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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	declare_v	king_n	treason_n	2,362	5	9.7596	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40752	A Further narrative of the passages of these times in the Common-wealth of England an act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended title of Charls Stuart, and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries, the judgment ... against James Naylor the Quaker : with the triall of Miles Sundercombe ...		1658 (1658)	Wing F2560A; ESTC R38753	41,953	62

tryed by but that was not granted him but the court being erected according to Act of Parliament they supplyed a Jury These things he insisted on as the Rights and Priviledges of an English man and being denied him he thereupon refused to plead That the President of the Court did indeed read the Clause in the Act which declared That in case he stood mute he must be taken as guilty upon default of answer and that he having made three defaults was at last taken from the bar then when he intended to have pleaded One would wonder such words should proceed from a dying man whereas all persons present and at his tryall do know that the Court had patience with him some hours and in a great deale of tendernesse towards him caused the Clause in the Act which concerns default of answer to be read to him several times and to the very last advised him to plead but he still refused and never uttered so much as one Syllable that he would plead Sr. Hen Slingsby Dr. Hewet Beheded at Tower-Hill June the 8th 1658 Col Ashton Iohn Betteley hanged Drawne quartred Ashton at mark Lane end the other in Cheep side Here I cannot but observe that this dying mans Charity was greater then his memory because what he sayes here clashes with what he said before it appearing by his own very words That if he were a Martyr for the people it was much against his will seeing a little before he tells us he would have pleaded to be Court and so have owned their jurisdiction and that if the owning of them had been to have given up the rights of the people It seems by his ow● confession ●ere he would have done it in hope to have escaped this kinde of Martyrdome ●s he calls it Then he proceeded to this effect That having declared what passed upon his tryall in Court he would next proceed to cleere himselfe of some imputations laid upon him one whereof was That he was one engaged with those who were said to have designed the firing of the City to this he protested That had he been engaged amongst such persons that should have ●ntended such a horrid busines he would have been the first that should have discovered them Another was That it was reported he should entertain the Duke or Marquis of Ormond and harbored him in his house when lately here in England to which he protested That to his best remembrance he never saw his person A third was that it was reported he should be preaching at St. Gregories one Sunday and that the next after being absent he should be at Brudges in Flanders and there have communication with him whom he called the King and kiss his hand In answer to this he said That for these three yeares past he had not been threescore miles from this City and I am sure said he that Brudges in Flanders is a great deale farther This pains the Doctor might have spared seeing none of the particulars he was pleased to dilate upon were ever charged upon him by any Authority but it is very observable that in all his discourse upon the Scaffold he never made any pr●●●station to declare his innocency concerning the matters charged in Court against him It being a time he thought wherein he might make more b●ld to straine his Oratory then his conscience and yet sure that was no time to stand confuting the Tattles of the Town In conclusion he said That having now spoken to the people he would also pray for them and blesse them in the name of the Lord and so kneeling in their view he made a long prayer the three Ministers kneeling behind him which seemed by the contexture of it to have been penned on purpose for the occasion because of the very many passages of the Common Prayer Book that were interwoven in it His prayer consisted of severall parts After which the Executioner asking him if he were ready he answered Yea and his head was severed from his body at one blow and a little rase of the Ax upon a small piece of the skin His head also was put up into a scarf and with his body put up into a coffin which stood ready on the Schaffold A Breviate of the charge of High treason exhibited against Summer and the rest for plotting contriving and endeavouring together with John Hewet late of London Doctor of Divinity deceased Henry Mallery late of London Gentleman Hartgil Baron Francis Mansel and other false Traytors and enemies to his highnesse and this Commonwealth 1. TO levv warre and raise force against his highnesse and the Common-wealth 2. For declaring and promoting Charls Stuart to be King of England For holding intelligence with Charls Stuart And they declared these Treasons by several overt acts I. By appointing several places of Meeting II. By conferring amongst themselves and others their complices how to effect their said Treasons III. By designing to fire the City of London or some part thereof IV. By providing and furnishing themselves with barrels of Powder and other habiliments of War V. By delivering commission in the name of and as from Charls Stuart VI By appoynting several Officers of War And this against the forme of the Statute in that case made and provided London July 17. This morning between nine and ten of the Clock Col. Ashton who was by the Court of Justice sentenced to suffer death as this day was accordingly conveyed in a Sled from Newgate drawn with four horses Dr. Warmistry sitting in the Sled with him to Tower-street over against Marke lane end where a Gibbet was erected being come to the place of Execution and taken off the Sled at his going up the Ladder he desired r. Warmistry to pray with him And just as he was going up the Ladder the doctor used these following words to him Almighty God who is a strong Tower be with thee and make thee know and feele that there is no other name under heaven whereby to attaine everlasting life but by the name of Jesus The blessing of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be with you hence forth and forever Amen When he was upon the Ladder he spake thus Ashton I hope I see my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Dr. Warmistry I hope so sayes the D● passe on from the crosse to the Crown Remember who went before you Ashton I am brought here to a shamefull death I am an English man born and as many know a Gentleman born I am brought here by occasion of two fellows that corrupted me namely Topham and Langhorn who were the men that brought me acquainted with one Manley And Manley and the rest told me they would raise a Regiment for me and then I told them I would command it I was drawn into the businesse And now I am brought here for my former sins God hath delivered me severall times from severall judgments he hath visited me at this time because I