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An Appeal to all Rational men, that love their God, Justice and Countrey, more then their Honor, Plea∣sure and Money, Concerning the Kings Tryal.
MY Lord President, and this High Court, erected for the most Comprehensive, Impartial, and Glo∣rious piece of Justice, that ever was Acted and Executed upon the Theatre of England, for the Trying and Judging of Charls Stuart, whom God in his wrath gave to be a king to this Na∣tion, and will, I trust, in great love, for his notorious Prevari∣cations and Blood-guiltiness, take him away from us; He that hath been the Original of all Injustice, and the Principal Author of more mischiefs to the Free-born People of this Nation, then the best Arithmetician can well enumerate, stands now to give an account of his Stewardship, and to receive the good of Justice, for all the evil of his Injustice and Cruelty. Had he Ten thou∣sand lives, they could not all satisfie for the numerous, Horid and Barbarous Massacres of Myriades, and legions of Innocent per∣sons, which by his Commands, Commissions and Procurements (or at least all the world must needs say, which he might have prevented; and he that suffers any man to be kill'd, when he may save his life without danger of his own, is a Murtherer) have been cruelly slain, and inhumanely murthered, in this renowned Albion; Anglia hath been made an Aceldama, and her yonger sister Ireland a Land of Ire and Misery; and yet this hard-hearted man, as he went out of the Court, down the stairs Jan. 22. said (as some of his Gnard told me and others) That he was not troubled for any of the blood that hath been shed, but for the blood of