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A64214	The traytors perspective-glass, or, Sundry examples of Gods just judgments executed upon many eminent regicides, who were either fomentors of the late bloody wars against the King, or had a hand in his death whereunto is added three perfect characters of those late-executed regicides, viz. Okey, Corbet, and Barkstead : wherein many remarkable passages of their several lives, and barbarous actions, from the beginning of the late wars, to the death of that blessed martyr Charles the first are faithfully delineated / by I.T. Gent.	J. T. (John Taylor)	1662 (1662)	Wing T521; ESTC R2371	28,672	48

their horns and put up their Daggers for fear of a further discovery Thus you see of what Nature this Canibal Saint was Ex pede Herculem by the foot-steps of this Monster you may guess at the proportion of his whole body Yet all these his barbarous actions fell short of those committed against the pretious life of his Royal Soveraign Charles the first But Ne fandum scelus majori scelere ad impletur every hainous offence strives to secure it self by a more hainous crime for When Tyrants Swords in blood are dy'd The Scabbards they must throw aside This was Machivils rule and Okeys practice For Cromwel having before well flesht this Beagle of his in cruelties he is now made one of the pack or rather Butcher-row of Judges for the Tryal of His Majesly and by his Master hallowed on to hone in full cry after his death In which he shewed himself so active an instrument that finding his power he resolve to improve it to the uttermost and to deal with the King as it fareth with a Traveller sallen into the hands of unmerciful Thieves who first seized on his purse and then to secure themselves take away his life So he being a Sharer with others in Crown Lands that he might prevent the future revenge of his Treasons and Rebellions and preserve his ill-gotten estate at last determines to seal his anjust Title with the innocent blood of his natural Soveraign Not did his implacable Malice against his Majesty rest here for when a Committee consisting of four persons was ordered by the House to consider of a fit place as they styled it to Execute the King Okey being appointed one of the number perswaded them to have the Scaffold erected before the Banquetting house at White-Hall alledging it was not onely the most convenient place to bring him safe to the block but probably it would strike the more terrour into His Majesty to see himself bronght upon the Stage to suffer before his own Palace-door and so near that place his Father had built and He and his Children formerly enjoyed so much felicity In the mean time to compleat this last tragick act of murdering his Prince that he might mortifie him by degrees he caused the King to be laid in a room at White-Hall the Sunday night after the day of his Sentence so near the place apointed for the separation of his soul from his Body that he might hear every stroke the Workmen gave upon the Scaffold where they wraght all night thinking by that Stratagem to have daunted his patient and unconquered Soul which neither the hellish shapes of his disguised Executioners nor the Horrour of Death it self were any wayes able to affright Nor can I here let pass in silence what I have heard reported from very credible persons That the night before the Kings Death having removed him from White-Hall to St. Iames's he and Axtel caused a guard of dissolute Souldiers to be placed in his Chamber who with talking clinking of Pots opening and shutting of Doors and taking of Tabacco there a thing very offensive to the Kings nature were ordered to keep him waking that so by distempering and amazing Him for want of sleep they might not onely disturb his present meditations but so dis-compose his spirits as he might not the next day be able by any premeditated speech to vindicate the innocency of his actions to the People O! barbarous and unheard-of Cruelty never hitherto parallel'd by any President in the world But God at length delivered him up into the hands of his Majesty to suffer condign punishment for being guilty of the Murther of His Father and to be made an Example to deter posterity from doing the like Which Divine vengeance though he had long escaped yet he in the end found that God does usually recompence the slowness of his coming with the severity of his wrath according to that of the Poet To pece are sinit siquidem divina potestas Temporis ad spatium parcit quandoque nocenti Sed gravius tandem tormentum Rector Olympi Injungit parcitque malis delict a nocentum Though God permits thy crimes long time to be Unpunish'd and the ' nocent oft go free 'T is but deferr'd thy torments to augment For murdering the just and innocent And such was lately the end of this bold and bloody Regecide for being together with his complices Barkstead and Corbet brought to the Kings Bench Bar upon the first day of Easter Term last they were all by a Legal sentense condemned to be hanged drawn and quartered at Tyburn the Satterday following which was according-Executed upon Bark stead and Corbet but by reason of Okeys penitent acknowledgement of his crimes and hearty prayers for his Majesty his body was by the Kings clemency ordered to be delivered to his wife and was buried in the Tower of London Miles Corbet TO wright his life or draw his picture in its proper colonus were to attempt impossibilities since neither his actions or his face can be paralled by any but the Devil for he is his own Son and so like his father that a Major in Ireland meeting him upon the road and by his looks suspecting him to be rather a Pursevant of Hell then one of the Parliaments Judges forced him to alight from his Horse set down upon the ground pull off his bootes and stockings and at last to shew him his bare feet which being done he in a very merry complement told him he might now pass for a man but before he had searched whither or not he had Cloven feet he could not beleive him any other then the Devil This is he who was Inquisitor General to the close Committee of Examinations An indigent person at the beginning of the Long Parliament being indebted for himself and his Mother above three thousand pound more then he was worth The Prologue to the Hangman that looks more like a Hangman then the Hangman himself and may like Don Quixote not undeservedly be stiled the Knight of the ill favoured face His disposition also holds good intelligence with his looks you cannot say of him as Suetonius of Galba ingenium Galae male habitat for they sute so well the one with the ther that in my life I never met with a better decorum Int us Nero foris Cato tet sambiguus monstrum est A cruel Nero within a grave Cate without alwayes distrustful and a Monster Astutam vapido servat sub pectore vulpem His inside is lined with Fox furt his outside with Sheeps-wool One who had deeply engaged himself to live and dye with his Patron Oliver for which reason he was appointed to make a scrutiny into the lives and actions of all such persons as he conceived dis-affected to the Cromwellian party A strict examiner of every mans carriage but his own So active and vigorous in the prosecution of his malice that when he could not suborne witnesses to take away the life of

fire in burning and laying waste their strongest Holds next by the sword in cutting off the chiefest of their Covenanters and lastly by famine in reducing those poor captive Souldiers that were taken after Dumbar fight to such an exegent Dunhar fight Anno 1656. Sep. 3. that above three thousand of them were at Durham starved to death and those who survived were by hunger torced to feed upon the dead bodies of their Countreymen to preserve their own lives And therefore what Martial saith of the Lyon which is the Arms of Scotland I may fitly apply to these treacherous Scots Laeserat ingrato l●● persidus ere Magistrum Ausus tarn not as contaminare manus Sed dignas tante persoluit crimine poenas Et qui non tulerat verb●●a tela tulit A treacherous Lyon hurt his Keeper late Daring those well known hands to violate But for his foul offence he paid full dear Instead of stripes he felt a killing spear Thus you see that God will not suffer any Traytors or Regecides to go unpunished as may further appear by that one remarkable example of Hatto late Bishop of Mentz in Germany who having betrayed his neer Kinsman Allebert Count Palatine of Franconia to whom he had sworn allegiance into the Emperors hands God soon after suffered this Traytor as you may finde in the Chronological Collections of Petreius to be carried away by Devils and to be thrown into a burning pit in Mount Gebel a voyce in the mean time being heard to cry on t in the ayr Sic peccaudo lues sicque ruendo rues Thus art thou worthily punished for thy wicked deeds So heinous are the sins of Treason and Perjury and so just is the Almighty in the severity of his punishments for them that he suffers none who are guilty of such horrid deeds either early or late to escape unpunished And fince I am speaking of these treacherous Scots give me leave to give you a short account of the Life The Marquess of Argsle Actions and End of that ingrateful and perfidious Traytor to his King and Countrey the late Marquess of Argyle whose dealings with his Kindred Friends and Confederates ought to be a warning to all Protestants how they trust such an Apostate Covenanter whose ambition and avarice did ruine the King and Church together with three flourishing Kingdoms and in the conclusion himself His Father having married a second Wife and turned Catholick this his Son obtains by his Majessies favour the possession of his whole estate allowing him a small pension to live upon after whose death he outed his brother of his estate at Kyntire and afterwards cheated his Sisters of 12000 l. given them by the last Will and Testament of their Mother in Law forcing them all for want of maintenance to hazard the loss of their souls by forsaking that Religion they were ever nursed up in and to cloyster themseves up in Nunneries beyond the seas Having thus taken a view of his Religious carriage towards his Parents Friends and Allies let us next observe his deportment towards his Soveraign and how he kept the Solemn League and Covenant with his Brethren in England It cannot be denied but His Majestie did confer many great and Princely favours upon him at his Father in Law the Earl of Mortons desire making him Lord of Lorn with the additional honor and title of Marquess and a full pension well paid him ever fince together with not onely an act of Oblivion but approbation of all his tyranni at proceedings against the Athel men the Earl of Aireley and others But his first endeavour in requiral of all these and many more Royal favours undeservedly heaped upon him was his ent●ing into a conspiracy with his Co●n Lawers and the Ea●l of Lothian who married his Neece and was once heard to say That the three Kingdoms would never have peace so long as King Cha●ls his head was on his shoulders to banish Antrim and the Macdonalds out of Ireland for which he had a great gift and three R●gi●● h●s sent him from the Parliament of England Next he projected to joy● counsel with Say Pierpoint Cromwel and others of the Independant Juncto against the Presbyte●ians doing them that Master-piece of good service first under colour of loyalty and friendship to prevail with his Majestie to return to the Scots Army then at Newark Cromwel subtilly contributing a pass to his Maiesties g●ides with a slack guard that he might the more freely escape Secondly after many loyal speeches for Monarchy the Kingdom of Scotlands interest in the person of the King and many publique and private vows and protestations not to abandon his Majestie without his own consent Contrary to all which he and his Confederates corrupted the loyalty of that once famous Gentleman Lieutenant General David Lesley who had deeply sworn and engaged himself to his Majestie to convey him safely into Scotland or to see him peaceably settled in his Throne in England sorcing him and he prevailing with the Souldiers to abandon his Majestie and leaving him behind now little better then an assured prisoner and the whole power of the sword i● the hands of his bloody enemies the Independants and Sectaries to the ruine and overthrow of the Covenant and the Presbyterian cause in the City and Parliament Which design of his having taken the desired effect he presently by letters encourages the Independant party to proceed in their dethroning votes and accusarion of his Majestie assuring them that no party in Scotland should be able to hinder their proceedings Whereupon they imm-diately imprisoned the King and next erected a High Court of Justice to take away his life and afterwards publiquely murthered him Thus you see Argyle having overthrown all Laws tyrannized over the lives liberties and estates of his Countrey men and contrary to his duty and and allegiance conspired to extirpate all Monatchial Government by betraying his natural Prince into the hands of his enemies and opposing all ways of peace to prevent his Majesties deliverance and the settlement of his Kingdoms Now thinking himself secure in his villanies and having likewise by treachery gotten the person of the Marquess of Montross into his hands whose onely fault was loyalty to his Prince he caused him to be brought with as much ignominy as possibly he could desire to Edinburgh and afterwards to be barbarously murthered just at such time as his Majestie that now is was coming into Scotland even as it were in despite to his Soveraign But God having at length most miraculously restored his Sacred Majestie Charls the second to the Royal Throne of his blessed Father did also put it into his heart to avenge himself upon this underminer of Princes insomuch as this arch Rebel was suddenly seized upon then committed close Prisoner to the Tower in which place he remained till such time as he could be shipped away in order to his tryal at Edinburgh in Scotland where he was legally convicted of

did those two Knights of the Post Pitts and Bernard against Sr. Iohn Gell and Colonel Andrews to take away their lives by a High Court of Injustice when he could no longer squeeze any profit out of their bodies Witness his private transporting of many hundred of poor Caveliers beyond the Seas whom this States spirit barbarously sold to be made Gally-slaves to Turkes and Pagans which miser able servitude they must inevitably endure till Death more merciful than this Monster puts a period to their miseries I could instance above two hundred Gentlemen by him clapt in the Tower without any accusation or accusor made known where some of them were detained many years without any legal proceedings or charge against them he and his Master Oliver who continually furnished him with blanck Warrants for that purpose sharing between themselves in the mean time their Estates Offices and Revenues whilst these were left to starve rot and dye in nasty rooms purposely provided to destroy them without any relief or maintenance whatsoever For not one of their Friends dare lend or send them money or any of their Kindred come near them for fear of being committed Prisoners or at least questioned for malignants So as his Prison was become a private Slaughter-house and Olivers Court the publick Shambles of injustice It was the Custom of King Charles the first and his Predecessors to grant all owance to Prisoners in the Tower during their confinements according to their several degrees viz. 51. weekly for an Esquire c. and so proportionably for every person suitable to his quality But so far was this Canibal from giving or allowing any thing towards their subsistance that he converted those Fees to his own use and caused them to be shut up close Prisoners in unwholsome Chambers denying them the liberty of the Tower and b●nefit of the fresh air the Camelious dyet for their healths or resort of Friends for their accomodations The Fable of the Promethean vulture was but an Embleme of this Monster for so long as his power lasted he continually knaw'd upon the hearts of such persons as were under his custody his Office resembling that of the Sheep-heards Dog to worry Sheep first and afterwards drive them into his pinfolds He was Cromwels Coy-duck whilst he lived Offitiosa aliu exiti sa suis ever imployed and very officious to bring store of game into his Masters nets one that had learned to give poyson into a golden cup and knew well how to deceive even with Scripture plarases like her in Claudian * Claudian de voluptate Stiliconis lib. 2. Blanda quidem vultu sed quae non tetriox ulla Interius fucatagenas amict a doloru Illecibris An outward Saint an inward Devil A painted face but full of evil One who coveted to be rich and great in power that his greatness might equal his malice like him in the Poet Qui tantum ut noceat cupit esse potens Who rays'd himself out of the dirt That he might have more power to hurt Base men when they climb to any height prove above all others most proud and ambitious as appeared by this man who being beggarly born and of contemptible Parents became the most cruel and fiercest blood-hound of all Olivers pack Asperius nihilest humili cum surgit in altum None are more cruel than mean men rays'd high Or Beggars mounted on a Palfery For set but any of these proud Raskals on Horse-back and they will never rest till like their Comerade Pride aux they have made good the Proverb and ride Post to the Devil When Traytors are climbing up Fortunes Wheel Derrick commonly watches under-neth it to catch them toll untur in altum Ut lapsu graviore ruant This proved at last his reward for his horrid villanies treasons and murdering his Soveraign A Legacy long since given and bequeathed to him by his fellow-sufferers and Brethren in iniquity Harrison Scot Axtel and Hugh Peters who made the Hang-man Executor to their last Wills and Testaments To whose mercy I leave him and Corbet concluding with this Epitaph HEre lyes poor Iohn who was not beat to death As Stock-fish are but onely lost his breath Whilst he aspir'd himself on high to rayse He gain'd a wreath of Hemp instead of Bayes The Fate of Traytors may all perish so That seek their King and Kingdoms over-throw Dun was his Doctor who thought fit to bind A Cord about his neck to keep the wind From fuming up his head But O! sad note The Rope begot a squinzy in his throat Which choakt him up although some busie tongues Report it was the obstruction of his lungs That caus'd his sudden Death Let all who are His Friends by his example have a care How they come under this rude Doctors pawes Who onely practices the Tyburn Lawes In making falling-bands or knitting-knots That cure diseases beyond the Galli-pots A Rogue so known in Hell each Sessions thence They send Fiends to him for intelligence What guests are coming to the Sti●ian Court Whether the greater or the meaner sort Traytors or Thieves to whom he answer makes When Phoebe once her waining horns forsakes And Easter Term begins I 'le send you * Corbet one Whose looks shall ' ffright grim Pluto from his throne And scare the lesser Devils thence when there They see one Blacke● than themselves appear But when Dun named Corbet they reply'd He 's Pluto's Kinsman by he mothers side We know him well bid him make haste for hee Is welcome to our black Fraternitie William Munsun Henry Mildmay and Rob. Wallup As for that female Town-top and great devourer of of buttered Peason William late Lord Munson formerly a Page but now a close Prisoner in the Fleet Harry once Sr. Henry Mildmay and Robert Wallup who did all actually sit as Judges upon the Tryal of their lawful Soveraign King Charles the first by reason it appeared that they were absent from the pretended Hight Court of Justice at such time as Sentence passed to take away the Kings life His Masesty was g●atiously pleased to refer the manner of their punishments to His High Court of Parliament who soon after upon a Serious debate in both Houses passed an Act too merciful for such ingrateful Traytors though in some sort suitable to the quality of their Crimes viz. That their Estates should be Confiscated and their persons drawn upon Sledges from the Tower to Tyburn with Ropes about their Necks and to be degraded of their Honours and Titles c. which was accordingly Executed upon the 27th of Ianuary following An. 1661. it being the same day that the King was Condemned to death many thousands of people being Spectators of their infamy who not onely at the Gallows but as they passed in the streets bitterly cursed and reviled them insomuch that Wallup being of that shameful punishment more sensible than the other of the horrid sin he had committed as well as of the eternal