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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

fire in burning and laying waste their strongest Holds next by the sword in cutting off the chiefest of their Covenanters and lastly by famine in reducing those poor captive Souldiers that were taken after Dumbar fight to such an exegent Dunhar fight Anno 1656. Sep. 3. that above three thousand of them were at Durham starved to death and those who survived were by hunger torced to feed upon the dead bodies of their Countreymen to preserve their own lives And therefore what Martial saith of the Lyon which is the Arms of Scotland I may fitly apply to these treacherous Scots Laeserat ingrato l●● persidus ere Magistrum Ausus tarn not as contaminare manus Sed dignas tante persoluit crimine poenas Et qui non tulerat verb●●a tela tulit A treacherous Lyon hurt his Keeper late Daring those well known hands to violate But for his foul offence he paid full dear Instead of stripes he felt a killing spear Thus you see that God will not suffer any Traytors or Regecides to go unpunished as may further appear by that one remarkable example of Hatto late Bishop of Mentz in Germany who having betrayed his neer Kinsman Allebert Count Palatine of Franconia to whom he had sworn allegiance into the Emperors hands God soon after suffered this Traytor as you may finde in the Chronological Collections of Petreius to be carried away by Devils and to be thrown into a burning pit in Mount Gebel a voyce in the mean time being heard to cry on t in the ayr Sic peccaudo lues sicque ruendo rues Thus art thou worthily punished for thy wicked deeds So heinous are the sins of Treason and Perjury and so just is the Almighty in the severity of his punishments for them that he suffers none who are guilty of such horrid deeds either early or late to escape unpunished And fince I am speaking of these treacherous Scots give me leave to give you a short account of the Life The Marquess of Argsle Actions and End of that ingrateful and perfidious Traytor to his King and Countrey the late Marquess of Argyle whose dealings with his Kindred Friends and Confederates ought to be a warning to all Protestants how they trust such an Apostate Covenanter whose ambition and avarice did ruine the King and Church together with three flourishing Kingdoms and in the conclusion himself His Father having married a second Wife and turned Catholick this his Son obtains by his Majessies favour the possession of his whole estate allowing him a small pension to live upon after whose death he outed his brother of his estate at Kyntire and afterwards cheated his Sisters of 12000 l. given them by the last Will and Testament of their Mother in Law forcing them all for want of maintenance to hazard the loss of their souls by forsaking that Religion they were ever nursed up in and to cloyster themseves up in Nunneries beyond the seas Having thus taken a view of his Religious carriage towards his Parents Friends and Allies let us next observe his deportment towards his Soveraign and how he kept the Solemn League and Covenant with his Brethren in England It cannot be denied but His Majestie did confer many great and Princely favours upon him at his Father in Law the Earl of Mortons desire making him Lord of Lorn with the additional honor and title of Marquess and a full pension well paid him ever fince together with not onely an act of Oblivion but approbation of all his tyranni at proceedings against the Athel men the Earl of Aireley and others But his first endeavour in requiral of all these and many more Royal favours undeservedly heaped upon him was his ent●ing into a conspiracy with his Co●n Lawers and the Ea●l of Lothian who married his Neece and was once heard to say That the three Kingdoms would never have peace so long as King Cha●ls his head was on his shoulders to banish Antrim and the Macdonalds out of Ireland for which he had a great gift and three R●gi●● h●s sent him from the Parliament of England Next he projected to joy● counsel with Say Pierpoint Cromwel and others of the Independant Juncto against the Presbyte●ians doing them that Master-piece of good service first under colour of loyalty and friendship to prevail with his Majestie to return to the Scots Army then at Newark Cromwel subtilly contributing a pass to his Maiesties g●ides with a slack guard that he might the more freely escape Secondly after many loyal speeches for Monarchy the Kingdom of Scotlands interest in the person of the King and many publique and private vows and protestations not to abandon his Majestie without his own consent Contrary to all which he and his Confederates corrupted the loyalty of that once famous Gentleman Lieutenant General David Lesley who had deeply sworn and engaged himself to his Majestie to convey him safely into Scotland or to see him peaceably settled in his Throne in England sorcing him and he prevailing with the Souldiers to abandon his Majestie and leaving him behind now little better then an assured prisoner and the whole power of the sword i● the hands of his bloody enemies the Independants and Sectaries to the ruine and overthrow of the Covenant and the Presbyterian cause in the City and Parliament Which design of his having taken the desired effect he presently by letters encourages the Independant party to proceed in their dethroning votes and accusarion of his Majestie assuring them that no party in Scotland should be able to hinder their proceedings Whereupon they imm-diately imprisoned the King and next erected a High Court of Justice to take away his life and afterwards publiquely murthered him Thus you see Argyle having overthrown all Laws tyrannized over the lives liberties and estates of his Countrey men and contrary to his duty and and allegiance conspired to extirpate all Monatchial Government by betraying his natural Prince into the hands of his enemies and opposing all ways of peace to prevent his Majesties deliverance and the settlement of his Kingdoms Now thinking himself secure in his villanies and having likewise by treachery gotten the person of the Marquess of Montross into his hands whose onely fault was loyalty to his Prince he caused him to be brought with as much ignominy as possibly he could desire to Edinburgh and afterwards to be barbarously murthered just at such time as his Majestie that now is was coming into Scotland even as it were in despite to his Soveraign But God having at length most miraculously restored his Sacred Majestie Charls the second to the Royal Throne of his blessed Father did also put it into his heart to avenge himself upon this underminer of Princes insomuch as this arch Rebel was suddenly seized upon then committed close Prisoner to the Tower in which place he remained till such time as he could be shipped away in order to his tryal at Edinburgh in Scotland where he was legally convicted of

that ingenious writer of the History of Independency Mr. Clmenst Walker he was permitted to be informer witness and judge against him himself But finding his defigne at that time fall short of his expectation he caused him privately in the night to be soon after seized upon in his bed by a Guard of Souldiers and conveyed far off from the City to a close Prison where being debarred the use of either pen ink or Paper or the liberty of any Friend to visit him after six years strick confinement Death put a period to this poor old Gentlemans sufferings Philip King of Spain Lord of the Seventeen Belgick Provinces sent Duke D' Alva thither another Cromwel in his cruelties with a powerful Army who taking advantage of some new commotions there erected a new Tribonal Criminal or High Court of Justice called by the multitude Concilium Sanguinis or the bloody Conventicle consisting of twelve Persons of mean extraction to whom were given full power to inquire into judge examine and determine all causes whatsoever and to dispose of the lives and estates of every such person they as thought fit to destroy at their wills and pleasures Which Counsel or inquisition did supersed all other Courts of Judicature and made void all Laws constitutions Iurisdictions and priviledges of that Nation by making every thing they pleased High Treason Corbet taking advantage of this President perswades Haslerigg to move the Parliament to put it in execution here in England which was accordingly done and they finding him a fit Agent for such a damnable enterprise Ordred him by an Act passed in the House to be cheif Interpreter to this their State Puppet-play commonly called the close Committee of Examinations erected to purge the House of such Loyal Members as stood disaffected with their proceedings And the first experiment he made of this his Tyranical Power was upon the aforesaid Mr. Walker Mr. Baynton Mr. Recorder Glyn Commissary General Copely and several others of the House of Commons who without any legal tryal hearing or witnesses produced beside himself who supplyed the office of a Judge Prosecutor Jury and evidence against them they were immediately expelled the House of Commons and soon after together with the Earles of Suffolke Lincoln Middlesex the Lord Berkley Willioughly Hunsdon and Maynyard impeached by him of high Treason in the names of the Commons of England for leavying a War against the King and Parliament Wherein this Blood-hound Corbet who of an Examiner was now become an Advocate General moved for judgement to be pronounced against them like the greedy Horse-leech Nec missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo Still thirsting after blood but never satisfied For which bold act and diligent service though it succeeded not he was afterwards recompenced with a Rich Office of Regester in the Chancery a place estimated at One thousand six hundred pound per annum and next made one of the Judges for the Circuit in Ireland valued at five hundred pounds more per annum where he condemned many persons to the Gallowes whose crimes far less deserved it then his own Nor was he less troublesome to the Church then he had formerly been to the State For finding Vespatians Motto Bonus odor lucri ex re qualibet that wealth was sweet how ill soever got he obtained another office from his bountiful Masters at Westminster worth at least One thousand five hundred pound more per annum viz. to be Chair-man for scandalous Ministers The Preisis Tormentor or Master Examiner of all such Clergy men as were either already Beneficed or to be admitted to any Benefice throughout the Nation In which place he so well played his Cards that such of the Kings friends as were before settled in their livings were forced to compound with him for their continuance and others who came to him for admittance if he could not object any thing against their answers to such impertinent questions as he usally propounded to them his next artifice was to render them the new Engagement to be obedient to Oliver and maintain the Good Old Cause against all Kingly power or House of Lords in so much as not one of such as were Learned Loyal or Orthodox Divines could ever gain his consent to any living nor indeed any other though of his own Tribe and Faction without giving him a considerable gratuity to the full value of their first years fruits at the least for a Bribe A perfect Symonaick one that was able to devour a whole Church at a Break-fast and swallow down St. Peters Patrimony after it instead of a Mornings-draught Alwaies feeding yet never filled like Erisict hons bowels in Ovid Quodque urbibus esse Quedque satis poter at populo non sufficit uni What populous Cities might alone Suffice is not enough for one This was the man who so much applauded Coronet Ioyce for surprizing the Kings person at Holdenby house when he was by Cromwel sent to him with Orders to bring his Majesty the same night with all speed and secrecy to the Army boasting the next day that since the Army had gotten the Cavalier Idol for so he stiled his Soveraign into their power they would soon put the Parliament and all their Enemies into their pockets An insolent slave whofe Crimes transcending all hopes of Pardon made him as violent in the prosecution of his Hellish machinations as he was desperate of Heavens mercy in the for giveness of his fins But I will not cast any more Ink upon this Aethiopians face since I find it impossible whether I reflect upon his crimes or his countenance to represent either of them to the view of the world blacker or more horrid than really they are He is now rewarded for his Treason so as to speak more against him were but to wage War with the Dead which Italian severity is as much averse to my nature as it is contrary to the Principles of Christianity Therefore no quid gravius dicam whether I look upon his actions or his end I shall be no more invective against him John BarkRead ROom for this Jack of all Trades A Congregational Saint The Holy-sisters Thimble-maker Cromwels setting Dog The Common-wealths Cerberus Inferna janitor aulae The Hellish Gaolor of the Tower and cruel Tormentor of such Gentlemen as he could get into it A fellow cut out and fitted for all Designs Religions and Fashions whatsoever so as you may say of him as the Poet of Pretem Que teneam nodo mutantem Proter a vultum A Devil incarnate in his cruelties No Fury in Hell ever transcended him in his Tyranny over Prisoners durinst his Lieutenantship of the Tower Witnes his inhumane dealings with diverse eminent persons loyal to His late Majesties interest into whose favours under pretence of Eriendship having first insinuated himself he next trappan'd into his snare by forging lyes and Plots of his own making against them and afterwards suborned Witnesses as formerly Bradshaew and Mildmay