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A winding-sheet for traytors: with a discovery of their great and dangerous conspiracies the horrid perfidiousness and treachery of divers usurping tyrants; their Judas-like actings in several countries; their judgements, and self-executions; their s[u]ddain death; the names of such who have both hang'd and drown'd themselves; and the lamentation and confession of Mr. Scot, and divers others of the wicked and cruel judges, who most barbarously and inhumanely murther'd our late gracious soveraign Lord King Charles.
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home to his hous intending to have made a door of them to one oâ— the Rooms of his House but it pleased the Lord presently to strike him with a suddain and violent sickness whereof he presently dyed and those boards were made his Coffin to bury him in One Brown a Scottish-man with other of his Countrey-men having betrayed his Majesty in several weighty businesses of great importance and being extreamly oppressed with horrour and guilt fell mad and so dyed desperately but Brown the grand Impostor going to Fern Island in the North Seas within a League or two of the Holy-Island wrapt himself in a White Sheet and tumbled himself down from the Top of a Rock into the Main Ocean Such was the horrid perfidy of the Treachery Scot that in stead of the expected Safety of his Majesties Person Jâ—das-like for Money though a far greater Sum sold and delivered their Soveraign LORD and KING into the hands of his English Rebels who by this means had under God a power to re-settle the Kingdoms peace But they were blinded to their own destruction and having taken the Lords Anointed in their pits they now used him as they listed carryed him whither they pleased and indeed treated him no otherwise then as their prisoner for with a strong Guard of Horse and Foot in the moneth of February 1646. the depth of Winter they removed him from Newcaâ—â—le to Holmby Long had not his Sacred Majesty continued there but He was by a part of the Army under one Joyce a Taylor violently taken from thence and brought to his Honour of Hampton-Court where for a while he began to reassume his Pristine Majesty being admitted to see and to be seen but Cromwel fearing the frequency of so great resort might spoil his grand Plot and Trayterous Designs with much Serpentine Craft and Devilish Subtilty perswaded and insinuated into his Majesties heart doubts and suspitions of mischief intended against him the onely way for preventing whereof he affirmed to be the withdrawing his Person from thence to a place of more strength and security and to that purpose nominated the Isle of Wight to which place his Majesty led by the Innocency of his spotless Conscience was decoyed and at his arrival found himself over-reached for he was immediatly secured by Col Hammond who then was Governour in the said Island and kept a long time prisoner there in the Castle of Carisbrook to the unspeakable grief of his Majesty and all true Subjects One Sir Thomas Martin Knight of Cambridgeshire an Engager and great Complier with the Times having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park and the Deer being faln stuck and opened and he desired together with the other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deers blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the young King of Scots Immediately after this riding home the same day at evening his Horse very suddenly and violently threw him in which fall he pitched on his Head moâ—tally break his Skill and Shoulder of which wounds he veâ—â— shortly after died Doctor Dorislaus the Westminsterians Junctoes-first-Ambassadosent from them into Holland and therefore no doubt a great Engager and desperate Complier in all things with them as in thâ— Kings Death this Dorislaus being arrived in Holland was immediately and suddenly assaulted and slain as he sate at Dinner in his own house Mr. Thomas Hoyle formerly looked upon as a very pious and strictly Religious Gentleman an Alderman of York and Member of Parliament but having taken the Engagement even against his Conscience turned a great Complyer with them at Westminster Not long after it pleased the Lord so to leave him to himself that on the very same day 12 moneth that King Charles was Beheaded yea as near as possibly could â—e judged about the very same hour of that day this Gentleman hanged himself at his own house in Westminster and was found dead by his Wife when she came home who had been abroad that morning Mr. Shereman a Citizen and Silkman in Pater-Nâ—ster-Row in London who had formerly been looked upon as a Godly and Religious man had been a Tryer and an Elder in the Presbyterian-Church-Government a very good friend to Mr. Love then his Pastour but afterwards he turning with the Times took the Engagement and that in form of an Oath whereupon he was made a Common-Council-man turned a desperate enemy and hater of the said Mr. Love who shortly after being in the Shop with his Wâ—fe as well as eâ—er in his liâ—e yet in the Evening standing at his Counter in his Shop and his Wife close by him he suddenly fell down dead by her and spake one word Vnto this I shall onely add this Qâ—â—ry viz. Whether those persons that are living that took upon themselves the Name Stile and Title of The Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland though bp their Writs by which they sate they were but the fragments of the Parliament oâ— England onely Beheaded their Lawful Protestant King Banished his Posterity overturning our antient Government it â—elâ— consisting of King Lords and Commons which constitution continued many hundreds of years and was the best and fittest foâ— theâ—e Nations that could be and brought the Nation into such a Labyrinth and Confusion by endeaâ— ouring to set up a Vtopian Commonwealth a mere Neâ—-Nâ—tâ—ing Whether the orersons may not justly fear They may all down Qâ—â—â—k into Heâ—â— or fall into the sâ—me Exemplary Tâ—rrors Judgements and Self-Executions with Others iâ— they repent not for their Abominations FINIS