Petitions succeeding for an accommodation a Cessation followed and soon after that a Parliament which was Summoned by the Advise of this Earle and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where the very first thing of Consequence that was done was a Charge of High Treason Exhibited against this Earle by the House of Commons consisting of Twenty Eight Articles whereupon he was Sequestred from sitting as a Peer and soon after committed to the Usher of the Black Rod and so to the Tower His Tryal quickly after ensued which was done with great Solemnity in Westminster-Hall the Earle of Arundal being Lord High Steward The substance of his Articles were That he had Endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Lawes and Governments of England and Ireland That he had done ill Offices betwixt the King and the Scots and betwixt the King and his Subjects of this Kingdom That he had Advised the King to bring up the Army out of the North and over-awe the Parliament And that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of Ten Thousand Men in Ireland ready to be Transported for the same Service His Accusers were Pym St. Johns Whitlock Sir Walter Earles Serjant Glyn Maynard Stroud Mr. Selden Hambden c. But the Earle defended himself so Bravely and Learnedly that the Lords Conscious of his Innocency would not find the Bill Wherefore the Commons seeing they could not speed that way drew up a Bill of Attainder and presented it to the Lords declaring the matter of Fact to have been sufficiently proved and that as to Law he had incurred the Censure of Treason But the Lords adjudged this a strange way of Proceeding unsutable to their own Safety and against Common Justice Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults stopped the Lords Coaches menacing to post up the Names of those who favoured him under the Title of Straffordians and with an impetuous Cry of Justice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill so hard a task had his Blood-thirsty Enemies to bereave him of his Life which yet notwithstanding passed but by the plurality of Seven Voices against him But the hardest matter was to get the Kings assent who very much declined it and in a set Speech cleared the Earle from any design of Treason or consulting to any Arbitrary Government But being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal but principally being desired by the Earle himself to satisfie the Parliament though with his own blood His Majesty after Advise with the Bishops signed that Fatal Bill which afterwards proved the Axe against his own Life Thus fell this Noble Earle being one of the Chief Pillars and Basis of this Nation without whose Ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew it a hard matter to Effect or Accomplish any thing such an Absolute Rare Honest and Loyal Master-Piece of Reason and Prudence as this present Age saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. being the Pro-to-Martyr of the Late Times II and III. MAster Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowcher two Worthy Loyal Citizens of Bristol of good Esteem Plentiful Estates and known Integrity Master Yeomans was Sheriff of that City in the Year 1642. being but the year before his Execrable Murther Master George Bowcher was an Able Pious Loyal Gentleman whom his very Enemies confest to be a Religious Man These Two Loyal Persons seeing the miserable condition of those Places where the Rebells Ruled Entered into a Consultation with some others how to deliver the City of Bristol into Prince Ruperts hands and thereupon it was resolved that upon Munday March 7. 1642. Prince Rupert with some Forces should draw down towards the City whilst they within would Seize the Courts of Guard and open the Gates and by Ringing St. Johns and St. Michaels Bells give him notice thereof Accordingly Prince Rupert came by Five of the Clock the same morning expecting the Signal but the Confederacy being discovered those Two Gallant Gentlemen with some others were apprehended and after Eleven Weeks hard Imprisonment brought to their Tryal at a Council of War where by Fiennes the Governour and others of that Gang they were Condemned to Dye and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals Mandates and Threats of Retaliation having with great patience endured the Scorns and Barbarous Insultations of the Enemy who continually pursued them with Threats and Revilings they were on May 30. 1643. barbarously murthered Master Yeomans professing at his death That if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to his Soveraign in that way And Master Bowcher in his last Speech exhorted all those who had set their hands to the Plow meaning the defence of the Kings Cause not to be terrified by their Sufferings and therefore to withdraw Their bodies were afterwards decently Enterred in the same City whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance whilst those who murthered them shall rot and perish in infamy IV and V. MAster Tomkins and Master Chaloner the one Clark of the Queens Council the other a Linnen-Draper in Corn-hill two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruine by the Seditious practises of the Rebels procured a Commission from the King the design whereof was that they should Seize into their Custody the Kings Children some Members of Parliament the Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia all the City Out-works and Forts the Tower of London and all the Magazines then to let in the Kings Army to Surpize the City to destroy all Opposers and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney Wife to that Gallant Lord who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill and upon receipt thereof several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof which was chiefly prosecuted by those two Loyal Persons who made such progress therein that the business was brought into some form but so many being concern'd in it through the Treachery of some it came to the Parliaments eares whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Haynous Crime of Loyalty which accordingly was Executed near their own doors July 5. 1643. VI. MAster Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleetstreet afterwards a Messenger to his late Sacred Majesty by whom he was sent to London to signifie the King's Pleasure That the Term of Michaelmas should be prorogued which Message he delivered to the Judges at Westminster-Hall and for performance of his Duty was by those who had quite forgotten all Allegiance and Duty apprehended for a Spy and contrary to the Universal Custom and Honourable Practise of all Nations which gives security and free liberty of passage to all such Persons Tryed before a Council of War held at Essex
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
1660. IV. Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune and in Charity judged not to be of such a premeditated malice as the rest though by the current of Times drawn to Act with the highest in Mischief He was at the first a Cavalier in Opinion but with the more gainfuller times turn'd Presbyterian then afterwards upon the new module when Presbytery began to decline he became a strong Independant where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and minding Profit more then Conscience he still grew more hardned in his Lawless practises finding more likeliness of greater spoiles in the destruction of Monarchy He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesties Execution and Acted all along with them in their Murtherous Counsels having for his share in the price of blood a Command afterwards in Ireland where he continued till such time as the Happy Revolution of Affairs brought Monarchy again to stand on its feet when he surrendred himself and upon his Tryal shewed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes He still lives by the Mercy of the King a condemn'd man Prisoner in the Isle of Wight V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Extract or Remarque till such time as made notoriously famous for Villany He was by Marriage Cromwel's Brother in Law who upon that account by his Authority and Command in the Parliament preferred him to be Governour of Linn and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely which place he had stongly Fortefied as a safe Retreat for Cromwel if before he had compleated his damnable Designs he should have been forced to have gone thither Upon the Change of the Times when Royalty began to grow splendid he ran away the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth and hath hitherto escaped the hands of Justice VI. Colonel Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle under line in Staffordshire at first a Servant to one Master Hulker an Atturney But finding the Law begun to be trode under foot he betook himself to the Army the more hopefuller way of preferment where by his Preaching and such like Sanctimonious wayes of proceeding when the Army made a gain of Godliness he came to be a Major and being of a pragmaticall daring spirit was by the influence of Cromwel preferred to be a Colonel and the Custody of the Kings Person when taken from the Isle of Wight committed unto him which he according to his Butchery Nature most irreverently abused by no less saucy behaviour then Treasonable Speeches of blacking the King c. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ring-leader of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men and such as traded in Enthusiasmes in whose Love and especial Opinion he dyed being expectedly Executed at the place where once stood Charing-Cross October 14. 1660. His Head was set upon a Pole on the top of the South-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters Exposed to Publick View upon some of the City Gates VII Colonel Edward Whaley Descended from a Family in Nottingham-shire and bound Apprentice to a Woollen-Draper which trade he followed for a while but falling into decay left the Ell and took up the Spear and during all the time of our Troubles was very industriously Active rising by degrees till he came at last to be Comissiary General of the Horse He was a Man of a daring Spirit and resolute to perform what ever he undertook Crafty withall and Covetous having not where-withall otherwise to maintain his Ambition to which we may add his Perfidiousness betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretense of Affection the worst kind of perfidy and having thus juggled him whither they would have him he made no scruple to joyne with others in his horrid Murther upon the turn of the Times he likewise fled to prevent the stroke of Justice worthily due to his Deserts VIII Colonel Thomas Pride a Brewer at first a Dray-man but at the beginning of the Wars contrary to David who left the Sword to take up the Sling he forsooke the Sling and took up the Sword and though an Ignorant Illiterate Fellow scarce fit to carry gutts to a a Beare whose destruction he performed at Paris Garden yet being of a resolute Courage and the blind goddess Crowning him with successe he was thought fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Parliament for him and having thus Acted that which carried a shew of Law and Justice there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons being a prime Agent in the Murther of the King Acting with as much Impudence and Brutishness as any of them all He died before his Majesties Return escaping thereby a more shamefull and ignominious death IX Colonel Isaac Ewer Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof being in the wave to recruit his Decaying Fortunes he betook himself to the Wealthiest Side and added much to the Ruine of Monarchy having gained a great proficency in their Destructive Principles so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villany being cloaked under a vail of Religion He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight and afterwards one of his Judges where he gave his hand against his Sacred Soveraign adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murther He likewise died before his Majesties Return robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby Son to the Earle of Stamford who becoming a Colonel in the Army grew infected with their Destructive Principles and contrary to Honour Acted with them in their odious Designs having his hand in the Murther of the King the Fountain and Source of all Honour from whence others are derived In regard of the Honour of his Family he escapes a Mention or Condemnation for this Crime as well as for some others He dyed before his Majesties Happy Restauration XI William Lord Mounson a sordid Fellow of Destructive Principles and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villanies being for Debt a long time a Prisoner but by his Fellow Regicides fetcht out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses After the Return of his Majesty he was for his Treasonable Practises together with Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Commons where their Estates were Declared Confiscate and they degraged from all Titles and Armes of Gentility and further Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London upon Sledges with Halters about their Necks and so back again to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment which Sentence was accordingly Executed upon them January 30. 1661. XII Sir John Danvers Knight Brother to that Loyal and Noble Peer the Earle of Danby who for his Fidelity to his Soveraign was by the Rebells Voted a Delinquent the covetousness after which Estate drew in this Knight
Tower XLV Gregory Clement a lustfull Goat who being a monied Merchant Purchased himself a place in Parliament that he might the more freely and with the greater Authority exercise his notorious debaucheries which were so vulgarly known that his fellow Villaines could not but upon pretense of honesty discard him their company He contributed largely to the destruction of his Soveraign for he who fears not to Commit Adultery will not stick out to do Murther He received afterwards the reward of his Treasons being hang'd drawn aud quarter'd Octob. 17. 1660. His Head set upon London-Bridge and his Quarters on the Gates of the City XLVI Sir Gregory Norton One whose means was not answerable to his Title being one of the Pensioners to the King who ungratefully for the lucre of money joyned also in the Kings murther and had by his fellow Regicides for his Service as good as given Richmond Manner and House He died before his Majesties Return XLVII John Venn A broken Silk-man in Cheap-side who to recruit his Fortunes took part with the Strongest Side carrying as great a pretense to Religion as the best it being the Stalking Horse in those Times for them who meant to ride in the Chair of Preferment He was at the beginning of the War made Governour of Windsor Castle and had other Places of great Profit bestowed on him this drew him on to Act in the Murther of his Sacred Majesty though afterwards stricken with the horrour thereof He is said desparately to have hanged himself certain it is he died very strangely and suddainly though the certainty thereof was by his friends smoothered up as much as they could XLVIII Thomas Andrews a Linnen-Draper in Cheap-side but thinking the Trade of Rebellion more gainfull he resolved not to stand out having so fit an opportunity for him to come into Play and so got to be a Treasurer for the Guild-Hall Plate and a Receiver for the Army whereby he got great summs of money to himself which so Encouraged him in Treason that he feared not to Sit and Sentence his Soveraign and afterwards Alderman Reynoldson Lord Mayor of London refusing to Proclaim the Act for Abolishing Kingly Government he being Elected Lord Mayor in his Place Proclaimed the said Act in Great State He died just upon the Revolution of the Times and very narrowly prevented Justice XLIX Anthony Stapley a Sussex Gentleman Colonel and Governour of Chichester who by partaking with those Blood-Thirsty Regicides grew infected and was strangely wrought into this Wicked Conspiracy He likewise died before the Kings return L. Thomas Horton one of so mean and unknown a Quality that his Pedigree is not to be found unless we should derive it from Judas that Prince of Traytors He so thrived by the Wars that he was chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament and was one of those that dipt his hands in his Royal Soveraigns blood He also died before the Kings return LI. John Lisle Of a good Family in the Isle of Wight whose Father died there during the Treaty being possessed of a fair Patrimony in the said Isle this his ungracious degenerate Son whom he bred up a Lawyer taking part with those Bloody Regicides proved in process of time as bad as the worst of them and arrived to the very height of Cruelty and Impiety for having once washed his hands in his Soveraigns blood he feared not to Act any Murther whatsoever becoming President to all the High Courts of Justice during the Usurpation by whose Sanguinous violence fell many Gallant and Heroick Spirits for reward of which his cruelties he was made one of the Commissioners of the New Great Seal and Master of Saint Crosses a Place only fit for a Divine worth Eight Hundred Pound per Annum He fled upon the return of the King but divine vegeance which will not suffer the sin of Murher to go unpunished found him out and at Genuah by Three disguised Irishmen he received the reward of his deserts though not in so Legal a way as could be wished they being forced to Kill whom they could not bring away by reason of the strong Guards he had about him a shame to those Places which professing Christianity yet will give harbour to such wicked abominable Villans LII John Dixwell A recruit likewise of the Long Parliament for Dover of which Castle he was Colonel and Governour and therefore so far oblidged to them for his Promotion that in requital of their Favours he joyned with them in the Murther of his Majesty but fearing the reward of his Treachery upon the Kings return he quitted the Land which too long had groaned under the weight of so hatefull a Regicide LIII Miles Corbet A stain to his Family of very good Reputation in Norfolk He was one of the male-contented Members of the former Parliament with Sir John Elliot and Others and being chosen a Burgess for Yarmouth in the Long Parliament finding the Times fit for his purpose he resolved to wreak his malice upon the King and was a principal Instrument to help forward the ensuing calamities and having raised himself by others ruines to retain what be had so wickedly got and in hopes of greater Preferment he joyned likewise in the murther of the King for which he was rewarded with several great Places in England and Ireland where he was in effect Lord Chancellor but long enjoyed he not that Honour for upon his Majesties return he with Berkstead and Okey privately sneaked into Germany where having remained a while they returned to Delf in Holland intending under feigned Names to visit their Wives there but divine vengeance which never sleepeth found them out and by the vigelance of Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague they were apprehended which made Corbet to purge upwards and downwards in a very strange manner being afterwards sent into England they were at the Kings-Bench-Bar Arraigned and Condemned and according to Sentence Hanged Drawn and Quartered April 2. 1662. where now Corbets Head over-looks the Thames on London Bridge and his Quarters exposed to the view of the beholders on the City Gates LIV. Simon Meyne a Buckingham-shire Man of a good Estate but being of a covetous disposition he endeavour'd to enlarge it though by indirect means getting two good Trades for that purpose viz. a Committee and a Sequestrator to which we may add a third being chosen an Illegal recruit in the Long Parliament and now having his hand in thought it no great matter to assist in taking away the Kings Life At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice but his crimes were found to be of so crimson a dye that Sentence of death was passed on him however Execution of that Sentence was respited since which time he died a natural death in the Tower LV. John Alured A Souldier of Fortune who to climb the higher on the blind Goddesses wheele dipped his hands in
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
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
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
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 For encouragement to Virtue and determent from Vice By William Winstanley Rebellion is as the Sin of Witch-craft LONDON Printed by Thomas Mabb for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain 1665. ON THE FRONTISPIECE O What a glorious sight do I behold Apples of Silver Pictured thus in Gold Immortal Hero's who of life bereaven Are now become bright fixed Stars of Heaven The first of all this Glorious Company King 1 Charles presents himself unto your eye Like Phoebus glistering in the Morning tide Surrounded with Brave Hero's on each side Under him 2 Strafford that Great Pro-toto-Martyr On each side Loyal 3 Derby Gallant Arthur Lord 4 Capell three such Peeres we may conclude For to be Stars of the first Magnitude Brave 5 Lucas and Stout 6 Lisle whose Gallant Worth Deserves a Golden Pen to set them forth Undaunted 7 Morris 8 Penruddock and 9 Grove Stout 10 Andrews who deserv'd all Peoples love Brave 11 Gerard 12 Benbow 13 Burleigh 14 Pitcher 15 Poyer Who for their Country did their best devoyer 16 Fetherstonhaugh 17 Hamilton 18 Holland's Earle 19 Blackburn 20 Benson 21 Bushel each a Pearle Of Valourous Loyalty 22 Ashton well skill'd in Wars Kind 32 Slingsby 24 Symkins all stout Sons of Mars Who for King Charles his Cause so strongly stood And seal'd their Love to 't with their dearest blood Next view great 25 Laud whose worth doth strike me dumb The Reverend 26 Hewyt England's Chrysostome Grave 27 Beaumont and Religious 28 Vowel who With 29 Love for Loyalty their Lives forgo Learn'd 30 Levens Glory of his Family Well skill'd in Law practised in Loyalty Next view that unmatchless Hero Gallant 31 Hide 32 Yeomans and 33 Bowcher who at Bristol dy'd 34 Tomkins and 35 Challoner of Active Spirits 36 Kniveton 37 Gibbons 38 Kensy men whose merits With those foregoing Hero's rais'd them High Whil'st Traytors live Infam'd in Hystory THE LOYALL MARTYROLOGY Printed for Edward Thomas 1665. To the Honourable Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet His Majesties Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON SIR TWo Things have Emboldened me to Dedicate this Book unto You The First is your known Loyalty and Integrity to the Royal Cause which hath made Your Name as Conspicuous as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day not only since the Happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty but in those Times of Rebellion when Loyalty was accounted a Crime of the Highest Nature which as it made you one of Those Loyal Confessors that by your Sufferings have indeared your Memory to all Posterity so no doubt had not that Gangreen of Rebellion been the sooner cut off your Eminent Parts would by those bloody Regicides who were Enemies to Worth and Loyalty have brought you into the Number of These Royal Martyrs who laid down their Lives in Defence of Gods Laws and his Annointed's Cause of both which you were so Gallant an Assertor The Second is the Relation you had to that Reverend Martyr Arch-Bishop Laud who laid down his Life in Defence of the Church and is now involved in that Glorious Company who Suffered for the Testimony of a Good Conscience of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a candle Daigne Sir to Accept this Mite of Acknowledgement of Your Worth from him who Subscribes himself Your Most Humbly Devoted Servant William Winstanley THE PREFACE TO THE Reader WHat sad Effects the Miseries and Calamities of a Civil War doth produce this Nation cannot but be sensible of and our late Times do sufficiently evidence How all things were turned topsie turvy Religion subverted by Rebellion Truth troden down by Treason the Gown giving place to the Corslet and the Law over-awed by the Sword How under pretense of a Reformation all things were turned into Confusion The Law which should be the Rule and Direction whereby to walk made useless or at least like unto a Spiders Webb through which those Rebellious Bug-bears could with ease break out but the poor Caveliers were insnared in the same How under a pretense of the breach of our Fundamental Laws they Murthered divers Gallant Persons when they themselves committed the greatest breaches on it by riding over the Royal Power of the King putting down the Bishops and the Book of Common Prayer Usurping the Militia Counterfeiting the great Seal Seizing on the Kings Forts Ports Shipping Castles and all his Revenue Raising Rumors putting out Declarations and giving out words to alienate the Peoples Affections from their Soveraign Sessing Souldiers upon the People of the Kingdom without their Consent making Judges Justices and Sheriffs contrary to the Kings mind breaking all Law themselves and Governing the Land by New-found Ordinances of their own imposing several Taxes on the People by wayes never before known in this Kingdom namely Contributions Sequestrations Meal-Money Sale of Plundred Goods Loans Collections upon their Fast-Dayes new Imposition upon Merchandizes Guards maintained at the charge of Private Men Compositions Sale of Bishops Lands with divers other strange Impositions all wracked from the People to maintain them in their Rebellious Pride But had they stay'd here their crimes had been the more inexcusable but they proceeded to the Murther of their King and that under a pretense of Justice a Crime so great that History cannot shew a parallel that people professing themselves Christians Protestants yea the most Reformed of all the Protestants should in the face of the whole World in the Metropolis of the Kingdom under a formal show of Justice Condemn the most Pious Prudent and Gracious Prince then living in the whole World contrary to the Word of God the Laws of the Land the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiancy it was a matter of Wonder and Astonishment not only to all Good and Godly Christians but even to the very Turks and Pagans Now notwithstanding their specious pretenses of Religion and Liberty who can be so blind as not plainly to see that the main drift of their pretenses was only to Tyrannize over the People and to wallow in all manner of Pleasure and Epicurisme for how notoriously debauched were some of the Chief of those Grand Reformers such as Gregory Clement Henry Martin Hugh Peters c. Besides their Covetousness which was so unmeasurably great that some Wise Men have wondered the Kingdome could be able to pay so much Money as hath been Collected from them in a year and yet for all those immeasurable Taxes the Souldiers and Navy unpaid that money going towards the Raising
of their Poor Kindred many of themselves if not the greatest part before those Times of so little Account and Esteem that they could not Write Gentleman Then that their Pride and Ambition was as great as their Covetousness is easie to be discern'd for after that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty How did those Cocks of the Game peck at one another Cromwell's Ambition never stinting untill such time he had attained the end of his Desires Resolving to sit in the Seat of Soveraignty although he waded to the same in Blood and Perjury and thereupon turned out his Rebellious Masters which he might the more easily do their Horrid Actions having made them so notoriously odious to all sorts of People who rejoyced at their Downfall Now though Cromwel were so Bloody a Tyrant that People might have prayed for his Life with the same intent as the Sicilian Old Woman did for the Life of Dionisius For fear that the Devil should come after for no other could parallel him Yet he being dead we find other's Pride and Ambition as high as his such striving amongst themselves to get into the Seat of Soveraignty untill they thrust one another off of the Cushion and by their Divisions made a ready way next to the Providence of Almighty God for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty So that we see what ever was pretended of Religion Liberty and such like fine Devices the main End of their Designs was Pride Envy Covetousness and Ambition Against those Wicked Persons and Practises how many Gallant Men Opposed Themselves both in their Lives and Estates The Chief of whom we have given you an Account of in this Book which we have Divided into Three Centuries or Catalogues The First of which are those Loyal Martyrs who suffered under a Formal kind of Justice in which as in the rest we have observed the Order of Time and not of Dignity Some perhaps may Object against Two or Three Persons therein mentioned such as Duke Hamilton Master Love c. as having the Presbyterian Interest inter-woven with the Royal Account but certainly the main end of their Designs was Loyalty as they manifested at the time of their deaths and therefore may deservedly challenge a place in that Catalogue In the Second Place You have an Account of the most Eminent Commanders and Officers who were Slain in the Kings Service Sealing their Love to that Cause with their dearest Bloods and Manfully Fighting died in the Bed of Honour If we have over-slipped any of Extraordinary Eminency for it is impossible to mention every one We desire to be better Informed by their Friends or Acquaintance and upon a Second Edition we shall endeavour to do them Right according to their Deserts In the Third Ranke We have placed the Royal Confessors such as Suffered in the Kings Cause by Imprisonment Sequestration Banishment c. Of which We have mentioned but only some few of the most Eminent the Total Arising to such a Vast Number as would Pose Arithmetick to reckon them up To These Worthies We have in the Second Place Adjoyned a Catalogue of the Unworthies or Brief Characters of the most Notorious Regicides and Others of that Gang who were the Chief Authours and Abetters of all Those Miseries and Calamities which so long a Time Afflicted this Nation that as the One may be an Encouragement to Virtue and Loyalty so the Other may Deter Men from Vice and Villany This is the summ of our Design which if it finde Kind Acceptance it shall Encourage me to a further Enlargement thereof If otherwise yet this shall be my Comfort that I have Discharged my Duty and shown my Self to be A True Lover of His King and Country W.W. The Names of the Martyrs according as they are Figured in the Frontispiece with the Page wherein to finde their several Histories I. King Charles Page 16 II. E. of Strafford Page 1 III. E. of Derby Page 33 IV. Lord Capel Page 24 V. Sir Charles Lucas Page 13 VI. Sir George Lisle Page 14 VII Col. Morris Page 27 VIII Col. Penruddock Page 36 IX Col. Grove Page ibid X. Col. Eus Andrews Page 29 XI Col Gerard Page 34 XII Col. Benbow Page ibid XIII Cap. Burleigh Page 12 XIV Col. Pitcher Page 14 XV. Col. Poyer Page 15 XVI Sir T. Fetherstonh Page 34 XVII D. Hamilton Page 21 XVIII E. of Holland Page 23 XIX Cor. Blackburn Page 28 XX. Mr. Benson Page 30 XXI Cap. Bushel Page 32 XXII Col. Ashton Page 40 XXIII Sir Hen. Slingsby Page 38 XXIV Cap. Symkins Page 34 XXV Arch B. Laud Page 9 XXVI Dr. Hewyt Page 39 XXVII Mr. Beaumont Page 27 XXVIII Mr. Vowel Page 35 XXIX Mr. Love Page 32 XXX Dr. Levens Page 28 XXXI Sir Hen. Hide Page 30 XXXII Mr. Yeomans Page 5 XXXIII Mr. Bowcher Page ibid XXXIV Mr. Tomkins Page 7 XXXV Mr. Challoner Page ibid XXXVI Mr. Kniveton Page 9 XXXVII Mr. Gibbons Page 32 XXXVIII Mr. Kensy Page 37 XXXIX Mr. Lucas Page ibid XL. Mr. Betly Page 40 XLI Mr. Stacy Page 41 The Loyal Martyrologie OR A Brief Historical Relation and Character of all those Persons that were Murther'd by Colour of any Sentence during the late Rebellion I. THomas Wentworth Earle of Strafford and Lord Deputy of Ireland a most Wise Prudent and Honourable States-Man Descended from the Illustrious Family of the Wentworths in Yorkshire and Educated according to the Greatness of his Birth He was at first a great stickler against the Prerogative untill allured by Court-Preferment he turned Royalist being by King Charles the First for his great Parts made Baron Wentworth of Raby and employed in diverse Offices of Trust which he discharged with great Honour and Faithfulnesse So thus his Deserts soon mounted him from one degree of Honour to another till at last he was made Lord Lievtenant of Ireland in which Government he exceeded all that went before him in the Careful Management of the Affairs of that Realm Reclaiming the Irish from many of their Barbarous Customes and reducing them to the English civility suppressing their Out-Lawes and Tories and bringing them to perfect entire Obedience to the Kings Authority and Laws He much advanced the Protestant Religion and setled a constant Revenue for the Clergy of that Kingdom and made so good a procedure in what he undertook that had not those Disloyal Times of Confusion fallen out no doubt he had attained his Ends and setled that Kingdom in a most flourishing condition The Scotch War being the Prologue to all our late Troubles breaking out he was sent for out of Ireland to Advise with the King about those Troubles which so unpreparedly had surprized him To which work he Contributed his Head Hands and Purse advancing by subscription Twenty Thousand Pound as a Coppy for the rest of the Nobility to write after In this Expedition he was made Lievtenant General and was very eager to Fight with the Scots But the English being defeated at Newborn and
House where he was as unjustly Condemned to be Hanged and according to that inhumane Sentence barbarously Murthered by those Bloody Rebels Novem. 27. 1643. VII WIlliam Laud Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a Pious Learned Orthodox Prelate of whom as one observes It would trouble Plutarch if he were alive to finde out a fit parallel with whom to match him This Reverend Bishop was born at Reading extracted from an Honest and well Reputed Parentage his Father being a Wealthy Cloathier of that Town from which place having attained to Learning answerable thereto he was Trans-planted to St. John's Colledge in Oxford where with great Credit and Estimation he passed through all the Honourable Employments of his Colledge so that his Worth came to be taken special Notice of preferring him first to be Chaplain to the Earle of Devon-shire and Proctor of the University Soon after from Bachelour of Divinity he proceeded to Doctor and became Chaplain to Doctor Neal Bishop of Rochester afterwards Translated to York who for his great Abilities preferr'd him to King James so that now having cast Anchor at Court the Haven of Hope he was by that Bountifull King first made Prebend of Bugden and Westminster next Dean of Glocester and Arch-Deacon of Huntington then President of his own Colledge and not long after Bishop of St. Davids King James dying his Son King Charls took him into more especial Favour bestowing on him the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells made him Dean of his Chappel and one of his Privy Council then Bishop of London and Chancellor of Oxford and last of all Arch-Bishop of Canterbury As he grew thus High in the Kings Favour so as it is common with Princes Favourites was he high in disgust with the People for being a Prelate who stood stifly for the strict observation of the Rites of the Church of England which then by the growing Power of Non-Conformists were every where termed Innovations by this means Episcopacy was by many Traduced and diverse Libells scattered up and down against that Sacred Function wherein as being most Eminent he was sure to bear the greatest burthen falsly reporting him inclining to Popery notwithstanding his firmness in the Protestant Religion witnessed by that Book of his against Fisher the Jesuite an unanswerable Work which like a hammer hath beaten all the Romish Arguments into pieces and of which they will never clear themselves brag and vapour what they please Yet notwithstanding this his great Learning Prudence Zeal Humility and other Graces wherewith he was stor'd though he had done nothing worthy of Death or Bonds yet in the beginning of our Dissentions when the mad fury of blind zeal like an impetuous torrent bore down all before it This Reverend Prelate was committed to the Black-Rod and from thence to the Tower where he remained four years before any Charge was brought against him afterwards he was several times brought to the Barr of the House of Commons where notwithstanding his Innocency and Integrity appeared transparent yet being parties Witnesses and Judges too they Voted him Guilty and January 10. 1644. he was wickedly Murthered on Tower-hill In whom was verified that presage of King James No Bishop No King Monarchy soon after falling in the death of that blessed Martyr King Charles VIII ANd Captain Burleigh a Gentleman of the Isle of Wight who after those wicked Votes of Non-Address and that the King was a Prisoner in the said Island he Beat a Drum intending to gather a Force sufficient to Rescue him from his Imprisonment but was quickly seized and supprest by Hamond who sent him over to Winchester where by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer he was Arraigned and Tryed and by a pact-Jury brought in Guilty of High Treason and accordingly barbarously Murthered Feb. 10. 1647. IX and X. SIr Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle those Gemini of Valour Honour and exact Loyalty who gallantly Served the King during the time of Rebellion being without any partiality of affection declared by those that knew them one of them the best for Horse-Service and the other for the Infantry that ever Commanded in their Quality in the Kings Armies These two Gallant Hero's when there was some hopes given of his Majesties Restitution by the Rising of several Counties they likewise put to their helping hand and joyned with them maintaining the City of Colchester for the space of Thirteen Weeks against a Potent Enemy satiated with Victories and supplyed with fresh and continual Recruits having in that time eaten up most of the Horses in the Town together with the Dogs and Cats and whatsoever else could afford them Nourishment though most reluctant to Nature yet notwithstanding this Gallant Opposition with the Miseries they endured upon the Surrender of the Town the Enemy out of hatred to them for their signal Valour and Loyalty inhumanely butcher'd them in cold blood August the 30. 1648. XI MAjor Pitcher a Valiant Loyal Gentleman who out of his sense of the King and Kingdomes Misery and a deep apprehension of the sad Consequences thereof Engaged in Armes for the Restitution of his Sacred Majesty being one of those who with so much Valour and Magnanimity Defended Pembroke against Cromwell and his Army of Janizaries for the space of three months but no hopes of Relief appearing after a most gallant Defence they Rendred themselves upon Articles by which he was To depart the Kingdome for Three Years and not to Return upon pain of Death But he well hoping there might be further occasion of Service to his Majesty by reason the strange Actions of the Men at Westminster had rendred them so odious to the generality of the People He therefore accounting it base to Desert his Prince when so great help required stayed at London in expectation as I said of some further Service but being betrayed by some ignominious wretches was Apprehended and Condemned by a Council of War who seldome quitted any whom they thought might be able to do them a mischief and according to that wicked Sentence he was as barbarously Murthered being shot to death against St. Faith's door December 29. 1648. XII COlonel Poyer who with Major General Langhorne and Colonel Powel took up Armes for the King in Wales in detestation of those bloody Votes of Non-Addresses by the Faction at Westminster But it pleased God not to succeed that Enterprize being defeated at St. Fagons by Colonel Horton whereupon they Retreated with the broken remains of their Army to the Town of Pembroke which they Fortified and Valiantly Defended for the space of Three Months against Horton and Cromwell who with a great Power was come in to their Recruit But wanting Necessaries and hopeless of Relief Valour was forced to condescend to what Barbarity should propound which was to Render at Mercy the effect whereof was according to the Order of a Council of War That the three Colonels should draw Lotts for their Lives which fell upon him and thereupon he was shot
president he was by the mouth of Frontless Lisle condemn'd to death and according to that unjust Sentence Executed at Charing-Cross where with a Roman spirit temper'd with Christian patience he suffer'd Martyrdom off from a stool fetcht from their Guard his innocency appearing so transparent that the adjacent Neighbours refused to lend any thing towards his death These Two Gentlemen were the first that suffer'd under the Tyrannical Government of Oliver Cromwell whose Five Years Usurpation was cemented all along with a sacrifice of Loyal blood as the Walls of Babylon were said to be mortur'd XXXIII and XXXIV COlonel Penruddock and Colonel Groves two Valiant Gentlemen who had constantly and faithfully served his late Majesty and now with several other Gentlemen of good Account Joyned in an Assosiation to free the Land from the Slavery they endured under that Abominable Tyrant Cromwel and to restore his Sacred Majesty To this purpose about some Two Hundred of them Rose in the West and Entred the City of Salisbury at such time as the Judges Rolls and Nicholls were there in Circute whose Horses they Seized and Declared the Cause of this their Appearance and having now Encreased their Numbers to Four Hundred they marched thence to Blundeford where Colonel Penrudock himself Proclaimed the King in the Market-place from thence they marched more Westward towards Devon-shire and Corn-Wall but their numbers decreasing they were at last at South-Molton in Devon-shire set upon by a strong party of Horse under the Command of Captain Crook where being over-powred they submitted upon Articles of quarter for life which Crook afterwards basely denied when they were Tryed at Salisbury by which Treachery these two gallant Gentlemen were for their Loyal Undertakings condemned and wickedly murthered May 16. 1655. XXXV JOhn Lucas a Mercer of very good Estate in Hungerford who joyning with these gallant Royalists in their Attempts for Restoring the King staying in the Town when he might have escaped unluckily fell into their hands by whom he was Sentenced and lost his head XXXVI c. MAster Kensey Master Thorp John Fryar and John Lawrence Persons of good esteem and credit in the West-country who likewise joyning with Colonel Penrudock and those other gallant persons we formerly mentioned were for this their Loyalty barbarously murthered by those insolent Rebells at Salisbury besides Eleven more whose Names we cannot yet attain to who upon the same account were by those Rebells murdered at Exeter May 1655. XXXVII SIr Henry Slingsby a Knight of good repute in York-shire and who for his Loyalty was seldom out of trouble during all the time of Rebellion having been a Prisoner in Hull off and on ever since that fatal Fight at Worcester he being now weary of this long restraint and perceived so to be by some of the Officers of that Garrison they viz. Major Waterhouse Captain Overton and one Lievtenant Thompson to hook him in cast out some disgustal words against their Sultan Cromwell mixing thereto some Overtures of their good will to the King and the Rendition of the Place to him if he could procure a Commission for them from his Majesty The Loyal Gentleman gladly Embraced a proffer of such Concernment and made use of an Old Commission he had by him But they having now brought him into their snare sent him up a Prisoner to London where at his Tryal they were Witnesses against him for being brought to Cromwell's slaughter-house ecleaped a High Court of Justice where bloody Lisle sat President he was by those monsters of Nature condemned and wickedly murdered June 8. 1658. XXXVIII DOctor John Hewyt a Reverend Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper who taught the People both by Life and Doctrine whose Excellent Parts and known Loyalty was two grand motives to the insatiable thirst of Cromwell to desire to tast his blood To this purpose a Plott must be invented of Firing the City and I know not what whereof the Reverend Doctor was accused and though his innocency appeared as transparent as the Sun in the most serene skie yet being ignorant of the formalities of the Law though none more knowing in the Gospel he was taken or surprized for a mute and by the mouth of that audacious and bloody Regicide Frontless Lisle condemned and on the same Scaffold with Sir Henry Slingsby Beheaded rendring his Soul into the hands of his Creator the aforesaid 8. of June 1658. XXXIX COlonel Edward Ashton a Valiant Loyal Person whom Cromwell acting Nero's part who set Rome on fire and then punish't the Christians for doing it So this crafty blood-sucker having devized a Plott against their lives laid to their charge that they would fire the City and having by Imprisonment and other sinister ends prevail'd on some to accuse others notwithstanding their innocency were condemned amongst others this gallant Colonel suffer'd by their barbarous inhumanity July 2. 1648. XL. MAster John Betley a young man of Excellent Parts who being trappan'd by the Tyrants Emissaries about the aforesaid Plott was by the bloody Sentence of their High Court of Injustice condemn'd to be hanged and accordingly was Executed in Cheapside the aforesaid 2 of July where he made a solemn protestation of his Innocency at whose death hapned a thing something strangely remarkable for having hung almost a quarter of an hour he pulled off his cap with his own hands so loth was the Soul to depart from that gallant body which had it not been thus snatcht away by this untimely death might have lived to have done his King and Country gallant service and have been a special Ornament to the City wherein he lived XLI MAster Edward Stacy who for the same counterfeit Plott was two dayes after murthered over against the Exchange in Corn-hill being the last man that suffered under the bloody Tyranny of Cromwell who had taken such large draughts of loyal blood and who himself expired not long after Thus have we given you a brief Narrative of those worthy Martyrs who suffered under colour of Sentence by Law during that time Rebellion was Rampant many others might be added to this Catalogue whose Names and Qualities we cannot yet attain unto and who dying in opposition to Tyranny and upon the account of Law and Loyalty deserve to be had in everlasting remembrance My desire therefore will be to those of their Relations concerned in it such timely notice might be given of them before a Second Edition of this Book that their memories might have the right belonging to them to the encouragement of others in persisting in Loyalty and to the dread and terrour of Traytors and Regicides who shall dare to lift up their hand against the Lords annointed We shall next add only a short account of some Loyal Persons murdered in Scotland by the same pretense of Law to shew that the men of the Kirk notwithstanding their great pretensions of Loyalty were not much behind the Independent gang but drove the same trade and exercised the utmost
was for some misdemeanours of Loyalty brought to the Bar in Chancery where he denyed the Authority of the Court because their Seal was contrary to Law as well as their Commissioners and so baffled those puny Judges that instead of a further prosecution there they committed him Prisoner to the Tower where he gave further Demonstrations of his Loyalty by publishing several Presidents and Statutes wherein he proved them Rebells and Traytors and owned the same again at other Bars So that he did more mischief to the Enemies of the Royal Cause with his Pen then their best Regiment could do with their Swords He used his utmost endeavour to set the Parliament and Army at ods thereby to promote the Kings Cause according to that well known maxime Divide and Conquer defying them and their threats and asserting the King and the Laws against their Usurpation He was kept a close Prisoner a long time in the Tower where wearied of him by his indefatigable industry in the Kings Cause he was removed from thence to Windsor where he continued in the same quality and of the same mind till without thanks to them he was permitted the liberty of the Town and hath survived to see the Return of Majesty the Restauration of the Laws and the Liberty of the Subjects restored to them again in as ample a manner as it was before VIII That Valiant Loyal Son of Mary Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton whose Courage and Prudence in the management of the Kings Affairs for whom he Commanded in the West did gaine him the approbation of an Expert Captain and Gallant Commander having his Endeavours Crowned with many notable Successes After his Disbanding in Cornwall Rebellion then flourishing with a high hand he took shipping with the Prince our now Gracious Soveraign and with him Sailed into the Island of Scilly and from thence into the Realm of France following the Kings hard fortune in his Peregrinations till death in the end put a period to his Travells and after a Troublesome life he found a quiet Grave at the City of Paris in France IX Master Secretary Sir Edward Nicholas who constantly and faithfully adhered to his Majesty from the beginning of his Troubles being a great Prop to the Royal Cause by his Prudent Counsells and Great Abilities in the Management of the most Difficult Affairs and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to our present Soveraign in all his Troubles and Negotiations abroad having with great Faithfulness and Prudency Managed that Employment all along to the happy Effect of his Majesties Glorious Restitution X. Sir Edward Hide since the Right Honourable Earle of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour to his present Majesty of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to cry out the Sun shine by whose Counsels the late King had in special Esteem and therefore made him his bosome Favourite which caused such a hatred against him by the Faction at Westminster as excluded him out of their Spurious Act of Mercy But escaping their mercilesse cruelty by a timely avoidance of the Land through his prudent carriage of Affairs together with the providencial mercy of God he survived to see those Enemies of Monarchy and Regal Government brought to a Just Tryal and himself advanced to such a pitch of Honour as to see the Laws Administred in their right form and the Subject to enjoy the just priviledges of them XI The Lord Wilnot afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earle of Rochester being Raised thereunto by his superlative Deserts not only by his Valour which shone transcendent clear at Round-way-down neer the Devizes but also in his prudent carriage in that grand Affair concerning the Kingdoms happiness in his Majesties Miraculous Escape from Worcester He died a little before the Kings Restitution not surviving to participate of those Grandeurs whereof his Abilities would have made him a deserved Sharer XII The Right Reverend Doctor Shelden whose Deserts and Sufferings advanced him upon the Restauration of his Majesty to be Lord Bishop of London since by the death of Doctor Juxon as none more able to supply his place to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan of all England of whose Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a Candle Let it suffice that his very Name is enough to strike Envy dead and to put to silence the most obstinate Heretick and riged Schismatick upon the face of the whole Earth XIII The Religiously Loyall Doctor Hammond a constant assertor of our English Liturgy and one whose Abilities rendred him dear to King Charles the Martyr to whom Imprisonment was no stranger during the time Rebellion was Rampant expecting every day for his Loyalty to have been transported yet would never yield nor deviate from those wayes wherein Conscience ascertain'd him he was in the right though not the predominate side XIV Sir Marmaduke Langdale afterwards Lord Langdale whose Abilities in Martiall Affairs would in the time of Paganism have deified him the God of Battel though in our times his constant Loyalty had rendred him to a higher pitch of Honour being deservedly accounted a Pylot for all Noble and Gallant Spirits whereby to direct and steer their Course XV. Master Roger L' Strange of whose Worth and Abilities to speak would to an Intelligible Reader appear superfluous like the labours of him who writ a whole Volumn in the praise of Hercules whom no man dispraised This Loyal Gentleman for his Endeavours of Reducing Linn to their Obedience to his Majesty suffer'd the utmost malice of a prevailing Faction even to Condemnation besides a long Imprisonment in Newgate Yet could not their Tyranny so much depress his Spirits but his Pen was still a constant Assertor of the Royal Cause in which he continued his best endeavours unto and untill the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty by whom he is looked upon as one of the Agents of his Restauration XVI The Right Honourable the Earle of Norwich a Gentleman of such Worth and Abilities that this mite will signifie nothing to those Rare and Excellent gifts both of Learning and Wisdom wherewith he was Adorned XVII Sir John Stowel a Somerset-shire Gentleman whose Loyalty rendred him so sufficiently Famous that Envy it's self cannot but grant him a prime place with those Glorious Confessors who suffered under the Barbarous Tyrannies of the Rump in the Cause of that Blessed Martyr King Charles who so constantly and vigourously adhered to the King during the War untill the Surrender of Exeter where was good Articles granted upon which he came to London to make composition for his Vast Estate then under Sequestration but contrary to the Capitulation agreed upon at Exeter the Committee at Gold-Smiths-Hall those Horse-leeches of the Nation tendered him the Negative Oath before he could have any admission to Compound to which unjust and perfidious dealing he pleaded the benefit of the said Articles who good Conscientious Men committed him first to the Serjant
constant then in their custody and so jealous were they over him that he could not go or travel any where without a Pass or safe Conduct from the next Officer to the place of his abode which restriction continued for many years together being besides continually in danger of being trappanned out of his Life by the Wiles and Snares of his Treacherous Enemies XXXI Colonel John and William Ashburnham those Gemini of Loyal Fidelity the former so well known in our Annalls for the conveying the King away from Oxford both signally famous for their endeavours in the Royal Cause never free from trouble and molestation of the Regicides whose guilty consciences like Ismael thought every mans hand to be against them These Loyal Brothers were in conclusion sent by them to remote Castles and Islands and there debarred of any intercourse or correspondence with their Friends so inhumanely barbarous were those bloody Rebells that when they could not by any shew of Justice deprive them of their lives they would immure them up in Walls of stone and debar them of all means which should in the least make life comfortable unto them XXXII Air Humphry Bennet an Eminent Royalist formerly a Brigadier in the Kings Army who at that time of Colonel Penruddocks Rising at Salisbury being of that Country was seized and secured as a Partaker and Confederate with him and for the same committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he remained near Three years and then was brought before their High Court of Justice which was Erected for the Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby c. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it after some few dayes attendance he was superseded from his Tryal and remitted again to his confinement but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of State XXXIII The Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Mordant Brother to the Earle of Peterborough an active Person against the Tyrannies of the Rump and that Monster of Nature Oliver Cromwel being really Engaged in several Designs against him for which he hardly escaped with his life being acquitted but by one saving voice After the death of that Tyrant he still laboured indefatigably in the Kings business being as busie against the Rump as before against the Protector for which he was by Proclamation commanded to render himself by a prefixed time or be reputed a Traytor but was by providence preserved out of their hands and hath since seen some of them suffer the same death designed for him He is now Governour of Windsor Castle XXXIV Sir Thomas Woodcock who Engaging in the same Design with my Lord Mordant was by the Regicides intended for the slaughter but he so wisely managed his Defence at their Bar of Injustice that he escaped their clutches being fairly acquitted by those bloody Justices XXXV Master Christopher Pitts a Loyal Noble Gentleman who was apprehended upon the same business of my Lord Mordant and committed Prisoner to Newgate where after Examination having not found enough against him to take away his life they would have made use of him as a Witness against his Associates but his Noble Spirit scorning such baseness refused so to do whereupon after many vain threats and menaces he was by their High Court condemned to perpetual Imprisonment and Fined One Thousand Pound all which his gallant spirit willingly submitted to rather then to be guilty of his Friends blood though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to some a sufficient warrant for such an action He continued after Oliver's death a Prisoner though with more freedom then was allowed him by that Tyrannical Sentence untill by the happy restauration of his Majesty he commenced his Freedome with that of the Kingdomes XXXVI Master William Garrent who for the same business was Tryed before that accursed High Court who would have no doubt designed him for the slaughter but that they failed in their Evidence of which it was thought they relyed on Master Pitts he was with much adoe acquitted and soon after set at liberty XXXVII Henry Fryar John Sumner and Oliver Allen who were all Three condemned at the aforesaid Court of Justice the first of them being brought to suffer in West-Smithfield where in the rounds a Gibbet was Erected but being upon the Ladder and ready to dye a Reprieve was produced and he carried back again to the Tower from whence not long after he was dismist the other two were likewise drawn on Hurdles the one to Bishopsgate and the other to Grace Church-street the places appointed for their Execution but were both there reprieved and soon after freed XXXVIII The most Noble Marquess of Winchester Newcastle and Worcester Hero's whose Deserts require a better Character then I am able to bestow upon them and their Memories a more durable Register then this Little Breviary having indured all the discommodities of those wretched times amongst them Viz. Imprisonment Banishment Distress Diprivation of Estates and all those other Miseries an Insulting Enemy could lay upon them for the Duty they owed to God and their King and the preservation of a Good Conscience XXXIX The Right Honourable Earles of Oxford and Northampton the Lord Herbert c. who suffered Imprisonment in the Tower upon suspition of a Rising from which afterwards for want of good Proof they were released XL. Sir George Booth now Lord Delamere who to free his Country from those Insulting Tyrannies of the Rump appeared in Armes against them in Cheshire and was Proclaimed Traytor together with Major General Egerton Colonel Warden and Sir Thomas Midleton but being defeated by Lambert's more numerous Forces he fled in a disguise to Newport-Pagnel in Bedford-shire where he was discovered seized on and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London his Estate ordered to be sequestred and sold and preparations made for his Tryal which had it gone on he would no doubt have paid for it with his Life but as when Thieves fall out true men speed the better so the divisions betwixt that remaining scum at Westminster and their Commander Lambert thorow the Prudence and Loyalty of Noble General Monke brought in the re-admission of the secluded Members by whom he was restored to his Liberty and Estate XLI Sir Thomas Middleton a Gentleman who had attempted much to the Restauration of his Majesty being Engaged in the same business with Sir George Booth after the Defeat he was forced to flee being sure to have suffered deeply had he fallen into their hands He left Chirk Castle his stately Mansion to be defended by his Sonns which soon after was rendered to Colonel Zanchy but the happy Revolution aforesaid restored his Estate again to him and he to the free and peaceable possession thereof But should I go about to Ennumerate all those Persons that suffered by Sequestrations Plunderings and Rapines my Task were infinite I shall therefore refer every particular of those sufferers to that
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
recruit chosen Burgess for that Country-Town as Colleague to Sir Arther Hazelrig that Furious Northern blast He was made a Captain of a Troop of Horse and besides was a great Committee-man yet was he a person of very weak parts and easie to be led to Act any thing to which the hope of Profit called him yet as ill gotten goods never prosper so he thrived not notwithstanding his gainfull Trade but was Fool'd by Oliver into the snare as he often afterwards confessed the same LXIX Thomas Wait A Rutland-shire man who from a very mean beginning came to be Governour of Burleigh and was by the influence of the Army chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament by which means he became ingaged to their Interests and Designs joyning with them in the Murther of his Majesty He is now a Prisoner under Sentence of death which by the Kings clemency is hitherto respited Thus have you a Catalogue of Sixty Nine of those Notorious Regicides which Sat and Sentenced the King a Crime of so High a Nature as will almost startle the belief of Posterity that Men professing themselves to be Christians should under a pretense of Religion and Justice Murther so Good and Pious a Prince one whom envy its self could not but confess to be beyond Parallel and whom Cook one of his inveterate enemies confessed to be a most Virtuous most Innocent most Religious King and every way most fit for the Government The Reader may also consider that though many otherwise well meaning men were drawn in at first to further their Designs yet the mean persons that were his Judges and Murtherers were generally mean and desparate persons such as were lifted up by Ambition Sacriledge Covetousness and Success and had no other wayes to Rise but by others Ruines in the Downfall of the King Nobility and Gentry But God would not suffer the Lamented and Barbarous Death of this Prince to pass unrevenged nor his own Sacred Name to be Blasphemed many of those desparate Wretches making Him the Author and Maintainer of their Impiety arguing from the Success the Goodness of their Cause although they might plainly perceive that when God had made use of them as his Rod to correct his Children he then threw it into the fire We shall next give you a Catalogue of some other Accessaries notoriously Guilty in this Horrid Murther and how Divine Vengeance found them out rewarding them according to the fruits of their Works I. JOhn Cook the Solicitor of that High Court of Injustice a man of great Parts had he not imployed them to foul purposes He was a Grays-Inn Gentleman but in a poor and wanting condition before he undertook this most Scelerate piece of Service His indigency by some charitable opinions being the greatest motive that induced him unto it and so did it not out of Malice but Avarice as he himself Alleadged at his Tryal Thus we see what a narrow Fortune and the streights of Debt and the Devils wide World and vast Preferments can tempt a man to After this horrid Paricide he was by his Fellow Regicides greatly Advanced especially in Ireland of which he was made Lord Chancellour and from whence after his Majesties return he was sent into England to be Tryed his for his Treasons which was done accordingly at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily where he shewed very much respect and reverence to the Court behaving himself to the removal of that prejudice which the Generality had of him as of a Monster He was for his Horrid Treasons Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed upon him October 16. 1660. at the Place where Charing-Cross formerly stood His Head was set on a Pole on the North-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters on the Gates of the City II. Hugh Peters An Antique in Religion the shame of the Clergy a Pulpit Buffoon Oliver's Chaplain and Jester to tell Stories and make the People laugh a most Seditious abominable Fellow the Trumpet to this Pagantry High Court of Justice and the most unparallel'd Ecclesiastick in all Stories and Times Who like Doctor Shaw in the time of King Richard the Third but more shameless was employed to cry down the King and to cry up the Protector He was a principal in the Cabal for the Murther of the King whose Death he contrived in five several places viz. at Ware Windsor Coleman-street the Painted-Chamber and Bradshaws House comparing the King in his Sermon to Barrabas and in another the Text whereof was to Bind Kings in Chains c. He declared that there was an Act of Gods own making That they that spilt mans blood by man should their blood be spilt and that out of that Law neither the King nor Prince nor Prince Rupert nor none of that Rabble were excepted Upon the return of the King being conscious of his own guilt he hid his head but his lurking place was found out and he taken in the Burrough of Southwark where at first he denied his Name but being brought before Sir John Robinson then made Lievtenant of the Tower he was known and acknowledged himself where he was kept Prisoner till such time as his Tryal which was October 13. 1660. at which time it is very remarkable that this Person who by his Function as a Priest had most dishonoured God in Preaching and pressing this Particide making use of his Holy Writ to this wicked purpose had then nothing to say but to cavil at the Witnesses and that he was sorry to hear of his carriage towards the King we may believe him but he had no malice towards him but was meerly Engaged in the Army He was condemned together with Cook and with him October 16. Drawn on Two Hurdles to Execution where the miserable Wretch had not a word to say for himself or to God of whom he said he was abandoned He that was so nimble and quick in all projects in this nature before was now like a Sot or a Fool playing and toying with the straw in the Sledge as he went to Execution nay so stupid was he that the Hangman was forced to use more then ordinary strength to throw him off the Ladder being almost hanged dead he was cut down and Quarter'd his Head set upon London-Bridge and his Quarters exposed upon the tops of some of the City Gates III. Daniel Axtell who at first kept a Country Pedling-shop in Bedford-shire and was double diligent in running after Seditious Persons who then vented Treason in Pulpits and believing their Doctrine for currant obey'd the Call as he called it of those blind Guides and went forth a small Officer to fight against the Mighty His great Industry in their Service brought him after many Traverses to be a Lievtenant Colonel and employed by Cromwel out of Favour to him as he said though the Devil could not have done him a greater Discourtesie to be Captain of the Guard at the Kings Tryal where to show his Complacency
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