Petitions succeeding for an accommodation a Cessation followed and soon after that a Parliament which was Summoned by the Advise of this Earle and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where the very first thing of Consequence that was done was a Charge of High Treason Exhibited against this Earle by the House of Commons consisting of Twenty Eight Articles whereupon he was Sequestred from sitting as a Peer and soon after committed to the Usher of the Black Rod and so to the Tower His Tryal quickly after ensued which was done with great Solemnity in Westminster-Hall the Earle of Arundal being Lord High Steward The substance of his Articles were That he had Endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Lawes and Governments of England and Ireland That he had done ill Offices betwixt the King and the Scots and betwixt the King and his Subjects of this Kingdom That he had Advised the King to bring up the Army out of the North and over-awe the Parliament And that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of Ten Thousand Men in Ireland ready to be Transported for the same Service His Accusers were Pym St. Johns Whitlock Sir Walter Earles Serjant Glyn Maynard Stroud Mr. Selden Hambden c. But the Earle defended himself so Bravely and Learnedly that the Lords Conscious of his Innocency would not find the Bill Wherefore the Commons seeing they could not speed that way drew up a Bill of Attainder and presented it to the Lords declaring the matter of Fact to have been sufficiently proved and that as to Law he had incurred the Censure of Treason But the Lords adjudged this a strange way of Proceeding unsutable to their own Safety and against Common Justice Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults stopped the Lords Coaches menacing to post up the Names of those who favoured him under the Title of Straffordians and with an impetuous Cry of Justice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill so hard a task had his Blood-thirsty Enemies to bereave him of his Life which yet notwithstanding passed but by the plurality of Seven Voices against him But the hardest matter was to get the Kings assent who very much declined it and in a set Speech cleared the Earle from any design of Treason or consulting to any Arbitrary Government But being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal but principally being desired by the Earle himself to satisfie the Parliament though with his own blood His Majesty after Advise with the Bishops signed that Fatal Bill which afterwards proved the Axe against his own Life Thus fell this Noble Earle being one of the Chief Pillars and Basis of this Nation without whose Ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew it a hard matter to Effect or Accomplish any thing such an Absolute Rare Honest and Loyal Master-Piece of Reason and Prudence as this present Age saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. being the Pro-to-Martyr of the Late Times II and III. MAster Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowcher two Worthy Loyal Citizens of Bristol of good Esteem Plentiful Estates and known Integrity Master Yeomans was Sheriff of that City in the Year 1642. being but the year before his Execrable Murther Master George Bowcher was an Able Pious Loyal Gentleman whom his very Enemies confest to be a Religious Man These Two Loyal Persons seeing the miserable condition of those Places where the Rebells Ruled Entered into a Consultation with some others how to deliver the City of Bristol into Prince Ruperts hands and thereupon it was resolved that upon Munday March 7. 1642. Prince Rupert with some Forces should draw down towards the City whilst they within would Seize the Courts of Guard and open the Gates and by Ringing St. Johns and St. Michaels Bells give him notice thereof Accordingly Prince Rupert came by Five of the Clock the same morning expecting the Signal but the Confederacy being discovered those Two Gallant Gentlemen with some others were apprehended and after Eleven Weeks hard Imprisonment brought to their Tryal at a Council of War where by Fiennes the Governour and others of that Gang they were Condemned to Dye and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals Mandates and Threats of Retaliation having with great patience endured the Scorns and Barbarous Insultations of the Enemy who continually pursued them with Threats and Revilings they were on May 30. 1643. barbarously murthered Master Yeomans professing at his death That if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to his Soveraign in that way And Master Bowcher in his last Speech exhorted all those who had set their hands to the Plow meaning the defence of the Kings Cause not to be terrified by their Sufferings and therefore to withdraw Their bodies were afterwards decently Enterred in the same City whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance whilst those who murthered them shall rot and perish in infamy IV and V. MAster Tomkins and Master Chaloner the one Clark of the Queens Council the other a Linnen-Draper in Corn-hill two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruine by the Seditious practises of the Rebels procured a Commission from the King the design whereof was that they should Seize into their Custody the Kings Children some Members of Parliament the Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia all the City Out-works and Forts the Tower of London and all the Magazines then to let in the Kings Army to Surpize the City to destroy all Opposers and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney Wife to that Gallant Lord who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill and upon receipt thereof several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof which was chiefly prosecuted by those two Loyal Persons who made such progress therein that the business was brought into some form but so many being concern'd in it through the Treachery of some it came to the Parliaments eares whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Haynous Crime of Loyalty which accordingly was Executed near their own doors July 5. 1643. VI. MAster Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleetstreet afterwards a Messenger to his late Sacred Majesty by whom he was sent to London to signifie the King's Pleasure That the Term of Michaelmas should be prorogued which Message he delivered to the Judges at Westminster-Hall and for performance of his Duty was by those who had quite forgotten all Allegiance and Duty apprehended for a Spy and contrary to the Universal Custom and Honourable Practise of all Nations which gives security and free liberty of passage to all such Persons Tryed before a Council of War held at Essex
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
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 Poor Kindred many of themselves if not the greatest part before those Times of so little Account and Esteem that they could not Write Gentleman Then that their Pride and Ambition was as great as their Covetousness is easie to be discern'd for after that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty How did those Cocks of the Game peck at one another Cromwell's Ambition never stinting untill such time he had attained the end of his Desires Resolving to sit in the Seat of Soveraignty although he waded to the same in Blood and Perjury and thereupon turned out his Rebellious Masters which he might the more easily do their Horrid Actions having made them so notoriously odious to all sorts of People who rejoyced at their Downfall Now though Cromwel were so Bloody a Tyrant that People might have prayed for his Life with the same intent as the Sicilian Old Woman did for the Life of Dionisius For fear that the Devil should come after for no other could parallel him Yet he being dead we find other's Pride and Ambition as high as his such striving amongst themselves to get into the Seat of Soveraignty untill they thrust one another off of the Cushion and by their Divisions made a ready way next to the Providence of Almighty God for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty So that we see what ever was pretended of Religion Liberty and such like fine Devices the main End of their Designs was Pride Envy Covetousness and Ambition Against those Wicked Persons and Practises how many Gallant Men Opposed Themselves both in their Lives and Estates The Chief of whom we have given you an Account of in this Book which we have Divided into Three Centuries or Catalogues The First of which are those Loyal Martyrs who suffered under a Formal kind of Justice in which as in the rest we have observed the Order of Time and not of Dignity Some perhaps may Object against Two or Three Persons therein mentioned such as Duke Hamilton Master Love c. as having the Presbyterian Interest inter-woven with the Royal Account but certainly the main end of their Designs was Loyalty as they manifested at the time of their deaths and therefore may deservedly challenge a place in that Catalogue In the Second Place You have an Account of the most Eminent Commanders and Officers who were Slain in the Kings Service Sealing their Love to that Cause with their dearest Bloods and Manfully Fighting died in the Bed of Honour If we have over-slipped any of Extraordinary Eminency for it is impossible to mention every one We desire to be better Informed by their Friends or Acquaintance and upon a Second Edition we shall endeavour to do them Right according to their Deserts In the Third Ranke We have placed the Royal Confessors such as Suffered in the Kings Cause by Imprisonment Sequestration Banishment c. Of which We have mentioned but only some few of the most Eminent the Total Arising to such a Vast Number as would Pose Arithmetick to reckon them up To These Worthies We have in the Second Place Adjoyned a Catalogue of the Unworthies or Brief Characters of the most Notorious Regicides and Others of that Gang who were the Chief Authours and Abetters of all Those Miseries and Calamities which so long a Time Afflicted this Nation that as the One may be an Encouragement to Virtue and Loyalty so the Other may Deter Men from Vice and Villany This is the summ of our Design which if it finde Kind Acceptance it shall Encourage me to a further Enlargement thereof If otherwise yet this shall be my Comfort that I have Discharged my Duty and shown my Self to be A True Lover of His King and Country W.W. The Names of the Martyrs according as they are Figured in the Frontispiece with the Page wherein to finde their several Histories I. King Charles Page 16 II. E. of Strafford Page 1 III. E. of Derby Page 33 IV. Lord Capel Page 24 V. Sir Charles Lucas Page 13 VI. Sir George Lisle Page 14 VII Col. Morris Page 27 VIII Col. Penruddock Page 36 IX Col. Grove Page ibid X. Col. Eus Andrews Page 29 XI Col Gerard Page 34 XII Col. Benbow Page ibid XIII Cap. Burleigh Page 12 XIV Col. Pitcher Page 14 XV. Col. Poyer Page 15 XVI Sir T. Fetherstonh Page 34 XVII D. Hamilton Page 21 XVIII E. of Holland Page 23 XIX Cor. Blackburn Page 28 XX. Mr. Benson Page 30 XXI Cap. Bushel Page 32 XXII Col. Ashton Page 40 XXIII Sir Hen. Slingsby Page 38 XXIV Cap. Symkins Page 34 XXV Arch B. Laud Page 9 XXVI Dr. Hewyt Page 39 XXVII Mr. Beaumont Page 27 XXVIII Mr. Vowel Page 35 XXIX Mr. Love Page 32 XXX Dr. Levens Page 28 XXXI Sir Hen. Hide Page 30 XXXII Mr. Yeomans Page 5 XXXIII Mr. Bowcher Page ibid XXXIV Mr. Tomkins Page 7 XXXV Mr. Challoner Page ibid XXXVI Mr. Kniveton Page 9 XXXVII Mr. Gibbons Page 32 XXXVIII Mr. Kensy Page 37 XXXIX Mr. Lucas Page ibid XL. Mr. Betly Page 40 XLI Mr. Stacy Page 41 The Loyal Martyrologie OR A Brief Historical Relation and Character of all those Persons that were Murther'd by Colour of any Sentence during the late Rebellion I. THomas Wentworth Earle of Strafford and Lord Deputy of Ireland a most Wise Prudent and Honourable States-Man Descended from the Illustrious Family of the Wentworths in Yorkshire and Educated according to the Greatness of his Birth He was at first a great stickler against the Prerogative untill allured by Court-Preferment he turned Royalist being by King Charles the First for his great Parts made Baron Wentworth of Raby and employed in diverse Offices of Trust which he discharged with great Honour and Faithfulnesse So thus his Deserts soon mounted him from one degree of Honour to another till at last he was made Lord Lievtenant of Ireland in which Government he exceeded all that went before him in the Careful Management of the Affairs of that Realm Reclaiming the Irish from many of their Barbarous Customes and reducing them to the English civility suppressing their Out-Lawes and Tories and bringing them to perfect entire Obedience to the Kings Authority and Laws He much advanced the Protestant Religion and setled a constant Revenue for the Clergy of that Kingdom and made so good a procedure in what he undertook that had not those Disloyal Times of Confusion fallen out no doubt he had attained his Ends and setled that Kingdom in a most flourishing condition The Scotch War being the Prologue to all our late Troubles breaking out he was sent for out of Ireland to Advise with the King about those Troubles which so unpreparedly had surprized him To which work he Contributed his Head Hands and Purse advancing by subscription Twenty Thousand Pound as a Coppy for the rest of the Nobility to write after In this Expedition he was made Lievtenant General and was very eager to Fight with the Scots But the English being defeated at Newborn and
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
Uncivil Wars exchanged his Gown for a Sword and Valiantly Served his Majesty during that Rebellion till the Surrender of Oxford being one that was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation After the death of that blessed Martyr he Engaged for his Son our present Soveraign having Commission from Him for the Raising of Forces and blank Commissions for diverse Officers but whiles he was in pursuance of the Design he was discover'd and being brought before them stoutly stood in his justification Telling them he was no way ashamed of his Cause but that he would justifie it with his Dearest Life And though they gave him some fallacious hopes of Life if he would reveal those Parties Engaged with him yet would not those offers prevail on his more Noble Spirit wherefore he was by them condemned and according to their bloody Sentence Executed over against the Exchange in Corn-hill July 18. 1650. XXI COlonel Eusebius Andrews a Gentleman of a most sincere Life and Conversation by Profession a Counsellor of Grays Inn who out of his Duty to God and the King took part with his Majesty constantly adhereing to the Royal Cause being Secretary to the Renowned Lord Capel whose Worth and Excellency being envied by Cromwell he was by his Emissaries brought into a Plott as they called it and then by them betrayed the chief Agent therein being one Bernards formerly his Major who with one Pitts were suborned by Bradshaw and Sir Henry Mildmay to swear against him So that notwithstanding the Colonel notably defended himself and by an accurate Legal Plea proved the Unlawfulness and Authority of their High Court of Justice yet was he by those blood-sucking Canniballs Sentenced as a Traytor having only the favour of altering the manner of his Execution which was the Axe on Tower-hill where he died like other Martyrs before him full of joy and blessed hope Aug. 22. 1650. XXII MAster Benson formerly a Retainer to Sir John Gell having a Command under him during the time Sir John had the unhappiness to serve the Parliament but having rectified his judgment and desirous by some Eminent Service to his Majesty to ballance his former mistakes he was by the aforesaid Bernard Trapan'd in the same business with Colonel Andrews and suffer'd under their merciless cruelty October 7. 1650. XXIII SIr Henry Hide Brother to the Earle of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England now living a Gentleman of Excellent parts for Navigation who being sent by his present Majesty an Internuncio to the Grand Signior in matters of concernment for the good of his Merchant Subjects The Rebells by their Agents so wrought upon the Vizier that he basely and unworthily sent him into England where having remained for some time in the Tower he was brought before their monstrous High Court of Justice where his Crimes were aggravated with imputations of his design of seizing those Merchant Estates there and affronting Sir Thomas Bendish the old Resident there with his New Commission To which although Sir Henry made a Learned Defence yet was all in vain to those who resolved before-hand to dispatch him and only Heard him in way of form wherefore he was by their Blood-Thirsty Court Sentenced to be Beheaded which death he suffered against the Old Exchange in Corn-hill March 4. 1650. couragiously asserting his Masters Cause and so rendring his Soul to God is justly inscribed into the Roll of Martyrs XXIV CAptain Brown Bushel an expert Sea-man who was Captain of a Man of War and had some kind of Command in Scarborough which he delivered to Sir Hugh Chomley then revolted in the year 1643. from the Parliament and being Prisoner at Hull for the same had been Exchanged by Hotham then winding about to his Allegiance This Captain Bushel was for the same committed to custody in 1648. and being detain'd Prisoner about Three Years now their hand was in for shedding of blood he was by those inhumane Rebells murdered April 29. 1651. XXV and XXVI MAster Love and Master Gibbons who though they dyed upon the Presbyterian Account which abated much the lustre of their Sufferings yet dying in opposition to Tyranny and upon the Account of his Majesties Restauration deserve to be had in perpetual remembrance They were charged with High Treason against the State for holding correspondency with the King and his Party and supplyed them with money contrary to an Act of Parliament in that case provided for which they were by those bloody Regicides condemned and lost their heads on Tower-hill August 20. 1651. XXVII JAmes Earle of Derby the flower of English Fidelity a most Honourable Heroick Gallant Peer whose Prudence and Valour were alwayes Assistant to his Royal Master and whose Superlative Virtues of Liberality and Bounty made him Loved and Honoured of all sorts of People He having ventured his Life and Large Estate in the continuall Service of his Royal Masters from which he in the least never deviated Upon his Majesties March out of Scotland he Raised what Forces he could to his Assistance but was first unfortunatly defeated at Wigan in Lancashire from whence he fled to the King at Worcester where also that Royal Army being overcome by Cromwells Numerous Forces he unfortunatly fell into their hands and suffered under their inhumane merciless execrable Tyranny resigning up his Soul into the hands of his Maker October 15. 1651. XXVIII CAptain Symkins who for carrying the Kings Letter of Invitation to Sir Thomas Midleton was by a Court-Marshal held at Chester Condemned and accordingly Executed by those incorrigable Rebells October 1651. XXIX SIr Timothy Fetherston-haugh a Valiant Gentleman who Engaging with the Noble Earle of Derby in the Service of his Soveraign was defeated at Wigan in Lancashire and suffered by those obdurate Rebells Octo. 22. 1651. XXX COlonel Benbow who for his Loyalty and superlative Valour was by those blood-thirsty Regicides much about the same time shot to death at Shrewsbury XXXI COlonel John Gerard a Gentleman of good Account whose Family have been very Eminent for their Loyalty upon a pretended Plot of Assassinating Cromwell was with divers others committed to Prison and Tryed before their High Court of Injustice where though there were little appearance of the Truth thereof but some few words extorted by fear besides the confession of their own Agent yet was he by bloody Lisle the President Condemned and lost his head on Tower-hill July 10. 1654. XXXII MAster Peter Vowel School-Master of the Free School at Islington against whom they had suborned a blind Minister whom this worthy Martyr had sustained and fed they having received from him some words that Master Vowel should say as That if the Tyrant were removed or otherways laid aside the Royal Interest would be gladly Embraced and without any difficulty Re-assumed to its Authority These cursed Caiphases more enlarged with addition of several circumstances and though the said Minister at his Tryal denyed and disowned the said words yet they making for their purpose O impudence without
a cord which was put about his neck which he chearfully received saying Though it had pleased his Sacred Majesty that now is to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter yet he did not think himself more Honoured by the Garter then by that Cord and Book which he would embrace about his neck with as much joy and content as ever he did the Garter or a Chain of Gold and therefore desired them to tye them about him as they pleased telling them That what they thought was for his Disgrace he took to be his greatest Honour This being done and his Armes tyed he asked the Officers If they had any more Dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it and so with an undaunted Courage mounted the top of that prodigious Gibbet where having commended his soul to God he patiently underwent the Execution of their inveterate malice Thus fell this Worthy Hero by a most malicious and barbarous sort of cruelty his Head and Quarters being disposed of according to that wicked Sentence pronounced against him though afterwards viz. May 11. 1661. they found a more Honourable Burial being taken down from the Gates of those four distant Cities and with great State and Solemnity Interred with a Funeral becoming his Family and his own personal Renown and Glory To conclude this Story he was one of the Noblest Gallantest Persons that age brought forth a Captain whose unexampled Atchievments have Famed a History which were its Volumn ten times bigger would yet be disproportioned to the due praises of this matchless Hero the day of his Martyrdom was May the 21. 1650. To the Immortal Memory of those Worthy Martyrs who laid down their lives in Opposition to Tyranny and Defence of the Ancient Fundamental Laws of this Nation Hail Worthy Martyrs of the Royal Cause Who stoutly stood up in Defence of Laws And when the Land was sick of their own good To cure the same offer'd their dearest blood These were the Royal Martyrs of this age Who ' gainst the Rebellion Rampant durst Engage Whose Noble Virtues and Illustrious Worth Spight of their Foes base Cruelty brake forth And with their Souls did unto Heaven aspire Making the World their Virtues to admire Thus what their Foes by Barbarous Cruelty Sought to depress was raised far more high As Jems i' th' dark do cast a brighter ray Then when obstructed by the rival day So did the lustre of their worth appear Brake thorow those clouds and shines transparent clear Thus did they pass by Rebells bloody hand Through the Red Sea unto the promist Land There with the Blessed Saints to be partaker And Hallilujahs sing unto their Maker There rest blest Souls amongst that happy Quire Whilest we your Noble Virtues do admire And that your Names with Sacred Veneration Do live Renown'd for ever in this Nation A Catalogue of the most Eminent Persons Slain in his Majesties Service in Opposition to Tyranny and Defence of the Fundamental Laws I. COrnet Porter Son to Master Endimeon Porter of the Bed-Chamber Slain at Newborn upon Tine against the Scots upon their Rebellious Invasion of England August 27. 1639. II. The Lord Aubigney Father to the most Illustrious Charles Duke of Richmond who so Valiantly behaved himself at the Battel of Edge-hill where he was mortally wounded of which wounds he died at Abington and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxford III. The Earle of Lyndsey General of the Field at Edge-hill where he behaved Himself like a Valiant Souldier and Expert Commander was at the said Battel unfortunately Slain October 23. 1642. IV. Sir Edmond Varney the Kings Standard-Bearer at Edge-hill who Valiantly Fighting was Slain under it and the Standard being taken by one Chambers Essex's Secretary was Rescured by Sir John Smith whom the King after the Battel Knighted V. Colonel Munro a Scotch Man a man of Eminent Valour Slain also at the same Battel VI. Spencer Earle of Northampton a most Magnanimous Asserter of the Kings Cause who Besieged Leichfield Sir William Breerton and Sir John Gell with Three Thousand Men came to relieve it against whom the Earle Opposed obtaining of them a Glorious Victory though with the price of his own life for Valiantly Fighting whether by disadvantage of the ground being full of Conney-Burroughs or born down by the Enemies is uncertain he was un-horst and refusing Quarter was killed by a private unlucky hand March 19. 1642. VII Earle of Denbigh a Gentleman of much Worth and Excellency unfortunately slain at the taking of Birmingham by Prince Rupert April the 3. 1643. VIII Sir Bevil Greenvil a Gentleman whose Gallant Parts and Active Service for his Royal Master deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance He Engaging with Sir Ralph Hopton and other Eminent Cavaliers against Sir William Waller at a place called Landsdown in his full Cariere of Victory was unfortunately killed to the great loss of his Majesty and unspeakable grief of all true Lovers of Heroick Valour IX Master Leak Son to my Lord Deincourt now Earle of Scours-dale Master Barker Colonel Wall Captain James Captain Cholwel and Master Busturd all Valiant Persons who in the Service of his Majesty at the same Fight at Landsdown died in the bed of honour X. Marquess de Vieu Ville who in the Fight at Auborn-chase behaved himself most Gallantly and Valiantly Fighting was there slain Septem 1643. XI Earle of Carnarvan a Nobleman of as great Spirit and Affection to the Kings Service as any who at Newbery Battel Sept. 19. 1643. giving a desparate Charge to the Enemies Horse under the Command of Sir Philip Stapleton Routed them and pursuing them to their Foot was unhappily shot in the Head of his Troops whose loss was deservedly lamented by all Valiant Spirits and to whose memory more Publick memory is due then a private Enterment in Jesus Colledge in Oxford XII Earle of Sunderland and Viscount Faulkland persons of Superlative Worth and Honour who in the just Defence of his Majesty and the Laws was slain at the foresaid Battel of Newbery and that close by the Kings Person whose Cause they had so stoutly maintained XIII Lord Viscount Faulkland a Person whose Worth cannot be forgotten and whose Excellent Parts speaks him better then any Elogy I can bestow upon him to the great grief of Learned Men slain at Newbery Septem 17. 1643. XIV Sir Henry Howard and Sir Savile Men of Extraordinary Worth and Merit who at the Battel of Adderton-heath by their Valour gained the Victory but lost their own Lives and were Enterred together in York Minster XV. The Earle of Kingston Father to the Marquess of Dorchester now living who being unhappily surprized by some Forces of the Lord Willoughbies about Gainsbrough he being a Person of great Quality and of much concernment to the Kings Affairs they resolved to send him to Hull in a Pinnace In the way thither Colonel Cavendish Brother to the Earle of Devonshire
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
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
constant then in their custody and so jealous were they over him that he could not go or travel any where without a Pass or safe Conduct from the next Officer to the place of his abode which restriction continued for many years together being besides continually in danger of being trappanned out of his Life by the Wiles and Snares of his Treacherous Enemies XXXI Colonel John and William Ashburnham those Gemini of Loyal Fidelity the former so well known in our Annalls for the conveying the King away from Oxford both signally famous for their endeavours in the Royal Cause never free from trouble and molestation of the Regicides whose guilty consciences like Ismael thought every mans hand to be against them These Loyal Brothers were in conclusion sent by them to remote Castles and Islands and there debarred of any intercourse or correspondence with their Friends so inhumanely barbarous were those bloody Rebells that when they could not by any shew of Justice deprive them of their lives they would immure them up in Walls of stone and debar them of all means which should in the least make life comfortable unto them XXXII Air Humphry Bennet an Eminent Royalist formerly a Brigadier in the Kings Army who at that time of Colonel Penruddocks Rising at Salisbury being of that Country was seized and secured as a Partaker and Confederate with him and for the same committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he remained near Three years and then was brought before their High Court of Justice which was Erected for the Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby c. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it after some few dayes attendance he was superseded from his Tryal and remitted again to his confinement but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of State XXXIII The Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Mordant Brother to the Earle of Peterborough an active Person against the Tyrannies of the Rump and that Monster of Nature Oliver Cromwel being really Engaged in several Designs against him for which he hardly escaped with his life being acquitted but by one saving voice After the death of that Tyrant he still laboured indefatigably in the Kings business being as busie against the Rump as before against the Protector for which he was by Proclamation commanded to render himself by a prefixed time or be reputed a Traytor but was by providence preserved out of their hands and hath since seen some of them suffer the same death designed for him He is now Governour of Windsor Castle XXXIV Sir Thomas Woodcock who Engaging in the same Design with my Lord Mordant was by the Regicides intended for the slaughter but he so wisely managed his Defence at their Bar of Injustice that he escaped their clutches being fairly acquitted by those bloody Justices XXXV Master Christopher Pitts a Loyal Noble Gentleman who was apprehended upon the same business of my Lord Mordant and committed Prisoner to Newgate where after Examination having not found enough against him to take away his life they would have made use of him as a Witness against his Associates but his Noble Spirit scorning such baseness refused so to do whereupon after many vain threats and menaces he was by their High Court condemned to perpetual Imprisonment and Fined One Thousand Pound all which his gallant spirit willingly submitted to rather then to be guilty of his Friends blood though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to some a sufficient warrant for such an action He continued after Oliver's death a Prisoner though with more freedom then was allowed him by that Tyrannical Sentence untill by the happy restauration of his Majesty he commenced his Freedome with that of the Kingdomes XXXVI Master William Garrent who for the same business was Tryed before that accursed High Court who would have no doubt designed him for the slaughter but that they failed in their Evidence of which it was thought they relyed on Master Pitts he was with much adoe acquitted and soon after set at liberty XXXVII Henry Fryar John Sumner and Oliver Allen who were all Three condemned at the aforesaid Court of Justice the first of them being brought to suffer in West-Smithfield where in the rounds a Gibbet was Erected but being upon the Ladder and ready to dye a Reprieve was produced and he carried back again to the Tower from whence not long after he was dismist the other two were likewise drawn on Hurdles the one to Bishopsgate and the other to Grace Church-street the places appointed for their Execution but were both there reprieved and soon after freed XXXVIII The most Noble Marquess of Winchester Newcastle and Worcester Hero's whose Deserts require a better Character then I am able to bestow upon them and their Memories a more durable Register then this Little Breviary having indured all the discommodities of those wretched times amongst them Viz. Imprisonment Banishment Distress Diprivation of Estates and all those other Miseries an Insulting Enemy could lay upon them for the Duty they owed to God and their King and the preservation of a Good Conscience XXXIX The Right Honourable Earles of Oxford and Northampton the Lord Herbert c. who suffered Imprisonment in the Tower upon suspition of a Rising from which afterwards for want of good Proof they were released XL. Sir George Booth now Lord Delamere who to free his Country from those Insulting Tyrannies of the Rump appeared in Armes against them in Cheshire and was Proclaimed Traytor together with Major General Egerton Colonel Warden and Sir Thomas Midleton but being defeated by Lambert's more numerous Forces he fled in a disguise to Newport-Pagnel in Bedford-shire where he was discovered seized on and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London his Estate ordered to be sequestred and sold and preparations made for his Tryal which had it gone on he would no doubt have paid for it with his Life but as when Thieves fall out true men speed the better so the divisions betwixt that remaining scum at Westminster and their Commander Lambert thorow the Prudence and Loyalty of Noble General Monke brought in the re-admission of the secluded Members by whom he was restored to his Liberty and Estate XLI Sir Thomas Middleton a Gentleman who had attempted much to the Restauration of his Majesty being Engaged in the same business with Sir George Booth after the Defeat he was forced to flee being sure to have suffered deeply had he fallen into their hands He left Chirk Castle his stately Mansion to be defended by his Sonns which soon after was rendered to Colonel Zanchy but the happy Revolution aforesaid restored his Estate again to him and he to the free and peaceable possession thereof But should I go about to Ennumerate all those Persons that suffered by Sequestrations Plunderings and Rapines my Task were infinite I shall therefore refer every particular of those sufferers to that