Petitions succeeding for an accommodation a Cessation followed and soon after that a Parliament which was Summoned by the Advise of this Earle and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where the very first thing of Consequence that was done was a Charge of High Treason Exhibited against this Earle by the House of Commons consisting of Twenty Eight Articles whereupon he was Sequestred from sitting as a Peer and soon after committed to the Usher of the Black Rod and so to the Tower His Tryal quickly after ensued which was done with great Solemnity in Westminster-Hall the Earle of Arundal being Lord High Steward The substance of his Articles were That he had Endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Lawes and Governments of England and Ireland That he had done ill Offices betwixt the King and the Scots and betwixt the King and his Subjects of this Kingdom That he had Advised the King to bring up the Army out of the North and over-awe the Parliament And that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of Ten Thousand Men in Ireland ready to be Transported for the same Service His Accusers were Pym St. Johns Whitlock Sir Walter Earles Serjant Glyn Maynard Stroud Mr. Selden Hambden c. But the Earle defended himself so Bravely and Learnedly that the Lords Conscious of his Innocency would not find the Bill Wherefore the Commons seeing they could not speed that way drew up a Bill of Attainder and presented it to the Lords declaring the matter of Fact to have been sufficiently proved and that as to Law he had incurred the Censure of Treason But the Lords adjudged this a strange way of Proceeding unsutable to their own Safety and against Common Justice Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults stopped the Lords Coaches menacing to post up the Names of those who favoured him under the Title of Straffordians and with an impetuous Cry of Justice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill so hard a task had his Blood-thirsty Enemies to bereave him of his Life which yet notwithstanding passed but by the plurality of Seven Voices against him But the hardest matter was to get the Kings assent who very much declined it and in a set Speech cleared the Earle from any design of Treason or consulting to any Arbitrary Government But being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal but principally being desired by the Earle himself to satisfie the Parliament though with his own blood His Majesty after Advise with the Bishops signed that Fatal Bill which afterwards proved the Axe against his own Life Thus fell this Noble Earle being one of the Chief Pillars and Basis of this Nation without whose Ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew it a hard matter to Effect or Accomplish any thing such an Absolute Rare Honest and Loyal Master-Piece of Reason and Prudence as this present Age saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. being the Pro-to-Martyr of the Late Times II and III. MAster Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowcher two Worthy Loyal Citizens of Bristol of good Esteem Plentiful Estates and known Integrity Master Yeomans was Sheriff of that City in the Year 1642. being but the year before his Execrable Murther Master George Bowcher was an Able Pious Loyal Gentleman whom his very Enemies confest to be a Religious Man These Two Loyal Persons seeing the miserable condition of those Places where the Rebells Ruled Entered into a Consultation with some others how to deliver the City of Bristol into Prince Ruperts hands and thereupon it was resolved that upon Munday March 7. 1642. Prince Rupert with some Forces should draw down towards the City whilst they within would Seize the Courts of Guard and open the Gates and by Ringing St. Johns and St. Michaels Bells give him notice thereof Accordingly Prince Rupert came by Five of the Clock the same morning expecting the Signal but the Confederacy being discovered those Two Gallant Gentlemen with some others were apprehended and after Eleven Weeks hard Imprisonment brought to their Tryal at a Council of War where by Fiennes the Governour and others of that Gang they were Condemned to Dye and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals Mandates and Threats of Retaliation having with great patience endured the Scorns and Barbarous Insultations of the Enemy who continually pursued them with Threats and Revilings they were on May 30. 1643. barbarously murthered Master Yeomans professing at his death That if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to his Soveraign in that way And Master Bowcher in his last Speech exhorted all those who had set their hands to the Plow meaning the defence of the Kings Cause not to be terrified by their Sufferings and therefore to withdraw Their bodies were afterwards decently Enterred in the same City whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance whilst those who murthered them shall rot and perish in infamy IV and V. MAster Tomkins and Master Chaloner the one Clark of the Queens Council the other a Linnen-Draper in Corn-hill two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruine by the Seditious practises of the Rebels procured a Commission from the King the design whereof was that they should Seize into their Custody the Kings Children some Members of Parliament the Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia all the City Out-works and Forts the Tower of London and all the Magazines then to let in the Kings Army to Surpize the City to destroy all Opposers and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney Wife to that Gallant Lord who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill and upon receipt thereof several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof which was chiefly prosecuted by those two Loyal Persons who made such progress therein that the business was brought into some form but so many being concern'd in it through the Treachery of some it came to the Parliaments eares whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Haynous Crime of Loyalty which accordingly was Executed near their own doors July 5. 1643. VI. MAster Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleetstreet afterwards a Messenger to his late Sacred Majesty by whom he was sent to London to signifie the King's Pleasure That the Term of Michaelmas should be prorogued which Message he delivered to the Judges at Westminster-Hall and for performance of his Duty was by those who had quite forgotten all Allegiance and Duty apprehended for a Spy and contrary to the Universal Custom and Honourable Practise of all Nations which gives security and free liberty of passage to all such Persons Tryed before a Council of War held at Essex
THE LOYALL Martyrology OR Brief Catalogues and Characters of the most Eminent Persons who Suffered for their Conscience during the late times of Rebellion either by Death Imprisonment Banishment or Sequestration Together with those who were Slain in the Kings Service AS ALSO Dregs of Treachery With the Catalogue and Characters of those Regicides who Sat as Judges on our late Dread Soveraign of ever Blessed Memory with others of that Gang most Eminent for Villany For encouragement to Virtue and determent from Vice By William Winstanley Rebellion is as the Sin of Witch-craft LONDON Printed by Thomas Mabb for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain 1665. ON THE FRONTISPIECE O What a glorious sight do I behold Apples of Silver Pictured thus in Gold Immortal Hero's who of life bereaven Are now become bright fixed Stars of Heaven The first of all this Glorious Company King 1 Charles presents himself unto your eye Like Phoebus glistering in the Morning tide Surrounded with Brave Hero's on each side Under him 2 Strafford that Great Pro-toto-Martyr On each side Loyal 3 Derby Gallant Arthur Lord 4 Capell three such Peeres we may conclude For to be Stars of the first Magnitude Brave 5 Lucas and Stout 6 Lisle whose Gallant Worth Deserves a Golden Pen to set them forth Undaunted 7 Morris 8 Penruddock and 9 Grove Stout 10 Andrews who deserv'd all Peoples love Brave 11 Gerard 12 Benbow 13 Burleigh 14 Pitcher 15 Poyer Who for their Country did their best devoyer 16 Fetherstonhaugh 17 Hamilton 18 Holland's Earle 19 Blackburn 20 Benson 21 Bushel each a Pearle Of Valourous Loyalty 22 Ashton well skill'd in Wars Kind 32 Slingsby 24 Symkins all stout Sons of Mars Who for King Charles his Cause so strongly stood And seal'd their Love to 't with their dearest blood Next view great 25 Laud whose worth doth strike me dumb The Reverend 26 Hewyt England's Chrysostome Grave 27 Beaumont and Religious 28 Vowel who With 29 Love for Loyalty their Lives forgo Learn'd 30 Levens Glory of his Family Well skill'd in Law practised in Loyalty Next view that unmatchless Hero Gallant 31 Hide 32 Yeomans and 33 Bowcher who at Bristol dy'd 34 Tomkins and 35 Challoner of Active Spirits 36 Kniveton 37 Gibbons 38 Kensy men whose merits With those foregoing Hero's rais'd them High Whil'st Traytors live Infam'd in Hystory THE LOYALL MARTYROLOGY Printed for Edward Thomas 1665. To the Honourable Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet His Majesties Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON SIR TWo Things have Emboldened me to Dedicate this Book unto You The First is your known Loyalty and Integrity to the Royal Cause which hath made Your Name as Conspicuous as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day not only since the Happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty but in those Times of Rebellion when Loyalty was accounted a Crime of the Highest Nature which as it made you one of Those Loyal Confessors that by your Sufferings have indeared your Memory to all Posterity so no doubt had not that Gangreen of Rebellion been the sooner cut off your Eminent Parts would by those bloody Regicides who were Enemies to Worth and Loyalty have brought you into the Number of These Royal Martyrs who laid down their Lives in Defence of Gods Laws and his Annointed's Cause of both which you were so Gallant an Assertor The Second is the Relation you had to that Reverend Martyr Arch-Bishop Laud who laid down his Life in Defence of the Church and is now involved in that Glorious Company who Suffered for the Testimony of a Good Conscience of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a candle Daigne Sir to Accept this Mite of Acknowledgement of Your Worth from him who Subscribes himself Your Most Humbly Devoted Servant William Winstanley THE PREFACE TO THE Reader WHat sad Effects the Miseries and Calamities of a Civil War doth produce this Nation cannot but be sensible of and our late Times do sufficiently evidence How all things were turned topsie turvy Religion subverted by Rebellion Truth troden down by Treason the Gown giving place to the Corslet and the Law over-awed by the Sword How under pretense of a Reformation all things were turned into Confusion The Law which should be the Rule and Direction whereby to walk made useless or at least like unto a Spiders Webb through which those Rebellious Bug-bears could with ease break out but the poor Caveliers were insnared in the same How under a pretense of the breach of our Fundamental Laws they Murthered divers Gallant Persons when they themselves committed the greatest breaches on it by riding over the Royal Power of the King putting down the Bishops and the Book of Common Prayer Usurping the Militia Counterfeiting the great Seal Seizing on the Kings Forts Ports Shipping Castles and all his Revenue Raising Rumors putting out Declarations and giving out words to alienate the Peoples Affections from their Soveraign Sessing Souldiers upon the People of the Kingdom without their Consent making Judges Justices and Sheriffs contrary to the Kings mind breaking all Law themselves and Governing the Land by New-found Ordinances of their own imposing several Taxes on the People by wayes never before known in this Kingdom namely Contributions Sequestrations Meal-Money Sale of Plundred Goods Loans Collections upon their Fast-Dayes new Imposition upon Merchandizes Guards maintained at the charge of Private Men Compositions Sale of Bishops Lands with divers other strange Impositions all wracked from the People to maintain them in their Rebellious Pride But had they stay'd here their crimes had been the more inexcusable but they proceeded to the Murther of their King and that under a pretense of Justice a Crime so great that History cannot shew a parallel that people professing themselves Christians Protestants yea the most Reformed of all the Protestants should in the face of the whole World in the Metropolis of the Kingdom under a formal show of Justice Condemn the most Pious Prudent and Gracious Prince then living in the whole World contrary to the Word of God the Laws of the Land the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiancy it was a matter of Wonder and Astonishment not only to all Good and Godly Christians but even to the very Turks and Pagans Now notwithstanding their specious pretenses of Religion and Liberty who can be so blind as not plainly to see that the main drift of their pretenses was only to Tyrannize over the People and to wallow in all manner of Pleasure and Epicurisme for how notoriously debauched were some of the Chief of those Grand Reformers such as Gregory Clement Henry Martin Hugh Peters c. Besides their Covetousness which was so unmeasurably great that some Wise Men have wondered the Kingdome could be able to pay so much Money as hath been Collected from them in a year and yet for all those immeasurable Taxes the Souldiers and Navy unpaid that money going towards the Raising
Tower XLV Gregory Clement a lustfull Goat who being a monied Merchant Purchased himself a place in Parliament that he might the more freely and with the greater Authority exercise his notorious debaucheries which were so vulgarly known that his fellow Villaines could not but upon pretense of honesty discard him their company He contributed largely to the destruction of his Soveraign for he who fears not to Commit Adultery will not stick out to do Murther He received afterwards the reward of his Treasons being hang'd drawn aud quarter'd Octob. 17. 1660. His Head set upon London-Bridge and his Quarters on the Gates of the City XLVI Sir Gregory Norton One whose means was not answerable to his Title being one of the Pensioners to the King who ungratefully for the lucre of money joyned also in the Kings murther and had by his fellow Regicides for his Service as good as given Richmond Manner and House He died before his Majesties Return XLVII John Venn A broken Silk-man in Cheap-side who to recruit his Fortunes took part with the Strongest Side carrying as great a pretense to Religion as the best it being the Stalking Horse in those Times for them who meant to ride in the Chair of Preferment He was at the beginning of the War made Governour of Windsor Castle and had other Places of great Profit bestowed on him this drew him on to Act in the Murther of his Sacred Majesty though afterwards stricken with the horrour thereof He is said desparately to have hanged himself certain it is he died very strangely and suddainly though the certainty thereof was by his friends smoothered up as much as they could XLVIII Thomas Andrews a Linnen-Draper in Cheap-side but thinking the Trade of Rebellion more gainfull he resolved not to stand out having so fit an opportunity for him to come into Play and so got to be a Treasurer for the Guild-Hall Plate and a Receiver for the Army whereby he got great summs of money to himself which so Encouraged him in Treason that he feared not to Sit and Sentence his Soveraign and afterwards Alderman Reynoldson Lord Mayor of London refusing to Proclaim the Act for Abolishing Kingly Government he being Elected Lord Mayor in his Place Proclaimed the said Act in Great State He died just upon the Revolution of the Times and very narrowly prevented Justice XLIX Anthony Stapley a Sussex Gentleman Colonel and Governour of Chichester who by partaking with those Blood-Thirsty Regicides grew infected and was strangely wrought into this Wicked Conspiracy He likewise died before the Kings return L. Thomas Horton one of so mean and unknown a Quality that his Pedigree is not to be found unless we should derive it from Judas that Prince of Traytors He so thrived by the Wars that he was chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament and was one of those that dipt his hands in his Royal Soveraigns blood He also died before the Kings return LI. John Lisle Of a good Family in the Isle of Wight whose Father died there during the Treaty being possessed of a fair Patrimony in the said Isle this his ungracious degenerate Son whom he bred up a Lawyer taking part with those Bloody Regicides proved in process of time as bad as the worst of them and arrived to the very height of Cruelty and Impiety for having once washed his hands in his Soveraigns blood he feared not to Act any Murther whatsoever becoming President to all the High Courts of Justice during the Usurpation by whose Sanguinous violence fell many Gallant and Heroick Spirits for reward of which his cruelties he was made one of the Commissioners of the New Great Seal and Master of Saint Crosses a Place only fit for a Divine worth Eight Hundred Pound per Annum He fled upon the return of the King but divine vegeance which will not suffer the sin of Murher to go unpunished found him out and at Genuah by Three disguised Irishmen he received the reward of his deserts though not in so Legal a way as could be wished they being forced to Kill whom they could not bring away by reason of the strong Guards he had about him a shame to those Places which professing Christianity yet will give harbour to such wicked abominable Villans LII John Dixwell A recruit likewise of the Long Parliament for Dover of which Castle he was Colonel and Governour and therefore so far oblidged to them for his Promotion that in requital of their Favours he joyned with them in the Murther of his Majesty but fearing the reward of his Treachery upon the Kings return he quitted the Land which too long had groaned under the weight of so hatefull a Regicide LIII Miles Corbet A stain to his Family of very good Reputation in Norfolk He was one of the male-contented Members of the former Parliament with Sir John Elliot and Others and being chosen a Burgess for Yarmouth in the Long Parliament finding the Times fit for his purpose he resolved to wreak his malice upon the King and was a principal Instrument to help forward the ensuing calamities and having raised himself by others ruines to retain what be had so wickedly got and in hopes of greater Preferment he joyned likewise in the murther of the King for which he was rewarded with several great Places in England and Ireland where he was in effect Lord Chancellor but long enjoyed he not that Honour for upon his Majesties return he with Berkstead and Okey privately sneaked into Germany where having remained a while they returned to Delf in Holland intending under feigned Names to visit their Wives there but divine vengeance which never sleepeth found them out and by the vigelance of Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague they were apprehended which made Corbet to purge upwards and downwards in a very strange manner being afterwards sent into England they were at the Kings-Bench-Bar Arraigned and Condemned and according to Sentence Hanged Drawn and Quartered April 2. 1662. where now Corbets Head over-looks the Thames on London Bridge and his Quarters exposed to the view of the beholders on the City Gates LIV. Simon Meyne a Buckingham-shire Man of a good Estate but being of a covetous disposition he endeavour'd to enlarge it though by indirect means getting two good Trades for that purpose viz. a Committee and a Sequestrator to which we may add a third being chosen an Illegal recruit in the Long Parliament and now having his hand in thought it no great matter to assist in taking away the Kings Life At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice but his crimes were found to be of so crimson a dye that Sentence of death was passed on him however Execution of that Sentence was respited since which time he died a natural death in the Tower LV. John Alured A Souldier of Fortune who to climb the higher on the blind Goddesses wheele dipped his hands in
great and general day of Account when their Enemies shall receive the reward of their Fraud and Violence and Themselves a just recompence for all their Sufferings The Names and Characters of those Persons who Sat as Judges and Sentenced our late Dread Soveraign Charles the First of Glorious Memory and how Gods Vengeance overtook many of them for their Bloody Barbarous Cruelty I. JOhn Bradshaw President of the most Notorious Villany that was ever Acted on the Theatre of this World a Cheshire Man born but hatefull to his Country that it should bee the Production of so Vile a Viper more hatefull to those of the Long Robe Acting the Highest Wickedness and most Selerate Parricide that ever was committed more abominable to his Name but most odious of all to the Nation who two Terms before the perpetration of that horrid murther of the King took the Solemn Oath of Allegiance as a Serjant at Law being Advanced to that Dignity from the Scolding and Rayling of Guild-Hall London to Act the Highest piece of Impudence against his Pious and Gracious Soveraign which he performed with such dexterity as shewed him to be a Grand Master-Piece in Villany But afterwards grew conscious as to the safety of his body of his Fact when Oliver taking upon him the Supream Power the very Name of a Single Person frighting him above measures But otherwise he was so canteriz'd as to the salvation of his Soul that he remained and so departed this Life in a most damnably dangerous obstinacy and maintainance of that Horrid Fact either presuming there was no High Court of Justice in Heaven or else in desperation judging he was judged already The rewards of this most unparaleld Parracide which no doubt were the motives to this Villany was the Presidency of their Council of State the Lord Cottington's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster with some advance money before hand like his Predecessor Judas for his undertaking This Scelerate Villaine dyed in his bed at such time as Lambert and his Committee of Safty were Acting the Jack Puddings on the English Theatre which by the Impes and Abetters of his Treason was Commented on with great Advantage and indeed was by others taken as a note of admiration that so blood-guilty a Person should descend the Grave so quietly since according to the Poet Few Traytors do unto their Graves descend Without sierce slaughter and a bloody end But we must in this look upon the good Providence of God who by removing this wicked Wretch and other implacable Enemies of our Soveraign thereby made way by an Easie hand which otherwise might have been dyed in blood to the Restauration of him to his Kingdome and his People to the Enjoyment of their Laws Liberty and Religion He was Buried in Westminster Abbey but that Ground being too Holy to retain such a one as had been the Death of the Father of the Church he was removed from thence and thrown under the Gallows a receptacle more fit for such a Scelerate Villaine II. Oliver Cromwel an English Monster the Centre of Mischief a shame to the Brittish Chronicle a blot to Gentility a pattern for Tyranny Murther and Hypocrisie whose horrid Treasons will scarce gain credit of posterity and whose bloody Tyranny will quite drown the Names of Nero Domitian Caligula c. This wicked Monster was the main Engine of all their Diabolical Proceedings the Primum mobile by which those other Sons of Mischief moved the weight which set all the wheeles of their bloody machinations a going He was born at Huntington the year of our Lord 1599. Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family unhappy onely in this that such a wicked Science should proceed from so good a Stock His Grand-Father Sir Henry Cromwell was a Gentleman highly Honour'd both in Coutt and Country and died with such love that he had many weeping eyes attendant to his Grave leaving behind him Five Sons Oliver Henry Robert Richard and Philip This Oliver was Son to the third Son Robert and received his Name from Sir Oliver Cromwel his Uncle at such time as he was received into the bosome of the Church by her Rites and Ceremonies both which he afterwards most impiously and profanely rent and tore asunder acting such horrid vallainies under the name of Providence that Posterity may with some reason doubt how any one could commit such horrid Acts under the notion of Religious Principles He having at last attained to the height of his Ambition viz. the Superiority over the Three Kingdomes and for Five years space wallowed in the blood of many Gallant and Heroick Persons he at last descended though unwillingly to his Grave but Divine vengiance which would not suffer the blood that so impiously and trayterously was spilt by his procurement pursued this wicked Miscreant and would not let him Enjoy the Priviledge of a Grave He being digged out of the ground where a sumptious Monument was Erected for him and from thence January 30. the day whereon they Erected that execrable Murther on our late dread Soveraign drawn in a Cart to the Red Lion in Holborn and thence on a Sledge to Tyburn where being pulled out off his Coffin he with Bradshaw and Ireton were hanged at the several Angles of that Triple Tree which though to some it may seem preposterous to hang Cromwel thus without Examination yet they must know withall this was not done without a President III. Henry Ireton Commissary General of Horse an Active Villaine against his Sacred Majesty Cromwell's second in all Mischief who Espoused his Daughter as well as his Lesigns and whose Ambition and Tyranny would if he had lived no doubt have made him more Notoriously Eminent He was a maine Instrument in the Barbarous Murther of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle a great fomenter of all our Troubles and who gave as undenyable proofes of his blood-thirsty Tyranny as the best of them all A Man of great Parts and Abilities but nature'd to Mischief and the evil of those Times he was born to make worse and most prodigiously infamous no Man came suted with so great Capacity to the Over-throw of the Government reckoning his Impiety or rather vizzarded Piety unto his Endowments He died of the Plague at Limbrick in Ireland November the 27. 1651. from whence his Carcass was conveyed into England and in great Pomp brought to London where it lay for a time in great State at Somerset-house which was all hung with black and a Scutchion over the Gate with this Motto Dulce est pro Patria Mori How suitable to him that Country-man best told who Englished it in these words It is good for his Country that he is dead February 6. following He was with Great Magnificence Interred in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster but hath since found a more fitting and deserved Sepulcher his Carcass being with Cromwel's and Bradshaw's as they were Trine in mischief so buried under the Triple Tree Tyburn Anno
to death in Covent Garden XIII CHarles the I. of Blessed Memory the most Glorious Martyr of this late Age the exact pattern of Piety Patience and Prudence who in the manner of his Sufferings came the nearest to our Saviour of any we have read or heard of whose Christian Virtues and Patience in Afflictions will be had in Everlasting Remembrance Whose History being so exactly delivered by several Learned Pens and his Divine Thoughts so Heavenly set forth in His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other rare Pieces of his own Writing we shall therefore take no further a prospect of Him then from that barbarous and execrable Murther which to the horrour and astonishment of all good Men and to the great shame of the Christian World was most impiously committed on him and that in as brief a method as we can After that it had so pleased God for the sins of the Nation that the Kings Armies were all Overthrown and He Himself a Prisoner under their merciless hands several Endeavours having been used for his Restoration which also proved fruitless Cromwel Ireton and divers others of that Antimonarchial Faction who resolved to Enrich themselves though with the Ruine of the Kingdome and the loss of their own Souls By a Violent and Treasonable Force Seized upon divers Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament such as they thought had any Courage or Honesty to Vote according to their Consciences and neglect their wild Diabolical proposals leaving onely Fifty or Sixty Schismaticks of their own Engaged Party such as had made a prey of the Common-Wealth to Enrich Themselves and their Faction These Offalls of a Parliament quickly Voted down the Kingly Office and House of Peers and that the Supream Authority was in the People and in the House of Commons as their Representative and to bring the King to Capital Punishment before a new invented Illegal mixt Court consisting of Engaged Persons Erected for that purpose having Foundation neither by Prescription nor Law These proceedings though contrary to Law Sense and Religion yet being back'd by an Army they went on in their most wicked Design and to shew that they were as devoy'd of Grace as without shame they kept a Mock-Fast where Hugh Peters that Pulpit-Buffon Acted a Sermon before them the subject whereof was Moses leading the Israelites out of Aegypt which he applyed to the Leaders of the Army covering his eyes with his hands and laying down his head on the Cushion and such other antick gestures as moved the People unto laughter so audaciously impudent were they as to delight in their abominable wickednes Soon after was that accursed High Court of Justice Erected before which Audacious Traytors his Majesty was often brought who refused to hear the King speak of Reason but contrary to all Law Reason Religion Honesty Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy several Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations and Covenants He was by the mouth of that Grand Murthering Rebel Bradshaw Sentenced to be Beheaded the rest of those Miscreant Traytors by standing up assenting to the same and so not being admitted to reply he was by their Guards hurried away the Souldiers as he passed along in imitation or being set on by their Rebellious Masters that they might not be much behind them in Villany scoffing and reviling Him casting the smoak of their Tobacco a thing odious to Him in his face and strewing the Pipes in his way one more insolent then the rest spitting in his face the Souldiers all along as he passed Crying out Justice Justice Execution Execution to whom his Majesty onely said Alas poor Souls for a piece of Money they would do so for their Commanders From the time of that bloodly Sentence to the time of his execrable Murther how barbarously the Souldiers continued their insolencies to him and how base and bruitish they were in their carriage would almost exceed belief of a rational man not suffering him to rest in his Chamber but thrusting in smoaking their Tobacco and disturbing him in his Privacy abusing those that seemed to shew any respect or even compasion to him But through all those Tryalls and Barbarous Affronts he passed with such a calm and even temper that he let nothing fall unbeseeming his former Majesty and Magnanimity but despight of their malice proved himself a Glorious Conquerour When that fatal day was come which they had appointed for his Glorious Martyrdome he was brought from his Palace of St. James's to White-Hall marching on foot through the Park being Guarded by a Regiment of Foot Souldiers with their Colours flying and Drums beating the Guards marching a slow pace he bid them go faster saying That he now went before them to strive for a Heavenly Crown with less solitude then he had often Encouraged his Souldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem After he had come to the Chamber appointed for him in White Hall he spent that little remnant of time he had to live in Devotion and received the blessed Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of London who was Licensed to attend on him from which he received great Spiritual comfort continuing at his Devotions till about Twelve a Clock when he eat a bit of Bread and drank a glass of Clarret returning to his Devotions again when about an hour after he was brought on the Scaffold attended by the foresaid Bishop where with a Christian Courage and Resolution He finished his Glorious Martyrdome which at the falling of his Body mounted his Soul to Heaven in whose bliss-full Mansions he now sings Hallelujahs for ever Thus this Noble Prince sanctified by many Afflictions after he had escaped Pistol Poyson and Pestilent Air which means the Regicides had design'd to take him away by during his restraint could not escape the more venomous tongues of Lawyers and Petty-Foggers Bradshaw Cook Dorislau c. We shall conclude our Discourse of Him with this Epitaph made by a Loyal Person Within this Sacred Vault doth lye The Quintessence of Majesty Which being set more Glorious Shines The best of Kings best of Divines Brittains shame and Brittains glory Mirrour of Princes compleat Story Of Royalty One so exact That th' Elixars of praise detract These are fair shaddows but t' endure He 's drawn to th' life in 's Pourtracture If such another Piece you 'ld see Angels must Limn it out or He. XIV NOw next in order should we proceed to Duke Hamilton Earle of Cambridge who though of another Nation yet being a Peer of this and dying by Sentence of their Illegall High Court of Injustice we cannot without injustice leave him out of this Catalogue It is indeed confest by most that the Kings Interest was but Collateral and though his Actions and Promises at his Tryal in hopes of life may seem evidently to confirm the same yet in his last words and words of dying men do carry great force with them he did Evidence a real Love and Affection to that Cause This Duke was General
over the Scotch Forces that came into England when the King was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight the cause of their coming being contained in a Declaration which they brought along with them consisting of five heads 1. That the King be forthwith brought to London to Treat in Person with the Two Houses of Parliament 2. That all those who had a hand in or contrived the carrying of the King away from Holmby be condignly punished 3. That the Army be Disbanded 4. That Presbitery be setled 5. That the Members of Parliament who were forcibly secluded from the Houses may be restored But these Demands were answered with Fire and Bullet the Duke and his great Army totally defeated by Cromwel and Himself taken Prisoner by Colonel Wayte and being now in their hands they thought to make good use of him to cajole and fish out what great Ones Members of both Houses the City and Clergy had a hand in his Undertaking It being more then suspected that he had such Invitation to which purpose he was exceedingly importuned by Cromwell the Lord Grey of Grooby Colonel Wayte and Hugh Peters who promised him they would not much obstruct his pretended Plea of Quarter from Lambert upon Articles Nay Peters avouched Quarter so given for which Hamilton gave him Thanks and Mony and Peters in consideration thereof prayed for him openly as his Lord and Patron still feeding him with hopes If he would impeach their Opposites but when they could not extort it from him the Scene was soon altered they which smiled on him before then frowned and being at his Tryal asked what he could say for himself he pleaded Quarter and vouch'd Peters Testimony but that wretched Priest with a brazen face renounced the same saying He now remembred no such matter but that the Army scorned to give Quarter to Him or any of his Nation whereupon he was Condemned to the Block which Sentence was Executed upon him March 9. 1648. XV. HEnry Earle of Holland a special Favourite of King Charles the I. in the beginning of his Reign though afterwards when the long Parliament began to sit that Religion became the Bone of Contention he sided with them But afterwards perceiving that they made Religion only a cloak to cover their Rebellion he deserted them and took up Armes for the Royal Interest together with the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis Villers's Brother the Earle of Peterburgh and some others But they no sooner Rose but were Encountered by the Parliaments more Numerous Forces by whom they were Defeated and the Earle the next day taken Prisoner being afterwards brought to his Tryal before those Lawless Regicides he was by them Condemned together with my Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton and suffered on the same Scaffold the aforesaid 9. of March 1648. XVI ARthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham a most Noble Heroick Gallant Peer Eminently Famous for his Charity and other Rare Endowments whose Noble Virtues fill the Trumpet of Fame to all Posterity This Noble Lord was Son and Heir to Sir Henry Capel of Hadham-Hall in Hartford-shire well known for his Bountiful House and diffusive Charity to the Poor which some Eminous of good works in others because they will practise none themselves have bespattered with the Name of Popery which as they set forth onely the speakers malice so were they no hinderance to this Noble Lord when as he came to possess that Vast Estate to tread in the same steps his Father and Honourable Predecessors had done His great Parts and Deserts Advanced him from the Degree of Knight-hood the antient Dignity of his Family to Baron Capel of Hadham his Son being since by our Gracious Soveragn Created Earle of Essex a little before the time the Earle of Strafford received his Tryal whose giving his Vote to that Bill was in his conscientious Judgment of himself his Original Condemnation in foro Caeli During the time of Rebellion and those unhappy Differences betwixt the King and Parliament none more Constant and Loyal to his Majesty then He Assisting him in all that he could both in Head Hand and Purse and was by Him for his singular Wisdome and Prudence appointed Councellour unto the Prince whom he left not till the Disbanding the Lord Hoptons Army in Cornwall being then dismist with an Honourable Character from that discerning Prince But long had he not continued here at home when some fresh hopes appearing of his Majesties Restauration to his former Authority by the Rising of several Parties for the King he resolved to set his helping hand thereto and joyning with those Valiant Sons of Mars Sir Charles Lucas c. was together with them Besieged in Colchester which for Thirteen Weeks they Valiantly Defended Enduring and Suffering almost all Extremities imaginable at last they were forced to yield upon Articles of Quarter for Life in which this Noble Lord was included yet notwithstanding all Articles he was sent up Prisoner to London and committed to the Tower from whence he endeavoured an Escape and had effected it had he not been betray'd by one Jones a Waterman a second Banister soon after he was brought to their bloody Slaughter-house nick-named by them a Court of Justice whereby those Enemies of Honour and Loyalty he was Condemned and March 9. aforesaid brought to the Scaffold where he resolutely afferted his own Actions his dead Masters Cause and his present Soveraigns Rights recommending him to the People as the great Example of True English Worth and the only Hope of the distracted Kingdom and so like a True Christian Hero suffered the pains of the Axe sealing his Glorious Cause with his last breath and blood XVII MAster Beaumont a Reverend Divine belonging to the Garrison of Pomfract who for his Loyal Endeavours towards the Restoration of his Majesty in holding Correspondency in Cyphers with some Active Royalists was by those Murdering Miscreants who spared none either for their Age or Function most barbarously murdered Feb. 15. 1648. XVIII COlonel John Morris a Gentleman of an Undaunted Courage and Resolution bred up in the Earle of Straffords's House where he was taught his Duty to God and Obedience to his King whom he Faithfully Served in that time of Rebellion being that Gallant Person that Surprized Pomfract Castle which he Valiantly Defended even to the very pinch of Extremity and was for his Valour and Loyalty being suspected by them to be one of those that sent Rainsbrough's Ghost to trace the Infernal Shades most inhumanly butchered by those Scelerate Villanies at the City of York August 23. 1649. XIX COronet Michael Blackburn Emiently Famous for his Loyalty and Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being also taken at Pomfract Castle and likewise suspected for Rainsbrough's death he was therefore by those sworn Foes to true Valour basely murdered at York August 23. aforesaid XX. DOctor Levens Doctor of the Civil Law a Gentleman well Descended of an Antient Family in Oxfordshire who at the first beginning of these