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A96669 A winding-sheet for traytors: with a discovery of their great and dangerous conspiracies the horrid perfidiousness and treachery of divers usurping tyrants; their Judas-like actings in several countries; their judgements, and self-executions; their s[u]ddain death; the names of such who have both hang'd and drown'd themselves; and the lamentation and confession of Mr. Scot, and divers others of the wicked and cruel judges, who most barbarously and inhumanely murther'd our late gracious soveraign Lord King Charles. 1660 (1660) Wing W2979C; ESTC R231730 4,349 12

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A Winding-Sheet FOR Traytors With a Discovery of their great and dangerous Conspiracies the horrid Perfidiousness and Treachery of divers Usurping Tyrants their J●das-like Actings in several Counties their Judgements and Sel●-Exec●tions their s●ddain Death the Names of such who have both hang'd and drown'd themselves And the Lamentation and Confession of Mr. Scot and divers others of the wicked and cruel Judges who most barbarously and inhumanely murther'd our late gracious Soveraign Lord King CHARLES London Printed for J. Thomas 1660. THE Traytors Confession Or Strange News from the Tower of London JUstice having taken place within these Brittish Isles and a discovery made of the grand Traytors who struck even at the Root both of King Parliament Laws and Priviledges their Confederacy in sinne being their onely security give me leave in this following Narration to present the Reader with a Catalogue of some of the Grandees that could not be match'd in any place but where they now are viz. in the Tower of London where the Marquess of Argyle the Earl of Antrim Sir Arthur Hasilrigg Sir Henry Vane Col. Axtel Mr. Thomas Scot who was sent prisoner out of Flanders and Col. Hacker one of the Gentlemen forsooth that carryed a Partizan was on the Scaffold and commanded the Guards when our late gracious Soveraign was most inhumanely and barbarously murthered for which bloody act and wicked Treason he with the rest are now honoured with an imprisonment in the Tower where they may justly condole and lament their by-past Enormities and thus center with each other in their direful Lachrymae Oh! That the blood of that innocent Prince were washed from our Soules Oh! the horrour and guilt of Conscience Let us surrender that which we cannot keep Let us east off our vile and polluted Vizards and appear in our Natural Colours every one confessing his Villanies which we can no longer conceal Let us turn Converts and as we have always been Dissemblers so now out of our natural disposition of dissimulation acknowledge his Majesty to be our Right and lawful Sovereign for we cannot help it that we were the unjust and bloody Murtherers of his most Royal Father that in all our Actions we sought our own profit and not the publick good that our endeavours tended to the advance of our own private Interest and Estates and not the benefit of the Trust imposed upon Us That we were plunderers both of Church and State never thinking that the day of Accompt would come That we made Religion and the glory of God the Cloak for all our Villany Rapines and Murthers That we did intend if our Designs had been fixed firm to have made our selves perpetual Dictators and State-Robbers But since their hopes are frustrate and that seemingly here is pointed out such an inrolled Confession be pleased in the next place to take a Review of the just Confession of some of the unjust Judges in these words OVr King we murdered yet the Work 's not done For then on Holland Capel Hambelton Our pause we laid by Vs was Derby's loss As by the Scotch Kirk that noble Earl Montross We Gerrard kill'd and valiant Brown-Bushel Sir Alexander Cary and Mr. Vowel Aston Stacy and Hewet who doth lye A martyred Saint with noble Slingsby Besides to aggravate our sins above The thoughts of Man we murthered Mr. Love With many more we took no pitty Drawn hang'd and quarter'd in fair London's City There 's none of us but do deserve to dye Who for these cruel Evils new in prison lye Where we had better be our lives to save Then as deserved the Gallow Tree to have Our Brother Barkstead once a man of power Is fled whilst we have taken London's Tower Like Hector bold we did presume to kill Our King though it be sore against our will To answer that pretended good Old Cause By which we rob'd poor England of just Laws Which would condemn us all had we our due To be drawn hang'd and then quartered too These were the King-killing Basilisks and weeping Crocodiles who not onely murthered their lawful Prince but banished His Royal Consort the Queen and caused the Off-Spring and Royal Issue for many years to suffer Exilement Nay more they destroyed and imprisoned all the Kings Friends and made it Treason for to name the King or once to mention him Nay more then that they unjustly seized on all his Majesties Lands and gave or sold them one to another felling his Timber destroying his Deer demolishing his Castles and stately Palaces poling and oppressing his Subjects and what not But they are now like to deliver up their unjust gotten Lands and Goods to the right Owners The antient Palace of Old-Court is to be delivered up by Mr. Edwards which he purchased for a small sum And Gaffer Obey must now forsake his Mannor of Ampthill and his Mannor of Mill-brook and betake himself to the old Road. The like must Goodman Whaley for his two Mannors of West-Walton and Trington Lightly come lightly go he purchas'd them at a very easie rate These are the arbitrary Youths that liv'd upon the sweat of other mens brows and these are the Canicals that for many years joyned with the bloody Tyrant and Usurper witness his insatiable proceedings against the Western Gentlemen who upon their Rising for the King in the year 1655. he not onely proceeds against Col. Penruddock and divers other Gentlemen by capital punishment but he decimates all the Cavaliers or Gentlemen of the late Kings party that had been in Arms for him all over England that is he enjoyns them to pay yearly the tenth part of their whole Revenue notwithstanding their former Compositions made for their Estates and their Pardon 's sued out as the Parliament had enjoyned And this Decimation was put in execution by the Major Generals of every County In which Government Cromwel much resembled the Turk himself like the Grand Signior ruling by sole Command had his standing Army as a Guard for his Person answerable to the Janizaries and his Major Generals representing the Bashaws in their several Provinces These are the State-Juglers that could at pleasure impose new Oaths and set up their Dag●n or Westminsterian Engagement in opposition to his Majesties Regal Government and so deceitfully to glory and triumph in their pretended Providences and Successes ever since that fatal blow given to our late gracious Lord and Soveraign But mark the apparent Demonstrations of Gods evident and eminent wrath and indignation against the Subscribers of the said Engagement and Complices with the late Juntoe viz. One Mr. Bray a Presbyterian Minister for the gaining of an Augmentation to his Living at Michaels in Lancashire took the Engagement turned a great Zealot for the Independent Faction and immediately after an O●der coming for pulling down of the late Kings Arms in Churches he was so not therein that he would needs as he did pull them down himself and sent the boards on which the Kings Arms were painted