with a Party pursued the Pinnace to a shallow which she could not pass demanding her and the Earles Surrender which being refused a Drake was discharged which unfortunately killed the said Earle and one of his Servants being placed on purpose on the Deck to deter the Royalists from shooting whereupon they presently struck sayle and yielded but with a just revenge were all sacrificed to to the Ghost of that most Noble Loyal Peer XVI Colonel Charls Cavendish aforesaid who quickly after the deserved death of those murthering Rebells was set upon by a great Party under Colonel White a Lincolnshire Gentleman who with those Forces came to relieve the Boat or recover it if taken Whereupon a sharp Encounter ensued betwixt them but the Royalists being over-pour'd the Valiant Colonel was forced to take the Trent with his Horse which swam him safe to the other side but there stuck in the Owze and Mud but as soon as he could get a shore off his Horses back the Enemy was come to him round by the Ford and seeing him desparately wounded offer'd him Quarter which he magnanimously refusing throwing his blood amongst them which he wipé't off his face was by them killed out-right upon the place XVII The Lord Grandison who in the Service of his Majesty was wounded at Bristol of which wounds he shortly after died XVIII Sir Ingram Hopton Sir George Bolit and Lievtenant Colonel Markham men whose Names deserve to be recorded in the Book of Fame who in a sharp and sore conflict against the Earle of Manchester's Forces near Horn-Castle in Lincoln-shire valiantly fighting were unfortunately slain XIX John Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond a most Gallant Heroick Person slain in the Battel between Hopton and Waller on Cheriton-Down Fight March 29. 1644. XX. Sir John Smith Colonel Sandys and Colonel Scot Persons of great Worth and Eminency whose valourous minds scorned danger and who hated no man so much as a Coward These Gallant Sons of Mars were slain at the foresaid Fight on Cheriton-Down whose valiant Names succeeding Ages shall mention with honour XXI Colonel Manning slain also at the foresaid Fight a Gallant Person onely unhappy in this in being Father to that Captain Manning who betrayed the Kings Council to Cromwel while he resided at Colin for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country XXII The Lord Cary Sir Thomas Motham and Sir William Lampton who in that great Fight betwixt Prince Rupert and the Parliamentarians at Maston Moor July 2. 1644. wherein above Eight Thousand lost their Lives and was indeed the Greatest of all the War in this so memorable a Battel those Three Honoured Persons lost their Lives sealing the love they bore to the Kings Side with their dearest bloods XXIII Sir William Wentworth Sir Charles Slingsby Sir Francis Dane who Engaging in Defence of his Majesties Cause were slain in that great and unfortunate fight at Maston Moor. XXIV Lievtenant Colonel Smith and Captain Boteler who at the Raising of Banbury Siege lost their lives to purchase to themselves an Honourable Name XXV Sir John Digby whose very Family carries Loyalty in the Name of it wounded at Langport in the County of Somerset of which wounds he shortly after died XXVI Colonel Myn an Active Loyal Person who Commanded a Regiment of English which he brought with him out of Ireland who Engaging with Massey in Gloster-shire valiantly performed the Office of an Excellent Souldier and Expert Commander both in Rallying his Men bringing them up and keeping them from the Rout but being over-mastered in number he was there slain dying in the bed of Honour XXVII Colonel Sir William St. Leger Lievtenant Colonel Topping and Lievtenant Colonel Leake who in the second Battlel at Newbery valiantly fighting lost their lives making good that ground in their death which in their life they had undertook to keep accompanying those Souldiers in their deaths whom in their lives they had Commanded with so much Gallantry XXVIII Colonel Gage the flower of Chevialry and pattern of true Magnanimity who to hinder the daily Excursions of the Abington Forces under the Command of Major General Brown resolv'd to build a Fort at Culham Bride to repress the boldness of those Forces who were constantly out thereabouts upon Designes In the attempt thereof the Abington Forces under Colonel Brown Sally out to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Erruption Engaging with the Royalists though with little hopes of prevailing till an unlucky shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford a great loss to the Royal Interest XXIX Colonel St. George who at the storming of the City of Leicester in a Bravery and Gallantry of Courage ventering upon the mouth of the Cannon was slain with a great shot XXX Colonel Taylor an Eminent Commander under Prince Rupert who at the Siege thereof by Sir Thomas Fairfax was in its Defence mortally wounded XXXI Sir Richard Crane a great friend and familiar with Prince Rupert who in a Sally upon the Enemies was unfortunately slain XXXII The thrice Noble Lord Bernard Stuart Earle of Leichfield the last of the three Illustrious Brothers of the Duke of Richmond late deceased who constantly adheiring to the King both in Weal and Woe never left him for the greatest Danger or Extremity for after the fatal fight at Naseby the King with a flying Army intending for the relief of Chester was set upon by General Poyntz at Routon-Heath where happened a very sharp sore fight wherein this Noble Lord gallantly fighting in Defence of his Royal Master was unfortunely killed Sept. 24. 1645. XXXIII Sir Francis Carnaby and Sir Richard Hutton men of stout and magnanimous carriage who feared not death in his nearest approaches those two valiant Hero's were slain at Sherbon fight in Yorkshire October 25. 1645. being in their march towards the Marquess of Montross XXXIV Major Cufaud an Officer in Basing House which so long and valiantly held out against the numerous assaults of a Potent Enemy and who at last of all would hear of no Terms of surrender but being stormed and with great loss of the assailants Entered this valiant Major after a stout resistance not dreading death was by the hands of his Enemies there slain XXXV Doctor Griffiths Daughter who though a Female yet of a Masculine spirit and for her Loyalty deserving a large share amongst those Notable Hero's slain in the Kings service this Amazonian Lady whose praise cannot be sufficiently celebrated in the foresaid storm at Basing House was by the barbarity of the Enemies killed and shamefully left naked a trophy of their Baseness and her own eternal Renown and Honour XXXVI Master Gerard the Authour of that Elabourate Herbal which bears his Name to whom succeeding Ages must confess themselves indebted this gallant Gentleman Renowned for Arts and Armes was likewise at the storming of that House unfortunately slain a great losse to succeeding Ages XXXVII Sir
constant then in their custody and so jealous were they over him that he could not go or travel any where without a Pass or safe Conduct from the next Officer to the place of his abode which restriction continued for many years together being besides continually in danger of being trappanned out of his Life by the Wiles and Snares of his Treacherous Enemies XXXI Colonel John and William Ashburnham those Gemini of Loyal Fidelity the former so well known in our Annalls for the conveying the King away from Oxford both signally famous for their endeavours in the Royal Cause never free from trouble and molestation of the Regicides whose guilty consciences like Ismael thought every mans hand to be against them These Loyal Brothers were in conclusion sent by them to remote Castles and Islands and there debarred of any intercourse or correspondence with their Friends so inhumanely barbarous were those bloody Rebells that when they could not by any shew of Justice deprive them of their lives they would immure them up in Walls of stone and debar them of all means which should in the least make life comfortable unto them XXXII Air Humphry Bennet an Eminent Royalist formerly a Brigadier in the Kings Army who at that time of Colonel Penruddocks Rising at Salisbury being of that Country was seized and secured as a Partaker and Confederate with him and for the same committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he remained near Three years and then was brought before their High Court of Justice which was Erected for the Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby c. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it after some few dayes attendance he was superseded from his Tryal and remitted again to his confinement but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of State XXXIII The Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Mordant Brother to the Earle of Peterborough an active Person against the Tyrannies of the Rump and that Monster of Nature Oliver Cromwel being really Engaged in several Designs against him for which he hardly escaped with his life being acquitted but by one saving voice After the death of that Tyrant he still laboured indefatigably in the Kings business being as busie against the Rump as before against the Protector for which he was by Proclamation commanded to render himself by a prefixed time or be reputed a Traytor but was by providence preserved out of their hands and hath since seen some of them suffer the same death designed for him He is now Governour of Windsor Castle XXXIV Sir Thomas Woodcock who Engaging in the same Design with my Lord Mordant was by the Regicides intended for the slaughter but he so wisely managed his Defence at their Bar of Injustice that he escaped their clutches being fairly acquitted by those bloody Justices XXXV Master Christopher Pitts a Loyal Noble Gentleman who was apprehended upon the same business of my Lord Mordant and committed Prisoner to Newgate where after Examination having not found enough against him to take away his life they would have made use of him as a Witness against his Associates but his Noble Spirit scorning such baseness refused so to do whereupon after many vain threats and menaces he was by their High Court condemned to perpetual Imprisonment and Fined One Thousand Pound all which his gallant spirit willingly submitted to rather then to be guilty of his Friends blood though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to some a sufficient warrant for such an action He continued after Oliver's death a Prisoner though with more freedom then was allowed him by that Tyrannical Sentence untill by the happy restauration of his Majesty he commenced his Freedome with that of the Kingdomes XXXVI Master William Garrent who for the same business was Tryed before that accursed High Court who would have no doubt designed him for the slaughter but that they failed in their Evidence of which it was thought they relyed on Master Pitts he was with much adoe acquitted and soon after set at liberty XXXVII Henry Fryar John Sumner and Oliver Allen who were all Three condemned at the aforesaid Court of Justice the first of them being brought to suffer in West-Smithfield where in the rounds a Gibbet was Erected but being upon the Ladder and ready to dye a Reprieve was produced and he carried back again to the Tower from whence not long after he was dismist the other two were likewise drawn on Hurdles the one to Bishopsgate and the other to Grace Church-street the places appointed for their Execution but were both there reprieved and soon after freed XXXVIII The most Noble Marquess of Winchester Newcastle and Worcester Hero's whose Deserts require a better Character then I am able to bestow upon them and their Memories a more durable Register then this Little Breviary having indured all the discommodities of those wretched times amongst them Viz. Imprisonment Banishment Distress Diprivation of Estates and all those other Miseries an Insulting Enemy could lay upon them for the Duty they owed to God and their King and the preservation of a Good Conscience XXXIX The Right Honourable Earles of Oxford and Northampton the Lord Herbert c. who suffered Imprisonment in the Tower upon suspition of a Rising from which afterwards for want of good Proof they were released XL. Sir George Booth now Lord Delamere who to free his Country from those Insulting Tyrannies of the Rump appeared in Armes against them in Cheshire and was Proclaimed Traytor together with Major General Egerton Colonel Warden and Sir Thomas Midleton but being defeated by Lambert's more numerous Forces he fled in a disguise to Newport-Pagnel in Bedford-shire where he was discovered seized on and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London his Estate ordered to be sequestred and sold and preparations made for his Tryal which had it gone on he would no doubt have paid for it with his Life but as when Thieves fall out true men speed the better so the divisions betwixt that remaining scum at Westminster and their Commander Lambert thorow the Prudence and Loyalty of Noble General Monke brought in the re-admission of the secluded Members by whom he was restored to his Liberty and Estate XLI Sir Thomas Middleton a Gentleman who had attempted much to the Restauration of his Majesty being Engaged in the same business with Sir George Booth after the Defeat he was forced to flee being sure to have suffered deeply had he fallen into their hands He left Chirk Castle his stately Mansion to be defended by his Sonns which soon after was rendered to Colonel Zanchy but the happy Revolution aforesaid restored his Estate again to him and he to the free and peaceable possession thereof But should I go about to Ennumerate all those Persons that suffered by Sequestrations Plunderings and Rapines my Task were infinite I shall therefore refer every particular of those sufferers to that
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
Thomas Dallison and Sir Richard Cave who in that unfortunate Battel at Naseby sealed their Affection to the Kings Cause with their dearest bloods XXXVIII Sir Nicholas Fortescu a Knight of Malta see the justness of the Kings Cause which invited Strangers from so far Countries to take his Part was slain in Lancashire in defence of the Royal Cause XXXIX Sir Troilus Turbervil Captain Lievtenant of the Kings Life Guard slain at his Majesties marching from Newark to Oxford XL. Major Threave and Captain Fry two Persons of Eminent Valour under the Lord Hopton who when King Charle's Moon began to waine yet stoutly stood up in their Soveraigns Defence and at Torington valiantly fighting against the Fairfaxians who came to storm the Town were there slain dying in the bed of honour XLI Colonel Stanhop Governour of Shelford House who being summoned to surrender the same by Major General Poynz with a gallant resolution refused the same whereupon the Enemy storming and being over-power'd he was slain whilest he valiantly strived to make good that place he had undertaken to keep XLII Sir Nicholas Kemish an Eminent Cavaleir whose Worth and Gallantry cannot be sufficiently mentioned This Loyal Knight after such time the Juncto at Westminster had made those Destructive Votes of No further Addresses to the King and began to reject him in words as they had done formerly in deeds some hopes being given of Ayd for his Majesty Langhorn Poyer and Powell having an Army under them to neer the number of Eight Thousand declaring for the King Sir John Owen also having Risen in North-Wales with a good Force This gallant Knight put to his helping hand and surprized Chepstow-Castle but providence having decreed that deliverance should come to the English Nation by a more mild way then the Sword those Forces under the Three Colonels were utterly Routed Sir John Owen supprest and taken Prisoner and the Castle of Chepstow stormed and taken by Colonel Eure where this Renowned Knight for his Gallant Loyalty was by the barbarous Enemy slain in cold blood XLIII The Lord Francis Villers Brother to the Duke of Buckingham who with the said Duke the Earle of Holland and other Noble Personages Rose in Armes for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty at Kingston in Surry but being set upon by Sir Michael Livesy with other of the Parliament Forces this Active Spark of Valour being too far Engaged by his Mettalsome Courage was taken Prisoner and refusing Quarter was basely killed by a mean and rude hand with whose fall fell the Courage of all the other he being a person of Excellent Parts and of Valour far above his years XLIV Sir _____ Compton a Gentleman of known Worth and Loyalty who Engaging with those Noble Hero's Sir Charles Lucas Lord Capel c. for the Restoring the King and the Lawes to their Right whose Authority was then trampled upon by the Juncto at Westminster This Gallant Gentleman upon a sally out against the Fairfaxians that besieged the Town valiantly fighting was by a bullet which differenceth not a Loyal Person from a Rebel shot and wounded whereof he died July 1648. XLV Sir William Vaughan whose Valour and Fidelity were often approved in his Majesties Service he was slain at the siege of Dublin serving under the thrice Renowned Marquess of Ormond XLVI Sir Arthur Aston a Person whose Experience Courage and approved Fidelity rendred him worthy of the highest Trust and Command This worthy Gentleman was Governour of Drogheda when Cromwell with his Army of Janisaries besieged it valiantly defending the Place committed to his Charge giving Cromwell two notable Repulses and doubtless had given a good account of his Command had not Colonel Wall 's Regiment upon the unfortunate losse of their Colonel in the third Assault been so unhappily dismay'd as to listen before any need was unto the Enemy offering them Quarter and admitted them in upon those Terms betraying thereby both themselves and all their Fellow Souldiers to the insatiable Cruelty of that Monster of Nature Cromwel who gaining the Place most inhumanely put them all to the sword XLVII Sir Edmond Varney a Gentleman whose worth made him alike beloved and admired his faithfull service being often approved in Defence of his Majesty this gallant Gentleman whose merits rendred him odious to Cromwel was one of those who by that bloody Cut-throat was butchered at Drogheda XLVIII Col. Warren Col. Fleming Col. Brin Lievtenant Colonel Finglass and Major Tempest all Active Sparks of Valour whose Heroick Acts had purchased to them a spreading Fame and whose supereminent valour marked them out to slaughter from the hand of that wicked though fortunate General Oliver Cromwell at Drogheda aforesaid XLIX Colonel Hamond a Kentish Gentleman and firm Royalist who was a Colchesterian and suffered for his Loyalty a sharp Imprisonment at Windsor afterwards serving his Royal Master in Ireland at the Castle of Garran lost his life against Cromwel and his Conquering Army L. Captain Goff a person of eminent valour who under the Marquess of Clanrickard in the Royal Cause valiantly fighting was unfortunately killed LI. Sir John Brown a Major General of the Scots at such time as his present Majesty was amongst them who with a Party of Scots Encountering with Lambert in Fife was there wounded of which he quickly after died LII The Lord Widrington an Eminent and Loyal Person who after the Kings march to Worcester together with that ever Renowned Lord the Earle of Derby and other Eminent Hero's gathered Forces together in Lancashire to oppose the Rebells Army which like an impetuous torrent were flowing after the Royal Party and having gathered together about Twelve Hundred Men marched upon a design to fall upon Cromwells own Regiment then Quartering upon their march in Lancaster when in the nick of time in comes Lilburn with Ten Troops of Horse sent by the General from York upon that very Service having with them Two Regiments of Cheshire Foot and other additional Forces of Horse Those gallant Royalists notwithstanding chearfully resolved to fight with Lilburn and accordingly charged him so furiously that they totally Routed their first Troop and with a gallant bravery entered their Body so far that they began to run but fresh reserves coming in they were forced to retreat being sorely annoyed with the Musquets yet notwithstanding this repulse they renewed their charge again and were in great probability of obtaining a glorious Victory when another supply resisted the torrent of their valour and left deep impressions thereof in the death of many gallant Royalists amongst whom this Noble Hero was one who there died in the bed of Honour August 25. 1651. LIII Major General Sir Thomas Tilsely a Gentleman of such Heroick Parts that envy her self must commend him to be the pattern of true Chivalry and Mirrour of Loyalty So Great and Excellent were his Endowments that had he lived in former Ages his Valourous Atchievments would have quite shaded many of those who then passed for
over the Scotch Forces that came into England when the King was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight the cause of their coming being contained in a Declaration which they brought along with them consisting of five heads 1. That the King be forthwith brought to London to Treat in Person with the Two Houses of Parliament 2. That all those who had a hand in or contrived the carrying of the King away from Holmby be condignly punished 3. That the Army be Disbanded 4. That Presbitery be setled 5. That the Members of Parliament who were forcibly secluded from the Houses may be restored But these Demands were answered with Fire and Bullet the Duke and his great Army totally defeated by Cromwel and Himself taken Prisoner by Colonel Wayte and being now in their hands they thought to make good use of him to cajole and fish out what great Ones Members of both Houses the City and Clergy had a hand in his Undertaking It being more then suspected that he had such Invitation to which purpose he was exceedingly importuned by Cromwell the Lord Grey of Grooby Colonel Wayte and Hugh Peters who promised him they would not much obstruct his pretended Plea of Quarter from Lambert upon Articles Nay Peters avouched Quarter so given for which Hamilton gave him Thanks and Mony and Peters in consideration thereof prayed for him openly as his Lord and Patron still feeding him with hopes If he would impeach their Opposites but when they could not extort it from him the Scene was soon altered they which smiled on him before then frowned and being at his Tryal asked what he could say for himself he pleaded Quarter and vouch'd Peters Testimony but that wretched Priest with a brazen face renounced the same saying He now remembred no such matter but that the Army scorned to give Quarter to Him or any of his Nation whereupon he was Condemned to the Block which Sentence was Executed upon him March 9. 1648. XV. HEnry Earle of Holland a special Favourite of King Charles the I. in the beginning of his Reign though afterwards when the long Parliament began to sit that Religion became the Bone of Contention he sided with them But afterwards perceiving that they made Religion only a cloak to cover their Rebellion he deserted them and took up Armes for the Royal Interest together with the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis Villers's Brother the Earle of Peterburgh and some others But they no sooner Rose but were Encountered by the Parliaments more Numerous Forces by whom they were Defeated and the Earle the next day taken Prisoner being afterwards brought to his Tryal before those Lawless Regicides he was by them Condemned together with my Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton and suffered on the same Scaffold the aforesaid 9. of March 1648. XVI ARthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham a most Noble Heroick Gallant Peer Eminently Famous for his Charity and other Rare Endowments whose Noble Virtues fill the Trumpet of Fame to all Posterity This Noble Lord was Son and Heir to Sir Henry Capel of Hadham-Hall in Hartford-shire well known for his Bountiful House and diffusive Charity to the Poor which some Eminous of good works in others because they will practise none themselves have bespattered with the Name of Popery which as they set forth onely the speakers malice so were they no hinderance to this Noble Lord when as he came to possess that Vast Estate to tread in the same steps his Father and Honourable Predecessors had done His great Parts and Deserts Advanced him from the Degree of Knight-hood the antient Dignity of his Family to Baron Capel of Hadham his Son being since by our Gracious Soveragn Created Earle of Essex a little before the time the Earle of Strafford received his Tryal whose giving his Vote to that Bill was in his conscientious Judgment of himself his Original Condemnation in foro Caeli During the time of Rebellion and those unhappy Differences betwixt the King and Parliament none more Constant and Loyal to his Majesty then He Assisting him in all that he could both in Head Hand and Purse and was by Him for his singular Wisdome and Prudence appointed Councellour unto the Prince whom he left not till the Disbanding the Lord Hoptons Army in Cornwall being then dismist with an Honourable Character from that discerning Prince But long had he not continued here at home when some fresh hopes appearing of his Majesties Restauration to his former Authority by the Rising of several Parties for the King he resolved to set his helping hand thereto and joyning with those Valiant Sons of Mars Sir Charles Lucas c. was together with them Besieged in Colchester which for Thirteen Weeks they Valiantly Defended Enduring and Suffering almost all Extremities imaginable at last they were forced to yield upon Articles of Quarter for Life in which this Noble Lord was included yet notwithstanding all Articles he was sent up Prisoner to London and committed to the Tower from whence he endeavoured an Escape and had effected it had he not been betray'd by one Jones a Waterman a second Banister soon after he was brought to their bloody Slaughter-house nick-named by them a Court of Justice whereby those Enemies of Honour and Loyalty he was Condemned and March 9. aforesaid brought to the Scaffold where he resolutely afferted his own Actions his dead Masters Cause and his present Soveraigns Rights recommending him to the People as the great Example of True English Worth and the only Hope of the distracted Kingdom and so like a True Christian Hero suffered the pains of the Axe sealing his Glorious Cause with his last breath and blood XVII MAster Beaumont a Reverend Divine belonging to the Garrison of Pomfract who for his Loyal Endeavours towards the Restoration of his Majesty in holding Correspondency in Cyphers with some Active Royalists was by those Murdering Miscreants who spared none either for their Age or Function most barbarously murdered Feb. 15. 1648. XVIII COlonel John Morris a Gentleman of an Undaunted Courage and Resolution bred up in the Earle of Straffords's House where he was taught his Duty to God and Obedience to his King whom he Faithfully Served in that time of Rebellion being that Gallant Person that Surprized Pomfract Castle which he Valiantly Defended even to the very pinch of Extremity and was for his Valour and Loyalty being suspected by them to be one of those that sent Rainsbrough's Ghost to trace the Infernal Shades most inhumanly butchered by those Scelerate Villanies at the City of York August 23. 1649. XIX COronet Michael Blackburn Emiently Famous for his Loyalty and Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being also taken at Pomfract Castle and likewise suspected for Rainsbrough's death he was therefore by those sworn Foes to true Valour basely murdered at York August 23. aforesaid XX. DOctor Levens Doctor of the Civil Law a Gentleman well Descended of an Antient Family in Oxfordshire who at the first beginning of these
whose Prodigality brought him to sell his Patrimony in the beginning of the late Troubles to Sir Marmaduke Langdale which he afterwards regained for nothing when that Lord was for his Loyalty Voted a Delinquent and his Estate at the dispose of Rebells who carved fat shares unto themselves He had a principal hand in the Kings death for which Parricide and other his Treasonable Practises he was by the Saints of the new stamp made Governour of Glocester and a great Commander in the North He died before his Majesties return XXIII Edmond Ludlow a Person much endeared to the Fanaticks who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army came at last to be a Lievtenant General and one of the Chief Commissioners for Ireland His Father before him uttered Treasonable words against the King in the House of Commons Anno 1643. no marvel then if the Father were a Rebell that the Son should prove a Traytor since most commonly to what the Parents are affected the Children prove addicted Upon his Majesties return fearing the reward of his deserts he fled the Land like his predecessor Caine living a Vagabond from place to place fearing every one that he meets should slay him XXIV Colonel John Hutchinson who by Cromwell and his prevailing Faction was over-awed to Sign his Majesties Execution but by a timely repentance bewailing with tears the heinousnesse of his Offence he obtained Pardon being onely discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts and Fined a years Profit of his Estate to the King XXV Sir Michael Livesey a Kentish Knight whose plague he was being Plunder-Master-General of that County for many years towards the repairing of his broken Estate He was a very Active Person during the Progress of the whole War and as nimbly ran away upon the Kings return making good that Proverb That one pair of leggs was worth two pair of hands XXVI Robert Titchburn born in London of good Extraction by Trade a Linnen-Draper coming by degrees to be Mayor thereof whose Counsels he is said to betray to the Rump Hope of Preferment and want of Grace drew him in to be one of the Infamous Tryars of his Soveraign At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal shewed much penitency for his Offences declaring with much candour his sin and ignorance of the atrocity of the crime protested his Inability of contrivance his raw years and unskilfulness in the Laws Saying He would rather have gone into a hot Oven then into that business if he had known the depth of it instancing That Paul was a Persecutor and found mercy and hoped that he should find the like He was with the other Regicides condemned but by the Kings Great Clemency Execution of Justice was respited on him XXVII Owen Roe formerly a Silkman in London and being an Eminent Independant had a Command of the Militia conferred on him by the Advice of the Devil and Cromwel he came to have a hand in shedding the Kings blood for which after his Majesties return he was condemned but pleading his reluctancy to the Kings Sentence and begging pardon for his Offence which he affirmed was not of malice he was by the Kings Favour Reprieved XXVIII Robert Lilburn a great Enemy to Bishops though come from the Bishopprick of Durham He was Brother to John Lilburn the great Trouble-World who was alwayes opposite to the Predominate Power This Robert Lilburn to raise his Fortunes sided with Cromwell who would never suffer them to want Preferment that were thorow-paced to his Interests By him he was advanced to be a Colonel of Horse a little before the Kings Murther and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility then requite him with having a hand in it and so ran fearlesly into the danger of it He still lives by the Kings clemency a condemned man in the Tower of London XXIX Adrian Scroop a Colonel of Horse a Person very Active against the Kings Parties in 1648. and as violent in the taking away his Majesties Life and Honour in their pretended High Court of Justice which he so little repented of that after his Majesties return in an accidental conferrence with Sir Richard Brown he seemed rather to allow and approve of it by saying Many people did not think it such a heinous matter or that some be of one mind and some be of another He was upon a fair Tryal condemned to dye and accordingly Executed on the Rayled place where Charing-Cross once stood Octo. the 17. 1660. XXX Richard Dean a Fellow of meane Extraction being at first a Hoymans Servant in Ipswich and at the beginning of the Wars to raise his despicable fortunes betook him to the Army and was a matross in the train of Artillery from whence he rose to be a Captain and was first Famous at the Siege of Exeter and being a cross Fellow fit for any mischief one who cared not to build his own hopes though on a general ruine was thought fit to be one of Cromwel's Complices in the Murther of his Soveraign He was afterwards made one of the Generals at Sea against the Dutch and was slain with a Cannon Bullet being shot almost off in the midle as he stood close by General Monke June 2. 1653. XXXI Colonel John Okey at first a Stoker in a Brew-House then a Chandler neer Bishopsgate where having lived a while he betook himself to the Army the Haven of Hope for all Aspiring Minds where in a short space he passed thorow the several commands to that of a Colonel and being of a daring spirit he was by the Artifice of Cromwell bewitched into the patner-ship of that accursed Murther of his Majesty Upon his Majesties return he fled the Land but divine vengeance pursuing him he was with Colonel Barkstead and Miles Corbet taken in Holland and sent over into England where at the Kings Bench Bar they were Arraigned and Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was Executed on the other two and their Quarters exposed on the City Gates but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and Dutifull carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be Interred He dyed with more penitency and greater reluctancy then those of his Fellow-Regicides who suffered in October 1660. acknowledging the Kings Power as of God and exhorting others to the like He was a Person that for his Valour and other good Qualities was pittied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this crime to his destruction XXXII John Hewson who from a Cobler rose by degrees to be a Colonel and though a Person of no Parts either in Body or Mind yet made by Cromwel one of his Pageant Lords He was a Fellow fit for any mischief and capable of nothing else a sordid lump of Ignorance and Impiety and therefore the more fit to share in Cromwell's Designs and to Act in that Horrid Murther of his Majesty