Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	england_n	king_n	scot_n	5,306	5	9.8558	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93810	Royal and other innocent bloud crying aloud to heaven for due vengeance. Humbly represented to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. And with all humble dutifull submission dedicated to the two high and mighty princes, James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester, his sacred Majestyes Royal brethren. By George Starkey, a true honourer and faithfull friend of his country.	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5287; Thomason E1032_7	32,297	47

they know that the crime objected is indeed no crime by the Law of the Land They who give commission under the pretended Seal of England for trying such offenders by nominated Commission ers yet know that very Commission to be illegal and unwarrantable and yet intended as an Engine to remove some out of the way that are before marked for destruction they lastly who prosecute the Prisoners at the Barre of such a Court The Judge also who sits in Judgement upon and pronounceth sentence against them though both Judge Attorney and Sollicitor know the Prisoners not to deserve so much as bonds by the known fundamental Laws of the Land and the Power by which they pretend to Act to be usurped and illegal nay contrary to Law which they in formality are sworn to maintain and execute Justice accordingly all these doubtlesly are a pack of Conspirators against the Innocent bloud which is thus shed by them and most cruel unpardonable murtherers this for less publick butcheries committed upon the score of pretended High Courts of Justice 59. Two private cases remains yet as namely that of Lucas and Lisle and the other of Penruddok and Grove The former were shot to death in cool bloud by sentence of a Court Mattial the latter condemned by that great Prevaricator Glyn who caused them to be indicted for taking up Arms against Cromwell upon that Law which makes it Treason to levy War against the King no Law being then hatched to secure that Usurper and although the Prisoners pleading to the endictment defended themselves unanswerably and made it appear by that very Law that Oliver was the Traytor in making War upon them who proclaimed and fought for that King whom he opposed yet this most unrighteous Judge made the Law violently to speak against it self by his interpretation and so condemned the most innocent Prisoners whom afterwards with others upon the same score he caused to be executed for which if ever Judge in England deserved exemplary death certainly he fell as much if not more 60. Thus most honourable Lords and Gentlemen having spoken concerning the persons who they are give me leave to adde some considerations which speak them uncapable of Indemnity unless we intend such vengeance to follow their Pardon which God if it be his will prevent and by the way I shall obviate what objections may be brought against this impartial Justice or arguments to the contrary 61. Consider I beseech you First the crimes and the men whether or no they be fit objects of Mercy Pardon and Indemnity Secondly if they be whether it is convenient and expedient to let them find so great a measure of it and taste it so largely and I doubt not but upon enquiry your wisdoms will with me conclude in the negative notwithstanding what ever may be indiscreetly argued in favour of them 62. In order then to proceed First presents it self their Fact and next their manner of acting Lastly their behaviour after it in all which it is too manifest that as they are beyond and above Pardon so they are below pity 63. Their crime my Lords and Gentlemen is Murther of it self unpardonable but in them aggravated by Perjury Malice inhumane Cruelty justifying thereof under pretence of Religion and the better to secure themselves from Justice they spared no manner of Villany which a dextrous pernicious wit could prompt or a seared conscience commit Their murther hath this astonishing addition or rather Complement of guilt in that its object was their King to whom they were most sacredly and religiously obliged by reiterated Oaths not only impoled but by themselves voluntarily made and solemnly entred into this is the crime of many nay most of them besides other private murthers which on their part have the aggravations of malice and inhumane cruelty on the sufferers that they were persons of Piety Esteem Honour and Faithfulness to their King and Countrey of whom several excelled in true worth all their Martherers together 64. My Lords and Gentlemen if to murther a private man of no esteem little worth perhaps vicious debauched and a burthen to those with whom he lives deserve death unpardonably and our Law justly condemns and executes in such a case the murtherers though perhaps many and otherwise each far surpassing the party slain shall our King worth ten thousand Subjects our eminent Lords Gentry our godly Divines and Citizens be murthered by the worst of the Nation for real worth and among so many murtherers so few be pick'd out of whom many fled to be made examples when they can be catcht when the whole number if taken amounts not to the fourth part of those who by them have been formally butchered besides the numberless multitude of those who have been otherwise slain starved ruined and destroyed by means of that first Heaven-daring butchery Shall Henry Martin that infamous Lecher who having among Strumpets consumed his Patrimony hath long lain in Gaole to the defrauding his Creditors be accounted when he is taken a competent Sacrifice in lieu of his Sacred Majesty Lord Capel Hamilton and Holland so Cornelius Holland the Linke-boy who hath nothing of Estate but what is the price of bloud and reward of his villanies be given up to Justice when he is catcht also in revenge of Hewits Slingsby's Yeomans and Butchers bloud Thomas Scot that Saint who besides his other villanies most ungraciously paid his wife Grace in the same coin which he in exchange of greater pieces received from his girls at a vaulting School but peppered her so the wrong way that she stank the sooner and lies buried in Westminster be made exemplary when he likewise comes to hand in lieu of Mr. Love Gibbons Bushel Col. Gerard and Vowel and so the rest Or must all these be made the price of Royal bloud only Certainly Gentlemen this will be to value his sacred Person less than the Scots did who sold him in life for two hundred thousand pounds not because they esteem'd him worth no more but because that was all they could get for him Had his murtherers been twise as many his worth and value was so inestimable that all had made too mean a sacrifice for his bloud 65. That murther of his Sacred Majesty brought upon them all the bloud which had been shed in England and was the cause of all the rest which was shed in Ireland and Scotland The King in wisdom foresaw the end of the War levied against him and therefore defended himself So many of the Parliament as were sincere abhorred as by their declarations appeared those very thoughts for which end they framed a vow and protestation and after joyned with the Scots in their League and Covenant not suspecting this Viper hidden under the green hearbs raised therefore as Commissionated all their forces for the Kings defence whereas his murther at last verified the Prediction of his Majesty gave the lye to all the Parliaments pretences and made it appear that this