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A64214	The traytors perspective-glass, or, Sundry examples of Gods just judgments executed upon many eminent regicides, who were either fomentors of the late bloody wars against the King, or had a hand in his death whereunto is added three perfect characters of those late-executed regicides, viz. Okey, Corbet, and Barkstead : wherein many remarkable passages of their several lives, and barbarous actions, from the beginning of the late wars, to the death of that blessed martyr Charles the first are faithfully delineated / by I.T. Gent.	J. T. (John Taylor)	1662 (1662)	Wing T521; ESTC R2371	28,672	48

that ingenious writer of the History of Independency Mr. Clmenst Walker he was permitted to be informer witness and judge against him himself But finding his defigne at that time fall short of his expectation he caused him privately in the night to be soon after seized upon in his bed by a Guard of Souldiers and conveyed far off from the City to a close Prison where being debarred the use of either pen ink or Paper or the liberty of any Friend to visit him after six years strick confinement Death put a period to this poor old Gentlemans sufferings Philip King of Spain Lord of the Seventeen Belgick Provinces sent Duke D' Alva thither another Cromwel in his cruelties with a powerful Army who taking advantage of some new commotions there erected a new Tribonal Criminal or High Court of Justice called by the multitude Concilium Sanguinis or the bloody Conventicle consisting of twelve Persons of mean extraction to whom were given full power to inquire into judge examine and determine all causes whatsoever and to dispose of the lives and estates of every such person they as thought fit to destroy at their wills and pleasures Which Counsel or inquisition did supersed all other Courts of Judicature and made void all Laws constitutions Iurisdictions and priviledges of that Nation by making every thing they pleased High Treason Corbet taking advantage of this President perswades Haslerigg to move the Parliament to put it in execution here in England which was accordingly done and they finding him a fit Agent for such a damnable enterprise Ordred him by an Act passed in the House to be cheif Interpreter to this their State Puppet-play commonly called the close Committee of Examinations erected to purge the House of such Loyal Members as stood disaffected with their proceedings And the first experiment he made of this his Tyranical Power was upon the aforesaid Mr. Walker Mr. Baynton Mr. Recorder Glyn Commissary General Copely and several others of the House of Commons who without any legal tryal hearing or witnesses produced beside himself who supplyed the office of a Judge Prosecutor Jury and evidence against them they were immediately expelled the House of Commons and soon after together with the Earles of Suffolke Lincoln Middlesex the Lord Berkley Willioughly Hunsdon and Maynyard impeached by him of high Treason in the names of the Commons of England for leavying a War against the King and Parliament Wherein this Blood-hound Corbet who of an Examiner was now become an Advocate General moved for judgement to be pronounced against them like the greedy Horse-leech Nec missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo Still thirsting after blood but never satisfied For which bold act and diligent service though it succeeded not he was afterwards recompenced with a Rich Office of Regester in the Chancery a place estimated at One thousand six hundred pound per annum and next made one of the Judges for the Circuit in Ireland valued at five hundred pounds more per annum where he condemned many persons to the Gallowes whose crimes far less deserved it then his own Nor was he less troublesome to the Church then he had formerly been to the State For finding Vespatians Motto Bonus odor lucri ex re qualibet that wealth was sweet how ill soever got he obtained another office from his bountiful Masters at Westminster worth at least One thousand five hundred pound more per annum viz. to be Chair-man for scandalous Ministers The Preisis Tormentor or Master Examiner of all such Clergy men as were either already Beneficed or to be admitted to any Benefice throughout the Nation In which place he so well played his Cards that such of the Kings friends as were before settled in their livings were forced to compound with him for their continuance and others who came to him for admittance if he could not object any thing against their answers to such impertinent questions as he usally propounded to them his next artifice was to render them the new Engagement to be obedient to Oliver and maintain the Good Old Cause against all Kingly power or House of Lords in so much as not one of such as were Learned Loyal or Orthodox Divines could ever gain his consent to any living nor indeed any other though of his own Tribe and Faction without giving him a considerable gratuity to the full value of their first years fruits at the least for a Bribe A perfect Symonaick one that was able to devour a whole Church at a Break-fast and swallow down St. Peters Patrimony after it instead of a Mornings-draught Alwaies feeding yet never filled like Erisict hons bowels in Ovid Quodque urbibus esse Quedque satis poter at populo non sufficit uni What populous Cities might alone Suffice is not enough for one This was the man who so much applauded Coronet Ioyce for surprizing the Kings person at Holdenby house when he was by Cromwel sent to him with Orders to bring his Majesty the same night with all speed and secrecy to the Army boasting the next day that since the Army had gotten the Cavalier Idol for so he stiled his Soveraign into their power they would soon put the Parliament and all their Enemies into their pockets An insolent slave whofe Crimes transcending all hopes of Pardon made him as violent in the prosecution of his Hellish machinations as he was desperate of Heavens mercy in the for giveness of his fins But I will not cast any more Ink upon this Aethiopians face since I find it impossible whether I reflect upon his crimes or his countenance to represent either of them to the view of the world blacker or more horrid than really they are He is now rewarded for his Treason so as to speak more against him were but to wage War with the Dead which Italian severity is as much averse to my nature as it is contrary to the Principles of Christianity Therefore no quid gravius dicam whether I look upon his actions or his end I shall be no more invective against him John BarkRead ROom for this Jack of all Trades A Congregational Saint The Holy-sisters Thimble-maker Cromwels setting Dog The Common-wealths Cerberus Inferna janitor aulae The Hellish Gaolor of the Tower and cruel Tormentor of such Gentlemen as he could get into it A fellow cut out and fitted for all Designs Religions and Fashions whatsoever so as you may say of him as the Poet of Pretem Que teneam nodo mutantem Proter a vultum A Devil incarnate in his cruelties No Fury in Hell ever transcended him in his Tyranny over Prisoners durinst his Lieutenantship of the Tower Witnes his inhumane dealings with diverse eminent persons loyal to His late Majesties interest into whose favours under pretence of Eriendship having first insinuated himself he next trappan'd into his snare by forging lyes and Plots of his own making against them and afterwards suborned Witnesses as formerly Bradshaew and Mildmay

at Westminster-Hall he bid his Souldiers cry out Justice Justice and Execution Execution and bear them till they did it That he bid shoot a Lady there for calling Cromwel Traytor and saying that not a quarter of the people of England consented to their wicked Charge That he said to Col. Huncks upon his refusing to sign the Warrant against the King I am ashamed of you the Ship is now coming into the Harbour and will you strike Sail before we come to Anchor That he laughted at the Transactions as applauding them whilst others sighed that after the King was murthered he kept guards upon the dead body and knew who cut off the Kings head having sent one Elisha Axtel for the Executioner upon which proof the Jury found him guilty of the said Treason whereof he stood indicted Hacker THen Francis Hacker was arraigned and by diverse Witnesses it was sworn against him that he was Commander of the Halbeteers who kept the King Prisoner and would not suffer any access to be unto him that he guarded him to their Mock-Court and after kept him sure till he was murthered that he was one of the persons to whom the Warrant for the Execution was erected and that he signed it and brought the King to the fatal Block and was upon the Scaffold being a principal Agent about the Kings Death for which horrid Treason the Jury found him guilty After which the Court sentenced both him and Axtel to suffer death as Traytors according to which Judgement they were on Fryday the 19th of October about nine in the morning drawn upon a Hurdle from Newgate the common place of Fxecution to Tyburn and there hang'd Mr. Axtel was bowelled and quartred but the body of Hacker by His Majesties great Grace and Favour and at the humble suit and intercession of his Friends was given to them intire and by them afterwards buried Hulet THE last of this Crew was Will. Hulet against whom it was proved that he was one of those which came with a frock on his body and a Vizard on his face to perpetrate the horrid Murder on the Person of the King that being so disguised upon the Scaffold he fell down before the King and asked him forgiveness being known by his voice that himself said that he was the man that beheaded King Charles for which deed he had 100 l. and preferment That Heuson said of him that he did the Kings business upon the Scaffold That he either did cut it off or took it up and said Behold the head of a Traytor That being questioned about the said words he said Whosoever said it matters not I say now it was the head of a Traytor with many other things to the like effect For which most abhorrid Treason the Jury found him guilty and he was Condemned to be hang'd at Tyburn nevertheless his Execution for some reasons is hitherto suspended This was the end of such Traytors as were then taken as for those who surrendred themselves according to the Proclamation set out by the King for that purpose viz. OWen Row Augustine Garland Edmund Harvey Henry Smith Henry Martin George Fleetwood Simon Meyne Will. Heveningham Isaac Pennington Sr. Hardess Waller Robert Tichbourn Iames Temple Peter Temple Tho. Waite Rob. Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and Iohn Downes Though they be all attainted and convicted of High Treason by the Law of the Land at a fair and legal Tryal yet are they not to suffer the pains of Death until His Majesty by the advice and assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall order their Execution by an Act to be passed for that purpose John Okey THis was one of Olivers Insecta animalia A Welch Salamander in plain English a States Cricker for he was begot and bred up in a Brewers Stoke hole A Maggot of his new Common-wealth generated out of putrefaction like a Docc from a Dunghill whose chief subsistance depended upon the destruction of others But the States Chronicles speak him of a better extraction affirming the Original of this Babe of Grace was like that of the Goddess Venus from such frothy dreggs as were purged and raked out of the Bung-hole of that chosen Vessel of Reformation Cromwel the Brewer by Pride his Dray-man who afterwards being listed by Scot the Brewers Clark in the Muster-roll of the Saints militant he quickly became a Stout Champion for their Good Old Cause A Fellow indeed give the Devil his due of excellent courage full of valour but empty of brains A better Conductor than a Polititian one whom Cromwel seldom made other use of than the Monkey of the Cats foot to rake Chef-nuts out of the fire whilst he devoured them for in all Battails or desperate attempts the General usually put him in the Van to break the enemies wings but reserved the command of the Reer to himself for the glory of the Victory February the 22. 1648 It was debated at a Councel of War this Okey then being one of the Cabab to massacre and put to the Sword all the Kings party the question was carried in the Negative onely by two voices doubtless they had otherwise put it in execution Nor was he less officious in his combination with some others of the Army soon after the siege of Colchester when they petitioned the House that two or three principal Gentlemen of the Kings party by name of every County might be sacrificed to justice whereby the land might be freed from blood-guiltiness A true Disciple and Imitator of his hot-headed companion Haslerig who upon * May 14th 1649. a report made to the House of the Death of Doctor Dorislaus formerly a poor School-master but afterwards the Parliament Agent in the Low-Countreys notwithstanding upon the examination of his own Servants it appeared he was nabbed by some Scotch-men in revenge of Homiltons Death yet upon the occasion of this debate he moved that six Royalists of the best quality might be put to death as a revenge for Dorislaus and to deter men from the like attempts hereafter Which barbarous motion though it was then rejected yet the 18th of May following the House passed this prodigious Declaration That if any more Acts of the like nature happened here-after it should be retaliated upon such Gentlemen of the Kings party as had not yet compounded Yet this not satisfying some of the blood-thirsty Grandees at White-Hall they consulted without them of a way to diminish the number of their opposites Royalists and Presbyterians by a private massacre in the night time for which purpose many dark-Lanthornes and Ponyards were provided against * Anno 1649. the Winter ensuing this Son of Belial Okey and his blind brother Hewson being designed two of the chief instruments for effecting it But the Plot being by one of their conclave timely revealed to the then Lord Major of London and the City alarum'd with the danger these Jesuitical Fauxes were forced to hide