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
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
the Kings blood and was for his Villany promoted to be a Colonel He died just defore his Majesties restitution or else it might have been his Fortune to have been preferred to the Gallows LVI Henry Smith One who had a fair Estate in Leicester-shire and was a kind of a Lawyer but understood it so little that quite contrary to all Law he joyned with those Regicides in condemning the King and for reward of his Villany had a Six Clarks Place in Chancery bestowed on him He was thought to be drawn into this business by the Artifice of others more then his own inclination and therefore at his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and remaineth a Prisoner in the Tower LVII Humphry Edwards A Member of the Long Parliament which bred Monsters of more savage Natures then either Aegypt or Africa This Fellow for being denied by the King a Preferment he was not worthy of grew discontented which ranckled and fester'd him into this malicious Parricide He died before his Majesties return LVIII John Fry A High-shooe blade in Dorset-shire but being active in mischief was made a Committee-man and afterwards chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament You may judge of the Man by his Principles being an Arrian in Print who deny the Divinity of our Saviour Christ No wonder then if he who wrot against the King of Heaven would fear to act against his Earthly Prince He lived not long after the Horrid murther of his Majesty the divine vengeance cutting him off from acting any further mischief against the Royal Party LIX Edmond Harvey One who was brought in to have a hand in that fatal business of the Kings Murther He rendred himself upon his Majesties Restitution according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice for that he Signed not though he was present at Sentence then he proved by Witness his reluctancy of Conscience his Endeavours with a few others to Adjourn the Court upon the Kings motion and that he resolved to have no more to do with them c. He was with the other Regicides condemned but Execution respited and remaineth now a Prisoner in the Tower LX. Thomas Scot One who though he came not in play at first yet plyed his business so that he was not behind hand the forwardest in mischief His Original was a Brewers Clark then next a Country Attorney and by countenance of the Grandees chosen a recruit for the Burrough of Wickam in Buckingham-shire He was a thorow-paced Regicide and so gloried that he had a hand in the Murther of the King that he desired it might be inscribed on his Tomb Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings Judges though it might more properly be written on the Gallows at Charing-Cross where he was Hanged Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings Murtherers His Gutts was said to make the Hang-man maw-sick and that the stench of of his body when he was Quartered far exceeded the stink of the most loathsome Carrion to the great endangering of the Hangmans health LXI William Cawley A Brewer of Chichester and returned a recruit for the Long Parliament whose Trade as it is maintained by the sins of the People so he could not but for Trades-sake to concur with his Brethren in the Murther of the King viz. Oliver Cromwel Thomas Pride Thomas Scot c. But fearing his Treason would cost him hot water upon return of the King he fled the Land and lives disguised for to preserve his hated life LXII John Downs A Citizen of London a Colonel in the Army and a recruit to the Long Parliament He was by menaces and threats engaged in this fatal business of Trying the King and being checked in Conscience of the wickedness thereof endeavoured to have opposed the violence that carried it saying in the Court Have we hearts of stone or are we men And desired the King according to his request might be heard by the Parliament but was over-born his Allegiance and Conscience by that wicked Machivillian Oliver Cromwel and so contrary to the dictates of his Conscience consented to that Execrable Murther He surrendred himself was condemned and lives by the special Mercy of the King and Parliament LXIII Thomas Hammond Born of a very Good Family his Father was Phisitian to Prince Henry his Brother Doctor Henry Hamond the beloved Chaplain of King Charles This degenerate Son most Ungratefully and Disloyally was the Kings Jaylor in the Isle of Wight and verified that sad Presage and Oracle of the King That there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes He died before his Majesties return LXIV Vincent Potter A Mushroom Member of the Long Parliament brought in by their Illegal recruits His Pedigree as well as his good Actions are very obscure and unknown being onely Famous for the Infamous Murther of the King After his Majesties return he rendred himself confessed his Guilt had Judgement but by his Majesties clemency his Execution was respited LXV Augustine Garland A recruit of the Long Parliament for the Burrough of Quinburough in Kent as y are a blade as the worst of them all at the spoyle of the Kingdome the notority of whose Crimes are so publick as not to be hid He was at first a kind of Lawyer which he horribly perverted was Chair-man of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the Kings Tryal and after Sat as one of his Judges and Signed that bloody Warrant for his Execution He was shrewdly suspected to be the man that spit in the Kings Face at his Tryal though after the Kings restitution when he came to be Tryed himself he vehemently denyed it wishing no favour from God if he was guilty of that inhumanity He is still a Prisoner in the Tower and lives by the clemency of the King and Parliament LXVI Colonel George Fleetwood A Buckingham-shire Gentleman Son to Sir Miles Fleetwood Master of the Kings Court of Wards and had two Brothers of very different conditions the one Sir William Fleetwood a very Loyal and Honest Gentleman the other Charles Fleetwood a very Knave and Fool He surrendred himself after the Kings return and at his Tryal pleaded not guilty but soon waved that Plea and with many tears besought mercy He is now a Prisoner in the Tower LXVII Colonel James Temple A Sussex Man not so much Famous for his Vallour as his Villany being Remarkable for nothing but this horrible business of the Kings Murther for which he came into the Pack to have a share in the spoyle He is now a Prisoner and lives by the Kings Favour and Clemency LXVIII Peter Temple Another of the same Gang Simeon and Levi Brethren in Iniquity He was at first a Linnen-Draper Apprentice in Fryday-street but his Elder Brother dying he forsook his Trade and was possest of an Estate of some Four Hundred Pounds a Year in Leicester-shire and being a Person well affected to the Cause was as a
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
great and general day of Account when their Enemies shall receive the reward of their Fraud and Violence and Themselves a just recompence for all their Sufferings The Names and Characters of those Persons who Sat as Judges and Sentenced our late Dread Soveraign Charles the First of Glorious Memory and how Gods Vengeance overtook many of them for their Bloody Barbarous Cruelty I. JOhn Bradshaw President of the most Notorious Villany that was ever Acted on the Theatre of this World a Cheshire Man born but hatefull to his Country that it should bee the Production of so Vile a Viper more hatefull to those of the Long Robe Acting the Highest Wickedness and most Selerate Parricide that ever was committed more abominable to his Name but most odious of all to the Nation who two Terms before the perpetration of that horrid murther of the King took the Solemn Oath of Allegiance as a Serjant at Law being Advanced to that Dignity from the Scolding and Rayling of Guild-Hall London to Act the Highest piece of Impudence against his Pious and Gracious Soveraign which he performed with such dexterity as shewed him to be a Grand Master-Piece in Villany But afterwards grew conscious as to the safety of his body of his Fact when Oliver taking upon him the Supream Power the very Name of a Single Person frighting him above measures But otherwise he was so canteriz'd as to the salvation of his Soul that he remained and so departed this Life in a most damnably dangerous obstinacy and maintainance of that Horrid Fact either presuming there was no High Court of Justice in Heaven or else in desperation judging he was judged already The rewards of this most unparaleld Parracide which no doubt were the motives to this Villany was the Presidency of their Council of State the Lord Cottington's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster with some advance money before hand like his Predecessor Judas for his undertaking This Scelerate Villaine dyed in his bed at such time as Lambert and his Committee of Safty were Acting the Jack Puddings on the English Theatre which by the Impes and Abetters of his Treason was Commented on with great Advantage and indeed was by others taken as a note of admiration that so blood-guilty a Person should descend the Grave so quietly since according to the Poet Few Traytors do unto their Graves descend Without sierce slaughter and a bloody end But we must in this look upon the good Providence of God who by removing this wicked Wretch and other implacable Enemies of our Soveraign thereby made way by an Easie hand which otherwise might have been dyed in blood to the Restauration of him to his Kingdome and his People to the Enjoyment of their Laws Liberty and Religion He was Buried in Westminster Abbey but that Ground being too Holy to retain such a one as had been the Death of the Father of the Church he was removed from thence and thrown under the Gallows a receptacle more fit for such a Scelerate Villaine II. Oliver Cromwel an English Monster the Centre of Mischief a shame to the Brittish Chronicle a blot to Gentility a pattern for Tyranny Murther and Hypocrisie whose horrid Treasons will scarce gain credit of posterity and whose bloody Tyranny will quite drown the Names of Nero Domitian Caligula c. This wicked Monster was the main Engine of all their Diabolical Proceedings the Primum mobile by which those other Sons of Mischief moved the weight which set all the wheeles of their bloody machinations a going He was born at Huntington the year of our Lord 1599. Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family unhappy onely in this that such a wicked Science should proceed from so good a Stock His Grand-Father Sir Henry Cromwell was a Gentleman highly Honour'd both in Coutt and Country and died with such love that he had many weeping eyes attendant to his Grave leaving behind him Five Sons Oliver Henry Robert Richard and Philip This Oliver was Son to the third Son Robert and received his Name from Sir Oliver Cromwel his Uncle at such time as he was received into the bosome of the Church by her Rites and Ceremonies both which he afterwards most impiously and profanely rent and tore asunder acting such horrid vallainies under the name of Providence that Posterity may with some reason doubt how any one could commit such horrid Acts under the notion of Religious Principles He having at last attained to the height of his Ambition viz. the Superiority over the Three Kingdomes and for Five years space wallowed in the blood of many Gallant and Heroick Persons he at last descended though unwillingly to his Grave but Divine vengiance which would not suffer the blood that so impiously and trayterously was spilt by his procurement pursued this wicked Miscreant and would not let him Enjoy the Priviledge of a Grave He being digged out of the ground where a sumptious Monument was Erected for him and from thence January 30. the day whereon they Erected that execrable Murther on our late dread Soveraign drawn in a Cart to the Red Lion in Holborn and thence on a Sledge to Tyburn where being pulled out off his Coffin he with Bradshaw and Ireton were hanged at the several Angles of that Triple Tree which though to some it may seem preposterous to hang Cromwel thus without Examination yet they must know withall this was not done without a President III. Henry Ireton Commissary General of Horse an Active Villaine against his Sacred Majesty Cromwell's second in all Mischief who Espoused his Daughter as well as his Lesigns and whose Ambition and Tyranny would if he had lived no doubt have made him more Notoriously Eminent He was a maine Instrument in the Barbarous Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle a great fomenter of all our Troubles and who gave as undenyable proofes of his blood-thirsty Tyranny as the best of them all A Man of great Parts and Abilities but nature'd to Mischief and the evil of those Times he was born to make worse and most prodigiously infamous no Man came suted with so great Capacity to the Over-throw of the Government reckoning his Impiety or rather vizzarded Piety unto his Endowments He died of the Plague at Limbrick in Ireland November the 27. 1651. from whence his Carcass was conveyed into England and in great Pomp brought to London where it lay for a time in great State at Somerset-house which was all hung with black and a Scutchion over the Gate with this Motto Dulce est pro Patria Mori How suitable to him that Country-man best told who Englished it in these words It is good for his Country that he is dead February 6. following He was with Great Magnificence Interred in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster but hath since found a more fitting and deserved Sepulcher his Carcass being with Cromwel's and Bradshaw's as they were Trine in mischief so buried under the Triple Tree Tyburn Anno
to their Commands he made his Janizaries by blows and threats to cry out Justice and Execution much more blood had he contracted to his guilt though none comparable to this in Ireland and had as the reward of his Villanies gotten a pretty foul Estate but wickedness seldome prospers long upon the Kings return he was one of those Persons exempted by the Parliament out of the Act of Indempnity and for his Treasons brought to a Tryal at Justice-Hall in the Old Baily where notwithstanding he pleaded for himself with more Art and Cunningness then was imagined to be found in him yet were his Crimes so Notorious as not to be covered with such Fig-leaves He was therefore by the Jury found Guilty and Sentenced to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed on him at Tyburn October the 19. 1660. His Head fixed on a Pole at the furthest end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters a spectacle on the City Gates IV. Doctor Dorislaus A Dutch School-Master who for some misdemeanours fled his Country and here became Civillian afterwards a professor in the University of Oxford where being disappointed of his Ambitious Expectations the War then on foot he became the Parliaments Judge Advocate in their Army by which he much better'd his broken Fortunes and became a great Associate of Sir Henry Mildmay's who though raised by the King was one of his greatest Enemies who promoted him to that business of drawing up a Charge against the King the Horrid Nature thereof being such that no Englishman durst find or make a way to such an Illegal and unprecedented business After the perpetration of that horrid Murther he was lookt upon by the Regicides for his Abilities as a fit person to be sent over as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute the Designes of the Faction which would carry the better face being managed by one of their own Subjects He Arrived there in May with great Pomp and Attendance in his Coach with Six Horses before and Vengeance behind for the first night as he was at Supper there one Colonel Whitford a Scotch-man with some Twelve other Caveliers disdaining the King should be affronted by the impudent boldness of such an Audacious Traytor enter'd his Lodging and with a broad Sword cleft his Head and killed him having by a mistake wounded another Dutch-Man for him at their first coming in and having done the deed they quietly departed it not being known but privately for a long time after who did it To this we may adjoyn that of Aschams another great confident of the Regicides who being sent their Envoy to Spain some little while after was served in the same manner at his Arrival at Madrid in his Inn by one Sparks and some other English Royalists upon the same score Sparks having done the deed fled to the Venetian Ambassadours for shelter but judging that not secure enough he betook himself to Sanctuary from whence he was by the cunning Don to curry Favour with the English Regicides then dreadfull to his Plate-Trade taken thence and with great pitty and disdain at the meanness of the Spaniard was Executed for the same V. Daniel Broughton A Clark bred up amongst the Committees of War where he became so Principled as he was judged fit and preferred to be Chief Scribe to this Pharasaicall Murtherous Crue of the High Court of Justice for which Guilt upon his Majesties Return immagining his Crime too great to be forgiven he ran away and in Forreign Countries disguised hides his hated head VI. Edward Dendy Serjant at Armes to the said cursed Court who had before outed his Father from the Employment of the Mace no marvel then that such a Rebel to his Father should prove a Parricide to his Prince He likewise fled the Land upon his Majesties Return to preserve his forfeited life from the Hangman VII and VIII Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop who had Sat as Judges in that High Court of Iustice although not Sentenced nor Signed to the Warrant for his Execution The first of these was one who had been raised by his Majesty though most ungratefully the worst of Vices he Acted with a high hand against him but divine Vengeance at last overtook him and the Iron hand of Justice delivered him to the punishment though not so great as his deserts due to that grand Impiety Ianuary 30. 1661. They were on Sledges drawn from the Tower of London through the City with Halters about their necks to Tyburn where having threaded that triple Tree they returned in the same Equipage back to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment their Estates Confiscated and they Degraded from all Titles and Armes of Gentility Sir James Harrington was to have suffered the like punishment but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Serjant at Armes gave them the slip and most unworthily left his Bail in the lurch Phelps also one of the Clarks of that Court was marked out for this Punishment but not Sentenced IX Master Thomas Hoyle an Alderman and Burgess of York a great Rumper and Enemy to Regal Government who the same day Twelve Month that the King was Beheaded and as near as possibly could be judged about the very same hour of the day hanged himself Which day the Regicides Celebrated in most Solemn manner in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty from the Laws by the Murther of the King But this was such a signal remark mark of the Just Judgement and Vengeance of God upon that detestable Fact and their no less abominable mockery of him as the Authour thereof in this their Irreligious observation of that Fatal Providence as they razed this Festival out of their Calendar which was attended with so ill an Omen X. One Lockier an Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principal hand in Seizing and Bringing the King to his Death He was afterwards by them of his own Gang the Divine Vengeance so ordering it condemned for a Mutiny in Bishopsgate-Street a shot to death in St. Pauls Church-Yard being buried by some of his own Party with great Solemnity in the New Church-Yard London XI Sir Thomas Martin A Knight of Cambridge-shire a great stickler for the Times and a sworn Enemy of the Royalists who having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park at the opening of a Deer he was desired together with some other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deeres blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the Young King of Scots but observe the punishment that attended this Impious wish as he was riding home the same Evening his Horse threw him in which fall he pitcht on his head mortally brake his Scull and Shoulder and died shortly after of those wounds XII Sir Henry Holcroft A grand Pillar of the Independant Faction a Committee Gentleman and one who Acted very strenuously for the Rump hoping to be a great sharer in the spoyle of the Kingdome
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