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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

a cord which was put about his neck which he chearfully received saying Though it had pleased his Sacred Majesty that now is to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter yet he did not think himself more Honoured by the Garter then by that Cord and Book which he would embrace about his neck with as much joy and content as ever he did the Garter or a Chain of Gold and therefore desired them to tye them about him as they pleased telling them That what they thought was for his Disgrace he took to be his greatest Honour This being done and his Armes tyed he asked the Officers If they had any more Dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it and so with an undaunted Courage mounted the top of that prodigious Gibbet where having commended his soul to God he patiently underwent the Execution of their inveterate malice Thus fell this Worthy Hero by a most malicious and barbarous sort of cruelty his Head and Quarters being disposed of according to that wicked Sentence pronounced against him though afterwards viz. May 11. 1661. they found a more Honourable Burial being taken down from the Gates of those four distant Cities and with great State and Solemnity Interred with a Funeral becoming his Family and his own personal Renown and Glory To conclude this Story he was one of the Noblest Gallantest Persons that age brought forth a Captain whose unexampled Atchievments have Famed a History which were its Volumn ten times bigger would yet be disproportioned to the due praises of this matchless Hero the day of his Martyrdom was May the 21. 1650. To the Immortal Memory of those Worthy Martyrs who laid down their lives in Opposition to Tyranny and Defence of the Ancient Fundamental Laws of this Nation Hail Worthy Martyrs of the Royal Cause Who stoutly stood up in Defence of Laws And when the Land was sick of their own good To cure the same offer'd their dearest blood These were the Royal Martyrs of this age Who ' gainst the Rebellion Rampant durst Engage Whose Noble Virtues and Illustrious Worth Spight of their Foes base Cruelty brake forth And with their Souls did unto Heaven aspire Making the World their Virtues to admire Thus what their Foes by Barbarous Cruelty Sought to depress was raised far more high As Jems i' th' dark do cast a brighter ray Then when obstructed by the rival day So did the lustre of their worth appear Brake thorow those clouds and shines transparent clear Thus did they pass by Rebells bloody hand Through the Red Sea unto the promist Land There with the Blessed Saints to be partaker And Hallilujahs sing unto their Maker There rest blest Souls amongst that happy Quire Whilest we your Noble Virtues do admire And that your Names with Sacred Veneration Do live Renown'd for ever in this Nation A Catalogue of the most Eminent Persons Slain in his Majesties Service in Opposition to Tyranny and Defence of the Fundamental Laws I. COrnet Porter Son to Master Endimeon Porter of the Bed-Chamber Slain at Newborn upon Tine against the Scots upon their Rebellious Invasion of England August 27. 1639. II. The Lord Aubigney Father to the most Illustrious Charles Duke of Richmond who so Valiantly behaved himself at the Battel of Edge-hill where he was mortally wounded of which wounds he died at Abington and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxford III. The Earle of Lyndsey General of the Field at Edge-hill where he behaved Himself like a Valiant Souldier and Expert Commander was at the said Battel unfortunately Slain October 23. 1642. IV. Sir Edmond Varney the Kings Standard-Bearer at Edge-hill who Valiantly Fighting was Slain under it and the Standard being taken by one Chambers Essex's Secretary was Rescured by Sir John Smith whom the King after the Battel Knighted V. Colonel Munro a Scotch Man a man of Eminent Valour Slain also at the same Battel VI. Spencer Earle of Northampton a most Magnanimous Asserter of the Kings Cause who Besieged Leichfield Sir William Breerton and Sir John Gell with Three Thousand Men came to relieve it against whom the Earle Opposed obtaining of them a Glorious Victory though with the price of his own life for Valiantly Fighting whether by disadvantage of the ground being full of Conney-Burroughs or born down by the Enemies is uncertain he was un-horst and refusing Quarter was killed by a private unlucky hand March 19. 1642. VII Earle of Denbigh a Gentleman of much Worth and Excellency unfortunately slain at the taking of Birmingham by Prince Rupert April the 3. 1643. VIII Sir Bevil Greenvil a Gentleman whose Gallant Parts and Active Service for his Royal Master deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance He Engaging with Sir Ralph Hopton and other Eminent Cavaliers against Sir William Waller at a place called Landsdown in his full Cariere of Victory was unfortunately killed to the great loss of his Majesty and unspeakable grief of all true Lovers of Heroick Valour IX Master Leak Son to my Lord Deincourt now Earle of Scours-dale Master Barker Colonel Wall Captain James Captain Cholwel and Master Busturd all Valiant Persons who in the Service of his Majesty at the same Fight at Landsdown died in the bed of honour X. Marquess de Vieu Ville who in the Fight at Auborn-chase behaved himself most Gallantly and Valiantly Fighting was there slain Septem 1643. XI Earle of Carnarvan a Nobleman of as great Spirit and Affection to the Kings Service as any who at Newbery Battel Sept. 19. 1643. giving a desparate Charge to the Enemies Horse under the Command of Sir Philip Stapleton Routed them and pursuing them to their Foot was unhappily shot in the Head of his Troops whose loss was deservedly lamented by all Valiant Spirits and to whose memory more Publick memory is due then a private Enterment in Jesus Colledge in Oxford XII Earle of Sunderland and Viscount Faulkland persons of Superlative Worth and Honour who in the just Defence of his Majesty and the Laws was slain at the foresaid Battel of Newbery and that close by the Kings Person whose Cause they had so stoutly maintained XIII Lord Viscount Faulkland a Person whose Worth cannot be forgotten and whose Excellent Parts speaks him better then any Elogy I can bestow upon him to the great grief of Learned Men slain at Newbery Septem 17. 1643. XIV Sir Henry Howard and Sir Savile Men of Extraordinary Worth and Merit who at the Battel of Adderton-heath by their Valour gained the Victory but lost their own Lives and were Enterred together in York Minster XV. The Earle of Kingston Father to the Marquess of Dorchester now living who being unhappily surprized by some Forces of the Lord Willoughbies about Gainsbrough he being a Person of great Quality and of much concernment to the Kings Affairs they resolved to send him to Hull in a Pinnace In the way thither Colonel Cavendish Brother to the Earle of Devonshire

Petitions succeeding for an accommodation a Cessation followed and soon after that a Parliament which was Summoned by the Advise of this Earle and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where the very first thing of Consequence that was done was a Charge of High Treason Exhibited against this Earle by the House of Commons consisting of Twenty Eight Articles whereupon he was Sequestred from sitting as a Peer and soon after committed to the Usher of the Black Rod and so to the Tower His Tryal quickly after ensued which was done with great Solemnity in Westminster-Hall the Earle of Arundal being Lord High Steward The substance of his Articles were That he had Endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Lawes and Governments 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 over-awe the Parliament And that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of Ten Thousand Men in Ireland ready to be Transported for the same Service His Accusers were Pym St. Johns Whitlock Sir Walter Earles Serjant Glyn Maynard Stroud Mr. Selden Hambden c. But the Earle defended himself so Bravely and Learnedly that the Lords Conscious of his Innocency would not find the Bill Wherefore the Commons seeing they could not speed that way drew up a Bill of Attainder and presented it to the Lords declaring the matter of Fact to have been sufficiently proved and that as to Law he had incurred the Censure of Treason But the Lords adjudged this a strange way of Proceeding unsutable to their own Safety and against Common Justice Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults stopped the Lords Coaches menacing to post up the Names of those who favoured him under the Title of Straffordians and with an impetuous Cry of Justice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill so hard a task had his Blood-thirsty Enemies to bereave him of his Life which yet notwithstanding passed but by the plurality of Seven Voices against him But the hardest matter was to get the Kings assent who very much declined it and in a set Speech cleared the Earle from any design of Treason or consulting to any Arbitrary Government But being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal but principally being desired by the Earle himself to satisfie the Parliament though with his own blood His Majesty after Advise with the Bishops signed that Fatal Bill which afterwards proved the Axe against his own Life Thus fell this Noble Earle being one of the Chief Pillars and Basis of this Nation without whose Ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew it a hard matter to Effect or Accomplish any thing such an Absolute Rare Honest and Loyal Master-Piece of Reason and Prudence as this present Age saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. being the Pro-to-Martyr of the Late Times II and III. MAster Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowcher two Worthy Loyal Citizens of Bristol of good Esteem Plentiful Estates and known Integrity Master Yeomans was Sheriff of that City in the Year 1642. being but the year before his Execrable Murther Master George Bowcher was an Able Pious Loyal Gentleman whom his very Enemies confest to be a Religious Man These Two Loyal Persons seeing the miserable condition of those Places where the Rebells Ruled Entered into a Consultation with some others how to deliver the City of Bristol into Prince Ruperts hands and thereupon it was resolved that upon Munday March 7. 1642. Prince Rupert with some Forces should draw down towards the City whilst they within would Seize the Courts of Guard and open the Gates and by Ringing St. Johns and St. Michaels Bells give him notice thereof Accordingly Prince Rupert came by Five of the Clock the same morning expecting the Signal but the Confederacy being discovered those Two Gallant Gentlemen with some others were apprehended and after Eleven Weeks hard Imprisonment brought to their Tryal at a Council of War where by Fiennes the Governour and others of that Gang they were Condemned to Dye and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals Mandates and Threats of Retaliation having with great patience endured the Scorns and Barbarous Insultations of the Enemy who continually pursued them with Threats and Revilings they were on May 30. 1643. barbarously murthered Master Yeomans professing at his death That if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to his Soveraign in that way And Master Bowcher in his last Speech exhorted all those who had set their hands to the Plow meaning the defence of the Kings Cause not to be terrified by their Sufferings and therefore to withdraw Their bodies were afterwards decently Enterred in the same City whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance whilst those who murthered them shall rot and perish in infamy IV and V. MAster Tomkins and Master Chaloner the one Clark of the Queens Council the other a Linnen-Draper in Corn-hill two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruine by the Seditious practises of the Rebels procured a Commission from the King the design whereof was that they should Seize into their Custody the Kings Children some Members of Parliament the Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia all the City Out-works and Forts the Tower of London and all the Magazines then to let in the Kings Army to Surpize the City to destroy all Opposers and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney Wife to that Gallant Lord who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill and upon receipt thereof several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof which was chiefly prosecuted by those two Loyal Persons who made such progress therein that the business was brought into some form but so many being concern'd in it through the Treachery of some it came to the Parliaments eares whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Haynous Crime of Loyalty which accordingly was Executed near their own doors July 5. 1643. VI. MAster Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleetstreet afterwards a Messenger to his late Sacred Majesty by whom he was sent to London to signifie the King's Pleasure That the Term of Michaelmas should be prorogued which Message he delivered to the Judges at Westminster-Hall and for performance of his Duty was by those who had quite forgotten all Allegiance and Duty apprehended for a Spy and contrary to the Universal Custom and Honourable Practise of all Nations which gives security and free liberty of passage to all such Persons Tryed before a Council of War held at Essex

Uncivil Wars exchanged his Gown for a Sword and Valiantly Served his Majesty during that Rebellion till the Surrender of Oxford being one that was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation After the death of that blessed Martyr he Engaged for his Son our present Soveraign having Commission from Him for the Raising of Forces and blank Commissions for diverse Officers but whiles he was in pursuance of the Design he was discover'd and being brought before them stoutly stood in his justification Telling them he was no way ashamed of his Cause but that he would justifie it with his Dearest Life And though they gave him some fallacious hopes of Life if he would reveal those Parties Engaged with him yet would not those offers prevail on his more Noble Spirit wherefore he was by them condemned and according to their bloody Sentence Executed over against the Exchange in Corn-hill July 18. 1650. XXI COlonel Eusebius Andrews a Gentleman of a most sincere Life and Conversation by Profession a Counsellor of Grays Inn who out of his Duty to God and the King took part with his Majesty constantly adhereing to the Royal Cause being Secretary to the Renowned Lord Capel whose Worth and Excellency being envied by Cromwell he was by his Emissaries brought into a Plott as they called it and then by them betrayed the chief Agent therein being one Bernards formerly his Major who with one Pitts were suborned by Bradshaw and Sir Henry Mildmay to swear against him So that notwithstanding the Colonel notably defended himself and by an accurate Legal Plea proved the Unlawfulness and Authority of their High Court of Justice yet was he by those blood-sucking Canniballs Sentenced as a Traytor having only the favour of altering the manner of his Execution which was the Axe on Tower-hill where he died like other Martyrs before him full of joy and blessed hope Aug. 22. 1650. XXII MAster Benson formerly a Retainer to Sir John Gell having a Command under him during the time Sir John had the unhappiness to serve the Parliament but having rectified his judgment and desirous by some Eminent Service to his Majesty to ballance his former mistakes he was by the aforesaid Bernard Trapan'd in the same business with Colonel Andrews and suffer'd under their merciless cruelty October 7. 1650. XXIII SIr Henry Hide Brother to the Earle of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England now living a Gentleman of Excellent parts for Navigation who being sent by his present Majesty an Internuncio to the Grand Signior in matters of concernment for the good of his Merchant Subjects The Rebells by their Agents so wrought upon the Vizier that he basely and unworthily sent him into England where having remained for some time in the Tower he was brought before their monstrous High Court of Justice where his Crimes were aggravated with imputations of his design of seizing those Merchant Estates there and affronting Sir Thomas Bendish the old Resident there with his New Commission To which although Sir Henry made a Learned Defence yet was all in vain to those who resolved before-hand to dispatch him and only Heard him in way of form wherefore he was by their Blood-Thirsty Court Sentenced to be Beheaded which death he suffered against the Old Exchange in Corn-hill March 4. 1650. couragiously asserting his Masters Cause and so rendring his Soul to God is justly inscribed into the Roll of Martyrs XXIV CAptain Brown Bushel an expert Sea-man who was Captain of a Man of War and had some kind of Command in Scarborough which he delivered to Sir Hugh Chomley then revolted in the year 1643. from the Parliament and being Prisoner at Hull for the same had been Exchanged by Hotham then winding about to his Allegiance This Captain Bushel was for the same committed to custody in 1648. and being detain'd Prisoner about Three Years now their hand was in for shedding of blood he was by those inhumane Rebells murdered April 29. 1651. XXV and XXVI MAster Love and Master Gibbons who though they dyed upon the Presbyterian Account which abated much the lustre of their Sufferings yet dying in opposition to Tyranny and upon the Account of his Majesties Restauration deserve to be had in perpetual remembrance They were charged with High Treason against the State for holding correspondency with the King and his Party and supplyed them with money contrary to an Act of Parliament in that case provided for which they were by those bloody Regicides condemned and lost their heads on Tower-hill August 20. 1651. XXVII JAmes Earle of Derby the flower of English Fidelity a most Honourable Heroick Gallant Peer whose Prudence and Valour were alwayes Assistant to his Royal Master and whose Superlative Virtues of Liberality and Bounty made him Loved and Honoured of all sorts of People He having ventured his Life and Large Estate in the continuall Service of his Royal Masters from which he in the least never deviated Upon his Majesties March out of Scotland he Raised what Forces he could to his Assistance but was first unfortunatly defeated at Wigan in Lancashire from whence he fled to the King at Worcester where also that Royal Army being overcome by Cromwells Numerous Forces he unfortunatly fell into their hands and suffered under their inhumane merciless execrable Tyranny resigning up his Soul into the hands of his Maker October 15. 1651. XXVIII CAptain Symkins who for carrying the Kings Letter of Invitation to Sir Thomas Midleton was by a Court-Marshal held at Chester Condemned and accordingly Executed by those incorrigable Rebells October 1651. XXIX SIr Timothy Fetherston-haugh a Valiant Gentleman who Engaging with the Noble Earle of Derby in the Service of his Soveraign was defeated at Wigan in Lancashire and suffered by those obdurate Rebells Octo. 22. 1651. XXX COlonel Benbow who for his Loyalty and superlative Valour was by those blood-thirsty Regicides much about the same time shot to death at Shrewsbury XXXI COlonel John Gerard a Gentleman of good Account whose Family have been very Eminent for their Loyalty upon a pretended Plot of Assassinating Cromwell was with divers others committed to Prison and Tryed before their High Court of Injustice where though there were little appearance of the Truth thereof but some few words extorted by fear besides the confession of their own Agent yet was he by bloody Lisle the President Condemned and lost his head on Tower-hill July 10. 1654. XXXII MAster Peter Vowel School-Master of the Free School at Islington against whom they had suborned a blind Minister whom this worthy Martyr had sustained and fed they having received from him some words that Master Vowel should say as That if the Tyrant were removed or otherways laid aside the Royal Interest would be gladly Embraced and without any difficulty Re-assumed to its Authority These cursed Caiphases more enlarged with addition of several circumstances and though the said Minister at his Tryal denyed and disowned the said words yet they making for their purpose O impudence without