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A88536 A looking-glass for traytors being the manner of the tryall of those barbarous wretches at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, who contrived and compassed the death of his late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First, of ever blessed memory : with an account of their severall arguments, conviction, condemnation and execution. 1660 (1660) Wing L3034; Thomason 669.f.26[25]; ESTC R210824 4,815 1

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A LOOKING-GLASS FOR TRAYTORS BEING The Manner of the TRYALL of those Barbarous Wretches at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily who contrived and compassed the Death of his late Sacred Majesty King CHARLES the First of ever blessed memory With an account of their severall Araignments Conviction Condemnetion and Execution A The Lord major B The Comissioners C The Kings Councell D The 2 Sheriffs E The Clerks F The Iury G The Prisoner H The Witnesses I The Bayl-dock K The Criers of the Court L The Keepers M The Stayre Case N The houses looking into the Court O Persons of Quallity Spactators within the Court P The Common people in the outward yard Q The yard between the Court and the Bar I C delin The names of the Lords and others unto whom the Commission of Oyer and Terminer was directed under the Great seal of England for the tryall of the pretended Judges of His late Sacred Majesty THomas Aleyn Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of the City of Lendon The Lord Chancellor of England The Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England The Duke of Somerset The Duke of Albemarle The Marquesse ef Ormond Steward of His Majesties houshold The Earle of Lindsey High Chamberlain of England The Earl of Manchester Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold The Earle of Dorset The Earl of Berkeshire The Earl of Sandwich Viscount Say and Seale The Lord Roberts The Lord Finch Denzill Hollis Esquire Sir Frederick Cornwallis Knight and Baronet Treasurer of his Majesties houshold Sir Charles Barkley Knight Comptroller of His Majesties Houshold Mr. Secretary Nicholas Mr. Secretary Morris Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Arthur Annesley Esquire The Lord Cheif Baron Mr. Justice Foster Mr. Justice Mallet Mr. Justice Hyde Mr. Baron Atkins Mr. Justice Twisden Mr. Justice Tyrrel Mr. Baron Turner Sir Harbottle Grimston Knight Baronet Sir William Wild Knight and Baroner Recorder of London Mr. Serjeant Brown Mr. Serjeant Hale John Howel Esquire Sir Geoffery Palmer His Majestie 's Atturney Generall Sir Heneage Finch his Majesties Sollicitor Generall Sir Edward Turner Atturney to His Highness the Duke of York Wadham Windham Esquire Edward Shelton Esquire Clerk of the Crown The Names of the Grand-Jury sworn were Sir William Darcy Baronet Foreman Sir Robert Bolles Baronet Sir Edward Ford Knight Sir Thomas Prestwick Sir William Coney Knight Sir Charls Sidley Baronet Sir Lewis Kirk Knight Sir Henry Littleton Baronet Sir Ralph Bovey Baronet Edward Chard Esquire Robert Giggen Esquire John Fotherley Esquire Charls Gibbons Esquire Thomas Geree Esquire Richard Cox Esquire Robert Bladwell Esquire Henry Mustian Esquire John Markham Esquire Edward Buckley Gent. Francis Bourchier Gent. Edward Lole Hart Cryer HIs Majesty in pursuance of an Act of Parliament which had left the persons following to be tried according to Law for being the principall Actors in the sad Tragedy of his Fathers death issued out a speciall Commission of Oyer and terminer to the Judges and others Commissioners for that purpose and accordingly Wednesday the 10. of October they met at the Sessions-house in the Old-baily and the same morning the following persons were ordered to be brought from the Tower to Newgate and a way was made from the Press-yard backwards to the Sessions house privately to convey them to and again to keep them from the pressing of the people Thomas Harrison John Cooke Robert Titchburne Sir Hardress Waller Symon Meyne Owen Roe Mr. John Carew Peter Temple Robert Liburne Col. Adrian Scroop James Temple Gilbert Millington Mr. Thomas Scott Hugh Peters Isaac Pennington Col. John Jones Daniell Axtell John Downes M. Gregory Clement Francis Hacker Edmund Harvey Augustine Garland Henry Marten Vincent Potter Will. Heveningham Henry Smith Thomas Waite George Fleetwood All which being brought to the Bar were indicted and arraigned to the following effect That they not having the fear of God before their eyes but being led by the instigation of the Divel had maliciously traiterously and advisedly imagined consulted contrived and compassed the death of His late Majesty Charles the first of ever blessed memory and that they had aided procured a betted assisted and comforted a certain person with a vizard upon his face and a frock upon his body for that purpose To which all pleaded Not guilty except Sir Hardres Waller and Col. George Fleetwood who being conscious of their own guilt and satisfied with the hainousness of their fact pleaded guilty and put in their Petitions to the Court craving mercy And although Mr. Hugh Peters said he would not plead guilty for ten thousand worlds yet he was found to be a great forwarder of that black designe This being the first daies work which was only to arraigne the next day being Thursday Major Gen. Harrison singly was brou●ht to the Bar but before he could get a Jury that he liked he took upon him the liberty of an English man excepted against thirty five persons which being done twelve were chosen upon whom he put himself for his Tryal and being charged by the Kings Councel for being one that Signed the Commission for the establishing a High Court of Justice One that Sate among them One that Signed that Horrid Warrant for the Kings Execution and was One likewise who had Contrived the Time the Place and the Manner of the Kings Execution Major General Harrison in his Pleadings carried himself so confidently to the Court as if he thought himself Carelesse and Unconcerned in the businesse and seemed to justifie not onely the Power under which he Acted but also the Act it self saying that Kings had formerly been privately Assassinated and Murthered but what they had done was in the Face of the Sun and in the Fear of the Lord whereat the Court was much troubled to see that he should make God the Author of that Horrid Murther and being told that the thing he called the Commons of England were so far from being a Parliament that they had not the least colour of Authority and that if they had been the whole house of Commons and joyned to the whole house of Lords they could not by any Act of theirs take away the Life of the least Cripple at the Gate much lesse of the King c. Major General Harrison not being able to speak to the matter of Fact it was left to the Jury who without going forth of the Court immedia●ely found him Guilty and Sentence accordingly passed on him To go from that place to the place from whence he came and from thence to be drawn upon a Hurdle to the place of Execution there to be Hanged by the Neck till he were half Dead that he should be cut down a Live and his Members cut off before his Face and burnt in the Fire his Bowels to be taken out and burnt likewise his Head to be cut off and his Body to be divided into four Quarters disposed of as his Majesty shall think fit Which sentence was put in Execution on Saturday following at Charing-cross The next day