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
was for some misdemeanours of Loyalty brought to the Bar in Chancery where he denyed the Authority of the Court because their Seal was contrary to Law as well as their Commissioners and so baffled those puny Judges that instead of a further prosecution there they committed him Prisoner to the Tower where he gave further Demonstrations of his Loyalty by publishing several Presidents and Statutes wherein he proved them Rebells and Traytors and owned the same again at other Bars So that he did more mischief to the Enemies of the Royal Cause with his Pen then their best Regiment could do with their Swords He used his utmost endeavour to set the Parliament and Army at ods thereby to promote the Kings Cause according to that well known maxime Divide and Conquer defying them and their threats and asserting the King and the Laws against their Usurpation He was kept a close Prisoner a long time in the Tower where wearied of him by his indefatigable industry in the Kings Cause he was removed from thence to Windsor where he continued in the same quality and of the same mind till without thanks to them he was permitted the liberty of the Town and hath survived to see the Return of Majesty the Restauration of the Laws and the Liberty of the Subjects restored to them again in as ample a manner as it was before VIII That Valiant Loyal Son of Mary Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton whose Courage and Prudence in the management of the Kings Affairs for whom he Commanded in the West did gaine him the approbation of an Expert Captain and Gallant Commander having his Endeavours Crowned with many notable Successes After his Disbanding in Cornwall Rebellion then flourishing with a high hand he took shipping with the Prince our now Gracious Soveraign and with him Sailed into the Island of Scilly and from thence into the Realm of France following the Kings hard fortune in his Peregrinations till death in the end put a period to his Travells and after a Troublesome life he found a quiet Grave at the City of Paris in France IX Master Secretary Sir Edward Nicholas who constantly and faithfully adhered to his Majesty from the beginning of his Troubles being a great Prop to the Royal Cause by his Prudent Counsells and Great Abilities in the Management of the most Difficult Affairs and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to our present Soveraign in all his Troubles and Negotiations abroad having with great Faithfulness and Prudency Managed that Employment all along to the happy Effect of his Majesties Glorious Restitution X. Sir Edward Hide since the Right Honourable Earle of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour to his present Majesty of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to cry out the Sun shine by whose Counsels the late King had in special Esteem and therefore made him his bosome Favourite which caused such a hatred against him by the Faction at Westminster as excluded him out of their Spurious Act of Mercy But escaping their mercilesse cruelty by a timely avoidance of the Land through his prudent carriage of Affairs together with the providencial mercy of God he survived to see those Enemies of Monarchy and Regal Government brought to a Just Tryal and himself advanced to such a pitch of Honour as to see the Laws Administred in their right form and the Subject to enjoy the just priviledges of them XI The Lord Wilnot afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earle of Rochester being Raised thereunto by his superlative Deserts not only by his Valour which shone transcendent clear at Round-way-down neer the Devizes but also in his prudent carriage in that grand Affair concerning the Kingdoms happiness in his Majesties Miraculous Escape from Worcester He died a little before the Kings Restitution not surviving to participate of those Grandeurs whereof his Abilities would have made him a deserved Sharer XII The Right Reverend Doctor Shelden whose Deserts and Sufferings advanced him upon the Restauration of his Majesty to be Lord Bishop of London since by the death of Doctor Juxon as none more able to supply his place to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan of all England of whose Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a Candle Let it suffice that his very Name is enough to strike Envy dead and to put to silence the most obstinate Heretick and riged Schismatick upon the face of the whole Earth XIII The Religiously Loyall Doctor Hammond a constant assertor of our English Liturgy and one whose Abilities rendred him dear to King Charles the Martyr to whom Imprisonment was no stranger during the time Rebellion was Rampant expecting every day for his Loyalty to have been transported yet would never yield nor deviate from those wayes wherein Conscience ascertain'd him he was in the right though not the predominate side XIV Sir Marmaduke Langdale afterwards Lord Langdale whose Abilities in Martiall Affairs would in the time of Paganism have deified him the God of Battel though in our times his constant Loyalty had rendred him to a higher pitch of Honour being deservedly accounted a Pylot for all Noble and Gallant Spirits whereby to direct and steer their Course XV. Master Roger L' Strange of whose Worth and Abilities to speak would to an Intelligible Reader appear superfluous like the labours of him who writ a whole Volumn in the praise of Hercules whom no man dispraised This Loyal Gentleman for his Endeavours of Reducing Linn to their Obedience to his Majesty suffer'd the utmost malice of a prevailing Faction even to Condemnation besides a long Imprisonment in Newgate Yet could not their Tyranny so much depress his Spirits but his Pen was still a constant Assertor of the Royal Cause in which he continued his best endeavours unto and untill the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty by whom he is looked upon as one of the Agents of his Restauration XVI The Right Honourable the Earle of Norwich a Gentleman of such Worth and Abilities that this mite will signifie nothing to those Rare and Excellent gifts both of Learning and Wisdom wherewith he was Adorned XVII Sir John Stowel a Somerset-shire Gentleman whose Loyalty rendred him so sufficiently Famous that Envy it's self cannot but grant him a prime place with those Glorious Confessors who suffered under the Barbarous Tyrannies of the Rump in the Cause of that Blessed Martyr King Charles who so constantly and vigourously adhered to the King during the War untill the Surrender of Exeter where was good Articles granted upon which he came to London to make composition for his Vast Estate then under Sequestration but contrary to the Capitulation agreed upon at Exeter the Committee at Gold-Smiths-Hall those Horse-leeches of the Nation tendered him the Negative Oath before he could have any admission to Compound to which unjust and perfidious dealing he pleaded the benefit of the said Articles who good Conscientious Men committed him first to the Serjant
1660. IV. Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune and in Charity judged not to be of such a premeditated malice as the rest though by the current of Times drawn to Act with the highest in Mischief He was at the first a Cavalier in Opinion but with the more gainfuller times turn'd Presbyterian then afterwards upon the new module when Presbytery began to decline he became a strong Independant where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and minding Profit more then Conscience he still grew more hardned in his Lawless practises finding more likeliness of greater spoiles in the destruction of Monarchy He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesties Execution and Acted all along with them in their Murtherous Counsels having for his share in the price of blood a Command afterwards in Ireland where he continued till such time as the Happy Revolution of Affairs brought Monarchy again to stand on its feet when he surrendred himself and upon his Tryal shewed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes He still lives by the Mercy of the King a condemn'd man Prisoner in the Isle of Wight V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Extract or Remarque till such time as made notoriously famous for Villany He was by Marriage Cromwel's Brother in Law who upon that account by his Authority and Command in the Parliament preferred him to be Governour of Linn and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely which place he had stongly Fortefied as a safe Retreat for Cromwel if before he had compleated his damnable Designs he should have been forced to have gone thither Upon the Change of the Times when Royalty began to grow splendid he ran away the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth and hath hitherto escaped the hands of Justice VI. Colonel Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle under line in Staffordshire at first a Servant to one Master Hulker an Atturney But finding the Law begun to be trode under foot he betook himself to the Army the more hopefuller way of preferment where by his Preaching and such like Sanctimonious wayes of proceeding when the Army made a gain of Godliness he came to be a Major and being of a pragmaticall daring spirit was by the influence of Cromwel preferred to be a Colonel and the Custody of the Kings Person when taken from the Isle of Wight committed unto him which he according to his Butchery Nature most irreverently abused by no less saucy behaviour then Treasonable Speeches of blacking the King c. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ring-leader of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men and such as traded in Enthusiasmes in whose Love and especial Opinion he dyed being expectedly Executed at the place where once stood Charing-Cross October 14. 1660. His Head was set upon a Pole on the top of the South-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters Exposed to Publick View upon some of the City Gates VII Colonel Edward Whaley Descended from a Family in Nottingham-shire and bound Apprentice to a Woollen-Draper which trade he followed for a while but falling into decay left the Ell and took up the Spear and during all the time of our Troubles was very industriously Active rising by degrees till he came at last to be Comissiary General of the Horse He was a Man of a daring Spirit and resolute to perform what ever he undertook Crafty withall and Covetous having not where-withall otherwise to maintain his Ambition to which we may add his Perfidiousness betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretense of Affection the worst kind of perfidy and having thus juggled him whither they would have him he made no scruple to joyne with others in his horrid Murther upon the turn of the Times he likewise fled to prevent the stroke of Justice worthily due to his Deserts VIII Colonel Thomas Pride a Brewer at first a Dray-man but at the beginning of the Wars contrary to David who left the Sword to take up the Sling he forsooke the Sling and took up the Sword and though an Ignorant Illiterate Fellow scarce fit to carry gutts to a a Beare whose destruction he performed at Paris Garden yet being of a resolute Courage and the blind goddess Crowning him with successe he was thought fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Parliament for him and having thus Acted that which carried a shew of Law and Justice there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons being a prime Agent in the Murther of the King Acting with as much Impudence and Brutishness as any of them all He died before his Majesties Return escaping thereby a more shamefull and ignominious death IX Colonel Isaac Ewer Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof being in the wave to recruit his Decaying Fortunes he betook himself to the Wealthiest Side and added much to the Ruine of Monarchy having gained a great proficency in their Destructive Principles so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villany being cloaked under a vail of Religion He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight and afterwards one of his Judges where he gave his hand against his Sacred Soveraign adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murther He likewise died before his Majesties Return robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby Son to the Earle of Stamford who becoming a Colonel in the Army grew infected with their Destructive Principles and contrary to Honour Acted with them in their odious Designs having his hand in the Murther of the King the Fountain and Source of all Honour from whence others are derived In regard of the Honour of his Family he escapes a Mention or Condemnation for this Crime as well as for some others He dyed before his Majesties Happy Restauration XI William Lord Mounson a sordid Fellow of Destructive Principles and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villanies being for Debt a long time a Prisoner but by his Fellow Regicides fetcht out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses After the Return of his Majesty he was for his Treasonable Practises together with Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Commons where their Estates were Declared Confiscate and they degraged from all Titles and Armes of Gentility and further Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London upon Sledges with Halters about their Necks and so back again to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment which Sentence was accordingly Executed upon them January 30. 1661. XII Sir John Danvers Knight Brother to that Loyal and Noble Peer the Earle of Danby who for his Fidelity to his Soveraign was by the Rebells Voted a Delinquent the covetousness after which Estate drew in this Knight
to partake with them in their horrid Actions swallowing thereby his Name and Honour in this Whirle-pool of Confusion and Royal Blood He deceased before his Majesties Return XIII Sir Thomas Malverer a York-shire Knight whose Family had been raised to that Honour by the Two last Kings which to a Noble Spirit should have been the more oblidging but great Benefits cause Ingratitude and Covetousness to have wherewithall to live answerable to his Title wickedly prompted him for the equalling of it to consent to the Murther of him from whence his Honour was Derived He also died before his Majesties happy restauration XIV Sir John Bourcher another Independant York-shire Knight who making a gain of Godliness under the pretense thereof Acted the most horrid Villanies having God in their mouth and the Devil in their heart Like Water-men looking one way and rowing another being sure alwayes when they had the fearest pretenses they were then hatching the foulest Impieties This Man that he might not be out of the way when occasion should serve diligently dined at Hell and to compleat his other wicked Actions consented to the Murther of his Soveraign He likewise dyed before his Majesties Return XV. Isaac Pennington a busie stickler of the Faction and a Grand Agent in the perpetration of all our late Troubles He was by the Faction continued Lord Mayor of London for Two Years together though contrary to the Kings Express Command from Oxford by his Authority in the City he contributed largely to the maintenance of Rebellion and added much fuell to that fire of Desention betwixt the King and Parliament and yet notwithstanding he was a great sharer in the spoyle of his Country He broke twice what being got over the Devil 's back being spent under his belly and thinking to make good his broken Fortunes joyned with them in the Murther of his Soveraign After his Majesties Happy Restauration he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice and that he signed not the Warrant yet was it made apparent that his Crimes were of a crimson dye but by the Kings Clemency his Execution was respited and died a natural death in the Tower of London XVI Henry Martin Son of Sir Henry Martin Judge of the Prerogative Court a most Wicked Lewd Vicious and Infamous Person whose Actions have rendered him odious to all Posterity He first spoke Treason against the King and his Family in the House of Commons and was in Complement Committed and Suspended for a while proving afterwards a Grand Actor in the Highest of Treasons being one of the Chief of the Caball in taking away the life of the King ordering the Charge against him to go in the Name of The Commons in Parliament Assembled and the Good People of England After his Majesties Return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation using many dilatory evasions at his Tryal afterwards being brought to the Bar of the House of Lords to Answer why Judgement should not be Executed upon him he replyed That he understood the Proclamation extended to favour of life upon rendering himself and withall added That he never obeyed any of his Majesties Proclamations before but this and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the Kings Word now XVII William Purefoy a Warwick-shire Gentleman once Governour of Coventry a busie Fellow in their Leger-de-main Jugglings and a great Zealot against Crosses as Superstitious and Crowns as Superfluous This his blind Zeal together with his Covetousness after Church and Crown Lands made him not scruple to embrue his hands in the blood of his Prince but lived not to receive the just reward of such horrid Villany dying before his Majesties Return XVIII Colonel John Berkstead a Man at first of a despicable Fortune keeping a sorry Goldsmiths Shop in the Strand but having learned a little City-Souldiery was made Captain of a Foot-Company under Colonel Ven at Windsor and being in Active Person by Success of Rebellion was made Governour of Reading and continued always a fast Friend to Oliver Cromwel in all his wicked Consultations and Purposes joyning with him in that horrid Murther of the King for which and other his Services to him he was by Oliver made Lievtenant of the Tower where by Extortion and Cruelty he gained a great masse of Wealth but when Loyalty began again to be Predominant his guilty Conscience hurried him beyond Sea lurking a good while in some parts of Germany under feigned Names but divine vengance soon found him out for He Colonel Okey and Miles Corbet having resided for some time in the City of Hannow about the beginning of March they came to Delf in Holland appointing their Wives to meet them there but Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague having information thereof they were luckily surprized and sent into England and having remained Prisoners some while in the Tower were brought to the Kings Bench-Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not dye according to Law the Act of Attainder being then read unto them to which they Alleadged they were not the same persons mentioned therein but it being proved by Witnesses Sentence of death was pronounced against them and on Saturday April 19. 1662. they were Executed at Tyburn the Head of this Grand Regicide being set on a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower XIX John Blakeston a Fellow who would not be idle when there was any thing to do especially of Profit He was at first a Shop-Keeper in Newcastle when according to the time he was a Rigid Presbyterian and while the Scots were there chosen a Burgess for that Town but the Market of Independency being up he turned with the Tide and like Judas for the lucre of money consented to the Murther of his Royal Master but enjoyed the gain of his Impiety not long dying before the return of his Majesty when without the greater Clemency he might have received a reward more agreeable to his deserts XX. Gilbert Millington a Lawyer who contrary to all Law sided with those bloody Regicides against his Lawfull Soveraign He was a constant Chair-Man of the Committee for Plundered Ministers by which Trade he filled his Coffers the sweets of which Employment set his teeth on edge and sharpned him to that cruell attempt upon his Soveraigns Life Upon the Kings return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal confessed the Fact and the guilt of it and was favoured with an acceptance of it from the Court. XXI Thomas Chaloner one who had Travelled far in the World and returned home poysoned with that Jesuitical Doctrine of King-killing which he here put in practise being the great Speech-Maker against the King his Family and Government and a great stickler for their New Utopian Common-Wealth but upon his Majesties Return fled the Land his Actions being so bad as would not endure the Touch-Stone XXII Sir William Constable a York-shire Knight
whose Prodigality brought him to sell his Patrimony in the beginning of the late Troubles to Sir Marmaduke Langdale which he afterwards regained for nothing when that Lord was for his Loyalty Voted a Delinquent and his Estate at the dispose of Rebells who carved fat shares unto themselves He had a principal hand in the Kings death for which Parricide and other his Treasonable Practises he was by the Saints of the new stamp made Governour of Glocester and a great Commander in the North He died before his Majesties return XXIII Edmond Ludlow a Person much endeared to the Fanaticks who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army came at last to be a Lievtenant General and one of the Chief Commissioners for Ireland His Father before him uttered Treasonable words against the King in the House of Commons Anno 1643. no marvel then if the Father were a Rebell that the Son should prove a Traytor since most commonly to what the Parents are affected the Children prove addicted Upon his Majesties return fearing the reward of his deserts he fled the Land like his predecessor Caine living a Vagabond from place to place fearing every one that he meets should slay him XXIV Colonel John Hutchinson who by Cromwell and his prevailing Faction was over-awed to Sign his Majesties Execution but by a timely repentance bewailing with tears the heinousnesse of his Offence he obtained Pardon being onely discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts and Fined a years Profit of his Estate to the King XXV Sir Michael Livesey a Kentish Knight whose plague he was being Plunder-Master-General of that County for many years towards the repairing of his broken Estate He was a very Active Person during the Progress of the whole War and as nimbly ran away upon the Kings return making good that Proverb That one pair of leggs was worth two pair of hands XXVI Robert Titchburn born in London of good Extraction by Trade a Linnen-Draper coming by degrees to be Mayor thereof whose Counsels he is said to betray to the Rump Hope of Preferment and want of Grace drew him in to be one of the Infamous Tryars of his Soveraign At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal shewed much penitency for his Offences declaring with much candour his sin and ignorance of the atrocity of the crime protested his Inability of contrivance his raw years and unskilfulness in the Laws Saying He would rather have gone into a hot Oven then into that business if he had known the depth of it instancing That Paul was a Persecutor and found mercy and hoped that he should find the like He was with the other Regicides condemned but by the Kings Great Clemency Execution of Justice was respited on him XXVII Owen Roe formerly a Silkman in London and being an Eminent Independant had a Command of the Militia conferred on him by the Advice of the Devil and Cromwel he came to have a hand in shedding the Kings blood for which after his Majesties return he was condemned but pleading his reluctancy to the Kings Sentence and begging pardon for his Offence which he affirmed was not of malice he was by the Kings Favour Reprieved XXVIII Robert Lilburn a great Enemy to Bishops though come from the Bishopprick of Durham He was Brother to John Lilburn the great Trouble-World who was alwayes opposite to the Predominate Power This Robert Lilburn to raise his Fortunes sided with Cromwell who would never suffer them to want Preferment that were thorow-paced to his Interests By him he was advanced to be a Colonel of Horse a little before the Kings Murther and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility then requite him with having a hand in it and so ran fearlesly into the danger of it He still lives by the Kings clemency a condemned man in the Tower of London XXIX Adrian Scroop a Colonel of Horse a Person very Active against the Kings Parties in 1648. and as violent in the taking away his Majesties Life and Honour in their pretended High Court of Justice which he so little repented of that after his Majesties return in an accidental conferrence with Sir Richard Brown he seemed rather to allow and approve of it by saying Many people did not think it such a heinous matter or that some be of one mind and some be of another He was upon a fair Tryal condemned to dye and accordingly Executed on the Rayled place where Charing-Cross once stood Octo. the 17. 1660. XXX Richard Dean a Fellow of meane Extraction being at first a Hoymans Servant in Ipswich and at the beginning of the Wars to raise his despicable fortunes betook him to the Army and was a matross in the train of Artillery from whence he rose to be a Captain and was first Famous at the Siege of Exeter and being a cross Fellow fit for any mischief one who cared not to build his own hopes though on a general ruine was thought fit to be one of Cromwel's Complices in the Murther of his Soveraign He was afterwards made one of the Generals at Sea against the Dutch and was slain with a Cannon Bullet being shot almost off in the midle as he stood close by General Monke June 2. 1653. XXXI Colonel John Okey at first a Stoker in a Brew-House then a Chandler neer Bishopsgate where having lived a while he betook himself to the Army the Haven of Hope for all Aspiring Minds where in a short space he passed thorow the several commands to that of a Colonel and being of a daring spirit he was by the Artifice of Cromwell bewitched into the patner-ship of that accursed Murther of his Majesty Upon his Majesties return he fled the Land but divine vengeance pursuing him he was with Colonel Barkstead and Miles Corbet taken in Holland and sent over into England where at the Kings Bench Bar they were Arraigned and Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was Executed on the other two and their Quarters exposed on the City Gates but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and Dutifull carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be Interred He dyed with more penitency and greater reluctancy then those of his Fellow-Regicides who suffered in October 1660. acknowledging the Kings Power as of God and exhorting others to the like He was a Person that for his Valour and other good Qualities was pittied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this crime to his destruction XXXII John Hewson who from a Cobler rose by degrees to be a Colonel and though a Person of no Parts either in Body or Mind yet made by Cromwel one of his Pageant Lords He was a Fellow fit for any mischief and capable of nothing else a sordid lump of Ignorance and Impiety and therefore the more fit to share in Cromwell's Designs and to Act in that Horrid Murther of his Majesty
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
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
with a Party pursued the Pinnace to a shallow which she could not pass demanding her and the Earles Surrender which being refused a Drake was discharged which unfortunately killed the said Earle and one of his Servants being placed on purpose on the Deck to deter the Royalists from shooting whereupon they presently struck sayle and yielded but with a just revenge were all sacrificed to to the Ghost of that most Noble Loyal Peer XVI Colonel Charls Cavendish aforesaid who quickly after the deserved death of those murthering Rebells was set upon by a great Party under Colonel White a Lincolnshire Gentleman who with those Forces came to relieve the Boat or recover it if taken Whereupon a sharp Encounter ensued betwixt them but the Royalists being over-pour'd the Valiant Colonel was forced to take the Trent with his Horse which swam him safe to the other side but there stuck in the Owze and Mud but as soon as he could get a shore off his Horses back the Enemy was come to him round by the Ford and seeing him desparately wounded offer'd him Quarter which he magnanimously refusing throwing his blood amongst them which he wipé't off his face was by them killed out-right upon the place XVII The Lord Grandison who in the Service of his Majesty was wounded at Bristol of which wounds he shortly after died XVIII Sir Ingram Hopton Sir George Bolit and Lievtenant Colonel Markham men whose Names deserve to be recorded in the Book of Fame who in a sharp and sore conflict against the Earle of Manchester's Forces near Horn-Castle in Lincoln-shire valiantly fighting were unfortunately slain XIX John Lord Stuart second Brother to the Duke of Richmond a most Gallant Heroick Person slain in the Battel between Hopton and Waller on Cheriton-Down Fight March 29. 1644. XX. Sir John Smith Colonel Sandys and Colonel Scot Persons of great Worth and Eminency whose valourous minds scorned danger and who hated no man so much as a Coward These Gallant Sons of Mars were slain at the foresaid Fight on Cheriton-Down whose valiant Names succeeding Ages shall mention with honour XXI Colonel Manning slain also at the foresaid Fight a Gallant Person onely unhappy in this in being Father to that Captain Manning who betrayed the Kings Council to Cromwel while he resided at Colin for which he was shot to death in the Duke of Newburghs Country XXII The Lord Cary Sir Thomas Motham and Sir William Lampton who in that great Fight betwixt Prince Rupert and the Parliamentarians at Maston Moor July 2. 1644. wherein above Eight Thousand lost their Lives and was indeed the Greatest of all the War in this so memorable a Battel those Three Honoured Persons lost their Lives sealing the love they bore to the Kings Side with their dearest bloods XXIII Sir William Wentworth Sir Charles Slingsby Sir Francis Dane who Engaging in Defence of his Majesties Cause were slain in that great and unfortunate fight at Maston Moor. XXIV Lievtenant Colonel Smith and Captain Boteler who at the Raising of Banbury Siege lost their lives to purchase to themselves an Honourable Name XXV Sir John Digby whose very Family carries Loyalty in the Name of it wounded at Langport in the County of Somerset of which wounds he shortly after died XXVI Colonel Myn an Active Loyal Person who Commanded a Regiment of English which he brought with him out of Ireland who Engaging with Massey in Gloster-shire valiantly performed the Office of an Excellent Souldier and Expert Commander both in Rallying his Men bringing them up and keeping them from the Rout but being over-mastered in number he was there slain dying in the bed of Honour XXVII Colonel Sir William St. Leger Lievtenant Colonel Topping and Lievtenant Colonel Leake who in the second Battlel at Newbery valiantly fighting lost their lives making good that ground in their death which in their life they had undertook to keep accompanying those Souldiers in their deaths whom in their lives they had Commanded with so much Gallantry XXVIII Colonel Gage the flower of Chevialry and pattern of true Magnanimity who to hinder the daily Excursions of the Abington Forces under the Command of Major General Brown resolv'd to build a Fort at Culham Bride to repress the boldness of those Forces who were constantly out thereabouts upon Designes In the attempt thereof the Abington Forces under Colonel Brown Sally out to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Erruption Engaging with the Royalists though with little hopes of prevailing till an unlucky shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head of which he dyed as soon as he came to Oxford a great loss to the Royal Interest XXIX Colonel St. George who at the storming of the City of Leicester in a Bravery and Gallantry of Courage ventering upon the mouth of the Cannon was slain with a great shot XXX Colonel Taylor an Eminent Commander under Prince Rupert who at the Siege thereof by Sir Thomas Fairfax was in its Defence mortally wounded XXXI Sir Richard Crane a great friend and familiar with Prince Rupert who in a Sally upon the Enemies was unfortunately slain XXXII The thrice Noble Lord Bernard Stuart Earle of Leichfield the last of the three Illustrious Brothers of the Duke of Richmond late deceased who constantly adheiring to the King both in Weal and Woe never left him for the greatest Danger or Extremity for after the fatal fight at Naseby the King with a flying Army intending for the relief of Chester was set upon by General Poyntz at Routon-Heath where happened a very sharp sore fight wherein this Noble Lord gallantly fighting in Defence of his Royal Master was unfortunely killed Sept. 24. 1645. XXXIII Sir Francis Carnaby and Sir Richard Hutton men of stout and magnanimous carriage who feared not death in his nearest approaches those two valiant Hero's were slain at Sherbon fight in Yorkshire October 25. 1645. being in their march towards the Marquess of Montross XXXIV Major Cufaud an Officer in Basing House which so long and valiantly held out against the numerous assaults of a Potent Enemy and who at last of all would hear of no Terms of surrender but being stormed and with great loss of the assailants Entered this valiant Major after a stout resistance not dreading death was by the hands of his Enemies there slain XXXV Doctor Griffiths Daughter who though a Female yet of a Masculine spirit and for her Loyalty deserving a large share amongst those Notable Hero's slain in the Kings service this Amazonian Lady whose praise cannot be sufficiently celebrated in the foresaid storm at Basing House was by the barbarity of the Enemies killed and shamefully left naked a trophy of their Baseness and her own eternal Renown and Honour XXXVI Master Gerard the Authour of that Elabourate Herbal which bears his Name to whom succeeding Ages must confess themselves indebted this gallant Gentleman Renowned for Arts and Armes was likewise at the storming of that House unfortunately slain a great losse to succeeding Ages XXXVII Sir
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
they passed and came into the City without opposition as far as Threadneedle-street with such a confident resoluteness that a Party of the Trained Bands designed to Watch that day being sent out to follow them were forced to Retreat to their Main-Guard when the whole Body advancing towards them they retreated into Bishopsgate-street where some of them took into an Ale-House at the signe of the Helmet where they maintained a sharp Dispute two of them being Killed and two Taken and as many Killed and Wounded of the Trained Bands The next News of them was at Colledge-Hill from whence they marched up into Cheap-side and so into Wood-street as far as the Counter where Venner who Headed them being Armed with a Murrion on his head and a Halbert in his hand commanded the Prisoners to be let out or else he told them they were but dead men But before he could accomplish his designs they were charged by the Life-Guard whom they put to the Retreat but they being seconded by two Companies of the Trained Bands the Dispute was very sharp and desparate untill at last Venner being knockt down and Tuffnel and Crag two of their prime Teachers fled they began to give ground and betook themselves to flight by several wayes the greatest part of them went down Wood-street and so to Criplegate firing in the Rear at a Trained Band of Yellow who closely pursued them at last they took in at the Blew Anchor Ale-House by the Postern which House they maintained with much desparate courage and would not hear of any Termes of Yielding soon after came Lievtenant Colonel Cox with his Company and surrounded all places about it and then some of the Souldiers got up upon the Tilings of the next House which they cast down and fired into the uppermost Room where the Rebells were yet were they so desparately bent in their wickedness that even then they refused Quarter untill a File of Musqueteers got up the Stairs and having shot down the door entered upon them six of them being killed and another wounded yet one of them still refused Quarter who being knockt down with the But end of a Musquet was afterwards shot the rest yielded who being demanded why they craved not Quarter before Answered They durst not for fear their owne Fellows should shoot them of such a desparate resolution was the temper of their Spirits In this Rebellious Insurrection were slain alike of both sides Twenty Two of the Kings Leige People and Twenty Two of the Traytors Twenty One more besides were taken whose Names were as followeth viz. Thomas Venner their Chief Ring-leader the Captain of this Rebellious Rout The Second to Venner were one Tuffnel a Carpenter living in Grays-Inn-lane a desparate Fellow who after He and his Party were forced over the Houses through More-lane they fled into the Fields and he having four or five Pistolls about him discharged them all before he could be got down but at last he was so mortally wounded that they brought him in a Chair to Newgate and so they sent him to Christ-Church Hospital where after three dayes space he dyed of his wounds and was carried into Christ-Church-Yard for to be viewed to see if any body would own him but a hole being digged the Blew Coat Boyes covered him with the Earth and he was never further lookt after The next was Roger Hodgkins a Button-Sellor in St. Clements Lane neer Lumbard street Giles Pritcherd a Cow-keeper Leonard Gowler Jonas Allen John Pym William Orsingham William Ashton Stephen Fall John Smith William Corbet John Dod Iohn Elestone Thomas Harris Iohn Gardener Robert Bradley Richard Marten Iohn Patshall Robert Hopkins and Iohn Wells These Twenty and One were all brought to the Bar together Tuffnel excepted their Tryal succeeding soon after their Desparate Engagement where the wounded Men had Chairs allowed them to sit down in and after the Indictment was read which was laid both to Treason and Murther Thomas Venner was first called who being asked Guilty or not Guilty ran out into a wild Discourse about his Conversation in New-England and concerning the Fifth Monarchy and the Testimony within him above these Twenty years He confessed He was in the late Rising but was not Guilty of Treason intending not to Leavy War against the King and again ran out into impertinent Stories and Discourses as before but being pressed by the Court to Answer to his Indictment he pleaded Not Guilty and for his Tryal put himself upon God and the Country In the like manner all the rest used many rambling diversions from the business but at last pleaded to their Indictments Whereupon the Witnesses were sworn who made it appear that Venner Tuffnel and Crag the two last being killed in the business Did several times perswade their Congregation to take up Arms for King Iesus against the Powers of the Earth which were his Majesty the Duke of York the General c. That they were to Kill all that opposed them That they had been Praying and Preaching but not Acting for God That they Armed themselves at their Meeting-House in Coleman-street with Blunder-busses Musquets c. Marten Hopkins Wells and Patshall the Witnesses being not so clear against them were acquitted by the Jury the other Sixteen were found Guilty and being brought to the Bar were demanded to shew cause why Sentence of Death should not pass upon them which they not doing they were all Sixteen Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered The Lord Chief Justice Foster charging Venner with the blood of his Complices by his Seduction and Leading of them he Answered He did not to which the Witnesses being produced again he blasphemously evaded it with this quible and said It was not He but Iesus that Led Them According to the Sentence pronounced on them Ianuary 19. 1661. Venner and Hodgkings both desparately wounded in the Rebellion and as yet uncured were Drawn on Sledges from Newgate through Cheap-side over against their Meeting House in Swan-Alley in Coleman-street where they were Executed according to the Sentence pronounced against them Venner according to the nature of most desparate Traytors vindicating Himself and his Fact being confident he said That the time was at hand when other judgement would be reflecting much upon the Government But if the one was mad the other raved Hodgkins in way of Praying Calling down Vengeance from Heaven upon the King the Iudges and the City of London nor would he leave until the Hangman by the Sheriff's order turn'd him off the Ladder so that as they lived in a mad Religion they died as madly in the same Their Quarters were set upon the Four Gates of the City by the late Executed Regicides whose quarrel and revenge they undertook in this desparate attempt and their Heads upon Poles as lovingly by some of them on London-Bridge The same day Giles Pritchard a Cow-keeper and another of them were Executed in Cheap-side and on the Munday following being the 21. of Ian.
a cord which was put about his neck which he chearfully received saying Though it had pleased his Sacred Majesty that now is to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter yet he did not think himself more Honoured by the Garter then by that Cord and Book which he would embrace about his neck with as much joy and content as ever he did the Garter or a Chain of Gold and therefore desired them to tye them about him as they pleased telling them That what they thought was for his Disgrace he took to be his greatest Honour This being done and his Armes tyed he asked the Officers If they had any more Dishonour as they conceived it to put upon him he was ready to accept it and so with an undaunted Courage mounted the top of that prodigious Gibbet where having commended his soul to God he patiently underwent the Execution of their inveterate malice Thus fell this Worthy Hero by a most malicious and barbarous sort of cruelty his Head and Quarters being disposed of according to that wicked Sentence pronounced against him though afterwards viz. May 11. 1661. they found a more Honourable Burial being taken down from the Gates of those four distant Cities and with great State and Solemnity Interred with a Funeral becoming his Family and his own personal Renown and Glory To conclude this Story he was one of the Noblest Gallantest Persons that age brought forth a Captain whose unexampled Atchievments have Famed a History which were its Volumn ten times bigger would yet be disproportioned to the due praises of this matchless Hero the day of his Martyrdom was May the 21. 1650. To the Immortal Memory of those Worthy Martyrs who laid down their lives in Opposition to Tyranny and Defence of the Ancient Fundamental Laws of this Nation Hail Worthy Martyrs of the Royal Cause Who stoutly stood up in Defence of Laws And when the Land was sick of their own good To cure the same offer'd their dearest blood These were the Royal Martyrs of this age Who ' gainst the Rebellion Rampant durst Engage Whose Noble Virtues and Illustrious Worth Spight of their Foes base Cruelty brake forth And with their Souls did unto Heaven aspire Making the World their Virtues to admire Thus what their Foes by Barbarous Cruelty Sought to depress was raised far more high As Jems i' th' dark do cast a brighter ray Then when obstructed by the rival day So did the lustre of their worth appear Brake thorow those clouds and shines transparent clear Thus did they pass by Rebells bloody hand Through the Red Sea unto the promist Land There with the Blessed Saints to be partaker And Hallilujahs sing unto their Maker There rest blest Souls amongst that happy Quire Whilest we your Noble Virtues do admire And that your Names with Sacred Veneration Do live Renown'd for ever in this Nation A Catalogue of the most Eminent Persons Slain in his Majesties Service in Opposition to Tyranny and Defence of the Fundamental Laws I. COrnet Porter Son to Master Endimeon Porter of the Bed-Chamber Slain at Newborn upon Tine against the Scots upon their Rebellious Invasion of England August 27. 1639. II. The Lord Aubigney Father to the most Illustrious Charles Duke of Richmond who so Valiantly behaved himself at the Battel of Edge-hill where he was mortally wounded of which wounds he died at Abington and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxford III. The Earle of Lyndsey General of the Field at Edge-hill where he behaved Himself like a Valiant Souldier and Expert Commander was at the said Battel unfortunately Slain October 23. 1642. IV. Sir Edmond Varney the Kings Standard-Bearer at Edge-hill who Valiantly Fighting was Slain under it and the Standard being taken by one Chambers Essex's Secretary was Rescured by Sir John Smith whom the King after the Battel Knighted V. Colonel Munro a Scotch Man a man of Eminent Valour Slain also at the same Battel VI. Spencer Earle of Northampton a most Magnanimous Asserter of the Kings Cause who Besieged Leichfield Sir William Breerton and Sir John Gell with Three Thousand Men came to relieve it against whom the Earle Opposed obtaining of them a Glorious Victory though with the price of his own life for Valiantly Fighting whether by disadvantage of the ground being full of Conney-Burroughs or born down by the Enemies is uncertain he was un-horst and refusing Quarter was killed by a private unlucky hand March 19. 1642. VII Earle of Denbigh a Gentleman of much Worth and Excellency unfortunately slain at the taking of Birmingham by Prince Rupert April the 3. 1643. VIII Sir Bevil Greenvil a Gentleman whose Gallant Parts and Active Service for his Royal Master deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance He Engaging with Sir Ralph Hopton and other Eminent Cavaliers against Sir William Waller at a place called Landsdown in his full Cariere of Victory was unfortunately killed to the great loss of his Majesty and unspeakable grief of all true Lovers of Heroick Valour IX Master Leak Son to my Lord Deincourt now Earle of Scours-dale Master Barker Colonel Wall Captain James Captain Cholwel and Master Busturd all Valiant Persons who in the Service of his Majesty at the same Fight at Landsdown died in the bed of honour X. Marquess de Vieu Ville who in the Fight at Auborn-chase behaved himself most Gallantly and Valiantly Fighting was there slain Septem 1643. XI Earle of Carnarvan a Nobleman of as great Spirit and Affection to the Kings Service as any who at Newbery Battel Sept. 19. 1643. giving a desparate Charge to the Enemies Horse under the Command of Sir Philip Stapleton Routed them and pursuing them to their Foot was unhappily shot in the Head of his Troops whose loss was deservedly lamented by all Valiant Spirits and to whose memory more Publick memory is due then a private Enterment in Jesus Colledge in Oxford XII Earle of Sunderland and Viscount Faulkland persons of Superlative Worth and Honour who in the just Defence of his Majesty and the Laws was slain at the foresaid Battel of Newbery and that close by the Kings Person whose Cause they had so stoutly maintained XIII Lord Viscount Faulkland a Person whose Worth cannot be forgotten and whose Excellent Parts speaks him better then any Elogy I can bestow upon him to the great grief of Learned Men slain at Newbery Septem 17. 1643. XIV Sir Henry Howard and Sir Savile Men of Extraordinary Worth and Merit who at the Battel of Adderton-heath by their Valour gained the Victory but lost their own Lives and were Enterred together in York Minster XV. The Earle of Kingston Father to the Marquess of Dorchester now living who being unhappily surprized by some Forces of the Lord Willoughbies about Gainsbrough he being a Person of great Quality and of much concernment to the Kings Affairs they resolved to send him to Hull in a Pinnace In the way thither Colonel Cavendish Brother to the Earle of Devonshire
the Kings blood and was for his Villany promoted to be a Colonel He died just defore his Majesties restitution or else it might have been his Fortune to have been preferred to the Gallows LVI Henry Smith One who had a fair Estate in Leicester-shire and was a kind of a Lawyer but understood it so little that quite contrary to all Law he joyned with those Regicides in condemning the King and for reward of his Villany had a Six Clarks Place in Chancery bestowed on him He was thought to be drawn into this business by the Artifice of others more then his own inclination and therefore at his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and remaineth a Prisoner in the Tower LVII Humphry Edwards A Member of the Long Parliament which bred Monsters of more savage Natures then either Aegypt or Africa This Fellow for being denied by the King a Preferment he was not worthy of grew discontented which ranckled and fester'd him into this malicious Parricide He died before his Majesties return LVIII John Fry A High-shooe blade in Dorset-shire but being active in mischief was made a Committee-man and afterwards chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament You may judge of the Man by his Principles being an Arrian in Print who deny the Divinity of our Saviour Christ No wonder then if he who wrot against the King of Heaven would fear to act against his Earthly Prince He lived not long after the Horrid murther of his Majesty the divine vengeance cutting him off from acting any further mischief against the Royal Party LIX Edmond Harvey One who was brought in to have a hand in that fatal business of the Kings Murther He rendred himself upon his Majesties Restitution according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice for that he Signed not though he was present at Sentence then he proved by Witness his reluctancy of Conscience his Endeavours with a few others to Adjourn the Court upon the Kings motion and that he resolved to have no more to do with them c. He was with the other Regicides condemned but Execution respited and remaineth now a Prisoner in the Tower LX. Thomas Scot One who though he came not in play at first yet plyed his business so that he was not behind hand the forwardest in mischief His Original was a Brewers Clark then next a Country Attorney and by countenance of the Grandees chosen a recruit for the Burrough of Wickam in Buckingham-shire He was a thorow-paced Regicide and so gloried that he had a hand in the Murther of the King that he desired it might be inscribed on his Tomb Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings Judges though it might more properly be written on the Gallows at Charing-Cross where he was Hanged Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings Murtherers His Gutts was said to make the Hang-man maw-sick and that the stench of of his body when he was Quartered far exceeded the stink of the most loathsome Carrion to the great endangering of the Hangmans health LXI William Cawley A Brewer of Chichester and returned a recruit for the Long Parliament whose Trade as it is maintained by the sins of the People so he could not but for Trades-sake to concur with his Brethren in the Murther of the King viz. Oliver Cromwel Thomas Pride Thomas Scot c. But fearing his Treason would cost him hot water upon return of the King he fled the Land and lives disguised for to preserve his hated life LXII John Downs A Citizen of London a Colonel in the Army and a recruit to the Long Parliament He was by menaces and threats engaged in this fatal business of Trying the King and being checked in Conscience of the wickedness thereof endeavoured to have opposed the violence that carried it saying in the Court Have we hearts of stone or are we men And desired the King according to his request might be heard by the Parliament but was over-born his Allegiance and Conscience by that wicked Machivillian Oliver Cromwel and so contrary to the dictates of his Conscience consented to that Execrable Murther He surrendred himself was condemned and lives by the special Mercy of the King and Parliament LXIII Thomas Hammond Born of a very Good Family his Father was Phisitian to Prince Henry his Brother Doctor Henry Hamond the beloved Chaplain of King Charles This degenerate Son most Ungratefully and Disloyally was the Kings Jaylor in the Isle of Wight and verified that sad Presage and Oracle of the King That there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes He died before his Majesties return LXIV Vincent Potter A Mushroom Member of the Long Parliament brought in by their Illegal recruits His Pedigree as well as his good Actions are very obscure and unknown being onely Famous for the Infamous Murther of the King After his Majesties return he rendred himself confessed his Guilt had Judgement but by his Majesties clemency his Execution was respited LXV Augustine Garland A recruit of the Long Parliament for the Burrough of Quinburough in Kent as y are a blade as the worst of them all at the spoyle of the Kingdome the notority of whose Crimes are so publick as not to be hid He was at first a kind of Lawyer which he horribly perverted was Chair-man of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the Kings Tryal and after Sat as one of his Judges and Signed that bloody Warrant for his Execution He was shrewdly suspected to be the man that spit in the Kings Face at his Tryal though after the Kings restitution when he came to be Tryed himself he vehemently denyed it wishing no favour from God if he was guilty of that inhumanity He is still a Prisoner in the Tower and lives by the clemency of the King and Parliament LXVI Colonel George Fleetwood A Buckingham-shire Gentleman Son to Sir Miles Fleetwood Master of the Kings Court of Wards and had two Brothers of very different conditions the one Sir William Fleetwood a very Loyal and Honest Gentleman the other Charles Fleetwood a very Knave and Fool He surrendred himself after the Kings return and at his Tryal pleaded not guilty but soon waved that Plea and with many tears besought mercy He is now a Prisoner in the Tower LXVII Colonel James Temple A Sussex Man not so much Famous for his Vallour as his Villany being Remarkable for nothing but this horrible business of the Kings Murther for which he came into the Pack to have a share in the spoyle He is now a Prisoner and lives by the Kings Favour and Clemency LXVIII Peter Temple Another of the same Gang Simeon and Levi Brethren in Iniquity He was at first a Linnen-Draper Apprentice in Fryday-street but his Elder Brother dying he forsook his Trade and was possest of an Estate of some Four Hundred Pounds a Year in Leicester-shire and being a Person well affected to the Cause was as a