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

but Man proposes and God disposes for it pleased the Lord that he fell into a sore Disease bleeding abundantly at the nose and mouth and at last fell to a strong vomitting up of gobbetts of blood at his mouth and such abundance of blood flowed with mighty violence at his nose that in a most sad manner he departed this life in one of the extream-fits thereof XIII To these we may add Colonel Rainsbrough a prime stickler for the Power at Westminster and a desparate Enemy against the King who though he was killed before the Horrid Murther of his Majesty yet the manner of his Death being so remarkable is not to be passed over in silence He being turned out of the Navy by the Sea-men went with a strong Party to the Reducing of Pontefract then Besieged by Sir Edward Rhodes and the County Forces and took up his Quarters at an Inn in Doncaster where having his Souldiers about him and in as great security as he though as might be some Caveliers from Pontefract under a pretense of delivering him a Letter from Cromwell entered his Inn and would have onely taken him Prisoner and carried him into their Leaguer but he refusing they pistolled him in his Chamber and returned back again untouched a very strange yet gallant Adventure XIV One Marston a great Leveller and Agitator in the Army a sort of People suspected many of them and that rationally for Jesuites who were as good at wicked Plots and Contrivances as either Cromwell or Ireton or the chief of those Catalines and as accomplisht for Execution having such Lawless yet most Powerfull Indempnity not only to protect them but to shroud their other Conspiracies for themselves either against Church or State He was one of those that had a principal hand in Burford business and being thought to be discontented against their New Fangled Government was by the Regicides Ordered to be taken into Custody But those Messengers sent for him found it a matter of more difficulty then they were aware of for coming to his Lodging in Aldersgate-Street and sending him word to come down to them he resolving not to be taken with a Stilletto killed two of them out-right and sorely wounding the third escaped but afterwards was re-taken being terribly wounded in his endeavouring to escape when he was Arraigned at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily and Condemned to be Hanged which was accordingly Executed on him preventing thereby another more milder kind of Death which must necessarily have ensued not long after by reason of his wounds XV. Sir Henry Vane the Proteus of the Times a meer hodge-podge of Religion one composed onely of Treason and Ingratitude whose Offences were of so crimson a die that he was excepted out of the Act of Indempnity and having remained a Prisoner for a good space first in the Tower of London and afterwards in the Isle of Scilly He was at last for his manifold Treasons Arraigned at the Kings Bench-Bar before the Lord Chief Justice Foster for Immagining and Compassing the Kings Death and for Taking upon him and Usurping the Government To which he Pleaded the Authority of the Parliament Justified it and put the Court to a great deal of needlesse trouble and impertinent repetitions but disowned his medling or making with the Kings Death but the notority of his crimes were so apparent and obvious to the whole World that he was Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered but through the intercession of some of his Friends who had deserved well in the Kings Service his Sentence was mittigated to a Beheading only which was Executed on him June the 14. 1662. on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill where the Earle of Strafford first bled by his and his Fathers Treachery At the time of his Execution he ran out into Treasonable Discourses but was stopt in his carreir and after two or three fruitless warnings his Notes endeavoured to be taken from him which to prevent he tore them in pieces and in great passion not to be suffered to proceed in that Traytorous way he submitted his Neck unto the Block Come we in the next place to speak of those who were Executed for committing of Treason after his Majesties Happy Restauration and Setlement in his Throne again where we shall find Traytors of so Desparate and Sanguine a disposition as scarcely to be paralleld in former Ages Men who though of different Tenets and and who like Hydra's heads seemed to look several wayes yet cemented together in the tayle wherein lies the sting being Enemies to all Civil Government and whatsoever was decent either in Church or State And first of that bloody Attempt of Venner and his Mirmidons which strange and unparalleld Action will afford the Truest Light and Judgement of that Fanatique and desparate opinion of Chilianisme and make after Ages to admire that a handfull of wild-brain'd People should dare to undertake such an Attempt against Metropolis of the Kingdome which a well Governed Potent Army would not without good advice be driven unto This Venner a Wine-Cooper by Trade with several others of his Gang who were strongly perswaded that now was the Time come for Christ Personally to Raign upon Earth having had several Meetings at Bell-Alley in Coleman-Street where it was agreed amongst them that the Powers of the Earth were to be Destroyed and King Jesus alone to be set Up Venner Preaching to them to this purpose alluding to that of the Psalmist That one of them should chace a Hundred and a Hundred put Ten Thousand to flight Assuring them also That no Weapons formed against them should prosper nor hair of their head be touched January 6. 1660. They took Armes and in the dusk of the Evening came to St. Pauls Church-Yard where they mustered their small Party and placed Centinals for the time where an Innocent Person coming by accidentally being by them asked whom he was for and he answering according to the usuall mode For God and King Charles they immediately shot him which Action soon Allarum'd the City and some Parties of the Trained Bands marched against them but their strength being too great for those few Files they without controule marched along to Aldersgate where the Constable being but weakly attended was forced to let them out again Here they Declared themselves for King Jesus and those of their Friends whose Quarters were upon the Gates From thence they proceeded to Beech-lane where a Head-borough opposing them they shot and killed him and so with all hast marched to Cane-Wood where for a while they remained But the City having Intelligence thereof sent out a Party of Horse and Foot which took about Thirty of them and brought them before the General who sent them Prisoners to the Gate-House January the 9. after some Encouragement and Assurance of Victory from their Chieftain Venner they again assumed their first Enterprize and no sooner were the Watches and Guards removed but they made their appearance at Bishopsgate which

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

at Armes and from thence to Newgate where having remained a long time he was at last brought to their High Court of Injustice where he very hardly escaped with life his great Estate amounting to Seven or Eight Thousand pound per Annum making him liable to any Treason those Incorrigible Traytors could suggest against him he was from thence remanded to the Tower but hath since survived to enjoy again his own Estate and to see many of those Hanged who would have used their utmost spight for the Enjoyment of his great Estate XVIII Sir John Berkenhead a Gentleman whose Worth and Deserts are too high for me to deliniate He was a constant Assertor of his Majesties Cause in its lowest Extremities and suffered for the same several Imprisonments I shall speak no more in his Commendation whose own Pen hath so sufficiently display'd its self that he who is ignorant thereof must plead ignorance both to Wit and Learning XIX Doctor Barwick a Reverend Orthodox Divine who for his Loyalty was by an Order of the Long Parliament committed Prisoner to the Tower where he lay untill such time he was neer famished when Colonel West the then Lievtenant of the Tower permitted him his liberty on Parol to render himself at a prefixed time soon after which he accordingly performed after the Lievtenants death his Wife gained him his Conge and set him at perfect Freedome there being nothing of Accusation against him for it was the method of those Tyrants to bury Men in their Prisons untill their Estates and Healths were quite exhausted if they had nothing against them which would presently reach their Lives This Reverend Doctor survived to see the flourishing again of Episcopacy and was by his Sacred Majesty made Dean of St. Pauls in which place he continued till the month of October 1664. when like Abraham he was gathered to his Fathers a good man and full of dayes XX. The Valiant Earle of Cleaveland a person whose Worth and Honour cannot be forgotten so long as living Annals shall inform posterity of the miseries of our Civil Wars This Loyal Earle as he gave undoubted Testimonies all along the War of his unfeigned Fidelity to the Royal Cause so particularly at Worcester where he was in Obedience to his Majesties commands suffering a tedious and cruel Imprisonment by those Barbarous Rebells for the Testimonies of his Affection to his Royal Soveraign XXI The Lord Gerard now Captain of his Majesties Life Guard who all along the War bore a part in the calamities and misfortunes of the Kings Adventures never forsaking the Royal Interest in its lowest ebb of Fortune which he hath survived to see it restored again to its former resplendant Majesty XXII Sir John Owen that undaunted piece of Welsh Loyalty whose endeavours for the King in that Country were truly Honourable though not crowned with that successe as such a Cause merrited This Loyal Gentleman was at their High Court of Injustice condemned to death together with Duke Hamilton Lord Capel c. but by the mercy of the Parliament rare and wonderfull he was Reprieved XXIII The Earle of Norwich the Lord Loughborough Sir Bernard Gascoigne Colonel Far c. these Heroick Persons were all Engaged in the Design at Colchester where having suffer'd a sharp and bitter Siege after the rendition of the Town they had by the barbarity of those Rebells all of them suffered death had not some of them made their escapes and the rest give in such Pleas as would have freed them out of the hands of the most bloody Cannibals in the world XXIV Should I next go about to enumerate all those Excellent Persons who were forced out of their Fellowships and other Collegiate Emoluments in both Universities it would be a Task too large for so small a Volumne A work so great Would make Olympus bearing Atlas sweat Such barbarity being used towards them as may make Posterity to tremble at the thought of it I shall therefore pass over that sad story and beadroll desiring to be excused though I give not to every person a due Character for their Loyalty in Suffering XXV Should I next mention the calamity of the Loyal and Orthodox Clergy which they underwent in general by that bloody and cruel Edict of Oliver which by restriction of their Function nay their particular abilities permitting them not so much as to keep a School taking thereby clearly away from them all hopes of sustentation and maintenance of life this might better be expressed by sighs and tears then by pen and paper XXVI Next I might make a record of that black Bill and List against several of the Nobility and Gentry which passed against them for an Act of Parliament by which their Estates were forfeited for Loyalty and appointed to be sold by Trustees of their Nomination thus though they could not come at to eat the bird they would be sure to pluck off all his feathers XXVII In the next place the Martyred City of Worcester the scene of ruined Loyalty deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance each Citizen whereof might be transcribed into this Register as being all sufferers for the Royal Cause to which they constantly adhered during all the time of the War and would not yield at last without a particular Order from his Majesty and with the same resolution of Loyalty did they Entertain King Charles the Second in fifty one whom they proclaimed with great solemnity and in that Fatal Defeat suffered deeply with him being plundered by the insatiable covetousnesse of the Souldiers of what ever was worth the carrying away yet in that desparate exigency such was their love to the Royal Cause that as if their own sufferings had been nothing at the Rebels enterance the streets resounded with the peoples cryes Oh! save the King save the King amongst which number of Royal Sufferers Master Soles the honest Mayor deserves a particular remembrance for whom a Gallows was set up for him at his own door and from which he as narrowly escaped XXVIII Next for the Honour of the City of London we find Sir Abraham Reynoldson who so gallantly refused to Proclaim the Act for abolishing Kingly Government and was for the same committed to the Tower Sir John Gaire Alderman Adams Sir James Bunce who suffered much in their Vast Estates and Major General Brown who endured a sharp and tedious Imprisonment XXIX The Honourable Colonel John Russel Brother to the Earle of Bedford a person of unfeigned Fidelity and Gallantry who served his Majesty in his Armies during all the War and was a constant sufferer for him all along afterwards in the Usurpers Prisons being upon the least occasion of fear sure to be one of the first that was secured and so continued tossed from one custody to another till such time as his Majesties Happy Return XXX The Right Honourable the Lord Bellasis who partaking in the same Cause suffered in the very same predicament being no where more resident or

whose Prodigality brought him to sell his Patrimony in the beginning of the late Troubles to Sir Marmaduke Langdale which he afterwards regained for nothing when that Lord was for his Loyalty Voted a Delinquent and his Estate at the dispose of Rebells who carved fat shares unto themselves He had a principal hand in the Kings death for which Parricide and other his Treasonable Practises he was by the Saints of the new stamp made Governour of Glocester and a great Commander in the North He died before his Majesties return XXIII Edmond Ludlow a Person much endeared to the Fanaticks who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army came at last to be a Lievtenant General and one of the Chief Commissioners for Ireland His Father before him uttered Treasonable words against the King in the House of Commons Anno 1643. no marvel then if the Father were a Rebell that the Son should prove a Traytor since most commonly to what the Parents are affected the Children prove addicted Upon his Majesties return fearing the reward of his deserts he fled the Land like his predecessor Caine living a Vagabond from place to place fearing every one that he meets should slay him XXIV Colonel John Hutchinson who by Cromwell and his prevailing Faction was over-awed to Sign his Majesties Execution but by a timely repentance bewailing with tears the heinousnesse of his Offence he obtained Pardon being onely discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts and Fined a years Profit of his Estate to the King XXV Sir Michael Livesey a Kentish Knight whose plague he was being Plunder-Master-General of that County for many years towards the repairing of his broken Estate He was a very Active Person during the Progress of the whole War and as nimbly ran away upon the Kings return making good that Proverb That one pair of leggs was worth two pair of hands XXVI Robert Titchburn born in London of good Extraction by Trade a Linnen-Draper coming by degrees to be Mayor thereof whose Counsels he is said to betray to the Rump Hope of Preferment and want of Grace drew him in to be one of the Infamous Tryars of his Soveraign At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal shewed much penitency for his Offences declaring with much candour his sin and ignorance of the atrocity of the crime protested his Inability of contrivance his raw years and unskilfulness in the Laws Saying He would rather have gone into a hot Oven then into that business if he had known the depth of it instancing That Paul was a Persecutor and found mercy and hoped that he should find the like He was with the other Regicides condemned but by the Kings Great Clemency Execution of Justice was respited on him XXVII Owen Roe formerly a Silkman in London and being an Eminent Independant had a Command of the Militia conferred on him by the Advice of the Devil and Cromwel he came to have a hand in shedding the Kings blood for which after his Majesties return he was condemned but pleading his reluctancy to the Kings Sentence and begging pardon for his Offence which he affirmed was not of malice he was by the Kings Favour Reprieved XXVIII Robert Lilburn a great Enemy to Bishops though come from the Bishopprick of Durham He was Brother to John Lilburn the great Trouble-World who was alwayes opposite to the Predominate Power This Robert Lilburn to raise his Fortunes sided with Cromwell who would never suffer them to want Preferment that were thorow-paced to his Interests By him he was advanced to be a Colonel of Horse a little before the Kings Murther and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility then requite him with having a hand in it and so ran fearlesly into the danger of it He still lives by the Kings clemency a condemned man in the Tower of London XXIX Adrian Scroop a Colonel of Horse a Person very Active against the Kings Parties in 1648. and as violent in the taking away his Majesties Life and Honour in their pretended High Court of Justice which he so little repented of that after his Majesties return in an accidental conferrence with Sir Richard Brown he seemed rather to allow and approve of it by saying Many people did not think it such a heinous matter or that some be of one mind and some be of another He was upon a fair Tryal condemned to dye and accordingly Executed on the Rayled place where Charing-Cross once stood Octo. the 17. 1660. XXX Richard Dean a Fellow of meane Extraction being at first a Hoymans Servant in Ipswich and at the beginning of the Wars to raise his despicable fortunes betook him to the Army and was a matross in the train of Artillery from whence he rose to be a Captain and was first Famous at the Siege of Exeter and being a cross Fellow fit for any mischief one who cared not to build his own hopes though on a general ruine was thought fit to be one of Cromwel's Complices in the Murther of his Soveraign He was afterwards made one of the Generals at Sea against the Dutch and was slain with a Cannon Bullet being shot almost off in the midle as he stood close by General Monke June 2. 1653. XXXI Colonel John Okey at first a Stoker in a Brew-House then a Chandler neer Bishopsgate where having lived a while he betook himself to the Army the Haven of Hope for all Aspiring Minds where in a short space he passed thorow the several commands to that of a Colonel and being of a daring spirit he was by the Artifice of Cromwell bewitched into the patner-ship of that accursed Murther of his Majesty Upon his Majesties return he fled the Land but divine vengeance pursuing him he was with Colonel Barkstead and Miles Corbet taken in Holland and sent over into England where at the Kings Bench Bar they were Arraigned and Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was Executed on the other two and their Quarters exposed on the City Gates but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and Dutifull carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be Interred He dyed with more penitency and greater reluctancy then those of his Fellow-Regicides who suffered in October 1660. acknowledging the Kings Power as of God and exhorting others to the like He was a Person that for his Valour and other good Qualities was pittied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this crime to his destruction XXXII John Hewson who from a Cobler rose by degrees to be a Colonel and though a Person of no Parts either in Body or Mind yet made by Cromwel one of his Pageant Lords He was a Fellow fit for any mischief and capable of nothing else a sordid lump of Ignorance and Impiety and therefore the more fit to share in Cromwell's Designs and to Act in that Horrid Murther of his Majesty