377 the use of it, be pay'd out of the collonell's estate. He forg'd many false pretences to obteiue this; bnt it was reiected in the common's house, and the bill going up to the lords, was past without any provisos. Only the gentlemen that were .the late king's indges, and decoy'd to surrender themselves to custody by the House's proclamation, after that they had voted only seven to suffer, were now given up to a triall, both for their lives and estates, and put in to close prison, where they were miserably kept, brought shortly after to triall, condemn'd, an · their estates confiscated and taken away, themselves kept in miserable bondage under that inhumane bloody iaylor 'the lieftenant of the Tower, who stifled some .of them to death for want of ayre; and when they had not one pennie, but what was given them to feed themselves and their families, exacted abomina!Jle rates for bare nnfurnish't prisons; of some forty pounds for one miserable chamber, of others double, besides undue and uniust fees, which their poore wives were forc'd to beg and engage their iointures and make miserable shifts for; and yet this rogue had all this while three pounds a weeke pay'd out of the chequer for every one of them. At last when this would not kill them fast enough, and when some almes were thus privately stollen in to them, they were sent away- to remote and dismall islands, where reliefe could not reach them, nor any of their relations take care of them; in this a thonsand times more miserable then those that died, who were· thereby . prevented from the eternall infamie and remorse, which hope of life and estate made these poore men bring upon them-. selves, by base and false recantations of their owne iudgment, against their consciences; which they wounded fm· no advantage, but liv'd ever after in misery themselves, augmented by seing the misery of their wretched famelies, and in the daily apprehension of death, which, without any more formallity, they are to expect whenever the tyrant gives the word . And these are the tende1·
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