Appendix - Two Contemporary Pamphlets Relating to the Execution of Okey, Barkstead and Corbet

Summary

Two contemporary pamphlets relating to the execution of Okey, Bark stead and Corbet.

Two pamphlets were published after the execution :

• (1) The Speeches, Discourses and Prayers of Col. John Barkstead, Col. John Okey and Mr. Miles Corbet: 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, Discourse’s and Letters, both before, and in the time of their late Imprisonment.

• Faithfully and Impartially Collected for a General Satisfaction. Prov.29.26. Every Man’s Judgement cometh from the Lord. Heb. 11.13. These all dyed in Faith. Printed in the Year. 1662.

This pamphlet is sympathetic to the victims and probably for that reason the names of neither the author nor the printer are given anywhere in its pages. It consists of seven parts.

• 1. To the Reader.

• 2. A Brief Narrative of Colonel Okey, Col. Barkstead and Miles Corbet Esquire, their departure out of England, their Christian carriage, and the kind reception they found in all places where they came; Together with the unparaleld Treachery and inhumanity exercised by Sir G.D. In decoying them to, and apprehending them at Delph. As also their surreptitious imbarquing thence, and Transporting to the Tower of London.

• 3. Some Occasional Passages, Discourses and Letters of Col. John Barkstead, as they were taken from his own mouth, or left behind him in writing under his own hand.

• 4. Several occasional Passages, Speeches and Letters of Col. John Okey, during the time of his Imprisonment in the Tower, till the day of his Suffering.

• 5. An History of the Life and Death of Mr. Miles Corbet, being intended shortly to be made publick (and so, many things reserved till then) in the mean time, it is thought convenient that a taste be given of some of those occasional Passages which fell from him whilst he was a Prisoner in the Tower, in the hearing of several Friends, who have faithfully collected them, to be carefully laid up, and wisely improved by them that survive.