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A38383	England's black tribunal being the characters of King Charles the First, and the nobility that suffer'd for him.		1680 (1680)	Wing E2950; ESTC R40512	5,533	13

Country's Liberty seale● that Loyalty with hi● Blood in the Field whic● he had given the mos● convincing Proofs of to his Country in his Life time And thus fell th● Senator and Hero worthily lamented by every loya● Subject and whose Memory is still precious to this very Day THis Earl adorn'd with brightesi Parts Did als● show the bes● of Hearts For Loyalty was in his Blood And for hi● injur'd Monarch stood He like the rest his Life laid down To vindicate his Master's Crown At Gainsborough where he did oppose Was slain by Rebels and curst Foes DR Laud Archbishop of Can●urbury was accused in Parliam●nt in 1640. and voted guilty of High-Treason for no other Reason than endeavouring to preserve Oder and Decency in the Church and being true to his S●vereign He was kep● Pris●ner in the Tower f●ur Years and then led f●r●h to Tower-Hill to suffer Martyrdom for the Church and King He was a Prelate of great Piety and Learning and universally lamented by al true Churchmen ALas Elphegus lost his Head Who by the Dan●s was murthered And Simon Sudbury did feel By cruel Tyler fatal Steel Just so or worse good LAUD thou felt Wh●se Sufférings made all Hearts to melt Firm to the Church thou always stood And seal'd her Charter with thy Blood THE Earl of Lindsey was in the King's Army at the Battle of Edge-hill and was there taken Prisoner but getting his Liberty he again espous'd his Royal Master's Quarrel with the greatest Courage 'till the bloody Battle of Naseby where the King's Forces were routed by the Rebels he scorn'd to give way and was kili'd valiantly fighting in the Field And thus dy'd the valiant Hero in the Bed ●f Fame and is enroll'd among the Royal Martyrs of England WHat Pity is' t that Fortune's Favour Falls not on Men of bright behaviour War makes no Difference of Degree Noble and Base die promise'ously Yet shall the m●●ory of the good Like Linsey 's Earl who l●st his Blood or royal Charles at Noseby Fight Will precious be iE Just Men's Sight DR Hewit was a worthy Divine of the Church of England whose Loyalty no Threa's nor Premises could entice from his Royal Master's Service therefore thought a p●oper Person to be dispatch'd by the Executioner dying in full Belief of the Restoration both of K●ng and Church to these then poor drooping Nati●ns So that neither the Dignity of the Priesthood could save those who most rightfully served at the Altar of Almighty God and then the Churches became Stables BRight Saint and Reverent Divine Thy Death as Life do's brightly shine Such Faith such Love such Charity Tells what a sort of Man was The● And tho' thy Death we do implore 'T is what the Saints endur'd before Our Hope is now th●u art in Heav'n Where blest Rewards to thee are giv'n THE Earl of Northampton who w●s Father to the late Bishop of London joining his Forces wi●h those of Prince Rupert in 1641. and so marching couragiously to Litchfield attack'd the Rebels at Hopton-Heath where he was kill'd as brav●ly fighting for his King ON Hopton-Heath this Earl was slain His King and Nation to regain Nor were his Tons those Noble Lords Less Famous for their warlike Swords The valiant Heart of this bravo Sire Was bent to rais●●● Sov'roign higher The Sons did his Example take and fought for good K. Charles's sake THE Lord Capel w●s one of those Rov●llists who in Defence of his injur'd Majesty endur●d the Hardsh●●s of the ●●ng Si●ge of Co●chester he was th●re taken by the Fanati●ks who af●erward emb●ued thei● vi●e Hands i● h●s Blood by bri●ging him to the Ax and B●ock TO obs●rve the Champion of his Lord The greatest Wonder does afford Who ●●ught for to anticipate H●s Royal Martyn's Rigid Fate But in the same he lost his Breath And dy'd for him a Martyr's Death Upon the Block h●● met his D●om And wore the Crown of Martyrdom SIR Henry Slingsby in the third Year of Oliver's Usurpation was brought before the bloody Court of Injustice and charged with Treason for endeavouring to resto●e his lawful Sovereign King Charles the Second to his Father's Throne had Judgment given against him and suffered accordingly to the Grief of every loyal Briton So strong were the Rebels at that time that they murdered whom they pleased that was against their damnable Proceedings contrary to the Laws of God BRave Slinsby thou didst plainly see The Parliament's Audacity And did resent thy Monarch's Wrongs By their base Hands and baser Tongues His Conscience made him not abide The● Measures but cleav'd to the Side Of his imposed injur'd King THE Earl of Stafford in his time was a fa●thful Minister of State to his King for which the Rump Parliament resolved for to murder him and in deed they beheaded him on Tower-Hill on the 12th of M●y 16●1 to the great Grief of h●s Royal Sovereign OH Stafford Thy dear only King Lamented thy s●d Suffering And at his Death thy Fate was s●ch As g●iev'd his Conscience very much If He who was both King and Saint Did thus thy Life and Goodness paint Encomiums then thou needest none Enough The Thing by Charles is done DUke Hamilton entring into England with an Army for H●s Majesty's Service was met at Preston in Lancashire by Cromwell and Lambert where he fought three Battles tho' worsted in all was taken at Vxeter sent to the Tower where about 6 Weeks after his Royal Master he was beheaded together with the Earl of Holland and the Lord Capel By this Duk●'s Death the Treach●ry of the Fàlse Scotch is very remarkable in betraying this Nobleman in Pretence of Loyalty WHEN Scotland they had sold their King Conscience their wicked Minds did sting And strait an Army mustered Making this Noble DUKE their Head But Rebels were triumphant grown And conquer'd him near Preston Town Brought him to London where his Head Was from his Shoulders severed COlonel Penruddock a Gen●tleman of great Learning and Valour and approved Loyalty was put to Death by that Arch-Traytor Oliver Cromwell in the first Year of his Usurpation At his Tryal no Man could plead with more Sense and Eloquence than he d●d neither could any die with more Christian Resignation and Undauntedness In a word he had every good Qualification in him both as a Warrior a Gentleman and a Christian being un●versally lament●d VAlour and Learning made him Great A Blessing both to Church and State On Articles he did surrender But they did prove a mean Defender For him they found ' gainst Law and Reason At Exon guilty of High-Treason Yet no Man at his Tryal pleaded Better than he but was B●headed SIR Charles Lucas was 〈◊〉 valiant Knight who served his King and Country against the Rebels He was one of those who bravely defended Colohester against them to the last Ex●remity that they had not Horse Flesh enough to feed them one Day longer when upon Surrender he was shot to Death on Pretence of not keeping his word with Fair-fax General of the Rebels But the true Relation was for his b●ing untainted in his Loyalty and being against such bloody Regicides NOR was this worthy valiant Knight Amaz'd with Horror at Death's Sight That Cause next JESUS ' Suffering Did help to take away the Sting With chearful Mind● resigned Heart Submitted to the fàtal Dart And thus the bléeding Worthy fell By Imps the very Spams of Hell SIR George Lisle was another noble Knight and Companion of Sir Charles Luc●●s in h●s Life a●d D●ath For he was at Co●chester at the Surrender and was shot to D●ath with him on p●etence of having directed ●he shooting of poyl●nons Bul●ets who to●k up A●ms ●gainst their King co●●rary to the Laws or GOD and Man This w●s a lo●al Subj●ct made a Victim to the Fury of Trayto●s regardless of every thing sacred and pa●ticularly the L●rd 's A●ointed BRave LISLE was Cavalier enough Of Loyal Faith gav● pr●gnant Pro●f●s At Colchester when sh●● to Death He glorred in his l●t●st Br●ath Shrunk not but bravely Just●fy'd The Heavenly C●use for which he dy'd That Cause which ever yields Renown His Country and his K●ng ●nd Crown THE Ea●l of Derby likewise fell a Sacrifice to their Cruelty who beheaded him at Bolton in Lancashire the 15th of October 1●51 for his firm Adherence to his Majesty King Charles the Second who was forced to sh●lter himself in the Reyol Oak from the Rump IN Factions Bolton this Earl dy'd Tho' ' gainst the Law of Nations try'd The Church was blessed with his Sm●●● Who it Establish'st in Manx Isle Thus Great and Good by cruel Expos'd to Villains thou in State The Fatal Ax his Head did sever Whose Soul will reign in Heaven for ever

England's Black Tribunal BEING THE Characters of King CHARLES the First and the Nobility that Suffer'd for him Ecce Spectaculum dignum ad quod respiciat Deus operi suo intentus Vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus Sen. de Prov. c. 2. LONDON Printed for E. M. near White-Hall On the Blessed Martyr King Charles the First Written on Himself a little before his Death LET them bestow on every Gate a Limb Then open all my Veins that I may swim To thee my Maker in that crimson Lake Then place my parboil'd Head upon a Stake Scatter my Ashes strew them in the Air Lord since thou knowest where all these Atoms are I 'm hopeful thou 'lt recover once my Dust And confident thou 'lt raise me with the Just Written by the Marquiss of Montross with the Point of his Sword on the Sands of Leith 1648. GREAT Good and Just could I but rate My Grief and thy too rigid Fate I 'd weep the World to such a Strain As it should deluge once again But since thy loud-tongu'd Blood demands Supplies More from Briareus ' Hands than Argus ' Eyes I 'll sing thy Obsequies in Trumpet Sounds And write thy Epitaph in Blood and Wounds Turn'd into Latin Verse by his Tutor thus CAROLE Si possem Lacrymis Aequare Dolorem Ipse meum fatumque tuum tua funer● flerem Ut Tellus nitidis rursum stagnaret ab undis Sanguis at ille tuus quum vocem ad sidera tollat Atque manus Briarei mage quam Argi lumina poscat Exequias celebrabo tuas clangore Tubarum Et Tumulo inscr●ham profuso Sanguine Carmen SIR Bevil Granville was a Knight of u●daunted Val●u● which he never fail'd to exert for the Service of his King and Country He was a Gentleman of a good Family and well skil●'d in martial Aff●irs but being over-power'd by the superior Number of the Rebels was k●ll'd at Lansdown Fight whence his Family have the Title of Lord Lansdown Th●s was the End of this Great Man who was worthily lamented by every true loyal and faithful Subject HE was a most couragious Knight And bravely for his King did fight As long as he had Power to whield The Sword and nobly keep the Field But when his Foes did him surround At Lansdown Fight with many a Wound He bravely fell his Death acquir'd And thus with Honour he expir'd NOble Viscount Falkland appeared at first in Defence of his Master and added no small Reputation to the King's Army He commanded a Party at the first Battle of Newberry where the Rebels under the Earl of Essex routed the King's Forces and this valiant Nobleman was slain bravely Defending his Prince's Cause He was a Person of great Learning and well skill'd in Poetry Painting and Musick and had other remarkable Qualifications to render him aimable and esteemed by loyal Men. FAlkland the Wise as well as Great chief Secretary to the Sta●● And Muse his Pen and Sword did whield And laid them down in bloody Field For at the Battle of Newberry As Voluntier most necessary to right his King he lost his Life By bloody Rebels in the Strife EArl of Leitchfield tho' he was a Youth yet the tender Age of this young Nob●eman was no Stop to his Courage and Loyalty for he scorn'd to sit still and his Sovereign to undergo the Insults of such wretched Tools and Villains but valiantly taking up and whielding his Sword in his Defence so that he honourably Dy'd in the Field near Chester fighting the Rebels whose Death was much lamented but more especially by the King himself who loved him entirely THis tender Youth as one may call Had by base Rebels soon his fall In which an Honour there did spring A b'ing lamented by his King So Young and so soon snatch'd away Near Chester as the Villains Prey Was much Condol'd and much D●plor'd A Comely Valiant Courteous Lord. SIR Ralph Hopton commanded an Army of the King 's in the West and beat Sir William Waller near Bath and afterwards in the Devizes for which he was made a Lord but at last was routed at Torrington by a superior Force so that finding himself unable to do h●s King any farther Service he retired to the young Prince in France Thus he honourable got free from the Tyrany of the Rebels and comforted the King his Master in Exile and was a Companion with him in all his Misfortunes LOrd Hopton like an inflam'd Ma●s with Courage fought his Masters Wars The Victory of Stration won And was a Lord made thereupon But when the Cause declin'd he Was forc'd for his Security to cross the Sea to save his Life From Oliverians Hate and Strife EArl of Carnarven he did not forsake his Prince whilst he had Life and was killed by the R●bells in the first Battle of Newberry where he f●ught so courageously as through the Bodies of thousands to make way for his righ●ful tho' injur'd Sovereign to the quiet P●ss●ssion of his Imperial C●owns again So unfortunate were the noble and loyal Party being overpower'd by Numbers of Villians who sought the Destruction of Church and State to introduce a Republican Government THis Earl was Learned full of Sense And only sought to please his Prince And Ill Success he had indeed And for his Monarch's sake did Bleed For vent'ring in the fatal Battle Where Cannons roar and Guns do rattle At Newberry Fight he there was stain His Master'e Honour to maintain EArl of Holland was commission'd in 1647 by the then Prince of Wales to raise Forces for his Father the King then a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight which he did at Kingston in the Face of the Parliament but being taken in Battle was carried to Warwick Castle and thence to the Tower where he lost his Head for hit Loyalty I● the mean time the Rebels triumph in ther Villany breathing nothing but Blood and Murder to every fai●hful Subj●ct and sincere Loyallist THis Earl when he his Master view'd in Danger by a cursed Brood Imprison'd in the Isle of Wight An Army rais'd to do him Right The Rebels they the Battle won This Earl was taken and undone Sent to the Tower then soon try'd And for his King a Martyr dy'd THE Marquisi of M●ntros● se●zed Dumfreis for the King routed the Cov●n inters a● Perth with half their Numb●● be●ts the Lor● Burleigh at Aberdeen and Swa●● to Martyrdom it were thro' Sta●● of unrighte●us Blood of the Rebels But at las● he was taken and executed for his Loyalty SCotland the Glory of thy Nation Was Great Montross of noble Station He for his Royal Master stood And for his sake did lose his Blood But then before Rebellious Foes By cruel Death his Eyes could close He did revenge his Monarch's Death By stopping many a Rebel's Breath THE Earl of Kingsto● was a good Satesma● and compleat Soldier and served his Prince faithfully both in Council and it Camp and fighting boldly at Gainsborough for hi●