THE RELATION Of the unjust proceedings against captain BVRLEY AT WINCHESTER And of his magnanimous and Christian suffering.  
Printed Anno Dom. 1648.   

NOn paena said causa facit Martyrem. It is not the punishment but the cause that makes a Martyr. Wee must not prostitute this honour, least wee fall into the Error of the times, and cloath impiety with the rob of righteousness: Let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil doer, or as a busy-body in other mens matters saith the Apostle Saint Peter: 1 Pet: 4.15: Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf.  
he suffers as a Christian; first, that suffers for the maintenance of the gospel, and he sufferth for the maintenance of the gospel, that suffereth for any part of righteousness, with a righteous heart: A righteous heat is that that is prepared to suffer for all of it, for one part as well as another, and makes God and Christ the aim and scope of his sufferings: that undergoes his afflictions, not for his own glory but for Gods: No action or passion is right that hath not God for the utmost end of it: God is the God of righteousness, and Christ is the King of righteousness, he is Melchisedeck the King of righteousness, and he is King of Salem; The King of Peace; First King of righteousness, and then King of Peace; It is the order that the spirit hath set down Heb. 7.2. He that suffers for peace and righteousness, than suffers for Melchisedec the King of Salem, for the King of righteousness, and for the King of peace: if his intentions be right, and clear, he suffers for Christ; this will teach us how we ought to value of ourselves and others in point of suffering, yet with some difference in the inquisition, for ourselves we are to deal more strictly, and to examine the heart and the inward thoughts, as well as the outward carriage of the business, for our own hearts are within our cognisance, and God hath given a commission to every mans conscience to be an impartial judge of itself: But in other mens cases we have no cognisance within, and therefore when the cause is good, and the external carriage doth not evidently betray the heart, we ought to make the best interpretation, where evidence failes, Charity is to be the judge; and the favourable sentence, thereof is much encouraged and strengthened, where the righteousness of the cause is public and known, and illustrated by the unjust proceedings of the adversary against it, and the cruelty of their actions, for besides that righteousness hath no need of iniquity, mercy doth usually keep the door of Iustice, and if she be absent, wee may conclude the other is not within.  
All this or a great part of it may conduce to the right regulating of our thoughts concerning the subject of this book.  
The quarrel that he maintained was not( I confess) the immediate or entire gospel of Christ Iesus, for though it is to be feared wee have Heathens and worse then Heathens enough amongst us, Yet this is not yet made the open and general quarrel. In time perhaps they may be more clear if they prosper, and can dispatch away that which God hath set for the guard both of Law and gospel: The Orderly Government of the Magistrate.  
But though he suffered not expressly for the christian profession, yet for divers mean parts and branches thereof which are: obedience to the supreme power and the maintenance thereof, the defence and rescue of oppressed and abused Majesty: The Vindication of his wronged innocency and rights: The glorious attempt of subduing, and opposing perjury, treason, rebellion, faction, and the rest of that rabble of mischiefs and villainies which now are gotten up into the throne, and have put on the purple robes dyed in the blood and Gore of the loyal and faithful people of this Land.  
And as his sufferings were illustrated by a christian cause. So they were rendered much more glorious, by the Christian manner of his death. wherein his charity to his Enemies and persecutors is noted to have been the sweet companion of his patience and resolution: in so much that it is related to have been his charge unto his mournful wife that Shee should never seek revenge of those that were the unjust and cruel instruments of his death. Enough a man would think if there were any sparks of honor or ingenuity( I speak not of religion) left alive in their hearts, to have overcome their malice, and to have made them ashamed of their bloody Cruelty.  
He was not content onely to forgive his persecutors himself, but took care for the preventing of all revengeful thoughts that might take fire from the flamme of conjugal love towards him in the bosom of his wife that he left behind him. O happy Combination of Magnanimity and meekness! Oh heavenly Complexion of a true christian heart. The marriage of which 2. together in the soul, all the human wisdom and prudence in the world, could never make up, but onely the grace of the divine Spirit. And then how beautiful was he in his death, that was thus illustrated with a good cause, and a christian affection with magnanimity of heart in the defence of the one, and with charity towards his Enemies for the manifestation of the other?  
But as the splendour of a Diamond, or precious ston, is rendered the more visible by the addition of a foil. So we may see the Glory of this innocent and valiant sufferer more clearly, yet in the great and palpable injustice of his persecutors appearing abundantly in tke strange manage of his trial at Winchester. Which I shall here set down as I have received it by relation.  
It was had before sergeant Wild acting a judge without commission from him, where the fountain of authority& Judicature, doth reside under God. The want whereof is enough to turn the justest sentence into a murder; Prosecuted by one steel a Lawyer, hardened it seems for the purpose, for such enterprizes who there Acted the Kings Attorney, without a patent, or any such power from his Majesty. And both these may seem to have performed their parts much alike. A judge without any legal Commission acting against Law, and a Kings Attorney without the royal designation, acting in the Kings name against the King, pursuing a loyal Subject unto death for undertaking the faithful defence of his Majesty. And charging him with treason: because he opposed those that committed it.  
These 2. no doubt were ready and provided for their several parts.  
But a jury was not so easily to begotten together for their purpose, until they had invited one to Dinner, that was to serve their turns in that feat, and received instructions from him as it is supposed: who undertaking to be the fore-man they made up a jury, and therein you may imagine they will not likely be at a fault if there be but 12. in a County that may serve their turns.  
Well the Jury at length is gotten together, and then the business is set in motion.  
The judge set upon the Bench, and captain Burley at the bar, and a sad emblem of our miserable times, When Treason and Seditiion, is in the tribunal as the judge, and Loyalty and fidelity is arraigned as a Prisoner, and an Offendor: Thus Light is put for darkness, and darkness for. Light &c. and may we not than justly appeal unto God in the words of the Psalmist. arise thou O Lord, and judge thou the Earth.  

The CHARGE is as followeth.  
THat the said captain John Burley was the chief cause or incendeary for causing a drum to be beat up, For God and King Charles, at Newport in the Isle of Wight, and causing a mutiney there, contrary to divers Ordinances of Parliament made in that behalf.  
This the Monkey Attorney undertook to make appear to the jury to be treason, partly by treacherous and fraudulent alegations, of repealed Statutes, most unchristianly and impudently there by attempting to betray the consciences of the jury, and the life of a poor innocent man, and partly by misapplications of the Statute of treason of the 25th. Edw. 3d. and what piety or honesty can be looked for, from those that can countenance and practise such impudent and cruel deceit and falsehood even in matter of Blood.  
The jury when they had their instructions, are dismissed, but the matter falling into debate amongst them,( though it's like they were willing enough to be blinded, to serve the turns of those that had employed them) yet the matter was too palpable to be dissembled by them: They find themselves, far short of any evidence from law to find a Bill of Treason against the captain.  
Therefore they return to the bar to require further satisfaction, because the Statutes that Mr. steel urged were repealed, and so, voided of force: and the statute of the 25th. of Edward the 3d: did not seem to them to come home unto the business. Since the high Treasons that are there set down are only these.  
1 The compassing or imagining the Kings death, or the Queens, or their eldest son and heir.  
2 The violating of the Kings Companion, or the Kings eldest Daughter unmarried, or the wife of the Kings eldest son and heir.  
3 The levying of war against our sovereign Lord the King in his realm, or to be adherent to the Kings enemies in his realm, giving to them ●id or comfort, in the realm, or else where.  
4 The counterfeating the Kings Great seal, or his privy seal, or his money.  
5 The bringing of false money into this realm.  
6 The slaying the Chancellor, treasurer, or the Kings Iustices, being in their places, doing their Offices.  
And the jury it seems though they looked never so much through Mr: Steeles Spectacles, could not yet red captain Burleys act to be treason in any of these particulars, for if it were any of the treasons there mentioned, sure it must be either in the first branch or in the third, and whether captain Burley had any thought of Compassing or imagining the Kings death, or the Queens, or their eldest son and heir, or of levying war against the King, or of adheering to his Enemies; let the world judge: unless to endeavour the defence and rescue of the King, be to imagine or compass his death or destruction, and to oppose the Kings Enemies, be to join with them:  
This was a matter of hard digestion it seems unto the consciences of the Grand jury; But Master-Steele would not so give them over until he had given rhem a medicine for their queasy stomacks, that they may put over this hard meat.  
He excuseth the matter with shane enough, concerning the repealed statutes which he urged, telling them, that it was true indeed, they were repealed, but he had forgot to tell them so; But why then did he urge them at all? or why did the judge and the learned Bench forget to rectify so great an oversight in the Attorney, that might be so prejudicial unto innocent blood? or is that man fit think you to manage any public matter that is endowed with such a traitorous memory, and such a pernicious forgetfulness? But he must be pardonned for that: but to make up the fault, he tells them that the Statute of the 25th. of Edw. 3d. was that he stood upon, and to satisfy the doubt whether it were Treason by that Statute or no? He asked them, whether they did not believe that the King was virtually in the Parliament? This it seems they wanted either wit or honesty to evade: and knew not how to distinguish between a Parliament joined with the King, and acting all things by his consent and authority, wherein the King is virtually without doubt, and there he may be personally when he pleaseth: and A degenerate headles seditious thing, sitting under the name of a Parliament, rejecting the King, disclaiming him, and acting against him. But it seems the jury were willing to swallow. Small colours will serve the turn, when men are willing to minister unto wickedness; they are now persuaded to find the Bill.  
The Bill being found, and the scruple of Law being so learnedly removed by Mr. Attorney.  
The Question of the fact is brought into agitation.  
The mayor was now taken for proved and granted, let reason, or law stand never so much against it, viz:  
That he that endeavours to defend his King, and vindicate him, &c: is a traitor against the King, and guilty of high treason.  
So the minor is now to be made good, viz. But captain Burley did endeavour to defend and vindicate the King; &c. The jury of life and death are they to whom the examination of this is committed; And the evidence are the witnesses of the Captaines fact:  
The jury therefore is called to the bar consisting as is averred for the most part of sequestrators, or other Officers of the Houses; to hear the evidence against the Prisoner: The Question is between Captain Burley now and the witnesses, whether he were guilty of the fact or no?  
He holds the negative, denies himself to be guilty as of a crime, for so ir was now stated, and represented, And desires leave to speak for himself; The Judge conceived, it seems, there might be danger in that, to transgress the rules of Parliament proceeding, and therefore thinks better to divert him with some faire words for the present, to this purpose, captain Burley you shall be sure to have a faire trial, and be heard to speak at full: ●ut now the Kings evidence is to be heard, and therefore you must forbear: the poor Prisoner must be content, in hope that his turn might come to speak anon:  
The Witnesses that were brought against him, were three as is related: A Boy, a Woman, and A Man.  
The Boy is said to have been of about 14 yeares of age, And his evidence was this, viz: That captain Burley wished him to go for a drum which accordingly he did, and that as he brought it, the drum was taken from him.  
The Woman, That shee heard Capt. Burley say he would be the first that should enter.  
The Mans: That the mayor of the town came to the drummer to demand the drum, and that the Drummer gave him ill Language, and that thereupon captain Burley reproved the Drummer, asking him whether he knew who it was he speak to, and telling him it was the Mayor of the Town wishing him to deliver the drum which accordingly was done,  
See here what a faire evidence there was to prove him guilty of the fact, which if they could have made never so clear, Was no reason nor offence, but a matter of Duty in the judgement of the Law.  
But this is enough to satisfy the jury who knew well enough no doubt what they had to do. Therefore with this Evidence they are speedily sent away, to consult together for the bringing in of their Verdict.  
And now the captain desires the performance of that promise that was lately made him, of a fair admittance to speak for himself.  
To that purpose therefore he renewed his Petition; but Iustice is never in season with the instruments of unrighteousness; That which was too soon before, was now to late: the Judge tells him that all he could speak, was only for the information of the jury, who were now gone, and therefore it was to late for him to speak now.  
But if the judge had been but so just as to have consulted with the Heathen Poet he would have  told him that 
Nulla unquam de morte hoins  
cunctatio longa est,  But wild beasts are commonly of much speed when they one in pursuit of their prey.  
But why might not the jury have been stayed to make good the word of a reverend judge, if not to hear the answer of a poor prisoner for his life? or if they were gone, why might they not have been called again?  
But indeed it might have been a great hindrance to the business, and that question of Nicodemus joh: 7.51. is now out of date. Doth our Law judge any man before it hear him, and know what he saith; where the Law is not the Judge no wonder if the Prisoner want a hearing.  
Well. the jury return, and find the prisoner guilty of high treason, right or wrong, it was so decreed, and they must do the business they were called for.  
And thus the mayor and Minor being made good by the two Iuries.  
The judge he makes up all with the bloody conclusion, pronouncing the Sentence of death upon him.  
Which was accordingly as wickedly and cruelly executed, as it was christianly suffered and undergone, His body is drawn upon an Hurdle to the gallows. And there hanged, and afterwards cut down, and Quartered, and the Quarters hang up upon stakes or poles.  
And this was the unjust barbarous massacre of this loyal and valiant christian.  
And yet least all this might not be Glory enough unto the cruelty of that unrighteous intruder into Indicature, let me commend 2. passages more into your notice, to show the kindness and piety of the Judge, unto his poor wife who petitions him for two things; The one that his poor Estate might be divided between his Wife and Children  
To this he replies, That her Husband was a traitor, and that his Estate was not in his power to dispose off but but in the power of the Parliament. and therein he committed another act of injustice toward the King, to whom we know all Traytors goods are forfeited by the laws.  
Another request was, that shee might have his body to bury; to that He replies with an unchristian Ieere( what may perhaps prove truer than he is a ware of to his small comfort) that he thought he should do her a discurtesie in it, for if his body were suffered to hang there, The Cavaliers that came by would say, there hangs honest Capt. Burley that was true to his King. But I wish that wicked sergeant to take heed, that that Ieere of a poor distressed widow, be not one day returned into his bosom in the like punishment, when they that pass by shall say here hangs a wicked sergeant who was a traitor to the Law, to his King, and to his country.  
Yea let me advice him and all his party to remember those deep stains of innocent blood, wherewith they have blotted their souls, and to consider how they will one day answer for so many lives as they have sacrificed to their seditious cruelty: to remember that though their measure be great, yet blood fills a place, and it will one day run over if they take not heed to their great Confusion: to go yet and humble themselves before God, and to their gracious King; That if it be possible their Horrid iniquities and high impieties may find a pardon. If they stay too long the door of mercy may be shut. As they have not been ashamed to commit such notorious wickedness; so let them not now be ashamed to repent of it; they have a merciful God and a gracious Prince to deal with, and though they have highly provoked both of them, Yet if they will return, with humility and sincerity to both, there may be comfort for them; but if they be still resolved to continue in those bloody and wicked enterprises they have undertaken, let them be well assured that the Iustice of God will find them out at the length, and it is charity both to them and the Church of God, to pray, that they may be speedily cut off: that they may not live to heap miseries upon the Church, and condemnation upon themselves by their wickedness. The Lord in mercy give them a true sense of their sins, and of their wretched and miserable condition that they are in, that their souls may be saved through a timely repentance, or else put his hook into the nostrils of those ravening Wolves that worry the poor innocent people of the land.  
Now let me advice all men to be encouraged by the death of this noble suferer to put on that meek temper of sanctified courage, Consecrated for our imitation, by our blessed Saviour upon the cross, who prayed for thē that crucified him,& became a suitour unto his Father for the pardon of their wickedness who destroyed him with furious and ravenous rancour of spirit, for nothing but his innocency and righteousness? which was illustriously seconded by that great leader under Christ of the Christian warfare in the New Testament, St. Stephen: who whilst his malicious persecutors were pelting him to death, and sending forth volleys of stones from their hands,& of malicious thoughts, and rancourous despite against him, harder then those stones out of the quarills of their flinty hearts: He is offering up petitions, for their pardon at the Throne of Grace: and makes it his last svit upon his bended knees unto the almighty, in which he breaths out his holy soul into the bosom of his Saviour: Lord lay not this sin unto their Charge. And when he had so said, he fell a sleep; patterns. That should be made the frequent prospect of meditation by the suffering party in these evil times: That wee may remember not to divide the Christian cause of our sufferings, wherewith God hath honoured us, and allayed the bitterness of them,( for which his name be for ever magnified) from that Christian temper wherewith we ought to suffer, consisting of humility, and Amity even to our enemies, nor from that Christian aim or scope of them, which is the Glory of God. without which, neither the righteousness of the cause, Nor the acrimony of our sufferings, will purchase us a true right unto that Glorious title of Martyrs. since wee know that the holy Apostle hath recorded it as a great and unreversible rule of christianity: That though we give our bodies to be burned, and have not charity, it profitteth us nothing. and this charity, must extend itself even unto our persecutors. ●ut yet least it should prove a charity mistaken, gives me leave to put in a word or two here for the direction of my fellow sufferers, in this point, and to show them, that are ignorant of it, and to mind others that may forget it, of the nature, bounds and limits, of this charity to our Enemies, in these few theses or Positions.  
1. That this charity that we owe unto them, doth not at all bind us to comply with them in their wickedness, or to countenance their ungodly practices. Nay it doth forbid us to do it, and that even out of regard of love unto them, as well as unto justice, innocency and Loyalty, For he that complies with another in wickedness, or countenanceth him in it, doth as it were set to his helping hand to set him forward into Hell, and is in great danger to tumble himself along with him, and that is no act of love either unto them or to ourselves.  
Besides, that The Order of the work of Charity doth discharge us clearly from any such thing: for though we are bound to love our enemies, yet this love must act in subordination to that love we owe to God, our own souls, to the public good, to the honour of the gospel, to the preservation of the Church, to the substitute of God, to innocent men, and even to righteousness and innocency itself: All which are to be served with our charity before them, and have power to inhibit all acts of love( if it might be so called) toward them, that thwart any of these or ly in opposition unto them.  
2. That this charity toward our Enemies, doth not any way abridge us from acting against them in their ungodly designs. Wee fail in our love toward them, if wee do not hinder them in all we lawfully may, from proceeding and prospering in their impious enterprizes, for such prosperity is their misery, as one hath said excellently well.  
Si miserum est voluisse prava, potnisse miserius. If it be a misery to wish or to attempt that which is evil, it is a greater misery, to prosper in it and to be able to bring it to pass. Which will discover a great deal of prosperity mistaken amongst us in these times, if men were not drunk with pride and self love. Now charity bindeth us, not onely not to set forward the evil or unhappiness of any, but also to do what we can within our bounds and limits to hinder it. And here also the same engagements before mentioned, which are to be served before them, as they forbid us to join with them, so they engage us much more strongly than seems to be apprehended by most men in these dayes, to act in opposition unto them, otherwise our oscitancy, and sloth or cowardice herein, may make us guilty, both of encouraging them in their sins, and of the ruin of the Church and State, and of the oppression, that I say no more, of the Lords annoynted, whom we are bound to defend and maintain, both in common Iustice and piety, which bindeth all to maintain the Ordinance of God, which is the power that is established over us in him, and to defend that which God hath appointed for our benefit, as is the Magistrate, and especially the supreme, and also out of thankfulness as well as duty, when the cause of his sufferings is in all or a great part, the defence of our Interest, and that in those things wherein wee are most concerned, as are our Religion, Liberties, laws, &c. upon which dependeth all our spiritual and temporal good.  
And it may seem something strange, that men should act so for the deliverance of him, who suffereth so much for the defence of them. This is a point of conscience, as well as of honour, and wee are grown a man would think unto a strange temper, if neither will work upon us: is it not even time than for us to be spoyled of the Glory both of our christian and English name? But what said David unto Abner, when he and his Army were asleep, and took no care to guard the person of Saul their King from violence? This this is not good that thou hast done: As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your Master the Lords anointed. 1. Sam. 26.16. And what said our Saviour unto Pilate? If my kingdom were of this world, than would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Iewes And was Abner worthy to die, becase he neglected the defence of a wicked Saul. And shall they think themselves worthy to live that will do nothing for the vindication of a righteous and pious Prince trodden under foot by wicked and ungodly men.  
Can they believe that their souls shall be able to answer it unto God, or their reputations unto the world, and to posterity? was there ever so good a King deserted by an unworthy Nation, suffering for them, because he will not sell their liberty to purchase his own freedom, not buy his his own safety with the ruin of their souls, by prostituting the Church, and the chast and pure Virgin truth of the gospel unto the promiscuous lust of all kind of Blasphemies and Innovations? will there be no account for this another day? let not any so far injure the Charity of my pen as to imagine that this is the issue of any bloody or revengeful heart; my aim is much rather, to prevent bloodshed and desolation, then to further it, which with Gods blessing I see not yet but might be easily done if we had but harts to declare ourselves unanimously for Iustice and right in time, and to disarm those whose husbandry it is to sow the seeds of perpetual discords and divisions in this poor Nation, and to mancipate, and enslave us to a continued succession of miseries and mischiefs: The intolerable weight and burden whereof, is like enough to make posterity Curse, the cowardice and faithlesnesse of those unworthy Progenitors that have exposed them to such a bondage of servitude and destruction, and that begot them to such insupportable affliction.  
3. Yet notwithstanding all this what ever actions, conscience and fidelity may engage us unto, we must abandon all thoughts therein of private revenge, or rejoicing in the hurt or ruin( qua tale,) of our most pernicious adversaries, but only so far as they do by their own wickedness and stubborness make it of necessity to the preservation of Gods glory, His Church, The public good of the King& People, the vindication of oppressed righteousness& innocency,& must proceed there in not as the instruments of our own affections, but of the Authority of the supreme Magistrate, whose known restraint and oppression, is without all doubt a sufficient commission, if no other may be had in such a case; The Law arming every subject with authority enough to defend the Magistrate, and it being an undoubted consequence in the rule of proportion: That if every subject be allowed without breach of Iustice, to defend himself with arms against private force, where he is debarred of recourse to the Magistrate for aid, through want of opportunity: It must needs be as just and allowable for the Subiects without any other commission, but that which their common duty to the Magistrate, and their oaths of allegiance, and supremacy, with the laws, and regard of public safety, give them: to stand for the defence of the Magistrate and public, against usurped power, where they are denied access unto the Magistrate through the restraint of his liberty by the force of the said usurpers; yet stil with such a hart, as much rather desiring that such an evil might be remedied by their conversion them their confusion, if it may stand with justice and the honour of God: and looking sadly upon that necessity which drives unto a more severe course against them than is otherwise desired.  
And Fourthly in case, we fall into their hands, and the Lord shall permit them for our sins, or for our trial, or for the sealing of truth and righteousness, to exercise any kind of unjust cruelties against us: Though nothing must draw us to aclowledge or submit unto their unjust power, Yet we must be ready to forgive them, whatsoever is done by them therein against ourselves in any of our private interests, whether it be in life, goods, or honour, or any other such like:  
Lastly to make up our Martyrdoms, though perhaps, wee are not arrived unto that high honour, as to suffer expressly, for the faith of Christ Iesus, yet we must be sure that we suffer in the faith of Christ Iesus with holy& christian affections, untainted with vain glory or any other ungodly dispositions of heart therein, and that we defile not our own blood  shed in a righteous cause, by the wickedness of our lives. All our loyalty will never save us, nor our constancy in the defence of any particular rule of godliness, If wee give ourselves the liberty to wallow in the mire of lust, intemperance, or uncleanness or to blaspheme God, or to any other kind of known sin, so as to dispense with ourselves therein; None but a good man can be the Subject of Martiredome.  
I hope I may be pardonned for this advice, if the great uncertainty of our present condition, be considered, and how probable it is yet; that the insolent and impious cruelty of our Adversaries may be yet longer armed against us for our sins, and may call perhaps many more of us, unto such like trials as these: unto which there is great necessity that we should take care to prepare ourselves, by framing ourselves unto the right rules and temper of true Martiredome, and Christian suffering.  
For the furtherance whereof give me leave to insert here an excellent passage of St. Cyprian, taxing the Abuses and miscarriages of some Confessors in his Time, whereby the judgements of God were conceived by him to be pulled upon the Church, as perhaps now they are continued upon us by the same means, desiring all those of the suffering party to take notice thereof so far as they shall be more or less concerned therein:   

CYprian. De Causis persecutionis: Intelligendum est et confitendum pressura istius tam turbidam vastitatem, quae gregem nostram maximâ ex parte depopulataest, et adhuc usque populatur, secundum peccata nostra venisse: dum viam Domini non tenemus, nec data nobis ad salutem Caelestia mandata servamus; fecit Dominus noster Uoluntatem patris Et nos non facimus Domini voluntatem patrimonio et lucro students: superbiam Sectantes: aemulationi et dissensioni vacantes: simplicitatis et fidei negligentes: saeculo verbis solum, et non factis renunciantes: unusquisque sibi placentes et omnbus displicentes: vapulam itaque Ut meremur quas enim plagas, quae Verbera nonmeremur? quando nec confessores qui exemplo caeteris ad bonum esse debuerunt, tenant disciplinam Itaque dum quosdam insolenter extollit confessionis suae tumida et inverecunda iactatio, tormenta venerunt.  
It is to be understood and confessed, that, that tempestuous devastation of oppression which hath depopulated our flock for the most part, and doth yet wast it, hath befallen us according to our sins: whilst we stick not unto the way of God, nor observe those heavenly precepts, which are given us for our salvation. Our Lord did the will of his Father, but we do not the will of the Lord: But giving ourselves to the pursuit of patrimony and lucre, following after pride, yielding up our hearts to emulation and strife: Neglecting simplicity and fidelity, renouncing the world in words onely, and not in deeds, every one striving to please himself, and displeasing all others: We have justly deserved that rod which is upon our backs, for indeed what stroke or blows do we not deserve, when neither the Confessors themselves, that stand for the defence of the truth and righteousness, who ought to have been an example of good unto others, do keep within the bounds of christian discipline? And therefore whilst some are insolently puffed up with the swelling and immodest boasting of their confession: The torments of persecution are come in.  
The God of heaven give us all grace to lay this grave Admonition of that pious witness of the truth of God unto our hearts, remembering that dreadfoll Position of the Apostle. Rom. 1. 18. {αβγδ} for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness where the Apostle tells us that the wrath of God is revealed against all unrighteousness, so that though we approve ourselves never so spot, less in point of Loyalty, or be never so free from faction or Sedition, yet if wee live in other sins, this will not deliver us from the wrath of God.  
2dly That it is revealed especially, against those that hold the truth in unrighteousness, so that if we stand for truth,& practise wickedness, the wickedness of our lives is so much the more liable to Gods judgement, in as much as thereby we dishonour, that cause of truth which we stand for: and the same will blot and blemish the glory of our sufferings, and endanger us to fall short of our crown. And especially now that we are in some hope and expectation of deliverance, let us take heed, as of fainting in those eadeavours, which right and loyalty engageth us unto, with the regards of our own safety and happiness, so, of falling back again after all this Discipline that God hath sent upon us, into our former errors, and iniquities, to make voided that blessing again which we now look for: and to expose us yet unto greater judgements. And especially let us look unto the preservation of our charity, which is most in danger in such cases. That no violence or virulency, or injustice of our Enemies, nor any actions, or passions that we shall be engaged unto thereby, may shake us from our christian temper of mind, wherein this noble champion of fidelity and loyalty hath followed our blessed Saviour, and St. Stephen, and is leader unto us, and that in so eminent a manner, for our furtherance in the imitation whereof, give me leave, to commend unto you these several short meditations.  
First consider, That there is no affliction befalls us by our enemies, but it is by the appointment of our gracious God.  
2dly. That it is much less then the best of us have deserved from him by our sins.  
3. That God hath been very gracious unto us in the kind of our sufferings, in that he hath done us the honour to suffer for righteousness sake.  
4. That our adversaries, what ever their intentions are to our hurt or ruin, yet if wee receive our afflictions as wee ought to do, they shall prove whether they will or no, The instruments of Gods mercy unto us: who useth them as Rods to correct and chastise his children for their sins. As lances to open their tumours and let out their corruptions: as his drudges, to scour of the rust and filth that sticks upon us by reason of those dregs& relics of corruption that still remain in us whilst we are in this mortal Condition, and are to be wasted and consumed by the sanctified use of the cross, which the Lord is pleased apply unto us by their hand. That we may be presented pure and clean vessells of honour unto him fit for the Masters use.  
5. That in our Christian sufferings consisteth our conformity unto Christ, the conquest and glory of our faith, Haec Palma victoriae nostrae, tali curra Triumphamus. This is the palm of our victory, saith Tertullian, This is the Chariot wherein we triumph. This is the narrow gate and the streight way, that leads unto everlasting life, and God makes our Enemies, and persecutors the means to crushus through this streight passage into heaven.  
6thly. That all our Christian sufferings from them here, will be abuddantly recompensed with Glory hereafter. Every brier will bear a Rose in Heaven. Those Crownes of thorns which they plate for us here, will be Crownes of Glory above. Let us therefore Banish all impatient, all uncharitable thoughts, and affections. To conclude let me commend unto all the true-hearted christians of this Nation,( whose number God increase, for there are too few of them, that advice which St. Paul, once gave unto the Philippians. Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel of Christ. stand fast with one Spirit, with one mind, Striving together for the faith of the gospel, and in nothing terrified by your Adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of Salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. unto you it is given, therefore be not proud of it, you have not your patience nor your constancy nor your Christian fortitude from yourselves. They are the gifts of God. and unto you it is given as a privilege; as an honour, as an advantage. Therefore Be steadfast, unmovable, quit yourselves like men, and in due season, you shall reap if you faint not let us not by our impatience expose ourselves to the scorn of our Adversaries and deprive ourselves of the recompense which is set before us; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory. If we suffer with a Christian affection. Which God grant unto us all, Amen.    

A tear dropped at the memory of captain BVRLEY MARTYRED, 1647.  
twere an unchristian temper to revile  
The worst of Foes. I would baptize my style  
In Burley's innocence,& then distil  
His sufferings through the alembic of my Quill.  
Whose Sister Springs do not ore flow with grief,  
To see a Subject suffer like a thief.  
Prodigious this, the kingdoms blazing star.  
The Proto-Martyr of a second war.  
Stephen and Thee hard harts have stoned, Him then  
The man of jury, Thee the Iurie-men.  
Injustice doubles torments. We might lack  
A parallel else for Raviliacke.  
That vertue's Treason grown, hence I evince,  
That devil stabbed, Thou wouldst have saved thy Prince  
When armed burning glasses shal control  
Britaines great luminary to a hole,  
What wreaking soul steeped in Religious zeal  
Would not enlarge his quarters with his steel?  
When two rooms shall alive coffin a King  
Who would not swallow burglary? to bring  
The royal Shadow into light again.  
venturing his blood a medicine sovereign,  
Tis no pretended Paradox, maintain't:  
The same may be a Soldier and a Saint.  
Well then triumphant soul wee'l henceforth call  
Thee Michaells lieutenant general.  
Were this our Amasa laid out in sight  
'twould stay an Host, not in pursuit but flight,  
Make Victory retreat, the King re-crowne:  
Thus every Limb might underproppe the Throne.  
Surely thy death Destruction did amaze.  
And th' Hangman did not execute but gaze.  
The country were not devils: they refer  
The tragedy to them at Westminster.  
Actors are there enough, 'twas never well  
Since palace yard, had for its Neighbour Hell.  
While Furies reign, tis no unlikelie thing.  
To see men go to Heaven in a string.  
Nay, that self felon, Malice is not hide,  
'T has changed each stake into a Pyramid.  
State. hieroglyphics sure, for they in him  
proclaim to th' kingdom whats their Sanedrim.  
A drawn and quartard carcase, torn lime-meale  
By covetous faction, and mis-guided zeal.  
Wild horses of the mind, upon whom ride  
As on the City, ass, Treason and Pride.  
But great hast spoils good speed, when th'highwaies sin  
The Devil is the mounted Beggars inn.  
Cunning State-Lapidaries, who nere could  
Hammer such 
St● Ca● bu● Be● Ye● To● C●ct●  precious Adamants, with blood,  
( Nay and their own) they melt them: make us weak  
And so dissolve, what they could never break.  
Think, think, you Tyrant Subjects, what y' have got  
Those Heaven embalmed relics cannot Rot.  
His air. swollen Limbs like Trumpets North, and West,  
Shall sound a charge to every English breast.  
Those Stakes for's martird flesh, will sticks appear  
To beat the drum of every loyal ear.  
Each panting heart will an Alarum be,  
Thus for the King you have raised more then he.  
neuter those floating Isles of man shall be  
Henceforth firm continent for monarchy.  
His Name will mutiny without control,  
And cause an Hurly burly in each soul,  
Thus having raised an Army by his fall.  
look to your Gates: his blood's the hannibal.  
Your cashiered consciences will then to late  
Parley, when Innocence has forced the Gate.  
Blood guiltiness is the souls cramp, it feels,  
By it its faculties tied neck and heels:  
Yours may be bug-board by a Drum. but His  
wars Chorister hath Anthem'd into bliss  
Th Ephesian Temple Priest Erostratus,  
At one act grasped at being glorious.  
Like in intent thou art, not in desire:  
Thy Temple's sacrificed, but without fire.  
But lest thy flesh revive, and raise new stirs,  
Perhaps th'have bribed those feathered Presbyters.  
To imp their endless malice, for who knows  
But thou'lt again be quartered by the crows.  
On the Drum head how ere enrol his name,  
T'is Epitaph enough echoed by famed.  

ON THE DEATH OF captain BVRLEY.  
I Knew thee not, but ignorance of thy Name  
speaks a mere Punic in the books of famed.  
Shee with the active tempest of her breath,  
Hath hurried thee a pitch beyond thy death.  
Thou art increased, and Death was foiled in thee,  
Scatt ring the captain to a company.  
It was no puling Fate. He scorned to sneak,  
And keep his frame entire, when it should break.  
Tame expirations of the Pillow! he  
called for a greater ruin than you bee.  
he did not only suffer at the hart,  
But like the soul. placed death in every part.  
Stretch't the leave shade, and I believe that Shee  
Found not a Conquest, but a Rack of thee.  
Here was a ruin equal to our Case,  
BVRLEY's an Armnie scattered in one face.  
Come you dark-lanthorns of the new found Light,  
Our Church is anchored in the Isle of Wright.  
CHARLES is her head, and Burley made it good:  
T'was not a Souldiers, but a Martyrs blood.  
he died Rebellion-proofe, and made us know  
Allegiance ought to be preserved, and how.  
His passive valour out went Action, then  
We act as Christians, who before were men.  
His last breath on our laws did Comments writ,  
And with his purple maxims proved 'em white.  
This made them scatter the Records, for they  
The soul being fledged, did separate the day.  
Yet quartered thus, each parcel is a Tome.  
compared to which, Prinnes Margins will be none.  
He fell our Charters Martyr, and did draw  
In his best blood the Pandects of the Law.   

III. ON THE DEATH OF THE NOBLE CHAMPION OF LOYALTY captain BVRLEY.  

COuld Roman Souldiers, when Caesars name  
Was once but touched, light such unskilful flamme  
As would devour his Enemies? and shall  
Our Charles be hurried to his funeral  
Without resistance? No, heres one has mixed  
His Valour so with Loyalty, that he's fixed  
On all adventures for to save his Prince.  
Happy success implored for recompense.  
But he not seconded by prosperous Fate,  
Proves( like his Prince) too too unfortunate.  
No Action yet, scarce were his thoughts composed  
For high attempts, ere that he was opposed  
By jealousies let lesser stars decline  
Their borrowed light, and then forbear to shine,  
When that their Sun's obscured, Rivers ne're glide  
In current streams, when once their Fountaine's dried.  
Yet lively blood returning to the hart,  
Does gratefully, what it received, impart.   

he's apprehended: to such a place confined  
Of darkness, that had not his: conscience shined  
With rays of Innocence, he might have thought.  
Not he to Hell, but Hell to him was brought.  
No Furies here, but sacred zeal does keep,  
It's Watch and larum Heaven in the deep.   

When thus perplexed, yet well resolved to die,  
To hasten Fates, would be a courtesy.  
Bring him to th' bar: bring his accusers too.  
No mercies cran'd, see what can Iustice do.  
accused of Treason? who's so voided of sense  
To think it Treason to defend his Prince;  
Vote a new Name, it cannot reason be,  
To style Defended injurd majesty.   

Let Witnesses avouch the guilt and prove  
The heinous Crime of this suspected Love:  
Burley has bribed' em. He has more confessed,  
( If t'were a crime) then Malice ere could wrest  
From all their Oaths, and yet the twelve combined  
( Impanneld Im-Peeres) can him guilty find.  
The judge is turned Sergeant unto Death,  
'Rests him for Natures debt; which by his breath  
Can only be discharged, the terms express  
Of's sentence: murder in its Sunday-dresse.  
Conscience is banished, Law is ridden Post:  
Astraea harbours in another cost.  
No Goshen here, where channels stream with blood,  
And from each Quarter swell into a Flood.  
No passage now unto the holy land,  
unless the Red-Sea does divided stand   

he's dead: nor can I think to die he feared  
That was by frequent Sea-stormes still prepared.  
Could not a floating Billow be his Tomb,  
And bury him in Amphitrite s womb?  
Or could not Landsdowne grant him leave to have  
A Pyramid of fire, instead of s Grave?  
And like Eliah climb eternity  
Within a flaming chariot; but must be  
By Providence irresistible freed  
From Fire and Water, on the land to bleed?  
Iobes Wife would here teach how to punish Fate,  
And what can't be prevented, for to hate.   

Noe room for such persuasions: He will tread  
The Churches path, which patient job has lead.  
And crown his innocent and wretched dayes  
With so much patience, that shall amaze  
His cruel Enemies, those that forbid him live  
He not more pities, than he does forgive.  
His sad condoling Wife he does conjure  
By Hymens dearest bands, not to procure  
Or seek Revenge, as if his word should make  
Others their Love and Nature to forsake  
At his Request, thus he put off man,  
And showed himself a perfect Christian.   

Ioy mixed with sorrow does my soul divide  
Since that he must, that he so bravely died.  
tears shall distil in streams for grief, and when  
They are wiped off, Ile cry for Ioy again.   

Rest now blessed soul, and( whats to us denied)  
Enjoy of peace an everlasting tide.  
It would be sacrilege to doubt at all  
Thy happiness, when that thy funeral  
speaks thee true Saint, to the elysium  
A known, not beaten way is martyrdom.  
London and bristol would be for the first  
Martyrs, and Winchester for thee accursed,  
Did not your Bones( nay if but relics found)  
Both antidote and consecrate the ground.  
The Gibbet shall hereafter be had more  
In our repute, than hated twas before.  
And if it lawful were of Deaths to take  
My choice, Il'd choose the Gallows for thy sake,  
Let timorous spirits to dull ashes turn,  
Neglected lye, deprived of an urn:  
That never could, unless on virtue frown,  
And pay their chiefest Votes to die in down:  
Let their memorial, vanish and so pass  
Away more nimble than their fatal glass,  
Whilst thou shalt live by death, and by it raise  
Trophies beyond the number of thy dayes.   

Wee'l tract thy footsteps, gain what thou hast lost,  
And for success, we will implore thy Ghost.  
And whosoere doth fall shall on this ston  
Have this engraved. Heres one of Burleys Sons.  
Of Burley's who hanged, drawn and quartered died  
For loyal treason, and for Rebells pride.  
This loyal Martyr hanged and quartered paint  
In his Vermilion, and y' have drawn a Saint.    

ON captain BURLEY, martyred FOR KING CHARLES, AND MVRTHER'D By THE MEN AT WESTMINSTER.  
IS Burley dead? who says his stisted breath  
Was his life period, lies, and scandals death.  
Nay hangs him once again, and wrongs him more,  
Then did the Hangmen-Iudges all before.  
No! he lives still, and fresh, and like his name  
Is treasurer of a New life and famed:  
So near immortal, it were scarce a lye,  
To say it must out-last eternity.  
So innocently good, and free from stains,  
He hangs alone, his murtherers in chains.  
And by a lawful, and new sinless art,  
Revenges, and returns the Shooters dart,  
A pious piece of mischief, and may bee  
entitled well a martyred mystery,  
Or a mysterious martyrdom: so high,  
And full of Patience, Valour, loyalty:  
That who his story reads alone, shall look  
As on a trifle, on all Fox his book.  
And be assured bright soul, while Charles his name  
Is blown abroad by the just trump of famed,  
For all that's great or good:( in spite of all  
The dogges bark at our Sun imperial:)  
Thy Noble suffering for him shall be seen.  
And honour d next unto himself, and queen;  
A peerless pair of Princes in whose times,  
Might conquered right,& gained a crown by crimes;  
Thrice happy Burley! who so soon art laid  
In such a heat of sin, in such a shade;  
And this I le add more to thy praise and pride,  
Had st thou till Domsday lived, th'ad'st sooner died   

Monumentum Fidelitatis. A memorial of the Noble and loyal CAPT. BURLEY.  
TI's sad employment, when our friends do die,  
To melt in tears, or writ an elegy;  
But tis a duty which neglected, Wee  
From imputation cannot well be free.  
If we to Nature, or to wit pretend,  
Who can nor weep, nor writ, he is no friend:  
Nor worthy to bemoan thy Noble Fate.  
The third grand Martyr of a Tyrant State:  
Burley; nor doth my modest pen presume  
To be composed of so aspiring Plume,  
As to reach thee; who art so brave a thing,  
As scorned A life, to save a dying King.  
For Kings have Double deaths of Nature one,  
Another by A State privation;  
From which how much must all good Men esteem  
Him, who would either dy or else redeem.  
Thy cause embalmes thee; while the varied Verse,  
Of all Apolloe's sons adorns thy hearse:  
while friends in Nature weep thy Obsequies,  
Thy friends in honour, have erected Eyes:  
And look in some sublimer orb, to see  
If placed thou there A constellation be.  
And from the influence of thy Noble soul,  
Learn not to shune a fate, but to control.  
For he who meets a death, without a fear,  
o'er Death itself, becomes a conqueror.  
Where thy black Murtherers another day,  
Shall from the Earth with trembling sneak away:  
And unlamented as unhonerd die:  
Without or Epitaph or obsequy.  
Leaving no more A Chronicle to fill,  
Then that they did 'gainst laws, and Conscience kill:  
When as loud-speaking and long lasting famed;  
Shall fill her Trumpets with thy glorious Name.  
And when the last shall blow, and thou appear  
Amongst the Martyrs to thy Saviour dear:  
Those Caitiffs shall surprised with horror flee:  
And ask the way to Hell, at seeing thee.  
And by their Guilt anticipate their doom,  
Rebells with Martyrs cannot hou'd one room.  
C. A.   

AN elegy. In memorial of the worthy captain BARLEY, who was executed for endeavouring to release his Mejesty King Charles from the Isle of WIGHT. 1648,  By I. M. 
AM I awake? or dream? Who is it tells  
These Men have faith, whom we find infidels,  
With strange dilemmas is my soul perplexed  
On this side horror, murder on the next.  
A sudden passion seizes on my hart:  
My blood strives too, as if they both would part.  
Burley is dead, Shot like a falling star:  
And is true captain in another war.  
Condemned for loyalty! tis strange, yet true.  
Once more Astrea bids the world adieu.  
His Iuries brains were mixed with so much day  
They hardly could distinguish night from day:  
How shall my words in due proportion keep,  
When discord swells like billows in the deep?  
He did not loose his life, but was beguiled:  
No safety there, when as the judge is Wild.  
These are the bloody Herods, who are bent  
With guilty, to destroy the innocent.  
The World to its first Chaos now reflects.  
Here's babel, not of languages, but Sects:  
Like Phillips Clisophi, these people halt  
After the time, accounting goodness fault.  
Their torrid Zone parches our temperate climb.  
And Nilus chokes us with corrupted slime.  
sand Noahs Dove, and twill return in hast,  
To certify our Deluge is not past.  
Noe place for loyalty to set her feet.  
Treasons vast waves are all the bounds we meet.  
Ignorance is exhald in vapours, who  
( Not hearing of our better times) shall view  
Our iceland through them, will not swear that wee  
Are in an universal lunacy;  
Some, like materia prima, un-refin'd,  
Comprehend all impressions in their mind:  
Having the {αβγδ} of disorder, nay  
Proving we err, except we go astray:  
The Nomalists may well be styled now,  
Grand Patrons unto loyalty. We bow  
To Living idols: Daughters some do prise  
Like Agamemnon, for their Sacrifice.  
Their Superstition brings upon the Stage,  
A new raised Primum mobile, Whose rage  
Ravishes all the Spheres of Government,  
Except reverting lust as they are bent.  
Democritus might weep, not laugh to see  
This Metamorphosis, when Monarchs bee  
Trampled on by their Subjects: but what then;  
virtue's not known without mischance to men.  
Reason's as naked as an Adamite.  
That is termed zeal, which we might construe spite.  
A Laughing vizard biles a killing face.  
To live in favour now is most disgrace.  
Spirituall-cholerick critics, who in all  
Religions find a fault: One day this shall  
Be your best choice that next invades your harts.  
The true one thus by ostracism departs.  
Our streets( like Romes in Sylla's dayes) do run  
With native blood. he's happiest is undone.  
Zorobabel's convinc t: Money is found  
Stronger than Truth, and lays her on the ground.  
There is no clue for this Dedalion maze.  
Loyaltie's Treason, Infamy is praise.  
The World s to subtle for an honest man:  
No room but for a machiavellian.  
All brains do teeme with mischief, as with joy:  
Transporting more then Hecub s womb to Troy.  
The drunken fumes of bold Ambition,  
Makes their souls reel, and dash against each ston,  
But HE goes to his grave as Courtiers woe,  
Calmelie, Not struggling as the Traytors do.  
These like a Iezabell where beauties scant,  
Vermilion shall adulterate the want.  
Oh would their pride might purchase their just fall;  
That Doggs might celebrate their funeral.  
Thus Absolom by flatterrie stolen the bart  
Of Israell by a pretended Art.  
Thus Euphuia oft times is so like Grace  
That it is taken for it by the face.  
But pull the vizard off, and you may know  
The Whister's but the Prologue to the Show.  
Ir would enrage a Stoik Martyr, Saint,  
A Coward too, to see a pursuivant,  
Sent from the new-found States to take away  
The taper from our night, the light from day.  
And in his zodiac to impale our Sun,  
Who else might unconfined swiftly run  
To either tropic, and this man struck dead,  
For striving to release his royal head.  
For this let all our candles in a fright  
burn out themselves, and so defraud us light.  
For now we know by this mans death, to some  
A Life is not a Life, but martyrdom.  
far every cobbler and mechanic man  
Rising up King, turns Dioclesian.  
You Sophisters, who search what fire shall burn.  
This worlds great fabric and to ashes turn  
The same; may well suspect that it may be  
Th' aspiring flames of Subjects loyalty.  
May we not justly fear it? when each day  
The rubric, fills and sin tis to obey.  
towns this paradise of vulour, who  
Was wasted not by men, but serpents too,  
He knew that Treason an Erratum was  
Wanting an Index to expound the gloss.  
Thy death will strike into their hearts more fear  
Than Thunder in the trembling Indians ear.  
Antiquities are new, what Annals boast  
Of Champions, is reacted on our cost.  
Romans may writ of Scevola's great name.  
Alas, once more he may shake hands with famed.  
The three horatii, Triumuirs of rage  
In him were executed on our Stage.  
He is a true Pyrocles in renown,  
And pity 'tis Dametas trode him down.  
He is our Sun, not to endanger eyes,  
But to direct and teach us how to rise.  
This act adopts him Son of Anacks brood:  
They for their stature great, and he for good.  
Loyalties false, that glisters not like thine.  
The Ore's not known until we sound the Mine.  
up, up, my drowsy soul, and tell the world  
The giddy headed multitude have hurled  
Away their riches, Strafford, Laud, This one,  
ordain another Constellation.  
And as the same sword those horrid Traitors killed  
Who had the blood of royal Caesar spilld.  
so may thy murderers die, the same string be  
The Engine to their wis●t Catastrophe.  
Were the souls transmigration true, I might  
Think that the two Phitaeni's souls did light  
Within thy breast, who being but one, didst do  
As much as they for Carthage wrought, though two  
Loyalty kindles Calentures in some,  
And is to others sleepy opium.  
Their Names shall perish in a lethargy:  
Thy reputation shall be ecstasy.  
Tis safe to give the dead their own, noe fear  
Of Sequestrators or Committees there.  
Come let them boast their Sts. thy soul shal see  
A small inch measures not infinity.  
Thou couldst despise bold Sphorsa and his nation.  
And now Rebellion is not Reformation:  
Borgia to thee w s devil: and we may  
See thou hadst rather perish, then betray.  
Although no dean or Canon, thou mayst be  
To our Religion good pologie.  
Thy Death a Sermon was: oh I could spend  
My age in commenting his glorious end.  
Ashes of loyal men are like the snuff  
Of a perfumd wax-candle, strong enough  
To recompense the loss of light with th' sent  
O● fragrant odours, left to raise content.  
We will view thee as tamburlaine red ore  
heroic deeds; not that we may deplore  
Thy loss, but by example to inspire  
Our breasts with Sols, not with Promethius' fire.  
Iustice, lend me thy Sword and I'll restore  
To thee thy eyes as perfect as before  
Who would in corners snort away their lives,  
Or spend their oil upon Luxurious Wives?  
When he finds Charles dethroned, when virtue's made  
The step we unto faelix scelus wade.  
I am turned Anabaptist in my tears,  
And overprest with grief, as they with fears.  
Were all the Engines of tormenting Hell  
fixed to my tender limbs, I would not fell  
My Kings blessed thoughts, like Scots, but be content  
My breast should harbour them for ornament.  
Twas constancy made Roman virtues last.  
The mettall wears no form until its cast.  
Beasts wrong the innocent, not men; conclude  
Thou injured wert by th' Hydra multitude.  
Thou art noe Meteor or wandring star,  
No nine dayes wonder, that we hear from far.  
But a fixed star within the hearts of all  
Those who account Treason Apocrypall.  
And as in Iulia's monument I hear  
One lamp held out the 1500th. year.  
So may this noble act remain, that we  
Speaking of valour, may eternize thee.  
He that goes free when as his King's confined,  
Not greeving, hath the devil in his mind.  
Were Alexander but a live, to know  
Thy martyerdome, all Conquests he'd foregoe,  
To own this pearl, more orient to the eyes,  
Cause Honor tur●es the balance of the prise.  
No darkness shades his deeds from common view,  
His soul sent forth a lustre lights him through.  
No Pits or Caves, no Lanthornd Faux is here.  
The day was not more innocent and clear  
The Drum did sound thy famed, they victors were  
But thou shalt triumph in a consuls chair.  
Though narrow was thy passage, I dare say  
To spangled Heaven thou trodst the Kings high way  
Come Cavaliers, put on your breastplates then:  
Courage brave Lads, approve yourselves like men.  
Since he is murdered, steel your thoughts, let brave  
undaunted brows raise goodness from her grave  
To aid your undertakings: Larum Fate  
And tell him he's too slow to help our State.  
Could I command the lightning, I would sand  
These daring giants to their dismal end.  
Prove Cicero's to these false Catalines.  
Although your purses empty be, y' have Mines  
Of faith unfathomd, which can never pass  
The trial of a false Geneva glass.  
ye are no Erra Paters pupils, ye,  
Nor have ye yet professed astrology.  
That every accent spins a doubtful thread.  
No clouded visage, but an open head.  
It is their words are aenigmatticall,  
And doubtful as an Oracle to all.  
murdered, the word sounds hoarse, and being dead  
barred the p●rmission to be sepulchred?  
His limbs are scattered: true, but Birds shall fly  
And as they bring them, sing his elegy.  
What though his own are gone? his very Name  
Will borrow legs enough to bear his famed.  
Heaven shall seem thy Temple, hung a new  
With black, the stars are thy Torch-bearers too,  
Thrones of our Verses shall to that height rise,  
That on their feet thou mayst ascend the Skies:  
For Truth thy Cynosura was to guide  
Thy soul upon the billows of this Tide.  
But let thy Ghost haunt them who lent an hand  
Before twas time, to bring thee to the Land.  
C. C   

THE triumph OP LOYALTY  
TAke down the sable Blacks again, and dry,  
The crystal currents of the mournful eye  
unless you mean a jordan thence shall spring,  
There to baptize him martyr, for his King.  
But that's already done in his own blood:  
 shed for his King for Loyalty and God.  
Burley s not dead, but born, and therefore wee  
With Ioy should celebrate's Nativity.  
Me thinks A Christian still is in the womb,  
until he be brought forth by martyrdom.  
Death is our life, and persecution's  
The churches throws, delivers her of sons:  
Of sons and heirs, at age as soon as born:  
heirs to immortal Crowns, and shall we mourn;  
No, lets rejoice and triumph, bless; the day,  
Wherein this happy issue found the way,  
Out of this darksome prison to that light,  
And liberty, where faith is turned to sight.  
The world mistakes; our times of troubles be  
The teeming times of christianity:  
The church is youthful than and doth increase:  
Shee's old and Barren in the, times of peace:  
Her age now seems to be renewed than:  
A Nero or a Dioclesian,  
Of Old, were but her midwives: and Fox says  
That such was mary in some latter dayes.  
But these were Kings and Queens: How comes the state  
O'th churches Birthbed now thus to abate:  
That every vassal now should dare to be  
A Bold Intruder to this midwifery?  
A Savage Lawyer, with his rusty steel,  
Are these fit instruments to cause her feel,  
Her child birth throbs? to bring a Burley forth  
So Brave a stem of loyalty and worth.  
Burley: whose Spirits could not rest to see  
Slaves trample on imprisoned Majesty?  
Burley that durst oppos●e rebellion,  
When it was gotten up into the throne?  
Burley, Great Charles his second, for whose right  
He challengd Victor Treason to the fight.  
And overcame, by dying in the cause:  
Blood is triumphant when it runs for laws.  
Avaunt your sordid singers! Touch no more  
The Mother or her Children: from this Gore  
Our Ioy doth not absolve you, nor his gain?  
He hath the Honor, but you have the stain.  
Such is the riddle and the mystery  
Of your Vnjust, Vnchristian cruelty.  
That though he lives, yet still it is most true;  
Burley that lives was murdered by you.   
FINIS.