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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	speak_v	word_n	9,131	5	4.2861	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53246	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.		1660 (1660)	Wing O188; ESTC R28744	59,070	192

they intend to do yet wee do here declare that we shall not decline or forbear the doing of our duty in the administration of Justice even to your selfe and that according to the merit of your offence although God should permit those men to effect all their bloody designs in in hand against us Sir we will say and will declare it as those Children in the fiery furnace who refused to worship the Golden Image that Nabuchadonazer had set up That their God was able to deliver them from the danger they were neer unto but if he did not deliver them yet they would not fall down and worship the golden Image We shall make this application of it That though we should not be delivered from those bloody hands hearts who conspire the overthrow of the Kingdom in generall and of our selves in particular for being actors in this great work of Justice though I say we should perish in the work yet by the grace in the strength of God we are resolved to go on with it And those are the intire resolutions of us all Sir I say for your selfe that we do heartily wish and desire that God would be pleased to give you a sense of your sins that you may see wherein you have done amisse and that you may cry unto him that God would deliver you from bloody-guiltinesse A good King David by Name was once guilty of that particular guilt he was otherwise upright saving in the matter of Vriath Truly Sir the History doth represent unto us that he was a repentant King and he had died for his sinne but that God was pleased to be indulgent to him and to grant him his pardon Thou shalt not die saith the prophet but the child shall die Thou hast given cause to the Enemies of God to blaspheme King I would onely desire to be heard but one word before you give sentence and it is that to satisfie the world when I am dead you would but heare me concerning those great Imputations which you have laid unto my charge President Sir you must now give me leave to proceed for I am not far from your Sentence and your time is now past King I shall desire you that you will take these few words into your consideration For what soever sentence you shall pronounce against me in respect of those heavy imputations which I finde you have laid to my charge yet Sir It is most true that President Sir I must put you in minde I must Sir although at this time especially I would not willingly interrupt you in any thing you have to say which is proper for us to admit but Sir you have not owned us as a Court and you looke upon us as a sort of people huddled together and we know not what uncivill language we receive from your party King I know nothing of that President You disavow us as a Court and therefore for you to addresse your selfe to us whom you do not acknowledge to be a Court for us I say to judge what you shall speake is not to be permitted and the truth is all along from the to disavow and disown us The Court needed not to have heard you one word for unless they be acknowledged a Court and ingaged it is not proper for you to speak Sir We have given you too large an indulgence of time already and admitted so much delay that we may not admit of any more If it were proper for us we should heare you very freely not decline to hear the most that you could speake to the greatest advantage for your self whether it were totall or but in part excusing those great and hainous charges which are laid upon you But I shall trouble you no longer your sins are of so large a demension that if you do but seriously think of them they will drive you into a sad consideration and we wish that they may improve in you a sad and serious repentance And it is the desire of the Court that you may be so penitent for what you have done amisse that God may at least have mercy on your better part As for the other it is our part and duties to doe that which the law prescribeth we are not now here jus dare but jus dicere we cannot be unmindfull of what the word of God tels us To acquit the guilty is of an equall abomination as to condemn the Innocent we may not acquit the guilty What sentence the law pronounceth to a traytor a tyrant a murtherer and a publike enemy to the Country that sentence you are now to hear read unto you and that is the Sentence of the Court. Hereupon the Lord President commanded the Sentence to be read whereupon M. King who was Cryer of the Court having commanded silence by his Oyes the Clerke read the sentence which was drawn up in Parchment and did run in these words Whereas the Commons of England in Parliament had appointed them an High Court of Justice for the tryall of Charls Stuart King of England before whom he had been three times convented and at the first time a Charge of High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors was read in the be halfe of the Kingdome of England which Charge followeth in these words This Charge being read said the Clerk Charls Stuard was required to give his answer which he refused to do but expressed these passages and many more such as these are in refusing to answer The Clerk having repeated many passages during the time of his triall in which the King shewed an aversenesse to acknowledge the Court did proceed to read the Sentence which was in these words For all which Treasons and Crimes this Court doth adjudge that the said Charls Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publike Enemy shall be put to death by severing his Head from his Body The Sentence being read the Lord President said This Sentence now read and published is the Act Sentence Judgement and resolution of the whole Court Hereupon the Court stood up as assenting to what the President said King Will you hear me one word Sir President Sir you are not to be heard after the Sentence King No Sir President No Sir by your favour Sir Guard withdraw your Prisoner King I may speak after the sentence By your favour Sir I may speak after Sentence ever The Guard drawing to him he said unto them by your favour hold and turning to the President he said the Sentence Sir I say Sir I do but being not permitted to proceed he said I am not suffered to speak expect what Justice other people will have Cryer All manner of persons that have any thing else to do are to depart at this time and to give their attendance in the Painted Chamber to which place this Court doth forthwith adjourn it self Then the Court arose and the Kings guard did bring him to Sir Rohert Cottons house and he was afterwards conducted to Saint Jameses