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

to the Kings Proceedings yet least he should be guilty of disobedience in himself which he punished in others he willingly condescend thereunto From thence he betook himself to the Court of France where he was proffered High Preferment which he waved his Noble Spirit more ayming at his own Princes Service desiring nothing more then to revenge the blood of his murthered Master on the heads of those that had so perfidiously sold him To this purpose after some long delayes being stoutly opposed by Duke Hamilton and the Earles of Lauderdale and Calendar he at last obtained a Commission from the King for an adventure into Scotland and in order to that Expedition was furnished with four Ships from the Duke of Holstein some supplies from the King of Denmark and Fifteen Hundred Arms from the Queen of Sweden with some few Horses under General King and alittle neat Frigot for his owne Conveyance some monies also were disburst to him which being Entrusted to Colonel Ogelby were by him basely Squandred away to the great prejudice of the design With these small preparations did he precipitate himself into inevitable Ruine it being judged a desperate Action with so small a Force to attempt so mighty a business but his cross fate hurrying him to destruction fearing as is supposed he should have an express command to desist from his purpose the King and the Scots coming near to an Agreement he therefore to prevent all such Commands sends over two Ships with a third part of his men before which by storm of weather in those dangerous Seas were lost with all the Men and Arms nothing saved Yet nothing terrified with this Success he sends out a send Party who making a more prosperous Voyage landed at Orkney and entered the Island without any resistance he himself following not long after attended with several persons of Note whose valour had made them Eminently Famous in those Parts From thence he soon Transports to Cathness which is the furthest land to the North-West of Scotland but the People instead of coming in to him fled away in heaps many of them not stopping till they came to the Chief City of Edenburgh where the Parliament were then sitting who being Allarm'd with this suddain Invasion ordered Colonel Stranglan with a Choice Party to march against him Leshley and Holborn with more Numerous Forces following after The Marquess marched very slowly but hearing of the Enemies approach he endeavoured the gaining of a Pass of great Advantage whereupon both Armies came to Engage and after some short fight the Marquess was Defeated Two Hundred of his Men Killed and about One Thousand Two Hundred Taken very few Escaping amongst other things was taken a Standard he had caused to be made of Excellent Work-man-ship being the Portract of the late King beheaded with this Motto Judge and Revenge my Cause O Lord. He himself escaped from the Battel and in a High-Landers habit kept himself from being discovered three or four dayes but being destitute both of Meat and Drink and no great probability of escaping he at last discovered himself to the Lord Aston who had formerly been one of his Followers hoping to finde friendship at his hands but contrary to expectation was by him made a Prisoner being greedy of the Reward promised to his Apprehender by the Council of State Being thus in the Custody of his mortal Enemies from whom he could expect nothing but the worst of Cruelties yet carried he himself with a singular constancy and in a manner carelesse of his own condition no object though never so endeared to him could alter his Resolution or cause the least expression from him which was not suitable to the greatness of his Spirit and the fame of his former Actions And that the World might see what Justice he was like to expect from them before his coming to Edenburgh this Sentence was drawn up against him That he should be hanged on a Gibbet at the Cross in Edenburgh until he died his History and Declaration being tyed about his neck and to hang three hours in publick view of all the people after which he should be Beheaded and Quartered his head to be fixt upon the Prison-house of Edenburgh and his Leggs and Armes over the Gates of the Citties of Sterling Glascow Perth alias St. Johns-Town and Aberdeen And in case he repented whereby the Sentence of Excommunication may be taken off by the Church the bulk of his Body should be buried in the Gray-Fryars if not in the Borrow-Moor a Place like Tyburn Which Sentence was Executed upon him with as much shame and ignominy as they could possibly devise not onely in the Sentence it 's self but also in the preparatives unto it for coming to Edenburgh he was met by some Officers and the Executioner in his Livery Coat into whose hands he was delivered there being prepared for his reception a high seat in fashion of a Chariot upon each side of which were holes through which a cord being drawn and crossing his breast and armes bound him fast down in the Chair This done the Executioner according to command took off the Marquesses Hat and put on him his own Bonnet and then mounting his fore-horse in this ridiculous bravery began to drive towards the Toll-booth the people all the way he went shedding abundance of tears to see so Noble and Magnanimious a spirit become the object of his Enemies Triumph But the implacable Ministry having him now at their mercy could never be satisfied with his calamities but reviled him with all the spitefull ignominious words they could devise and being asked why they could not be satisfied but by such base handling him They replyed They knew no other way to humble him and bring him home to God May the 21 being come the fatal day appointed for his Execution he was brought to the Scaffold in a Scarlet Cloack richly laced with Gold lace He came along the Streets with as great State and as much Majesty as if he had been marching in the Head of an Army insomuch that his very Enemies acknowledged him to be the gallantest Person in the World when he was come to the Gibbet which was built of a prodigious height he was by the Scotch Clergy in regard of his Excommunication desired to pray apart to whom he said I have already poured out my soul before the Lord who knows my heart and into whose hands I have commended my Spirit and he hath been pleased to return to me a full assurance of peace in Jesus Christ my Redeemer and therefore if you will not joyn with me in prayer my reiterating it again will be both scandalous to you and me After which words he closed his eyes and holding up his hands stood a good while at his inward Devotions afterwards he called for the Executioner and gave him money and then preparing himself to receive the outward Ceremonies of Death there was brought unto him his History and Declaration hanging in

of their cruelty upon the most stoutest asserters of the Kings Cause I. COlonel Nathaniel Gordon a Gentleman of exquisite valour who accompanied the Noble Marquess of Montross in all dangers and difficulties his constant Fidelity rendred him odious to the Covenanting-gang who having him in their hands most basely murther'd him at St. Johnstons 1647. II. SIr Robert Spotswood whose Worth and Learning would have preserved him from the hands of his most barbarous Enemies but those of his own Nation He was a Gentleman of most polite and deep learning especially in the Oriental Languages and was for his extraordinary parts made the Kings Secretary of Scotland in the place of the Earle of Lanerick His great Endowments and large Abilities for what he undertook accelerated his end dying with a Noble and Christian courage breathing his last with these words Jesu have mercy on me and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race III. MAster Andrew Guthrey Son to the Bishop of Murrory a Loyal Gentleman and therefore rendred the more obnoxious to the Kirk-men those great pretenders of dutifull affection to the King a strange riddle to love the Master and murther his Servants this gallant person was by them barbarously murthered the aforesaid year 1647. IV. MAster William Murrey Brother to the Earle of Tullibardin one whose hopefull Spring promised a flourishing fruitfull Harvest who in his Youth performed wonders and gave undeniable proofs of what he would have proved afterwards had he not been thus basely cut off in the prime of his strength at Nineteen years of age He most magnanimously couragiously encountered death behaving himself with such a Christian carriage and contempt of death as he said His End would prove the greatest Honour of his Family These four Gentlemen all Sacrificed their lives in defence of their Soveraign and dyed Royal Martyrs at St Johnstons the year of our Lord 1647. aforesaid V. THe Renowned and ever Glorious Marquess of Montross the Honour of Chevalry pattern of true Magnanimity whose glorious exploits were such and so great as would pose Antiquity with all her feign'd Hero's to find his parallel of whom we shall give you the more larger account and shew you how barbarously they used this gallant Worthy He at first sided with the Covenanters against his Majesty their specious pretenses carrying a fairer gloss then his green years could so soon look into but reason quickly rectified his Judgment and he perceived that those fair shews were but painted cloaths on purpose to catch the simple yet would he not so soon on the sudden decline but endeavoured in his Revolt to have done his Majesty an Excellent Piece of Service by bringing that Army to him which was under his Command but being disappointed he endeavoured to display his Loyalty another way The King having then few friends in Scotland but such as were so over-aw'd by the Convenanters they durst not shew themselves the Noble Marquesse obtained a Commission from the King to be Governour of Scotland whither he went attended onely by two Master William Rollock and Master Sibbalds and thorow many danger● came at last to his Cousin Master Patrick Graham in the Sheriff-dome of Perth where he stai'd but a while but went into the High-Lands the Earle of Antrim having promised to send him sufficient Supplies out of Ireland as a stock to begin with which he performed though very defficient in the Number some One Thousand One Hundred only coming over however having some little addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earle of Perths Son he resolved not to lye idle but with a bold Courage to finde out the Army of the Covenanters then gathered together under the Earle of Tullyburn and other Scotch Lords in Perth-shire where at Tepper-Moor he set upon them and though not equal to his Enemies in number yet so exceeding them in Valour that he obtained of them a Glorious Victory which he might well ascribe to Providence for his Souldiers wanting Ammunition were supplyed by the stones which lay thick on the ground whereon they fought to their very great advantage Here he killed no lesse then Two Thousand of his Enemies whereupon the City of Perth opened her gates and yielded to the Conquerour This Victory obtained he Marches into Argyles Country one whose Actions hath since rendred him deservedly infamous here he made a miserable havock minding utterly to break the spirits of that People who were so surely Engaged to Argyle's side To withstand and represse this so dangerous an Enemy the Covenanters soon Raised another Army under the Earle of Seaforth and the Marquess of Argyle whose Forces being divided he sets upon that Party under Argyle first which he totally Routed killing One Thousand Five Hundred on the Place soon after he Defeated the other Army being newly put under the Command of Colonel Hurry then offers battel to Bayley who declined to Fight without great advantage whereupon he marches after Hurry who was now Recruited and at Alderne sets upon him discomfits him killing One Thousand Eight Hundred and dispersing the rest Then next with his Victorious Army he goes to seek for Bayly to whom was joyned the Earle of Lindsey and joyning battel with them at Alesford-Hills gives them a total Rout but not without the losse of some of his own men whereof the Lord Gourdon deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance then with an uncontrollable march he goes to St. Johnstons putting the Parliament who there satt into a great fright from thence he goes into the Low-Lands to Encounter with Bayly who was again Recruited with another Army by the Kirk At Kilsith both Armies met where betwixt them was fought a very bloody Battel which continued doubtfull for a good space but Victory at length crowned the head of Montross almost Six Thousand of his Enemies falling in that Fight nor were the effects thereof lesse profitable to him then the Victory it self for hereupon almost all Places of Strength yielded to him even as far as Edenburgh the Nobility and Gentry every where readily Assisted him and acknowledged him for their Rightful Governour But what Estate on Earth is long permanent How soon may a serene skie be shadowed with clouds Whiles Montross was now as he thought almost secure most part of his Army returning home he expecting Ayd from the King under the Lord Digby Leshly being called out of England by the Scottish Estates made such hast that he fell upon Montross at Philips-haugh almost before his Scouts could give him Intelligence and there Routed him he hardly escaping with his life being forced to cut his way through his Enemies and with a poor remainder of his Army fly into the High-Lands where he began anew to Levy Forces but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year Ordered by the King then in the Scotts Custody to Disband and Depart the Kingdome which notwithstanding he knew it would be prejudicial