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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31028	Regicides, no saints nor martyrs freely expostulated with the publishers of Ludlow's third volume, as to the truth of things and characters : with a touch at Amyntor's cavils against our king's curing the evil, and the thirtieth of January fast : a supplement to the Just defence of the royal martyr / by the same author.	Baron, William, b. 1636.; Baron, William, b. 1636. Just defence of the royal martyr, King Charles I.	1700 (1700)	Wing B898; ESTC R15796	61,679	148

together His Tryal was Printed by his Party with several Speeches Memorandums c. his Deportment before he went and upon the Scaffold as likewise many Additional Discourses of Politicks Divinity c. making a pretty large Quarto the compleatest body of Enthusiasm I ever saw tending to this main end That in Right of Jesus Christ and his People 't was justifiable to stand up against any Government Controll and Subvert at Pleasure In like manner he would have run on at his Execution and because not suffer'd to defend the Treasons he had for 20 Years together continually acted would have it a violation of every Free-born Englishman's Right But then for his Religious deportment he declar'd to have such Signs of Special Salvation they are the very words of his Prayer as to assure himself a place no lower than the Right hand of Jesus Christ St. Paul was but a weak Brother in comparison to him who after many years labour in the Gospel could not promise himself to have attain'd or were already made perfect c. whereas this Commonwealth Apostle set the Crown upon his Tryal of Sir H. V. p. 89. head the first day of his Spiritual Birth and even whilst here in the Body was made partaker of Eternal Life in the first fruits of it But why should we mention St. Paul when in his last Agony he so Blasphemously emulated our Blessed Saviour himself for instead of a Lord have mercy on my Soul Christ Jesus receive my Spirit or the like we are told his very last words of all at the Block were as followeth Father glorifie thy Servant in P. 95. the sight of men that he may Glorifie thee in the discharge of his Duty to thee and to his Country Could any thing but Hell inspire a man at this rate yet all his Speeches and Prayers are move or less one continu'd Rhapsody of such abominable Stuff I shall mention something of his Temporal Concerns partly for that our Author's relation is as opposite to truth as one Pole to the other Sir Henry Vane saith he was a Gentleman of an Ancient Family in the County of Durham whereas the Family they were of was directly South either in Kent or Essex as I am inform'd till the Old Fellow having well fleec'd himself at Court mov'd Northward upon this occasion Raby-Castle was in the Crown one of the finest Royalties in the North of England assign'd King Charles with other Lands when Prince of Wales for the support of his Family When come to the Crown the Parliament not supplying him to carry on the Spanish War as they had promis'd both his Father and Self he was oblig'd to assign it over to some Citizens for a Summ of Money giving them Power to lett Leases c. Old Sir Henry knowing this to be a considerable Purchase agreed with the Citizens for their interest and then got it confirm'd to him by the King upon easie terms we may well presume facilitated too by some undervaluings for when entertain'd there in his Expedition against the Scots and finding a magnificent Structure according to that old way of Building he pleasantly told him Sir Henry This is more than a heap of Stones When Cromwell gave the Rump their Quietus those few of them who had Country Seats retir'd thither this Hen. the 2 d. his Father being a little before Dead to Raby-Castle where because prohibited to do it any longer in the Government he Tyranniz'd over his Tenants and Neighbours obliging the former to take new Leases as not allowing those they had from the Citizens and seiz'd upon an Estate to the value of 200 l. per Annum which had been Purchas'd by a charitable Gentleman out of the Mannor and given to the Parish of Stanthorp for Relief of the Poor support of the Free School and repair of the Church with many such-like Arbitrary Encroachments according to the plenitude of his Self-will'd Power The People we may imagine could not long brook such usage but at length took so much courage as to Petition Cromwell for Relief who referr'd it by especial recommendation to his Commissioners of the Seal and they finding Matter of Fact true did the Tenants Right to the great dissatisfaction of this Lord Paramount I have been the more particular in this relation upon a double account the one is to clear that great Man the Earl of Strafford whom I have frequently found censur'd by many otherwise his Admirers for taking the Title of Raby to his Barony supposing it to be old Vane's Paternal Estate whereas if taken when first made a Peer it was not in his Possession if otherwise when Earl the original Right continu'd in the Crown the King might dispose of the Honor to whom he pleas'd as he had done before of the Estate yet 't is thought the peevish old Secretary for this reason plotted the ruine of that incomparable Minister as both he and his Son conduc'd in many other things to that of their Master may such ingratitude in due time meet with an Act of Resumption The other thing I design'd to observe from the foremention'd relation is that men of Commonwealth Principles whatever noise they make of the Peoples Right Liberty Property c. where-ever they get into Power and Authority are more insolent and Arbitrary than any sort of Mankind uneasie Neighbours griping Landlords froward Masters exact from and impose upon all they have to do with And this rough self-will'd management of his own private concerns is an Argument to me much beyond our Author's authority that the good Conduct of their Marine Affairs at that time must proceed from others of a more sedate temper so warm a Brain and violent Spirit could not do any thing with judgment and discretion I cannot forbear to mention what his Friends tell us of his deportment after Condemnation some perswading him to make Submission to the King and endeavour the obtaining of his Life Tryal of Sir H. V. Pag. 81. he said If the King did not think himself more concern'd for his Honour and his Word than he did for his Life then he was willing they should take it nay I declare said he I value my Life less in a good Cause than the King can do his Promise with several such like Rants so abominably extravagant as if he studied to precipitate his own ruine but he treated God Almighty at the same impudent manner so that 't is hard to resolve whether his Blasphemies or Treasons were greatest for both which I presume it is that our Author and his Friends give him so high a Character commend his Eloquence Soundness of Judgment Presence of Mind Gravity Magnanimity and what crowns all Constant adherence to the Cause of his Country whereas Bedlam would afford us many of a much more steady temper and Newgate truer Patriots to the Nation 's Peace and Welfare Thus have I run over the Legendary Relation of our Republican Regicides as laid