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The Oglin of traytors including the illegal tryall of His Late Maiesty : with a catalogue of their names that sat as judges and consented to the judgment : with His Majesties reasons against their usurped power and his late speech : to which is now added the severall depositions of the pretended witnesses as it is printed in the French coppy : with the whole proceedings against Colonel J. Penruddock of Compton in Wilts and his speech before he dyed : as also the speech of the resolved gentleman, Mr. Hugo Grove of Chissenbury, Esquire, who was beheaded the same day, not before printed.
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Robes of Christs Righteousnesse here which will bring me to the enjoyment of his glorious Robes anon 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 Here my prayer and the prayers of all good people I thank thee O God for all thy dispensation towards me Then kneeling down he prayed most devoutly as followeth O Eternal 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 hainous 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 consolation 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 tears asswage my grief give me 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 perfect 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 sins 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 mercifull to me as a God O holy and blessed Spirit help my infirmities with those sighs and groans 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 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 Chisenbury 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 will bear me witness I die a true sonne of the Church of England as it was established by King Edward the sixth 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 Soveraigne 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 doe under take this engagement 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 unworthily God forgive Mr. Dove and all other persons swearing so maliciously and falsely against me God forgive all my enemies 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 mercifull 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 * Meaning the Earle of Strafford * Pointing at Doctor Juxon * Turning to some Gentlemen who took his Speech in short writing * Pointing at Dr. Juxon * Pointiâ—â— at Dr. Juâ—â—on * Witnesse one Benner 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 Hobart folio 120. Dact. Bonames case 8 part of Cooks reports * Nota bene Mr Sebastine Isack although he seemed very sollicitous for Colonel Penruddock in his life since his death hath been very unworthy to his memory contrary to his promise to the said Colonel in his life and hath done contrary to the will of the dead the trust reposed in him the principle of honour and much unbecoming a Gent. * Note when this letter was writ Colonel Penruddock did not know other then that he was to die the same day
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 excuted could have offered you articles here but I thought them inconsistenâ— with this Court. When I look upon my offence as to the Protectour I conclude myself 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 me thinks I feel my spirits renewed again My Lords death is a debt due from Nature has now the keeping the bond and has put it in suit by his Attorny 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 as long as I live and engage 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 quartred A prety exchange for unworthy Crooks Articles for life liberty and estate which I can prove and will die upon My triall held at least five hours 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 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 Attorny The Judges are sworn to do justice according to the Laws 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 advice in point of Law as was their duty because they said they were parties yet could sit still on the Bench in their Robes to countenance and approve of my Sentence No man can be a Judge where he is a Party in the same cause therefore my tryall 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 Carbine Surely it was a very small one for the wound was 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 they wings will I hide my selfe 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. JOHNN PENRVDDOCK Mrs. Penruddock's last letter to her honourable and dear Husband My dear heart MY sad parting was so far from making me forget you that I scarce thought on my self since but wholy upon you Those dear embraces which I yet feel and shall never loose being the faithfull testimonies of an indulgent husband have charmed my soul to such a reverence of your remembrance that were it possible I would with my own blood 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 minuit that I can imagine you shall live I will sacrifice the prayers of a Christian and the grones 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 to 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 blood to their charge I would fain discourse longer with you but Passion begins to drawn 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 that heaven will receive you whether grief and love will in a short time I hope translate May the 3. at 11 at clock at night My dear Your sad but constant wife even to love your ashes when dead Arundel Penruddock 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 imbrace it as coming first from God and then from Man for what is there done in this City that the Lord hath not permitted I look upon every line of thine as so many threads twisted together in to that of my life which being now woven my meditations tells 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 too 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 them selves 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 lay 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