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A43219 A new book of loyal English martyrs and confessors who have endured the pains and terrours of death, arraignment, banishment and imprisonment for the maintenance of the just and legal government of these kingdoms both in church and state / by James Heath ... Heath, James, 1629-1664. 1665 (1665) Wing H1336; ESTC R32480 188,800 504

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standing and had not yet put off their blood-died Robes in expectation of this Grand Contrivance which should make them farther work Mr. Love being one of the chief was first Tried afterwards some others who recanted and humbly besought the Parliaments mercy as Mr. Jenkins and Potter but Mr. Love's submission such as it was for they required Confession and discoverie too came too late and to no purpose so that he and this Ms. Gibbons a Taylor was condemned by that High Court for the same businesse lost their Heads on Tower-hill as aforesaid The Earl of Derby beheaded at Bolton in Lancashire Octob. 15. 1651. WHosoever shall look upon the sad Historie of this Princely person must be armed against all humanitie if he condole not this miserable Traggedie every circumstance whereof is a Scene of sorrow which alike moves indignation and compassion If we deduce him from his glorious originals we see him descended from a most ancient and illustrious Family in which Loyaltie was one of the Gentilitions in herent vertues derived in the succession of those Heroes who to this day adorn'd the noble name of Stanley so memorated and famed in our Annals especially in the Reign of Henry the 7th direct Ancrestor to his present Majestie The signal Services done at that time to this Crown and Kingdom both by Victorie and Advice in the blessed union of the Houses of York and Lancaster were so placed that they seem to have directed only the imitation of their most Honourable Posteritie without the affectation of any thing but duty For those Heroick actions have been ever since as Spurs and Incentives to the same Grandeurs of Loyaltie manifested in all occasions and Affairs of the Crown through the whole current of Succession But this Noble Earl whose unworthie Fate we now deplore came nearest that great Pattern the Times concurring with the activity of his mind afforded him the advantage of employing and exercising that stock of Prudence and Valour which had so long been treasured up in the loines of his Princely Progenitors and yet to the scandal and reproach of that Age rewarding all his Honourable Attchievements with a most lamented Catastrophy If we also consider therefore his great and personal merit and obligations upon this Kingdom we shall find his Services not to come short of those of his Ancestors though clog'd with the burdensome glory of giving a Crown in designment and attempt however they failed of their most probable effects But to mitigate the Envy of his Fate to innocent Posteritie I will not presume with so rude a Pen to write their Monument and at large relate them He that hath heard of a Latham-House and Marston-Moor as I suppose all men have will easily confess his glories which shone brightly in the Sphear of all Military worth to the setting of Charles his Wain In those gloomy and black dayes he withdrew himself to a shelter in his Royaltie of the Isle of Man awaiting a new opportunity of serving his present Majestie which not long after offered it self and was with all readiness of duty encertained by him For the King having resolved Cromwel being gotten into Fife in Scotland to pass into England over Sterling-bridge by the advantage of three daies march gave present intimation thereof to the Earl who in order to some other design had some forces in readiness with these according to his instructions upon the Kings advance that way he landed in Lancashire where his Interest and Power lay and joined with his Majestie who leaving him some forces to aid and assist him in his new Levies against the Parliaments Forces then marching thitherward to suppress them marched directly for Worcester As soon as the King was departed Col. Lilburn was upon him and at Wiggon in that County with thrice his number fell upon the Earls small party not amounting to above 600 men and after a sharp encounter which favourably promised Victory at the first but through want of Reserves failed the Earl in conclusion put him to the rout where a many gallant Noble men and Gentry were slain and taken as my Lord Widdrington and others and the Earl himself hardly escaping to the King at Worcester being in the way forced to shelter at Boscolet the receptacle afterwards by my Lords direction of the King himself who being worsted at Worcester by the Rebels under Gromwel where his Majestie and his Nobilite discharged the place of brave Captains and Warriours particularly this undaunted Earl not yet wearied with his ill fortune was constrained to abandon that City and betake himself to a swift flight in Companie with this faithful Lord and other Honourable Persons At White-Ladies whither by the direction of the Earl the King was guided he took his leave of his Majestie having first taken care of his security where also he himself might have found a subterfuge but that he would not hazard his Majesties safty by a divided care of his Guardians for two and that number though but so small might not betray him At his departure he fell on his knees and wept and then conjured the Pendants to be faithfully careful of his Majesties person dearer to him then ten thousand lives and so betook himself again to flight in company of the same retinue who made after the road the Scotch horse they had taken under David Leshly At Newport in Shropshire they overtook them but with the same Col. Lilburn at their heels who fell into the Town and after a short dispute dispersed and took most of the party among the principal whereof was this Noble and unfortunate Earl the Earl of Landerdale Lord Sinclare and others the Duke of Buckingham strangely making his escape Becoming thus the prey of those barbarous rebels he was a while detained there till at last Orders came for his removal to Chester where shortly after he was convented by instructions of them at Westminster where the Earl desired to be heard in person before a Council of War all of them base and mechanick fellows and of no great Command in their army a barbarous shame that the Honour of so great a personage in a Country where he was so well esteemed reputed and reverenced both for his own superlative vertues of liberality and bounty and the continued obligements of his Ancestry should be so violenced and profaned by a rascally sort of men who assumed to themselves and arrogated the power of life and death upon a Peer of such magnitude and veneration an indignity worse by far then those outrages committed and perpetrated by Jack Cade and Wat Tyler and the rest of those rabbles who in their mad fury did such-like pranks whereas here th●s murther was countenanced by a colour of Law Martial and done in the form and process thereof but in this he imitated his dearly beloved Soveraign who was reviled contemned and mocked in the same manner at their irreverent High Court of Justice which no question did much sweeten that
an overture was made by other Lords then about the King for a Peace with the Scots which soon after taking effect the King returned to Westminster where he had summoned his Parliament according to the advice of this Lord and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury both whom they rendred odious to the People upon the very account of being Enemies to Parliaments The very first thing of consequence done at the first Sessions was a charge exhibited by the House of Commons against this Earl which consisted of 28. Articles of high Treason Feb. 16 1640. The substance of them all was That he had endeavoured to subvert the fundamental Laws and Governments of the Realms 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 overawe the Parliament and that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of 10000 men in Ireland ready to be transported for the same Service His Tryal thereupon April 13. ensued which was done with all solemnity a Court being made for the purpose with seats for both Houses and a Canopy for the King with a Terrasse before it The Earl of Arundel was Lord High Steward his Accusers were Pym St. Johns Whitlock Sr. Walter Earles Serjeant Glyn Maynard Stroud Mr. Selden Hambden c. The Lieutenant warded all their blows defending himself bravely and learnedly so that there was no hopes of prevailing against his innocence by the Law before the Lords that were his Judges But the implacable fury of the House of Commons since chey could effect nothing this way put them upon another which was to draw up a Bill of Attaindor and present it to the Lords whereby the matter of Fact was declared to have been sufficiently proved and then as to Law that he had incurred the censure of Treason the Lords stumbled at this way of proceeding as a path leading to their own destruction it being a course unsuitable to the practice and state of the Kingdom and their own safety and against Common Justice To this it was replied by the Commons that if the Lords would not joyn with them in this way they feared a rupture might follow for that the People would not be satisfied without Justice done upon the Earl as the Author of all their grievances The Lords stood for a while to their first determination and heard the Earl by his Council at their Bar as to matter of Law this made the House of Commons though the King in a set speech to them had cleared the Earl from any design of Treason or consulting to any arbitrary Government nor could he concur to punish him as a Traitor the more eager Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults crying Justice and threatning the Lords as aforesaid so that at last the said Bill ushered in by a Protestation passed the whole House of Commons nemine contradicente but the Lord Darby and one or two more and presently after the House of Lords where were present 45 26 against him and 19 for him most of his friends absenting themselves for fear of the multitude Immediatly the Kings assent was required to the Bill who consulted with the Bishops who all but the Bishop of London now his Grace of Canterbury and who as the King observed in his Book fared the best of all advised him against it but that which most swayed the King to sign it which he bitterly afterwards repented was a Letter of the Earls to his Majesty which being too long here to insert I shall only give you that Passage wherein he desires his Majesty to passe the Bill And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the Honour and Justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might please to have spared that Declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships so now to set your Majesties Conscience c. at liberty I do most humbly beseech you for the preventing of such mischief as may happen by your refusal to pass the Bill by this means to remove praised be God I cannot say this accursed but I confess this unfortunate thing forth of the way towards that blessed agreement which God I trust shall for ever establish betwixt you and your Subjects Sir my consent herein shall more acquit you to God than all the World can do besides to a willing man there is no injury done c. I have also here inserted for their excellency and elegancy these two following Speeches the first at Westminster Hall to the Lords at the conclusion of his Trial the other at the Scaffold which are as follow MY Lords There yet remaines another Treason that I should be guilty of the endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws of the Land that they should now be Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seem very strange Under favour my Lords I do not concieve that there is either Statute Law nor Common-Law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws to be high Treason For neither Statute-Law nor Common-Law written that ever I could here of declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I believe you think it doth concern me to do It is hard to be questioned for life and honour upon a Law that cannot be shewn There is a Rule which I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non aparentitibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesu where hath this fire lain all this while so many hundred of years without any smoak to discover it till it thus burst out to consume me and my children extreme hard in my opinion that punishment should precede promulgation of Law punishment by a Law subsequent to the Acts done Take it into your considerations for certainly it is now better to be under no Law at all but the will of men than to conforme our selves under the protection of a Law as we think and then be punished for a crime that doth precede the Law what man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords it is hard in another respect that there should be no token set upon this offence by which we should know it no admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man passe down the Thames in a Boat and it be split upon an Anchor and no booy be ser as a token that there is an Anchor there that party that ows the Anchor by the Maritine Laws shall give satisfaction for the damage done but if it were marked out I must come upon my own peril Now where is a mark upon this crime Where is the token this is high Treason If it be under water and not above water no humane
prayed with him almost a quarter of an hour after which the Col. turning himself again to the people spake as followeth One thing more I desire to be clear in There lieth a common imputation upon the Cavaliers that they are Papists and under that Name we are made odious to those of the contrary opinion I am not a Papist but renounce the Pope with all his dependencies when the distractions in RELIGION first sprang up I might have been thought apt to turn from this Church to the Roman but was utterly unsatisfied in their Doctrine in point of Faith and very much as to their Discipline The Religion which I profess is that which passeth under the name of Protestant though that be rather a name of distinction then properly essential to Religion But the Religion which was found out in the Reformation purged from all the errours of Rome in the Reign of Edward the sixth practised in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles that blessed Prince deceased that Religion before it was defaced I am of which I take to be Christs Catholique though not the Roman Catholique Religion in the profession and practice whereof I will live and die that for my Religion Then he turnd himself unto the Executioner I have no reason to quarrel with thee thou art not the hand that throws the stone I am not of such an Estate to be liberal but there is three pound for thee which is all I have Now tell me what I lack Execut. Your hair 's to be turned up Col. Shew me how to fit my self upon the block After which his doublet being off and hair turned up he turned again to the people and prayed a good while Before he laid down upon the Block he spake again to the people viz. There is not one face that looks upon me though many faces and perhaps different from me in opinion and practice but methinks hath something of pity in it and may that mercy which is in your hearts fall into your own bosomes when you have need of it and may you never find such blocks of sin to stand in the way of your mercy as I have met with I beseech you joyn with me in prayer Then he prayed leaning on the Scaffold with an audible Voyce for about a quarter of an hour having done he had some private conference with Doctor Swadling Then taking his leave of his Friends Sheriffs and Acquaintance saluting them all with a courteous valediction he prepared himself for the Block kneeling down said let me try the Block which he did after casting his eyes up and fixed them very intentively upon Heaven he said when I say Lord Jesus receive me Executioner do thine Office then kissing the Ax he laid down and with as much undaunted yet Christian courage as possible as could be in man did he expose his throat to the fatal Ax. his life to the Executioner and commended his Soul into the Hands of a faithful and merciful Creator through the meritorious passion of a gracious Redeemer saying the forementioned words his head was smitten off at one blow Sir Henry Hide beheaded over against the Exchance March 4. 1650. AFter this Rebellion had assumed its various shapes put all by and made up with its several interests till it had quite outed the manner of true Religion when there was no Law left but the arbitrary Will and Powers of the Grandees at Westminster no man can wonder at this Turkish Example in the sad fate of this Honourable Person The truth is he was the noble Brother to that excellently prudent States-man the Right Honourable Earl of Clarendel Lord Chancellor of England But we must detract from this Martyrs merit if we involve it in his Brothers whose capacious influence upon the Councels and affairs of this Nation hath rescued all honest and loyal men from the brinks of misery and ruin ten thousand times worse then Death It is a sad Subject to Comment on especially because we may repeat nothing here but what has been most favourably and that at his honourable Relations importunity quite forgiven though I hope that pardon extends not beyond the Memory of the sufferer whatever it reaches to in the Oblivion of the Actor He was sent as he avowedly declared at his death as a Messenger only from our Sovereign King Charles the second soon after the murther of his Royal Father to the Grand Seignior that Office he aptly himself termed an Internuncio which to his and the Kindomes Enemies sounded worse then the jealousie of Popery I make use of that term to discover the occasion of this his fate since it hath its diversity of Names according to the customes and Languages of Nations as Envoy c. in the French but throughout the World barbarous or civil unlesse by sinister and bribed Artifices the very name of such persons were feared and had in publique Veneration He was bred a Merchant who traded to the Levant and who by experience had gained not only a considerable Estate therewith but also a Repute and Estimation amongst the Turkish Company who considering him as an intelligent Person in the businesse and management of that Traffique and entercourse made and constituted him their Consul at the Morea which place with what integrity he discharged and how discreetly and advantagiously for the benefit of the said Company he went through and performed we need not offer to the Test since so universally approved For the convenience therefore of that concerning which the King had them at the Port this Gentleman was pitch upon and sent thither but what he would have transacted there if not opposed is not to be ascertained only thus far we may be assured that there was little of publique matter therein especially of prejudice to this Nation or that Commerce in particular as was most falsly and scandalously noised by his Enemies as may appear by a little instance For near the same time the Right Honourable the Lord Wentworth being sent Ambassadour from the King to the Emperour of Russia to acquaint him with the horrid murther of our Sovereign his Royal Father and to desire some assistance from him in order to the reducing of his Revolted Kingdomes whereunto the Emperour frankly offered besides what he would disburse of his own the whole Estates Goods Merchandizes of the English residing in his Dominions my Lord utterly refused the motion acquainting the Emperour that the King never had harboured any displeasure against his Merchant Subjects of whose loyaltie and affection to him he was very well satisfied though it was out of their power and ability to serve him So that it was a groundless and unreasonable calumny framed on purpose to render him odious to the people that his design and errand to Constantinople was upon the Merchants there in relation to their Estates and that he was sent in the room of Sir Thomas Bendish to be his Majesties Leiger there for that
much worse but I hope my sins are all bathed in the blood of Jesus Christ So laying his neck upon the block and his armes stretcht out he said these words Blessed be Gods glorious Name for ever and ever Let the whole Earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen At which words he gave the Headsman the sign but he either not observing it or not being ready stayed too long so that his Lordship rose up again saying Why do you keep me from my Saviour what have I done that I die not and that I may live with him Once more I will ●ay my self down in peace and so take my everlasting rest Then saying Come Lord Jesus come quickly he stretched out his arms and gave the sign repeating the same words Blessed be Gods glorious Name for ever and ever Let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen Then lifting up his hand the Executioner did his work at one blow all the people weeping and crying and giving all expressions of grief and lamentation When the corps were carried off the Scaffold they carried them to a house in the Town where was thrown into his Coffin in a piece of paper these two lines Upon James Earl of Derby Bounty Wit Courage all here in one lie dead A Stanleys hand Veres heart and Cecil's head The sentence of the Council of VVar. Resolved by the Court upon the Question That James Earl of Derby is guilty of the breach of the Act of the 12. of August 1651. last past entituled An Act prohibiting correspondence with Charles Stuart or his party and so of High-Treason against the Common-wealth of England and is therefore worthy of death Resolved by the Court. That the said James Earl of Derby is a traytor to the Common-wealth of Eagland and an abettor encourager and assister of the declared Traytors and enemies thereof and shall be put to death by severing his head from his body at the Market place in the Town of Bolton in Lancashire upon VVednesday the 15. day of this instant October about the houre of one of the Clock the same day Sir Timothy Feverston Haugh beheaded at Chester Octob. 22. 1651. HAving nothing but the History of the War for my direction to this Gentlemans memory I will confine my self within the compass of that discovery and venture not to derive him any further hoping his honourable Relations will for their own as well as his sake be pleased to vouchsafe a full and perfect account of him hereafter to the embalming his fame to Posterity He was engaged in the unhappy Defeat at Wiggan with theafore said noble Earl to whose assistance whether he came with the King and was left by him there with those small Forces could be spared or that he voluntarily joyned or came from the Isle of Man with that Party I cannot determine this is for certain he was taken prisoner at that unlucky overthrow in Lancashire and secured afterwards till the Grand Business was over at Worcester Upon the coming back of the Forces assigned to Cheshire for their stationary Quarters and the bringing of the Earl of Derby thither they were both imprisoned at Chester and after the Trial and Condemnation of the Earl of Derby was likewise brought before the said Court-Martial and as no better was or could be expected by him or any other person had likewise the said Sentence only differing in time and place He behaved himself at his Death couragiously and Christianly telling those Monsters of men the foulness of their faults and confidently averring that the Justice of God would at last overtake them if they timely returned not to their duty and after some few prayers and among them one for the Kings preservation which yet was in doubt he resigned his Soul to God and hath added one to the glorious Company of Martyrs Colonel Benbow shot no death at Shrewsbury Octob. 1651. I Must confess my self at a losse here but though I could receive nothing else but his Name yet to that there is so much due on this account of Martyrdome that I durst not omit him putting hereby an occasion into the hands of this Gentlemans Relations to rescue his and perpetuate their Name to after Ages I conceive him to be one of those loyal Gentlemen who came in with the Earl of Shrewsbury then Lord Talbot or Colonel Howard my Lord Howard of Esericks Son to the King at Worcester and who for his former Services done the King in the War before was obnoxious to their malice Most certain it was he was taken notice of and observed to be very active in that Engagement at Worcester in the flight from whence he was taken though most of the other English escaped by the favour and concealment of the Country nor did ever the Scots finde civiller usage after a Defeat save those who through their glorious valour fell and escaped the better way to Heaven After he was taken he was conveighto Shrewsbury a place which the King from Worcester had summoned by a Letter to Colonel Mackworth the Governour which Royal Command they thought fit to question with loyal Blood as they pretended to expiate the storming of Bolton by Prince Rupert with the murder of the Earl of Derby Whatever the reasons of their proceedings there against him might be I cannot ascertain thus much from all hands we have that he went not lesse in his death then in his life maintaining his Religion to God his Duty to the King and his Innocency to the World to the last minute of his breath which found several wayes to expire by their Bullets and to ascend with his Soul to Heaven with a Quinque Domine c. Colonel John Gerhard and Mr. Vowel the one beheaded at Tower-hill and the other hanged at Charing-Crosse July 10. 1654. OLiver Cromwel that Monster of English production had but newly invaded the Magistracy over these Nations when as the Hydra before him had done he commenced his Tyrannical Regiment with a Sacrifice of Loyal blood which all along cemented the frame of his five yeares Usurpation as the Walls of Babylon were said to be mortar'd A cursed Rule it was among those State-Innovators that there was no surer way of establishing their Tyrannie and bring their Models to any sound constituon but by profusely letting blood especially in the Plurisie of so many dangers which their evil and abominable actions did daily threaten them This they termed Preventional Cure for suspecting all hands to be about their eares they resolved to be before hand with some that the terror of the Example being contrary to all reason Justice and Law and a perfect avowing of their Tyranny might reach to every man that who with the sense of so apparent danger and destruction out of which once engaged there was no rescue or deliverance but by death might be stupified into a degenerous fear and abject servility of mind to endure whatever their insupportable Domination should load upon
information I thought fit to propose and do humbly crave their pardon if this weak and mean endeavour cannot reach that grandeur of Spirit with which they constantly endured their fiery tryals and dreadful and doleful sufferings I observe the order of time and not of Dignity and shall begin with the right Honourable the Lord Finch of Fordwich who being Lord Keeper of the Seal upon their arbitrary proceedings against the life of the Earl of Strafford wisely withdrew himself and endured banishment and exile from his own Country for sixteen years and then returned and died in Honour His faithful serving his Soveraign in that great employment being all his charge and accusation Mr. Secretary Windebanke who pursued the same course to avoid the Popular fury and died abroad The Right reverend Father in God Matthew Lord Bishop of Ely who with eleven more of his Sacred Order were committed to the Tower in 1641 from which imprisonment he never ●irred till the end of the year 1659 at which time by the means of the ever renowned Lord General the Duke of Albemarle he was set at liberty from thence in kind remembrance of those fatherly counsels and happy advice the said noble Duke had during his restraint in the same place for the same account of Loyalty received from this reverend Bishop who is now reestablished in this same Diocesse to the Honour and support of this restored Church Doctor Featly a very Learned Religious and grave Divine to whom this Church oweth much for his accurate defences of its Doctrine and Discipline being for no other cause committed to Peter House by an Order of Parliament languished there a year and a half and with much importunity was at last removed to Chelsey Colledge for the aire but he died there within three weeks after his coming being too far spent by his barbarous misusage Sir Robert Heath Lord Chief Justice of England known so well for his integrity and moderation and as famous for his constant Loyalty of whom quarrelsome John Lilburn a sworn Enemy to the Royal Party gave so noble a character before his Judges at Guild-hall forced to abandon his Country fled over towards the expiration of the War into France being by the bloody prevalent Faction at Westminster excepted from mercy not long after the Kings death with grief and anxiety of mind to see the miseries and ruines of the King and his Country he himself died at Caen in Normandy and was received no doubt into mercy Judge Bartlet who weathered the same Storm being the first committed of that reverend Robe and long survived their high and insignificant charge and accusation This gives us an Evidence of the intended Justice of the Reformers who would first put out the eyes of the Law that the Subject might see the better Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton who so couragiously and prudently and as an Expert Captain commanded for the King in the West and had so many notable successes after his disbanding in Cornwall he took Shipping with the Prince our now Soveraign into the Island of Scilly and from thence into France following the Kings hard Fortune in all his peregrinations till Death arrested him at Paris and put an end to his Travel Judge Jenkins one of his Majesties Justices in Wales brought to the Chancery Bat for some misdemeanours of Loyalty where he denied the Authority of the Court for that the Seal was contrary to Law as well as the Commissioners whereupon he was sent to the Tower where he persisted in his integrity published several Presidents and Statutes and argued them Rebels and owned the same again at other bars did what he could to set the Army and the Parliament together by the ears desied them and their threats and asserted the King and the Laws against their usurpation was continued a close Prisoner till they were weary of him and then was sent to Windsor in the same quality where he continued of the same mind till without thanks he was permitted the liberty of the Town This brave stout person is yet living but when dead his memory shall endure for evermore Mr. Secretary Sir Edward Nicolas who constantly abode with the King from the beginning of his troubles and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to his present Majesty in all his troubles abroad by no less trouble than Honour having faithfully and prudently managed that employment to the happy effect of his Majesties Restitution Sir Edward Hide now the Right Honourable Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour of England the Counsel-Favourite of his late Martyr'd Majesty and therefore no wonder so hated by the Faction at Westminster and traduced by their scandalous Votes being excepted likewise out of their mercy He not only continued the same advice but also saw it in conclusion attain that successe to which it had alwaies been directed but had missed of approbation till the general applause and shouts of our Deliverance The Lord Wilmot afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earl of Rochester who throughout the War particularly at Roundway Down neer the Devizes so valiantly behaved himself passed over with the Prince and my Lord Hopton into Scilly and accompanied his Highnesse in all those difficulties he passed more especially at Worcester and in his Majesties happy conveyance from thence which he principally managed And here I must not omit the Duke of Buckingham with an honourable reference also to his noble Brother my Lord Francis Villers who young at Kingston as in the primitive times gave early testimony to this cause the valiant Earl of Cleveland the Lord Wentworth his Son and other Gentlemen in that Expedition who suffered for their assistance and obedience to his Majesty in those commands As also my Lord Gerard now Captain of his Majesties Life-guard who bore part afterwards as well as before in the calamity and misfortune of the Kings adventures in forrein parts My Lord Wilmot unhappily died a little before the Kings restitution and hath left behind him the sweet favour of a most Loyal affection to his Majesty Nor without due observation can I pass by the Earl of Norwich my Lord Loughborough Bernard Gascoign Col. Far Squire Hales and the rest engaged in that design at Colchester nor Sr. John Owen for the same endeavour in Wales being condemned with the said Earl of Norwich by the High Court of Justice but must give their names and memories their veneration Nor likewise the right reverend Dr. Shelden now Lord Bishop of London and the famous Dr. Hamond who were a long while in restraint and threatned with more cruelties at the same time expecting to have been transported to some forreign plantations Dr. John Berkenhead who so hazardously and in so very great dangers and several imprisonments asserted his Majesties cause in its lowest extremities this Gentleman is so deservedly well reputed that this mite will signifie nothing Sr. Marmaduke Langdale now Lord Langdale a Person not inferiour to any of his Majesties