Chap. V. 7'be HISTORY ofthePuRtTANS. 587 tween the two houfes, in one of which c?ancellor J!yde declared •. that c~~ir~~s n. the king having fent him in embaffy to the ktng of Spatn, charged h1m to 16 6o. tell that monarch exprefsly, '' that the horrible murder of his father 1...../'V"'.J " ought not to be deemed as the act of the parliament, or people of Eng- ,, land but of a fmall crew of wretches and mifcreants who had ufurp- " ed the fovereign power, ai1d rendered themfelves mall:ers of the king- " dom;" for which the commons fent a deputation with thanks to the king. After the preamble, the aB: goes on to att.aint the king's j~dges, dead or alive, except colonel Ingoldjby and 'Ihompjon, who for thetr late; good fervices were pardoned, but in their room were included colonel Lambert, Sir Harry Va11e, and Hugh Peters, who were not of the judges. On the 3oth of Jall. this year, the bodies of 0. Cromwell, Bradfhaw, Cromwell and lreton, were taken out of their graves, and drawn upon hurdles to a;/ others 'Fyburn, where they were hung up from ten inthe morning till fun· fet of~,:~ 1~;;= the next day, after which their .heads were cut off, and their trunks buried out of their all together in one hole under the gallows. Colonel Lambert was fent to graves. the iGe of Jerfey, where he continued fbut up a patient prifoner almofl: ~(:nnet, p, thirty years, nineteen made their efcape beyond fea; feven were made s 'i· objects of the king's clemency; nineteen others, who furrendered on the king's proclamation of June 6, had their lives faved after trial; but underwent other penalties, as imprifonment, banifbment, and forfeiture of e!lates 3 fo that ten only were executed in the month of OfJober, after the new fberiffs were entered upon their office, ("Jiz.) Col. Harrifon, Mr. Care7v, Cook, Hugh Peters, Mr. Scot, Clement, Scroop, Jones, Hacker, and Axtel. Bifbop Burnet fays, " the trials and executions of the firll: that p. 162. " fuffered, were attended by vafl: crouds of people. All men Trials of " f~eme~ pleafed with the fight; but the firmnefs and fbew of{=$r~;:' " p1ety m the fufferers, who went out of the world with a fort of " triumph in the caufe for which they fuffered, turned the minds of the " populace, infomuch that the king was aclviled to proceed no further."' The prifoners were rudely treated in court ; the fpetl:ators with their noife and clamour endeavouring to put them out of countenance. None of thetn denied the fatt, but all pleaded not guilty to the treafon, becaufe as they faid, they atted by authority of parliament ; not confidering, that the houfe of commons is no court of judicature; or if it was, that it was packed and purged before the ~ing was brought to his trial. Thofe wh~ gua.rded the .fcaffold, pleaded that they acted by command of their fupenor officers, who would have cafbiered or put them to death, if they had not obeyed. They were not permitted to enter into the merits of the caufe between the king and parliament, but were condemned upon 4 F 2 the
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