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A94993 The true characters of the educations, inclinations and several dispostions of all and every one of those bloody and barbarous persons, who sate as judges upon the life of our late dread soveraign King Charls I. Of ever blessed memory. Together with a true accompt of the horrid temptations and suggestions, by which the principallest of them did first draw in themselves, and afterwards their associates unto the committing of that execrable murder. 1660 (1660) Wing T2605; Thomason E1080_15; ESTC R207877 7,378 12

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necessity by his Debts sold his Land to Sr Marmaduke Langdale for twenty thousand pound the money being received he had his Lands given him again by the Parliament for his good service be like being one of the Judges on the Death of the King Sr. Iohn Danvers a person much degenerating from the honour of his noble Family who thinking it safest to go on the strongest side was drawn to be one of the Judges who sat on the Kings Death George Fleetwood another of the same temper and who being one of his Soveraign Judges acknowledged himself to be guilty of it Cornelsus Holland was first a poore Boy in the Court and waited on Sr. Henry Vane Controwler of the Princes House He afterwards by fraud attained unto a very great Estate and was one of the Kings Judges and the Rump being turned out by Lambert he was thought worthy to be one of that most ridiculous Committee of Safety Iohn Hewson a Schoomaker of London he was also a great stickler for the Cause for which he was made first a Colonel and afterwards a Lord having been the cause of the murder of some boys playing at Foot-ball in the streets he was found guilty by the Coroners Jury but being one of the murtherous Judges that sate upon his Prince he will be found guilty by another Jury if he be apprehended Iohn Iones first a Serving-man afterwards a Colonel and married the Usurpers sister and a very fit man to joyn with him in the taking away the life of his Prince for which he suffered as a Traytor Iohn Lisle none of the least Adversaries to the late King he constantly assisted the Usurper in all his Ambitious Practises and in his spilling of Innocent blood He was a great man amongst the chiefest of those that passed sentence upon their King Nicholas Love the son of Doctor Love of Winchester a constant and a contumacious Rumper one of his Soveraigns cruell Judges and an Abjurator against Kingly Power Sr. Michael Livesey one that could act an Hypocrite to the life in voice and gesture he was one of his Majesties most cruel Judges and very eminent in the Rump Parliament Henry Marten Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and somesay of a Regiment of Whores Having sold his Estate three times over he lay many years a Prisoner in the Kings Bench for debt he laboured a long time under a bad Reputation but the greatest of all is that he was one of the wilfull Judges of his own Soveraign Thomas Hammond of Surrey was first under the Lord Fairfax and afterwards a great Creature of the Usurpers and a Constant promoter of his Interests by whom he was induced to be one of those most cruell Judges against his own Prince to the great grief of his most Learned and Reverend Brother Dr. Henry Hammond Iohn Moore heretofore Colonel of the Guards and who sometime had the benefit of the Passes out of the City of London and one of the black List who condemned his own Soveraign Gilbert Millington a kinde of a Lawyer and a Chair-man to the Committee of Plundred Ministers where Phelps and he shared large Fees another of the Kings most unlawfull Judges Sr Iohn Bourchier a person of no great repute nor estate till in those troubled times he got that which he fought for He was observed to be as constant at Committees as at his Dinners in Hel● in Westminster one would have thought a man that did eat so much should have but a little desire to drink any deep draughts especially of the Royall blood of his own Soveraign at whose Tryall he was too unmercifull a Judge Thomas Challoner a man most violently invective against Monarchy as for his hypocrisie and Religion there is no man can give you a better Testimony of him than Monsieur Cone who was Confessor to the late Pope and who was very Conversant with him when some years since he was at Rome but it is to be believed that the Confessor himself unlesse without some manifest signes of true Repentance would be very unwilling to Absolve him of his barbarous Murder of his own Soveraign Richard Dean first but as a kinde of a Hayman in Suffolk and afterwards a Matrosse in the Artillary of the Army Being an absolute creature amongst many others of the Usurpers he was by him constituted one of the Generals at Sea where he lost his life but neither the losse of his Bowels or his Arm was able to make the least satisfaction for the losse of his Majesties life who by him being one of his Judges not long before was barbarously Sentenced to a most unworthy Death Henry Mildmay a monster of Ingratitude a shallow fellow by some not unfitly called Sr. Whimsey Mildmay of a shallow apprehension and fit to take any Impression otherwise he would never become Judge of that King whom he was bound to honour and pray for all the dayes of his life Iohn Barkstead in his minority of Francis Allens occupation and a pittifull Goldsmith in the Strand He forsook his shop at the very first news of the War and shuffled himself into the Camp being a true servant all along to the Usurper who constantly preferred him from one place to another he became a most severe persecutor of the Kings party and was one of his worst Judges Edmund Harvey heretofore a poore Silkman but being become a Colonel he juggled himself into the Bishop of Londons house at Fulham he was a factious Rumper and one of his Majesties most cruell Judges William Heavingham of Heavingham Castle in Suffolk a Gentleman of an ancient Family and by the evill Council of the implacable Rumpers drawn in to be one of the Judges against the King Iohn Downs a professed hater of any Government in one single Person and therefore more easily wrought upon to be an Assistant in the death of his most righteous Soveraign Iames Temple a great Rumper himself and a person much be friended by them he made himself famous by no other Act at all but that most abhominable one of being one of the Judges of his own Soveraign Simon Meyn a great Committee man in the Long Parliament and having got much by them he easily became a Rumper and so became one of the Judges of his King Iohn Dixwell Burgesse for Dover a person who hath many curses from the greatest part of those who had to doe with him in Kent but that which renders him most accursed is his wilfull Conspiring amongst many others of his fellow Judges to take away the life of our most gracious Soveraign Isaac Ewer at first but a Serving-man was preferred afterwards to be a Colonel and had many Acres given him in Ireland for his good service and for being one of the cruell Judges against the King Sr. Gregory Norton a man of no considerable fortune before these wars but he obtained afterwards Richmond House and much of the Kings goods for an inconsiderable value which made him to lend so