True Excellency of GOD and his Testimonies, and our Nationall Laws, against TITULAR EXCELLENCY. Or, A LETTER To the GENERAL his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX, With a Complaint and Chart against Tyrannical Whitchcock the Governor of Windsor for arbitra ily, d●fig●●rly and maliciously walking contrary to the Scripture● of God, and the laws and Liberties of the People.  
From Captain William bray at his un-Christian Indurance there.  Prov. 21.3. To do Justice and Judgement, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Prov. 27. Open Rebuke is bet●er than secret love. 
To Level all to LAW we must.  
To Level all to LUST'S not just.  And I do exclaim and Cry out unto Thomas Lord Fairfax to perform engagement to the people, while it is cal●'d to day; and unto all the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, and other the Free People of the Nation (that truly own God, Scripture and Law) Murder, Murder, Murder, I say Murder. 
Sir,  
I Had thoughts never to have written to you more; but love to my Country, and Tyranny justly provokes me; I will once more see whether the Lord, or common reason, (the latter of which hath prevailed w●th Pagans) will prevail with you; as for the former if the Lord hath manifested himself to you, surely you will then be won to righteousness and justice; and if principles of neither will prevail, you may quickly judge whether you are a Christian, or a reasonable man's I know the wise God is able to give and restore principles of nature and righteousness, though by your conversation you act, as if there was no such things dwelling in you.  
To do impartial judgement and justice, is suitable to scripture, and the infallible evident commands thereof, and judgement denounced against the violators of justice. It is the reason why authority was constituted, Isa. 30.18. Isa 61.8. Exod. 18.21, & 23. 26, & Deut. 1.16, 17. & 16.19. & 25.1. 2 Chron. 9.6, 7. Isa 2.23, 24. jer. 5.28, 29. ● 22.16, 17, 18. Amos 5 12. & 6.12, 14. Micha. 39.11. Zach. 18.16, 17, Will you prance upon the Scriptures of God ●ow? I am by force a Slave, a Prisoner in an an illegal Goal, in walking in an undoubted Christian, natural Parliamentary way of appeal, and this is destructive to, a stifling and strangling the foundations of nature, of humane societies, of justice, of Scripture, of the c●pit●ll obligations, of God to man, man to God, and one man to another, as you may see in my Book, Entitled, Innocency and Blood of the Slain Soldiers and People, mightily complaining and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those Forty Knights and Burg●sses that sit, or that you have left in the House of Commons; and in that you may see the cruelty exercised against a freeman of England at large. If any the people of the land or a nation have lost the right of appeal, against you, or any man for their eight year's blood, and treasure, than that man or men must needs be a Tyrant. I am deal with just as if a child should ask bread of a father, and he should give him a Serpent; this is the ●●ing and poison of our miseries, and casting out of ●ut fundamental liberties and safeties; this is unaccou●tablenesse indeed, this is idolising of persons indeed; and yet you have out off the King, and told the people that he was an Idol. But to me there is but one God and Father of whom are all things, etc. This is lawfulness, this is (as much as in you lies) to be supreme to God, to nature, to Scripture. Did we fight for our Laws and Lib●rties, and is there no Law? Did your House (as you may call it) Vote since they cut off the King, that you would maintain the fundamental laws, and is there no law? shed blood for law, and is there no law? Are not you one of the murderers then, if no law? Can the King, or the King's party transgress if there was no law? Will you make the Apostle a liar? for he saith, Where there is no Law there is no transgression, Rom. 4.15. Truly Sir, M●ster Peter your Chaplain did never read Peter throughly; if he hath he may weep bitterly.  
Was not Christ the head of Saints, the only Son of the most High Crucified and butchered by mere subtlety, conjoined with force? Contrary to Law, Reason, God and Nature? And the design of God from eternity did not take away their blood-guiltiness, so as to make them without blemish, and the murder no murder.  
Sir, the souldier● (though they were may be commanded) had a hand in the innocent blood aswell as Pilate and the chief Priests; Soldiers are some of the best of men, or some of the basest of men.  
Did the Parliament invite the King to blood, for their Laws and Liberties? and did they desire the King to rely for his security upon the Laws and affections of the people? and will not you do what you would have had him do? with many other eminent and transcendent expressions to maintain the Laws and Liberties of the people, which were violated as they declared, 1 par. of the Parli. Dec. p 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16. 38. 140. 150, 151. 200, 209 259 266, 267. 272. 278. 323. 464. 466. 473 687. 689. 692, 693, 694. 697. 698, 699, 700. 702, 703. 710, 711. 721, 722, 723. 727. 729. All these are worthy perusal.  
It is the greatest evidence of an unchristian spirit that can be to maintain the principle and practice of force against reason, Justice, Law and Scripture; Law, Reason and Scripture should be above force, and force should be always a servant to just Law, to obey the commands of it, against such whomsoever, as would make force supreme to Law and Justice; and no authority is to command any thing unjust, 1 part of the Book of Dec. of Parl. p. 207. 690. Master Cook in King Charles his Case, pag. 23. For by it authority doth break all the reins of order and government, and become Tyrants, (as Master Solicitor St. john said against the Earl of Strafford) Wolves, Bears, Polecats, Foxes beasts of prey, not men, not Christians; but capital murderers, chief Robbers of Nations, of Families, of Persons, pray Sir have a care stand, and make a halt, and acknowledge, Lord, the Scripture, and the Law, above yourself, and your fawning proselytes.  
The Parliament charged the King in the first part of the Book of Declarations. pag. 689, 693. That he intended to govern the Kingdom and People by the violent Laws Martial; And say they, accursed be that advice to ways of force, and let all the people say Amen. The King told the Parliament they intended such things themselves, as they charged him with; O Lord, arise and judge. By the Law of England, such was the justice of the Law, in the former, and late King his Reign, whom you have cut off; That if Catile be destroyed and impounded in a Castle or Fortress, and withheld against gage or pledges, and if they be solemnly demanded by the Sheriff, and not delivered, etc. The Castle or Fortress shall be beaten down without recovery, and all the damages that the people hath sustained in his beasts, etc. shall be restored him by the Lord, or by him that took the beasts, if he have whereof; and if he have not whereof, he shall have it of the Lord; See Lieut. Col. Lilburn that Patriot, in his Bo●k called the People's Prerogative. Bro. Rio● 2. 3. 52 H. 3. 3. 13. Ed. 1. 32. V.N.B. fol. 43. 44 Regist. fol. 85 52. H. 3. 21 Regi. fol. 81 fitz. N. B foe. 68 F. But now there is not so much c●re of mankind, though Christ declares God's providential care of humane nature; of the h●lt of a man's head, (nor mentioning my engagement unto blood, and faithfulness for Laws and Liberies, as there is provision for beasts; no, not that provision that the laws of Nature▪ the Land, and especially Christianity provides. O brave Representative Justice (as you and they call yourselves)! Oh brave General of an English Army for Laws and Liberties, who hath declared against arbitrariness under his hand in several Declarations to King and Parliament; and more than that, violently opposed his Lords and Masters, and Benefactors under a pretence of Justice.  
If the mere being of Policy (alias Knavery) and Force is in this our generation good and just▪ than the cruelty and murder of the Lord Jesus was good and just, (which any honest man or Christian abhors to imagine,) then the murder committed upon other saints and servants of God was just, then resolved designing robbers and murderers upon the highway, are holy and just men; then the King's cause was good, and would have been as good as yours every whit, if he had been but Conqueror; and yet you arraigned him at your Bar for a Tyrant, a Traitor and a Murderer.  
But this way of unrighteousness (I had much jealousy in my spirit, before the King's blood was taken away) would and will come to pass, destructive to the Laws of God, Nature and the Land. And indeed, when I came unto you from the Tro●ps, (being with others sent with an assurance from them to your Excellency) they did by me assure you, that if there was cord alnesse, justice and impartiality, and the laws of settlement, justice and freedom to the Nation in futur, as you had declared you aimed at▪ they would (if God and Nature c●lled for it) spill their blo●d as water, to accomplish those ends for the Nation, under your conduct. And truly, Sir, I must profess, as in the presence of the Lord, I was as cordial to you and your person (i● order and subordination to that supreme end, and the honour and love I b●ar to m● God and my Country) as to my own body and spirit. But I must confess, my judgement was, the Trial of the King would not be so justifiable bu● by a new, speedy and free Parliament, as I told one of your Secretaries, and divers others, in the Gallery at Whitehall; and I looked upon the Laws, Rights, Freedoms and safeties of the people, to be that alone that would justly satisfy them, make ● good issue of the Wa●, and make a general peace in the Nation, according to mutual agreement and concord, in common and plain principles of Scriptures and common reason, as Mr Solicitor Cook said against King Charles in his Case, pag. 22. But I went again suddenly into the country, and having not been there long, I had information of the breaking and rending of t●e House of Commons (part of which was done before I went out of Town) and the declared pretence was bruited abroad, that they joined in the Scotish Invasion: and a little after that, I heard of the erection of a Court of Justice, and of the resolution▪ of the Grand●es intention to try the King, before a new Parliament, and before they went through the Rights of the People; which when I he●rd, made me fetch a deep and hearty sigh in my own spirit (for my Country) to consider it; and what insecurity there was to the people's Rights, Justice, Freedom and Peace, which the Army spoke so much of in the Remonstrance from St. Alban the 16 of Novemb. last, against the King and Parliament; declaring against the inordinate temper of spirit to bre●k the bonds of Law and Magistracy, and to fly above the due bounds of Order and Government; against interest, and that the King would, not stop or bogle at principles of revenge, falsehood, cruelty, faith or oath, pretences, will, power, oppression, corrupt forms without law, or rooted in the Law; against awful reverence, and idolising of persons, offices and dispensations, to fit for Ecclesiastical and Civil Tyranny; against vainglory, hypocrisy, Tyranny, and in sum of all, against arbitrary power in any over the people's Laws, Liberties and Properties; against the hardship of imprisonment used to Patriots, that had appeared to assert the common Liberties, the several designations of some to the slaughter, some to exile, others to prisons, all to the misery of one sort or other; and that the King's injustice and arbitrariness was the cause of the War, and innocent blood, and of all the evil consequents and concomitants thereunto, and not the oppressed: with other enamouring and unparallelled language and expressions: pages 4. 10. 14. 16. 17. 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 26. 29. 30. 31. 32. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 65. 66. 67. 68 70. See also the former Declarations, pag. 10. 14. 39 40. 41. 42. etc. Mr Cooks Book against King Charles, pag. 37. 38. 42. etc. Let the Lord, and the people that are unbiased, Judge whether they do not ●●e●d in th● s●me steps. But the main ●●●n and strain of my affections was to the Rights of the people, is the Lord Almighty knows, and the security of the Laws and Liberties; and the Lord bears me wi●nesse, I have yet stood to that, against all temptations of proffered honour or revenge, and ●o (I trust) shall, as I have showed in my Book her● recited. I do n●t sp●ak this neither so as to r●pine against the mighty h●nd of the Lord, in that the King's life was taken away; or to stir up any heart-burnings in any against you or any other, for I do abhor it; though man many times may do things out of wicked and unholy ends, which the Lord doth in time discover: for I am satisfied in my conscience and judgement (a before the Lord) and I will declare it though I were to perish, that I beleev● the King was guilty of the blood of the people, and the violation of the people's Laws and Liberties. But your guiltiness will be far more, if you apostatise and defers that supreme end, even the just Laws and Liberties of the Nation, for which we fought, and were formerly made, and also the enlargement of ou● freedoms and safety. And for the enjoyment of justice and freedom, I can live (I thank the Lord my strength, the m●st High) with satisfaction under any Government, whether M●n●●chy, Aristocracy o● Democracie: but I must confess, I had rather l●ve under a well bounded Monarchy by Laws and Liberties, than a corrupt Aristocracy.  
The Scriptures and the Laws of England are favourable and tender of the life and Liberty of humane Nature, of Mankind, Gen. 49 6, 7 Num. 35.31, 33 Ezek. 35.5, ●. 1 King. ●. 5 6. Exod. 21.14. D●ut 19.10, 11 12, 13 & 21 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9 Mic 2.1. most eminent and glorious Scriptures, worthy of the Nations faithful reading and use. And, saith Mr. Steel in Duke Hamiltons' Case, If di●ers person's do come to do an unlawful act, and one commit murder or Treason, it's so in all. 1 M. Dyer 38. 11 H. 4. 13. 19 Edw. 2. Fitz Cor. 4.33. And The Law of England (saith the Lord Cook) is a Law of righteousness and mercy, 1 part of Instit. sect. 483 fol 2 0. 2 part of Instit. fol. 42. 43. 46. 55 56. 115. 186. 189. 190. 526. and 4 part of Instit. fol. 168. See Lieut. Col. John Lilburne Case of the Sentence in the Star-chamber, and the Votes upon it for his reparations, that the Sentence was wicked, cruel, bloody, illegal, barbarous and tyrannical.  
The Nations right of appealing is not only strangled and stifled, but I am sent unto your Jurisdiction, and am in the custody of a Tyrant, that hath dealt contrary to the Law with me, as if he were Lord Paramount, not only ●o those that committed me, but to the Law, and Liberties of the People: For a Prison (in case I had been legally and righteously committed) ought to be only for safe custody; as the Lord Cook saith▪ Prisons aught to be for keeping men safe, to be tried according t● the just Laws and Customs of the Land: but not to punish or destroy them, or to remain till the parties committing please (as the illegal Warrant by which I am committed shows:) his Exposition of the 26 Chap. of Ma●na Charta. But here I am unjustly committed, and uncapable of a trial in a fair, righteous, and Nationall w●y.  
I am only a prisoner of lust, since the 19 of March 1648, without cause in Law, or Reason, or Christianity, for what is not a just cause in Law, is no cause. Rom. 4.15. Deut. 11.3.8. Num. 15.30. The judgement of M. Tho. Goodwin, (when he was banished to Amsterdam, as I take it by the Bishop) in his Book, entitled, The aggravations of sin and sin●ing against mercy and knowledge. See your own pretended Agreement of the People, in 4, 5, or 6 particulars thereof, pag. 23. wherein your faith and honour is lately engaged, which you have broken by your actions. And indeed, it is that which God did charge against Satan concerning Job, cap. 2.3. And the Lord said unto Satan, etc. Thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. So that you may see, 
See Ki●● Charle● his case, 〈◊〉 11. conc●ning Si● Jo. Elio● that die● by crue● endurance  even you and the rest that committed me, do imitate the Devil, as M. Caryl sweetly treats upon the three first Chapters of Joh, pag 131. against the arbitrary Courts; Touch men in their Liberties by Imprisonment (saith he,) in their Estates by vast Fines, in their Names by disgrace, in their Bodies by whipping and cutting, in their Relations by keeping all friends from sight of them: and when those Courts and persons cam● to have their power and actions sc●●ned, it was not moderating or restraining, or regulating, or limiting, but they must down and be taken away: Merciless m●n (saith he) think there is nothing done, u●l●sse m n be undone; they never give over touching, till they come to ruining.  
I hear that Cromwell, or Ireton or both, have sent a Letter to his Council of State, of very high language and design concerning me; but as M. Solici●or Cook said against the King, The people should not live at the nod and beck of Tyrannical men. And the 10 page charges the King, that the King's wicked design was to tear up the foundations of Government and Law, that Law should be no protection to any man's person or estate. But I value it not, though I lament that his tyrannical influence and power should have such extension upon the present Counsels of both Nations. I desire to wait upon the Lord of hosts▪ the high and mighty God, and my everlasting Father.  
And I hear also that Ha●rison did tear his hair almost, and gnash his teeth with indignation and en●ie at me for my last Book, which is indeed a Book of the light of their excessive illegal Tyranny and cruelty unto me, which kind of action was just like the Queens, who when (as it was reported) the late King went to the House, with an intention as it was bruited abroad to have murdered those members that stood in his way, viz. The Lord Kymbolton, M●. Pym, etc. But Sir, for such men to have influence upon you, and the command of the Counsels and power of the Kingdom, will make you dishonour the Lord to your ruin, and infamy to all g●nerations. And as for Harrison● bitte● hatred of me, I care not for it, so long as the Lord loves me.  
The actions of Tyranny and lust are sufficiently displayed by Mr Pym and Mr. St. J●hn against Strafford, and indeed in the whole Scriptures of the high and mighty God and all rational men; such wicked m●n are judged to be the cause of bloody wars, though they would turn it upon the innocent person that are their opposers, and are under thei● horrible cruelty: Therefore in my cruel bonds I cry out to you, and to all my fellow Soldiers and the good people of the Nation that are for righteousness, justice, and freedom from slavery, (as I would against so many Murderers that would set upon me in the high way) Murder, Murder, Murder, and I say Murder, and if you and they do intent to murder me, I say as Christ said to that Apostate Judas, What you do, do quickly; for I am more willing to go to God my Father, then to live with cruel men, and see my native Country unde● lust and spoil: Blame me not, seeing I am so cruelly dealt with by those that have been the highest Pretenders to righteousness in the World, and I am suit I was used with far more civility and humanity from the late King's party when I was their prisoner, (in pursuit of them at York fight) than I am from you and your House, for when they had gotten all I had from me, they gave me good accommodation with them gratis, though I did reason freely against their cause for the Parliament face to face, (viz.) with Col. Tildesly, and Lieutenant Colonel Ger●ard sometimes an hour together; but for your parts I have not had any of my Arrears from you though I moved your House to it, no consideration of my damages, charges, and losses by you, and beyond my ability to bear; losses in my horses since I came to prison, one by death, the others by selling at under rates for half as much less as I might have had, if my condition had not been under Tyranny; and I have not ●a● one jot allowance from you since my imprisonment, and if I had not had a little of my own left, and some affection from my friends, you had had your and their murderous ends long ere this.  
SIR, It is the pretence of cruel men, to use the words of God, of truth, of righteousness but believe them not without actions; I see we must all come to the actions of men, if we would have peace and settlement, by pretences and suggestions, a lustful man in power is a transcendent Imp of Satan, to hinder just things and prejudice the just, as they reported of Christ, That he was a seducer, a winebibber a friend to Publicans and sinners to take him away out of envy lust, and fear that his light would take with all party's; Wicked men, mere Politicians and Statesmen, hate light, and G●d, and Scripture amongst the People, though they pretend never so much to it; and therefore they keep Patriots close Prisoners, and deny them Pen, Ink, and Paper, and the society of friends, ●nd they had rather release Barrabas then Christ; light amongst the people is their torment and horror, and they would make or take any occasions to destroy them; It is an evident sign of their wicked cause what ever their pretences a●e to ●he contrary, 1. part of the Parliaments Declaration page 8 9, 1●, 11, 12, 13, 16 As Hen. 3 did suppress the Schools that were in his days to teach the People the knowledge of Magna Charta, as Sir Edward Cook declares in the Proem to the second part of his Instit. Wicked men hate and curs● the day of light, and knowledge in the hearts of the People; let the world judge of the actions of these d●yes. The tyrannical governor under whose hands I am, denies my friend's access to me, contrary to the Laws of the land, beyond the commitment, imprisoned two arbitrarily, wickedly, and illegally, that came to see me according to the Liberties of England and that are faithful to the Interest of justice to the People for aught I know; nay, I believe more faithful than himself; ●h●i● Names are, Janes Harding and Robert Weaver; also obstructed the fundamental right of the People in petitioning, gives out that his will is his Law, and commanded a Petition from one Master John Church in this Town which was on foot, The substance whereof was, That Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn and the rest in the Tower might be less to the due course of the Law●, etc. And one of the Governors' creatures here in the Castle in the presence of Witnesses, did declare that he could murder me and justify it, or words to that Effect. If you and the House will not justify the Governor in his actions, I desire before the God of the Heavens, and the Earth, and the People that I may have Justice against him; for such Tyrannical practices are contrary to God, nature Law, and Scripture in whomsoever, and by such Practices he may destroy the People of the Town here and Country at pleasure, in their Liberties and Lives; as for me if I must be murdered by you etc. and by Whitchcock who for aught I know intends out of envy to murder me, and to think to gain your favour thereby, under whose illegal, unrighteous and envious jurisdiction I am, as if I were willing to be privy to my own death, I should desire you then that it may be done quickly, but I cast myself upon the Lord his excellency, his justice, his truth, and faithfulness, and when you have done it, you can do it no more.  
But I am committed by the words of the thing which some men call a Warrant (and it is in general terms) to stifle the just rights of Appeal for justice; and the words are▪ viz. for printing the Book tending to mutiny in the Army, and sedition in the People. The Grandees had their politic tale at their finger's end, only to show you that generals are no crimes or Charges in Law, Acts 25.27. John ●. 51. The second Part of the Lord Cook● Instit. fol 52▪ 53, 315 318, 591, 615, 616. 1 part Book Declar. p. 3●, 77, 20●. ●45. and the Votes upon the Impeachment of the 11. Members, and Petition of Right the 3. C. R.; The Act that abolished the Star-chamber, 17 C. ●. The deliberate opinion of all the Judges of England, the third year of King James, in Answer to the 22. Objection of Archbp. Bancroft and the whole Clergy, and no Commoner of Engl. is to be restrained of his Liberty, by Petition or Suggestion to the King or to his Council, or any unless it be by Indictment, or presentment or good and lawful men, and he is not to lose life, limb, liberty, or estate, but by a legal Trial, by a Grand jury, or Petty-jury of his Peers or equals, which the Lord Cook calls the ancient and undoubted right of an Englishman, 5 Edw. 3. cap. 9 25 Edw. 3. c. 4. 37 Edw. 3. c. 18. 38 Edw. 3 c. 9 42 Edw. 3. c. 3. 11 R. 2. c. 6. 2 part of the Lord Cooks Instit. fol. 46.  
Though there were a just Authority that committed me, yet Legislators ought not to be Law Executors; it hinders and obstructs justice in cases of final appeal, etc. (but in case of male administration of justice by any person or persons. 14. & 29. c of Magna Charta, the Exposition upon them. Second part of the L. Cooks Inst. 29. 46. and Rol. Parl. 5 R. 2. num. 45. and Rol. Parl. 5 Hen. 4. numb. 14 numb 79. 5 H. 4 cap. 6. and 11 H. 6. cap. 11. and 23 H. 6. cap. 11, and 15. 4 H. 8. cap. 8. and 1.2. Phil. and Mar. cap. 10. 4 Part of Inst. fol 25. and 1 part of the Book of Decl. p. 48, 278. I cannot find out one jota or Punctilio of law, reason, God, nature, Scripture, faith, or honour, in the deal with me; I appeal to the People that are rational and .  
By arbitrary power, Fear, Jealousy, Lust, wicked Policy, and Ambition is Lord and Master; and by it (viz.) the power of sword and lust, they have murdered their dearest and nearest relations, as Mahomet his wife, the fair Irene, as the History calls her, in the presence of all his Officers cut off her head with his Cemiter, in policy, as he said, to appease his Soldiers; Mahomet strangled his young brother 18 months old, and said, It stood with the policy, peace, and safety of his State. Solyman the cruel Tyrant, his innocent son Mustapha, because he was beloved of the Soldiers and the people, and Mustapha's son also. The course of wicked Pharaoh, Saul, Herod, Ahab, Jezebel, Kain; and the world may speak as to our days: and indeed, the fearful and lamentable judgements of God and man have come upon Tyrants. Policy, Ambition and Envy are Devils incarnate, yet are corrupt men's gods. Tyrant's cannot abide Law and Settlement, and their cruelty is their ruin. Just Authority is to lift up the afflicted and oppressed, and by their authority to bridle domestical wrong, to strengthen the diseased, to heal that which is sick, to bind up that which is broken, to bring again that which is driven away, to seek that which is lost, and not with force and cruelty to rule, Ezek. 34.4.  
Therefore I do in the name of the Lord of Hosts, and the most excellent God, the God of Justice and Mercy, demand Freedom from my illegal Bonds, and reparations therefore, to the honour of the Lords Justice, the acknowledging of his name, and to the keeping of your Faith, and the honour of our Laws and Liberties, and lay you self at the foot of God, Scriptures and Laws, And to this end and purpose, that the Lord may be acknowledged in Judgement, I do propose that M. Cook your Orator against the King, may be made Judge betwixt us, and may have an Oath given him of impartial Judgement without fear, favour or affection, and that you may choose any whom you will, so many to so many of my friends, of the Army, or out, to be my Antagonist in a public audience, and writers on both sides, and I will engage to prove the deal with me are illegal, barbarous and Tyrannical, contrary to the Laws of God and Nature, the nation, the scripture, your own declarations, the declarations of Parliament and all the Capital obligations of justice and mercy, that ever I heard of in the world; And though you have given him lately much worldly estate and honour, yet I will trust the Lord with the innocency and splendour of my cause, and I hope the Lord will make righteousness in his Spirit Supreme, to all honour, glory and safety, according to his own word●, so I rest,  
From my illegal cruel arbitrary imprisonment, under an unnatural and unholy Tyrant in Windsor Castle. The Lord his weak and unworthy servant, and in the people's cause, William Bray.   

My Dedication and Supplication to God my Maker and Father.  
OH Lord, Thou who art indeed excellent, t●e great Commander of all the world, who turnest all thing upside down, who hast the hearts of all men in thy hand and canst make the greatest persecutors and afflicting powers of darkness, stoop to thee, Oh Lord, my God and Father, great are my enemies, one who is called Excellency; But oh Lord it is thou alone art Excellency, faithfulness and truth; and the others are Crowel, Ireton, H●s●●rig, Harrison and Whitchcock, under those Tyrannical hand I am: my cause is the cause of thy people, the general cause of Justice and Freedom; Thou knowest the sincerity of my spirit; oh Lord my enemy's are in great honour and power, by the people's blood, labours and treasure; If it be thy holy will let them acknowledge thee God of the whole earth, whose name and power hath made great changes in the world; Let them in their conversations acknowledge the Scriptures, and testimonies of thyself, the laws and liberties of thy people, without respect of persons; If not, oh Lord put a hook in their nostrils, and a bridle in their jaws, that they may not use wicked and crafty policy, and the treasure of thy people make them destroy one another, against their laws and liberties: Uniteth people that are sincere to thee, and one to another, in righteousness and judgement, make up thy Jewels, and show some w●● or other, some evident testimony of love to thy people, against the bloody designs of thine and their enemies, under what cloak or form soever they appear in the world; keep me steadfast unto thyself against a●l the bloody intentions of my close politic and mighty enemies, and l●t thy name and honour be ex●lted as indeed it is, whether in persecution or freedom: And if oh Lord they have such murderous thoughts towards me, as O Lord thou knowest their actions are hitherunto wicked enough, and if they bring forth the wickedest and extremest into action, O Lord let me continue constant in thy strength unto the de●th, and make me willingly to embrace my condition, and give testimony to thyself, and to the testimonies of thyself in Scripture, in spirit, in my own heart the testimony of my enemies themselves, and the enemies of our Laws and Liberties: Purge me also O Lord, oh purge me; whilst I am in this mortality, and let me die before I die: So prays thy weak servant, and one of thy sons, in my cruel bondage as to men and freedom as to thee.  
Whilst th' Author striveth for his Country's good,  
An under-Tyrant thirsteth for his blood.  
His Gaoler Whi●chcock arbitrarily  
Heapeth upon him greater Tyranny.  
Our deer-bought Freedom now's not worth a straw:  
Let all men judge, when Whitchcock's will's a Law.  
FINIS.