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
president he was by the mouth of Frontless Lisle condemn'd to death and according to that unjust Sentence Executed at Charing-Cross where with a Roman spirit temper'd with Christian patience he suffer'd Martyrdom off from a stool fetcht from their Guard his innocency appearing so transparent that the adjacent Neighbours refused to lend any thing towards his death These Two Gentlemen were the first that suffer'd under the Tyrannical Government of Oliver Cromwell whose Five Years Usurpation was cemented all along with a sacrifice of Loyal blood as the Walls of Babylon were said to be mortur'd XXXIII and XXXIV COlonel Penruddock and Colonel Groves two Valiant Gentlemen who had constantly and faithfully served his late Majesty and now with several other Gentlemen of good Account Joyned in an Assosiation to free the Land from the Slavery they endured under that Abominable Tyrant Cromwel and to restore his Sacred Majesty To this purpose about some Two Hundred of them Rose in the West and Entred the City of Salisbury at such time as the Judges Rolls and Nicholls were there in Circute whose Horses they Seized and Declared the Cause of this their Appearance and having now Encreased their Numbers to Four Hundred they marched thence to Blundeford where Colonel Penrudock himself Proclaimed the King in the Market-place from thence they marched more Westward towards Devon-shire and Corn-Wall but their numbers decreasing they were at last at South-Molton in Devon-shire set upon by a strong party of Horse under the Command of Captain Crook where being over-powred they submitted upon Articles of quarter for life which Crook afterwards basely denied when they were Tryed at Salisbury by which Treachery these two gallant Gentlemen were for their Loyal Undertakings condemned and wickedly murthered May 16. 1655. XXXV JOhn Lucas a Mercer of very good Estate in Hungerford who joyning with these gallant Royalists in their Attempts for Restoring the King staying in the Town when he might have escaped unluckily fell into their hands by whom he was Sentenced and lost his head XXXVI c. MAster Kensey Master Thorp John Fryar and John Lawrence Persons of good esteem and credit in the West-country who likewise joyning with Colonel Penrudock and those other gallant persons we formerly mentioned were for this their Loyalty barbarously murthered by those insolent Rebells at Salisbury besides Eleven more whose Names we cannot yet attain to who upon the same account were by those Rebells murdered at Exeter May 1655. XXXVII SIr Henry Slingsby a Knight of good repute in York-shire and who for his Loyalty was seldom out of trouble during all the time of Rebellion having been a Prisoner in Hull off and on ever since that fatal Fight at Worcester he being now weary of this long restraint and perceived so to be by some of the Officers of that Garrison they viz. Major Waterhouse Captain Overton and one Lievtenant Thompson to hook him in cast out some disgustal words against their Sultan Cromwell mixing thereto some Overtures of their good will to the King and the Rendition of the Place to him if he could procure a Commission for them from his Majesty The Loyal Gentleman gladly Embraced a proffer of such Concernment and made use of an Old Commission he had by him But they having now brought him into their snare sent him up a Prisoner to London where at his Tryal they were Witnesses against him for being brought to Cromwell's slaughter-house ecleaped a High Court of Justice where bloody Lisle sat President he was by those monsters of Nature condemned and wickedly murdered June 8. 1658. XXXVIII DOctor John Hewyt a Reverend Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper who taught the People both by Life and Doctrine whose Excellent Parts and known Loyalty was two grand motives to the insatiable thirst of Cromwell to desire to tast his blood To this purpose a Plott must be invented of Firing the City and I know not what whereof the Reverend Doctor was accused and though his innocency appeared as transparent as the Sun in the most serene skie yet being ignorant of the formalities of the Law though none more knowing in the Gospel he was taken or surprized for a mute and by the mouth of that audacious and bloody Regicide Frontless Lisle condemned and on the same Scaffold with Sir Henry Slingsby Beheaded rendring his Soul into the hands of his Creator the aforesaid 8. of June 1658. XXXIX COlonel Edward Ashton a Valiant Loyal Person whom Cromwell acting Nero's part who set Rome on fire and then punish't the Christians for doing it So this crafty blood-sucker having devized a Plott against their lives laid to their charge that they would fire the City and having by Imprisonment and other sinister ends prevail'd on some to accuse others notwithstanding their innocency were condemned amongst others this gallant Colonel suffer'd by their barbarous inhumanity July 2. 1648. XL. MAster John Betley a young man of Excellent Parts who being trappan'd by the Tyrants Emissaries about the aforesaid Plott was by the bloody Sentence of their High Court of Injustice condemn'd to be hanged and accordingly was Executed in Cheapside the aforesaid 2 of July where he made a solemn protestation of his Innocency at whose death hapned a thing something strangely remarkable for having hung almost a quarter of an hour he pulled off his cap with his own hands so loth was the Soul to depart from that gallant body which had it not been thus snatcht away by this untimely death might have lived to have done his King and Country gallant service and have been a special Ornament to the City wherein he lived XLI MAster Edward Stacy who for the same counterfeit Plott was two dayes after murthered over against the Exchange in Corn-hill being the last man that suffered under the bloody Tyranny of Cromwell who had taken such large draughts of loyal blood and who himself expired not long after Thus have we given you a brief Narrative of those worthy Martyrs who suffered under colour of Sentence by Law during that time Rebellion was Rampant many others might be added to this Catalogue whose Names and Qualities we cannot yet attain unto and who dying in opposition to Tyranny and upon the account of Law and Loyalty deserve to be had in everlasting remembrance My desire therefore will be to those of their Relations concerned in it such timely notice might be given of them before a Second Edition of this Book that their memories might have the right belonging to them to the encouragement of others in persisting in Loyalty and to the dread and terrour of Traytors and Regicides who shall dare to lift up their hand against the Lords annointed We shall next add only a short account of some Loyal Persons murdered in Scotland by the same pretense of Law to shew that the men of the Kirk notwithstanding their great pretensions of Loyalty were not much behind the Independent gang but drove the same trade and exercised the utmost
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
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
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