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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

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

did those two Knights of the Post Pitts and Bernard against Sr. Iohn Gell and Colonel Andrews to take away their lives by a High Court of Injustice when he could no longer squeeze any profit out of their bodies Witness his private transporting of many hundred of poor Caveliers beyond the Seas whom this States spirit barbarously sold to be made Gally-slaves to Turkes and Pagans which miser able servitude they must inevitably endure till Death more merciful than this Monster puts a period to their miseries I could instance above two hundred Gentlemen by him clapt in the Tower without any accusation or accusor made known where some of them were detained many years without any legal proceedings or charge against them he and his Master Oliver who continually furnished him with blanck Warrants for that purpose sharing between themselves in the mean time their Estates Offices and Revenues whilst these were left to starve rot and dye in nasty rooms purposely provided to destroy them without any relief or maintenance whatsoever For not one of their Friends dare lend or send them money or any of their Kindred come near them for fear of being committed Prisoners or at least questioned for malignants So as his Prison was become a private Slaughter-house and Olivers Court the publick Shambles of injustice It was the Custom of King Charles the first and his Predecessors to grant all owance to Prisoners in the Tower during their confinements according to their several degrees viz. 51. weekly for an Esquire c. and so proportionably for every person suitable to his quality But so far was this Canibal from giving or allowing any thing towards their subsistance that he converted those Fees to his own use and caused them to be shut up close Prisoners in unwholsome Chambers denying them the liberty of the Tower and b●nefit of the fresh air the Camelious dyet for their healths or resort of Friends for their accomodations The Fable of the Promethean vulture was but an Embleme of this Monster for so long as his power lasted he continually knaw'd upon the hearts of such persons as were under his custody his Office resembling that of the Sheep-heards Dog to worry Sheep first and afterwards drive them into his pinfolds He was Cromwels Coy-duck whilst he lived Offitiosa aliu exiti sa suis ever imployed and very officious to bring store of game into his Masters nets one that had learned to give poyson into a golden cup and knew well how to deceive even with Scripture plarases like her in Claudian * Claudian de voluptate Stiliconis lib. 2. Blanda quidem vultu sed quae non tetriox ulla Interius fucatagenas amict a doloru Illecibris An outward Saint an inward Devil A painted face but full of evil One who coveted to be rich and great in power that his greatness might equal his malice like him in the Poet Qui tantum ut noceat cupit esse potens Who rays'd himself out of the dirt That he might have more power to hurt Base men when they climb to any height prove above all others most proud and ambitious as appeared by this man who being beggarly born and of contemptible Parents became the most cruel and fiercest blood-hound of all Olivers pack Asperius nihilest humili cum surgit in altum None are more cruel than mean men rays'd high Or Beggars mounted on a Palfery For set but any of these proud Raskals on Horse-back and they will never rest till like their Comerade Pride aux they have made good the Proverb and ride Post to the Devil When Traytors are climbing up Fortunes Wheel Derrick commonly watches under-neth it to catch them toll untur in altum Ut lapsu graviore ruant This proved at last his reward for his horrid villanies treasons and murdering his Soveraign A Legacy long since given and bequeathed to him by his fellow-sufferers and Brethren in iniquity Harrison Scot Axtel and Hugh Peters who made the Hang-man Executor to their last Wills and Testaments To whose mercy I leave him and Corbet concluding with this Epitaph HEre lyes poor Iohn who was not beat to death As Stock-fish are but onely lost his breath Whilst he aspir'd himself on high to rayse He gain'd a wreath of Hemp instead of Bayes The Fate of Traytors may all perish so That seek their King and Kingdoms over-throw Dun was his Doctor who thought fit to bind A Cord about his neck to keep the wind From fuming up his head But O! sad note The Rope begot a squinzy in his throat Which choakt him up although some busie tongues Report it was the obstruction of his lungs That caus'd his sudden Death Let all who are His Friends by his example have a care How they come under this rude Doctors pawes Who onely practices the Tyburn Lawes In making falling-bands or knitting-knots That cure diseases beyond the Galli-pots A Rogue so known in Hell each Sessions thence They send Fiends to him for intelligence What guests are coming to the Sti●ian Court Whether the greater or the meaner sort Traytors or Thieves to whom he answer makes When Phoebe once her waining horns forsakes And Easter Term begins I 'le send you * Corbet one Whose looks shall ' ffright grim Pluto from his throne And scare the lesser Devils thence when there They see one Blacke● than themselves appear But when Dun named Corbet they reply'd He 's Pluto's Kinsman by he mothers side We know him well bid him make haste for hee Is welcome to our black Fraternitie William Munsun Henry Mildmay and Rob. Wallup As for that female Town-top and great devourer of of buttered Peason William late Lord Munson formerly a Page but now a close Prisoner in the Fleet Harry once Sr. Henry Mildmay and Robert Wallup who did all actually sit as Judges upon the Tryal of their lawful Soveraign King Charles the first by reason it appeared that they were absent from the pretended Hight Court of Justice at such time as Sentence passed to take away the Kings life His Masesty was g●atiously pleased to refer the manner of their punishments to His High Court of Parliament who soon after upon a Serious debate in both Houses passed an Act too merciful for such ingrateful Traytors though in some sort suitable to the quality of their Crimes viz. That their Estates should be Confiscated and their persons drawn upon Sledges from the Tower to Tyburn with Ropes about their Necks and to be degraded of their Honours and Titles c. which was accordingly Executed upon the 27th of Ianuary following An. 1661. it being the same day that the King was Condemned to death many thousands of people being Spectators of their infamy who not onely at the Gallows but as they passed in the streets bitterly cursed and reviled them insomuch that Wallup being of that shameful punishment more sensible than the other of the horrid sin he had committed as well as of the eternal