much as of being fufpected to repent, or that he was brought to fuffer for his Affection to the King. And therefore when he was upon the Scaffold, where he appear'd with a marvellous Undauntednefs, he seem'd fo much delighted with the Memory of all that he had done against the late King, and against the Bishops, that he could not even then forbear to speak with Animofity and Bitternefs against both, and exprefs'd great Satisfaction Eof Mind for what he had done against them, and was as much transported with the inward Joy of Mind that he felt in being brought thither to die as a Martyr, and to give Teftimony for the Covenant (whatsoever he had done, being in the purfuit of the Ends, he faid, of that fanctified Obligation to which he was in and by his Confcience engaged.) And in this raving Fit, without fo much as praying for the King, otherwife than that he might propagate the Covenant, he laid his Head upon the Block with as much Courage as the bravest and honestest Man cou'd do on the moft pious Occafion. Clar. Vol. III. p. 434.

I have been inform'd, that fuch Application was made to the Protector for Mr. Love's Life, that he granted him a Pardon ; but that the Protector being then in the North, the Exprefs, who carried it, fell into the Hands of fome Cavaliers before he arriv'd at London; and it being confider'd, that no Man had been a greater Incendiary, or purfu'd the King's Friends with more Violence than this Gentleman, it was agreed to detain the Express 'till he was executed; which they did, to the inexpreffible Grief of the Presbyterians.

The Execution of the Hon. Col. JOHN PENRUDDOCK, the 16th of May 1655.

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She was afcending the Scaffold, he said, This, I hope, will prove to be like Jacob's Ladder; tho' the Feet of it reft on Earth, yet I doubt not but the Top of it reacheth to Heaven. When he came upon the Scaffold, he spoke to the People as follows:

Gentlemen,

It hath ever been the Custom of all Perfons whatfoever, when they come to die, to give fome Satisfaction to the World, whether they be guilty of the Fact of which they ftand charged. The Crime for which I am now to die, is Loyalty, (but) in this Age call'd High-Treafon. I cannot deny but I was at Southmoulton, in this County; but whether my being there, or my Actions there, amount to fo high a Crime as High-Treafon, I leave to the World, and to the Law, to judge: Truly, if I were conscious to my felf of any bafe Ends that I had in this Undertaking, I would not be fo injurious to my own Soul, or difingenuous to you, as not to make a publick Acknowledgment thereof. I fuppofe that divers Perfons, according as they are biafs'd in their feveral Interests and Relations, give their Opinions to the World concerning us. I conceive it impoffible therefore, fo to exprefs my felf in this Particular, as not to expofe both my Judgment and Reputation to the Cenfure of many whom I fhall leave behind me ; because I will not put others (therefore) upon a Breach of Charity concerning me,or my Actions, I have thought fit to decline all Difcourfes which may give them a Capacity either to injure themfelves, or me; my Tryal was publick, and my se

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veral Examinations (I believe) will be produc'd when I am in my Grave: I will refer you therefore to the first, which I am sure some of heard; and to the latter, which many of you (in good time) may fee; had Captain Crook done him-. felf and us that Right which a Gentleman and a Soldier ought to have done, I had not now been E here. The Man I forgive with all my heart: But truly, Gentlemen, his protesting against those Articles he himself, with fo many Proteftations and Importunities put upon us, hath drawn so much Dishonour and Blood upon his Head, that I fear fome heavy Judgment will purfue him; tho' he hath been false to us, I pray God I do not prove a true Prophet to him; nay, I must fay more, that coming on the Road to Exon, he, the faid Captain Crook, told me, Sir Jofeph Wagstaff was a gallant Gentleman, and that he was forry he was not taken with us; that then he might have had the Benefit of our Articles; but now, faid he, I have beset all the Country for him, fo that he cannot escape, but must be hang'd. He also queftion'd me, as I pafs'd through Salisbury from London, whether he had given me Conditions, which I endeavouring to make appear to Major Butler, he interrupted me, and unwillingly confefs'd it, faying I proffer'd him Four Hundred Pounds to perform his Articles; which had been a ftrange Proffer of mine, had I not really condition'd with him; and I told him then (having found him unworthy) I would have given him Five Hundred Pounds, believing him to be mercenary; to make it yet farther appear, I injure him not, by ftiling him unworthy; after these Articles were given, he proffer'd to pistol me, if L did not perfuade another Houfe to yield, which. then were boldly refifting; to which my Servant, John Biby (now a Prifoner) reply'd, I hope you

will not be fo unworthy as to break the Law of Arms. Thus much I am obliged to fay to the Honour of the Soldiery, That they have been fo far from breaking any Articles given to others, that they have rather better'd them than otherwife. It is now our Misfortune to be made Precedents and Examples together: But I will not do the Protector fo much Injury, as to load him with Difhonour, fince I have been inform'd, that he would have made our Conditions good, if Crook, that gave them, had not abjur'd them. This is not a Time for me to enlarge upon any Subject, fince I am now become the Subject of Death; but fince the Articles were drawn by my Hand, I thought my felf oblig'd to a particular Juftification of them. I could tell you of fome Soldiers which are turn'd out of his Troop for defending those Conditions of ours; but let that pafs, and henceforward, inftead of Life, Liberty, and Eftate, (which were the Articles agreed upon) let Drawing, Hanging, and Quartering bear the Denomination of Captain Crook's Articles. However, I thank the Protector for granting me this honourable Death. I fhould now give you an Account of my Faith; but truly, Gentlemen, this poor Nation is rent into fo many feveral Opinions, that it is impoffible for me to give you mine, without difpleafing fome of you; however, if any Man be fo critical as to enquire of what Faith I die, I fhall refer him to the Apoftles, Athanafius, and the Nicene-Creed, and to the Teftimony of this reverend Gentleman, Dr. Short, to whom I have unbofom'd my felf: And if this do not fatisfy, look in the Thirty Nine Articles of the Catholick Church of England, to them I have fubfcribed, and do own them as authentick. Having now given you an Account concerning my felf, I hold my felf obliged in Duty to fome of my Friends,

Friends, to take off a Sufpicion which lies upon them; I mean, as to fome Perfons of Honour, which upon my Examination I was charged to have held Correfpondency with; the Marquefs of Hertford, the Marquefs of Winchefter, and my Lord of Pembroke, were the Perfons nominated to me; I did then acquit them, and do now fecond it with this Proteftation, that I never held any Correfpondency with either, or any of them, in relation to this particular Bufinefs, or indeed to any thing which concern'd the Protector, or his Government : As for the Marquefs of Winchester, I faw him fome twelve Years fince, and not later; and if I fhould fee him here prefent, I believe I fhould not know him; and for the Earl of Pembroke, he was not a Man likeEly to whom I fhould discover my Thoughts, becaufe he is a Man of contrary Judgment. I was examin'd likewife concerning my Brother Freke, my Coufin Haftings, Mr. Dorrington, and others: It is probable their Eftates may make them liable to this my Condition; but I do here fo far acquit them, as to give the World this further Proteftation, that I am confident they are as innocent in this Bufinefs as the youngest Child here : I have no more to fay to you now, but to let you know that I am in Charity with all Men, I thank God; I both can and do forgive my greatest Pert fecutors, and all that ever had any Hand in my Death. I have offer'd the Protector as good Security for my future Demeanour, as I fuppofe he could have expected, if he had thought fit to have given me my Life, certainly I fhould not have been fo ungrateful as to have employ'd it againft him. I do humbly fubmit to God's Pleasure, knowing that the Iffues of Life and Death are in his Hand; my Blood is but a fmall Sacrifice, if it had been faved, I am so much a Gentleman

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