Thomas
Waites
Case
,
A
Condemned
Prisoner
in
the
Tower
.
THat
He
was
much
dissatisfied
with
the
Armies
proceedings
,
in
Imprisoning
divers
Members
of
Parliament
,
in
the
year
,
1648.
That
he
went
down
soon
after
to
his
own
house
,
80
miles
distant
from
London
,
and
came
not
up
again
untill
he
was
summoned
several
times
,
under
pain
of
Sequestration
and
Expulsion
,
and
did
not
come
up
untill
the
day
before
that
horrid
sentence
was
given
against
the
King
,
and
then
knew
not
what
it
was
that
he
was
commanded
to
come
up
for
.
That
he
was
none
of
the
Contrivers
,
or
Law-makers
,
for
setting
up
that
Unwarrantable
Court
,
for
Tryal
of
the
King
,
but
was
absent
all
the
while
.
That
he
never
knew
himself
to
be
one
of
that
Court
,
untill
his
name
was
called
,
at
which
he
was
amazed
.
That
he
was
trapan'd
by
Cromwell
and
Ireton
to
come
out
of
the
House
,
and
then
forced
by
them
into
the
Court
,
and
when
the
King
desired
to
be
heard
by
his
Lords
and
Commons
in
the
Painted-Chamber
,
He
,
with
some
others
desired
he
might
be
heard
,
which
caused
the
Court
to
withdraw
into
the
Court
of
Wards
;
then
Cromwel
rebuked
those
that
were
the
occasion
of
it
with
many
reproaches
,
which
made
all
men
silent
,
seeing
it
was
to
no
purpose
to
speak
,
whereupon
he
returned
no
more
into
the
Court
,
but
stayed
behind
in
the
Croud
.
That
he
signed
not
the
warrant
for
Execution
,
nor
any
writing
tending
thereunto
until
after
that
horrid
fact
was
committed
,
but
some
time
after
was
forced
by
Cromwel
to
sign
a
writing
with
others
(
not
knowing
what
was
contained
in
it
)
saying
we
should
not
slip
out
so
,
and
from
that
time
to
his
death
,
he
looked
upon
him
with
an
evil
eye
.
That
he
never
bought
any
of
the
Kings
Lands
or
Goods
,
only
a
finall
Fee-Farm
rent
that
he
paid
out
of
his
own
Lands
.
That
he
was
put
out
of
all
Authority
by
Cromwel
,
for
assisting
the
Kings
Friends
,
in
helping
them
to
their
just
dues
,
and
being
serviceable
to
them
.
That
he
was
a
great
Sufferer
under
Cromwel
,
for
opposing
his
Tyranny
.
That
he
nearly
escaped
Decimation
,
for
offering
himself
to
be
bound
for
some
of
his
Countrymen
,
that
were
Decimated
.
That
he
would
not
suffer
any
of
the
Kings
Friends
to
be
Imprisoned
,
or
their
houses
searched
,
in
the
year
1659.
when
he
was
in
power
.
That
he
never
took
the
Oath
of
Abjuration
against
his
now
Majesty
,
but
alwaies
opposed
it
in
his
Station
,
and
glad
he
was
at
the
restauration
of
his
Majesty
.
That
he
came
in
upon
the
Proclamation
.