over the Scotch Forces that came into England when the King was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight the cause of their coming being contained in a Declaration which they brought along with them consisting of five heads 1. That the King be forthwith brought to London to Treat in Person with the Two Houses of Parliament 2. That all those who had a hand in or contrived the carrying of the King away from Holmby be condignly punished 3. That the Army be Disbanded 4. That Presbitery be setled 5. That the Members of Parliament who were forcibly secluded from the Houses may be restored But these Demands were answered with Fire and Bullet the Duke and his great Army totally defeated by Cromwel and Himself taken Prisoner by Colonel Wayte and being now in their hands they thought to make good use of him to cajole and fish out what great Ones Members of both Houses the City and Clergy had a hand in his Undertaking It being more then suspected that he had such Invitation to which purpose he was exceedingly importuned by Cromwell the Lord Grey of Grooby Colonel Wayte and Hugh Peters who promised him they would not much obstruct his pretended Plea of Quarter from Lambert upon Articles Nay Peters avouched Quarter so given for which Hamilton gave him Thanks and Mony and Peters in consideration thereof prayed for him openly as his Lord and Patron still feeding him with hopes If he would impeach their Opposites but when they could not extort it from him the Scene was soon altered they which smiled on him before then frowned and being at his Tryal asked what he could say for himself he pleaded Quarter and vouch'd Peters Testimony but that wretched Priest with a brazen face renounced the same saying He now remembred no such matter but that the Army scorned to give Quarter to Him or any of his Nation whereupon he was Condemned to the Block which Sentence was Executed upon him March 9. 1648. XV. HEnry Earle of Holland a special Favourite of King Charles the I. in the beginning of his Reign though afterwards when the long Parliament began to sit that Religion became the Bone of Contention he sided with them But afterwards perceiving that they made Religion only a cloak to cover their Rebellion he deserted them and took up Armes for the Royal Interest together with the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis Villers's Brother the Earle of Peterburgh and some others But they no sooner Rose but were Encountered by the Parliaments more Numerous Forces by whom they were Defeated and the Earle the next day taken Prisoner being afterwards brought to his Tryal before those Lawless Regicides he was by them Condemned together with my Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton and suffered on the same Scaffold the aforesaid 9. of March 1648. XVI ARthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham a most Noble Heroick Gallant Peer Eminently Famous for his Charity and other Rare Endowments whose Noble Virtues fill the Trumpet of Fame to all Posterity This Noble Lord was Son and Heir to Sir Henry Capel of Hadham-Hall in Hartford-shire well known for his Bountiful House and diffusive Charity to the Poor which some Eminous of good works in others because they will practise none themselves have bespattered with the Name of Popery which as they set forth onely the speakers malice so were they no hinderance to this Noble Lord when as he came to possess that Vast Estate to tread in the same steps his Father and Honourable Predecessors had done His great Parts and Deserts Advanced him from the Degree of Knight-hood the antient Dignity of his Family to Baron Capel of Hadham his Son being since by our Gracious Soveragn Created Earle of Essex a little before the time the Earle of Strafford received his Tryal whose giving his Vote to that Bill was in his conscientious Judgment of himself his Original Condemnation in foro Caeli During the time of Rebellion and those unhappy Differences betwixt the King and Parliament none more Constant and Loyal to his Majesty then He Assisting him in all that he could both in Head Hand and Purse and was by Him for his singular Wisdome and Prudence appointed Councellour unto the Prince whom he left not till the Disbanding the Lord Hoptons Army in Cornwall being then dismist with an Honourable Character from that discerning Prince But long had he not continued here at home when some fresh hopes appearing of his Majesties Restauration to his former Authority by the Rising of several Parties for the King he resolved to set his helping hand thereto and joyning with those Valiant Sons of Mars Sir Charles Lucas c. was together with them Besieged in Colchester which for Thirteen Weeks they Valiantly Defended Enduring and Suffering almost all Extremities imaginable at last they were forced to yield upon Articles of Quarter for Life in which this Noble Lord was included yet notwithstanding all Articles he was sent up Prisoner to London and committed to the Tower from whence he endeavoured an Escape and had effected it had he not been betray'd by one Jones a Waterman a second Banister soon after he was brought to their bloody Slaughter-house nick-named by them a Court of Justice whereby those Enemies of Honour and Loyalty he was Condemned and March 9. aforesaid brought to the Scaffold where he resolutely afferted his own Actions his dead Masters Cause and his present Soveraigns Rights recommending him to the People as the great Example of True English Worth and the only Hope of the distracted Kingdom and so like a True Christian Hero suffered the pains of the Axe sealing his Glorious Cause with his last breath and blood XVII MAster Beaumont a Reverend Divine belonging to the Garrison of Pomfract who for his Loyal Endeavours towards the Restoration of his Majesty in holding Correspondency in Cyphers with some Active Royalists was by those Murdering Miscreants who spared none either for their Age or Function most barbarously murdered Feb. 15. 1648. XVIII COlonel John Morris a Gentleman of an Undaunted Courage and Resolution bred up in the Earle of Straffords's House where he was taught his Duty to God and Obedience to his King whom he Faithfully Served in that time of Rebellion being that Gallant Person that Surprized Pomfract Castle which he Valiantly Defended even to the very pinch of Extremity and was for his Valour and Loyalty being suspected by them to be one of those that sent Rainsbrough's Ghost to trace the Infernal Shades most inhumanly butchered by those Scelerate Villanies at the City of York August 23. 1649. XIX COronet Michael Blackburn Emiently Famous for his Loyalty and Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being also taken at Pomfract Castle and likewise suspected for Rainsbrough's death he was therefore by those sworn Foes to true Valour basely murdered at York August 23. aforesaid XX. DOctor Levens Doctor of the Civil Law a Gentleman well Descended of an Antient Family in Oxfordshire who at the first beginning of these
to death in Covent Garden XIII CHarles the I. of Blessed Memory the most Glorious Martyr of this late Age the exact pattern of Piety Patience and Prudence who in the manner of his Sufferings came the nearest to our Saviour of any we have read or heard of whose Christian Virtues and Patience in Afflictions will be had in Everlasting Remembrance Whose History being so exactly delivered by several Learned Pens and his Divine Thoughts so Heavenly set forth in His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other rare Pieces of his own Writing we shall therefore take no further a prospect of Him then from that barbarous and execrable Murther which to the horrour and astonishment of all good Men and to the great shame of the Christian World was most impiously committed on him and that in as brief a method as we can After that it had so pleased God for the sins of the Nation that the Kings Armies were all Overthrown and He Himself a Prisoner under their merciless hands several Endeavours having been used for his Restoration which also proved fruitless Cromwel Ireton and divers others of that Antimonarchial Faction who resolved to Enrich themselves though with the Ruine of the Kingdome and the loss of their own Souls By a Violent and Treasonable Force Seized upon divers Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament such as they thought had any Courage or Honesty to Vote according to their Consciences and neglect their wild Diabolical proposals leaving onely Fifty or Sixty Schismaticks of their own Engaged Party such as had made a prey of the Common-Wealth to Enrich Themselves and their Faction These Offalls of a Parliament quickly Voted down the Kingly Office and House of Peers and that the Supream Authority was in the People and in the House of Commons as their Representative and to bring the King to Capital Punishment before a new invented Illegal mixt Court consisting of Engaged Persons Erected for that purpose having Foundation neither by Prescription nor Law These proceedings though contrary to Law Sense and Religion yet being back'd by an Army they went on in their most wicked Design and to shew that they were as devoy'd of Grace as without shame they kept a Mock-Fast where Hugh Peters that Pulpit-Buffon Acted a Sermon before them the subject whereof was Moses leading the Israelites out of Aegypt which he applyed to the Leaders of the Army covering his eyes with his hands and laying down his head on the Cushion and such other antick gestures as moved the People unto laughter so audaciously impudent were they as to delight in their abominable wickednes Soon after was that accursed High Court of Justice Erected before which Audacious Traytors his Majesty was often brought who refused to hear the King speak of Reason but contrary to all Law Reason Religion Honesty Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy several Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations and Covenants He was by the mouth of that Grand Murthering Rebel Bradshaw Sentenced to be Beheaded the rest of those Miscreant Traytors by standing up assenting to the same and so not being admitted to reply he was by their Guards hurried away the Souldiers as he passed along in imitation or being set on by their Rebellious Masters that they might not be much behind them in Villany scoffing and reviling Him casting the smoak of their Tobacco a thing odious to Him in his face and strewing the Pipes in his way one more insolent then the rest spitting in his face the Souldiers all along as he passed Crying out Justice Justice Execution Execution to whom his Majesty onely said Alas poor Souls for a piece of Money they would do so for their Commanders From the time of that bloodly Sentence to the time of his execrable Murther how barbarously the Souldiers continued their insolencies to him and how base and bruitish they were in their carriage would almost exceed belief of a rational man not suffering him to rest in his Chamber but thrusting in smoaking their Tobacco and disturbing him in his Privacy abusing those that seemed to shew any respect or even compasion to him But through all those Tryalls and Barbarous Affronts he passed with such a calm and even temper that he let nothing fall unbeseeming his former Majesty and Magnanimity but despight of their malice proved himself a Glorious Conquerour When that fatal day was come which they had appointed for his Glorious Martyrdome he was brought from his Palace of St. James's to White-Hall marching on foot through the Park being Guarded by a Regiment of Foot Souldiers with their Colours flying and Drums beating the Guards marching a slow pace he bid them go faster saying That he now went before them to strive for a Heavenly Crown with less solitude then he had often Encouraged his Souldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem After he had come to the Chamber appointed for him in White Hall he spent that little remnant of time he had to live in Devotion and received the blessed Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of London who was Licensed to attend on him from which he received great Spiritual comfort continuing at his Devotions till about Twelve a Clock when he eat a bit of Bread and drank a glass of Clarret returning to his Devotions again when about an hour after he was brought on the Scaffold attended by the foresaid Bishop where with a Christian Courage and Resolution He finished his Glorious Martyrdome which at the falling of his Body mounted his Soul to Heaven in whose bliss-full Mansions he now sings Hallelujahs for ever Thus this Noble Prince sanctified by many Afflictions after he had escaped Pistol Poyson and Pestilent Air which means the Regicides had design'd to take him away by during his restraint could not escape the more venomous tongues of Lawyers and Petty-Foggers Bradshaw Cook Dorislau c. We shall conclude our Discourse of Him with this Epitaph made by a Loyal Person Within this Sacred Vault doth lye The Quintessence of Majesty Which being set more Glorious Shines The best of Kings best of Divines Brittains shame and Brittains glory Mirrour of Princes compleat Story Of Royalty One so exact That th' Elixars of praise detract These are fair shaddows but t' endure He 's drawn to th' life in 's Pourtracture If such another Piece you 'ld see Angels must Limn it out or He. XIV NOw next in order should we proceed to Duke Hamilton Earle of Cambridge who though of another Nation yet being a Peer of this and dying by Sentence of their Illegall High Court of Injustice we cannot without injustice leave him out of this Catalogue It is indeed confest by most that the Kings Interest was but Collateral and though his Actions and Promises at his Tryal in hopes of life may seem evidently to confirm the same yet in his last words and words of dying men do carry great force with them he did Evidence a real Love and Affection to that Cause This Duke was General
with a Party pursued the Pinnace to a shallow which she could not pass demanding her and the Earles Surrender which being refused a Drake was discharged which unfortunately killed the said Earle and one of his Servants being placed on purpose on the Deck to deter the Royalists from shooting whereupon they presently struck sayle and yielded but with a just revenge were all sacrificed to to the Ghost of that most Noble Loyal Peer XVI Colonel Charls Cavendish aforesaid who quickly after the deserved death of those murthering Rebells was set upon by a great Party under Colonel White a Lincolnshire Gentleman who with those Forces came to relieve the Boat or recover it if taken Whereupon a sharp Encounter ensued betwixt them but the Royalists being over-pour'd the Valiant Colonel was forced to take the Trent with his Horse which swam him safe to the other side but there stuck in the Owze and Mud but as soon as he could get a shore off his Horses back the Enemy was come to him round by the Ford and seeing him desparately wounded offer'd him Quarter which he magnanimously refusing throwing his blood amongst them which he wipé't off his face was by them killed out-right upon the place XVII The Lord Grandison who in the Service of his Majesty was wounded at Bristol of which wounds he shortly after died XVIII Sir Ingram Hopton Sir George Bolit and Lievtenant Colonel Markham men whose Names deserve to be recorded in the Book of Fame who in a sharp and sore conflict against the Earle of Manchester's Forces near Horn-Castle in Lincoln-shire valiantly fighting were unfortunately slain XIX John Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond a most Gallant Heroick Person slain in the Battel between Hopton and Waller on Cheriton-Down Fight March 29. 1644. XX. Sir John Smith Colonel Sandys and Colonel Scot Persons of great Worth and Eminency whose valourous minds scorned danger and who hated no man so much as a Coward These Gallant Sons of Mars were slain at the foresaid Fight on Cheriton-Down whose valiant Names succeeding Ages shall mention with honour XXI Colonel Manning slain also at the foresaid Fight a Gallant Person onely unhappy in this in being Father to that Captain Manning who betrayed the Kings Council to Cromwel while he resided at Colin for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country XXII The Lord Cary Sir Thomas Motham and Sir William Lampton who in that great Fight betwixt Prince Rupert and the Parliamentarians at Maston Moor July 2. 1644. wherein above Eight Thousand lost their Lives and was indeed the Greatest of all the War in this so memorable a Battel those Three Honoured Persons lost their Lives sealing the love they bore to the Kings Side with their dearest bloods XXIII Sir William Wentworth Sir Charles Slingsby Sir Francis Dane who Engaging in Defence of his Majesties Cause were slain in that great and unfortunate fight at Maston Moor. XXIV Lievtenant Colonel Smith and Captain Boteler who at the Raising of Banbury Siege lost their lives to purchase to themselves an Honourable Name XXV Sir John Digby whose very Family carries Loyalty in the Name of it wounded at Langport in the County of Somerset of which wounds he shortly after died XXVI Colonel Myn an Active Loyal Person who Commanded a Regiment of English which he brought with him out of Ireland who Engaging with Massey in Gloster-shire valiantly performed the Office of an Excellent Souldier and Expert Commander both in Rallying his Men bringing them up and keeping them from the Rout but being over-mastered in number he was there slain dying in the bed of Honour XXVII Colonel Sir William St. Leger Lievtenant Colonel Topping and Lievtenant Colonel Leake who in the second Battlel at Newbery valiantly fighting lost their lives making good that ground in their death which in their life they had undertook to keep accompanying those Souldiers in their deaths whom in their lives they had Commanded with so much Gallantry XXVIII Colonel Gage the flower of Chevialry and pattern of true Magnanimity who to hinder the daily Excursions of the Abington Forces under the Command of Major General Brown resolv'd to build a Fort at Culham Bride to repress the boldness of those Forces who were constantly out thereabouts upon Designes In the attempt thereof the Abington Forces under Colonel Brown Sally out to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Erruption Engaging with the Royalists though with little hopes of prevailing till an unlucky shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford a great loss to the Royal Interest XXIX Colonel St. George who at the storming of the City of Leicester in a Bravery and Gallantry of Courage ventering upon the mouth of the Cannon was slain with a great shot XXX Colonel Taylor an Eminent Commander under Prince Rupert who at the Siege thereof by Sir Thomas Fairfax was in its Defence mortally wounded XXXI Sir Richard Crane a great friend and familiar with Prince Rupert who in a Sally upon the Enemies was unfortunately slain XXXII The thrice Noble Lord Bernard Stuart Earle of Leichfield the last of the three Illustrious Brothers of the Duke of Richmond late deceased who constantly adheiring to the King both in Weal and Woe never left him for the greatest Danger or Extremity for after the fatal fight at Naseby the King with a flying Army intending for the relief of Chester was set upon by General Poyntz at Routon-Heath where happened a very sharp sore fight wherein this Noble Lord gallantly fighting in Defence of his Royal Master was unfortunely killed Sept. 24. 1645. XXXIII Sir Francis Carnaby and Sir Richard Hutton men of stout and magnanimous carriage who feared not death in his nearest approaches those two valiant Hero's were slain at Sherbon fight in Yorkshire October 25. 1645. being in their march towards the Marquess of Montross XXXIV Major Cufaud an Officer in Basing House which so long and valiantly held out against the numerous assaults of a Potent Enemy and who at last of all would hear of no Terms of surrender but being stormed and with great loss of the assailants Entered this valiant Major after a stout resistance not dreading death was by the hands of his Enemies there slain XXXV Doctor Griffiths Daughter who though a Female yet of a Masculine spirit and for her Loyalty deserving a large share amongst those Notable Hero's slain in the Kings service this Amazonian Lady whose praise cannot be sufficiently celebrated in the foresaid storm at Basing House was by the barbarity of the Enemies killed and shamefully left naked a trophy of their Baseness and her own eternal Renown and Honour XXXVI Master Gerard the Authour of that Elabourate Herbal which bears his Name to whom succeeding Ages must confess themselves indebted this gallant Gentleman Renowned for Arts and Armes was likewise at the storming of that House unfortunately slain a great losse to succeeding Ages XXXVII Sir
at Armes and from thence to Newgate where having remained a long time he was at last brought to their High Court of Injustice where he very hardly escaped with life his great Estate amounting to Seven or Eight Thousand pound per Annum making him liable to any Treason those Incorrigible Traytors could suggest against him he was from thence remanded to the Tower but hath since survived to enjoy again his own Estate and to see many of those Hanged who would have used their utmost spight for the Enjoyment of his great Estate XVIII Sir John Berkenhead a Gentleman whose Worth and Deserts are too high for me to deliniate He was a constant Assertor of his Majesties Cause in its lowest Extremities and suffered for the same several Imprisonments I shall speak no more in his Commendation whose own Pen hath so sufficiently display'd its self that he who is ignorant thereof must plead ignorance both to Wit and Learning XIX Doctor Barwick a Reverend Orthodox Divine who for his Loyalty was by an Order of the Long Parliament committed Prisoner to the Tower where he lay untill such time he was neer famished when Colonel West the then Lievtenant of the Tower permitted him his liberty on Parol to render himself at a prefixed time soon after which he accordingly performed after the Lievtenants death his Wife gained him his Conge and set him at perfect Freedome there being nothing of Accusation against him for it was the method of those Tyrants to bury Men in their Prisons untill their Estates and Healths were quite exhausted if they had nothing against them which would presently reach their Lives This Reverend Doctor survived to see the flourishing again of Episcopacy and was by his Sacred Majesty made Dean of St. Pauls in which place he continued till the month of October 1664. when like Abraham he was gathered to his Fathers a good man and full of dayes XX. The Valiant Earle of Cleaveland a person whose Worth and Honour cannot be forgotten so long as living Annals shall inform posterity of the miseries of our Civil Wars This Loyal Earle as he gave undoubted Testimonies all along the War of his unfeigned Fidelity to the Royal Cause so particularly at Worcester where he was in Obedience to his Majesties commands suffering a tedious and cruel Imprisonment by those Barbarous Rebells for the Testimonies of his Affection to his Royal Soveraign XXI The Lord Gerard now Captain of his Majesties Life Guard who all along the War bore a part in the calamities and misfortunes of the Kings Adventures never forsaking the Royal Interest in its lowest ebb of Fortune which he hath survived to see it restored again to its former resplendant Majesty XXII Sir John Owen that undaunted piece of Welsh Loyalty whose endeavours for the King in that Country were truly Honourable though not crowned with that successe as such a Cause merrited This Loyal Gentleman was at their High Court of Injustice condemned to death together with Duke Hamilton Lord Capel c. but by the mercy of the Parliament rare and wonderfull he was Reprieved XXIII The Earle of Norwich the Lord Loughborough Sir Bernard Gascoigne Colonel Far c. these Heroick Persons were all Engaged in the Design at Colchester where having suffer'd a sharp and bitter Siege after the rendition of the Town they had by the barbarity of those Rebells all of them suffered death had not some of them made their escapes and the rest give in such Pleas as would have freed them out of the hands of the most bloody Cannibals in the world XXIV Should I next go about to enumerate all those Excellent Persons who were forced out of their Fellowships and other Collegiate Emoluments in both Universities it would be a Task too large for so small a Volumne A work so great Would make Olympus bearing Atlas sweat Such barbarity being used towards them as may make Posterity to tremble at the thought of it I shall therefore pass over that sad story and beadroll desiring to be excused though I give not to every person a due Character for their Loyalty in Suffering XXV Should I next mention the calamity of the Loyal and Orthodox Clergy which they underwent in general by that bloody and cruel Edict of Oliver which by restriction of their Function nay their particular abilities permitting them not so much as to keep a School taking thereby clearly away from them all hopes of sustentation and maintenance of life this might better be expressed by sighs and tears then by pen and paper XXVI Next I might make a record of that black Bill and List against several of the Nobility and Gentry which passed against them for an Act of Parliament by which their Estates were forfeited for Loyalty and appointed to be sold by Trustees of their Nomination thus though they could not come at to eat the bird they would be sure to pluck off all his feathers XXVII In the next place the Martyred City of Worcester the scene of ruined Loyalty deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance each Citizen whereof might be transcribed into this Register as being all sufferers for the Royal Cause to which they constantly adhered during all the time of the War and would not yield at last without a particular Order from his Majesty and with the same resolution of Loyalty did they Entertain King Charles the Second in fifty one whom they proclaimed with great solemnity and in that Fatal Defeat suffered deeply with him being plundered by the insatiable covetousnesse of the Souldiers of what ever was worth the carrying away yet in that desparate exigency such was their love to the Royal Cause that as if their own sufferings had been nothing at the Rebels enterance the streets resounded with the peoples cryes Oh! save the King save the King amongst which number of Royal Sufferers Master Soles the honest Mayor deserves a particular remembrance for whom a Gallows was set up for him at his own door and from which he as narrowly escaped XXVIII Next for the Honour of the City of London we find Sir Abraham Reynoldson who so gallantly refused to Proclaim the Act for abolishing Kingly Government and was for the same committed to the Tower Sir John Gaire Alderman Adams Sir James Bunce who suffered much in their Vast Estates and Major General Brown who endured a sharp and tedious Imprisonment XXIX The Honourable Colonel John Russel Brother to the Earle of Bedford a person of unfeigned Fidelity and Gallantry who served his Majesty in his Armies during all the War and was a constant sufferer for him all along afterwards in the Usurpers Prisons being upon the least occasion of fear sure to be one of the first that was secured and so continued tossed from one custody to another till such time as his Majesties Happy Return XXX The Right Honourable the Lord Bellasis who partaking in the same Cause suffered in the very same predicament being no where more resident or
to partake with them in their horrid Actions swallowing thereby his Name and Honour in this Whirle-pool of Confusion and Royal Blood He deceased before his Majesties Return XIII Sir Thomas Malverer a York-shire Knight whose Family had been raised to that Honour by the Two last Kings which to a Noble Spirit should have been the more oblidging but great Benefits cause Ingratitude and Covetousness to have wherewithall to live answerable to his Title wickedly prompted him for the equalling of it to consent to the Murther of him from whence his Honour was Derived He also died before his Majesties happy restauration XIV Sir John Bourcher another Independant York-shire Knight who making a gain of Godliness under the pretense thereof Acted the most horrid Villanies having God in their mouth and the Devil in their heart Like Water-men looking one way and rowing another being sure alwayes when they had the fearest pretenses they were then hatching the foulest Impieties This Man that he might not be out of the way when occasion should serve diligently dined at Hell and to compleat his other wicked Actions consented to the Murther of his Soveraign He likewise dyed before his Majesties Return XV. Isaac Pennington a busie stickler of the Faction and a Grand Agent in the perpetration of all our late Troubles He was by the Faction continued Lord Mayor of London for Two Years together though contrary to the Kings Express Command from Oxford by his Authority in the City he contributed largely to the maintenance of Rebellion and added much fuell to that fire of Desention betwixt the King and Parliament and yet notwithstanding he was a great sharer in the spoyle of his Country He broke twice what being got over the Devil 's back being spent under his belly and thinking to make good his broken Fortunes joyned with them in the Murther of his Soveraign After his Majesties Happy Restauration he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice and that he signed not the Warrant yet was it made apparent that his Crimes were of a crimson dye but by the Kings Clemency his Execution was respited and died a natural death in the Tower of London XVI Henry Martin Son of Sir Henry Martin Judge of the Prerogative Court a most Wicked Lewd Vicious and Infamous Person whose Actions have rendered him odious to all Posterity He first spoke Treason against the King and his Family in the House of Commons and was in Complement Committed and Suspended for a while proving afterwards a Grand Actor in the Highest of Treasons being one of the Chief of the Caball in taking away the life of the King ordering the Charge against him to go in the Name of The Commons in Parliament Assembled and the Good People of England After his Majesties Return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation using many dilatory evasions at his Tryal afterwards being brought to the Bar of the House of Lords to Answer why Judgement should not be Executed upon him he replyed That he understood the Proclamation extended to favour of life upon rendering himself and withall added That he never obeyed any of his Majesties Proclamations before but this and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the Kings Word now XVII William Purefoy a Warwick-shire Gentleman once Governour of Coventry a busie Fellow in their Leger-de-main Jugglings and a great Zealot against Crosses as Superstitious and Crowns as Superfluous This his blind Zeal together with his Covetousness after Church and Crown Lands made him not scruple to embrue his hands in the blood of his Prince but lived not to receive the just reward of such horrid Villany dying before his Majesties Return XVIII Colonel John Berkstead a Man at first of a despicable Fortune keeping a sorry Goldsmiths Shop in the Strand but having learned a little City-Souldiery was made Captain of a Foot-Company under Colonel Ven at Windsor and being in Active Person by Success of Rebellion was made Governour of Reading and continued always a fast Friend to Oliver Cromwel in all his wicked Consultations and Purposes joyning with him in that horrid Murther of the King for which and other his Services to him he was by Oliver made Lievtenant of the Tower where by Extortion and Cruelty he gained a great masse of Wealth but when Loyalty began again to be Predominant his guilty Conscience hurried him beyond Sea lurking a good while in some parts of Germany under feigned Names but divine vengance soon found him out for He Colonel Okey and Miles Corbet having resided for some time in the City of Hannow about the beginning of March they came to Delf in Holland appointing their Wives to meet them there but Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague having information thereof they were luckily surprized and sent into England and having remained Prisoners some while in the Tower were brought to the Kings Bench-Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not dye according to Law the Act of Attainder being then read unto them to which they Alleadged they were not the same persons mentioned therein but it being proved by Witnesses Sentence of death was pronounced against them and on Saturday April 19. 1662. they were Executed at Tyburn the Head of this Grand Regicide being set on a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower XIX John Blakeston a Fellow who would not be idle when there was any thing to do especially of Profit He was at first a Shop-Keeper in Newcastle when according to the time he was a Rigid Presbyterian and while the Scots were there chosen a Burgess for that Town but the Market of Independency being up he turned with the Tide and like Judas for the lucre of money consented to the Murther of his Royal Master but enjoyed the gain of his Impiety not long dying before the return of his Majesty when without the greater Clemency he might have received a reward more agreeable to his deserts XX. Gilbert Millington a Lawyer who contrary to all Law sided with those bloody Regicides against his Lawfull Soveraign He was a constant Chair-Man of the Committee for Plundered Ministers by which Trade he filled his Coffers the sweets of which Employment set his teeth on edge and sharpned him to that cruell attempt upon his Soveraigns Life Upon the Kings return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal confessed the Fact and the guilt of it and was favoured with an acceptance of it from the Court. XXI Thomas Chaloner one who had Travelled far in the World and returned home poysoned with that Jesuitical Doctrine of King-killing which he here put in practise being the great Speech-Maker against the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their New Utopian Common-Wealth but upon his Majesties Return fled the Land his Actions being so bad as would not endure the Touch-Stone XXII Sir William Constable a York-shire Knight
of their cruelty upon the most stoutest asserters of the Kings Cause I. COlonel Nathaniel Gordon a Gentleman of exquisite valour who accompanied the Noble Marquess of Montross in all dangers and difficulties his constant Fidelity rendred him odious to the Covenanting-gang who having him in their hands most basely murther'd him at St. Johnstons 1647. II. SIr Robert Spotswood whose Worth and Learning would have preserved him from the hands of his most barbarous Enemies but those of his own Nation He was a Gentleman of most polite and deep learning especially in the Oriental Languages and was for his extraordinary parts made the Kings Secretary of Scotland in the place of the Earle of Lanerick His great Endowments and large Abilities for what he undertook accelerated his end dying with a Noble and Christian courage breathing his last with these words Jesu have mercy on me and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race III. MAster Andrew Guthrey Son to the Bishop of Murrory a Loyal Gentleman and therefore rendred the more obnoxious to the Kirk-men those great pretenders of dutifull affection to the King a strange riddle to love the Master and murther his Servants this gallant person was by them barbarously murthered the aforesaid year 1647. IV. MAster William Murrey Brother to the Earle of Tullibardin one whose hopefull Spring promised a flourishing fruitfull Harvest who in his Youth performed wonders and gave undeniable proofs of what he would have proved afterwards had he not been thus basely cut off in the prime of his strength at Nineteen years of age He most magnanimously couragiously encountered death behaving himself with such a Christian carriage and contempt of death as he said His End would prove the greatest Honour of his Family These four Gentlemen all Sacrificed their lives in defence of their Soveraign and dyed Royal Martyrs at St Johnstons the year of our Lord 1647. aforesaid V. THe Renowned and ever Glorious Marquess of Montross the Honour of Chevalry pattern of true Magnanimity whose glorious exploits were such and so great as would pose Antiquity with all her feign'd Hero's to find his parallel of whom we shall give you the more larger account and shew you how barbarously they used this gallant Worthy He at first sided with the Covenanters against his Majesty their specious pretenses carrying a fairer gloss then his green years could so soon look into but reason quickly rectified his Judgment and he perceived that those fair shews were but painted cloaths on purpose to catch the simple yet would he not so soon on the sudden decline but endeavoured in his Revolt to have done his Majesty an Excellent Piece of Service by bringing that Army to him which was under his Command but being disappointed he endeavoured to display his Loyalty another way The King having then few friends in Scotland but such as were so over-aw'd by the Convenanters they durst not shew themselves the Noble Marquesse obtained a Commission from the King to be Governour of Scotland whither he went attended onely by two Master William Rollock and Master Sibbalds and thorow many dangerâ— came at last to his Cousin Master Patrick Graham in the Sheriff-dome of Perth where he stai'd but a while but went into the High-Lands the Earle of Antrim having promised to send him sufficient Supplies out of Ireland as a stock to begin with which he performed though very defficient in the Number some One Thousand One Hundred only coming over however having some little addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earle of Perths Son he resolved not to lye idle but with a bold Courage to finde out the Army of the Covenanters then gathered together under the Earle of Tullyburn and other Scotch Lords in Perth-shire where at Tepper-Moor he set upon them and though not equal to his Enemies in number yet so exceeding them in Valour that he obtained of them a Glorious Victory which he might well ascribe to Providence for his Souldiers wanting Ammunition were supplyed by the stones which lay thick on the ground whereon they fought to their very great advantage Here he killed no lesse then Two Thousand of his Enemies whereupon the City of Perth opened her gates and yielded to the Conquerour This Victory obtained he Marches into Argyles Country one whose Actions hath since rendred him deservedly infamous here he made a miserable havock minding utterly to break the spirits of that People who were so surely Engaged to Argyle's side To withstand and represse this so dangerous an Enemy the Covenanters soon Raised another Army under the Earle of Seaforth and the Marquess of Argyle whose Forces being divided he sets upon that Party under Argyle first which he totally Routed killing One Thousand Five Hundred on the Place soon after he Defeated the other Army being newly put under the Command of Colonel Hurry then offers battel to Bayley who declined to Fight without great advantage whereupon he marches after Hurry who was now Recruited and at Alderne sets upon him discomfits him killing One Thousand Eight Hundred and dispersing the rest Then next with his Victorious Army he goes to seek for Bayly to whom was joyned the Earle of Lindsey and joyning battel with them at Alesford-Hills gives them a total Rout but not without the losse of some of his own men whereof the Lord Gourdon deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance then with an uncontrollable march he goes to St. Johnstons putting the Parliament who there satt into a great fright from thence he goes into the Low-Lands to Encounter with Bayly who was again Recruited with another Army by the Kirk At Kilsith both Armies met where betwixt them was fought a very bloody Battel which continued doubtfull for a good space but Victory at length crowned the head of Montross almost Six Thousand of his Enemies falling in that Fight nor were the effects thereof lesse profitable to him then the Victory it self for hereupon almost all Places of Strength yielded to him even as far as Edenburgh the Nobility and Gentry every where readily Assisted him and acknowledged him for their Rightful Governour But what Estate on Earth is long permanent How soon may a serene skie be shadowed with clouds Whiles Montross was now as he thought almost secure most part of his Army returning home he expecting Ayd from the King under the Lord Digby Leshly being called out of England by the Scottish Estates made such hast that he fell upon Montross at Philips-haugh almost before his Scouts could give him Intelligence and there Routed him he hardly escaping with his life being forced to cut his way through his Enemies and with a poor remainder of his Army fly into the High-Lands where he began anew to Levy Forces but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year Ordered by the King then in the Scotts Custody to Disband and Depart the Kingdome which notwithstanding he knew it would be prejudicial
Thomas Dallison and Sir Richard Cave who in that unfortunate Battel at Naseby sealed their Affection to the Kings Cause with their dearest bloods XXXVIII Sir Nicholas Fortescu a Knight of Malta see the justness of the Kings Cause which invited Strangers from so far Countries to take his Part was slain in Lancashire in defence of the Royal Cause XXXIX Sir Troilus Turbervil Captain Lievtenant of the Kings Life Guard slain at his Majesties marching from Newark to Oxford XL. Major Threave and Captain Fry two Persons of Eminent Valour under the Lord Hopton who when King Charle's Moon began to waine yet stoutly stood up in their Soveraigns Defence and at Torington valiantly fighting against the Fairfaxians who came to storm the Town were there slain dying in the bed of honour XLI Colonel Stanhop Governour of Shelford House who being summoned to surrender the same by Major General Poynz with a gallant resolution refused the same whereupon the Enemy storming and being over-power'd he was slain whilest he valiantly strived to make good that place he had undertaken to keep XLII Sir Nicholas Kemish an Eminent Cavaleir whose Worth and Gallantry cannot be sufficiently mentioned This Loyal Knight after such time the Juncto at Westminster had made those Destructive Votes of No further Addresses to the King and began to reject him in words as they had done formerly in deeds some hopes being given of Ayd for his Majesty Langhorn Poyer and Powell having an Army under them to neer the number of Eight Thousand declaring for the King Sir John Owen also having Risen in North-Wales with a good Force This gallant Knight put to his helping hand and surprized Chepstow-Castle but providence having decreed that deliverance should come to the English Nation by a more mild way then the Sword those Forces under the Three Colonels were utterly Routed Sir John Owen supprest and taken Prisoner and the Castle of Chepstow stormed and taken by Colonel Eure where this Renowned Knight for his Gallant Loyalty was by the barbarous Enemy slain in cold blood XLIII The Lord Francis Villers Brother to the Duke of Buckingham who with the said Duke the Earle of Holland and other Noble Personages Rose in Armes for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty at Kingston in Surry but being set upon by Sir Michael Livesy with other of the Parliament Forces this Active Spark of Valour being too far Engaged by his Mettalsome Courage was taken Prisoner and refusing Quarter was basely killed by a mean and rude hand with whose fall fell the Courage of all the other he being a person of Excellent Parts and of Valour far above his years XLIV Sir _____ Compton a Gentleman of known Worth and Loyalty who Engaging with those Noble Hero's Sir Charles Lucas Lord Capel c. for the Restoring the King and the Lawes to their Right whose Authority was then trampled upon by the Juncto at Westminster This Gallant Gentleman upon a sally out against the Fairfaxians that besieged the Town valiantly fighting was by a bullet which differenceth not a Loyal Person from a Rebel shot and wounded whereof he died July 1648. XLV Sir William Vaughan whose Valour and Fidelity were often approved in his Majesties Service he was slain at the siege of Dublin serving under the thrice Renowned Marquess of Ormond XLVI Sir Arthur Aston a Person whose Experience Courage and approved Fidelity rendred him worthy of the highest Trust and Command This worthy Gentleman was Governour of Drogheda when Cromwell with his Army of Janisaries besieged it valiantly defending the Place committed to his Charge giving Cromwell two notable Repulses and doubtless had given a good account of his Command had not Colonel Wall 's Regiment upon the unfortunate losse of their Colonel in the third Assault been so unhappily dismay'd as to listen before any need was unto the Enemy offering them Quarter and admitted them in upon those Terms betraying thereby both themselves and all their Fellow Souldiers to the insatiable Cruelty of that Monster of Nature Cromwel who gaining the Place most inhumanely put them all to the sword XLVII Sir Edmond Varney a Gentleman whose worth made him alike beloved and admired his faithfull service being often approved in Defence of his Majesty this gallant Gentleman whose merits rendred him odious to Cromwel was one of those who by that bloody Cut-throat was butchered at Drogheda XLVIII Col. Warren Col. Fleming Col. Brin Lievtenant Colonel Finglass and Major Tempest all Active Sparks of Valour whose Heroick Acts had purchased to them a spreading Fame and whose supereminent valour marked them out to slaughter from the hand of that wicked though fortunate General Oliver Cromwell at Drogheda aforesaid XLIX Colonel Hamond a Kentish Gentleman and firm Royalist who was a Colchesterian and suffered for his Loyalty a sharp Imprisonment at Windsor afterwards serving his Royal Master in Ireland at the Castle of Garran lost his life against Cromwel and his Conquering Army L. Captain Goff a person of eminent valour who under the Marquess of Clanrickard in the Royal Cause valiantly fighting was unfortunately killed LI. Sir John Brown a Major General of the Scots at such time as his present Majesty was amongst them who with a Party of Scots Encountering with Lambert in Fife was there wounded of which he quickly after died LII The Lord Widrington an Eminent and Loyal Person who after the Kings march to Worcester together with that ever Renowned Lord the Earle of Derby and other Eminent Hero's gathered Forces together in Lancashire to oppose the Rebells Army which like an impetuous torrent were flowing after the Royal Party and having gathered together about Twelve Hundred Men marched upon a design to fall upon Cromwells own Regiment then Quartering upon their march in Lancaster when in the nick of time in comes Lilburn with Ten Troops of Horse sent by the General from York upon that very Service having with them Two Regiments of Cheshire Foot and other additional Forces of Horse Those gallant Royalists notwithstanding chearfully resolved to fight with Lilburn and accordingly charged him so furiously that they totally Routed their first Troop and with a gallant bravery entered their Body so far that they began to run but fresh reserves coming in they were forced to retreat being sorely annoyed with the Musquets yet notwithstanding this repulse they renewed their charge again and were in great probability of obtaining a glorious Victory when another supply resisted the torrent of their valour and left deep impressions thereof in the death of many gallant Royalists amongst whom this Noble Hero was one who there died in the bed of Honour August 25. 1651. LIII Major General Sir Thomas Tilsely a Gentleman of such Heroick Parts that envy her self must commend him to be the pattern of true Chivalry and Mirrour of Loyalty So Great and Excellent were his Endowments that had he lived in former Ages his Valourous Atchievments would have quite shaded many of those who then passed for
illustrious Hero's he was also slain in that fatal defeat whereof we spake of last LIV. Colonel Mathew Boynton Sir Francis Gamul Lievtenant Colonel Gallyard and Major Trollop and Chester Men of approved Worth and Loyalty whose gallantry appeared the more conspicuous Engaging in such a time when there was almost a general defection of Loyalty These valiant Hero's Engaging with the foresaid Earle of Derby being over-powered by Lilburn's numerous Forces gallantly fighting were slain at Wiggan August 25. 1651. dying there in the bed of Honour and leaving to posterity a Noble Character of their Worth and Virtues LV. Duke Hamilton unfortunately wounded in the Fight at Worcester of which wounds he shortly after died LVI Colonel Morgan a Gallant Gentleman who Engaged with Sir George Booth for a Free Parliament and to un-yoak the Nation from the slavery of those bloody Canniballs at Westminster who intended to have perpetuated themselves in their Tyranny This magnanimous Loyal Person valiantly fighting against Lambert's numerous Forces which like a violent Torrent over-powered them after a gallant defence and defiance of his Enemies was there mortally wounded and soon after died being the last man whose blood was shed in War against those wicked Tyrants the Kings Restauration hapning quickly after And in the next place we should come to speak of those who suffered in their Estate for their Loyalty those gallant Confessors to whom nothing was more common then Imprisonment and Sequestration but should we reckon them all up it would make a Volume as big as Foxes Martyrologie and tyre the brain of the most sedulous Reader not any one Rich Cavilier that scaped their clutches a great Estate being enough to make them guilty of the most hainous Crimes and how ever their Bodies sped their Purses were sure to pay for it Goldsmiths and Haberdashers Hall was their Exchequer as the High Court of Justice was their Shambles The Good Old Cause devoured more then Bell and the Dragon and it was their main Policy to be maintained by their Enemies Estates Take therefore here a Brief Catalogue of the most Eminent Sufferers reserving those of a lesser magnitude to be recorded by more voluminous Historians A brief Catalogue of the most Eminent of those Loyal Confessors who Suffered by Imprisonment Banishment or Estate for the Cause of his Sacred Majesty And that no Occasion may be taken at this Catalogue for matter of Precedency as nominating the most Eminent Sufferers in the first place we will as near as we can observe the order of time and begin first with I. THe Lord Finch of Fordwich Lord Keeper of the Great Seal a Person whose Abilities and Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty rendred him obnoxious to the unruly rabble and therefore upon their Arbitrary Proceedings against the Life of the most Noble Earle of Strafford he wisely with-drew himself away in time before Popular Fury had seized on him against which Beast Innocency would not then give Protection He lived in Banishment and Exile from his Native Country for Sixteen years and then returned with more Credit and Honour then he was forced from it dying in the Love and good Opinion of all Honest People His Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being all the Charge and Accusation they had against him II. Master Secretary Windebanck a person of approved Worth and Loyalty against whom the darts of Popular Fury were in those times of Distraction especially aymed at which to avoid he pursued the same course with the Lord Finch and died in the time of his absence abroad III. The Right Reverend Father in God Mathew Lord Bishop of Ely who with Eleven more of that Sacred Function were committed to the Tower in the year of our Lord 1641. The pretensions against them being the same with the Complices of Korah Ye take too much upon you ye Sons of Levi when their Adversaries intentions was to take all for though the grave Rabbies of that prevailing Faction buzzed into the Peoples eares that their Quarrel was against the Litturgy against Ceremonies and the like a yet their after-Actions made it plainly appear that it was more against Bishops Lands and that the Wealth of the Clergy was more in their ayme then the Weal the Subjects and the Riches of the Prelates more indifferent to those strict Disciplinaries then a Reverend decency in holy performances Eighteen years did this Reverend Father suffer Imprisonment in the Tower having in all that time no Charge exhibited against him but in the end of the year 1659. he was restored to his liberty by the means of the Renowned Duke of Albemarle and is since Re-established in his former Diocess to the Honour and Support of this restored Church IV. Religious Doctor Featly one most Eminent for Learning and Piety to whom this Church is much indebted for his grave accurate defences of its Doctrine and Discipline a man of excellent Endowments and surpassing Knowledge being a Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper when the Church by lowliness of spirit did flourish in high examples yet could not this his singular Piety eminent Learning nor those other extraordinary Gifts with which he was Endowed privilege him from the protection of a Prison being by an Order of Parliament committed to Peter-House where he languished in much pain and misery about a year and a half and was afterwards sickness encreasing through much importunity removed to Chelsey Colledge as a more wholesome Aire but he was so far spent by their barbarous misusage of him that within three weeks after his coming thither he died V. Sir Robert Heath Lord Chief Justice of England a person much Honoured for his Integrity and Moderation and as conspicuous for his constant Loyalty as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day His constant approved service to the King had rendered him so odious to the Rebells at Westminster that he was by them excepted from mercy wherefore towards the expiration of the War he abandoned his Country and fled into France where living in great greef and anxiety of mind to behold the Ruines of his King and Country he fell into a Disease and died thereof at Caen in Normandy not long after the Kings death VI. Judge Bartlet whose innocency defied their threats and like a rock stood in opposition against that torrent of Rebellion but yet was forced at last to yield to their Tyranny in his Body though his Mind they could not conquer He was the first of that Reverend Robe that was committed against whom was brought a Charge fuller of malice then truth and which his integrity made them ashamed of a further prosecution Thus we see by the Imprisonment of this Reverend Judge and others that the pretense of our Grand Reformers was to put out the eyes of the Law that the Subjects might see the clearer VII That heart of Oake and Pillar of the Law Judge Jenkins one of his Majesties Justices in Wales whose Annagram is David Jenkins Kains did Envy He
was for some misdemeanours of Loyalty brought to the Bar in Chancery where he denyed the Authority of the Court because their Seal was contrary to Law as well as their Commissioners and so baffled those puny Judges that instead of a further prosecution there they committed him Prisoner to the Tower where he gave further Demonstrations of his Loyalty by publishing several Presidents and Statutes wherein he proved them Rebells and Traytors and owned the same again at other Bars So that he did more mischief to the Enemies of the Royal Cause with his Pen then their best Regiment could do with their Swords He used his utmost endeavour to set the Parliament and Army at ods thereby to promote the Kings Cause according to that well known maxime Divide and Conquer defying them and their threats and asserting the King and the Laws against their Usurpation He was kept a close Prisoner a long time in the Tower where wearied of him by his indefatigable industry in the Kings Cause he was removed from thence to Windsor where he continued in the same quality and of the same mind till without thanks to them he was permitted the liberty of the Town and hath survived to see the Return of Majesty the Restauration of the Laws and the Liberty of the Subjects restored to them again in as ample a manner as it was before VIII That Valiant Loyal Son of Mary Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton whose Courage and Prudence in the management of the Kings Affairs for whom he Commanded in the West did gaine him the approbation of an Expert Captain and Gallant Commander having his Endeavours Crowned with many notable Successes After his Disbanding in Cornwall Rebellion then flourishing with a high hand he took shipping with the Prince our now Gracious Soveraign and with him Sailed into the Island of Scilly and from thence into the Realm of France following the Kings hard fortune in his Peregrinations till death in the end put a period to his Travells and after a Troublesome life he found a quiet Grave at the City of Paris in France IX Master Secretary Sir Edward Nicholas who constantly and faithfully adhered to his Majesty from the beginning of his Troubles being a great Prop to the Royal Cause by his Prudent Counsells and Great Abilities in the Management of the most Difficult Affairs and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to our present Soveraign in all his Troubles and Negotiations abroad having with great Faithfulness and Prudency Managed that Employment all along to the happy Effect of his Majesties Glorious Restitution X. Sir Edward Hide since the Right Honourable Earle of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour to his present Majesty of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to cry out the Sun shine by whose Counsels the late King had in special Esteem and therefore made him his bosome Favourite which caused such a hatred against him by the Faction at Westminster as excluded him out of their Spurious Act of Mercy But escaping their mercilesse cruelty by a timely avoidance of the Land through his prudent carriage of Affairs together with the providencial mercy of God he survived to see those Enemies of Monarchy and Regal Government brought to a Just Tryal and himself advanced to such a pitch of Honour as to see the Laws Administred in their right form and the Subject to enjoy the just priviledges of them XI The Lord Wilnot afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earle of Rochester being Raised thereunto by his superlative Deserts not only by his Valour which shone transcendent clear at Round-way-down neer the Devizes but also in his prudent carriage in that grand Affair concerning the Kingdoms happiness in his Majesties Miraculous Escape from Worcester He died a little before the Kings Restitution not surviving to participate of those Grandeurs whereof his Abilities would have made him a deserved Sharer XII The Right Reverend Doctor Shelden whose Deserts and Sufferings advanced him upon the Restauration of his Majesty to be Lord Bishop of London since by the death of Doctor Juxon as none more able to supply his place to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan of all England of whose Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a Candle Let it suffice that his very Name is enough to strike Envy dead and to put to silence the most obstinate Heretick and riged Schismatick upon the face of the whole Earth XIII The Religiously Loyall Doctor Hammond a constant assertor of our English Liturgy and one whose Abilities rendred him dear to King Charles the Martyr to whom Imprisonment was no stranger during the time Rebellion was Rampant expecting every day for his Loyalty to have been transported yet would never yield nor deviate from those wayes wherein Conscience ascertain'd him he was in the right though not the predominate side XIV Sir Marmaduke Langdale afterwards Lord Langdale whose Abilities in Martiall Affairs would in the time of Paganism have deified him the God of Battel though in our times his constant Loyalty had rendred him to a higher pitch of Honour being deservedly accounted a Pylot for all Noble and Gallant Spirits whereby to direct and steer their Course XV. Master Roger L' Strange of whose Worth and Abilities to speak would to an Intelligible Reader appear superfluous like the labours of him who writ a whole Volumn in the praise of Hercules whom no man dispraised This Loyal Gentleman for his Endeavours of Reducing Linn to their Obedience to his Majesty suffer'd the utmost malice of a prevailing Faction even to Condemnation besides a long Imprisonment in Newgate Yet could not their Tyranny so much depress his Spirits but his Pen was still a constant Assertor of the Royal Cause in which he continued his best endeavours unto and untill the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty by whom he is looked upon as one of the Agents of his Restauration XVI The Right Honourable the Earle of Norwich a Gentleman of such Worth and Abilities that this mite will signifie nothing to those Rare and Excellent gifts both of Learning and Wisdom wherewith he was Adorned XVII Sir John Stowel a Somerset-shire Gentleman whose Loyalty rendred him so sufficiently Famous that Envy it's self cannot but grant him a prime place with those Glorious Confessors who suffered under the Barbarous Tyrannies of the Rump in the Cause of that Blessed Martyr King Charles who so constantly and vigourously adhered to the King during the War untill the Surrender of Exeter where was good Articles granted upon which he came to London to make composition for his Vast Estate then under Sequestration but contrary to the Capitulation agreed upon at Exeter the Committee at Gold-Smiths-Hall those Horse-leeches of the Nation tendered him the Negative Oath before he could have any admission to Compound to which unjust and perfidious dealing he pleaded the benefit of the said Articles who good Conscientious Men committed him first to the Serjant
president he was by the mouth of Frontless Lisle condemn'd to death and according to that unjust Sentence Executed at Charing-Cross where with a Roman spirit temper'd with Christian patience he suffer'd Martyrdom off from a stool fetcht from their Guard his innocency appearing so transparent that the adjacent Neighbours refused to lend any thing towards his death These Two Gentlemen were the first that suffer'd under the Tyrannical Government of Oliver Cromwell whose Five Years Usurpation was cemented all along with a sacrifice of Loyal blood as the Walls of Babylon were said to be mortur'd XXXIII and XXXIV COlonel Penruddock and Colonel Groves two Valiant Gentlemen who had constantly and faithfully served his late Majesty and now with several other Gentlemen of good Account Joyned in an Assosiation to free the Land from the Slavery they endured under that Abominable Tyrant Cromwel and to restore his Sacred Majesty To this purpose about some Two Hundred of them Rose in the West and Entred the City of Salisbury at such time as the Judges Rolls and Nicholls were there in Circute whose Horses they Seized and Declared the Cause of this their Appearance and having now Encreased their Numbers to Four Hundred they marched thence to Blundeford where Colonel Penrudock himself Proclaimed the King in the Market-place from thence they marched more Westward towards Devon-shire and Corn-Wall but their numbers decreasing they were at last at South-Molton in Devon-shire set upon by a strong party of Horse under the Command of Captain Crook where being over-powred they submitted upon Articles of quarter for life which Crook afterwards basely denied when they were Tryed at Salisbury by which Treachery these two gallant Gentlemen were for their Loyal Undertakings condemned and wickedly murthered May 16. 1655. XXXV JOhn Lucas a Mercer of very good Estate in Hungerford who joyning with these gallant Royalists in their Attempts for Restoring the King staying in the Town when he might have escaped unluckily fell into their hands by whom he was Sentenced and lost his head XXXVI c. MAster Kensey Master Thorp John Fryar and John Lawrence Persons of good esteem and credit in the West-country who likewise joyning with Colonel Penrudock and those other gallant persons we formerly mentioned were for this their Loyalty barbarously murthered by those insolent Rebells at Salisbury besides Eleven more whose Names we cannot yet attain to who upon the same account were by those Rebells murdered at Exeter May 1655. XXXVII SIr Henry Slingsby a Knight of good repute in York-shire and who for his Loyalty was seldom out of trouble during all the time of Rebellion having been a Prisoner in Hull off and on ever since that fatal Fight at Worcester he being now weary of this long restraint and perceived so to be by some of the Officers of that Garrison they viz. Major Waterhouse Captain Overton and one Lievtenant Thompson to hook him in cast out some disgustal words against their Sultan Cromwell mixing thereto some Overtures of their good will to the King and the Rendition of the Place to him if he could procure a Commission for them from his Majesty The Loyal Gentleman gladly Embraced a proffer of such Concernment and made use of an Old Commission he had by him But they having now brought him into their snare sent him up a Prisoner to London where at his Tryal they were Witnesses against him for being brought to Cromwell's slaughter-house ecleaped a High Court of Justice where bloody Lisle sat President he was by those monsters of Nature condemned and wickedly murdered June 8. 1658. XXXVIII DOctor John Hewyt a Reverend Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper who taught the People both by Life and Doctrine whose Excellent Parts and known Loyalty was two grand motives to the insatiable thirst of Cromwell to desire to tast his blood To this purpose a Plott must be invented of Firing the City and I know not what whereof the Reverend Doctor was accused and though his innocency appeared as transparent as the Sun in the most serene skie yet being ignorant of the formalities of the Law though none more knowing in the Gospel he was taken or surprized for a mute and by the mouth of that audacious and bloody Regicide Frontless Lisle condemned and on the same Scaffold with Sir Henry Slingsby Beheaded rendring his Soul into the hands of his Creator the aforesaid 8. of June 1658. XXXIX COlonel Edward Ashton a Valiant Loyal Person whom Cromwell acting Nero's part who set Rome on fire and then punish't the Christians for doing it So this crafty blood-sucker having devized a Plott against their lives laid to their charge that they would fire the City and having by Imprisonment and other sinister ends prevail'd on some to accuse others notwithstanding their innocency were condemned amongst others this gallant Colonel suffer'd by their barbarous inhumanity July 2. 1648. XL. MAster John Betley a young man of Excellent Parts who being trappan'd by the Tyrants Emissaries about the aforesaid Plott was by the bloody Sentence of their High Court of Injustice condemn'd to be hanged and accordingly was Executed in Cheapside the aforesaid 2 of July where he made a solemn protestation of his Innocency at whose death hapned a thing something strangely remarkable for having hung almost a quarter of an hour he pulled off his cap with his own hands so loth was the Soul to depart from that gallant body which had it not been thus snatcht away by this untimely death might have lived to have done his King and Country gallant service and have been a special Ornament to the City wherein he lived XLI MAster Edward Stacy who for the same counterfeit Plott was two dayes after murthered over against the Exchange in Corn-hill being the last man that suffered under the bloody Tyranny of Cromwell who had taken such large draughts of loyal blood and who himself expired not long after Thus have we given you a brief Narrative of those worthy Martyrs who suffered under colour of Sentence by Law during that time Rebellion was Rampant many others might be added to this Catalogue whose Names and Qualities we cannot yet attain unto and who dying in opposition to Tyranny and upon the account of Law and Loyalty deserve to be had in everlasting remembrance My desire therefore will be to those of their Relations concerned in it such timely notice might be given of them before a Second Edition of this Book that their memories might have the right belonging to them to the encouragement of others in persisting in Loyalty and to the dread and terrour of Traytors and Regicides who shall dare to lift up their hand against the Lords annointed We shall next add only a short account of some Loyal Persons murdered in Scotland by the same pretense of Law to shew that the men of the Kirk notwithstanding their great pretensions of Loyalty were not much behind the Independent gang but drove the same trade and exercised the utmost