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

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