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A90439	The triall of the honourable Colonel Iohn Penruddock of Compton in Wiltshire, and his speech: vvhich he delivered the day before he was beheaded in the castle of Exon, being the 16. day of May 1655. to a gent. whom he desired to publish them after his death. Together with his prayer upon the scaffold, and the last letter he received from his vertuous lady, with his answer to the same. Also the speech of that piously resolved gent. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the parish of Enford, and County of Wilts, Esq; beheaded there the same day.	Penruddock, John, 1619-1655.; Grove, Hugh, d. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing P1431; Thomason E845_7; ESTC R207278	15,459	19

to my family two of my Brothers already slain and my self going to the slaughter it is Gods will and I humbly submit to that providence I must render an acknowledgement of the great civilities that I have received from this city of Exon and some persons of quality and for their plentifull provision made for the prisoners I thank Mr Shreiff for his favour towards us in particular to my self and I desire him to present my due respects to the Protectour and though he had no mercy for my self yet that he would have respect to my family I am now stripping off my cloaths to fight a duell with death I conceive no other duell lawfull but my Saviour hath pulled out the sting of this mine enemy by making himself a sacrifice for me And truly I do not think that man deserving one drop of his bloud that will not spend all for him in so good a cause The truth is Gentlemen in this Age Treason is an individuum vagum like the wind in the Gospel it bloweth where it lifteth So now Treason is what they please and lighteth upon whom they will Indeed no man except he will be a Traitour can avoid this Censure of Treason I know not to what end it may come but I pray God my own and my Brothers bloud that is now to die with me may be the last upon this score Now Gentlemen you may see what a condition you are in without a King you have no Law to protect you no rule to walk by when you perform your duty to God your King and Countrey you displease the Arbitrary power now set up I cannot call it government I shall leave you to peruse my triall and there you shall see what a condition this poor Nation is brought into and no question will be utterly destroyed if not restored by Loyall Subjects to its old and glorious Government I pray God he lay not his Judgements upon England for their sluggishnesse in doing their duty and readinesse to put their hands in their bosomes or rather taking part with the Enemy of Truth The Lord open their eyes that they may be no longer lead or drawn into such snares else the Child unborn will curse the day of their Parents birth God Almighty Preserve my Lawfull King Charles the second from the hands of his Enemies and break down that wall of Pride and Rebellion which so long hath kept him from his just Rights God Preserve his Royall Mother and all his Majesties Royall Brethren and incline their hearts to seek after him God incline the hearts of all true English men to stand up as one Man to bring in the King and Redeem themselves and this poor Kingdome out of its more then Egyptian slavery As I have now put off these garments of cloth so I hope I have put off my garments of sinne and have put on the Robes of Christs Righteousnesse here which will bring me to the enjoyment of his glorious Robesanon Then he kneeled down and kissed the block and said thus I commit my soul to God my Creatour and Redeemer Look on me O Lord at my last gasping Hear my prayer and the prayers of all good people I thank thee O God for all thy dispensations towards me Then kneeling down he prayed most devoutly as followeth O Eternall Almighty and most mercifull God the Righteous Judge of all the world look down in mercy on me a miserable sinner O blessed Jesus Redeemer of Mankind which takest away the sinnes of the world Let thy perfect manner of obedience be presented to thy Heavenly Father for me Let thy precious death and bloud be the Ransome and satisfaction of my many and heinous transgressions Thou that sittest at the Right hand of God make intercession for me O holy and blessed Spirit which art the comforter fill my heart with thy consolations O holy blessed and glorious Trinity be mercifull to me confirm my faith in the promises of the Gospel revive and quicken my hope and expectation of joyes prepared for true and faithfull servants Let the infinite Love of God my Saviour make my love to him stedfast sincere and constant O Lord consider my condition accept my teares asswage my grief give comfort and confidence in thee impute not unto me my former sinnes but most mercifull Father receive me into thy favour for the merits of Christ Jesus Many and grievous are my sinnes for I have sinned many times against the light of knowledge against remorse of conscience against the motions and opportunities of grace But accept I beseech thee the sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart in and for the sacrifice oblation and satisfaction of thy Son Jesus Christ O Lord receive my soul after it is delivered from the burthen of the flesh into perfect joy in the sight and fruition of thee And at the generall resurrection grant that my body may be endowed with immortality and received with my soul into glory I praise thee O God I acknowledge thee to be the Lord. O Lamb of God that takest away the sinnes of the world have mercy on me Thou that sittest at the right hand of God hear my prayer O Lord Jesus Christ God and Man Mediatour betwixt God and Man I have sinned as a Man be thou me c●su●l to me as a God O holy and blessed Spirit help my infirmities with those sighs and grones which I cannot expresse Then he desired to see the Axe And kissed it saying I am like to have a sharp passage of it but my Saviour hath sweetned it unto me Then he said if I would have been so unworthy as others have been I suppose I might by a lie have saved my life which I scorn to purchase at such a rate I defie such temptations and them that gave them me Glory be to God on high On Earth peace Good will towards Men. And the Lord have mercy upon my poor soul Amen So laying his Neck upon the block and after some private Ejaculations he gave the Heads-man a sign with his hand who at one blow severed his head from his body The Speech of that piously resolved Hugh Grove of Chassenbury in the parish of Enford and County of Wilts Esquire beheaded the 16. day of May 1655. in the Castle at Exon. Good people I Never was guilty of much Rhetorick nor ever loved long Speeches in all my life and therefore you cannot expect either of them from me now at my death All that I shall desire of you besides your hearty prayers for my soul is That you would bear me witnesse I die a true sonne of the Church of England as it was established by King Edward the sixt Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles the first of ever blessed memory That I die a Loyall subject to King Charles the second my undoubted Sovereigne and a lover of the good old Laws of the Land the just priviledges of Parliaments and Rights and Liberties of the People for the re-establishing of all which I do undertake this ingagement and for which I am ready to lay down my life God forgive the bloudy-minded Jury and those that procured them God forgive Captain Crook for denying his Articles so unworthilie God forgive Mr. Dove and all other persons swearing so malitiously and falsely against me God forgive all my enimies I heartily forgive them God blesse the King and all that love him turn the hearts of all that hate him God blesse you all and be merciful to you and to my Soul Amen And so meekly laying his neck to the block and giving a signe his head at one blow and a draw of the axe was severed from his bodie FINIS

vizage is not to be defaced without an account given wherefore it was I have here challenged as I am a Gent and free-born man of England the right which the law allowes me I demanded a copy of my Indictment and Councell but it is denied me The Law which I would have been tried by is the known Law of the land which was drawn by the wise consultation of our Princes and by the ready pens of our Progenitours The Law which I am now tried by is no Law but what is cut out by the poynt of a rebellious sword and the sheets in which they are recorded being varnished with the moisture of an eloquent tongue if you look not well to it may chance to serve for some of your Shrouds If the fear of displeasing others shall betray you to find me guilty of any thing you can at the most but make a riot of this Pray by the way take notice that the last Parliament would not allow the Legislative power to be out of themselves seventeen of twenty in this very County were of that opinion and deserted the house they were your Representative if you should find me guilty you bring them in danger and in them your selves Have a care of being drawn into a snare Gent. your bloud may run in the same channel with mine If what I have said do not satisfie you so as to acquit me if you bring in a speciall verdict you do in some measure acquit your selves and throw the bloud that will be spilt upon the Judges Consider of it and the Lord direct you for the best The Jury after a quarter of an houres retirement brought me in guilty the Lord forgive them for they knew not what they did Upon Monday the 23. of April we were again called to the barre being then in number twentie six Serjeant Glyn asked of me first what I could say for my self that I should not have sentence according to Law Then I said My Lords and Gent. you aske what I can say for my self that I should not have sentence passe upon me The Jury found me guilty if I should go about to make a defence now it would signifie no more then as if my friends should petition for my pardon after I am executed I could have offered you articles here but I thought them inconfistent with this Court. When I look upon my offence as to the Protectour I conclude my self a dead man but when I reflect upon the favour he hath shewed to others of my condition and the hopes I have of your intercession methinks I feel my spirits renewed again My Lords death is a debt due from me to Nature the Protectour has now the keeping the bond and has put it in suit by his Attorney if he please to forbear the serving me with an execution and let me keep it a little longer I will pay him the interest of thanks for it as long as I live and ingage my posterity and a numerous allyance to be bound for me So the Lord direct you all for the best If I have found favour I shall thank you if not I shall forgive you This being done Serjeant Glyn after a most bitter and nonsensicall speech gave sentence against us viz. to be drawn hanged and quartered A pretty exchange for unworthy Crooks Articles for life libertie and estate which I can prove and will dye upon My triall held at least five houres This is as much as at present I can remember of it excuse the errours One of the Jury being asked by a Gent. why he found me guilty answered He was resolved to hang me before he did see me * Witnesse one Bennet and Stroud who in open Court confessed to be guilty of all they proved against me yet Mr Attorney gave the Jury directions to find them not guilty I observe treason in this age to be an individuum vagum like the wind in the Gospel which bloweth where it listeth for that shall be treason in me to day which shall be none in another to morrow as it pleaseth Mr Attorney The † 3 part Inst pa. 22. a part Inst pag. 47. 48. Princes case 8 reports Judges are sworn to do justice according to the Law of the Land and therefore have miserably perjured themselves in condemning me contrary to Law And not so contented must cause the Jury so wise they were through their false and unjust directions to destroy their own rights and properties and set up a new Arbitrary and Tyrannicall government The Judges would not give me their advise in point of Law as was their duty because they said they were parties yet could si still on the Bench in their Robes to countenance and approve of my sentence * Hobart folio 120. Doct. Bonams case 8 part of Cooks reports No man can be a Judge where he is a Party in the same cause therefore my triall was contrary to Law The Judges being parties ought not to sit upon the bench but stand by therefore my triall was illegall the rest being no Judges but the Protectours immediate servants so could not be my Judges in case of High Treason for none but the sworn Judges of the Land are capable of it by Law One thing of Colonel Dove the reverend Sheriff of Wilts who that the Jury might be sufficiently incensed complaining of the many incivilities he pretended were offered him by our party being upon his Oath said that one of our men did run him through the side with a Carabine Surely it was a very small one for the wound is not discernable A great deal of paines every man in his place took for the carrying on their Masters work Be mercifull unto me O Lord be mercifull unto me under the shadow of thy wings will I hide my self till this Tyranny be overpast Glory be to God on High in earth peace good will towards men and so have mercy on me O Lord. JOHN PENRUDDOCK Mrs Penruddocks last letter to her honourable and dear Husband MY DEAR HEART MY sad parting was so farre from making me forget you that I scarce thought upon my self since but wholly upon you Those dear embraces which I yet feel and shall never loose being the faithfull testimonies of an indulgent Husband have charm'd my soul to such a reverence of your Remembrance that were it possible I would with my own bloud cement your dead limbs to life again and with reverence think it no sin to rob heaven a little while longer of a Martyr Oh my dear you must now pardon my passion this being my last oh fatall word that ever you will receive from me And know that untill the last minute that I can imagine you shall live I will sacrifice the prayers of a Christian and the groans of an afflicted wife And when you are not which sure by sympathie I shall know I shall wish my own dissolution with you that so we may go hand in hand to heaven 'T

is too late to tell you what I have or rather have not done for you how turned out of doores because I came to beg mercy the Lord lay not your bloud to their charge I would fain discourse longer with you but dare not Passion begins to drown my Reason and will rob me of my devoire which is all I have left to serve you Adieu therefore ten thousand times my dearest dear and since I must never see you more take this prayer May your Faith be so strengthened that your Constancy may continue and then I know heaven will receive you whither grief and love will in a short time I hope translate My dear Your sad but constant wife even to love your ashes when dead Arundel Penruddock May the 3. 11 a clock at night Your children beg your blessing and present their duties to you The last letter from the honourable Colonel Penruddock in answer to his vertuous Lady MY DEAREST HEART I Even now received thy farewell letter each word whereof represents unto me a most lively Embleme of your affection drawn with thy own hand in water colours to the figure of a deaths head My dear I embrace it as coming first from God and then from Man for what is there done in the City that the Lord hath not permitted I look upon every line of thine as so many threads twisted together into that of my life which being now woven my meditations tell me will make a fit remnant for my winding-sheet Upon the reading thereof I may say with the Prophet I should have utterly fainted but that I believe verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living As this is mine my dear so let it be thy consolation When I think what a wife and what children I go from and look no further I begin to cry O wretched man that I am But when my thoughts soar higher and fix themselves upon those things which are above where I shall find God my Creatour to my Father and his Son my Redeemer to my Brother for so they have vouchsafed to term themselves then I say aside those relations and do of all love my dear desire thee not to look towards my grave where my Body lies but toward the heaven where I hope my Soul shall gain a Mansion in my Fathers house I do stedfastly believe that God hath heard the prayers of my friends and thine and mine and how knowest thou O woman whether thou hast not saved thy husband Let those considerations raise thy spirits I beseech thee and that for Gods sake and mine though I ly among the children of men which are set on fire against me yet under the shadow of the Almighties wings I will hide my self till this tyranny be overpast The greatest conflict I have had in this extremitie was my parting with thee the next encounter is to be with Death and my Saviour hath so pulled out the sting thereof that I hope to assault it without fear Though the Armies of men have been too hard for me yet I am now listing my self under the conduct of my Sovereign and an Army of Martyrs that the gates of hell cannot prevail against My dear I have now another subject to think on therefore you must excuse the imperfections you find here I have formerly given you directions concerning my children to which I shall referre you May the blessing of Almighty God be upon thee and them and may there not want a man of my name to be ready to be a sacrifice in this cause of God and his Church so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure I shall now close up all with desiring you to give a testimony for me to the world that I die with so much Charity as to forgive all my enemies I will joyn them in my last prayers for my friends Amongst which you and my children are for my sake obliged to pay a perpetuall acknowledgement To Mr Rolles and his Lady and my cousin Mr * Nota bene Mr Sebastine Isack although he seemed very sollicitous for Col. Penruddock in his life since his death hath been very unworthy to his memory contrary to his promise to the said Col. in his life and hath done contrary to the will of the dead the trust reposed in him the principles of honour and much unbecoming a Gent. Sebastine Isack for their great sollicitations on my behalf If I should forget this City of Exeter for their civilities to my own self in particular indeed to all of us I should leave a reproach behind me I will give them thanks at my death and I hope you and yours will do it when I am dead My dear heart I once more bid thee adieu and with as much love and sincerity as can be imagined I subscribe my self Thy dying and loving Husband Jo. Penruddock Exon May 7. and the * Note when this letter was writ Colonel Penruddock did not know other then that he was to die the same day last year and day of my date being the year of my Saviour 1655. The Speech of the Honourable Colonell Penruddock the greatest part whereof he delivered upon the Scaffold in Exon Castle the 16. day of May 1655. the whole he left with a Gent. and friend of his written with his own hand which is as followeth Together with the manner of his being beheaded As he was ascending the Scaffold baring his knees and humbly bowing himself he used these words This I hope will prove to be like Jacobs ladder though the feet of it rest on earth yet I doubt not but the top of it reacheth to Heaven When he came upon the Scaffold he said O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God who hath given me victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Then with abundance of Christian chearfulnesse he spake to the people as followeth GENTLEMEN IT hath ever been the custome of all persons whatsoever when they come to die to give some satisfaction to the world whether they be guilty of the fact of which they stand charged The crime for which I am now to die is Loyalty but in this age calld high Treason I cannot deny but I was at South-moulton in this County but whether my being there or my actions there amount to so high a crime as high Treason I leave to the world to the Law to judge Truly if I were conscious to my self of any base ends that I had in this undertaking I would not be so injurious to my own soul or disingenuous to you as not to make a publick acknowledgement thereof I suppose that divers persons according as they are biassed by their severall interests and relations give their opinions to the world concerning us I conceive it impossible therefore so to expresse my self in this particular as not to expose both my judgement and reputation to the censure of many which I shall