THE Crying Charge.  Ezekiel 22. Now thou Son of man, wilt thou judge, Wilt thou judge the bloody City? yea, thou shalt show her all her Abominations, &c. 
Printed in the year 1649.   

To the High Court of justice, appointed for the trial of CHARLES STVART King of ENGLAND. By the Lady Elinor Douglas.  
Shows,  
THe King's consent therewith, how Mervin E. of Castlehaven, Lord Audeley, unmercifully was sentenced to death Easter term 1631. and in May cruelly executed a●● Tower-Hill, accused falsely of two Crimes, what lewdness could and malice produce; one, Of his being accessary to a Rape committed on Ann his wife, done by a Page, one Broadway; and, Of Sodomy (made death H: 8.) committed with an Irish Footman, Fitzpatrick O Donel; which aforesaid Lord Audeley indicted of Felony, brought to his trial at westminster, the K. Attorney where showed, The King like God, would extend to the prisoner all mercy: Likewise the Lo: Keeper that day Lo: High Steward, because the cry was great of Sodom, would see whether those things were so; the Witnesses whereupon called to appear, she a common Whore her husband's accuser, without ever appearing in Court, or taking any Oath, had there contrary to the Law, one of her consorts that said, My Lady upon her honour saith thus, &c. or, It was true.  
The other Witness, the Irishman, he a vagrant, had served under the Emperor, although a Papist, had contrary to Law, his Oath taken at the Bar, refusing the Oath of Allegiance; where asked by one of the Judges the manner, confessed, Not the act, but somewhat of a foul nature, &c. what such malice & the like might invent, promised to be the Queen's Footman. The Attorney, one not to seek of his Errand, saying, Howsoever, it was an act of Uncleanness; prayed the Court to proceed upon it: My Lords, said he, you have heard this odious Crime, how dark and mysterious 'tis grown; you must be curious therefore how you admit of any mitigation: who accordingly his counsel took, &c.  
Upon which pronounced, Lord have mercy upon thee the prisoner, to lose his life forthwith, of such promised mercy enjoyed the first-fruits.  
All which undue sinister proceedings by way of humble Petition signified to the K. when perceived to what a low ebb the cry was fallen and his Chaplains, Deans and others appointed to attend the prisoner, partly by their relation, he thrice in their presence had taken the Sacrament upon it, He was not guilty of those criminals; was pleased by them to let the prisoner know his gracious Answer, He should die like a Peer of the Realm, be Beheaded, and not Hanged like a common person: whose Servants, his Page the principal, who ought to have suffered, before the accessary; he and his fellow-servant the Footman were brought to their trial the next Term.  
In behalf of whom the aforesaid Broadway, came up divers Gentlemen of the County to inform the King, able to testify of the Youths coming home to his father's house, more than six months afore the time put down by her of the Ravishment, this Broadway come away from his Lord's service.  
Who at last cast; when upon the Ladder so far protested both his Master's innocency that way and his own; taking God to witness, A virgin he came into his service, and a virgin went forth of it.  
O Donel praying to St. Dennis, cried out upon some of the Privy council that told him, He must speak for the King, and thought not to be served so.  
And this man's house utterly ruined, chiefly, because had declined Popery, before his untimely death ever suspected; endeavouring to reform his Family, by which means cast himself upon the merciless times. Mervin Earl of Castlehaven, that faithful Martyr, suffering (as it were) between those twain, one on the right hand, the other on the lest, the honour having to be the first entered into the joy of his Lord; of whom notwithstanding the worst any in the world could world could say, was, He had the best things in him of any, and the worst: upon the Scaffold making this his Confession;  

In the Name of God Amen.  
I Mervin Earl of Castlehaven, being in my full strength and memory, thanks be given unto my Maker, having been branded and openly accused for change, alteration and doubtfulness of my Faith and Religion; I thought fit, like a Christian man to give satisfaction upon what ground I stand for my belief, and to express it under my hand, for the satisfaction of all charitable people and Christians.  
First, I do believe in the blessed and glorious Trinity, three persons; one eternal and everlasting God, God the Father, God my Redeemer, and God my Sanctifier.  
I do rely upon the merit, death and passion of our blessed saviour Christ Jesus, and upon his mediation for the remission of my sins.  
I do believe and use with most humble reverence our Lord's Prayer, the Creed of the Apostles, and the ten Commandments, as they are set down and allowed in the Church of England.  
I do believe the Canonical Scriptures, and that they are written by the inspiration of the holy Spirit.  
And for the rest of my belief, I do refer it to tbe true Orthodox Faith of our Church of England. And from the Articles received at this present in the Church of England, and confirmed by authority of Parliament, I do not differ in any point, renouncing all the Superstitions and Errors taught or believed in the Church of Rome or any other Church; in which Faith I will, God willing, continue to my lives end:  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my Hand this first of May, 1631. CASTLEHAVEN.   Psal. 116. Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints. 
FINIS.