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
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
at Armes and from thence to Newgate where having remained a long time he was at last brought to their High Court of Injustice where he very hardly escaped with life his great Estate amounting to Seven or Eight Thousand pound per Annum making him liable to any Treason those Incorrigible Traytors could suggest against him he was from thence remanded to the Tower but hath since survived to enjoy again his own Estate and to see many of those Hanged who would have used their utmost spight for the Enjoyment of his great Estate XVIII Sir John Berkenhead a Gentleman whose Worth and Deserts are too high for me to deliniate He was a constant Assertor of his Majesties Cause in its lowest Extremities and suffered for the same several Imprisonments I shall speak no more in his Commendation whose own Pen hath so sufficiently display'd its self that he who is ignorant thereof must plead ignorance both to Wit and Learning XIX Doctor Barwick a Reverend Orthodox Divine who for his Loyalty was by an Order of the Long Parliament committed Prisoner to the Tower where he lay untill such time he was neer famished when Colonel West the then Lievtenant of the Tower permitted him his liberty on Parol to render himself at a prefixed time soon after which he accordingly performed after the Lievtenants death his Wife gained him his Conge and set him at perfect Freedome there being nothing of Accusation against him for it was the method of those Tyrants to bury Men in their Prisons untill their Estates and Healths were quite exhausted if they had nothing against them which would presently reach their Lives This Reverend Doctor survived to see the flourishing again of Episcopacy and was by his Sacred Majesty made Dean of St. Pauls in which place he continued till the month of October 1664. when like Abraham he was gathered to his Fathers a good man and full of dayes XX. The Valiant Earle of Cleaveland a person whose Worth and Honour cannot be forgotten so long as living Annals shall inform posterity of the miseries of our Civil Wars This Loyal Earle as he gave undoubted Testimonies all along the War of his unfeigned Fidelity to the Royal Cause so particularly at Worcester where he was in Obedience to his Majesties commands suffering a tedious and cruel Imprisonment by those Barbarous Rebells for the Testimonies of his Affection to his Royal Soveraign XXI The Lord Gerard now Captain of his Majesties Life Guard who all along the War bore a part in the calamities and misfortunes of the Kings Adventures never forsaking the Royal Interest in its lowest ebb of Fortune which he hath survived to see it restored again to its former resplendant Majesty XXII Sir John Owen that undaunted piece of Welsh Loyalty whose endeavours for the King in that Country were truly Honourable though not crowned with that successe as such a Cause merrited This Loyal Gentleman was at their High Court of Injustice condemned to death together with Duke Hamilton Lord Capel c. but by the mercy of the Parliament rare and wonderfull he was Reprieved XXIII The Earle of Norwich the Lord Loughborough Sir Bernard Gascoigne Colonel Far c. these Heroick Persons were all Engaged in the Design at Colchester where having suffer'd a sharp and bitter Siege after the rendition of the Town they had by the barbarity of those Rebells all of them suffered death had not some of them made their escapes and the rest give in such Pleas as would have freed them out of the hands of the most bloody Cannibals in the world XXIV Should I next go about to enumerate all those Excellent Persons who were forced out of their Fellowships and other Collegiate Emoluments in both Universities it would be a Task too large for so small a Volumne A work so great Would make Olympus bearing Atlas sweat Such barbarity being used towards them as may make Posterity to tremble at the thought of it I shall therefore pass over that sad story and beadroll desiring to be excused though I give not to every person a due Character for their Loyalty in Suffering XXV Should I next mention the calamity of the Loyal and Orthodox Clergy which they underwent in general by that bloody and cruel Edict of Oliver which by restriction of their Function nay their particular abilities permitting them not so much as to keep a School taking thereby clearly away from them all hopes of sustentation and maintenance of life this might better be expressed by sighs and tears then by pen and paper XXVI Next I might make a record of that black Bill and List against several of the Nobility and Gentry which passed against them for an Act of Parliament by which their Estates were forfeited for Loyalty and appointed to be sold by Trustees of their Nomination thus though they could not come at to eat the bird they would be sure to pluck off all his feathers XXVII In the next place the Martyred City of Worcester the scene of ruined Loyalty deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance each Citizen whereof might be transcribed into this Register as being all sufferers for the Royal Cause to which they constantly adhered during all the time of the War and would not yield at last without a particular Order from his Majesty and with the same resolution of Loyalty did they Entertain King Charles the Second in fifty one whom they proclaimed with great solemnity and in that Fatal Defeat suffered deeply with him being plundered by the insatiable covetousnesse of the Souldiers of what ever was worth the carrying away yet in that desparate exigency such was their love to the Royal Cause that as if their own sufferings had been nothing at the Rebels enterance the streets resounded with the peoples cryes Oh! save the King save the King amongst which number of Royal Sufferers Master Soles the honest Mayor deserves a particular remembrance for whom a Gallows was set up for him at his own door and from which he as narrowly escaped XXVIII Next for the Honour of the City of London we find Sir Abraham Reynoldson who so gallantly refused to Proclaim the Act for abolishing Kingly Government and was for the same committed to the Tower Sir John Gaire Alderman Adams Sir James Bunce who suffered much in their Vast Estates and Major General Brown who endured a sharp and tedious Imprisonment XXIX The Honourable Colonel John Russel Brother to the Earle of Bedford a person of unfeigned Fidelity and Gallantry who served his Majesty in his Armies during all the War and was a constant sufferer for him all along afterwards in the Usurpers Prisons being upon the least occasion of fear sure to be one of the first that was secured and so continued tossed from one custody to another till such time as his Majesties Happy Return XXX The Right Honourable the Lord Bellasis who partaking in the same Cause suffered in the very same predicament being no where more resident or
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
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
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
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