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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

before his death to roar so loud and make such doleful clamors that his Council being informed that many persons as they passed by his chamber window took much notice of his crys thought fit to have him removed from the place where he then lay to one more private where with extremity of anguish and terror of Conscieence having his soul at the parting from his body accompanied with such a hellish tempest as was by all men judged to be prodigious he finished his miserable life for he dyed mad and dispairing as the Author of the fourth part of the History of Independency affirms Out of whom give me leave to insert this remarkable passage viz. That it was believed and not without some good cause that Cromwel the same morning he defeated the Kings Army at Worcester fight had conference personally with the Devil with whom he made a Contract that to have his will then and in all things else for seven years after from that time being the third of September 1651. he should at the expiration of the said years have him at his command to do at his pleasure both with his soul and body Now if any one will please to reckon from the third of September 1651. till the third of September 1658. he will finde it to a day just seven years and no more Richard Protector At which time he dyed declaring his eldest Son Richard his Successor his Son Henry Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and leaving his Daughter Fleetwood married to the Commander in chief of the Army under himself This was the end of our English Nero A person of an unlimitted ambition and restless spirit of whom I have heard it credibly reported by such as attended upon him in his bed-chamber that after he had embrewed his hands in the blood of his Soveraign he was observed to sleep so little that he scarce took any repose but oft in the night time would arise out of his bed take a pistol into his hand and call to his guard to watch his door and have a care of sleeping Nor was his guilty conscience less terrified in the day time then in the night as appears by the testimony of Sir Theophilus Iones who waiting upon him one morning in his Chamber the wind on a sudden blowing up the hangings before the door possessed him with such a Panick fear that he cryed out Traytors Traytors and drawing out his sword could not be perswaded to disperser his fears or put up his weapon till the wind playing the same game again convinced him of his error The like story I find written by Polidore Virgil of Richard the third who having caused his two Nephews to be secretly murthered he could never after whilest he lived enjoy any quiet in his mind but would be still starting and clapping his hand upon his dagger Thus do to mented Consciences continually carry a Hell about them as Lucan saith the wicked man doth Nocte dieq suum gestare in pectore testem Hunc omnes gladii quos aut Pharsalia vidit Aut ultrix visura dies stringente Senatu Illa nocte premiunt hunc infera monstra flagellant Englished thus The murtherer nor night nor day can rest But bears about a witness in his brest He fancies all he sees are Lictors sent To bring him to deserved punishment Furies raign in his soul And Pictorius in his Epigram upon the same subject saith Illud habet damni vitium inter coetera quod mens Palpitat assiduo flagitiosa mecu Semper enim si non deprehendatur in ipso Sese deprendi posse put at scelere Deque suo quoties alterius do crimine sermo est Cogitat credit se magis esse reum Inque dies timor hic crescit The wicked man this Fate attends that he Is never from pursuing torments free He dreams he 's taken though he waking find Himself deceiv'd fear still torments his mind If any talk of others crimes arise His guilty Conscience in his face streight flyes Each day begets new tortures But 't is time to leave him off and return to his Children who have also drank deep of the bitter Cup of Affliction for their Fathers perjuries according to that of the Poet In prolem dilatarunt perjuria patris The Child often suffers for his Parents crimes Richard Protector For although before his death Oliver strived to entail his tyrannical power as well in England as Ireland upon his Son Richard and Harry yet God soon cast them both out by stirring up their Brother in Law Fleetwood and their near kinsman Disborough to effect it So as this Pageant of Honour continued few Moneths in his Protectorship before he was reduced to such extremity being indebted in 290000 l. for his Fathers Funeral that at the sitting of the Rump Parliament he who lately was stiled the Nations Protector is now necessitated to let his Highness stoop so low as to beg their protection to preserve himself from rotting in a Prison Thus vanished this magni nominis umbra the shadow and Puppet-play of a Protector Henry Cromwel Nor did it fare better with his Brother Harry who having the Government and strength of Ireland in his power and a considerable Army ready to hazard their lives in his service might in all probability have resetled his Brother again or at least have made himself great in the Kings favour had he adhered to his interest but God struck such a terrour into his Soul as he had not courage enough left to be an Instrument of good either to his Countrey or P●ince b●t this pittiful cowardly Imp tamely surrendred up all his power into the R●mps hands whereupon he was ordered to return speedily into England to attend the pleasure of the House where after a tedious waiting upon them at the Commons Bar at length he was for his good service stroaked on the head called a good Boy and dismissed for which kindness he bussed his hand made a leg and Exit The Lady Claypool Next for Cromwels Daughters the strange end of his Darling Child Mrs. Claypool is very remarkable For finding her Father violently bent in prosecuting the Death of that Learned and Pious Divine Dr. Hewitt her Conscience was so extreamly troubled at his cruelty that she both night and day sollicited him by prayers and supplications to spare the life of that innocent person But he who never before denied any thing she requested of him is now grown inexorable and like the Deaf Adder stops his Ears against the charmings of this sweet Charmer at which unheard of inhumanity she took such excessive grief that she suddenly fell sick the increase of her sickness making her rave in a most lamentable manner calling out against her Father for Hewitts blood and then telling him that God now laid his heavy punishments upon her for his hainous crimes she desired him to repent and pray for her till at length these violent extravagant passions working upon