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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

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

House where he was as unjustly Condemned to be Hanged and according to that inhumane Sentence barbarously Murthered by those Bloody Rebels Novem. 27. 1643. VII WIlliam Laud Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a Pious Learned Orthodox Prelate of whom as one observes It would trouble Plutarch if he were alive to finde out a fit parallel with whom to match him This Reverend Bishop was born at Reading extracted from an Honest and well Reputed Parentage his Father being a Wealthy Cloathier of that Town from which place having attained to Learning answerable thereto he was Trans-planted to St. John's Colledge in Oxford where with great Credit and Estimation he passed through all the Honourable Employments of his Colledge so that his Worth came to be taken special Notice of preferring him first to be Chaplain to the Earle of Devon-shire and Proctor of the University Soon after from Bachelour of Divinity he proceeded to Doctor and became Chaplain to Doctor Neal Bishop of Rochester afterwards Translated to York who for his great Abilities preferr'd him to King James so that now having cast Anchor at Court the Haven of Hope he was by that Bountifull King first made Prebend of Bugden and Westminster next Dean of Glocester and Arch-Deacon of Huntington then President of his own Colledge and not long after Bishop of St. Davids King James dying his Son King Charls took him into more especial Favour bestowing on him the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells made him Dean of his Chappel and one of his Privy Council then Bishop of London and Chancellor of Oxford and last of all Arch-Bishop of Canterbury As he grew thus High in the Kings Favour so as it is common with Princes Favourites was he high in disgust with the People for being a Prelate who stood stifly for the strict observation of the Rites of the Church of England which then by the growing Power of Non-Conformists were every where termed Innovations by this means Episcopacy was by many Traduced and diverse Libells scattered up and down against that Sacred Function wherein as being most Eminent he was sure to bear the greatest burthen falsly reporting him inclining to Popery notwithstanding his firmness in the Protestant Religion witnessed by that Book of his against Fisher the Jesuite an unanswerable Work which like a hammer hath beaten all the Romish Arguments into pieces and of which they will never clear themselves brag and vapour what they please Yet notwithstanding this his great Learning Prudence Zeal Humility and other Graces wherewith he was stor'd though he had done nothing worthy of Death or Bonds yet in the beginning of our Dissentions when the mad fury of blind zeal like an impetuous torrent bore down all before it This Reverend Prelate was committed to the Black-Rod and from thence to the Tower where he remained four years before any Charge was brought against him afterwards he was several times brought to the Barr of the House of Commons where notwithstanding his Innocency and Integrity appeared transparent yet being parties Witnesses and Judges too they Voted him Guilty and January 10. 1644. he was wickedly Murthered on Tower-hill In whom was verified that presage of King James No Bishop No King Monarchy soon after falling in the death of that blessed Martyr King Charles VIII ANd Captain Burleigh a Gentleman of the Isle of Wight who after those wicked Votes of Non-Address and that the King was a Prisoner in the said Island he Beat a Drum intending to gather a Force sufficient to Rescue him from his Imprisonment but was quickly seized and supprest by Hamond who sent him over to Winchester where by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer he was Arraigned and Tryed and by a pact-Jury brought in Guilty of High Treason and accordingly barbarously Murthered Feb. 10. 1647. IX and X. SIr Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle those Gemini of Valour Honour and exact Loyalty who gallantly Served the King during the time of Rebellion being without any partiality of affection declared by those that knew them one of them the best for Horse-Service and the other for the Infantry that ever Commanded in their Quality in the Kings Armies These two Gallant Hero's when there was some hopes given of his Majesties Restitution by the Rising of several Counties they likewise put to their helping hand and joyned with them maintaining the City of Colchester for the space of Thirteen Weeks against a Potent Enemy satiated with Victories and supplyed with fresh and continual Recruits having in that time eaten up most of the Horses in the Town together with the Dogs and Cats and whatsoever else could afford them Nourishment though most reluctant to Nature yet notwithstanding this Gallant Opposition with the Miseries they endured upon the Surrender of the Town the Enemy out of hatred to them for their signal Valour and Loyalty inhumanely butcher'd them in cold blood August the 30. 1648. XI MAjor Pitcher a Valiant Loyal Gentleman who out of his sense of the King and Kingdomes Misery and a deep apprehension of the sad Consequences thereof Engaged in Armes for the Restitution of his Sacred Majesty being one of those who with so much Valour and Magnanimity Defended Pembroke against Cromwell and his Army of Janizaries for the space of three months but no hopes of Relief appearing after a most gallant Defence they Rendred themselves upon Articles by which he was To depart the Kingdome for Three Years and not to Return upon pain of Death But he well hoping there might be further occasion of Service to his Majesty by reason the strange Actions of the Men at Westminster had rendred them so odious to the generality of the People He therefore accounting it base to Desert his Prince when so great help required stayed at London in expectation as I said of some further Service but being betrayed by some ignominious wretches was Apprehended and Condemned by a Council of War who seldome quitted any whom they thought might be able to do them a mischief and according to that wicked Sentence he was as barbarously Murthered being shot to death against St. Faith's door December 29. 1648. XII COlonel Poyer who with Major General Langhorne and Colonel Powel took up Armes for the King in Wales in detestation of those bloody Votes of Non-Addresses by the Faction at Westminster But it pleased God not to succeed that Enterprize being defeated at St. Fagons by Colonel Horton whereupon they Retreated with the broken remains of their Army to the Town of Pembroke which they Fortified and Valiantly Defended for the space of Three Months against Horton and Cromwell who with a great Power was come in to their Recruit But wanting Necessaries and hopeless of Relief Valour was forced to condescend to what Barbarity should propound which was to Render at Mercy the effect whereof was according to the Order of a Council of War That the three Colonels should draw Lotts for their Lives which fell upon him and thereupon he was shot

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

to their Commands he made his Janizaries by blows and threats to cry out Justice and Execution much more blood had he contracted to his guilt though none comparable to this in Ireland and had as the reward of his Villanies gotten a pretty foul Estate but wickedness seldome prospers long upon the Kings return he was one of those Persons exempted by the Parliament out of the Act of Indempnity and for his Treasons brought to a Tryal at Justice-Hall in the Old Baily where notwithstanding he pleaded for himself with more Art and Cunningness then was imagined to be found in him yet were his Crimes so Notorious as not to be covered with such Fig-leaves He was therefore by the Jury found Guilty and Sentenced to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed on him at Tyburn October the 19. 1660. His Head fixed on a Pole at the furthest end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters a spectacle on the City Gates IV. Doctor Dorislaus A Dutch School-Master who for some misdemeanours fled his Country and here became Civillian afterwards a professor in the University of Oxford where being disappointed of his Ambitious Expectations the War then on foot he became the Parliaments Judge Advocate in their Army by which he much better'd his broken Fortunes and became a great Associate of Sir Henry Mildmay's who though raised by the King was one of his greatest Enemies who promoted him to that business of drawing up a Charge against the King the Horrid Nature thereof being such that no Englishman durst find or make a way to such an Illegal and unprecedented business After the perpetration of that horrid Murther he was lookt upon by the Regicides for his Abilities as a fit person to be sent over as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute the Designes of the Faction which would carry the better face being managed by one of their own Subjects He Arrived there in May with great Pomp and Attendance in his Coach with Six Horses before and Vengeance behind for the first night as he was at Supper there one Colonel Whitford a Scotch-man with some Twelve other Caveliers disdaining the King should be affronted by the impudent boldness of such an Audacious Traytor enter'd his Lodging and with a broad Sword cleft his Head and killed him having by a mistake wounded another Dutch-Man for him at their first coming in and having done the deed they quietly departed it not being known but privately for a long time after who did it To this we may adjoyn that of Aschams another great confident of the Regicides who being sent their Envoy to Spain some little while after was served in the same manner at his Arrival at Madrid in his Inn by one Sparks and some other English Royalists upon the same score Sparks having done the deed fled to the Venetian Ambassadours for shelter but judging that not secure enough he betook himself to Sanctuary from whence he was by the cunning Don to curry Favour with the English Regicides then dreadfull to his Plate-Trade taken thence and with great pitty and disdain at the meanness of the Spaniard was Executed for the same V. Daniel Broughton A Clark bred up amongst the Committees of War where he became so Principled as he was judged fit and preferred to be Chief Scribe to this Pharasaicall Murtherous Crue of the High Court of Justice for which Guilt upon his Majesties Return immagining his Crime too great to be forgiven he ran away and in Forreign Countries disguised hides his hated head VI. Edward Dendy Serjant at Armes to the said cursed Court who had before outed his Father from the Employment of the Mace no marvel then that such a Rebel to his Father should prove a Parricide to his Prince He likewise fled the Land upon his Majesties Return to preserve his forfeited life from the Hangman VII and VIII Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop who had Sat as Judges in that High Court of Iustice although not Sentenced nor Signed to the Warrant for his Execution The first of these was one who had been raised by his Majesty though most ungratefully the worst of Vices he Acted with a high hand against him but divine Vengeance at last overtook him and the Iron hand of Justice delivered him to the punishment though not so great as his deserts due to that grand Impiety Ianuary 30. 1661. They were on Sledges drawn from the Tower of London through the City with Halters about their necks to Tyburn where having threaded that triple Tree they returned in the same Equipage back to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment their Estates Confiscated and they Degraded from all Titles and Armes of Gentility Sir James Harrington was to have suffered the like punishment but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Serjant at Armes gave them the slip and most unworthily left his Bail in the lurch Phelps also one of the Clarks of that Court was marked out for this Punishment but not Sentenced IX Master Thomas Hoyle an Alderman and Burgess of York a great Rumper and Enemy to Regal Government who the same day Twelve Month that the King was Beheaded and as near as possibly could be judged about the very same hour of the day hanged himself Which day the Regicides Celebrated in most Solemn manner in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty from the Laws by the Murther of the King But this was such a signal remark mark of the Just Judgement and Vengeance of God upon that detestable Fact and their no less abominable mockery of him as the Authour thereof in this their Irreligious observation of that Fatal Providence as they razed this Festival out of their Calendar which was attended with so ill an Omen X. One Lockier an Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a principal hand in Seizing and Bringing the King to his Death He was afterwards by them of his own Gang the Divine Vengeance so ordering it condemned for a Mutiny in Bishopsgate-Street a shot to death in St. Pauls Church-Yard being buried by some of his own Party with great Solemnity in the New Church-Yard London XI Sir Thomas Martin A Knight of Cambridge-shire a great stickler for the Times and a sworn Enemy of the Royalists who having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park at the opening of a Deer he was desired together with some other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deeres blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the Young King of Scots but observe the punishment that attended this Impious wish as he was riding home the same Evening his Horse threw him in which fall he pitcht on his head mortally brake his Scull and Shoulder and died shortly after of those wounds XII Sir Henry Holcroft A grand Pillar of the Independant Faction a Committee Gentleman and one who Acted very strenuously for the Rump hoping to be a great sharer in the spoyle of the Kingdome