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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

of their cruelty upon the most stoutest asserters of the Kings Cause I. COlonel Nathaniel Gordon a Gentleman of exquisite valour who accompanied the Noble Marquess of Montross in all dangers and difficulties his constant Fidelity rendred him odious to the Covenanting-gang who having him in their hands most basely murther'd him at St. Johnstons 1647. II. SIr Robert Spotswood whose Worth and Learning would have preserved him from the hands of his most barbarous Enemies but those of his own Nation He was a Gentleman of most polite and deep learning especially in the Oriental Languages and was for his extraordinary parts made the Kings Secretary of Scotland in the place of the Earle of Lanerick His great Endowments and large Abilities for what he undertook accelerated his end dying with a Noble and Christian courage breathing his last with these words Jesu have mercy on me and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race III. MAster Andrew Guthrey Son to the Bishop of Murrory a Loyal Gentleman and therefore rendred the more obnoxious to the Kirk-men those great pretenders of dutifull affection to the King a strange riddle to love the Master and murther his Servants this gallant person was by them barbarously murthered the aforesaid year 1647. IV. MAster William Murrey Brother to the Earle of Tullibardin one whose hopefull Spring promised a flourishing fruitfull Harvest who in his Youth performed wonders and gave undeniable proofs of what he would have proved afterwards had he not been thus basely cut off in the prime of his strength at Nineteen years of age He most magnanimously couragiously encountered death behaving himself with such a Christian carriage and contempt of death as he said His End would prove the greatest Honour of his Family These four Gentlemen all Sacrificed their lives in defence of their Soveraign and dyed Royal Martyrs at St Johnstons the year of our Lord 1647. aforesaid V. THe Renowned and ever Glorious Marquess of Montross the Honour of Chevalry pattern of true Magnanimity whose glorious exploits were such and so great as would pose Antiquity with all her feign'd Hero's to find his parallel of whom we shall give you the more larger account and shew you how barbarously they used this gallant Worthy He at first sided with the Covenanters against his Majesty their specious pretenses carrying a fairer gloss then his green years could so soon look into but reason quickly rectified his Judgment and he perceived that those fair shews were but painted cloaths on purpose to catch the simple yet would he not so soon on the sudden decline but endeavoured in his Revolt to have done his Majesty an Excellent Piece of Service by bringing that Army to him which was under his Command but being disappointed he endeavoured to display his Loyalty another way The King having then few friends in Scotland but such as were so over-aw'd by the Convenanters they durst not shew themselves the Noble Marquesse obtained a Commission from the King to be Governour of Scotland whither he went attended onely by two Master William Rollock and Master Sibbalds and thorow many danger● came at last to his Cousin Master Patrick Graham in the Sheriff-dome of Perth where he stai'd but a while but went into the High-Lands the Earle of Antrim having promised to send him sufficient Supplies out of Ireland as a stock to begin with which he performed though very defficient in the Number some One Thousand One Hundred only coming over however having some little addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earle of Perths Son he resolved not to lye idle but with a bold Courage to finde out the Army of the Covenanters then gathered together under the Earle of Tullyburn and other Scotch Lords in Perth-shire where at Tepper-Moor he set upon them and though not equal to his Enemies in number yet so exceeding them in Valour that he obtained of them a Glorious Victory which he might well ascribe to Providence for his Souldiers wanting Ammunition were supplyed by the stones which lay thick on the ground whereon they fought to their very great advantage Here he killed no lesse then Two Thousand of his Enemies whereupon the City of Perth opened her gates and yielded to the Conquerour This Victory obtained he Marches into Argyles Country one whose Actions hath since rendred him deservedly infamous here he made a miserable havock minding utterly to break the spirits of that People who were so surely Engaged to Argyle's side To withstand and represse this so dangerous an Enemy the Covenanters soon Raised another Army under the Earle of Seaforth and the Marquess of Argyle whose Forces being divided he sets upon that Party under Argyle first which he totally Routed killing One Thousand Five Hundred on the Place soon after he Defeated the other Army being newly put under the Command of Colonel Hurry then offers battel to Bayley who declined to Fight without great advantage whereupon he marches after Hurry who was now Recruited and at Alderne sets upon him discomfits him killing One Thousand Eight Hundred and dispersing the rest Then next with his Victorious Army he goes to seek for Bayly to whom was joyned the Earle of Lindsey and joyning battel with them at Alesford-Hills gives them a total Rout but not without the losse of some of his own men whereof the Lord Gourdon deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance then with an uncontrollable march he goes to St. Johnstons putting the Parliament who there satt into a great fright from thence he goes into the Low-Lands to Encounter with Bayly who was again Recruited with another Army by the Kirk At Kilsith both Armies met where betwixt them was fought a very bloody Battel which continued doubtfull for a good space but Victory at length crowned the head of Montross almost Six Thousand of his Enemies falling in that Fight nor were the effects thereof lesse profitable to him then the Victory it self for hereupon almost all Places of Strength yielded to him even as far as Edenburgh the Nobility and Gentry every where readily Assisted him and acknowledged him for their Rightful Governour But what Estate on Earth is long permanent How soon may a serene skie be shadowed with clouds Whiles Montross was now as he thought almost secure most part of his Army returning home he expecting Ayd from the King under the Lord Digby Leshly being called out of England by the Scottish Estates made such hast that he fell upon Montross at Philips-haugh almost before his Scouts could give him Intelligence and there Routed him he hardly escaping with his life being forced to cut his way through his Enemies and with a poor remainder of his Army fly into the High-Lands where he began anew to Levy Forces but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year Ordered by the King then in the Scotts Custody to Disband and Depart the Kingdome which notwithstanding he knew it would be prejudicial

to their Commands he made his Janizaries by blows and threats to cry out Justice and Execution much more blood had he contracted to his guilt though none comparable to this in Ireland and had as the reward of his Villanies gotten a pretty foul Estate but wickedness seldome prospers long upon the Kings return he was one of those Persons exempted by the Parliament out of the Act of Indempnity and for his Treasons brought to a Tryal at Justice-Hall in the Old Baily where notwithstanding he pleaded for himself with more Art and Cunningness then was imagined to be found in him yet were his Crimes so Notorious as not to be covered with such Fig-leaves He was therefore by the Jury found Guilty and Sentenced to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed on him at Tyburn October the 19. 1660. His Head fixed on a Pole at the furthest end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters a spectacle on the City Gates IV. Doctor Dorislaus A Dutch School-Master who for some misdemeanours fled his Country and here became Civillian afterwards a professor in the University of Oxford where being disappointed of his Ambitious Expectations the War then on foot he became the Parliaments Judge Advocate in their Army by which he much better'd his broken Fortunes and became a great Associate of Sir Henry Mildmay's who though raised by the King was one of his greatest Enemies who promoted him to that business of drawing up a Charge against the King the Horrid Nature thereof being such that no Englishman durst find or make a way to such an Illegal and unprecedented business After the perpetration of that horrid Murther he was lookt upon by the Regicides for his Abilities as a fit person to be sent over as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute the Designes of the Faction which would carry the better face being managed by one of their own Subjects He Arrived there in May with great Pomp and Attendance in his Coach with Six Horses before and Vengeance behind for the first night as he was at Supper there one Colonel Whitford a Scotch-man with some Twelve other Caveliers disdaining the King should be affronted by the impudent boldness of such an Audacious Traytor enter'd his Lodging and with a broad Sword cleft his Head and killed him having by a mistake wounded another Dutch-Man for him at their first coming in and having done the deed they quietly departed it not being known but privately for a long time after who did it To this we may adjoyn that of Aschams another great confident of the Regicides who being sent their Envoy to Spain some little while after was served in the same manner at his Arrival at Madrid in his Inn by one Sparks and some other English Royalists upon the same score Sparks having done the deed fled to the Venetian Ambassadours for shelter but judging that not secure enough he betook himself to Sanctuary from whence he was by the cunning Don to curry Favour with the English Regicides then dreadfull to his Plate-Trade taken thence and with great pitty and disdain at the meanness of the Spaniard was Executed for the same V. Daniel Broughton A Clark bred up amongst the Committees of War where he became so Principled as he was judged fit and preferred to be Chief Scribe to this Pharasaicall Murtherous Crue of the High Court of Justice for which Guilt upon his Majesties Return immagining his Crime too great to be forgiven he ran away and in Forreign Countries disguised hides his hated head VI. Edward Dendy Serjant at Armes to the said cursed Court who had before outed his Father from the Employment of the Mace no marvel then that such a Rebel to his Father should prove a Parricide to his Prince He likewise fled the Land upon his Majesties Return to preserve his forfeited life from the Hangman VII and VIII Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop who had Sat as Judges in that High Court of Iustice although not Sentenced nor Signed to the Warrant for his Execution The first of these was one who had been raised by his Majesty though most ungratefully the worst of Vices he Acted with a high hand against him but divine Vengeance at last overtook him and the Iron hand of Justice delivered him to the punishment though not so great as his deserts due to that grand Impiety Ianuary 30. 1661. They were on Sledges drawn from the Tower of London through the City with Halters about their necks to Tyburn where having threaded that triple Tree they returned in the same Equipage back to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment their Estates Confiscated and they Degraded from all Titles and Armes of Gentility Sir James Harrington was to have suffered the like punishment but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Serjant at Armes gave them the slip and most unworthily left his Bail in the lurch Phelps also one of the Clarks of that Court was marked out for this Punishment but not Sentenced IX Master Thomas Hoyle an Alderman and Burgess of York a great Rumper and Enemy to Regal Government who the same day Twelve Month that the King was Beheaded and as near as possibly could be judged about the very same hour of the day hanged himself Which day the Regicides Celebrated in most Solemn manner in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty from the Laws by the Murther of the King But this was such a signal remark mark of the Just Judgement and Vengeance of God upon that detestable Fact and their no less abominable mockery of him as the Authour thereof in this their Irreligious observation of that Fatal Providence as they razed this Festival out of their Calendar which was attended with so ill an Omen X. One Lockier an Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principal hand in Seizing and Bringing the King to his Death He was afterwards by them of his own Gang the Divine Vengeance so ordering it condemned for a Mutiny in Bishopsgate-Street a shot to death in St. Pauls Church-Yard being buried by some of his own Party with great Solemnity in the New Church-Yard London XI Sir Thomas Martin A Knight of Cambridge-shire a great stickler for the Times and a sworn Enemy of the Royalists who having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park at the opening of a Deer he was desired together with some other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deeres blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the Young King of Scots but observe the punishment that attended this Impious wish as he was riding home the same Evening his Horse threw him in which fall he pitcht on his head mortally brake his Scull and Shoulder and died shortly after of those wounds XII Sir Henry Holcroft A grand Pillar of the Independant Faction a Committee Gentleman and one who Acted very strenuously for the Rump hoping to be a great sharer in the spoyle of the Kingdome

Nine more of them were Executed at five several places viz. Two at the West end of St. Pauls Two at the Bull and Mouth in St. Martins Two at Beech-lane Two at the Royal Exchange and One a notable Fellow named Leonard Gowler at Bishopsgate They all especially the last obstinately persisted in their Errour only a young man who was Hanged in Redcross-street did relent and repent of his sin and the blood he had spilt but yet could not be perswaded out of his opinion of Chilianisme Thus this desparate attempt ended in a halter and their Declaration called A door of Hope opened proved to be a trap door to draw silly souls to destruction I shall here add those Verses made under Venners picture as being pertinent to this purpose and so take my leave of them His Helmet was a Crown by Revelation His Halbert was a Scepter for the Nation So the Fifth Monarchy anew is grac'd King Venner next to John a Leydon plac'd To these we may add one John James a Small-cole-man by Trade a rank Fifth Monarchist and one who had been engaged in Venners busines but was absent or had saved himself the last day they broke out yet notwithstanding that fair warning departed not from his malice but continued his Meetings and Conventicles with others of his desparate Crue amongst whom he was a principal Rabby or Teacher This man as Venner had done before him and as was couched in their Declaration flew out into several Traytorous Speeches and Invectives against the Kings Person Government and Family which being over-heard by some Neighbours living near James was seized upon and carried before a Justice who committed him to Newgate and the next Terme was brought to a Tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar where the words were proved against him and he convicted and condemned as a Traytor November 27. 1661. He was drawn on a Sledge from Newgate to Tyburn some of his Sect throwing themselves into the same Sledge and embracing him so highly opinionated were they of this their silly though bold Seducer At the Gallows he denied the words but owned and avowed his Chilianisme and the Personal Reign of Christ and with the usuall confidence of his Party resolutely died His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesties Orders and his Head fixed upon a Pole in White-Chappel neer to their Meeting House for an Example to his Fellows Yet could not the ill success of these discourage others from Plots against his Majesty but still new Treasons was hatched by the Rebellious Spirits of one Captain Baker a New-England man and great acquaintance of Hugh Peters who preferred him to be one of Olivers Pensioners with him was engaged one George Phillips a Serjant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment Thomas Tongue a distiller of Strong Waters Francis Stubbs a Cheese-monger James Hide Gunner John Selly Compass-maker and Nathaniel Gibbs Felt-maker Their Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King the Duke of York General Monk and Sir Richard Brown and generally the Bishops the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their opinion and assisted them not Their Commander in Chief was to be Ludlow and one Colonel Danvers Master Nye Master Lockyer Lievtenant Strange the Captains Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design Their Councils was carried on by Six who never sat twice in a Place nor could be known to any two Deal Castle in Kent and Windsor was promised to be theirs This Treasonable Plot was by one Hill who was endeavoured to be drawn into it by Captain Baker discovered to Sir Richard Brown with the Names of the Conspirators who were for the same apprehended and December 11. 1662. brought to a Tryal where being by plain Evidence convicted they were condemned and December 22. Four of them viz. Phillips Tongue Gibbs and Stubbs were Executed and their Heads set upon several Poles two on each Tower-Hill the nearest place to the Tower Afterwards February the 20. one Gibbs Brother of the aforesaid Nathaniel who fled and was re-taken was sent to the Sessions House in the Old Baily and with the said Captain Baker condemned for the former Treason and both of them Executed at Tyburn To these might be added the Intended Rebellion in York-shire and some other of the Northern Counties by some desparate Fanaticks for which divers of them were Executed at York and else-where but we shall wave our Discourse of them and conclude with the Execution of some Notorious Scotch Traytors And first of the Marquess of Argyle one who was a desparate Enemy to the Old King all along a chief Contriver and Fomenter of that Destructive Covenant the Ignis Fatuus of that Nation which the Scots believed as the Trojans did by their Image of Pallas came from Heaven a greater Sider with Cromwel and one who had carried himself very undutifully and irreverently to his Majesty at what time he was amongst them in Scotland yet notwithstanding all these insolencies upon the Kings Restitution with great confidence he came up to London hoping to have obtained his pardon for all those base Treasons he had so covertly Acted in that Kingdome and that his Majesty according to his Gracious Inclination would have past by all his Offences But such was the general hatred and detestation of that People towards him especially of the Nobility that by the Kings Order he was committed to the Tower and from thence not long after in order to his Tryal conveyed to Edenburgh in Scotland where he was brought to account for all his abominable Treasons and notwithstanding he cunningly defended himself and pleaded the Kings Pardon and the Treaties in 1650. and 1651. yet was there such Crimes of a later date besides the never to be forgotten Treachery of Selling King Charles the First to the English as justly condemned him whereupon June the 1. 1661. He was accordingly Beheaded with the Maiden for so is the Axe called in Scotland At his death he very much justified the Covenant that Scottish Witch which consisted of 666 words the number of the Beast in the Revelation and which cost almost as many Thousand Mens lives as there were words contained in the same Neer unto the same time Master James Guthery a prime Remonstrator and a violent Adversary to the King in his Lievtenant the Marquess of Montross together with one Captain Giffan a Runnegado to Cromwel were by Sentence and Decree of Parliament hanged at Edenburgh so far to use the words of an Elegant Authour writing upon these Affairs the Laws and a suffering sense of the Miseries and Reproaches that Nation lay under by these Men and their Partisans Guilt did now prevail against the Dominion of the Kirk which had Enslaved and Enchanted the whole Masse of that People We shall conclude all with the Lord Warreston a wicked Knave a Committee of Safety Man notoriously Infamous for his Treason in Scotland and a fugitive there who being Proclaimed a Rebel and Traytor was taken

to the Kings Proceedings yet least he should be guilty of disobedience in himself which he punished in others he willingly condescend thereunto From thence he betook himself to the Court of France where he was proffered High Preferment which he waved his Noble Spirit more ayming at his own Princes Service desiring nothing more then to revenge the blood of his murthered Master on the heads of those that had so perfidiously sold him To this purpose after some long delayes being stoutly opposed by Duke Hamilton and the Earles of Lauderdale and Calendar he at last obtained a Commission from the King for an adventure into Scotland and in order to that Expedition was furnished with four Ships from the Duke of Holstein some supplies from the King of Denmark and Fifteen Hundred Arms from the Queen of Sweden with some few Horses under General King and alittle neat Frigot for his owne Conveyance some monies also were disburst to him which being Entrusted to Colonel Ogelby were by him basely Squandred away to the great prejudice of the design With these small preparations did he precipitate himself into inevitable Ruine it being judged a desperate Action with so small a Force to attempt so mighty a business but his cross fate hurrying him to destruction fearing as is supposed he should have an express command to desist from his purpose the King and the Scots coming near to an Agreement he therefore to prevent all such Commands sends over two Ships with a third part of his men before which by storm of weather in those dangerous Seas were lost with all the Men and Arms nothing saved Yet nothing terrified with this Success he sends out a send Party who making a more prosperous Voyage landed at Orkney and entered the Island without any resistance he himself following not long after attended with several persons of Note whose valour had made them Eminently Famous in those Parts From thence he soon Transports to Cathness which is the furthest land to the North-West of Scotland but the People instead of coming in to him fled away in heaps many of them not stopping till they came to the Chief City of Edenburgh where the Parliament were then sitting who being Allarm'd with this suddain Invasion ordered Colonel Stranglan with a Choice Party to march against him Leshley and Holborn with more Numerous Forces following after The Marquess marched very slowly but hearing of the Enemies approach he endeavoured the gaining of a Pass of great Advantage whereupon both Armies came to Engage and after some short fight the Marquess was Defeated Two Hundred of his Men Killed and about One Thousand Two Hundred Taken very few Escaping amongst other things was taken a Standard he had caused to be made of Excellent Work-man-ship being the Portract of the late King beheaded with this Motto Judge and Revenge my Cause O Lord. He himself escaped from the Battel and in a High-Landers habit kept himself from being discovered three or four dayes but being destitute both of Meat and Drink and no great probability of escaping he at last discovered himself to the Lord Aston who had formerly been one of his Followers hoping to finde friendship at his hands but contrary to expectation was by him made a Prisoner being greedy of the Reward promised to his Apprehender by the Council of State Being thus in the Custody of his mortal Enemies from whom he could expect nothing but the worst of Cruelties yet carried he himself with a singular constancy and in a manner carelesse of his own condition no object though never so endeared to him could alter his Resolution or cause the least expression from him which was not suitable to the greatness of his Spirit and the fame of his former Actions And that the World might see what Justice he was like to expect from them before his coming to Edenburgh this Sentence was drawn up against him That he should be hanged on a Gibbet at the Cross in Edenburgh until he died his History and Declaration being tyed about his neck and to hang three hours in publick view of all the people after which he should be Beheaded and Quartered his head to be fixt upon the Prison-house of Edenburgh and his Leggs and Armes over the Gates of the Citties of Sterling Glascow Perth alias St. Johns-Town and Aberdeen And in case he repented whereby the Sentence of Excommunication may be taken off by the Church the bulk of his Body should be buried in the Gray-Fryars if not in the Borrow-Moor a Place like Tyburn Which Sentence was Executed upon him with as much shame and ignominy as they could possibly devise not onely in the Sentence it 's self but also in the preparatives unto it for coming to Edenburgh he was met by some Officers and the Executioner in his Livery Coat into whose hands he was delivered there being prepared for his reception a high seat in fashion of a Chariot upon each side of which were holes through which a cord being drawn and crossing his breast and armes bound him fast down in the Chair This done the Executioner according to command took off the Marquesses Hat and put on him his own Bonnet and then mounting his fore-horse in this ridiculous bravery began to drive towards the Toll-booth the people all the way he went shedding abundance of tears to see so Noble and Magnanimious a spirit become the object of his Enemies Triumph But the implacable Ministry having him now at their mercy could never be satisfied with his calamities but reviled him with all the spitefull ignominious words they could devise and being asked why they could not be satisfied but by such base handling him They replyed They knew no other way to humble him and bring him home to God May the 21 being come the fatal day appointed for his Execution he was brought to the Scaffold in a Scarlet Cloack richly laced with Gold lace He came along the Streets with as great State and as much Majesty as if he had been marching in the Head of an Army insomuch that his very Enemies acknowledged him to be the gallantest Person in the World when he was come to the Gibbet which was built of a prodigious height he was by the Scotch Clergy in regard of his Excommunication desired to pray apart to whom he said I have already poured out my soul before the Lord who knows my heart and into whose hands I have commended my Spirit and he hath been pleased to return to me a full assurance of peace in Jesus Christ my Redeemer and therefore if you will not joyn with me in prayer my reiterating it again will be both scandalous to you and me After which words he closed his eyes and holding up his hands stood a good while at his inward Devotions afterwards he called for the Executioner and gave him money and then preparing himself to receive the outward Ceremonies of Death there was brought unto him his History and Declaration hanging in