A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheadeâ— uppon the Scaffold Ian 30 1648 A representation of the execution of the Kings Judges The True CHARACTERS OF THE Educations Inclinations and several Dispositions Of all and every one of those Bloody and Barbarous Persons Who Sate as Judges upon the Life of our late Dread Soveraign KING CHARLS I. Of ever Blessed Memory TOGETHER With a True Accompt of the Horrid Temptations and Suggestions by which the Principallest of them did first draw in themselves and afterwards their Associates unto the Committing of that Execrable Murder LONDON Printed for Edward Thomas at the Sign of the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain without Aldersgate 1661. To the Reader THe Conspirators and Abettors in taking away the Life of His late Sacred Majesty as they were many in Number so their Crimes were not all of one Latitude they are therefore distinguished by their Punishments as they are distinguished by the Nature and Degrees of their Offences The most Capitall being Excepted both for Life and Estate in which Number there are Forty nine Others onely to suffer in their Estates in which Number there are Seven And some others the Abettors the Principall whereof is William Lenthall to suffer both in Life and Estate if they shall be found for the time to come to accept of any Offices Civill or Military or to act any thing prejudicial to the Government of his Sacred Majesty And in this Number there are Eighteen specified in the Act of General Pardon and Indemnity You are to understand that diverse of the Contrivers and Actors in the Life of His late Sacred Majesty were taken away by the hand of Death before the Eye of Justice could take any notice of them They are in Number foure and Twenty the Chiefest and the Ringleaders of them Oliver Cromwell that Bloody and Prodigious Usurper and Iohn Bradshaw who Sentenced His Majesty to Death two Persons so odious in their Deeds and Memory that Needham who became their own Creature and Wrote upon their accompts the Publick Intelligencer and Mercurius Politicus doth in his Praises of them recite it as a thing very Remarkable That they both dyed on their own Beds These two above with Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride's Bodies are Ordered by the Parliament to be taken out of their Graves and Drawn on an Hurdle to Tyborn where they are to be Hanged up for being Traytors to their lawfull King and Country and then after buried under the Gallows as a just Desert for such Regicides The true Characters of the Educations and several Disposition of all those Barbarous Persons who Sate as Judges on our late dread Soveraign King Charls the I. THIS Oliver Cromwell was alwayes a great stickler against Monarchy and Episcopacy and long before the Wars began had many long and private Conferences with his Friends for a thorough Alteration On the beginning of the Wars his Estate was not valued to amount to above Thirteen hundred pounds in money with which he intended to purchase at a cheap rate some of the new drained Lands in Lincolnshire but the Wars favouring him he passed the several Degrees of Military Command and aspiring after Soveraignty waded through the blood of his own natural Prince after which no Cruelty was unpractised by him for the maintenance of his greatnesse In the height whereof he was taken out of the world And he who spilled so much blood and thirsted after more being dead and dissected to the Admiration both of the Chyrurgians and standers by there was not so much as one Drop of Blood found in his own heart Iohn Bradshaw A Councellor at Law in Grayes Inn and a Judge at Guild Hall London was President of the High Court of Justice where having Sentenced our Soveraign Lord the King to Death was afterwards heard to say That he had very well satisfied his own conscience with the Vnparalleled Murther that he had committed Thomas Harrison Major General The son of a Butcher in Staffordshire servant to Mr. Hulher an Atturny in Cliffords Inn a man always of a factious spirit and of dangerous principles in Religion which made him acceptable to the beginners of the late War he was not only a malicious Judge against his Majesty but one of those who appointed the time and place of execution and was executed by the hand of Justice in the sight of the place he appointed Henry Iâ—eton The son of a Minister and a great enemy to the Clergy he married the daughter of the Usurper and was altogether of his father-in-laws temper and was one of those who appointed the time and place for the Execution Sr. Hardresse Waller A Colonel of Horse and a Great Committee-man one of those who Sentenced the King and who at his arraignment confessed himself to be guilty Col. Iohn Oâ—ey First a Stoaker in a Brew-house at Islington and afterwards a Chandler in Thames-street where he converted his blew Apron into a Buffe Coat and afterwards became a Colonel of Dragoons an inveterate enemy to the King and one who appointed the place of the Execution Francis Allen A Gold Smith in Fleet street and a very unfit man if he had either wit or grace in him to be a judge on his own King Iohn Alured One who at first pretended to much conscience but afterwards being made Colonel and inured to bloud and cruelty made nothing to wash his own hand in the bloud of his Royal Soveraign Iohn Carew a man assenting to his brothers death as he had done to the Kings he was of Major General Harrisons principles and did partake of the same end with him Adrean Scroop Descended of a good family in Buckinghamshire but being a great Puritan was easily drawn in to be one of the black list which sate upon the death of his own King for which he himself suffered as a Traytor Thomas Scot Borne in Buckinghamshire by his policy did arise to great preferment and to a vast Fortune he was not only one of those who Judged the King but desired that the infamy of the act might be engraven as a Badge of Honour on his Tombe in these words Here lyes Thomas Scot who adjudged to Death the late King Iohn Blackistone A shopkeeper in New-Castle and by an accesse of fortune swoln to an excesse of ambition he was one of the Kings Judges Daniel Blagrave A Councellor at Law and a great Committee man he was a Constant Rumper and by the Tribe of Traytors thought a very fit person to sit among them on the Death of their Soveraign Miles Corbet Of Norfolk at the beginning of the Parliament a man of a very considerable estate If he had not been a Jew or worse then Judas he had never condemned his innocent Master unto Death Cregory Clement A merchant who having sold his conscience not so much betrayed as condemned his Master for which he hath since suffered as a Traytor Sr William Constable being driven into
necessity by his Debts sold his Land to Sr Marmaduke Langdale for twenty thousand pound the money being received he had his Lands given him again by the Parliament for his good service be like being one of the Judges on the Death of the King Sr. Iohn Danvers a person much degenerating from the honour of his noble Family who thinking it safest to go on the strongest side was drawn to be one of the Judges who sat on the Kings Death George Fleetwood another of the same temper and who being one of his Soveraign Judges acknowledged himself to be guilty of it Cornelsus Holland was first a poore Boy in the Court and waited on Sr. Henry Vane Controwler of the Princes House He afterwards by fraud attained unto a very great Estate and was one of the Kings Judges and the Rump being turned out by Lambert he was thought worthy to be one of that most ridiculous Committee of Safety Iohn Hewson a Schoomaker of London he was also a great stickler for the Cause for which he was made first a Colonel and afterwards a Lord having been the cause of the murder of some boys playing at Foot-ball in the streets he was found guilty by the Coroners Jury but being one of the murtherous Judges that sate upon his Prince he will be found guilty by another Jury if he be apprehended Iohn Iones first a Serving-man afterwards a Colonel and married the Usurpers sister and a very fit man to joyn with him in the taking away the life of his Prince for which he suffered as a Traytor Iohn Lisle none of the least Adversaries to the late King he constantly assisted the Usurper in all his Ambitious Practises and in his spilling of Innocent blood He was a great man amongst the chiefest of those that passed sentence upon their King Nicholas Love the son of Doctor Love of Winchester a constant and a contumacious Rumper one of his Soveraigns cruell Judges and an Abjurator against Kingly Power Sr. Michael Livesey one that could act an Hypocrite to the life in voice and gesture he was one of his Majesties most cruel Judges and very eminent in the Rump Parliament Henry Marten Colonel of a Regiment of Horse and somesay of a Regiment of Whores Having sold his Estate three times over he lay many years a Prisoner in the Kings Bench for debt he laboured a long time under a bad Reputation but the greatest of all is that he was one of the wilfull Judges of his own Soveraign Thomas Hammond of Surrey was first under the Lord Fairfax and afterwards a great Creature of the Usurpers and a Constant promoter of his Interests by whom he was induced to be one of those most cruell Judges against his own Prince to the great grief of his most Learned and Reverend Brother Dr. Henry Hammond Iohn Moore heretofore Colonel of the Guards and who sometime had the benefit of the Passes out of the City of London and one of the black List who condemned his own Soveraign Gilbert Millington a kinde of a Lawyer and a Chair-man to the Committee of Plundred Ministers where Phelps and he shared large Fees another of the Kings most unlawfull Judges Sr Iohn Bourchier a person of no great repute nor estate till in those troubled times he got that which he fought for He was observed to be as constant at Committees as at his Dinners in Helâ— in Westminster one would have thought a man that did eat so much should have but a little desire to drink any deep draughts especially of the Royall blood of his own Soveraign at whose Tryall he was too unmercifull a Judge Thomas Challoner a man most violently invective against Monarchy as for his hypocrisie and Religion there is no man can give you a better Testimony of him than Monsieur Cone who was Confessor to the late Pope and who was very Conversant with him when some years since he was at Rome but it is to be believed that the Confessor himself unlesse without some manifest signes of true Repentance would be very unwilling to Absolve him of his barbarous Murder of his own Soveraign Richard Dean first but as a kinde of a Hayman in Suffolk and afterwards a Matrosse in the Artillary of the Army Being an absolute creature amongst many others of the Usurpers he was by him constituted one of the Generals at Sea where he lost his life but neither the losse of his Bowels or his Arm was able to make the least satisfaction for the losse of his Majesties life who by him being one of his Judges not long before was barbarously Sentenced to a most unworthy Death Henry Mildmay a monster of Ingratitude a shallow fellow by some not unfitly called Sr. Whimsey Mildmay of a shallow apprehension and fit to take any Impression otherwise he would never become Judge of that King whom he was bound to honour and pray for all the dayes of his life Iohn Barkstead in his minority of Francis Allens occupation and a pittifull Goldsmith in the Strand He forsook his shop at the very first news of the War and shuffled himself into the Camp being a true servant all along to the Usurper who constantly preferred him from one place to another he became a most severe persecutor of the Kings party and was one of his worst Judges Edmund Harvey heretofore a poore Silkman but being become a Colonel he juggled himself into the Bishop of Londons house at Fulham he was a factious Rumper and one of his Majesties most cruell Judges William Heavingham of Heavingham Castle in Suffolk a Gentleman of an ancient Family and by the evill Council of the implacable Rumpers drawn in to be one of the Judges against the King Iohn Downs a professed hater of any Government in one single Person and therefore more easily wrought upon to be an Assistant in the death of his most righteous Soveraign Iames Temple a great Rumper himself and a person much be friended by them he made himself famous by no other Act at all but that most abhominable one of being one of the Judges of his own Soveraign Simon Meyn a great Committee man in the Long Parliament and having got much by them he easily became a Rumper and so became one of the Judges of his King Iohn Dixwell Burgesse for Dover a person who hath many curses from the greatest part of those who had to doe with him in Kent but that which renders him most accursed is his wilfull Conspiring amongst many others of his fellow Judges to take away the life of our most gracious Soveraign Isaac Ewer at first but a Serving-man was preferred afterwards to be a Colonel and had many Acres given him in Ireland for his good service and for being one of the cruell Judges against the King Sr. Gregory Norton a man of no considerable fortune before these wars but he obtained afterwards Richmond House and much of the Kings goods for an inconsiderable value which made him to lend so
ready an eare for the taking away of the Kings life he being one of the Judges that murmured themselves into a conspiracy against it William Purefoy Governor of Coventry advancing once to fight with a party of the Kings and hearing they were numerous he hid himself in a Barley field for which one of his servants that was afterwards a Waterman refused to Ferry him over the water he was a great Committee man and one of the Kings Judges Isaac Pennington Alderman he was protected against creditors yet hath bought store of Bishops Lands he was an implacable enemy to the King and one of his murderous Judges Thomas Andrews Was Illegally made Lord Mayor on purpose to Proclaim the act against Kingly Government A fit person therefore to be one of the Judges that murdered their most Gracious Soveraign Owen Roe One of the Firebrands of the City being a professed enemy to its antient Government and one of the Kings Judges Robert Titchborn Alderman a Knight and a Lord of Olivers making which he deserved for being one of the most cruell Judges against his King afterwards was very forward in proclaiming the Act for no kingship He was one of Doctor Hewits Judges and not long since a mighty man in the Committee so called of Safety William Gâ—ffe Apprentise to a Salter in London and his time being out he be took himself to the Cause and from a Quarter-master was preferred to be a Colonel He was a Lord of the Usurpers making a great aspirer unto Military dignities and one of his Soveraigns most cruell Judges Thomas Horton In his extraction very inconsiderable being Servant and Falconer to Sr. Arthur Haselrige a person of so little note that he seemed onely to be remarkable in wickednesse by filling up the number of the Judges that sate on the Life of our late renowned Soveraign Henry Smith one of the Six Clerks an implacable Enemy to all Soveraignty and another of his Princes Murtherers Anthony Stapley lived sometimes in the reputation of an honest man but by the temptation of crooked Interests being drawn aside unto the Usurpers Faction he became one of the mercilesse Judges of his most gracious Soveraign William Say a stately Committee-man in Kent and thorough paced Lawyer who conceiving he could not better add unto his greatnesse then by complying with the Times became one of the most unjust Judges against his own Soveraign Peter Temple another great Committee-man an odious Rumper and one of the Judges of his Soveraign Iohn Ven sometimes Governour of Windsor and one who had made himself rich with the Kings goods and moveables and rather than part with any of it he became one of his greedy and covetous Judges Edward Whaley a kinde of a Woollen Draper flying from his Debts in London to the exercise of Arms was alwayes a great promoter of the Usurpers designes he was one of the accursed crue that durst sit in Judgement upon the death of his Soveraign Thomas Wayt a great and greedy heaper up of moneys an Enemy to the Publick to advance his private Interests and one of the Kings Judges Valentine Wauten Governour of Lin Regis who hath often times been accused for Corruption and Oppression and knew not how to defend one wickednesse but by committing a greater viz. by being one of the Judges on the life of our late Soveraign Iohn Cook who was he that did Read his Majesties Charge in the pretended High Court of Justice and for which and many other Treasonable attempts of the same nature he hath since suffered as a Traitor Daniel Axtell Colonel who being proved to have a very high hand in the Kings Death by incouraging his Souldiers and otherwise hath since suffered as a Traytor Francis Hacker one of those to whom the bloody Warrant for his Majesties Execution was directed hath since suffered the pains of death according to the merits of that Treasonable Trespasse which he committed William Hewlet having in a most desperate vain-glory boasted that he was the Person who severed the Head of our late Dread Soveraign King Charls the I. from his Body is Condemned to suffer accordingly as he hath deserved Hugh Peters had very many Witnesses that did bring in their Evidence against him and so clearly that he could not deny it Being Sentenced to death he seemed afterwards in a kinde of distracted condition and unprepared to dye but on the day following he was drawn on a hurdle to Charing Crosse where he was Hanged Drawn and Quartered His Head and Quarters fastned on several Poles are hanging on several Gates of the City Edward Dendy Serjeant at Arms who carried the Mace before the King and behaved himself very insolently both in Words and Deeds to his late sacred Majesty is Exempted from all Pardon and to suffer the losse both of life and goods Andrew Broughton a great Committee-man and an implacable Enemy to the Crown and King-ship is another of that vile List that durst sit in Judgement upon his late Majesty Sir Henry Vane a great discontent during all Governments that but tended unto Monarchy and late Treasurer to the Navy who intended to match his Son to Lamberts Daughter is likewise Exempted from Pardon either to Life or Fortunes Iohn Lambert Who was so inveterate against the King that having lost all he desired that Richard Cromwell might be chosen Protector than Our Dread Soveraign should be restored to the Crown Is for that and many other Treasonable Practises exempted also from Pardon either to Life or Fortunes I shall conclude all with the memorable Example of Gods Divine Justice upon Lockyer and Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principal hand in seising and bringing the King to his death Cried out Justice Justice Justice openly against him and spit in the Kings face in Westminster-Hall as he was going to his Tryall before his Condemnation Conducted him to the Block and was shortly after condemned in a Counsel of War by some of the Kings own Judges and shot to death as a Mutinier in Pauls Church-yard London Also John Lilburn's double-Tryall for his life soon after a grand stickler against the House of Lords The proceedings against Saxbey Syndercombe and other Levellers who were chief Instruments in that Horrid Murther of our late dread Soveraign and the Grand Opposers of the House of Lords The sudden and fearfull Deaths of Collonel Ven Rigby and others who were Engagers against his Majesty with the late pangs of Conscience which Collonel William Purefoy susteyned before his death for having a hand in the Kings blood which LAY HEAVY ON HIS HEART as he told some friends The sudden death of that Tyrant Oliver Cromwell and his two Sonnes dismounting soon after and Gods signal Providence to his Majesty in his Peaceable Restauration Maugre all the Plots and Contrivances of his Enemies May it not awaken the stupid seared Consciences of all those now living who had any hand in these Tragedies and Engagements against King and Parliament to bring them to speedy and sincere publick Repentance for them Lest they fall into the like Terrours or Judgments as others that have so wilfully Engaged in that execrable Murther FINIS