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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66699	The loyall martyrology, or, Brief catalogues and characters of the most eminent persons who suffered for their conscience during the late times of rebellion either by death, imprisonment, banishment, or sequestration together with those who were slain in the Kings service : as also dregs of treachery : with the catalogue and characters of those regicides who sat as judges on our late dread soveraign of ever blessed memory : with others of that gang, most eminent for villany / by William Winstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1665 (1665)	Wing W3066; ESTC R9014	71,216	190

with a Party pursued the Pinnace to a shallow which she could not pass demanding her and the Earles Surrender which being refused a Drake was discharged which unfortunately killed the said Earle and one of his Servants being placed on purpose on the Deck to deter the Royalists from shooting whereupon they presently struck sayle and yielded but with a just revenge were all sacrificed to to the Ghost of that most Noble Loyal Peer XVI Colonel Charls Cavendish aforesaid who quickly after the deserved death of those murthering Rebells was set upon by a great Party under Colonel White a Lincolnshire Gentleman who with those Forces came to relieve the Boat or recover it if taken Whereupon a sharp Encounter ensued betwixt them but the Royalists being over-pour'd the Valiant Colonel was forced to take the Trent with his Horse which swam him safe to the other side but there stuck in the Owze and Mud but as soon as he could get a shore off his Horses back the Enemy was come to him round by the Ford and seeing him desparately wounded offer'd him Quarter which he magnanimously refusing throwing his blood amongst them which he wipé't off his face was by them killed out-right upon the place XVII The Lord Grandison who in the Service of his Majesty was wounded at Bristol of which wounds he shortly after died XVIII Sir Ingram Hopton Sir George Bolit and Lievtenant Colonel Markham men whose Names deserve to be recorded in the Book of Fame who in a sharp and sore conflict against the Earle of Manchester's Forces near Horn-Castle in Lincoln-shire valiantly fighting were unfortunately slain XIX John Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond a most Gallant Heroick Person slain in the Battel between Hopton and Waller on Cheriton-Down Fight March 29. 1644. XX. Sir John Smith Colonel Sandys and Colonel Scot Persons of great Worth and Eminency whose valourous minds scorned danger and who hated no man so much as a Coward These Gallant Sons of Mars were slain at the foresaid Fight on Cheriton-Down whose valiant Names succeeding Ages shall mention with honour XXI Colonel Manning slain also at the foresaid Fight a Gallant Person onely unhappy in this in being Father to that Captain Manning who betrayed the Kings Council to Cromwel while he resided at Colin for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country XXII The Lord Cary Sir Thomas Motham and Sir William Lampton who in that great Fight betwixt Prince Rupert and the Parliamentarians at Maston Moor July 2. 1644. wherein above Eight Thousand lost their Lives and was indeed the Greatest of all the War in this so memorable a Battel those Three Honoured Persons lost their Lives sealing the love they bore to the Kings Side with their dearest bloods XXIII Sir William Wentworth Sir Charles Slingsby Sir Francis Dane who Engaging in Defence of his Majesties Cause were slain in that great and unfortunate fight at Maston Moor. XXIV Lievtenant Colonel Smith and Captain Boteler who at the Raising of Banbury Siege lost their lives to purchase to themselves an Honourable Name XXV Sir John Digby whose very Family carries Loyalty in the Name of it wounded at Langport in the County of Somerset of which wounds he shortly after died XXVI Colonel Myn an Active Loyal Person who Commanded a Regiment of English which he brought with him out of Ireland who Engaging with Massey in Gloster-shire valiantly performed the Office of an Excellent Souldier and Expert Commander both in Rallying his Men bringing them up and keeping them from the Rout but being over-mastered in number he was there slain dying in the bed of Honour XXVII Colonel Sir William St. Leger Lievtenant Colonel Topping and Lievtenant Colonel Leake who in the second Battlel at Newbery valiantly fighting lost their lives making good that ground in their death which in their life they had undertook to keep accompanying those Souldiers in their deaths whom in their lives they had Commanded with so much Gallantry XXVIII Colonel Gage the flower of Chevialry and pattern of true Magnanimity who to hinder the daily Excursions of the Abington Forces under the Command of Major General Brown resolv'd to build a Fort at Culham Bride to repress the boldness of those Forces who were constantly out thereabouts upon Designes In the attempt thereof the Abington Forces under Colonel Brown Sally out to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Erruption Engaging with the Royalists though with little hopes of prevailing till an unlucky shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford a great loss to the Royal Interest XXIX Colonel St. George who at the storming of the City of Leicester in a Bravery and Gallantry of Courage ventering upon the mouth of the Cannon was slain with a great shot XXX Colonel Taylor an Eminent Commander under Prince Rupert who at the Siege thereof by Sir Thomas Fairfax was in its Defence mortally wounded XXXI Sir Richard Crane a great friend and familiar with Prince Rupert who in a Sally upon the Enemies was unfortunately slain XXXII The thrice Noble Lord Bernard Stuart Earle of Leichfield the last of the three Illustrious Brothers of the Duke of Richmond late deceased who constantly adheiring to the King both in Weal and Woe never left him for the greatest Danger or Extremity for after the fatal fight at Naseby the King with a flying Army intending for the relief of Chester was set upon by General Poyntz at Routon-Heath where happened a very sharp sore fight wherein this Noble Lord gallantly fighting in Defence of his Royal Master was unfortunely killed Sept. 24. 1645. XXXIII Sir Francis Carnaby and Sir Richard Hutton men of stout and magnanimous carriage who feared not death in his nearest approaches those two valiant Hero's were slain at Sherbon fight in Yorkshire October 25. 1645. being in their march towards the Marquess of Montross XXXIV Major Cufaud an Officer in Basing House which so long and valiantly held out against the numerous assaults of a Potent Enemy and who at last of all would hear of no Terms of surrender but being stormed and with great loss of the assailants Entered this valiant Major after a stout resistance not dreading death was by the hands of his Enemies there slain XXXV Doctor Griffiths Daughter who though a Female yet of a Masculine spirit and for her Loyalty deserving a large share amongst those Notable Hero's slain in the Kings service this Amazonian Lady whose praise cannot be sufficiently celebrated in the foresaid storm at Basing House was by the barbarity of the Enemies killed and shamefully left naked a trophy of their Baseness and her own eternal Renown and Honour XXXVI Master Gerard the Authour of that Elabourate Herbal which bears his Name to whom succeeding Ages must confess themselves indebted this gallant Gentleman Renowned for Arts and Armes was likewise at the storming of that House unfortunately slain a great losse to succeeding Ages XXXVII Sir

constant then in their custody and so jealous were they over him that he could not go or travel any where without a Pass or safe Conduct from the next Officer to the place of his abode which restriction continued for many years together being besides continually in danger of being trappanned out of his Life by the Wiles and Snares of his Treacherous Enemies XXXI Colonel John and William Ashburnham those Gemini of Loyal Fidelity the former so well known in our Annalls for the conveying the King away from Oxford both signally famous for their endeavours in the Royal Cause never free from trouble and molestation of the Regicides whose guilty consciences like Ismael thought every mans hand to be against them These Loyal Brothers were in conclusion sent by them to remote Castles and Islands and there debarred of any intercourse or correspondence with their Friends so inhumanely barbarous were those bloody Rebells that when they could not by any shew of Justice deprive them of their lives they would immure them up in Walls of stone and debar them of all means which should in the least make life comfortable unto them XXXII Air Humphry Bennet an Eminent Royalist formerly a Brigadier in the Kings Army who at that time of Colonel Penruddocks Rising at Salisbury being of that Country was seized and secured as a Partaker and Confederate with him and for the same committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he remained near Three years and then was brought before their High Court of Justice which was Erected for the Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby c. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it after some few dayes attendance he was superseded from his Tryal and remitted again to his confinement but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of State XXXIII The Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Mordant Brother to the Earle of Peterborough an active Person against the Tyrannies of the Rump and that Monster of Nature Oliver Cromwel being really Engaged in several Designs against him for which he hardly escaped with his life being acquitted but by one saving voice After the death of that Tyrant he still laboured indefatigably in the Kings business being as busie against the Rump as before against the Protector for which he was by Proclamation commanded to render himself by a prefixed time or be reputed a Traytor but was by providence preserved out of their hands and hath since seen some of them suffer the same death designed for him He is now Governour of Windsor Castle XXXIV Sir Thomas Woodcock who Engaging in the same Design with my Lord Mordant was by the Regicides intended for the slaughter but he so wisely managed his Defence at their Bar of Injustice that he escaped their clutches being fairly acquitted by those bloody Justices XXXV Master Christopher Pitts a Loyal Noble Gentleman who was apprehended upon the same business of my Lord Mordant and committed Prisoner to Newgate where after Examination having not found enough against him to take away his life they would have made use of him as a Witness against his Associates but his Noble Spirit scorning such baseness refused so to do whereupon after many vain threats and menaces he was by their High Court condemned to perpetual Imprisonment and Fined One Thousand Pound all which his gallant spirit willingly submitted to rather then to be guilty of his Friends blood though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to some a sufficient warrant for such an action He continued after Oliver's death a Prisoner though with more freedom then was allowed him by that Tyrannical Sentence untill by the happy restauration of his Majesty he commenced his Freedome with that of the Kingdomes XXXVI Master William Garrent who for the same business was Tryed before that accursed High Court who would have no doubt designed him for the slaughter but that they failed in their Evidence of which it was thought they relyed on Master Pitts he was with much adoe acquitted and soon after set at liberty XXXVII Henry Fryar John Sumner and Oliver Allen who were all Three condemned at the aforesaid Court of Justice the first of them being brought to suffer in West-Smithfield where in the rounds a Gibbet was Erected but being upon the Ladder and ready to dye a Reprieve was produced and he carried back again to the Tower from whence not long after he was dismist the other two were likewise drawn on Hurdles the one to Bishopsgate and the other to Grace Church-street the places appointed for their Execution but were both there reprieved and soon after freed XXXVIII The most Noble Marquess of Winchester Newcastle and Worcester Hero's whose Deserts require a better Character then I am able to bestow upon them and their Memories a more durable Register then this Little Breviary having indured all the discommodities of those wretched times amongst them Viz. Imprisonment Banishment Distress Diprivation of Estates and all those other Miseries an Insulting Enemy could lay upon them for the Duty they owed to God and their King and the preservation of a Good Conscience XXXIX The Right Honourable Earles of Oxford and Northampton the Lord Herbert c. who suffered Imprisonment in the Tower upon suspition of a Rising from which afterwards for want of good Proof they were released XL. Sir George Booth now Lord Delamere who to free his Country from those Insulting Tyrannies of the Rump appeared in Armes against them in Cheshire and was Proclaimed Traytor together with Major General Egerton Colonel Warden and Sir Thomas Midleton but being defeated by Lambert's more numerous Forces he fled in a disguise to Newport-Pagnel in Bedford-shire where he was discovered seized on and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London his Estate ordered to be sequestred and sold and preparations made for his Tryal which had it gone on he would no doubt have paid for it with his Life but as when Thieves fall out true men speed the better so the divisions betwixt that remaining scum at Westminster and their Commander Lambert thorow the Prudence and Loyalty of Noble General Monke brought in the re-admission of the secluded Members by whom he was restored to his Liberty and Estate XLI Sir Thomas Middleton a Gentleman who had attempted much to the Restauration of his Majesty being Engaged in the same business with Sir George Booth after the Defeat he was forced to flee being sure to have suffered deeply had he fallen into their hands He left Chirk Castle his stately Mansion to be defended by his Sonns which soon after was rendered to Colonel Zanchy but the happy Revolution aforesaid restored his Estate again to him and he to the free and peaceable possession thereof But should I go about to Ennumerate all those Persons that suffered by Sequestrations Plunderings and Rapines my Task were infinite I shall therefore refer every particular of those sufferers to that