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A64214	The traytors perspective-glass, or, Sundry examples of Gods just judgments executed upon many eminent regicides, who were either fomentors of the late bloody wars against the King, or had a hand in his death whereunto is added three perfect characters of those late-executed regicides, viz. Okey, Corbet, and Barkstead : wherein many remarkable passages of their several lives, and barbarous actions, from the beginning of the late wars, to the death of that blessed martyr Charles the first are faithfully delineated / by I.T. Gent.	J. T. (John Taylor)	1662 (1662)	Wing T521; ESTC R2371	28,672	48

ignominy and general Odium of the people upon him for being guilty of so barbarous a Crime was suddenly after violently surprized with such tormenting passions of Grief Despair that they soon made a separation between his soul and his Body so as he finished his miserable life in the Tower within a few dayes after his Procession to Tyburn Capt. Thomas NOR was the late strange but just Judgement of God less observable upon Captain Thomas that notorious Quaker and violent Agitator in Cromwels Army who having poysoned his Fellow-souldiers with Heresie and Rebellion and perswaded many of them to joyn with him in promoting the Armies Remonstrance for bringing King Charles the first to a speedy Tryal it at length pleased the Almighty in a miraculous manner to revenge the innocent blood of that Blessed Martyr upon this Phanatick Rebel for in the beginning of April last past 1661. he then being in the City of Hereford went to an Apothecaries Shop where he bought some quantity of Acouitum or Rats-bane which having put into Milk he drank it up privately in his Chamber but finding it not of so quick operation as was expected he went back to the Apothecary to be satisfied whether it was right Rats-bane or not that he had sold him He answered it was whereupon he replyed Then I have what I desired and departing back to his Lodging the poyson began to work so violently upon him that within few hours after he in great torment ended his wretched life whose dead body the Magistrates of that City considering the quality of the person and the Lawes against self-murder would not permit to be buried in Christian burial Thus Reader you may see how many several wayes God hath hitherto pleased to execute his vengeance upon the persons and posterity of such men who without any cause nay contrary to Reason Lawes both Divine and Humane yea even in defiance of Heaven dipped their hands in the sacred blood of their lawful Soveraign according to that of the Wise Man The eye that mocketh his Father viz. the King who is stiled Pater Patriae and despiseth his Mother that is the Church called Regni pia Mater the Ravens of the Valley shall pick it out Which judgement we see hath befallen many of the before-mentioned Regicides their heads in several places being become a Spectacle both to Angels and Men and a prey to the Birds of the Air. I shall conclude all with this Exhortatory Advice That though God hath been pleased in his wrath to deprive this Nation of the best and most pious King that ever before raigned over it Yet hath he fince in mercy restored even to admiration His Son to the Throne of His Blessed Father a Prince of such accomplisht Vertues Piety Wisdom and Magnanimity that render Him the delight of his Subjects and a terrour to his Enemies let us therefore lay aside all animosities one against the other and render without grudging unto Caesar the things that are Caesars acknowledging Him Gods immediate Vicegerent without being so impudent as to prescribe Him in what manner or by what means we will be ruled or so Rebellious as to draw our Swords against Gods Annointed under pretence of Religion or publique good But rather with Obedience and Humility submit to His Commands and confess with the Children of Israel Because the Lord hath delighted in us therefore He hath made Him King over us And finally let every good Subject pray that God would send us Peace and Truth preserve His Sacred Majesty and his Posterity and confound the wicked Councels of all such as are Enemies to Peace Piety and Monarchy Amen FINIS Some Books Printed by Phil. Stephens at the Kings Arms over against the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet THE Great Antichrist never till now fully discovered and proved to be neither Pope nor Turk nor any single person nor any one Monarch nor Tyrant in any Politie but a pack or multitude of Hypocritical Heretical Blasphemous and Scandalous wicked men which have fulfilled those P●ophecies of the Scriptures that were fore-spoken of the coming of the Geeat Antichrist and especially have united them together by Solemn League and Covenant to slay the two Witnesses of God The Supreme Magistrate and chief Governour of the Church And the Reader is desired to judge whether the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists and Lay-Preachers be not the false Prophet and Mystical Soul of the Great Antichrist and the prevalent Faction of the Long Parliament be not the visible body of the Great Antichrist in Folio 7 s. Seven Treatises The Murther of Jesus paralleld to K. Charls the first 2. The Tragedy of Zimri that slew the King his Master 3. Gods war with Rebels and Murtherers 4. The lively Picture of these times 5. The Duties of every Christian man 6. The Prerogatives of true Saints 7. The true cause why we should love God Whereunto is annexed a Declaration and just Judgement upon the Kings Enemies and Friends that neglected him Together with the Treacherous Scots Bloody Irish the Presbyterians in general and in particular the Members of the Long and Rump-Parliament Together with Irelands present and past condition stated in a Remonstrance to King and Parliament in Folio 6 s. Both written by the Reverend Father in God Grussith Lord Bishop of Ossory Several Sermons Preached at the Temple and elsewhere proving the Nomothetical and Coercive power of the King in Ecclesiastical affairs The Episcopal Office and Dignity Together with a Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of England by Mr. G. Masterson in Octavo 1 s. An Entertainment for the Holy time of Lent by Nich. Causinus Author of the Holy Court. A Scripture Combat about business of Religion between a Roman Catholick Lady and the Wife of a dignified person in the Church of England An Invective against the Army and their Abettors who Murthered King Charls the first by the Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Exeter The Devout Ceremony of bowing towards the Altar Vindicated as Lawful Pious and Laudable in a Divinity Lecture at Cambridge by Dr. Duncon Chaplain to His Majesty

the great weakness of her body carried her Soul into another World where doubtless if we ballance her Christian-like penitency against parents impiety we ought charitably to judge that her Soul enjoyes the felicity of Heaven whatsoever is become of her Fathers The Lady Francis As for another Daughter of his though he sought to strengthen himself at home by intermixing her blood in marriage with that of the heir apparent of the Earldome of Warwick yet soon after such an antipathy happened between their affections that he hated her perfectly and at laft by the suddenness of his death left his wife the widow of a loathed bed I could say much of Bradshaw Bradshaw that notorious Regicide who being terrified at the turning out of Richard the Protector the rising of Sr. George Booth and the mutining of the City against the Army began to suspect he should soon be called to account for his villanies insomuch as he quickly hastened his passage into another world to prevent his punishment in this Nevertheless God did not long suffer the stinking carcass of this bloody Monster to rest in the grave but being thence taken out together with the bodies of his Master Cromwel and Ireton they all were drawn hanged and buried at Tyburn a fit Tombe for such egregious Rebels but their heads were by the Hang-man cut off and set upon Westminster-Hall over the same place where they erected their High Court of Justice and sate in Judgement against His Majesty Nor are those memorable Examples of Gods Iudgements against Col. Dean Rainsborough Reynolds White Dorislaus Askam Milton Bond Marshall and Love less eminent than the former Dean FOR Col. Richard Dean being made one the those Judges who actually did sit upon the Tryal of His Majesty was so vigorous in the prosecution of his Death that he complained to the Army of their delayes and against Bradshaw for not condemning him without permitting him to speak and was one of the four persons to consider of the time and place for the Kings Execution But God requited him with a punishment answerable to his own dealings for he who so lately pressed the Souldiers to cut off their Soveraigns Head had soon after his own shot clear off from his body by a Chain-bullet in the last Naval fight between the English and the Flemmings Rainsboborough HOW strangly was that Quondam Neptune of the Seas and Governour of Pomfrett Castle Col. Rainsborough stabbed in his own Quarters by unknown persons in a strong guarded Garrison and before the face of some of his own Souldiers who having then neither strength to preserve his life nor power to seize on the actors after the deed done they boldly passed by the Guard and escaped This was he who was imployed by the Committee of Derby house to sollicit the Common sort of Marriners to whom he gave 12 d. a piece to subscribe and present a Petition to the house of Commons for Justice against the King wherein they offered to live and dye with the Parliament c. For which trayterous act against his Prince Heaven was likewise pleased by a sudden and violent death to destroy him And without doubt there was Digitus Dei the finger of the Almighty in this action otherwise it had been impossible for such a bloody Tragedy to be acted even at noon day in such a wel-fortified place and upon so eminent a Rebel as this was without the apprehension of those persons who committed the deed Reynolds and White THE next in this Catalogue of Traytors are Col. Iohn Reynolds Commander in Chief at Mardike and Col. White two of Cromwels best beloved Beagles for Hunting after His Majesties blood who embarking themselves at Mardike for England to consult with their Master Oliver about Martial affairs were by a sudden Tempest cast away upon the Goodwin sands a place notorious for the History of that perjured Earl Goodwin who being treacherous to his Prince had all his estate and manners together with himself and family as these traytors were for the like fact swallowed up in the same place by the Sea Dr. Dorislaus AS for Dr. Dorislaus a Saint of Cromwels Rubrick who was formerly a poor School-master in the Low-Countreys but by his late Majesties favour translated from thence to read the History Lecture in Oxford Where he decrying Monarchy in one of his Lectures was complained of yet forgiven by the benignity of the King Then he became Judge Advocate in his Army against the Scots afterwards he forsook his Master and took the like imployment under the Earl of Essex and next under Sr. Thomas Fairfax and at last was ordered to be one of those Counsellors who were to assist the High Court of Justice and draw up the Charge against the King but God justly punished this ingrateful Regicide within four Moneths after by suffering him to be stabbed to death whilst he was then Agent for the Parliament in Holland where about 18 Scotch-men repairing to his Lodging six of them went up the Stairs to his Chamber whilst the other twelve guarded the Stair-foot whom Heaven sent to revenge the Sacred Blood of His Majesty and those four Lords viz. Capel Goring Holland and Hamilton whom he had unjustly before condemned to death Mr. Anthody Askam THE like Judgement befel Mr. Anthony Askam another of the Long Parliaments Creatures and an active person against his Soveraign who being sent in the quality of an Agent into Spain arrived at the Port of Sancta Maria Iunij 5. 1650. where notwithstanding he was forwarned of the Danger he was in and guarded from thence to Madrid yet could he not escape the hand of Divine vengeance upon him for the next day after he came at Madrid as he was at dinner six men knocked at his Chamber-door which was immediatly opened unto them and he rising from the Table to receive them was stabbed in the head with a Dagger so that he fell down suddenly dead upon the ground together with his Interpreter who was likewise stabbed in the belly they who committed the fact escaping to a Sanctuary where they were by the Clergy of Spain protected against the rigour of the Law and not one of them punished Mr. John Milton LIkewise how wonderfully was Mr. Iohn Milton who writ the seditious Antimonarchical Book against the King in answer to Learned Salmasius strucken blind soon after and could never since by any art or skill either recover his sight or preserve his Books from being burned by the hands of the common Hang-man NExt observe what became of Mr. Denis Bond Mr Denis Bond. another o● His Majesties Judges and one of Cromwels Councellors Was he not in a horrid manner tormented with the Strangury and much anxiety of spi●it before his death In-so-much as he dying about 14 dayes before his Master Oliver some unhappy wits raised a report about the Town that the Devil had taken Bond or security that the Protector