THere stands an Island between the At­lantick and Ducalidon Seas, stored with all the chiefest Treasures of Nature; for Martial Achievements honourable through the World, famous in the Production and Government of many glorious Kings and Princes, where Peace did spread her silver Wings; and Christian Unity, from the root of unfeigned Love, did branch itself unto the farthest Boundaries of the Land, that the neighbouring Nations might participate and taste the Fruit thereof.

But as nothing visible can challenge Perma­nency; so Fortune, ambitious to show herself Omnipotent, took Spleen against this Isle, and thereupon, in a raging Mood, shut in her Day of Beauty, Love, and Peace, with dismal Clouds of Contention, blasts all her Roses and Lillies of Happiness, and long-enjoy'd Amity, with the noisom and pestiferous Showers of a sanguino­lent and bloody War. Thus it began.

The King thereof being of a tractable Nature, and too Liberal, guilty in the satisfying the ambitious Desires of his Servants, caused some [Page 6] particular Murmurings among the People; which once kindled, could not be allay'd with­out a Parliament, (a Convention of Lords and Commons, a Custom in necessitous Times, con­tinually used in that Isle; that is to say, divers of the chiefest of them drawn into one unite Body; but no sooner were they, by Royal Au­thority, convened, but every Frog began to swell into an Elephant, to lift up their Heels against their Head, and kick at that Majesty who had given them Being (an Act of greatest Inhumanity!) who then, too late, did see, Tho' Kings are Gods', yet they live in Palaces of Flesh. But Treason never went without a just Reward; and this Parliament shall be enroll'd in the Mo­numents of Fame, for the most traiterous that ever was; who, instead of curing the National Maladies, added fresh Fuel to their encreasing Flames; dethrones their Liege Lord and Sove­reign, raises a most dreadful and bloody War, lays heavier Burdens than Pharaoh's Task-masters on the People, and finally, brought a general Ruin and Destruction on the Kingdom.

Whereupon, the abused People, finding (in these) the Stream of their Affections in another Course, and altogether exhausted of all popular Privilege, (besides having suffer'd such insup­portable Tyrannies, contrary to their intended Principles) repairs to common Justice for Re­dress, who freely granted out this Hue and Cry. [Page 7]

[Page 8] No sooner was this Hue and Cry in several Copies dispersed to the Mercy of the four Winds, but, as if Heaven and Earth had conspir'd to­gether against Treason and Rebellion, they unite their Forces; the Winds bellow, the Waves beat, the Earth trembles at the Thought of such an hideous Malefactor: Officers of all degrees, suspend the necessity of their own Af­fairs to prosecute the Command. At last, one Mr. Diligent-Enquiry, Constable for the City of Westminster, (according to his accustom'd Vigi­lancy) upon privy Search, found the Body of this Traytor divided into Members; some of them in a Bawdy-house, some in Taverns, some in Tobacco-shops, some licking their Fingers at a Three-penny Ordinary, some lapping Inde­pendent Plumb-broth in the Devil's Cook-room at Hell in Westminster, some at Goldsmiths-Hall at Dinner, made of the Fat and Rapine of the People; some making Compounds of many sim­ple Delinquents, some he found tormenting Souls in the Composition of Tophet, some casting strange Guns, and Ordinances, to beat down Religion about the Kingdom's Ears, and to bat­ter our fundamental Laws to Atoms, and com­mand the whole Estates of the Land under their Lee; some, as busy as Bees, gathering the Ci­cropean Honey-money of this Isle into their own Hives, &c. Which several Members, Mr. Di­ligent Enquiry having gleaned into a Body, brought before Mr. Legal Authority, Justice of the Peace and Quorum; who finding the Malefa­ctor guilty of many bold Abuses, bloody, rebel­lious, and incomparable Treasons, commit him to the common Gaol, there to remain, without [Page 9] Bail or Mainprize, until the grand Assize, where, at present, we leave him, desiring the Reader to peruse this ensuing Table.

• Lord Righteous, Judge.
• Clerk of the Assize, Sir Faithful Philolaus.
• Justices of the Peace and Quorum.
  • Sir Loyal Philalethes,
  • Mr. Legal Authority,
• CRYER.
• Grand Inquest.
  • Mr. Nobleman.
  • Mr. Knight.
  • Mr. Esquire.
  • Mr. Gentleman.
  • Mr. Publick-Good.
  • Mr. Common-Loss.
  • Mr. Common-Interest.
  • Mr. Allegiance.
  • Mr. Conformity.
  • Mr. Orthodox.
  • Mr. Unity.
  • Mr. Charity.
  • Jury of Life and Death
    • Free-Man.
    • Rich-Man.
    • Poor-Man.
    • Innocent-Man.
    • Patient-Man.
    • Loyal-Man.
    • Honest-Man.
    • Quiet-Man.
    • Well-meaning Man.
    • Enslaving-Man.
    • Lost-All.
    • Undone.
• Mr. Parliament, Malefactor.
• Mr. Necessity, Prosecutor.
• Witnesses.
  • Jealousies and Fears,
  • Blood,
  • Widows Sighs,
  • Orphans Tears.
  • Publick Faith,
  • Soldier Conscience,
• Attorney-General, Equity.
• Counsellor, No-Bribe.
• Plaintiffs for the Prisoner.
  • Synod,
  • Scot,
  • Independency,

Thus the Court being complete, I must press some necessary impositions upon the Rea­der, essential to the prosecuting of our Work [Page 10] in hand: Therefore, courteous Reader, under­stand that we shall proceed as near as we can in order of a Sessions, where the Court being set, the Jury impanel'd, the Witnesses sworn, the Prisoner is call'd to the Bar, his Indictment is read, and according to the Evidence brought in against him, he is found guilty of High-Trea­son, against God, his King, and Country; ar­raign'd, convicted and condemn'd. Therefore, for Brevity sake, we shall pass by some things as unnecessary, and proceed in order; There­fore, I desire thee to imagine the Court set, the Jury sworn, &c. and the Jaylor commanded to set the Prisoner to the Bar.

The Indictment read by the Clerk.

Mr. Parliament, hold up thy Hand at the Bar. (look on the Prisoner, Masters of the Jury) Thou art indicted in the Name of our So­vereign Lord King Charles, by the Name of Parliament: That whereas against the Laws of God, and the Laws of Nature, and the Laws of our Sovereign Lord the King; thou hast traiterously and feloniously rais'd War against thy King, that thou hast made thyself drunk with the Blood of his Loyal Subjects; and (pre­tending Liberty) hast persecuted even unto Death; not sparing the Prophets, but most bar­barously hast murder'd them, flung them into Prisons, starv'd them, &c. and exercis'd all manner of Impiety against God, against the King, against the fundamental Laws, and a­gainst the People. Against God by Blasphemy, Sacrilege, and Perjury, and all Prophaneness; against the King, by robbing him (not only of his People) but of his Power, his Crown, his [Page 11] Revenue, Houses, Lands, Goods, &c. Against the People by shedding their innocent Blood, leading them by the Noses, making them fight with one another, kill one another, not knowing why, nor wherefore, polling them by illegal Impositions, and pilling them by no better than Monopolies, Taxes, Sequestrations, Plunders, and all manner of Rapine, to the utter Undoing and Impoverishing of them, or the most part of them, amusing them with Fears and Jealousies, and making them (like cunning Jugglers) be­lieve any thing, tho' never so false, by casting a Mist before their Eyes, till thou hast pick'd their Pockets; and this hath been their chief Art these seven Years, as by woful Experience we see at this day without Spectacles, what innumerable Tricks have been used to milk the Purses of the People, under Colour to maintain a War against the King and his evil Council, when it was to ruin the People, to impoverish them, and bring them into irrecoverable Slavery and Oppression under a tyrannical Parliament, and more than a tyran­nical and insulting Army; that have sought all Ways to murder your Prince; first, having pulled out of the Church, Bishops, and cry'd down all Order and Discipline, to place in their stead, Babes of Grace, pure Parricides, Inde­pendents and apostated Levites, Sedgwick, Bur­gess, Martial, and the whole Tribe of Many-Asses, and Owls of the Assembly, that you knew you could make preach, or do what you could desire, tho' never so contrary to Truth, Reli­gion, or Reason, tho' to countenance bloody and abhorred Actions, murder Kings, and the like: That, the better to enslave the People, [Page 12] you have enter'd into a devilish and dangerous Combination to destroy Monarchy, to introduce Anarchy, to engross the Militia and Power of the Sword to effect your cursed Designs: That you have set up intolerable Taxes, instead of pulling down Monopolies: That you have used Religion for a Cloak for your Knavery, giving Thanks for shedding of Blood, tyrannizing over both the Persons and Purses of the People, with intent to inslave and vassal both them and their Posterity: That you have most traiterously gull'd his Majesty into Prison, with intent to murder him, the better to keep it from the Peoples Knowledge.

What say'st thou, Parliament? art thou guil­ty of this Treason, or not?

Not guilty, not guilty, my Lord.

How wilt thou be tried?

By God and my Conscience.

Nay, for thy Conscience, that's as wide as Hell itself, as may appear by thy Indict­ment. What can the Witnesses say concerning the Prisoner? Call them in.

If any Man can give Evidence, or say any thing against the Prisoner, let him come forth, for the Prisoner stands upon his Delive­rance.

Call in Jealousies and Fears, Blood, Wi­dows Sighs, Orphans Tears, Publick Faith, Soldiers Conscience. Come forth and prosecute, or you forfeit your Recognizance.

Every Man keep Silence, upon Pain of Imprisonment.

The Witnesses are sworn, every one accord­ing to his Knowledge, to give a true Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar.

Jealousies and Fears, Stand up. What can you say for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar?

O, my Lord, I have been made use of, upon all Occasions, to delude the People, and to make them think of Danger where none was. My Lord, I was meerly drawn in by the Prisoner for his own Turn, since he sent me packing when he had served his own End of me. Blood can give you a more clear Evidence.

Blood, Stand up. What can'st thou say for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar?

My Lord, I shall cry continually against this cursed Horse-leech, that hath gorged him­self with me so full, that he hath spewed me up again, till the Earth hath been made as drunk with me as the Sword, from the Blood of Straf­ford to the Blood of 100000 Innocents, Canter­bury, Tomkins, Challenor, Burley the King's Messen­ger, the Surrey-Men, and an infinite many more, that have been barbarously and inhumanely slain for their Allegiance and Fidelity to their Royal Sovereign; nay, my Lord, they are so Insatiate, that nothing can quench their Thirsts, but Royal Blood, the Blood of the King, and all his Royal Progeny, in which he would wash his Hands, if possibly he could attain to his Ends; so that the whole Earth is filled with Blood and Violence, Father against Son, Brother against Brother, and one Friend against another. Tho' Cursed is he that shall slay an innocent Person, and all the People shall say, Amen, Deut. xxix. 25. The Land that sheddeth innocent Blood, innocent Blood shall be upon it, Deut. xix. 10. And, Innocent Blood the Lord [Page 14] will not pardon, 2 Kin. xxiv. 4. Yet, my Lord, this Traytor hath made a Trade of shedding innocent Blood, and doth still to this Day.

Wid. Sighs, Stand up. What can you say for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar?

My Lord, my Heart and a Thou­sand more are so broke with weeping for the Death of our Husbands and dear Children, whose Lives this Traytor hath taken away, that we cannot speak more for weeping, but still cry out for Vengeance against this Parricide, this bloody Murderer.

Orph. Tears, Stand up. What can'st thou say for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar?

My Lord, I lost my Father by this cruel Traytor, and so have many Thousands of us, and have cried unto Heaven for Vengeance against him; that is all I could do, or can say.

Publ. Faith, Stand up. What can'st thou say for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar?

My Lord, he hath been the Con­fusion of me; I could recount innumerable Tricks to drain the People, and to milk their Purses of their Money, as the free Loans and Contribu­tions upon poor Publick Faith, amounting to vast and incredible Sums, Money, Plate, Horses and Arms, Bodkins, Thimbles, Wedding-Rings, &c. and a thousand more that he hath used to enslave the People.

Soldiers Conscience, Stand up, and give Evidence for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar?

Call Soldiers Conscience.

Soldiers Conscience, Soldiers Consci­ence, Come into the Court, and give Evidence for the King, against the Prisoner at the Bar, or else you forfeit your Recognizance.

My Lord, he is slipt away, being afraid to appear in the Face of the Court; 'tis likely he is a party with the Prisoner.

There be Witnesses enough with­out him. Masters of the Jury, you hear what is prov'd against him; how traiterous he hath been against God, his King and Country, against the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom, in that he hath renounced his sworn Allegiance, when it is declar'd, 3 Jac. cap. 4. That if any Person shall put in Practice, to absolve, persuade, or withdraw any of his Majesty's Subjects from their Obedience to his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or move them, or any of them, to promise Obedience to any other Prince, State, or Potentate; that then every such Person, their Procurers, Counsellors, Aiders and Maintainers, shall be adjudged Traytors.

None can deny, but the Head is over the Members, and not the Members over the Head: all Subjects being to perform both Active and Passive Obedience to their lawful King, (as the Members to the Head) in all Causes, at all Times, and in all Places: But this Prisoner, Mr. Parlia­ment, is notorious Guilty; for the King being Head, Beginning and End of a Parliament, and no Act can be made without the King's Assent, therefore this Parliament standeth guilty of Per­jury, by encroaching upon the Jurisdictions be­longing to the King; and hath falsified their Faith, by voting, That no more Addresses should be made to him, or Messages receiv'd from him. No [Page 16] Law can make a Servant to be above or greater than his Master, nor a Subject greater than his King; for the King having an undoubted Right to the Crown, and being his lawful Sovereign, and his Allegiance being due unto his Natural Person, both by the Law of God, Nature, and the Law of the Land, recogniz'd and acknow­ledg'd by former Parliaments in all Ages, con­firm'd by undeniable Authorities in Law, upon Record, that evidently proves, that his Allegi­ance is due unto his Natural Person, by the Law of God, Nature, and the Law of the Land, and can neither be abjured, released, or renounced, being inseparable from the Person of the King, and indispensably due from the Prisoner to his Majesty. Therefore, any reasonable Man may conclude, that Mr. Parliament hath perjur'd him­self in withdrawing his Allegiance from his Liege Lord the King, which is directly against the Law of the Land; and hath, moreover, fal­sified his Faith and Allegiance to his King, God's Anointed, and crowned his natural Liege Lord, Sovereign and lawful King, both by Descent, Coronation, Investure, and undoubted Right, which by the Law of the Land is due unto him from all his Subjects, every one of them having taken this following Oath.

To be true and faithful to their Sovereign Lord K. Charles, and his Heirs, and Faith and Truth shall bear to him of Life and Member, and Honour. And you shall neither know, nor hear of any Ill or Damage intended unto him, that you shall not de­clare: So help you God.

[Page 17] Now (pray mark it Jury) you are to consi­der, Whether this Prisoner hath any Power a­gainst the King, or whether the King hath not Power to hang him for his most detestable Trea­chery against his Person, in betraying it to Pri­son, against the Law of God, Nature, and the Law of the Land, the Closlier to murder and make him away, as may more evidently appear by the Examinations, upon Oath, of Mr. Os­burn and Dowcet, against Rolf, that should have been the accursed Instrument to make him a­way, either by Poison, or Pistolling, or other­wise: The King hath no Supreme but God a­lone, and it is sufficient Punishment for him, because he must expect God to be the Revenger if he commits any Wrong; for every Man is under the King, and the King under none but God alone; he is not inferior to his Subjects; he hath no Peer in his Realm; he hath the sole Government of his Subjects. Therefore, Mr. Parliament, thou hearest what is objected against thee; thou hast now Liberty to answer for thy self, Guilty, or, Not Guilty.

My Lord, I little weigh what any of these can say against me, and am so far from acknowledging the least Circumstances objected against me, that I utterly deny all, and claim my Privilege.

Thou art quite past Shame and Grace, and surely given thy self to the Devil, else thou could' [...]t never have the Face to deny the least Tittle. Is this all thou canst say for thy self?

More than I need to say; yet I shall speak a Word or two to the People: Did not [Page 18] you chuse me; cry out for a Parliament, a Par­liament? Nothing could satisfy you but a Parli­ament; and now you have a Parliament, will you not be ruled by a Parliament? Did not ye bring your Treasure, and fling it down at my Feet whether I would or no; your Gold, your Silver, your Plate, your Horses, your very Thimbles and Bodkins, &c. O then you'd live and die with me, stand up as one Man for me; venture all, Life, Estate, and all ye had with me: And pray what have I made use of more than you promis'd me? Have not I eas'd you of your Wealth, Religion, King, Laws, and brought you into the blessed Liberty of the Saints, that any of you may preach what you will, and do what ye list, (so it be not against me) made you all Kings and Beggars; and am I thus rewarded? Well, London, London, 'twas thou—

We'll hear no more. Jury, you hear his Imperiousness, Ignorance, and zealous Folly; that shews what Degrees he hath taken, from a Cobler to a Preacher, from a Preacher to a Captain, from a Captain to a Committee-man, from a Committee-man to a Colonel, and then he is a Companion for a Prince, nay a King himself; rules, reigns, and rebels amongst his Fellow-Kings, whose Lives and Professions, Na­tures and Arts, Inwards and Outwards, agree in all, like Canters and Gypsies: They are all Zeal, and no Knowledge; all Purity, and no Huma­nity; all Simplicity, and no Honesty; and if you be sure never to trust them, they will ne­ver deceive you: Their greatest Care is to contemn their King; their least Care is to serve [Page 19] God; for they have no more Conscience to the One, than Fear to the Other: They give Thanks for Victories when they be routed, and relate Battles and Skirmishes as Eye-Witnesses, when they wink'd for Fear, turn'd back, and with their Eyes thievishly robb'd a Pamphlet or Bal­lad for the rest. Nor Pilate nor Prince can command him; nay, he will command them, censure them at his Pleasure, and if they will not suffer their Ears to be fetter'd with the long Chains of his redious Collations, their Purses to be emptied with the Inundations of his unsatiate Humour, and their Judgments to be blinded with the Mussler of his zealous Ignorance, then he is one of the Wicked, a dead Dog, &c. In brief, he is nothing but varnish'd Rottenness, full of seeming Sanctity, and mental Impiety, an out-side Saint and an in-side Devil; to con­clude, he is, &c.

His Cause is foul, my Lord, and we shall, no doubt, give in just Evidence against him.

You of the Jury are sworn for the King, to give in your Evidence in his Majesty's Behalf, against the Prisoner at the Bar; there­fore you are now to proceed in your Evi­dence.

Make way for the Jury there.

I never heard (so long as I have been a Justice) of so notorious a Malefactor, so bloody a Miscreant.

He hath been as great a Robber, my Lord, as ever he was a Blood-sucker; no­thing [Page 20] comes amiss to him, and his Partner [...]rmy; the poor Kingston-Men dearly suffered for St. Livesey, a notorious Thief, who with the rest of his Faction, stole from Kingston upon Thames, above 2000 Pounds worth of Cloath: My Lord, here is a poor Clothier desires a Hu: and Cry after him.

Let the Clerk draw it speedily: If these Thieves be suffered long in England, we shall not live to enjoy a Penny in Quiet; let there be all Care taken to apprehend the Thieves.

Gentl [...]men, you are all agreed that I should give in the Verdict, you see the Case is plain and evident.

You shall have my Consent to hang him presently; I am sure my Baggs have been emptied, and drained, for him; and yet the Thief called me Traytor, laid me up in the Tower, and made a Shew, as if he would have tried me for my Life; but to tell you true, it was for my Means; 'tis High Treason for any but an Independent to be rich in these Days.

Alas! I am undone by him, a Company of the Zaints, as they call them, blun­dered me, took away my Bald Mare, to make a Dragon on her, and pressed away my Zon Dick too, cham sure I could neer zet Eye on um zince; a wa [...]nion on him, he makes me feed upon Bullion, and glad che have it too; O' have my Consent with all my Heart; wood che had been hang'd Zeven Years ago, then I had had my two Cowes, my Bald Mare, and my Zon Dick to dress um, and had ought my Landlord, ne'er a Penny a Rent: Hang um, hang um [Page 21] up, I zay, we shall never zee happy Days else.

I have been forced out to fight for I know not what: I have lost Three Sons in this unnatural War, and yet never could under­stand for what we fight; they made us believe it was for the King, Religion, Laws, and I know not what; but I am sure it was for our Money: I hope God will make them answer for the Blood of my Children; I am sure the Scripture saith. He that sheds Man's Blood, by Man shall his Blood be shed again; hang him for me, you shall have my Consent.

I am sure, Neighbours, I paid all Taxes, Impositions, and Sessments, Subsi­dies, and found Free Quarter to the Soldier, be­sides Pole-Money, Free Loans, Contributions, Money, Plate, Men, Horse, Armes; paid to the Weekly Meals, the Weekly Assesments for Essex and Fairfax's Army, and yet all I can do is too little for them; I am sure I am quire undone, and the best are no more; I will wait with Pa­tience, till the Measure of their Iniquities are full; the Time cannot be long, if it be not come already; Neighbours, my Verdict is, That he is guilty of Treason, Rebellion, and Blood-shed, and Theft too; that's my Verdict, I'll promise you.

Because God's Word taught me, that I should be obedient to higher Powers, for the Lord's sake, who himself paid Tribute, and was obedient to the Death, suffering for the Maintenance of a good Conscience towards God and Man; besides, I have bound my self by my Oath of Allegianc, and Supremacy, to be true to my Soveraigne, and know the Fifth Com­mandment; [Page 22] and have read that Place in the Pro­verbs, My Son, fear thou God, and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to Change. They have Voted me a Malignant, for loving my King; but so long as God hath command­ed it, I think it better to obey God than Man; what, though I am spoiled of Goods, locked in Prison; Obedience is beter than Sacrifice, if I suffer for a good Conscience, I have a God able to deliver me; yet my Verdict is, if the Law finds him guilty, (as I make no question but he is) let him suffer.

Methinks a Man should do as he would be done unto; learn to eschew Evil, and do Good: Yet it cannot sink into my Head, that this Parliament at the Bar, hath done one honest or just Action these Seven Years: There­fore they cannot say when they die, Whose Ox, or whose Ass, have I taken?

The Scripture says, Love one another, not kill one another: And again, He that saith he loves God, and hateth his Brother, is a Lyar; for how can he love God, whom he never saw, and hate his Brother, whom he seeth every Day: I hate none, nor will fight with none; for I have learn'd to know from whence comes Wars, Strifes, and Dissentions, even from their own Lusts. I have no Enemy worse than my self: Let me fight with my own evil Affections, and conquer them; not for Religion, otherwise than the Three Children in the fiery Furnace, We have a God able to deliver us. I hold it unlaw­ful to take up Arms against my King, nay, wicked and diabolical; and therefore take him Derick.

I believed him at the first, and could not be persuaded that his Words, and his Intentions, had been died of two several Colours; but now I see he is a meer Jugler, an Impostor, and a Parricide, a Thief, and therefore deserves to be try'd by the known Laws, and to be hang'd, drawn, and quarter'd, that is my Verdict.

Never were Men made such Slaves of, although the Law of the Land says, that no Man shall be destroyed, dissiezed, or banished, but by the Judgment of his Peers: Yet we are Bridled, Sadled, and rid Hack­ney at their Pleasure; every lousy Rascal in the Army shall command our Persons, and Purses; so the Devil rides the Army, the Army rides the Parliament, the Parlia­ment rides the People, and they, like patient Asses, must un­dergo all the Burden, or else be Imprisoned, Sequestered, Plundered, Taxed, and Undone. I say he deserves Death.

I am sure I am Plundered of all, they have not left me worth a Groat; what with Free-Quarter, Ses­ments, and the Devil and all; I have lost all that I dearly earned, and laboured for with the Sweat of my Brows, and now I must Beg in my old Days; hang him, I say.

I am not alone undone, many a Thousand are undone as well as I; the Undones are now the grea­test Family in England, (thank this blessed Parliament) I know no honest Man but is a Kin to the Undones; no Trade but is undone, no City but is undone; none but knavish Committee-Men, Parliament-Men, Excise-Men, and their Vermin, the Soldiers, thrive in these Days; they get, and grow rich, whosoever looses: Well, I think this Parliament was begotten in an ill Hour, for we ne­ver enjoyed happy Days since they first Sat; they have undone King, Church, and People, and brought all in Bondage, from the highest to the lowest, (themselves excepted) I say, he deserves to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.

You are all agreed then to give in your Verdict?

We are all agreed; Guilty, guilty.

Make way there for the Jury.

Parliament, hold up thy Hand: Ma­sters of the Jury, look upon the Prisoner; is he guilty of this Treason, Rebellion, Blood-shed, Felony, &c. in Manner and Form, as he stands indicted, or not guilty?

Guilty, guilty, my Lord.

Parliament, thou hast heard the heinous [Page 24] Accusation that hath been proved against thee; what canst thou say for thy self to award the Sentence of Death from passing on thee?

The jury have dealt falsly; I appeal to Synod, Scot, and Independency, to plead my Cause.

There is no Appeal from this Court; besides, Synod, Scot, and Independency, are Parties, and subborn'd, and as very Thieves as thy self; if thou hast any thing to say, speak, for now the Sentence of Death is passing upon thee.

O hold, hold, good, my Lord, have Mercy upon me; I beseech your Honour for bear Sentence, even for Reformation sake, the Directory, and New Catechism.

Good Lord deliver me.

Here is no Place of Mercy for thee: God's Ven­geance cannot be dispensed withal, no Priviledge will-help thee here; this is a Court where Justice must take Place.

I beseech your Lordship for the Mercy of this honourable Bench, let me have the Benefit of the Clergy, A Psalm of Mercy, I beseech you; let it not be said that a Parliament was hanged.

No, thou hast robbed the Clergy, and hadst no Mercy on thy Brother, neither must thou expect any Mercy from this Court; therefore hear thy Sentence, thou hast been Indicted▪ and Arraign'd of Enmity against God, and the King, of Treason, Rebellions, Blood­sheds, Thefts, &c. for thy Tryal thou hast put thy self upon thy Country, which Country hath found the guil­ty, thou hast had Liberty to plead for thy self, to award the Sentence of Death; but canst not; for thy Guilt is so palpably apparent and grosse, that all the Subtilty, Craft, and Policy, thou canst devise, cannot obscure thee from the Eye of Justice; for this Court, upon thy Tryal, hath found out thy Villany, Treason, Blood-shed, Sacri­lege, Theft, and how thou art guilty of all that is laid to thy Charge▪ therefore the Sentence of this Court is, That thou shalt return to the Place from whence thou camest, and from thence be drawn on a Sledge to the Place of Execution, there be hang'd, drawn and quar­ter'd: Look to him Jaylor.

Good, my Lord▪ the King's Pardon, I beseech you▪

No, you must receive no Message from him▪ take him away Jaylor.