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
and secured in France and sent over hither where having remained some time in the Tower he was conveyed into Scotland and there Tryed Condemned and Executed according to Law 1662. Ecclesiastes 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought for a bird in the Air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter The Contents The Loyal Martyrs Murdered in Scotland 1 COl Nathan Gordon 42 2 Sr. Robert Spotswood 43 3 Mr. Andrew Guthrey ib. 4 Mr. Will. Murrey 44 5 Marquesse of Montross idem The Loyal Persons slain in his Majesties Service 1 COronet Porter 57 2 Lord Aubigney 58 3 Earle of Lindsey idem 4 Sir Edw. Varney idem 5 Col. Munro idem 6 Earle of Northampton idem 7 Earle of Denbigh 59 8 Sir Bevill Greenvil idem 9 Mr. Leake idem 10 Mar. de Vieu Ville idem 11 Earle of Carnarvan 60 12 Earle of Sunderland idem 13 Lord Fauckland idem 14 Sir Hen. Howard idem 15 Earle of Kingston 61 16 Col. Cavendish idem 17 Lord Grandison 62 18 Sr. Ingram Hopton idem 19 Lord Stuart idem 20 Sir John Smith 63 21 Col. Manning idem 22 Lord Carey idem 23 Sr. W. Wentworth 64 24 L. Col. Smith idem 25 Sr. John Digby idem 26 Col. Myn idem 27 Sr. W. St. Leger idem 28 Col. Gage 65 29 Col. St. George idem 30 Col. Taylor idem 31 Sr. Rich. Crane 66 32 Earle of Leichfield idem 33 Sr. Fr. Carnaby idem 34 Major Cufaud idem 35 Mrs Griffith 67 36 Mr. Gerard idem 37 St. Tho. Dalison idem 38 Sr. N. Fortescu 68 39 Sr. T. Turbervil idem 40 Major Threave idem 41 Col. Stanhop idem 42 Sr. N. Kemish idem 43 Lord Villers 69 44 Sr. Compton 70 45 Sr. W. Vaughan idem 46 Sr. Art Aston idem 47 Sr. Edw. Varney 71 48 Col. Warren idem 49 Col. Hammond 72 50 Cap. Goffe idem 51 Sr. John Brown idem 52 Lord Widrington idem 53 Sr. Tho. Tilsely 73 54 Col. Boynton 74 55 Duke Hamilton idem 56 Col. Morgan idem The Loyal Confessors 1 LOrd Finch 76 2 Secret Windebanck 77 3 Bishop of Ely idem 4 Dr. Featly 78 5 Sr. Robert Heath 79 6 Judge Bartlet idem 7 Judge Jenkins 80 8 Lord Hopton 81 9 Sr. Ed. Nicholas 82 10 Earle of Clarendon idem 11 Lord Wilmot 83 12 Dr. Sheldon 84 13 Dr. Hammond idem 14 Sir Marm. Landale idem 15 Mr. Ro. Le Strange 85 16 Earle of Norwich idem 17 Sir John Stowell 86 18 Sir John Berkinhead 87 19 Dr. Barwick idem 20 Earle of Cleaveland 88 21 Lord Gerard idem 22 Sir John Owen 89 23 L. Loughborough idem 28 Sir A. Reynoldson 92 29 Col. Russel idem 30 Lord Bellacis idem 31 Col. Ashbornhan 93 32 Sir Hum. Bennet idem 33 L. Mordant 94 34 Sir Tho. Woodcock 95 35 Mr. Chr. Pits idem 36 Mr. W. Garrant 96 37 Henry Fryar idem 38 Marq. Winchester 97 39 Earle of Oxford idem 40 Sir Geo. Booth idem 41 Sir Tho. Midleton 98 The Kings Iudges 1 JOhn Bradshaw 99 2 Oliver Cromwell 102 3 Henry Ireton 104 4 Har. Waller 105 5 Col. Walton 106 6 Thomas Harrison 107 7 Col. Ed. Whaley 108 8 Col Tho. Pride idem 9 Col. Isaac Ewer 109 10 The Lord Grey 110 11 Lord Munson idem 12 Sir I. Danvers 111 13 Sir Tho. Maleverer idem 14 Sir Io. Bourcher 112 15 Isaac Pennington idem 16 Henry Martin 113 17 Will. Purefoy 114 18 Col. Berkstead idem 19 Iohn Blakeston 116 20 Gilbert Millington idem 21 Tho. Chaloner 117 22 Sir W. Constable idem 23 Edmond Ludlow 118 24 Col. Hutchinson idem 25 Sir Micha Lieusie 119 26 Robert Titchburn idem 27 Owen Rowe 120 28 Robert Lilburn idem 29 Adrian Scroop 112 30 Richard Dean idem 31 Col. Okey 122 32 Iohn Hewson 123 33 William Goffe idem 34 Cornel. Holland 124 35 Iohn Carew idem 36 John Jones 125 37 Per. Pelham 126 38 Thomas Wogan idem 39 Fran. Allen idem 40 Dan. Blagrave 127 41 John Moor 128 42 Will. Say idem 43 Franc. Lascels 129 44 Ja. Chaloner idem 45 Gregory Clement idem 46 Sir G Norton 130 47 John Ven idem 48 Thom. Andrews 131 49 〈◊〉 Stapely idem 50 Tho. Horton idem 51 John Lisle 132 52 John Dixwell 133 53 Miles Corbet idem 54 Simon Meyne 134 55 John Allured 135 56 Henry Smith idem 57 Humphry Edwards 136 58 John Fry idem 59 Ed. Harvey 137 60 Tho. Scot idem 61 William Cawley 138 62 John Downs idem 63 Thomas Hammond 139 64 Vincent Porter idem 65 Augustine Garland 140 66 George Fleetwood idem 67 James Temple 141 68 Peter Temple idem 69 Thomas Wait. 14◠Accessary Regicides 1 John Cook 144 2 Hugh Peters 145 3 Daniel Axtel 147 4 Dr. Daurislaws 149 5 Da. Broughton 150 6 Edw. Dendy 151 7 Sr. Hen. Mildmay idem 8 Robert Wallop idem 9 Tho. Hoyle 152 10 Lockier 153 11 Sir Tho. Martin id 12 Sir Hen. Holcroft 154 13 Col. Rainsbrough idem 14 〈◊〉 Marston 155 15 Sir Hen. Vane 156 Traytors Executed since his Majesties return 1 Tho. Venner c. 158 2 John James 167 3 Cap. Baker c. 169 4 The Rebels in Yorkshire 170 5 Marq. of Argyle idem 6 James Guthery 172 7 Lord Warreston idem FINIS
of their cruelty upon the most stoutest asserters of the Kings Cause I. COlonel Nathaniel Gordon a Gentleman of exquisite valour who accompanied the Noble Marquess of Montross in all dangers and difficulties his constant Fidelity rendred him odious to the Covenanting-gang who having him in their hands most basely murther'd him at St. Johnstons 1647. II. SIr Robert Spotswood whose Worth and Learning would have preserved him from the hands of his most barbarous Enemies but those of his own Nation He was a Gentleman of most polite and deep learning especially in the Oriental Languages and was for his extraordinary parts made the Kings Secretary of Scotland in the place of the Earle of Lanerick His great Endowments and large Abilities for what he undertook accelerated his end dying with a Noble and Christian courage breathing his last with these words Jesu have mercy on me and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race III. MAster Andrew Guthrey Son to the Bishop of Murrory a Loyal Gentleman and therefore rendred the more obnoxious to the Kirk-men those great pretenders of dutifull affection to the King a strange riddle to love the Master and murther his Servants this gallant person was by them barbarously murthered the aforesaid year 1647. IV. MAster William Murrey Brother to the Earle of Tullibardin one whose hopefull Spring promised a flourishing fruitfull Harvest who in his Youth performed wonders and gave undeniable proofs of what he would have proved afterwards had he not been thus basely cut off in the prime of his strength at Nineteen years of age He most magnanimously couragiously encountered death behaving himself with such a Christian carriage and contempt of death as he said His End would prove the greatest Honour of his Family These four Gentlemen all Sacrificed their lives in defence of their Soveraign and dyed Royal Martyrs at St Johnstons the year of our Lord 1647. aforesaid V. THe Renowned and ever Glorious Marquess of Montross the Honour of Chevalry pattern of true Magnanimity whose glorious exploits were such and so great as would pose Antiquity with all her feign'd Hero's to find his parallel of whom we shall give you the more larger account and shew you how barbarously they used this gallant Worthy He at first sided with the Covenanters against his Majesty their specious pretenses carrying a fairer gloss then his green years could so soon look into but reason quickly rectified his Judgment and he perceived that those fair shews were but painted cloaths on purpose to catch the simple yet would he not so soon on the sudden decline but endeavoured in his Revolt to have done his Majesty an Excellent Piece of Service by bringing that Army to him which was under his Command but being disappointed he endeavoured to display his Loyalty another way The King having then few friends in Scotland but such as were so over-aw'd by the Convenanters they durst not shew themselves the Noble Marquesse obtained a Commission from the King to be Governour of Scotland whither he went attended onely by two Master William Rollock and Master Sibbalds and thorow many dangerâ— came at last to his Cousin Master Patrick Graham in the Sheriff-dome of Perth where he stai'd but a while but went into the High-Lands the Earle of Antrim having promised to send him sufficient Supplies out of Ireland as a stock to begin with which he performed though very defficient in the Number some One Thousand One Hundred only coming over however having some little addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earle of Perths Son he resolved not to lye idle but with a bold Courage to finde out the Army of the Covenanters then gathered together under the Earle of Tullyburn and other Scotch Lords in Perth-shire where at Tepper-Moor he set upon them and though not equal to his Enemies in number yet so exceeding them in Valour that he obtained of them a Glorious Victory which he might well ascribe to Providence for his Souldiers wanting Ammunition were supplyed by the stones which lay thick on the ground whereon they fought to their very great advantage Here he killed no lesse then Two Thousand of his Enemies whereupon the City of Perth opened her gates and yielded to the Conquerour This Victory obtained he Marches into Argyles Country one whose Actions hath since rendred him deservedly infamous here he made a miserable havock minding utterly to break the spirits of that People who were so surely Engaged to Argyle's side To withstand and represse this so dangerous an Enemy the Covenanters soon Raised another Army under the Earle of Seaforth and the Marquess of Argyle whose Forces being divided he sets upon that Party under Argyle first which he totally Routed killing One Thousand Five Hundred on the Place soon after he Defeated the other Army being newly put under the Command of Colonel Hurry then offers battel to Bayley who declined to Fight without great advantage whereupon he marches after Hurry who was now Recruited and at Alderne sets upon him discomfits him killing One Thousand Eight Hundred and dispersing the rest Then next with his Victorious Army he goes to seek for Bayly to whom was joyned the Earle of Lindsey and joyning battel with them at Alesford-Hills gives them a total Rout but not without the losse of some of his own men whereof the Lord Gourdon deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance then with an uncontrollable march he goes to St. Johnstons putting the Parliament who there satt into a great fright from thence he goes into the Low-Lands to Encounter with Bayly who was again Recruited with another Army by the Kirk At Kilsith both Armies met where betwixt them was fought a very bloody Battel which continued doubtfull for a good space but Victory at length crowned the head of Montross almost Six Thousand of his Enemies falling in that Fight nor were the effects thereof lesse profitable to him then the Victory it self for hereupon almost all Places of Strength yielded to him even as far as Edenburgh the Nobility and Gentry every where readily Assisted him and acknowledged him for their Rightful Governour But what Estate on Earth is long permanent How soon may a serene skie be shadowed with clouds Whiles Montross was now as he thought almost secure most part of his Army returning home he expecting Ayd from the King under the Lord Digby Leshly being called out of England by the Scottish Estates made such hast that he fell upon Montross at Philips-haugh almost before his Scouts could give him Intelligence and there Routed him he hardly escaping with his life being forced to cut his way through his Enemies and with a poor remainder of his Army fly into the High-Lands where he began anew to Levy Forces but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year Ordered by the King then in the Scotts Custody to Disband and Depart the Kingdome which notwithstanding he knew it would be prejudicial
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
illustrious Hero's he was also slain in that fatal defeat whereof we spake of last LIV. Colonel Mathew Boynton Sir Francis Gamul Lievtenant Colonel Gallyard and Major Trollop and Chester Men of approved Worth and Loyalty whose gallantry appeared the more conspicuous Engaging in such a time when there was almost a general defection of Loyalty These valiant Hero's Engaging with the foresaid Earle of Derby being over-powered by Lilburn's numerous Forces gallantly fighting were slain at Wiggan August 25. 1651. dying there in the bed of Honour and leaving to posterity a Noble Character of their Worth and Virtues LV. Duke Hamilton unfortunately wounded in the Fight at Worcester of which wounds he shortly after died LVI Colonel Morgan a Gallant Gentleman who Engaged with Sir George Booth for a Free Parliament and to un-yoak the Nation from the slavery of those bloody Canniballs at Westminster who intended to have perpetuated themselves in their Tyranny This magnanimous Loyal Person valiantly fighting against Lambert's numerous Forces which like a violent Torrent over-powered them after a gallant defence and defiance of his Enemies was there mortally wounded and soon after died being the last man whose blood was shed in War against those wicked Tyrants the Kings Restauration hapning quickly after And in the next place we should come to speak of those who suffered in their Estate for their Loyalty those gallant Confessors to whom nothing was more common then Imprisonment and Sequestration but should we reckon them all up it would make a Volume as big as Foxes Martyrologie and tyre the brain of the most sedulous Reader not any one Rich Cavilier that scaped their clutches a great Estate being enough to make them guilty of the most hainous Crimes and how ever their Bodies sped their Purses were sure to pay for it Goldsmiths and Haberdashers Hall was their Exchequer as the High Court of Justice was their Shambles The Good Old Cause devoured more then Bell and the Dragon and it was their main Policy to be maintained by their Enemies Estates Take therefore here a Brief Catalogue of the most Eminent Sufferers reserving those of a lesser magnitude to be recorded by more voluminous Historians A brief Catalogue of the most Eminent of those Loyal Confessors who Suffered by Imprisonment Banishment or Estate for the Cause of his Sacred Majesty And that no Occasion may be taken at this Catalogue for matter of Precedency as nominating the most Eminent Sufferers in the first place we will as near as we can observe the order of time and begin first with I. THe Lord Finch of Fordwich Lord Keeper of the Great Seal a Person whose Abilities and Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty rendred him obnoxious to the unruly rabble and therefore upon their Arbitrary Proceedings against the Life of the most Noble Earle of Strafford he wisely with-drew himself away in time before Popular Fury had seized on him against which Beast Innocency would not then give Protection He lived in Banishment and Exile from his Native Country for Sixteen years and then returned with more Credit and Honour then he was forced from it dying in the Love and good Opinion of all Honest People His Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being all the Charge and Accusation they had against him II. Master Secretary Windebanck a person of approved Worth and Loyalty against whom the darts of Popular Fury were in those times of Distraction especially aymed at which to avoid he pursued the same course with the Lord Finch and died in the time of his absence abroad III. The Right Reverend Father in God Mathew Lord Bishop of Ely who with Eleven more of that Sacred Function were committed to the Tower in the year of our Lord 1641. The pretensions against them being the same with the Complices of Korah Ye take too much upon you ye Sons of Levi when their Adversaries intentions was to take all for though the grave Rabbies of that prevailing Faction buzzed into the Peoples eares that their Quarrel was against the Litturgy against Ceremonies and the like a yet their after-Actions made it plainly appear that it was more against Bishops Lands and that the Wealth of the Clergy was more in their ayme then the Weal the Subjects and the Riches of the Prelates more indifferent to those strict Disciplinaries then a Reverend decency in holy performances Eighteen years did this Reverend Father suffer Imprisonment in the Tower having in all that time no Charge exhibited against him but in the end of the year 1659. he was restored to his liberty by the means of the Renowned Duke of Albemarle and is since Re-established in his former Diocess to the Honour and Support of this restored Church IV. Religious Doctor Featly one most Eminent for Learning and Piety to whom this Church is much indebted for his grave accurate defences of its Doctrine and Discipline a man of excellent Endowments and surpassing Knowledge being a Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper when the Church by lowliness of spirit did flourish in high examples yet could not this his singular Piety eminent Learning nor those other extraordinary Gifts with which he was Endowed privilege him from the protection of a Prison being by an Order of Parliament committed to Peter-House where he languished in much pain and misery about a year and a half and was afterwards sickness encreasing through much importunity removed to Chelsey Colledge as a more wholesome Aire but he was so far spent by their barbarous misusage of him that within three weeks after his coming thither he died V. Sir Robert Heath Lord Chief Justice of England a person much Honoured for his Integrity and Moderation and as conspicuous for his constant Loyalty as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day His constant approved service to the King had rendered him so odious to the Rebells at Westminster that he was by them excepted from mercy wherefore towards the expiration of the War he abandoned his Country and fled into France where living in great greef and anxiety of mind to behold the Ruines of his King and Country he fell into a Disease and died thereof at Caen in Normandy not long after the Kings death VI. Judge Bartlet whose innocency defied their threats and like a rock stood in opposition against that torrent of Rebellion but yet was forced at last to yield to their Tyranny in his Body though his Mind they could not conquer He was the first of that Reverend Robe that was committed against whom was brought a Charge fuller of malice then truth and which his integrity made them ashamed of a further prosecution Thus we see by the Imprisonment of this Reverend Judge and others that the pretense of our Grand Reformers was to put out the eyes of the Law that the Subjects might see the clearer VII That heart of Oake and Pillar of the Law Judge Jenkins one of his Majesties Justices in Wales whose Annagram is David Jenkins Kains did Envy He
was for some misdemeanours of Loyalty brought to the Bar in Chancery where he denyed the Authority of the Court because their Seal was contrary to Law as well as their Commissioners and so baffled those puny Judges that instead of a further prosecution there they committed him Prisoner to the Tower where he gave further Demonstrations of his Loyalty by publishing several Presidents and Statutes wherein he proved them Rebells and Traytors and owned the same again at other Bars So that he did more mischief to the Enemies of the Royal Cause with his Pen then their best Regiment could do with their Swords He used his utmost endeavour to set the Parliament and Army at ods thereby to promote the Kings Cause according to that well known maxime Divide and Conquer defying them and their threats and asserting the King and the Laws against their Usurpation He was kept a close Prisoner a long time in the Tower where wearied of him by his indefatigable industry in the Kings Cause he was removed from thence to Windsor where he continued in the same quality and of the same mind till without thanks to them he was permitted the liberty of the Town and hath survived to see the Return of Majesty the Restauration of the Laws and the Liberty of the Subjects restored to them again in as ample a manner as it was before VIII That Valiant Loyal Son of Mary Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton whose Courage and Prudence in the management of the Kings Affairs for whom he Commanded in the West did gaine him the approbation of an Expert Captain and Gallant Commander having his Endeavours Crowned with many notable Successes After his Disbanding in Cornwall Rebellion then flourishing with a high hand he took shipping with the Prince our now Gracious Soveraign and with him Sailed into the Island of Scilly and from thence into the Realm of France following the Kings hard fortune in his Peregrinations till death in the end put a period to his Travells and after a Troublesome life he found a quiet Grave at the City of Paris in France IX Master Secretary Sir Edward Nicholas who constantly and faithfully adhered to his Majesty from the beginning of his Troubles being a great Prop to the Royal Cause by his Prudent Counsells and Great Abilities in the Management of the most Difficult Affairs and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to our present Soveraign in all his Troubles and Negotiations abroad having with great Faithfulness and Prudency Managed that Employment all along to the happy Effect of his Majesties Glorious Restitution X. Sir Edward Hide since the Right Honourable Earle of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour to his present Majesty of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to cry out the Sun shine by whose Counsels the late King had in special Esteem and therefore made him his bosome Favourite which caused such a hatred against him by the Faction at Westminster as excluded him out of their Spurious Act of Mercy But escaping their mercilesse cruelty by a timely avoidance of the Land through his prudent carriage of Affairs together with the providencial mercy of God he survived to see those Enemies of Monarchy and Regal Government brought to a Just Tryal and himself advanced to such a pitch of Honour as to see the Laws Administred in their right form and the Subject to enjoy the just priviledges of them XI The Lord Wilnot afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earle of Rochester being Raised thereunto by his superlative Deserts not only by his Valour which shone transcendent clear at Round-way-down neer the Devizes but also in his prudent carriage in that grand Affair concerning the Kingdoms happiness in his Majesties Miraculous Escape from Worcester He died a little before the Kings Restitution not surviving to participate of those Grandeurs whereof his Abilities would have made him a deserved Sharer XII The Right Reverend Doctor Shelden whose Deserts and Sufferings advanced him upon the Restauration of his Majesty to be Lord Bishop of London since by the death of Doctor Juxon as none more able to supply his place to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan of all England of whose Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a Candle Let it suffice that his very Name is enough to strike Envy dead and to put to silence the most obstinate Heretick and riged Schismatick upon the face of the whole Earth XIII The Religiously Loyall Doctor Hammond a constant assertor of our English Liturgy and one whose Abilities rendred him dear to King Charles the Martyr to whom Imprisonment was no stranger during the time Rebellion was Rampant expecting every day for his Loyalty to have been transported yet would never yield nor deviate from those wayes wherein Conscience ascertain'd him he was in the right though not the predominate side XIV Sir Marmaduke Langdale afterwards Lord Langdale whose Abilities in Martiall Affairs would in the time of Paganism have deified him the God of Battel though in our times his constant Loyalty had rendred him to a higher pitch of Honour being deservedly accounted a Pylot for all Noble and Gallant Spirits whereby to direct and steer their Course XV. Master Roger L' Strange of whose Worth and Abilities to speak would to an Intelligible Reader appear superfluous like the labours of him who writ a whole Volumn in the praise of Hercules whom no man dispraised This Loyal Gentleman for his Endeavours of Reducing Linn to their Obedience to his Majesty suffer'd the utmost malice of a prevailing Faction even to Condemnation besides a long Imprisonment in Newgate Yet could not their Tyranny so much depress his Spirits but his Pen was still a constant Assertor of the Royal Cause in which he continued his best endeavours unto and untill the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty by whom he is looked upon as one of the Agents of his Restauration XVI The Right Honourable the Earle of Norwich a Gentleman of such Worth and Abilities that this mite will signifie nothing to those Rare and Excellent gifts both of Learning and Wisdom wherewith he was Adorned XVII Sir John Stowel a Somerset-shire Gentleman whose Loyalty rendred him so sufficiently Famous that Envy it's self cannot but grant him a prime place with those Glorious Confessors who suffered under the Barbarous Tyrannies of the Rump in the Cause of that Blessed Martyr King Charles who so constantly and vigourously adhered to the King during the War untill the Surrender of Exeter where was good Articles granted upon which he came to London to make composition for his Vast Estate then under Sequestration but contrary to the Capitulation agreed upon at Exeter the Committee at Gold-Smiths-Hall those Horse-leeches of the Nation tendered him the Negative Oath before he could have any admission to Compound to which unjust and perfidious dealing he pleaded the benefit of the said Articles who good Conscientious Men committed him first to the Serjant
1660. IV. Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune and in Charity judged not to be of such a premeditated malice as the rest though by the current of Times drawn to Act with the highest in Mischief He was at the first a Cavalier in Opinion but with the more gainfuller times turn'd Presbyterian then afterwards upon the new module when Presbytery began to decline he became a strong Independant where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and minding Profit more then Conscience he still grew more hardned in his Lawless practises finding more likeliness of greater spoiles in the destruction of Monarchy He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesties Execution and Acted all along with them in their Murtherous Counsels having for his share in the price of blood a Command afterwards in Ireland where he continued till such time as the Happy Revolution of Affairs brought Monarchy again to stand on its feet when he surrendred himself and upon his Tryal shewed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes He still lives by the Mercy of the King a condemn'd man Prisoner in the Isle of Wight V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Extract or Remarque till such time as made notoriously famous for Villany He was by Marriage Cromwel's Brother in Law who upon that account by his Authority and Command in the Parliament preferred him to be Governour of Linn and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely which place he had stongly Fortefied as a safe Retreat for Cromwel if before he had compleated his damnable Designs he should have been forced to have gone thither Upon the Change of the Times when Royalty began to grow splendid he ran away the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth and hath hitherto escaped the hands of Justice VI. Colonel Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle under line in Staffordshire at first a Servant to one Master Hulker an Atturney But finding the Law begun to be trode under foot he betook himself to the Army the more hopefuller way of preferment where by his Preaching and such like Sanctimonious wayes of proceeding when the Army made a gain of Godliness he came to be a Major and being of a pragmaticall daring spirit was by the influence of Cromwel preferred to be a Colonel and the Custody of the Kings Person when taken from the Isle of Wight committed unto him which he according to his Butchery Nature most irreverently abused by no less saucy behaviour then Treasonable Speeches of blacking the King c. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ring-leader of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men and such as traded in Enthusiasmes in whose Love and especial Opinion he dyed being expectedly Executed at the place where once stood Charing-Cross October 14. 1660. His Head was set upon a Pole on the top of the South-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters Exposed to Publick View upon some of the City Gates VII Colonel Edward Whaley Descended from a Family in Nottingham-shire and bound Apprentice to a Woollen-Draper which trade he followed for a while but falling into decay left the Ell and took up the Spear and during all the time of our Troubles was very industriously Active rising by degrees till he came at last to be Comissiary General of the Horse He was a Man of a daring Spirit and resolute to perform what ever he undertook Crafty withall and Covetous having not where-withall otherwise to maintain his Ambition to which we may add his Perfidiousness betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretense of Affection the worst kind of perfidy and having thus juggled him whither they would have him he made no scruple to joyne with others in his horrid Murther upon the turn of the Times he likewise fled to prevent the stroke of Justice worthily due to his Deserts VIII Colonel Thomas Pride a Brewer at first a Dray-man but at the beginning of the Wars contrary to David who left the Sword to take up the Sling he forsooke the Sling and took up the Sword and though an Ignorant Illiterate Fellow scarce fit to carry gutts to a a Beare whose destruction he performed at Paris Garden yet being of a resolute Courage and the blind goddess Crowning him with successe he was thought fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Parliament for him and having thus Acted that which carried a shew of Law and Justice there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons being a prime Agent in the Murther of the King Acting with as much Impudence and Brutishness as any of them all He died before his Majesties Return escaping thereby a more shamefull and ignominious death IX Colonel Isaac Ewer Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof being in the wave to recruit his Decaying Fortunes he betook himself to the Wealthiest Side and added much to the Ruine of Monarchy having gained a great proficency in their Destructive Principles so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villany being cloaked under a vail of Religion He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight and afterwards one of his Judges where he gave his hand against his Sacred Soveraign adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murther He likewise died before his Majesties Return robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby Son to the Earle of Stamford who becoming a Colonel in the Army grew infected with their Destructive Principles and contrary to Honour Acted with them in their odious Designs having his hand in the Murther of the King the Fountain and Source of all Honour from whence others are derived In regard of the Honour of his Family he escapes a Mention or Condemnation for this Crime as well as for some others He dyed before his Majesties Happy Restauration XI William Lord Mounson a sordid Fellow of Destructive Principles and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villanies being for Debt a long time a Prisoner but by his Fellow Regicides fetcht out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses After the Return of his Majesty he was for his Treasonable Practises together with Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Commons where their Estates were Declared Confiscate and they degraged from all Titles and Armes of Gentility and further Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London upon Sledges with Halters about their Necks and so back again to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment which Sentence was accordingly Executed upon them January 30. 1661. XII Sir John Danvers Knight Brother to that Loyal and Noble Peer the Earle of Danby who for his Fidelity to his Soveraign was by the Rebells Voted a Delinquent the covetousness after which Estate drew in this Knight
to partake with them in their horrid Actions swallowing thereby his Name and Honour in this Whirle-pool of Confusion and Royal Blood He deceased before his Majesties Return XIII Sir Thomas Malverer a York-shire Knight whose Family had been raised to that Honour by the Two last Kings which to a Noble Spirit should have been the more oblidging but great Benefits cause Ingratitude and Covetousness to have wherewithall to live answerable to his Title wickedly prompted him for the equalling of it to consent to the Murther of him from whence his Honour was Derived He also died before his Majesties happy restauration XIV Sir John Bourcher another Independant York-shire Knight who making a gain of Godliness under the pretense thereof Acted the most horrid Villanies having God in their mouth and the Devil in their heart Like Water-men looking one way and rowing another being sure alwayes when they had the fearest pretenses they were then hatching the foulest Impieties This Man that he might not be out of the way when occasion should serve diligently dined at Hell and to compleat his other wicked Actions consented to the Murther of his Soveraign He likewise dyed before his Majesties Return XV. Isaac Pennington a busie stickler of the Faction and a Grand Agent in the perpetration of all our late Troubles He was by the Faction continued Lord Mayor of London for Two Years together though contrary to the Kings Express Command from Oxford by his Authority in the City he contributed largely to the maintenance of Rebellion and added much fuell to that fire of Desention betwixt the King and Parliament and yet notwithstanding he was a great sharer in the spoyle of his Country He broke twice what being got over the Devil 's back being spent under his belly and thinking to make good his broken Fortunes joyned with them in the Murther of his Soveraign After his Majesties Happy Restauration he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice and that he signed not the Warrant yet was it made apparent that his Crimes were of a crimson dye but by the Kings Clemency his Execution was respited and died a natural death in the Tower of London XVI Henry Martin Son of Sir Henry Martin Judge of the Prerogative Court a most Wicked Lewd Vicious and Infamous Person whose Actions have rendered him odious to all Posterity He first spoke Treason against the King and his Family in the House of Commons and was in Complement Committed and Suspended for a while proving afterwards a Grand Actor in the Highest of Treasons being one of the Chief of the Caball in taking away the life of the King ordering the Charge against him to go in the Name of The Commons in Parliament Assembled and the Good People of England After his Majesties Return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation using many dilatory evasions at his Tryal afterwards being brought to the Bar of the House of Lords to Answer why Judgement should not be Executed upon him he replyed That he understood the Proclamation extended to favour of life upon rendering himself and withall added That he never obeyed any of his Majesties Proclamations before but this and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the Kings Word now XVII William Purefoy a Warwick-shire Gentleman once Governour of Coventry a busie Fellow in their Leger-de-main Jugglings and a great Zealot against Crosses as Superstitious and Crowns as Superfluous This his blind Zeal together with his Covetousness after Church and Crown Lands made him not scruple to embrue his hands in the blood of his Prince but lived not to receive the just reward of such horrid Villany dying before his Majesties Return XVIII Colonel John Berkstead a Man at first of a despicable Fortune keeping a sorry Goldsmiths Shop in the Strand but having learned a little City-Souldiery was made Captain of a Foot-Company under Colonel Ven at Windsor and being in Active Person by Success of Rebellion was made Governour of Reading and continued always a fast Friend to Oliver Cromwel in all his wicked Consultations and Purposes joyning with him in that horrid Murther of the King for which and other his Services to him he was by Oliver made Lievtenant of the Tower where by Extortion and Cruelty he gained a great masse of Wealth but when Loyalty began again to be Predominant his guilty Conscience hurried him beyond Sea lurking a good while in some parts of Germany under feigned Names but divine vengance soon found him out for He Colonel Okey and Miles Corbet having resided for some time in the City of Hannow about the beginning of March they came to Delf in Holland appointing their Wives to meet them there but Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague having information thereof they were luckily surprized and sent into England and having remained Prisoners some while in the Tower were brought to the Kings Bench-Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not dye according to Law the Act of Attainder being then read unto them to which they Alleadged they were not the same persons mentioned therein but it being proved by Witnesses Sentence of death was pronounced against them and on Saturday April 19. 1662. they were Executed at Tyburn the Head of this Grand Regicide being set on a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower XIX John Blakeston a Fellow who would not be idle when there was any thing to do especially of Profit He was at first a Shop-Keeper in Newcastle when according to the time he was a Rigid Presbyterian and while the Scots were there chosen a Burgess for that Town but the Market of Independency being up he turned with the Tide and like Judas for the lucre of money consented to the Murther of his Royal Master but enjoyed the gain of his Impiety not long dying before the return of his Majesty when without the greater Clemency he might have received a reward more agreeable to his deserts XX. Gilbert Millington a Lawyer who contrary to all Law sided with those bloody Regicides against his Lawfull Soveraign He was a constant Chair-Man of the Committee for Plundered Ministers by which Trade he filled his Coffers the sweets of which Employment set his teeth on edge and sharpned him to that cruell attempt upon his Soveraigns Life Upon the Kings return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal confessed the Fact and the guilt of it and was favoured with an acceptance of it from the Court. XXI Thomas Chaloner one who had Travelled far in the World and returned home poysoned with that Jesuitical Doctrine of King-killing which he here put in practise being the great Speech-Maker against the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their New Utopian Common-Wealth but upon his Majesties Return fled the Land his Actions being so bad as would not endure the Touch-Stone XXII Sir William Constable a York-shire Knight
Upon the turn of the Times he ran away for fear of Squire Dun and by report is since dead and buried at Amsterdam XXXIII William Goffe bound an Apprentice to a Salter but run away e're he had served out his time and betook himself to the Army where by his boldness and pretended Piety he came to be taken notice of by the Grandees in Rebellion who liking his temper preferred him to serve themselves in that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty He likewise betook himself to his heeles at the restauration of our Soveraign being of the opinion of Caine That his Crimes was too great to be forgiven XXXIV Cornelius Holland a Monster in Nature once Servant to Sir Henry Vane who preferred him to the Green-cloath in the Kings House-hold of base conditions as well as extraction His Father was a poor man and dyed a Prisoner in the Fleet but he himself by his Ingatitude and Disloyalty made a ladder of mischief to climb up to Riches and so thrived by Rebellion that he got a vast Estate and like Herostratus grew very Eminent for Villanies the chief of which was the Murther of the King in which he had a principal hand and for which upon his Majesties return he fled the Land fearing belike he should become a spectacle to men hanging betwixt the Earth and Heaven XXXV John Carew Brother to that Loyal Knight Sir Alexander Carew beheaded by the prevalency of Rebellion in An. 1644. This Person being a rank Fifth-Monarchist was a great Enemy to all Earthly Government and Power expecting Christ to come Personally and Raign amongst them and therefore they would have no King but King Jesus which made him to joyn with those other Infamous Regicides in the Murther of his Soveraign being deluded thus by the impulses of Satan for those of the spirit At his Tryal he rambled into a wild discourse of the fear of God and the Authority of the Parliament by which he Acted that he declined it at first but being put in the Act for Tryal could not disobey the Lord nor the Parliament He was condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed upon him October 15. 1660. His quarters should have been exposed on the City Gates but upon intercession to his Majesty his Body was ordered to be buried XXXVI Colonel John Jones a Weltch Saint who in the night of Rebellion grew from a Mushromp to a Stately Cedar He was at first a Serving-Man but that kind of life not serving his turn he set up the gain-fuller trade of a Committee-man and thrived exceedingly in that Barren Country and being a person of known Abilities for the ruining a Kingdome he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament and inprocess of time Married one of Cromwel's Sisters who as one writes had as many Females to bestow as a Cardinal This alliance being prone enough of himself otherwise brought him in to have a hand in the Kings Murther and in fine brought him to the Gallows being Executed October 17. 1660. XXXVII Peregrine Pelham a York-shire Tike whose Abominable Treasons helped to verifie that Proverb From the cold North all ill comes forth He was for a while a kind of Governour of Hull after Hotham where being Endoctrinated in Machivillian Principles he came to London to put them in Execution being one of the Judges that Sat and Sentenced the late King and died before his Majesties Restauration XXXVIII Thomas Wogan a recruit likewise to the Long Parliament who was as active to contribute towards the ruine of the Kingdome as the chiefest of them all and as forward as the rest to destoy the King to become himself one of the Princes in the Anarchy but upon the change of the Times he betook him to his heeles and accompanied with a guilty conscience wander about to save a wretched Carcasse out of the Hangmans hands XXXIX Francis Allen once a Gold-Smith in Fleet-street whose first Rice was from the Placket and by Marrying his Mistris of her Servant became her Master being thus leapt into a pretty Estate he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament where he improved his time to the most gainfull advantage getting to be one of the Treasurers at War a Customer and as if that were not enough had Crone House given him and held it in Capite Regis These gifts made him not to stick to joyn with them in the Murther of the King and after to enjoy a part of the profit of their Parricide being made one of the Committees for the Sale of his Majesties Lands but lived not long to possess the fruits of his wickedness dying before his Majesties Happy Restauration XL. Daniel Blagrave of a small but competent Fortune sufficient to have maintained him without being guilty of this great Offence but he was resolved to get Riches although he swam to them in blood and being chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament for Reading in Bark-shire in hopes to be partaker with them in the spoyl of the Kingdome He joyned with them in the Murther of the King But upon the turn of the Times betook him to his heeles the best refuge as he thought for one in his condition XLI John Moor formerly Colonel of the Guards and had the benefit of all passes from London the profit whereof endeared him to their Side and made him joyn with them in the Horrid Murther of his Soveraign He dyed before his Majesties Return XLII William Say Esquire a Member of the Long Robe and a well practised but ill councelled Lawyer who being foysted in as one of the illegal recruites of the Long Parliament exercised his Abilities to the greater mischief having now power joyned to his will to Act what the Devil should prompt him to and therefore feared not to become one of the Murtherers of his Majesty and afterwards to joyn with the rest of those Regicides to help forwards the ruine of the Kingdome He was by them chosen their Speaker when Lenthall for Ten dayes together was sick of the Sullens upon the approach of General Monke But upon the Return of the King was non est inventus betaking him to his heeles for fear he should have had a Habeas Corpus to have removed his body from Newgate to Tyburn XLIII Francis Lascels a York-shire Man who being nominated one of the King's Judges Sat once but neither Sentenced nor Signed those Accursed Warrants for the Murther of the King He was Fined a years Profit of his Estate to his Majesty and discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts XLIV James Challoner Esquire who for sitting in that pretended High Court of Justice was with some others deprived of their Estates by Act of Parliament and ordered to be drawn to Tyburn in Sledges with Ropes about their Necks as Traytors are used and so back again to the Tower their to be Imprisoned during their natural lives but before the Execution of this Sentence he died in the
to their Commands he made his Janizaries by blows and threats to cry out Justice and Execution much more blood had he contracted to his guilt though none comparable to this in Ireland and had as the reward of his Villanies gotten a pretty foul Estate but wickedness seldome prospers long upon the Kings return he was one of those Persons exempted by the Parliament out of the Act of Indempnity and for his Treasons brought to a Tryal at Justice-Hall in the Old Baily where notwithstanding he pleaded for himself with more Art and Cunningness then was imagined to be found in him yet were his Crimes so Notorious as not to be covered with such Fig-leaves He was therefore by the Jury found Guilty and Sentenced to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed on him at Tyburn October the 19. 1660. His Head fixed on a Pole at the furthest end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters a spectacle on the City Gates IV. Doctor Dorislaus A Dutch School-Master who for some misdemeanours fled his Country and here became Civillian afterwards a professor in the University of Oxford where being disappointed of his Ambitious Expectations the War then on foot he became the Parliaments Judge Advocate in their Army by which he much better'd his broken Fortunes and became a great Associate of Sir Henry Mildmay's who though raised by the King was one of his greatest Enemies who promoted him to that business of drawing up a Charge against the King the Horrid Nature thereof being such that no Englishman durst find or make a way to such an Illegal and unprecedented business After the perpetration of that horrid Murther he was lookt upon by the Regicides for his Abilities as a fit person to be sent over as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute the Designes of the Faction which would carry the better face being managed by one of their own Subjects He Arrived there in May with great Pomp and Attendance in his Coach with Six Horses before and Vengeance behind for the first night as he was at Supper there one Colonel Whitford a Scotch-man with some Twelve other Caveliers disdaining the King should be affronted by the impudent boldness of such an Audacious Traytor enter'd his Lodging and with a broad Sword cleft his Head and killed him having by a mistake wounded another Dutch-Man for him at their first coming in and having done the deed they quietly departed it not being known but privately for a long time after who did it To this we may adjoyn that of Aschams another great confident of the Regicides who being sent their Envoy to Spain some little while after was served in the same manner at his Arrival at Madrid in his Inn by one Sparks and some other English Royalists upon the same score Sparks having done the deed fled to the Venetian Ambassadours for shelter but judging that not secure enough he betook himself to Sanctuary from whence he was by the cunning Don to curry Favour with the English Regicides then dreadfull to his Plate-Trade taken thence and with great pitty and disdain at the meanness of the Spaniard was Executed for the same V. Daniel Broughton A Clark bred up amongst the Committees of War where he became so Principled as he was judged fit and preferred to be Chief Scribe to this Pharasaicall Murtherous Crue of the High Court of Justice for which Guilt upon his Majesties Return immagining his Crime too great to be forgiven he ran away and in Forreign Countries disguised hides his hated head VI. Edward Dendy Serjant at Armes to the said cursed Court who had before outed his Father from the Employment of the Mace no marvel then that such a Rebel to his Father should prove a Parricide to his Prince He likewise fled the Land upon his Majesties Return to preserve his forfeited life from the Hangman VII and VIII Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop who had Sat as Judges in that High Court of Iustice although not Sentenced nor Signed to the Warrant for his Execution The first of these was one who had been raised by his Majesty though most ungratefully the worst of Vices he Acted with a high hand against him but divine Vengeance at last overtook him and the Iron hand of Justice delivered him to the punishment though not so great as his deserts due to that grand Impiety Ianuary 30. 1661. They were on Sledges drawn from the Tower of London through the City with Halters about their necks to Tyburn where having threaded that triple Tree they returned in the same Equipage back to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment their Estates Confiscated and they Degraded from all Titles and Armes of Gentility Sir James Harrington was to have suffered the like punishment but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Serjant at Armes gave them the slip and most unworthily left his Bail in the lurch Phelps also one of the Clarks of that Court was marked out for this Punishment but not Sentenced IX Master Thomas Hoyle an Alderman and Burgess of York a great Rumper and Enemy to Regal Government who the same day Twelve Month that the King was Beheaded and as near as possibly could be judged about the very same hour of the day hanged himself Which day the Regicides Celebrated in most Solemn manner in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty from the Laws by the Murther of the King But this was such a signal remark mark of the Just Judgement and Vengeance of God upon that detestable Fact and their no less abominable mockery of him as the Authour thereof in this their Irreligious observation of that Fatal Providence as they razed this Festival out of their Calendar which was attended with so ill an Omen X. One Lockier an Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principal hand in Seizing and Bringing the King to his Death He was afterwards by them of his own Gang the Divine Vengeance so ordering it condemned for a Mutiny in Bishopsgate-Street a shot to death in St. Pauls Church-Yard being buried by some of his own Party with great Solemnity in the New Church-Yard London XI Sir Thomas Martin A Knight of Cambridge-shire a great stickler for the Times and a sworn Enemy of the Royalists who having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park at the opening of a Deer he was desired together with some other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deeres blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the Young King of Scots but observe the punishment that attended this Impious wish as he was riding home the same Evening his Horse threw him in which fall he pitcht on his head mortally brake his Scull and Shoulder and died shortly after of those wounds XII Sir Henry Holcroft A grand Pillar of the Independant Faction a Committee Gentleman and one who Acted very strenuously for the Rump hoping to be a great sharer in the spoyle of the Kingdome
but Man proposes and God disposes for it pleased the Lord that he fell into a sore Disease bleeding abundantly at the nose and mouth and at last fell to a strong vomitting up of gobbetts of blood at his mouth and such abundance of blood flowed with mighty violence at his nose that in a most sad manner he departed this life in one of the extream-fits thereof XIII To these we may add Colonel Rainsbrough a prime stickler for the Power at Westminster and a desparate Enemy against the King who though he was killed before the Horrid Murther of his Majesty yet the manner of his Death being so remarkable is not to be passed over in silence He being turned out of the Navy by the Sea-men went with a strong Party to the Reducing of Pontefract then Besieged by Sir Edward Rhodes and the County Forces and took up his Quarters at an Inn in Doncaster where having his Souldiers about him and in as great security as he though as might be some Caveliers from Pontefract under a pretense of delivering him a Letter from Cromwell entered his Inn and would have onely taken him Prisoner and carried him into their Leaguer but he refusing they pistolled him in his Chamber and returned back again untouched a very strange yet gallant Adventure XIV One Marston a great Leveller and Agitator in the Army a sort of People suspected many of them and that rationally for Jesuites who were as good at wicked Plots and Contrivances as either Cromwell or Ireton or the chief of those Catalines and as accomplisht for Execution having such Lawless yet most Powerfull Indempnity not only to protect them but to shroud their other Conspiracies for themselves either against Church or State He was one of those that had a principal hand in Burford business and being thought to be discontented against their New Fangled Government was by the Regicides Ordered to be taken into Custody But those Messengers sent for him found it a matter of more difficulty then they were aware of for coming to his Lodging in Aldersgate-Street and sending him word to come down to them he resolving not to be taken with a Stilletto killed two of them out-right and sorely wounding the third escaped but afterwards was re-taken being terribly wounded in his endeavouring to escape when he was Arraigned at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily and Condemned to be Hanged which was accordingly Executed on him preventing thereby another more milder kind of Death which must necessarily have ensued not long after by reason of his wounds XV. Sir Henry Vane the Proteus of the Times a meer hodge-podge of Religion one composed onely of Treason and Ingratitude whose Offences were of so crimson a die that he was excepted out of the Act of Indempnity and having remained a Prisoner for a good space first in the Tower of London and afterwards in the Isle of Scilly He was at last for his manifold Treasons Arraigned at the Kings Bench-Bar before the Lord Chief Justice Foster for Immagining and Compassing the Kings Death and for Taking upon him and Usurping the Government To which he Pleaded the Authority of the Parliament Justified it and put the Court to a great deal of needlesse trouble and impertinent repetitions but disowned his medling or making with the Kings Death but the notority of his crimes were so apparent and obvious to the whole World that he was Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered but through the intercession of some of his Friends who had deserved well in the Kings Service his Sentence was mittigated to a Beheading only which was Executed on him June the 14. 1662. on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill where the Earle of Strafford first bled by his and his Fathers Treachery At the time of his Execution he ran out into Treasonable Discourses but was stopt in his carreir and after two or three fruitless warnings his Notes endeavoured to be taken from him which to prevent he tore them in pieces and in great passion not to be suffered to proceed in that Traytorous way he submitted his Neck unto the Block Come we in the next place to speak of those who were Executed for committing of Treason after his Majesties Happy Restauration and Setlement in his Throne again where we shall find Traytors of so Desparate and Sanguine a disposition as scarcely to be paralleld in former Ages Men who though of different Tenets and and who like Hydra's heads seemed to look several wayes yet cemented together in the tayle wherein lies the sting being Enemies to all Civil Government and whatsoever was decent either in Church or State And first of that bloody Attempt of Venner and his Mirmidons which strange and unparalleld Action will afford the Truest Light and Judgement of that Fanatique and desparate opinion of Chilianisme and make after Ages to admire that a handfull of wild-brain'd People should dare to undertake such an Attempt against Metropolis of the Kingdome which a well Governed Potent Army would not without good advice be driven unto This Venner a Wine-Cooper by Trade with several others of his Gang who were strongly perswaded that now was the Time come for Christ Personally to Raign upon Earth having had several Meetings at Bell-Alley in Coleman-Street where it was agreed amongst them that the Powers of the Earth were to be Destroyed and King Jesus alone to be set Up Venner Preaching to them to this purpose alluding to that of the Psalmist That one of them should chace a Hundred and a Hundred put Ten Thousand to flight Assuring them also That no Weapons formed against them should prosper nor hair of their head be touched January 6. 1660. They took Armes and in the dusk of the Evening came to St. Pauls Church-Yard where they mustered their small Party and placed Centinals for the time where an Innocent Person coming by accidentally being by them asked whom he was for and he answering according to the usuall mode For God and King Charles they immediately shot him which Action soon Allarum'd the City and some Parties of the Trained Bands marched against them but their strength being too great for those few Files they without controule marched along to Aldersgate where the Constable being but weakly attended was forced to let them out again Here they Declared themselves for King Jesus and those of their Friends whose Quarters were upon the Gates From thence they proceeded to Beech-lane where a Head-borough opposing them they shot and killed him and so with all hast marched to Cane-Wood where for a while they remained But the City having Intelligence thereof sent out a Party of Horse and Foot which took about Thirty of them and brought them before the General who sent them Prisoners to the Gate-House January the 9. after some Encouragement and Assurance of Victory from their Chieftain Venner they again assumed their first Enterprize and no sooner were the Watches and Guards removed but they made their appearance at Bishopsgate which