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of Sir Henry Slingsby c. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it after some few dayes attendance he was superseded from his Tryal and remitted again to his confinement but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of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
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
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 For encouragement to Virtue and determent from Vice By William Winstanley Rebellion is as the Sin of Witch-craft LONDON Printed by Thomas Mabb for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain 1665. ON THE FRONTISPIECE O What a glorious sight do I behold Apples of Silver Pictured thus in Gold Immortal Hero's who of life bereaven Are now become bright fixed Stars of Heaven The first of all this Glorious Company King 1 Charles presents himself unto your eye Like Phoebus glistering in the Morning tide Surrounded with Brave Hero's on each side Under him 2 Strafford that Great Pro-toto-Martyr On each side Loyal 3 Derby Gallant Arthur Lord 4 Capell three such Peeres we may conclude For to be Stars of the first Magnitude Brave 5 Lucas and Stout 6 Lisle whose Gallant Worth Deserves a Golden Pen to set them forth Undaunted 7 Morris 8 Penruddock and 9 Grove Stout 10 Andrews who deserv'd all Peoples love Brave 11 Gerard 12 Benbow 13 Burleigh 14 Pitcher 15 Poyer Who for their Country did their best devoyer 16 Fetherstonhaugh 17 Hamilton 18 Holland's Earle 19 Blackburn 20 Benson 21 Bushel each a Pearle Of Valourous Loyalty 22 Ashton well skill'd in Wars Kind 32 Slingsby 24 Symkins all stout Sons of Mars Who for King Charles his Cause so strongly stood And seal'd their Love to 't with their dearest blood Next view great 25 Laud whose worth doth strike me dumb The Reverend 26 Hewyt England's Chrysostome Grave 27 Beaumont and Religious 28 Vowel who With 29 Love for Loyalty their Lives forgo Learn'd 30 Levens Glory of his Family Well skill'd in Law practised in Loyalty Next view that unmatchless Hero Gallant 31 Hide 32 Yeomans and 33 Bowcher who at Bristol dy'd 34 Tomkins and 35 Challoner of Active Spirits 36 Kniveton 37 Gibbons 38 Kensy men whose merits With those foregoing Hero's rais'd them High Whil'st Traytors live Infam'd in Hystory THE LOYALL MARTYROLOGY Printed for Edward Thomas 1665. To the Honourable Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet His Majesties Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON SIR TWo Things have Emboldened me to Dedicate this Book unto You The First is your known Loyalty and Integrity to the Royal Cause which hath made Your Name as Conspicuous as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day not only since the Happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty but in those Times of Rebellion when Loyalty was accounted a Crime of the Highest Nature which as it made you one of Those Loyal Confessors that by your Sufferings have indeared your Memory to all Posterity so no doubt had not that Gangreen of Rebellion been the sooner cut off your Eminent Parts would by those bloody Regicides who were Enemies to Worth and Loyalty have brought you into the Number of These Royal Martyrs who laid down their Lives in Defence of Gods Laws and his Annointed's Cause of both which you were so Gallant an Assertor The Second is the Relation you had to that Reverend Martyr Arch-Bishop Laud who laid down his Life in Defence of the Church and is now involved in that Glorious Company who Suffered for the Testimony of a Good Conscience of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a candle Daigne Sir to Accept this Mite of Acknowledgement of Your Worth from him who Subscribes himself Your Most Humbly Devoted Servant William Winstanley THE PREFACE TO THE Reader WHat sad Effects the Miseries and Calamities of a Civil War doth produce this Nation cannot but be sensible of and our late Times do sufficiently evidence How all things were turned topsie turvy Religion subverted by Rebellion Truth troden down by Treason the Gown giving place to the Corslet and the Law over-awed by the Sword How under pretense of a Reformation all things were turned into Confusion The Law which should be the Rule and Direction whereby to walk made useless or at least like unto a Spiders Webb through which those Rebellious Bug-bears could with ease break out but the poor Caveliers were insnared in the same How under a pretense of the breach of our Fundamental Laws they Murthered divers Gallant Persons when they themselves committed the greatest breaches on it by riding over the Royal Power of the King putting down the Bishops and the Book of Common Prayer Usurping the Militia Counterfeiting the great Seal Seizing on the Kings Forts Ports Shipping Castles and all his Revenue Raising Rumors putting out Declarations and giving out words to alienate the Peoples Affections from their Soveraign Sessing Souldiers upon the People of the Kingdom without their Consent making Judges Justices and Sheriffs contrary to the Kings mind breaking all Law themselves and Governing the Land by New-found Ordinances of their own imposing several Taxes on the People by wayes never before known in this Kingdom namely Contributions Sequestrations Meal-Money Sale of Plundred Goods Loans Collections upon their Fast-Dayes new Imposition upon Merchandizes Guards maintained at the charge of Private Men Compositions Sale of Bishops Lands with divers other strange Impositions all wracked from the People to maintain them in their Rebellious Pride But had they stay'd here their crimes had been the more inexcusable but they proceeded to the Murther of their King and that under a pretense of Justice a Crime so great that History cannot shew a parallel that people professing themselves Christians Protestants yea the most Reformed of all the Protestants should in the face of the whole World in the Metropolis of the Kingdom under a formal show of Justice Condemn the most Pious Prudent and Gracious Prince then living in the whole World contrary to the Word of God the Laws of the Land the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiancy it was a matter of Wonder and Astonishment not only to all Good and Godly Christians but even to the very Turks and Pagans Now notwithstanding their specious pretenses of Religion and Liberty who can be so blind as not plainly to see that the main drift of their pretenses was only to Tyrannize over the People and to wallow in all manner of Pleasure and Epicurisme for how notoriously debauched were some of the Chief of those Grand Reformers such as Gregory Clement Henry Martin Hugh Peters c. Besides their Covetousness which was so unmeasurably great that some Wise Men have wondered the Kingdome could be able to pay so much Money as hath been Collected from them in a year and yet for all those immeasurable Taxes the Souldiers and Navy unpaid that money going towards the Raising
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
Thomas Dallison and Sir Richard Cave who in that unfortunate Battel at Naseby sealed their Affection to the Kings Cause with their dearest bloods XXXVIII Sir Nicholas Fortescu a Knight of Malta see the justness of the Kings Cause which invited Strangers from so far Countries to take his Part was slain in Lancashire in defence of the Royal Cause XXXIX Sir Troilus Turbervil Captain Lievtenant of the Kings Life Guard slain at his Majesties marching from Newark to Oxford XL. Major Threave and Captain Fry two Persons of Eminent Valour under the Lord Hopton who when King Charle's Moon began to waine yet stoutly stood up in their Soveraigns Defence and at Torington valiantly fighting against the Fairfaxians who came to storm the Town were there slain dying in the bed of honour XLI Colonel Stanhop Governour of Shelford House who being summoned to surrender the same by Major General Poynz with a gallant resolution refused the same whereupon the Enemy storming and being over-power'd he was slain whilest he valiantly strived to make good that place he had undertaken to keep XLII Sir Nicholas Kemish an Eminent Cavaleir whose Worth and Gallantry cannot be sufficiently mentioned This Loyal Knight after such time the Juncto at Westminster had made those Destructive Votes of No further Addresses to the King and began to reject him in words as they had done formerly in deeds some hopes being given of Ayd for his Majesty Langhorn Poyer and Powell having an Army under them to neer the number of Eight Thousand declaring for the King Sir John Owen also having Risen in North-Wales with a good Force This gallant Knight put to his helping hand and surprized Chepstow-Castle but providence having decreed that deliverance should come to the English Nation by a more mild way then the Sword those Forces under the Three Colonels were utterly Routed Sir John Owen supprest and taken Prisoner and the Castle of Chepstow stormed and taken by Colonel Eure where this Renowned Knight for his Gallant Loyalty was by the barbarous Enemy slain in cold blood XLIII The Lord Francis Villers Brother to the Duke of Buckingham who with the said Duke the Earle of Holland and other Noble Personages Rose in Armes for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty at Kingston in Surry but being set upon by Sir Michael Livesy with other of the Parliament Forces this Active Spark of Valour being too far Engaged by his Mettalsome Courage was taken Prisoner and refusing Quarter was basely killed by a mean and rude hand with whose fall fell the Courage of all the other he being a person of Excellent Parts and of Valour far above his years XLIV Sir _____ Compton a Gentleman of known Worth and Loyalty who Engaging with those Noble Hero's Sir Charles Lucas Lord Capel c. for the Restoring the King and the Lawes to their Right whose Authority was then trampled upon by the Juncto at Westminster This Gallant Gentleman upon a sally out against the Fairfaxians that besieged the Town valiantly fighting was by a bullet which differenceth not a Loyal Person from a Rebel shot and wounded whereof he died July 1648. XLV Sir William Vaughan whose Valour and Fidelity were often approved in his Majesties Service he was slain at the siege of Dublin serving under the thrice Renowned Marquess of Ormond XLVI Sir Arthur Aston a Person whose Experience Courage and approved Fidelity rendred him worthy of the highest Trust and Command This worthy Gentleman was Governour of Drogheda when Cromwell with his Army of Janisaries besieged it valiantly defending the Place committed to his Charge giving Cromwell two notable Repulses and doubtless had given a good account of his Command had not Colonel Wall 's Regiment upon the unfortunate losse of their Colonel in the third Assault been so unhappily dismay'd as to listen before any need was unto the Enemy offering them Quarter and admitted them in upon those Terms betraying thereby both themselves and all their Fellow Souldiers to the insatiable Cruelty of that Monster of Nature Cromwel who gaining the Place most inhumanely put them all to the sword XLVII Sir Edmond Varney a Gentleman whose worth made him alike beloved and admired his faithfull service being often approved in Defence of his Majesty this gallant Gentleman whose merits rendred him odious to Cromwel was one of those who by that bloody Cut-throat was butchered at Drogheda XLVIII Col. Warren Col. Fleming Col. Brin Lievtenant Colonel Finglass and Major Tempest all Active Sparks of Valour whose Heroick Acts had purchased to them a spreading Fame and whose supereminent valour marked them out to slaughter from the hand of that wicked though fortunate General Oliver Cromwell at Drogheda aforesaid XLIX Colonel Hamond a Kentish Gentleman and firm Royalist who was a Colchesterian and suffered for his Loyalty a sharp Imprisonment at Windsor afterwards serving his Royal Master in Ireland at the Castle of Garran lost his life against Cromwel and his Conquering Army L. Captain Goff a person of eminent valour who under the Marquess of Clanrickard in the Royal Cause valiantly fighting was unfortunately killed LI. Sir John Brown a Major General of the Scots at such time as his present Majesty was amongst them who with a Party of Scots Encountering with Lambert in Fife was there wounded of which he quickly after died LII The Lord Widrington an Eminent and Loyal Person who after the Kings march to Worcester together with that ever Renowned Lord the Earle of Derby and other Eminent Hero's gathered Forces together in Lancashire to oppose the Rebells Army which like an impetuous torrent were flowing after the Royal Party and having gathered together about Twelve Hundred Men marched upon a design to fall upon Cromwells own Regiment then Quartering upon their march in Lancaster when in the nick of time in comes Lilburn with Ten Troops of Horse sent by the General from York upon that very Service having with them Two Regiments of Cheshire Foot and other additional Forces of Horse Those gallant Royalists notwithstanding chearfully resolved to fight with Lilburn and accordingly charged him so furiously that they totally Routed their first Troop and with a gallant bravery entered their Body so far that they began to run but fresh reserves coming in they were forced to retreat being sorely annoyed with the Musquets yet notwithstanding this repulse they renewed their charge again and were in great probability of obtaining a glorious Victory when another supply resisted the torrent of their valour and left deep impressions thereof in the death of many gallant Royalists amongst whom this Noble Hero was one who there died in the bed of Honour August 25. 1651. LIII Major General Sir Thomas Tilsely a Gentleman of such Heroick Parts that envy her self must commend him to be the pattern of true Chivalry and Mirrour of Loyalty So Great and Excellent were his Endowments that had he lived in former Ages his Valourous Atchievments would have quite shaded many of those who then passed for
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
whose Prodigality brought him to sell his Patrimony in the beginning of the late Troubles to Sir Marmaduke Langdale which he afterwards regained for nothing when that Lord was for his Loyalty Voted a Delinquent and his Estate at the dispose of Rebells who carved fat shares unto themselves He had a principal hand in the Kings death for which Parricide and other his Treasonable Practises he was by the Saints of the new stamp made Governour of Glocester and a great Commander in the North He died before his Majesties return XXIII Edmond Ludlow a Person much endeared to the Fanaticks who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army came at last to be a Lievtenant General and one of the Chief Commissioners for Ireland His Father before him uttered Treasonable words against the King in the House of Commons Anno 1643. no marvel then if the Father were a Rebell that the Son should prove a Traytor since most commonly to what the Parents are affected the Children prove addicted Upon his Majesties return fearing the reward of his deserts he fled the Land like his predecessor Caine living a Vagabond from place to place fearing every one that he meets should slay him XXIV Colonel John Hutchinson who by Cromwell and his prevailing Faction was over-awed to Sign his Majesties Execution but by a timely repentance bewailing with tears the heinousnesse of his Offence he obtained Pardon being onely discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts and Fined a years Profit of his Estate to the King XXV Sir Michael Livesey a Kentish Knight whose plague he was being Plunder-Master-General of that County for many years towards the repairing of his broken Estate He was a very Active Person during the Progress of the whole War and as nimbly ran away upon the Kings return making good that Proverb That one pair of leggs was worth two pair of hands XXVI Robert Titchburn born in London of good Extraction by Trade a Linnen-Draper coming by degrees to be Mayor thereof whose Counsels he is said to betray to the Rump Hope of Preferment and want of Grace drew him in to be one of the Infamous Tryars of his Soveraign At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal shewed much penitency for his Offences declaring with much candour his sin and ignorance of the atrocity of the crime protested his Inability of contrivance his raw years and unskilfulness in the Laws Saying He would rather have gone into a hot Oven then into that business if he had known the depth of it instancing That Paul was a Persecutor and found mercy and hoped that he should find the like He was with the other Regicides condemned but by the Kings Great Clemency Execution of Justice was respited on him XXVII Owen Roe formerly a Silkman in London and being an Eminent Independant had a Command of the Militia conferred on him by the Advice of the Devil and Cromwel he came to have a hand in shedding the Kings blood for which after his Majesties return he was condemned but pleading his reluctancy to the Kings Sentence and begging pardon for his Offence which he affirmed was not of malice he was by the Kings Favour Reprieved XXVIII Robert Lilburn a great Enemy to Bishops though come from the Bishopprick of Durham He was Brother to John Lilburn the great Trouble-World who was alwayes opposite to the Predominate Power This Robert Lilburn to raise his Fortunes sided with Cromwell who would never suffer them to want Preferment that were thorow-paced to his Interests By him he was advanced to be a Colonel of Horse a little before the Kings Murther and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility then requite him with having a hand in it and so ran fearlesly into the danger of it He still lives by the Kings clemency a condemned man in the Tower of London XXIX Adrian Scroop a Colonel of Horse a Person very Active against the Kings Parties in 1648. and as violent in the taking away his Majesties Life and Honour in their pretended High Court of Justice which he so little repented of that after his Majesties return in an accidental conferrence with Sir Richard Brown he seemed rather to allow and approve of it by saying Many people did not think it such a heinous matter or that some be of one mind and some be of another He was upon a fair Tryal condemned to dye and accordingly Executed on the Rayled place where Charing-Cross once stood Octo. the 17. 1660. XXX Richard Dean a Fellow of meane Extraction being at first a Hoymans Servant in Ipswich and at the beginning of the Wars to raise his despicable fortunes betook him to the Army and was a matross in the train of Artillery from whence he rose to be a Captain and was first Famous at the Siege of Exeter and being a cross Fellow fit for any mischief one who cared not to build his own hopes though on a general ruine was thought fit to be one of Cromwel's Complices in the Murther of his Soveraign He was afterwards made one of the Generals at Sea against the Dutch and was slain with a Cannon Bullet being shot almost off in the midle as he stood close by General Monke June 2. 1653. XXXI Colonel John Okey at first a Stoker in a Brew-House then a Chandler neer Bishopsgate where having lived a while he betook himself to the Army the Haven of Hope for all Aspiring Minds where in a short space he passed thorow the several commands to that of a Colonel and being of a daring spirit he was by the Artifice of Cromwell bewitched into the patner-ship of that accursed Murther of his Majesty Upon his Majesties return he fled the Land but divine vengeance pursuing him he was with Colonel Barkstead and Miles Corbet taken in Holland and sent over into England where at the Kings Bench Bar they were Arraigned and Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was Executed on the other two and their Quarters exposed on the City Gates but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and Dutifull carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be Interred He dyed with more penitency and greater reluctancy then those of his Fellow-Regicides who suffered in October 1660. acknowledging the Kings Power as of God and exhorting others to the like He was a Person that for his Valour and other good Qualities was pittied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this crime to his destruction XXXII John Hewson who from a Cobler rose by degrees to be a Colonel and though a Person of no Parts either in Body or Mind yet made by Cromwel one of his Pageant Lords He was a Fellow fit for any mischief and capable of nothing else a sordid lump of Ignorance and Impiety and therefore the more fit to share in Cromwell's Designs and to Act in that Horrid Murther of his Majesty
Upon the turn of the Times he ran away for fear of Squire Dun and by report is since dead and buried at Amsterdam XXXIII William Goffe bound an Apprentice to a Salter but run away e're he had served out his time and betook himself to the Army where by his boldness and pretended Piety he came to be taken notice of by the Grandees in Rebellion who liking his temper preferred him to serve themselves in that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty He likewise betook himself to his heeles at the restauration of our Soveraign being of the opinion of Caine That his Crimes was too great to be forgiven XXXIV Cornelius Holland a Monster in Nature once Servant to Sir Henry Vane who preferred him to the Green-cloath in the Kings House-hold of base conditions as well as extraction His Father was a poor man and dyed a Prisoner in the Fleet but he himself by his Ingatitude and Disloyalty made a ladder of mischief to climb up to Riches and so thrived by Rebellion that he got a vast Estate and like Herostratus grew very Eminent for Villanies the chief of which was the Murther of the King in which he had a principal hand and for which upon his Majesties return he fled the Land fearing belike he should become a spectacle to men hanging betwixt the Earth and Heaven XXXV John Carew Brother to that Loyal Knight Sir Alexander Carew beheaded by the prevalency of Rebellion in An. 1644. This Person being a rank Fifth-Monarchist was a great Enemy to all Earthly Government and Power expecting Christ to come Personally and Raign amongst them and therefore they would have no King but King Jesus which made him to joyn with those other Infamous Regicides in the Murther of his Soveraign being deluded thus by the impulses of Satan for those of the spirit At his Tryal he rambled into a wild discourse of the fear of God and the Authority of the Parliament by which he Acted that he declined it at first but being put in the Act for Tryal could not disobey the Lord nor the Parliament He was condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed upon him October 15. 1660. His quarters should have been exposed on the City Gates but upon intercession to his Majesty his Body was ordered to be buried XXXVI Colonel John Jones a Weltch Saint who in the night of Rebellion grew from a Mushromp to a Stately Cedar He was at first a Serving-Man but that kind of life not serving his turn he set up the gain-fuller trade of a Committee-man and thrived exceedingly in that Barren Country and being a person of known Abilities for the ruining a Kingdome he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament and inprocess of time Married one of Cromwel's Sisters who as one writes had as many Females to bestow as a Cardinal This alliance being prone enough of himself otherwise brought him in to have a hand in the Kings Murther and in fine brought him to the Gallows being Executed October 17. 1660. XXXVII Peregrine Pelham a York-shire Tike whose Abominable Treasons helped to verifie that Proverb From the cold North all ill comes forth He was for a while a kind of Governour of Hull after Hotham where being Endoctrinated in Machivillian Principles he came to London to put them in Execution being one of the Judges that Sat and Sentenced the late King and died before his Majesties Restauration XXXVIII Thomas Wogan a recruit likewise to the Long Parliament who was as active to contribute towards the ruine of the Kingdome as the chiefest of them all and as forward as the rest to destoy the King to become himself one of the Princes in the Anarchy but upon the change of the Times he betook him to his heeles and accompanied with a guilty conscience wander about to save a wretched Carcasse out of the Hangmans hands XXXIX Francis Allen once a Gold-Smith in Fleet-street whose first Rice was from the Placket and by Marrying his Mistris of her Servant became her Master being thus leapt into a pretty Estate he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament where he improved his time to the most gainfull advantage getting to be one of the Treasurers at War a Customer and as if that were not enough had Crone House given him and held it in Capite Regis These gifts made him not to stick to joyn with them in the Murther of the King and after to enjoy a part of the profit of their Parricide being made one of the Committees for the Sale of his Majesties Lands but lived not long to possess the fruits of his wickedness dying before his Majesties Happy Restauration XL. Daniel Blagrave of a small but competent Fortune sufficient to have maintained him without being guilty of this great Offence but he was resolved to get Riches although he swam to them in blood and being chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament for Reading in Bark-shire in hopes to be partaker with them in the spoyl of the Kingdome He joyned with them in the Murther of the King But upon the turn of the Times betook him to his heeles the best refuge as he thought for one in his condition XLI John Moor formerly Colonel of the Guards and had the benefit of all passes from London the profit whereof endeared him to their Side and made him joyn with them in the Horrid Murther of his Soveraign He dyed before his Majesties Return XLII William Say Esquire a Member of the Long Robe and a well practised but ill councelled Lawyer who being foysted in as one of the illegal recruites of the Long Parliament exercised his Abilities to the greater mischief having now power joyned to his will to Act what the Devil should prompt him to and therefore feared not to become one of the Murtherers of his Majesty and afterwards to joyn with the rest of those Regicides to help forwards the ruine of the Kingdome He was by them chosen their Speaker when Lenthall for Ten dayes together was sick of the Sullens upon the approach of General Monke But upon the Return of the King was non est inventus betaking him to his heeles for fear he should have had a Habeas Corpus to have removed his body from Newgate to Tyburn XLIII Francis Lascels a York-shire Man who being nominated one of the King's Judges Sat once but neither Sentenced nor Signed those Accursed Warrants for the Murther of the King He was Fined a years Profit of his Estate to his Majesty and discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts XLIV James Challoner Esquire who for sitting in that pretended High Court of Justice was with some others deprived of their Estates by Act of Parliament and ordered to be drawn to Tyburn in Sledges with Ropes about their Necks as Traytors are used and so back again to the Tower their to be Imprisoned during their natural lives but before the Execution of this Sentence he died in the
Tower XLV Gregory Clement a lustfull Goat who being a monied Merchant Purchased himself a place in Parliament that he might the more freely and with the greater Authority exercise his notorious debaucheries which were so vulgarly known that his fellow Villaines could not but upon pretense of honesty discard him their company He contributed largely to the destruction of his Soveraign for he who fears not to Commit Adultery will not stick out to do Murther He received afterwards the reward of his Treasons being hang'd drawn aud quarter'd Octob. 17. 1660. His Head set upon London-Bridge and his Quarters on the Gates of the City XLVI Sir Gregory Norton One whose means was not answerable to his Title being one of the Pensioners to the King who ungratefully for the lucre of money joyned also in the Kings murther and had by his fellow Regicides for his Service as good as given Richmond Manner and House He died before his Majesties Return XLVII John Venn A broken Silk-man in Cheap-side who to recruit his Fortunes took part with the Strongest Side carrying as great a pretense to Religion as the best it being the Stalking Horse in those Times for them who meant to ride in the Chair of Preferment He was at the beginning of the War made Governour of Windsor Castle and had other Places of great Profit bestowed on him this drew him on to Act in the Murther of his Sacred Majesty though afterwards stricken with the horrour thereof He is said desparately to have hanged himself certain it is he died very strangely and suddainly though the certainty thereof was by his friends smoothered up as much as they could XLVIII Thomas Andrews a Linnen-Draper in Cheap-side but thinking the Trade of Rebellion more gainfull he resolved not to stand out having so fit an opportunity for him to come into Play and so got to be a Treasurer for the Guild-Hall Plate and a Receiver for the Army whereby he got great summs of money to himself which so Encouraged him in Treason that he feared not to Sit and Sentence his Soveraign and afterwards Alderman Reynoldson Lord Mayor of London refusing to Proclaim the Act for Abolishing Kingly Government he being Elected Lord Mayor in his Place Proclaimed the said Act in Great State He died just upon the Revolution of the Times and very narrowly prevented Justice XLIX Anthony Stapley a Sussex Gentleman Colonel and Governour of Chichester who by partaking with those Blood-Thirsty Regicides grew infected and was strangely wrought into this Wicked Conspiracy He likewise died before the Kings return L. Thomas Horton one of so mean and unknown a Quality that his Pedigree is not to be found unless we should derive it from Judas that Prince of Traytors He so thrived by the Wars that he was chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament and was one of those that dipt his hands in his Royal Soveraigns blood He also died before the Kings return LI. John Lisle Of a good Family in the Isle of Wight whose Father died there during the Treaty being possessed of a fair Patrimony in the said Isle this his ungracious degenerate Son whom he bred up a Lawyer taking part with those Bloody Regicides proved in process of time as bad as the worst of them and arrived to the very height of Cruelty and Impiety for having once washed his hands in his Soveraigns blood he feared not to Act any Murther whatsoever becoming President to all the High Courts of Justice during the Usurpation by whose Sanguinous violence fell many Gallant and Heroick Spirits for reward of which his cruelties he was made one of the Commissioners of the New Great Seal and Master of Saint Crosses a Place only fit for a Divine worth Eight Hundred Pound per Annum He fled upon the return of the King but divine vegeance which will not suffer the sin of Murher to go unpunished found him out and at Genuah by Three disguised Irishmen he received the reward of his deserts though not in so Legal a way as could be wished they being forced to Kill whom they could not bring away by reason of the strong Guards he had about him a shame to those Places which professing Christianity yet will give harbour to such wicked abominable Villans LII John Dixwell A recruit likewise of the Long Parliament for Dover of which Castle he was Colonel and Governour and therefore so far oblidged to them for his Promotion that in requital of their Favours he joyned with them in the Murther of his Majesty but fearing the reward of his Treachery upon the Kings return he quitted the Land which too long had groaned under the weight of so hatefull a Regicide LIII Miles Corbet A stain to his Family of very good Reputation in Norfolk He was one of the male-contented Members of the former Parliament with Sir John Elliot and Others and being chosen a Burgess for Yarmouth in the Long Parliament finding the Times fit for his purpose he resolved to wreak his malice upon the King and was a principal Instrument to help forward the ensuing calamities and having raised himself by others ruines to retain what be had so wickedly got and in hopes of greater Preferment he joyned likewise in the murther of the King for which he was rewarded with several great Places in England and Ireland where he was in effect Lord Chancellor but long enjoyed he not that Honour for upon his Majesties return he with Berkstead and Okey privately sneaked into Germany where having remained a while they returned to Delf in Holland intending under feigned Names to visit their Wives there but divine vengeance which never sleepeth found them out and by the vigelance of Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague they were apprehended which made Corbet to purge upwards and downwards in a very strange manner being afterwards sent into England they were at the Kings-Bench-Bar Arraigned and Condemned and according to Sentence Hanged Drawn and Quartered April 2. 1662. where now Corbets Head over-looks the Thames on London Bridge and his Quarters exposed to the view of the beholders on the City Gates LIV. Simon Meyne a Buckingham-shire Man of a good Estate but being of a covetous disposition he endeavour'd to enlarge it though by indirect means getting two good Trades for that purpose viz. a Committee and a Sequestrator to which we may add a third being chosen an Illegal recruit in the Long Parliament and now having his hand in thought it no great matter to assist in taking away the Kings Life At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice but his crimes were found to be of so crimson a dye that Sentence of death was passed on him however Execution of that Sentence was respited since which time he died a natural death in the Tower LV. John Alured A Souldier of Fortune who to climb the higher on the blind Goddesses wheele dipped his hands in
the Kings blood and was for his Villany promoted to be a Colonel He died just defore his Majesties restitution or else it might have been his Fortune to have been preferred to the Gallows LVI Henry Smith One who had a fair Estate in Leicester-shire and was a kind of a Lawyer but understood it so little that quite contrary to all Law he joyned with those Regicides in condemning the King and for reward of his Villany had a Six Clarks Place in Chancery bestowed on him He was thought to be drawn into this business by the Artifice of others more then his own inclination and therefore at his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and remaineth a Prisoner in the Tower LVII Humphry Edwards A Member of the Long Parliament which bred Monsters of more savage Natures then either Aegypt or Africa This Fellow for being denied by the King a Preferment he was not worthy of grew discontented which ranckled and fester'd him into this malicious Parricide He died before his Majesties return LVIII John Fry A High-shooe blade in Dorset-shire but being active in mischief was made a Committee-man and afterwards chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament You may judge of the Man by his Principles being an Arrian in Print who deny the Divinity of our Saviour Christ No wonder then if he who wrot against the King of Heaven would fear to act against his Earthly Prince He lived not long after the Horrid murther of his Majesty the divine vengeance cutting him off from acting any further mischief against the Royal Party LIX Edmond Harvey One who was brought in to have a hand in that fatal business of the Kings Murther He rendred himself upon his Majesties Restitution according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice for that he Signed not though he was present at Sentence then he proved by Witness his reluctancy of Conscience his Endeavours with a few others to Adjourn the Court upon the Kings motion and that he resolved to have no more to do with them c. He was with the other Regicides condemned but Execution respited and remaineth now a Prisoner in the Tower LX. Thomas Scot One who though he came not in play at first yet plyed his business so that he was not behind hand the forwardest in mischief His Original was a Brewers Clark then next a Country Attorney and by countenance of the Grandees chosen a recruit for the Burrough of Wickam in Buckingham-shire He was a thorow-paced Regicide and so gloried that he had a hand in the Murther of the King that he desired it might be inscribed on his Tomb Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings Judges though it might more properly be written on the Gallows at Charing-Cross where he was Hanged Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings Murtherers His Gutts was said to make the Hang-man maw-sick and that the stench of of his body when he was Quartered far exceeded the stink of the most loathsome Carrion to the great endangering of the Hangmans health LXI William Cawley A Brewer of Chichester and returned a recruit for the Long Parliament whose Trade as it is maintained by the sins of the People so he could not but for Trades-sake to concur with his Brethren in the Murther of the King viz. Oliver Cromwel Thomas Pride Thomas Scot c. But fearing his Treason would cost him hot water upon return of the King he fled the Land and lives disguised for to preserve his hated life LXII John Downs A Citizen of London a Colonel in the Army and a recruit to the Long Parliament He was by menaces and threats engaged in this fatal business of Trying the King and being checked in Conscience of the wickedness thereof endeavoured to have opposed the violence that carried it saying in the Court Have we hearts of stone or are we men And desired the King according to his request might be heard by the Parliament but was over-born his Allegiance and Conscience by that wicked Machivillian Oliver Cromwel and so contrary to the dictates of his Conscience consented to that Execrable Murther He surrendred himself was condemned and lives by the special Mercy of the King and Parliament LXIII Thomas Hammond Born of a very Good Family his Father was Phisitian to Prince Henry his Brother Doctor Henry Hamond the beloved Chaplain of King Charles This degenerate Son most Ungratefully and Disloyally was the Kings Jaylor in the Isle of Wight and verified that sad Presage and Oracle of the King That there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes He died before his Majesties return LXIV Vincent Potter A Mushroom Member of the Long Parliament brought in by their Illegal recruits His Pedigree as well as his good Actions are very obscure and unknown being onely Famous for the Infamous Murther of the King After his Majesties return he rendred himself confessed his Guilt had Judgement but by his Majesties clemency his Execution was respited LXV Augustine Garland A recruit of the Long Parliament for the Burrough of Quinburough in Kent as y are a blade as the worst of them all at the spoyle of the Kingdome the notority of whose Crimes are so publick as not to be hid He was at first a kind of Lawyer which he horribly perverted was Chair-man of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the Kings Tryal and after Sat as one of his Judges and Signed that bloody Warrant for his Execution He was shrewdly suspected to be the man that spit in the Kings Face at his Tryal though after the Kings restitution when he came to be Tryed himself he vehemently denyed it wishing no favour from God if he was guilty of that inhumanity He is still a Prisoner in the Tower and lives by the clemency of the King and Parliament LXVI Colonel George Fleetwood A Buckingham-shire Gentleman Son to Sir Miles Fleetwood Master of the Kings Court of Wards and had two Brothers of very different conditions the one Sir William Fleetwood a very Loyal and Honest Gentleman the other Charles Fleetwood a very Knave and Fool He surrendred himself after the Kings return and at his Tryal pleaded not guilty but soon waved that Plea and with many tears besought mercy He is now a Prisoner in the Tower LXVII Colonel James Temple A Sussex Man not so much Famous for his Vallour as his Villany being Remarkable for nothing but this horrible business of the Kings Murther for which he came into the Pack to have a share in the spoyle He is now a Prisoner and lives by the Kings Favour and Clemency LXVIII Peter Temple Another of the same Gang Simeon and Levi Brethren in Iniquity He was at first a Linnen-Draper Apprentice in Fryday-street but his Elder Brother dying he forsook his Trade and was possest of an Estate of some Four Hundred Pounds a Year in Leicester-shire and being a Person well affected to the Cause was as a