place and that they were at least double for number There was indeed a Divine who I thinke was the Deane of Worcester who came to mee to the house where I was first taken up and accompanied mee to the place where I now lye hee continually urged and pressed my conscience how great a sinne I was guilty of in taking up armes against my Soveraigne I was not then in case to entertain him in discourse onely at last answered him I never had nor ever would take up Armes against my Soveraigne but ever should be ready to lay my life and whatsoever was deare unto mee at His feet of this judgement and resolution I still am and solemnely make this Protestation in the same sence I have here already declared and according to the sense of the Parliament in all their Declarations of which I hope with Gods blessing upon my recovery to give further testimony to the World by the continued engagement of my life and fortune in this so just and honourable a cause EDWYN SANDYS At the Rendesvouze at Worcester the 11. of Octob. 1642. To Colonell Edwin Sandys Sir I have this very Octob to chanced upon a Printed Declaration pretended to goe out under your name the Title of it premising A vindication of your selfe from some calumnious aspersions of my Lord Falkland and Mr. Secretary Nicholas It will hardly obtaine credit with men of free and disingaged understandings that personages of so much trust and honour should over-lightly adventure their owne fames by imposing calumnies upon anothers I therefore little doubt but that these honourable personages had their grounds from some such good hands as might either take up some part of the report from your owne mouth or from some others whom they credited Such as heard it at first or second hand from those that visited you upon your bed at Worcester at such times as you felt more ease from your wounds and more wounds from your Conscience For I cannot thinke but that among those many visitants you might utter more of the same kind of remorses then you did unto my selfe But leaving those honourable personages to the vindication of such particulars as you charge upon them in the generall I am induced to answer thus much for them for that to my selfe in pretence of your cosin Mr Iohn Sandys you were so free and ingenuous in your acknowledgements and Confession The person of your Confessor I perceive you have mistaken by reason perhaps of that Canonicall coat in which I visited your selfe and such other dying men before you as I could come at in the field and time of battell but that mistake may be rectified at our next meeting In the meane time if your memory were not then as weake as your body and that you still continue in the same ingenuity which I left you you will not cannot deny the generalls and scope of these passages to be true which you here find asserted and which upon my credit I will justifie to the world and if you please unto your selfe at our next meeting What you shall here find goes under the name of a Minister of Prince Ruperts as the copie of it was at first given abroad I had no time to alter it or saw I any cause to change any thing I had written in it Some Notes of the Conference betwixt Colonell Sandys and a Minister of Prince Ruperts THe Minister being met in the field by my Lord Andover was advised to visite Colonell Sandys and to exhort