An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) by John Evelyn
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witnesses of your horrid injustice: Yet thus you proceeded against my _L.
Stafford_. How many are those gallant persons whom after articles of war, you have butchered in cold-blood, violating your promises against the Lawes of all Nations, civill or barbarous; and yet thus you dealt in the case of my L. _Capel_, Sr. _J. Stawel_ and others. Is not the whole nation become sullen and proud, ignorant and suspicious, incharitable, curst, and in fine, the most depraved and perfidious under heaven? And whence does all this proceed, but from the effects of your own examples, and the impunity of evill doers? I need not tell you how long Justice has been sold by the _Committees_, and the Chair-men, the Sequestrators and Simoniacall Tryers, not to mention the late Courtiers, and a swarm of _Publicans_ who _have eaten up the People as if they would eat bread_. Will you come now to the particular mis-fortunes, and the evident hand of God upon you for these actions (for he has not altogether left us without some expresse witnesses of his displeasure at your doings,) Behold then your _Essex_ and your _Warwick_, your _Ferfaix_, and your _Waller_, (whom once your Books stiled the _Lord of Hosts_) Cashiered, Imprisoned, Suspected and Disgraced after all their Services. _Hotham_, and his _Son_ came to the block; _Stapleton_ had the buriall of an Asse, and was thrown into a Town Ditch; _Brookes_ and _Hamden_ signally slain in the very act of Rebellion and Sacriledge; your atheisticall _Dorislaw_, _Ascam_ and the Sodomiticall _Ariba_, whom though they escaped the hand of Justice, yet _Vengeance_ would not suffer to live: What became of _Rainsborough_? _Ireton_ perished of the Plague, and _Hoyle_ hanged himself; _Staplie_ 'tis said, died mad, and _Cromwell_ in a fit of raging; and if there were any others worthy the taking notice of, I should give you a list of their |
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