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Colonel Titus's Letter To Oliver Cromwell.
ever after went armed , and never slept two nig hts successively in the same room . "" *> ITOX . ' TO HIS HIGHNESS OLIVER CROMWELL . c MAY IT FtEASE YOUR . IIK-lIS ESS , ' How I have spent some hours of- the leisure your highness has
been pleased to give me , this following paper will give your hi ghness an account : how you will please to interpret it I cannot tell ; but I can with confidence say , my intention in it is , to procure your hi ghness that justice nobody yet does you , and to let the people see the longer they defer it , the greater injury they do both to themselves and you . To " your highness justly belongs the honour of dying for the ' consolation to
people ; and it cannot chuse but be an unspeakable you in the last moments of your life , to consider , with how much benefit to the world you are like to leave it . It is then only , my lord , the titles you now usurp will be truly yours . You will then be indeed the . deliverer of your country , and free it from a bondage little inferior to that from which Moses delivered his—You will then be that true reformer which you would now be thought : religion shall be then
restored , liberty asserted , and parliaments , have those privileges they have fought for . We shall then hope that other laws will have place , besides those of the sword ; and tint justice shall be otherwise defined , than the will and p leasure of the strongest ; and we shall then hope , men will keep oaths again , and not have the necessity of being false and perfidious , to preserve themselves , and be like their rulers . All this we hope from your hihness ' s happy expirationwho are the
g , true father pf your country ; for while you live we can call nothing ours—and it is from your death that we hope for our inheritances . — Let this consideration arm and fortify your highness ' s mind against the fears of death , and the terrors of your evil conscience , that the good you will do by your death , will somewhat balance the evils of your life : and if , in the black catalogue of high malefactors , few can be found that have lived more to the affliction and disturbance of
mankind , than -your highness hath done ; yet your greatest enemies will not deny but there are likewise as few-that have expired more to the universal benefit of mankind , than your highness is like to do . To hasten this great good is the chief end of my writing this paper , and if it have the effects I hope , it will , your highness will quickly he out of the reach of men ' s malice , and yqur enemies will onl y be able to wound in your memorywhich strokes you will not feel .
you , ' That your , hig hness may be speedily iu litis security , is the universal wishes of your grateful country ; ,, this is the desire and prayers of the good and of the bad , and it may be , is the only thing wherein all sects andfaftions do agree in their devotions , and is our only common prayer . But among all that put in their requests and supplications for hihness ' s speeddeliverance from all earthly troubles '
your g y , none is more assiduous nor more fervent than he , that , with tbe rest ' of the nation , hath tile honour to be ( may it please your highness ) Your Highness ' s present slave and vassal , " - ' ..-.- } V . A ?
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Colonel Titus's Letter To Oliver Cromwell.
ever after went armed , and never slept two nig hts successively in the same room . "" *> ITOX . ' TO HIS HIGHNESS OLIVER CROMWELL . c MAY IT FtEASE YOUR . IIK-lIS ESS , ' How I have spent some hours of- the leisure your highness has
been pleased to give me , this following paper will give your hi ghness an account : how you will please to interpret it I cannot tell ; but I can with confidence say , my intention in it is , to procure your hi ghness that justice nobody yet does you , and to let the people see the longer they defer it , the greater injury they do both to themselves and you . To " your highness justly belongs the honour of dying for the ' consolation to
people ; and it cannot chuse but be an unspeakable you in the last moments of your life , to consider , with how much benefit to the world you are like to leave it . It is then only , my lord , the titles you now usurp will be truly yours . You will then be indeed the . deliverer of your country , and free it from a bondage little inferior to that from which Moses delivered his—You will then be that true reformer which you would now be thought : religion shall be then
restored , liberty asserted , and parliaments , have those privileges they have fought for . We shall then hope that other laws will have place , besides those of the sword ; and tint justice shall be otherwise defined , than the will and p leasure of the strongest ; and we shall then hope , men will keep oaths again , and not have the necessity of being false and perfidious , to preserve themselves , and be like their rulers . All this we hope from your hihness ' s happy expirationwho are the
g , true father pf your country ; for while you live we can call nothing ours—and it is from your death that we hope for our inheritances . — Let this consideration arm and fortify your highness ' s mind against the fears of death , and the terrors of your evil conscience , that the good you will do by your death , will somewhat balance the evils of your life : and if , in the black catalogue of high malefactors , few can be found that have lived more to the affliction and disturbance of
mankind , than -your highness hath done ; yet your greatest enemies will not deny but there are likewise as few-that have expired more to the universal benefit of mankind , than your highness is like to do . To hasten this great good is the chief end of my writing this paper , and if it have the effects I hope , it will , your highness will quickly he out of the reach of men ' s malice , and yqur enemies will onl y be able to wound in your memorywhich strokes you will not feel .
you , ' That your , hig hness may be speedily iu litis security , is the universal wishes of your grateful country ; ,, this is the desire and prayers of the good and of the bad , and it may be , is the only thing wherein all sects andfaftions do agree in their devotions , and is our only common prayer . But among all that put in their requests and supplications for hihness ' s speeddeliverance from all earthly troubles '
your g y , none is more assiduous nor more fervent than he , that , with tbe rest ' of the nation , hath tile honour to be ( may it please your highness ) Your Highness ' s present slave and vassal , " - ' ..-.- } V . A ?