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A26768	The lives, actions, and execution of the prime actors, and principall contrivers of that horrid murder of our late pious and sacred soveraigne, King Charles the First ... with severall remarkable passages in the lives of others, their assistants, who died before they could be brought to justice / by George Bate, an observer of those transactions.; Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia. English	Bate, George, 1608-1669.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1084; ESTC R5539	37,635	156

Harrison I. Caren ● Cooke ● Peters T. Scott ● Cl●m●nt O. Cromwell Ad. Scroope 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 THE LIVES ACTIONS AND EXECUTION OF The prime Actors and principall Contrivers of that horrid Murder of our late pious and Sacred Soveraigne King CHARLES the first of Ever blessed memory WITH Severall Remarkable Passages in the Lives of others their Assistants who died before they could be brought to Justice By GEORGE BATE an observer of those Transactions LONDON Printed for Tho. Vere at the signe of the Angell without Newgate 1661. To the Right Honourable James Lord Marquess of Ormond Earl of Brecknock Lord High Steward of his Majesties Houshold Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel c. Right Honourable I Hope your Lordship will be pleased to pardon the Authors presumption in his humble Dedication to your Lordship of this small Description of the prime Authors and Contrivers of the most Horrid Murther that ever was committed in the Face of the Sun For such I am sure your Lordship did alwaies account that of our late Soveraign and such likewise was it look't upon by all Truly and Piously Ingenious in the whole World Farre be it from me to have the least thought that my mean Pen should draw a Lively Representation of his late Majesties both naturall and acquired vertues shining with so much splendor through the Darke and thick Clouds of his Afflictions yet to the end the world might see the Blacknesse of the Designes of these Miserable Men who so wickedly persecuted our Soveraign like a Partridge upon the top of the Mountaines I have at the close hereof attempted something that might make them appear the more Wicked by how much they Murthered so Pious so Incomparable a Prince My LORD You had your share of the miseries in those times and your Life was hunted after by these Blood-Hounds The remarkable passages of whose Lives and Deaths are here presented to your Lordships View this being but as an Essay to what hereafter shall be set forth in a greater Volume And now may your Lordship Live to see Peace Flourish all your time and may your Children inherit ●he Blessing thereof as well as your outward substance May your Lordships Loyalty which cannot be exceeded be Copied out by them and may the reward of your Fidelity and Constancy be an immortall Crown when God shall take you to his owne Kingdome is the Prayer of Your Lordships Humbl● Devoted Servant GEORGE BAT● The Prooemium WHen it pleased Almighty God to turn again the Captivity of Sion and to return with glory his Sacred Majesty to the undoubted Dominions of his Ancestors after a black and dark night of Confusion Usurpation and Rebellion and by his appearing within this his own Hemisphere to dispel and scatter all those malignant Clouds which for twelve years together had beni●hted these three Nations The Parliament thought it their duty in the behalf of the People of England to make inquisition for that sacred and innocent blood which was shed in their names and upon the pretended accompt of their consent For which purpose a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was issued and the Sessions House in the Old Baily appointed for their tria● and condem●ation Now the inten● of this discourse is to give a discovery of the Lives Educations an● Deaths of the prime Actors an● principal Contrivers of that horri● Murther of Butchering our late pious sacred Sovereign King Cha●● the First of ever blessed Memory wherein I cannot but premise th● prophetique expression of that hol● Man of God Mr. Christopher Love when he was upon the Scaffold viz. That those who had gotten pow●● by policy and used it with cruelty shoul● l●se it with ignominy at the close o● which words Mr. Love was interrupted by Alderman Titchbourn the● S●●riff of Lo●don who would no● suffer●●m to proceed but the Alde●man hath s●nce found it verified i● his own experience having sinc● changed his Chain of Gold for Fet●ers of Iron In the prosecution of this design many strange and horrid consultations were in debate the original contrivers whereof were very few ●he first Cockatrice Egge that was hatcht in this wicked crew was Lt. Col. Joyces seizing the King at Holmby whereby he was immediately taken from Major Gen. Brown who then attended him by order of the Parliament and translated to the power and tyranny of a vicious and mercilesse Army and at that time being but the proemium of the Kings afterwards unhap●y fate it was the words of Cromwell to Hugh Peters by way of question Whether there could not be found a way to settle the Nation without the Ki●g To whom that miserable wretch replied That there was no way to do it but by taking off his head This Oliver Cromwell being thus the chief Actor in this sad Tragedy and for that he received not the r●ward of his iniquity in this Worl● but is conveyed to the immedia● Judgment of the all just God shall only give you a brief Char●cter of his Education and Life wi● some notes and observations on 〈◊〉 Death Oliver Cromwel was a man to gi● him his true Character of val● in the head of an Army and wicked policy in the front of 〈◊〉 Council being born in Hunting 〈◊〉 Shire and brought up in the Un●versity of Cambridge until his d●bauched incivility and sottish i● sobriety expelled him that plac● He was so constant and lewd a Live at his first comming into th● World that his wits in his afte● years was chiefly imployed to mak● up the breaches of the former fo● which purpose he fore-saw tha● there was no way to help his d●cayed Estate but by turning facti●s upon which accompt he ●esently appears a great Stickler ●gainst Monarchy and Episcopacy ●●d presently layes hold of the first ●●portunity to appear in Arms and ●assed through all the degrees of ●ilitary imployment until at last ●e arived at General of the Army ●aving first supplanted or under●●ined all honester men that stood in ●is way wading to the Government ●f these Nations over head and ears 〈◊〉 blood for having first spilt the ●nnocent blood of our Sovereign ●nd polluted his soul therewith he ●ares not to spill the blood of his ●ubjects like water plenty where●f was shed in our streets during ●is short and troublesome Reign by ●is oppression dissimulation hypocrisie and cruelty When he was owned by a few to be Protector he called several Parliaments expecting that they would throw that Title and the Government of these Nations upon him but this way would not do for though he nominated the very men that should fit in some Parliaments and sent his private letters to have his own creatures chosen in others yet he could not be established by them which occasioned that his desperate expression at the dissolving one of his Parliaments That he would rather be roled in blood with infamy to his grave then