received amongst them again at their return after Olivers interruption His guilty Conscience and his Ignorance together would not suffer him to make any Plea at the Bar or Speech or Prayer at the Gallowes For being there he was asked whether he had any thing to say before the Hangman did his Office he said no upon which Execution was done and being quartered his Head was set upon London Bridge ' and his Limbs disposed of as the rest The Life of Col. Adrian Scroop COl Adrian Scroop was descended of a good Family in Buckinghamshire He was in those days a great Puritan and stickler against the Bishops which made him in the beginning of the Wâ—rs to take up Armes against the King He went forth at first a Captain of Horse but being inveterate against the King he soon got preferment in the Army He was no Parliament man and yet was drawn in as he pretended by Olivâ—r Cromwel to be one in the black List for the Tryal of the King He was most dayes at that Court when that wicked crew sate upon His Mâ—jesty and especially the last day wâ—â—â— Sentence was giv◠〈◊〉 him and afterwards 〈…〉 and sealed the bloody Warrâ—â—t for that horrid murther I finde little mention of him all that short time of Olivers Usurpation But when the King came home and set forth the Proclamation commanding those that were his Fathers Judges to appear who were either fled or had hid themselves Col. Scroop comes in and delivers himself up unto the Speaker with some others and they had made a Vote that he should be onely fined a years value of his estate But soon after he discoursing with General Brown about the Kings murther justifies the act thereof saying He did believe it to be no murther with other expressions tending to prove that the King did deserve death which being reported to the Parliament he was wholly excepted out of the Act of general pardon And being brought to his Tryal in the Old Bailey the chief part of his plea was not so much to justifie the act as the power by which he acted saying That they were owned both at home and abroad and that he was no Parliament man but acted by their Authority who were then the Supream Authority of the Nations and he hoped that Authority would excuse him But being told as all the rest had been the vanity of that plea and the weakness of his Argument to prove the same and how far they were from the least colour of Authority he was left to his Jury who soon brought him in guilty And on Wednesday following he was brought from Newgate to Charing Cross upon a Hurdle He see 〈◊〉 to look very cheerfully upon the Ladder He bewailed his unfortunate discourse with General Brown to be the chief cause of his being brought thither And after he had prayed a pretty space he surrendered himself up to death which was soon done and he was likewise quartered as the rest before him had been and disposed of accordingly The Life of Mr Johâ—â—arew MR Jâ—hn Carew was borâ— Cornwâ—â— and descended of a very ancient Family there He was alwayes of very fâ—ctioâ—s and turbulent principles at last â—â—rived at the same pitch of Opâ—â—â—â—â— with Major General Har ison and did pertake of the same 〈◊〉 with him and it is no woâ—◠〈◊〉 that nâ— was one of the Judâ—es of 〈◊〉 King whâ— was conâ—â—â—â—â—ng to 〈◊〉 of his own Brother All the time of the 〈◊〉 he appâ—â—ed very maliciously against the King and indeed all kind of Monarchy And when the Army came up to puâ—ge the House when indeed none wanted more purging then those who were left afterwards in it This Mr. Carew was one and was very busie at the passing of the Act for establishing a High Court of Justice he set his Hand and Seal thereunto he wâ—s every day at the Court and shewed his assent to the Kingâ— murther by standing up when the Senâ—ence was read against him and he likewise signed and Sealed to that w cked Warrant Afterwards when the Rump Parliament was turned out he Sequestred himself from any publick imployment and kept himself reserved and retired being utterly agâ—inst Olivers Usurpation as indeed he was against all Mâ—narchial Gâ—vernment and to give hâ—m his due he was one that made the least advantage by the mâ—series of the times then any man besides which I knew in that Rump Parliament But the King being now come home and he being known in his own Countrey to have been a forward instrument in that evil design was seized there and sent up Prisoner to the Tower of London and afterwards was brought to his Tryal with the rest in the Old Baily Upon the reading of his â—nditement which said that they had committed that horrid murther not having the fear of God before thâ—iâ— eyes but being led by the instigation of the Devil he pleaded error to the Inditement saying That what was done was not in sucâ— a fear but in the fear of the most Holy and most Righteous Lord which troubled the Court much to see him make â—od the Au hour of their murther He was lâ—kewise about to have justified the Authority of the Rump Parliament called by Mr. Prynn very well the Unparliamentary Juncto which was answered as before having no other matter to plead for himself the Jury went forth and found him guilty And on Monday following he was drawn from Newgate to Charing Cross on a Hurdle First having prepared himself by drinking three pintes of Sack to bear up his spirits which caused a more then ordinary flushing in his face all the way he went and sweat so much that his Handkerchief could fearcely keep the water from running down his face But his Spirits notwithstanding thus encouraged could not out-dare the conflict Being come to the Ladder he lifted up his Hands and his Eyes and had sâ—me private jaculations to himself He spake very little having now as he said little else to do then to pray in which he was but short wherein he desired God to guide and direct the Kings Majesty to bless the three Nations with peace and happiness and all sorts of people therein after which he submitted and being turned off the Ladder he was soon dead and quartered which being done his Quarters were begged by his Brother of the King and by him they are buried This wretched and unhappy man Appears and does the most he can To shed his Soveraigns Royal blood Which done caused another flood Of tears and sorrow from all these Who with their Treason could not close The Life of Col. Francis Hacker COl Francis Hacker at the beginning of the Wars was a man of a desperate Fortune one of a greater bulk of body then of perfections of mind his factious principles advanced him in the Army and made him of great repute with those Miscreants who contrived the Kings death insomuch as the High Court of Injustice thought they could not
He did often complain to the Court that the King trifled away time He moved â—hat if the King would not plead to â—hat wicked Charge the things conâ—ained therein might be taken pro confesso and the last day he demanded Judgment of the Court against the Prisoner at the Bar which was the title he gave the King of England c. Upon which sentence passed and the horrid murther was soon committed after the same And it is to be observed That this Mr Cook was at that time prickt in Conscience by the expression which he used to an old friend of his discoursing with whom about the Kings Death he said That the King was a wise and a gracious Prince but he must die and Monarchy witâ— him And now having had a finger iâ— this innocent bloud he was resolved to plunge himself over head and ears therein for presently after he writâ— a Book intituled Monarchy no creaturâ— of Gods making and therein says That the late King meaning our blessed Soveraign King CHARLS the First was the fattest Sacrifice that ever was offered to Queen Justice c. These things made the Rump Parliament begin to think of a way to reward him and Ordered him as the thanks of the House 300 l. per Annum in the County of Waterford in Ireland whither they sent him likewise and made him a Judg of that Law which himself contrary to his Oath his Conscience and his Reason had thus traiterously and maliciously broken and offended He was not long in Ireland before the Commissioners for Government of Ireland made choice of him as the chief Judg to examine try and give sentence upon the Irish according to such Qualifications as a pretended Act of that Rump Parliament had made and allowed and to transplant whom they pleased into Connaught some for their murther of the Protestants and others for their pretended delinquency in assisting of the King For which action I have heard his moderation much commended During the time of his being thus a Judg he was smitten with sudden checks of Conscience which often made him even upon the Bench to fall into strange sighs and groans expressing his sorrow for the Death of the King and hath been often seen to strike his breast which was seconded with a groan and then followed this expression Ah poor Charls poor Charls As if the guilt of that innocent bloud lay heavy upon his Soul and tormented him with continual and renewed disturbances He continued in Ireland for some years during which time he preached up and down the Country favoured the Anabaptists and at last the Government changing he was fiezed upon in Ireland and sent by the Parliament or Convention there unto the Council of England to receive the just punishment of his demerits Being brought to London he was immediately sent to the Tower where he remained some time untill he was brought to Newgate and received a fair Tryal in the Old Bayly London Upon his Plea before the Court he expressed himself with such Law Learning that the Judg applauded the same saying That he was very sorry to see that one that understood the Law so much should transgress it so much It was proved against him That he often interrupted the King in his Answers to that Court and did use many unhandsom and uncivil expressions towards the King all the time of that wicked Tryal he being one of the loudest-mouth'd Bloud-hounds that pursued that innocent Lamb-like Prince in a full cry all those days in which he was brought before them The Jury that were upon him went not out of the Court but suddenly found him guilty On Tuesday following he was Ordered to die at Chairing Cross He was now as penitent at his Death as formerly he had expressed himself in his life He was drawn upon a hurdle from Newgate to Chairing-Cross aforesaid all the way as he went lifting up his hands and his eyes he would often turn his face towards the people desiring them to pray for him Being come to the aforesaid place he went up the Ladder very penitently and chearfully he told the Sheriff That as for himself hâ— thanked God he could welcomâ— Death but as for Mr Peters who waâ— to die with him he could very well have wished that he might be repreived for some time for that he was neither prepared nor fit to die He said little as to the making of a Speech but prayed most earnestly and with affection both for the King and people which beâ—ng done the Executioner did his Office and being quartered his Head was Ordered to be set on Westminster-Hall and his Limbs were sent to be set upon the Gates of the City of London Law lies a bleeding Monarchy Expires sure then the Law must dy But both revive and Cook is made A sad example to his Trade His Head stands as a fair Take-heed How they the bounds of Law exceed The Life of Master Hugh Peters MR. Hugh Peters a man of a continued turbulent spirit and as it is generally reported little better than frantick One that as he was a general Abettor and Encourager of all turbulent principles so he particularly improved them in that horrid Act of the Kings murther He was brought up as I am informed in the University of Cambridg and from thence having taken his Degrees he set up the trade of an itinerary Preacher never being constant or fixt to any one place or benefice and roved about the world like an universal Church-man called Jesuits for sometimes he was in New-England sometimes in Holland about the Low Countreys and anon here in England where he pretended that his tender conscience could not be yoked to the Church of England nor submit to the Order and Government of the Bishops When these unhappy Wars began within these at that time unfortunate Nations this Hugh Peters began to shew himself a forward Incendiary to stir up and animate all factious and discontented persons now to appear and vindicate themselves and children from the Imposition of Prelatical Tyranny and persuaded such whose heads were as giddy and whimsical as his own That it was the Lords Cause and that now he was carrying on his own work among them When the Parliament had raised Forces he goes out Chaplain to a Regiment and many times appearâ—ed a Captain in Arms himself he preached the Souldiers into courage to maintain and justifie their Rebellion and by wicked and absurd comparisons would tell the Souldiers That Heaven was full of Red-coats that had been killed in that Cause and that all they that continued in the same should arrive at the like happiness It would be too tedious to insert the many frenzical and frenetick humours which this prophane Prophet used during the time of the Armies tyrannical domination and how the more politick chief Officers have laughed in their sleeves to see this sad wretch abuse both the Scriptures and the Souldiers too with his wicked and scandalous interpretations
discomposed both in spirit and mind for he retained much of his former Frenetick humours now he was going to Execution He was drawn upon a Hurdle from Newgate to Charing Cross sitting therein like a Sot all the way he went and either plucking the Straws therein or gnawing the Fingers of his Gloves Being come to the place aforesaid not like a Minister but like some ignorant Atheist he ascended the Ladder but knew not what to say or how to carry himself at the hour of his death but standing there a while at length he perfectly burst forth into weeping and then after a little pause he held his hand before his eyes he prayed for a short space and now the Hangman being ready he very often remembred him to make haste by checking him with the Rope and at last very unwillingly he turned him off the Lader and after he had hung almost a quarter of an hour he was cut down and quartered His Head was set on London Bridge and his Limbs on the City Gates Upon Hugh Peters written by an ingenuous Spectator of his Execution See here the last and best Edition Of Hugh the Author of Sedition So full of Errors 't is not fit To read till Dun 's Corrected it But now 't is perfect nay far more 'T is better bound then 't was before And now I hope it is no sin To say Rebellion take thy swing For he that sayes sayes much amiss That Hugh an Independent is The Life of Mr. THOMAS SCOT MR. Thomas S ot was born in the County of Buckingham of no noted Family The first occasion of their publick notice was by the wicked projects of this unfortunate mâ—n He was sent to London by his friends to be brought up in some honest Calling which he was never so honest as to practice The highest preferment that he could reach before the Wars was being a Partner to a Brewer in the Precinct of Bridewel but of his honesty and faithfulness in his carriage therein I leave to his acquaintance and Neighbours to judge But he hoping to make better profit by having a hand in brewing of State Affairs makes friends to a Borough in Buckinghamshire where he was chosen a Burgess and so improves the good will of this his Country who made him a Parliament man to the destruction and confusion of the whole for being pre-prejudiced against the B shops and a constant envier against Monarchy he now had an opportunity to vent his malice and spit his venome by long Speeches and dilated Harr a gues in the Parliament This Tho. Scot being now crept into the House of Commons whispers Treason into many of the Members ears animating the War and ripping up and studying aggravations thereunto was forward upon all Tumultuous occasions to exasperate the people against the Bishops and through them striking at the King himself But it is to be observed how the drift of his malice soon after appeared This covetous wretch was so great an enemy to the Bishops onely that he might be partaker of their Lands for not long after that too forward Abolition of that Order and Government he then gets into the Bishop of Canterburies house at Lambeth and there Lords it with as much state as if he wanted nothing but the Title of an Arch Bishop And now his estate and his factious principles encrease together grasping as much of the Church Lands as he could and being of opinion that it had been no Sacriledge if he had pulled down the Churches themselves and did not think it enough for himself to be engaged in the Lands of the Church but he would engage his Son in the Lands of the King who was chosen and acted as one of the Trustees at Worcester house in the Strand for sale of the Lands of the King Queen and Prince In the year 1647. finding himself so far precipitated in the occasions and promoting of the War he sticks close to the Army and sayes There was no putting up the Sword after they had once drawn it against the King is admitted to the consultations of their private Meetings When they were contriving the death of the King he was one of the cheif underminers of that Parliament For when they Voted the Concessions of the King at the Isle of Wight were a sufficient ground for the peace of the Nations he with others and their never failng Speaker flie to the Army and coming to Town caused most of them to be secluded and he was one of the forty Members that Usurped the Title of a Parliament after they had driven away almost three hundred of their number and was a chief instrument in setting on foot that wicked thing called An Act of Parliament for the Trying of the King And because the Kings Seal could not be used to pass an Act against himself they all set their own Seals to that horrid instrument amongst whom this Mr. Scot's was one Every day that this wretched Crew called the High Court of Justice sate this Mr. Scot would be sure to be amongst them he was present and stood up when that impudent and unparaleld President commanded the Sentence to be read and he set his â—â—â—nd and Seal to that bloody Warrant for the Execution And now they thought their work was done after they had thus barbarously murthered the King Those few Members take upon them the Authority of the three Nations and Mr. Sc t is appointed one of their Council of State acts in the nature of a Secretary of State and is made the onely person to mannage the â—ntelligence as well Forraign as â—omestick both publick and private and thinks himself little other then a petty Prince in which condition he continued till the year 1653. at which time they were dissolved by the Ambition of the Grand Usurper He kept under him during the time of his domination several Spies called Pursivants and was a continual perplexer of Printers and Booksellers not suffering them to vent the least light of Transactions foâ— the information of the â—eople but by his Substitutes especially Ledsum all honest and true Intelligence was not onely seized and suppressed but the Divulgers thereof were both punished and imprisoned When Oliver Cromwel took the Government upon himself this busie body lay idle all the time onely behaved himself like a Wasp upon all occasions putting forth his sting He did nothing observable during that Usurpation worth our mention in this abridgement of their actions But that Government under him ceasing and Richard Cromwel now being setled in the scornful seat of his Father Mr. Scot begins again to shew himself and was a very active instrument in dethroning that foolish pretender and a chief Counsellor at Wallingford house with Lambert Fleetwood c. for the establishing of the Rump Parliament Which succeeding according to his desire he now appears as eminent as before and is re-instated in the places which under the Rump Parliament he had formerly exercised But a
Front of the High Court of Justice as their President and judges him that was the Judge of the Law and now I even tremble to think how I saw him the day of the Kings Tryal in Scarlet with a heart and conscience as deep dyed as his Gown most divilishly inhumanely staining that white innocency of the Kings Majesty with approbrions and wicked language which I dare not mention in this place unless I give occasion of making that sad wound to bleed afresh in the sight of all tender and truly pious Christians This wicked and unparralleld murder was not called to account in his Life but he lives though in a very timerous condition and acts as President to the Councel of State afterwards and hath given him by those who thought that by taking of Gods anointed they did the Devil good service several considerable Revenues both in Hampshire and Cheshire and among the rest lives though not securely in the Deanary of Westminster where for his safeties sake he built his Study on the top of Westminster Abbey higer than the like was ever seen before getting as nigh Heaven as he could whilst he lived as not expecting to come there when he dyed All the time of Olivers short Reign he acted not But the Rump Parliament coming into play again he is again reinstated in his former Presidentship and is made the prime Lord Comissioner of the great Seal of England But Lambert turned out the Parliamen again he raves now like one stark mad flinging out of the room in usury and calling them all Traytors and whilst the Committee of Safety sate he seeing now that all things would make for the Kings interest goes home takes his Bed never comes abroad more his wicked body was tortured wiih many distempers languishing in much pain and misery insomuch that he was often reported and really thought to be dead before he truly was his conscience being seared he repented not of his aforesaid wicked practises and at last this miserable man passed through the aforesaid much afflicted and tormented body to the immediate Judgment of God and no doubt is gone to his place his body was burned in Westminster Abbey The Life of Doctor Dorislavs DOctor Dorislavs formerly a Doctor of the civil by him made the uncivill Law was by an order of this corrupted piece of the Parliament made one of the chief Councel with Mr. Ask and Mr. Cooke to contrive and prepare a charge against the King and very confidently he appears in the Court against him seconding Mr. Cooke in his wicked demanding of Justice against the King This Dr. Dorislavs pleaded that the King ought to answer the Court and not in the least to question their authority which proved his own death at â—ast for not long after he being sent into Holland in the nature of an Agent from the Parliament was stobbed in his lodging in the Hague by some resolute persons who likewise not questioning their own authority resolved to make him a part example of the Kings Murder his body was brought from Holland to Baynards Castle in Thames Street from thence privately interred accompanied with some pretended mourners in Westminster Abbey The Life of Thomas Hammond THOmas Hammond of Surry and of no great fortune there He went out into the Army one of the Life guard of the Earle of Essex and was afterwards made Lieâ—ytenâ—â— Gen. to the traine of Artillery under the Lord Fairfax this Col Hammond afterwards was preferred to have the custody of the King at the Isle of Wight and there not only undutifully but very sawcily and peremptorily behaved himself towards him not suffering the King to have any papers about him but what he would first peruse and when the Parliament made those Votes of non addresses as it hath been credibly reported Letters were write to this Col. Hammond by Oliver Cromwell who found that nothing could be done in their own affaire till the King were taken off that he should either remove the King out of the way or prison him by one means or other Upon which Mr. Osborn then being in the Country writs a letter to the House that Major Rolfe had confest that such a Letter was written to Hammond to the aforesaid purpose but that Hammond had a good allowance for keeping the King and therefore would not do it because he would not loose his allowance and desired the said Mr. Osborn to joyn with him in conveighing the King to some private place and then they would do with him what they pleased This business was strangely hudled up in the House the Army party therein arguing that Osborn was a Malignant and no notice was fit to be taken of his words others said that the Examination of the business was a Malignant design to draw Col. Hammond to this Town that so the King might make his escape in the Cols absence But although the business was then husht up yet Mr. Osborne and others offered to confirme the design and that Rolfe was appointed to pistol the King but still they endeaver to abscond the truth Rolfe is sent up by Col. Hammond with letters to the House and therein denies the business and although the thing appeared plain notwithstanding Rolfe with a trembling voice not halfe loud enough to make a satisfactory answer pleads at the House Bar that there wâ—s no such thing he was suddainly conveyed out of the way by the Army Hammond was never so much as questioned Presently after the design being carried on for the Kings Murther this Col. Hammond presents to the House a Scandalous libel called the Agreement of the people which contained nothing else but a desire of the Kings tryal and a subversion of the ancient Laws of the Land which was ordered to be printed although not a hundred part of the people had not the least thought thereof And the next thing is the bringing the King to his tryal in Westminster Hall instead of the pretended making him a glorious King and bringing him home to his Parliament and this Col. Hammond contrary to the advice and to the great greife of Dr. Hammond appeared as one of the Kings Judges and afterwards became one of the great promotets of the Tyrannical usurper and in the year 1654. When Oliver took the Protectorship upon him Col. Hammond is sent into Ireland as one of the Privy Counsel of that Nation Charles Fleetwood was made Lord Deputy and Milts Corbet Câ—l Thomâ—â—son c. were made of the same Councell wâ—â—â— him for Oliver durst not trust such near him who had so lately betrayed the King as conceiving they would do the like by him but Col. Hammond being landed at Dublin his Councelship was soon ended For before a fortnight was ended he dyed of a spotted Feaver there very suddenly and unexpectedly dying senecless and therefore no accompt can be given whether he repented of that horrid murther or no Fleetwood and his factious crew gave him
pitch on a fitter man unto whom to direct that wicked Warrant for to see the Kings murther performed That morning this horrible act was to be committed Cromwel sends for this Hacker with Col. Phaire and Col. Huncks and would have those three to sign a Sub Warrant for the Kings murther the last two refused but Col. Hacker subscribes to whatsoever Cromwel himself had Written for that purpose This Col. Hacker likewise by virtue of the said unwarrantable Warrant from that High Court of Injustice goes to Col. Thomlinson who had then the custody of the Kings person and demands the King from him carries him in the middest of his own Regiment through St. James Park conducts him through the Gallery to the Banqueting House and from thence brings him upon the Scaffold and there stands according to his pretended Warrant to see that bloody and unparaleld Execution Afterwards he continues in the Army sides with all parties that have the Government and was a Col. in the Army at the very time when the King came home and being seized and examined in order to find out the mystery of this Regicide he vvas sent to the Tower of London and shortly after vvith the rest brought to his Tryal His Tryal vvas very short in regard he could not deny the aforesaid actions of his in that unparaleld business and being asked by the Court to whom he directed his Sub warrant to strike the fatal blow he answered that he did not know for Cromwel bid him write somthing and bid him put his hand to it but whose hand he put in for that purpose he could not tell This being all his plea he was soon brought in guilty likewise And on Friday following he vvas drawn from Newgate on a Hurdle to Tyburn vvhere he spake very little for himself onely left the vvhole business of prayer to be carried on by Col. Axtel vvho performed it for them both after vvhich being ended he vvas onely hanged and being cut down he vvas put in a Heâ—se vvhich was there brought to carry bâ—ck his Body his Son hath begged the same from the King vvho granted him his Fathers body vvithout quartering and accordingly buried the same in the City of London As for Quarter Master William Hewleâ— in regard that though he be Condemned yet is Reprieved in order to a clear discovery of this wicked act I shall leave his Character and Description to the time when Justice shall likewise make him an Example for putting on a Vizor on his Faces and a Frock on his Body for such a horrid purpose There are eighteen more Condemned viz. Sir Hard ess Waller William Hevenningham Isaac Pennington Hen. Ma tin Gilbert Millington Roâ—ert Titch urn Owen Roe Robert Lilbuâ—n Henâ—y Smith Edmund Harvey John Dowâ—s Vincent Potter Augustine Gaâ—land George Fleetwood Simoâ— Mâ—yne Thomas Wâ—it James T mple Peter Temple of whom I think nâ—t convenient to write â—ny thiâ—g of their lives til I shall be prepared to give an account alâ—o of the manner of their deaths These are close prisoners in the Tower of London till the pleasure of the Parliament shall be declared concerning them Several others there are viz. William Say John Barkstead Sir Michael Livesly Miles Corâ—et Thomas Woogan Mr. Love Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Eâ—ward Denby John Dixwel Thomas Challoâ—er John Lâ—sle William Cawley John Okey Will. Goff John Hewson Valentine Wanton Ed Whaley Edw. Ludlow Cor. Holland Who vvander about the World as Vagabons like Cain vvith they cry of blood at their Heels vvho at last vvill â—o question be found out by the All searching hand of divine Justice and brought to receive a condigne punishment fâ—r their horrible Treason of whom also in time we shall give you a more perfect account And thus I conclude the story of these few wretched and miserable Traytors whose Limbs are set up as Lots Wife 's Pillar of Salt the remarkable examples of the Almighties just punishment that thus would imbrew their hands in the Sacred blood of his own Anointed which was so far a Deicide as Kings are called Gods upon the Earth and which ought to be the prayers of all truly Christianized That God would cleanse the City and Nation from the guilt of that precious blood so inhumanely and unchristianly shed as before sail and keep these Nations from Rebellion and privy Conspiracy from all false Doctrine and Heresie that no Jesuitical plots from abroad or Anabaptistical or Schismatical consultations at home may he ever able to raise Sedition in the people or distâ—â—â— the peace of the King The Life of Henry Ireton HEnry Ireton Son-in-Law to Oliver Cromwell a man full of wicked policy and contrivance and his Fathers chief Councellour and second in all his undertakings he arives at Comisary Gene. in the Army very factious in his Principles and a great encourager of all that were such A great Promoter of the Kings Death one that stood in the margent of Olivers enterprize in that wicked murder he was not only of the High Court of Justice but took upon him with Major Gen. Harison c. the appointing of the time place and manner of the Kings Execution After which he goes over with his Father Cromwell into Ireland and by him is left Lord Deputy thereof here he made victorious in the reducing of many Garisons there and at last sets down before Limerick which Siege was the last that ever he made for not long after the surrender of that City he dyed of the Plague his Death was very suddain and strange to the Army but however he was sent into England carryed to Summerset House where his Father mocks his Body with that vain glory which himself had often declared against and a Funeral in great state is made by the Army interring him among the Kings of England and Iretons Wife Oliver Cromwels own Daughters ordered by her Fathers means 2000 pound in money and 2000 pound per Annum out of the Land of Goran in Ireland being of the Lands belonging to the Marquess of Ormond which he hath now repossed again according to an Act of Parliament made in that behalf Oliver erects a Tomb for this victorious Sectarian Champion with his Effigies and his Wifes lying by him in King Henry the sevenths Chappel which is since ignominiously broken down and no footstep lest of his remembrance in that royal and stately memorial of our English Kings and his name is now as rotten as his Carcass perished through the wickedness of his bloody Life The Life of John Bradshaw JOhn Bradshaw borne in Cheshire and better sure it had been if he had nere been born a man although brought up in that honourable practice of the Law yet a shameful and most wicked destroyer of the very foundation and corner stone thereof he was made Judge of the County Palatine of Chester and afterwards of the Sheriffes Court in Guild-hall London and from thence most auda tiously and impudently he appears in the