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A66699	The loyall martyrology, or, Brief catalogues and characters of the most eminent persons who suffered for their conscience during the late times of rebellion either by death, imprisonment, banishment, or sequestration together with those who were slain in the Kings service : as also dregs of treachery : with the catalogue and characters of those regicides who sat as judges on our late dread soveraign of ever blessed memory : with others of that gang, most eminent for villany / by William Winstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1665 (1665)	Wing W3066; ESTC R9014	71,216	190

1660. IV. Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune and in Charity judged not to be of such a premeditated malice as the rest though by the current of Times drawn to Act with the highest in Mischief He was at the first a Cavalier in Opinion but with the more gainfuller times turn'd Presbyterian then afterwards upon the new module when Presbytery began to decline he became a strong Independant where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and minding Profit more then Conscience he still grew more hardned in his Lawless practises finding more likeliness of greater spoiles in the destruction of Monarchy He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesties Execution and Acted all along with them in their Murtherous Counsels having for his share in the price of blood a Command afterwards in Ireland where he continued till such time as the Happy Revolution of Affairs brought Monarchy again to stand on its feet when he surrendred himself and upon his Tryal shewed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes He still lives by the Mercy of the King a condemn'd man Prisoner in the Isle of Wight V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Extract or Remarque till such time as made notoriously famous for Villany He was by Marriage Cromwel's Brother in Law who upon that account by his Authority and Command in the Parliament preferred him to be Governour of Linn and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely which place he had stongly Fortefied as a safe Retreat for Cromwel if before he had compleated his damnable Designs he should have been forced to have gone thither Upon the Change of the Times when Royalty began to grow splendid he ran away the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth and hath hitherto escaped the hands of Justice VI. Colonel Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle under line in Staffordshire at first a Servant to one Master Hulker an Atturney But finding the Law begun to be trode under foot he betook himself to the Army the more hopefuller way of preferment where by his Preaching and such like Sanctimonious wayes of proceeding when the Army made a gain of Godliness he came to be a Major and being of a pragmaticall daring spirit was by the influence of Cromwel preferred to be a Colonel and the Custody of the Kings Person when taken from the Isle of Wight committed unto him which he according to his Butchery Nature most irreverently abused by no less saucy behaviour then Treasonable Speeches of blacking the King c. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ring-leader of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men and such as traded in Enthusiasmes in whose Love and especial Opinion he dyed being expectedly Executed at the place where once stood Charing-Cross October 14. 1660. His Head was set upon a Pole on the top of the South-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters Exposed to Publick View upon some of the City Gates VII Colonel Edward Whaley Descended from a Family in Nottingham-shire and bound Apprentice to a Woollen-Draper which trade he followed for a while but falling into decay left the Ell and took up the Spear and during all the time of our Troubles was very industriously Active rising by degrees till he came at last to be Comissiary General of the Horse He was a Man of a daring Spirit and resolute to perform what ever he undertook Crafty withall and Covetous having not where-withall otherwise to maintain his Ambition to which we may add his Perfidiousness betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretense of Affection the worst kind of perfidy and having thus juggled him whither they would have him he made no scruple to joyne with others in his horrid Murther upon the turn of the Times he likewise fled to prevent the stroke of Justice worthily due to his Deserts VIII Colonel Thomas Pride a Brewer at first a Dray-man but at the beginning of the Wars contrary to David who left the Sword to take up the Sling he forsooke the Sling and took up the Sword and though an Ignorant Illiterate Fellow scarce fit to carry gutts to a a Beare whose destruction he performed at Paris Garden yet being of a resolute Courage and the blind goddess Crowning him with successe he was thought fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Parliament for him and having thus Acted that which carried a shew of Law and Justice there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons being a prime Agent in the Murther of the King Acting with as much Impudence and Brutishness as any of them all He died before his Majesties Return escaping thereby a more shamefull and ignominious death IX Colonel Isaac Ewer Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof being in the wave to recruit his Decaying Fortunes he betook himself to the Wealthiest Side and added much to the Ruine of Monarchy having gained a great proficency in their Destructive Principles so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villany being cloaked under a vail of Religion He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight and afterwards one of his Judges where he gave his hand against his Sacred Soveraign adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murther He likewise died before his Majesties Return robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby Son to the Earle of Stamford who becoming a Colonel in the Army grew infected with their Destructive Principles and contrary to Honour Acted with them in their odious Designs having his hand in the Murther of the King the Fountain and Source of all Honour from whence others are derived In regard of the Honour of his Family he escapes a Mention or Condemnation for this Crime as well as for some others He dyed before his Majesties Happy Restauration XI William Lord Mounson a sordid Fellow of Destructive Principles and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villanies being for Debt a long time a Prisoner but by his Fellow Regicides fetcht out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses After the Return of his Majesty he was for his Treasonable Practises together with Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Commons where their Estates were Declared Confiscate and they degraged from all Titles and Armes of Gentility and further Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London upon Sledges with Halters about their Necks and so back again to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment which Sentence was accordingly Executed upon them January 30. 1661. XII Sir John Danvers Knight Brother to that Loyal and Noble Peer the Earle of Danby who for his Fidelity to his Soveraign was by the Rebells Voted a Delinquent the covetousness after which Estate drew in this Knight