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Troop, and by my God I will go thro' this. Death, and he will make it easy to me. Now into thy Hands, O Lord Jefus, I commit my Spirit. Then he was turn'd off.

The CHARACTER of Col. THO. HARRISON..

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The King being taken from Hurft's-Caftle, was received by Col. Harrison with a strong Party of Horse, by whom he was to be conducted to Windfor-Caftle. Harrison was the Son of a Butcher, near Nantwich in Cheshire, and had been bred up in the place of a Clerk under a Lawyer of good, Account in those Parts; which kind of Education introduces Men into the Language and Practice of Bufinefs; and if it be not refifted by the great Ingenuity of the Perfon, inclines young Men to more Pride than any other kind of Breeding, and difpofes them to be pragmatical and infolent, tho' they have the Skill to conceal it from their Mafters, except they find them (as they are too often) inclined to cherifh it. When the Rebellion first began, this Man quitted his Mafter, who had relation to the King's Service, and difcharg'd his Duty faithfully, and put himself into the Parliament-Army, where having first obtained the Office of a Cornet, he got up, by Diligence and Sobriety, to the State of a Captain, without any fignal Notice taken of him, till the new Model of the Army, when Cromwel, who poffibly had Knowledge of him before, found him of a Spirit and Difpofition fit for his Service, much given to Prayer and Preaching, and otherwife of an Understanding capable to be trufted in any Business, to which his Clerkship contributed very much, and then he was preferred very faft; fo that by the Time the King was brought to the Army, he had been a Colonel of Horse, and

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and look'd upon as inferiour to few, after Cromwel and Ireton, in the Council of Officers, and in the Government of the Agitators; and there were few Men with whom Cromwel more communicated, or upon whom he more depended for the Conduct of any thing committed to him; he receiv'd the King with outward Refpe&t, kept himfelf bare, but attended him with great Strictnefs, and was not to be approached by any Addrefs, anfwering Queftions in thort and few Words, and when importun'd with Rudeness, he manifefted an Apprehenfion that the King had fome thought of making an Escape, and did things in order to prevent it. Being to lodge at Windfor, and fo tộ pafs by Bagfhot, the King exprefs'd a Defire to fee his little Park at Bagshot, and fo to dine at the Lodge there, a Place where he had ufed to take much Pleafure, and did not diffemble the knowing that the Lord Newburgh, who had lately married the Lady Aubigney, liv'd there, and faid, he would fend a Servant to let that Lady know that he would dine with her, that the might provide a Dinner for him. Harrifon well knew the Affection of that Lord and Lady, and was very unwilling he should make any Stay there; but finding the King fo fixt upon it, that he would not be otherwife remov'd from it, than by abfolutely refufing him to go thither, he chofe to confent, and that his Majefty fhould fend a Servant, which he did the Night before he intended to dine there. Before the King came thither, Harrifon had fent fome Horfe, with an Officer, to fearch the House, and all about the Park, that he might be fure no Company lurk'd which might make fome Attempt. The King having spent three or four Hours at the Lord Newburgh's with very much Satisfaction to himself, tho' he was not fuffer'd to be in any Room without the Com→

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pany of fix, or feven Soldiers, who fuffer'd little to be spoken, except it was fo loud that they could hear it too, he took a fad Farewel, appear ing to have little Hopes of ever feeing 'em again. The Lord Newburgh rode fome Miles into the Foreft to wait upon the King, 'till he was requir'd by Harrison to return. In this Journey Harrison obferving that the King had always an Apprehenfion that there was a Purpose to murder him, and had once let fall fome Words of the Odioufnefs and Wickednefs of fuch an Affaffination and Murder, which could never be fafe to the Perfon who undertook it: Harrifon told him plainly, "That "he need not entertain any fuch Imagination or Apprehenfion; that the Parliament had too "much Honour and Juftice to cherish fo foul an Intention, and affur'd him, that whatever the "Parliament refolv'd to do, would be very pub"lick, and in a way of Justice, to which the "World fhould be Witnefs, and never would en"dure a Thought of fecret Violence. his Majefty could not perfuade himself to believe, nor did imagin they durft ever produce him in the fight of the People, under any Form whatfoever of publick Tryal, Clarend. Hift. Vol. III. P. 246.

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When Cromwel laft model'd his Army, Harrifon was difcarded, with many other Officers who had the greatest Names in the Factions of Religion; (Clar. Vol. III, p. 595.) They had gone very great Lengths with the Ufurper; but when he aflum'd the Regal Power, and they found they were to be excluded any Share in the Government, they begun to fhew their Difaffection to him, as they had done to their former Governours, And as the Protector well knew how to manage that Enthufiaftick Zeal with which his Officers were infpir'd, to the Deftruction of eve

ry other Power; fo when he had ferv'd his Ends of them, he flighted the Oppofition they pretended to make to his Tyranny, and fhew'd them of how little Signification and Influence they were, when they had depriv'd themselves of his fuperiour Direction and Conduct.

The Execution of Mr. JOHN CARE W, the day of October 1660. as related by a Friend of his.

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HE Day he fuffer'd, and the Hour being come, the Rope being ty'd about him, he rejoyc'd exceedingly, faying, Oh! What am I, that I fhould be bound for the Caufe and Intereft of the Son of God? And when he was coming down Newgate Stairs, to go into the Sledge, in a very fmiling, chearful manner, he utter'd Words to this effect; My Lord Jefus, for the Joy that was fet before him, endur'd the Crofs, and defpifed the Shame, and is now fet down on the right Hand of God; whofe Steps I defire to fol low. It was alfo obferv'd, that the Chearfulness of his Countenance, all the way as he went to the Gibbet, remain'd, to the Encouragement of the Faithful, and Admiration of Enemies, uttering by the way many chearful Expreffions, fetting forth his Joy in the Lord.

When he was brought to the Gibbet, before he went up the Ladder (his Hands being bound) he exhorted several Friends ftanding by, to be faithful unto Death, and not to be afhamed of the Caufe for which they fuffered, and they fhould receive a Crown of Life. And further faid to a Friend that stood by, That he hoped the Truths of the Kingdom which he had preach'd up and down would not be the lefs efteemed, for that he came now to feal them with his Blood.

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Mr. CARE W's Speech upon the Ladder.

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Ruly, it is not Words, nor that which I have to speak in mine own Spirit, will glorify God, or give any Advantage to your Souls, or unto me: But it is, if I may fpeak a few Words in the Spirit of the Lord, and in the Power of his Might, and from an unfeigned Love unto Jefus Chrift: That would indeed give me an open En trance, and make my Paffage very fweet; and a Bleffing may be behind, even upon you. The first thing (indeed) that hath been very weighty (and I defire to leave it upon all, upon Saints as well as upon those that are not acquainted with Jefus Chrift) that Eternity, Immortality, and eternal Life, it is a wonderful thing; the Thought's and Apprehenfions of it are able to fwallow up a poor Soul: We little think what it is; he that knows moft of God, and moft of Chrift, and hath the greatest Measure of the Anointing, he little, Mittle knows what it is to appear before the holy, the most glorious, the most righteous God of Heaven and Earth; to ftand before his Judgment Seat, before Jefus Chrift that is at his Right Hand And where all the holy Angels are fo afhamed (because of the Glory of God) that they fall down and cover their Faces, and cry Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which art, and waft, and art to come. And therefore, if fuch glorious Creaturės, if fuch excellent Spirits as thefe Seraphins and Cherubins be, if they do fall down before the Glory and Majefty of this moft excellent and wonderful God, how fhould Duft and Afhes do? And how fhould they fear and tremble to appear before him? And therefore, I fay, think of this, and of the Righteousness of God, as well as of his Glory and Majefty, and of his Juftice; that

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