The Speeches, Discourses And Prayers Of Col. John Barkstead, Col. John Okey, And Mr. Miles Corbet. Barkstead, Col. John.

TITLE CONTINUED: Upon the 19th of April, being the day of their suffering at TYBURN. Together with an account of the occasion and manner of their taking in Holland: as also of their several occasional speeches, discourses, and letters, both before, and in the time of their late imprisonment. Faithfully and impartially collected, for a general satisfaction. SECOND EDITION 1662. Slim 4to, approximately 190 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5½ inches, pages: [6], 1-96, last page blank, collation is strange as follows: [6], 1-24, [plus 24 unnumbered], 25-71, [1], a previous owner has inked in the correct page numbers on top corners, all catchwords are correct, nothing missing, see: ESTC R22773. Bound in full modern polished calf, gilt lettered red morocco label to spine, new endpapers. Slight uneven fading to covers, page 5 has "parliament" ruled through and a name in the margin in old ink, small neat repair to outer edge of title page, hardly visible, shallow turning crease to the lower corner of title page and following leaf, occasional small spot, otherwise text clean, a very good copy. Col. JOHN BARKSTEAD, was a goldsmith in London; captain of parliamentary infantry under Colonel Venn; governor of Reading, 1645: commanded a regiment at siege of Colchester; one of the king's judges, 1648; Governor of Yarmouth, 1649, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1652; M.P. for Colchester, 1654, and Middlesex, 1656; knighted, 1656: escaped to continent, 1660; arrested, 1662; brought to England and executed 1662. Col. JOHN OKEY, was a political and religious radical who served in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A regicide who approved the Execution of Charles I in 1649, he escaped to the Dutch Republic after the 1660 Stuart Restoration, but was brought back to England and executed on 19 April 1662. MILES CORBET succeeded his brother John as MP for Yarmouth, serving from 1640 to 1653, and signed Charles I's death warrant. Sir George Downing, the king's agent in the United Provinces, having obtained from the states a warrant for their apprehension, seized all three of them in Holland in Barkstead's lodgings. The three prisoners were immediately sent to England, and, as they had been previously outlawed, their trial turned entirely on the question of identity. Barkstead, with his companions, was executed on 19 April 1662. (Wikipedia). See: ESTC R22773; Wing Short-Title Catalogue, Volume 1, page 111, No. 817. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.