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England's black tribunal being the characters of King Charles the First, and the nobility that suffer'd for him.
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1680
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Wing E2950; ESTC R40512
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England's Black Tribunal BEING THE Characters of King CHARLES the First and the Nobility that Suffer'd for him Ecce Spectaculum dignum ad quod respiciat Deus operi suo intentus Vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus Sen. de Prov. c. 2. LONDON Printed for E. M. near White-Hall On the Blessed Martyr King Charles the First Written on Himself a little before his Death LET them bestow on every Gate a Limb Then open all my Veins that I may swim To thee my Maker in that crimson Lake Then place my parboil'd Head upon a Stake Scatter my Ashes strew them in the Air Lord since thou knowest where all these Atoms are I 'm hopeful thou 'lt recover once my Dust And confident thou 'lt raise me with the Just Written by the Marquiss of Montross with the Point of his Sword on the Sands of Leith 1648. GREAT Good and Just could I but rate My Grief and thy too rigid Fate I 'd weep the World to such a Strain As it should deluge once again But since thy loud-tongu'd Blood demands Supplies More from Briareus ' Hands than Argus ' Eyes I 'll sing thy Obsequies in Trumpet Sounds And write thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds Turn'd into Latin Verse by his Tutor thus CAROLE Si possem Lacrymis Aequare Dolorem Ipse meum fatumque tuum tua funerâ flerem Ut Tellus nitidis rursum stagnaret ab undis Sanguis at ille tuus quum vocem ad sidera tollat Atque manus Briarei mage quam Argi lumina poscat Exequias celebrabo tuas clangore Tubarum Et Tumulo inscrâham profuso Sanguine Carmen SIR Bevil Granville was a Knight of uâdaunted Valâuâ which he never fail'd to exert for the Service of his King and Country He was a Gentleman of a good Family and well skilâ'd in martial Affâirs but being over-power'd by the superior Number of the Rebels was kâll'd at Lansdown Fight whence his Family have the Title of Lord Lansdown Thâs was the End of this Great Man who was worthily lamented by every true loyal and faithful Subject HE was a most couragious Knight And bravely for his King did fight As long as he had Power to whield The Sword and nobly keep the Field But when his Foes did him surround At Lansdown Fight with many a Wound He bravely fell his Death acquir'd And thus with Honour he expir'd NOble Viscount Falkland appeared at first in Defence of his Master and added no small Reputation to the King's Army He commanded a Party at the first Battle of Newberry where the Rebels under the Earl of Essex routed the King's Forces and this valiant Nobleman was slain bravely Defending his Prince's Cause He was a Person of great Learning and well skill'd in Poetry Painting and Musick and had other remarkable Qualifications to render him aimable and esteemed by loyal Men. FAlkland the Wise as well as Great chief Secretary to the Staââ And Muse his Pen and Sword did whield And laid them down in bloody Field For at the Battle of Newberry As Voluntier most necessary to right his King he lost his Life By bloody Rebels in the Strife EArl of Leitchfield tho' he was a Youth yet the tender Age of this young Nobâeman was no Stop to his Courage and Loyalty for he scorn'd to sit still and his Sovereign to undergo the Insults of such wretched Tools and Villains but valiantly taking up and whielding his Sword in his Defence so that he honourably Dy'd in the Field near Chester fighting the Rebels whose Death was much lamented but more especially by the King himself who loved him entirely THis tender Youth as one may call Had by base Rebels soon his fall In which an Honour there did spring A b'ing lamented by his King So Young and so soon snatch'd away Near Chester as the Villains Prey Was much Condol'd and much Dâplor'd A Comely Valiant Courteous Lord. SIR Ralph Hopton commanded an Army of the King 's in the West and beat Sir William Waller near Bath and afterwards in the Devizes for which he was made a Lord but at last was routed at Torrington by a superior Force so that finding himself unable to do hâs King any farther Service he retired to the young Prince in France Thus he honourable got free from the Tyrany of the Rebels and comforted the King his Master in Exile and was a Companion with him in all his Misfortunes LOrd Hopton like an inflam'd Maâs with Courage fought his Masters Wars The Victory of Stration won And was a Lord made thereupon But when the Cause declin'd he Was forc'd for his Security to cross the Sea to save his Life From Oliverians Hate and Strife EArl of Carnarven he did not forsake his Prince whilst he had Life and was killed by the Râbells in the first Battle of Newberry where he fâught so courageously as through the Bodies of thousands to make way for his righâful tho' injur'd Sovereign to the quiet Pâssâssion of his Imperial Câowns again So unfortunate were the noble and loyal Party being overpower'd by Numbers of Villians who sought the Destruction of Church and State to introduce a Republican Government THis Earl was Learned full of Sense And only sought to please his Prince And Ill Success he had indeed And for his Monarch's sake did Bleed For vent'ring in the fatal Battle Where Cannons roar and Guns do rattle At Newberry Fight he there was stain His Master'e Honour to maintain EArl of Holland was commission'd in 1647 by the then Prince of Wales to raise Forces for his Father the King then a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight which he did at Kingston in the Face of the Parliament but being taken in Battle was carried to Warwick Castle and thence to the Tower where he lost his Head for hit Loyalty Iâ the mean time the Rebels triumph in ther Villany breathing nothing but Blood and Murder to every faiâhful Subjâct and sincere Loyallist THis Earl when he his Master view'd in Danger by a cursed Brood Imprison'd in the Isle of Wight An Army rais'd to do him Right The Rebels they the Battle won This Earl was taken and undone Sent to the Tower then soon try'd And for his King a Martyr dy'd THE Marquisi of Mântrosâ seâzed Dumfreis for the King routed the Covân inters aâ Perth with half their Numbââ beâts the Lorâ Burleigh at Aberdeen and Swaââ to Martyrdom it were thro' Staââ of unrighteâus Blood of the Rebels But at lasâ he was taken and executed for his Loyalty SCotland the Glory of thy Nation Was Great Montross of noble Station He for his Royal Master stood And for his sake did lose his Blood But then before Rebellious Foes By cruel Death his Eyes could close He did revenge his Monarch's Death By stopping many a Rebel's Breath THE Earl of Kingstoâ was a good Satesmaâ and compleat Soldier and served his Prince faithfully both in Council and it Camp and fighting boldly at Gainsborough for hiâ