Uncivil Wars exchanged his Gown for a Sword and Valiantly Served his Majesty during that Rebellion till the Surrender of Oxford being one that was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation After the death of that blessed Martyr he Engaged for his Son our present Soveraign having Commission from Him for the Raising of Forces and blank Commissions for diverse Officers but whiles he was in pursuance of the Design he was discover'd and being brought before them stoutly stood in his justification Telling them he was no way ashamed of his Cause but that he would justifie it with his Dearest Life And though they gave him some fallacious hopes of Life if he would reveal those Parties Engaged with him yet would not those offers prevail on his more Noble Spirit wherefore he was by them condemned and according to their bloody Sentence Executed over against the Exchange in Corn-hill July 18. 1650. XXI COlonel Eusebius Andrews a Gentleman of a most sincere Life and Conversation by Profession a Counsellor of Grays Inn who out of his Duty to God and the King took part with his Majesty constantly adhereing to the Royal Cause being Secretary to the Renowned Lord Capel whose Worth and Excellency being envied by Cromwell he was by his Emissaries brought into a Plott as they called it and then by them betrayed the chief Agent therein being one Bernards formerly his Major who with one Pitts were suborned by Bradshaw and Sir Henry Mildmay to swear against him So that notwithstanding the Colonel notably defended himself and by an accurate Legal Plea proved the Unlawfulness and Authority of their High Court of Justice yet was he by those blood-sucking Canniballs Sentenced as a Traytor having only the favour of altering the manner of his Execution which was the Axe on Tower-hill where he died like other Martyrs before him full of joy and blessed hope Aug. 22. 1650. XXII MAster Benson formerly a Retainer to Sir John Gell having a Command under him during the time Sir John had the unhappiness to serve the Parliament but having rectified his judgment and desirous by some Eminent Service to his Majesty to ballance his former mistakes he was by the aforesaid Bernard Trapan'd in the same business with Colonel Andrews and suffer'd under their merciless cruelty October 7. 1650. XXIII SIr Henry Hide Brother to the Earle of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England now living a Gentleman of Excellent parts for Navigation who being sent by his present Majesty an Internuncio to the Grand Signior in matters of concernment for the good of his Merchant Subjects The Rebells by their Agents so wrought upon the Vizier that he basely and unworthily sent him into England where having remained for some time in the Tower he was brought before their monstrous High Court of Justice where his Crimes were aggravated with imputations of his design of seizing those Merchant Estates there and affronting Sir Thomas Bendish the old Resident there with his New Commission To which although Sir Henry made a Learned Defence yet was all in vain to those who resolved before-hand to dispatch him and only Heard him in way of form wherefore he was by their Blood-Thirsty Court Sentenced to be Beheaded which death he suffered against the Old Exchange in Corn-hill March 4. 1650. couragiously asserting his Masters Cause and so rendring his Soul to God is justly inscribed into the Roll of Martyrs XXIV CAptain Brown Bushel an expert Sea-man who was Captain of a Man of War and had some kind of Command in Scarborough which he delivered to Sir Hugh Chomley then revolted in the year 1643. from the Parliament and being Prisoner at Hull for the same had been Exchanged by Hotham then winding about to his Allegiance This Captain Bushel was for the same committed to custody in 1648. and being detain'd Prisoner about Three Years now their hand was in for shedding of blood he was by those inhumane Rebells murdered April 29. 1651. XXV and XXVI MAster Love and Master Gibbons who though they dyed upon the Presbyterian Account which abated much the lustre of their Sufferings yet dying in opposition to Tyranny and upon the Account of his Majesties Restauration deserve to be had in perpetual remembrance They were charged with High Treason against the State for holding correspondency with the King and his Party and supplyed them with money contrary to an Act of Parliament in that case provided for which they were by those bloody Regicides condemned and lost their heads on Tower-hill August 20. 1651. XXVII JAmes Earle of Derby the flower of English Fidelity a most Honourable Heroick Gallant Peer whose Prudence and Valour were alwayes Assistant to his Royal Master and whose Superlative Virtues of Liberality and Bounty made him Loved and Honoured of all sorts of People He having ventured his Life and Large Estate in the continuall Service of his Royal Masters from which he in the least never deviated Upon his Majesties March out of Scotland he Raised what Forces he could to his Assistance but was first unfortunatly defeated at Wigan in Lancashire from whence he fled to the King at Worcester where also that Royal Army being overcome by Cromwells Numerous Forces he unfortunatly fell into their hands and suffered under their inhumane merciless execrable Tyranny resigning up his Soul into the hands of his Maker October 15. 1651. XXVIII CAptain Symkins who for carrying the Kings Letter of Invitation to Sir Thomas Midleton was by a Court-Marshal held at Chester Condemned and accordingly Executed by those incorrigable Rebells October 1651. XXIX SIr Timothy Fetherston-haugh a Valiant Gentleman who Engaging with the Noble Earle of Derby in the Service of his Soveraign was defeated at Wigan in Lancashire and suffered by those obdurate Rebells Octo. 22. 1651. XXX COlonel Benbow who for his Loyalty and superlative Valour was by those blood-thirsty Regicides much about the same time shot to death at Shrewsbury XXXI COlonel John Gerard a Gentleman of good Account whose Family have been very Eminent for their Loyalty upon a pretended Plot of Assassinating Cromwell was with divers others committed to Prison and Tryed before their High Court of Injustice where though there were little appearance of the Truth thereof but some few words extorted by fear besides the confession of their own Agent yet was he by bloody Lisle the President Condemned and lost his head on Tower-hill July 10. 1654. XXXII MAster Peter Vowel School-Master of the Free School at Islington against whom they had suborned a blind Minister whom this worthy Martyr had sustained and fed they having received from him some words that Master Vowel should say as That if the Tyrant were removed or otherways laid aside the Royal Interest would be gladly Embraced and without any difficulty Re-assumed to its Authority These cursed Caiphases more enlarged with addition of several circumstances and though the said Minister at his Tryal denyed and disowned the said words yet they making for their purpose O impudence without
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
of their Poor Kindred many of themselves if not the greatest part before those Times of so little Account and Esteem that they could not Write Gentleman Then that their Pride and Ambition was as great as their Covetousness is easie to be discern'd for after that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty How did those Cocks of the Game peck at one another Cromwell's Ambition never stinting untill such time he had attained the end of his Desires Resolving to sit in the Seat of Soveraignty although he waded to the same in Blood and Perjury and thereupon turned out his Rebellious Masters which he might the more easily do their Horrid Actions having made them so notoriously odious to all sorts of People who rejoyced at their Downfall Now though Cromwel were so Bloody a Tyrant that People might have prayed for his Life with the same intent as the Sicilian Old Woman did for the Life of Dionisius For fear that the Devil should come after for no other could parallel him Yet he being dead we find other's Pride and Ambition as high as his such striving amongst themselves to get into the Seat of Soveraignty untill they thrust one another off of the Cushion and by their Divisions made a ready way next to the Providence of Almighty God for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty So that we see what ever was pretended of Religion Liberty and such like fine Devices the main End of their Designs was Pride Envy Covetousness and Ambition Against those Wicked Persons and Practises how many Gallant Men Opposed Themselves both in their Lives and Estates The Chief of whom we have given you an Account of in this Book which we have Divided into Three Centuries or Catalogues The First of which are those Loyal Martyrs who suffered under a Formal kind of Justice in which as in the rest we have observed the Order of Time and not of Dignity Some perhaps may Object against Two or Three Persons therein mentioned such as Duke Hamilton Master Love c. as having the Presbyterian Interest inter-woven with the Royal Account but certainly the main end of their Designs was Loyalty as they manifested at the time of their deaths and therefore may deservedly challenge a place in that Catalogue In the Second Place You have an Account of the most Eminent Commanders and Officers who were Slain in the Kings Service Sealing their Love to that Cause with their dearest Bloods and Manfully Fighting died in the Bed of Honour If we have over-slipped any of Extraordinary Eminency for it is impossible to mention every one We desire to be better Informed by their Friends or Acquaintance and upon a Second Edition we shall endeavour to do them Right according to their Deserts In the Third Ranke We have placed the Royal Confessors such as Suffered in the Kings Cause by Imprisonment Sequestration Banishment c. Of which We have mentioned but only some few of the most Eminent the Total Arising to such a Vast Number as would Pose Arithmetick to reckon them up To These Worthies We have in the Second Place Adjoyned a Catalogue of the Unworthies or Brief Characters of the most Notorious Regicides and Others of that Gang who were the Chief Authours and Abetters of all Those Miseries and Calamities which so long a Time Afflicted this Nation that as the One may be an Encouragement to Virtue and Loyalty so the Other may Deter Men from Vice and Villany This is the summ of our Design which if it finde Kind Acceptance it shall Encourage me to a further Enlargement thereof If otherwise yet this shall be my Comfort that I have Discharged my Duty and shown my Self to be A True Lover of His King and Country W.W. The Names of the Martyrs according as they are Figured in the Frontispiece with the Page wherein to finde their several Histories I. King Charles Page 16 II. E. of Strafford Page 1 III. E. of Derby Page 33 IV. Lord Capel Page 24 V. Sir Charles Lucas Page 13 VI. Sir George Lisle Page 14 VII Col. Morris Page 27 VIII Col. Penruddock Page 36 IX Col. Grove Page ibid X. Col. Eus Andrews Page 29 XI Col Gerard Page 34 XII Col. Benbow Page ibid XIII Cap. Burleigh Page 12 XIV Col. Pitcher Page 14 XV. Col. Poyer Page 15 XVI Sir T. Fetherstonh Page 34 XVII D. Hamilton Page 21 XVIII E. of Holland Page 23 XIX Cor. Blackburn Page 28 XX. Mr. Benson Page 30 XXI Cap. Bushel Page 32 XXII Col. Ashton Page 40 XXIII Sir Hen. Slingsby Page 38 XXIV Cap. Symkins Page 34 XXV Arch B. Laud Page 9 XXVI Dr. Hewyt Page 39 XXVII Mr. Beaumont Page 27 XXVIII Mr. Vowel Page 35 XXIX Mr. Love Page 32 XXX Dr. Levens Page 28 XXXI Sir Hen. Hide Page 30 XXXII Mr. Yeomans Page 5 XXXIII Mr. Bowcher Page ibid XXXIV Mr. Tomkins Page 7 XXXV Mr. Challoner Page ibid XXXVI Mr. Kniveton Page 9 XXXVII Mr. Gibbons Page 32 XXXVIII Mr. Kensy Page 37 XXXIX Mr. Lucas Page ibid XL. Mr. Betly Page 40 XLI Mr. Stacy Page 41 The Loyal Martyrologie OR A Brief Historical Relation and Character of all those Persons that were Murther'd by Colour of any Sentence during the late Rebellion I. THomas Wentworth Earle of Strafford and Lord Deputy of Ireland a most Wise Prudent and Honourable States-Man Descended from the Illustrious Family of the Wentworths in Yorkshire and Educated according to the Greatness of his Birth He was at first a great stickler against the Prerogative untill allured by Court-Preferment he turned Royalist being by King Charles the First for his great Parts made Baron Wentworth of Raby and employed in diverse Offices of Trust which he discharged with great Honour and Faithfulnesse So thus his Deserts soon mounted him from one degree of Honour to another till at last he was made Lord Lievtenant of Ireland in which Government he exceeded all that went before him in the Careful Management of the Affairs of that Realm Reclaiming the Irish from many of their Barbarous Customes and reducing them to the English civility suppressing their Out-Lawes and Tories and bringing them to perfect entire Obedience to the Kings Authority and Laws He much advanced the Protestant Religion and setled a constant Revenue for the Clergy of that Kingdom and made so good a procedure in what he undertook that had not those Disloyal Times of Confusion fallen out no doubt he had attained his Ends and setled that Kingdom in a most flourishing condition The Scotch War being the Prologue to all our late Troubles breaking out he was sent for out of Ireland to Advise with the King about those Troubles which so unpreparedly had surprized him To which work he Contributed his Head Hands and Purse advancing by subscription Twenty Thousand Pound as a Coppy for the rest of the Nobility to write after In this Expedition he was made Lievtenant General and was very eager to Fight with the Scots But the English being defeated at Newborn and
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
illustrious Hero's he was also slain in that fatal defeat whereof we spake of last LIV. Colonel Mathew Boynton Sir Francis Gamul Lievtenant Colonel Gallyard and Major Trollop and Chester Men of approved Worth and Loyalty whose gallantry appeared the more conspicuous Engaging in such a time when there was almost a general defection of Loyalty These valiant Hero's Engaging with the foresaid Earle of Derby being over-powered by Lilburn's numerous Forces gallantly fighting were slain at Wiggan August 25. 1651. dying there in the bed of Honour and leaving to posterity a Noble Character of their Worth and Virtues LV. Duke Hamilton unfortunately wounded in the Fight at Worcester of which wounds he shortly after died LVI Colonel Morgan a Gallant Gentleman who Engaged with Sir George Booth for a Free Parliament and to un-yoak the Nation from the slavery of those bloody Canniballs at Westminster who intended to have perpetuated themselves in their Tyranny This magnanimous Loyal Person valiantly fighting against Lambert's numerous Forces which like a violent Torrent over-powered them after a gallant defence and defiance of his Enemies was there mortally wounded and soon after died being the last man whose blood was shed in War against those wicked Tyrants the Kings Restauration hapning quickly after And in the next place we should come to speak of those who suffered in their Estate for their Loyalty those gallant Confessors to whom nothing was more common then Imprisonment and Sequestration but should we reckon them all up it would make a Volume as big as Foxes Martyrologie and tyre the brain of the most sedulous Reader not any one Rich Cavilier that scaped their clutches a great Estate being enough to make them guilty of the most hainous Crimes and how ever their Bodies sped their Purses were sure to pay for it Goldsmiths and Haberdashers Hall was their Exchequer as the High Court of Justice was their Shambles The Good Old Cause devoured more then Bell and the Dragon and it was their main Policy to be maintained by their Enemies Estates Take therefore here a Brief Catalogue of the most Eminent Sufferers reserving those of a lesser magnitude to be recorded by more voluminous Historians A brief Catalogue of the most Eminent of those Loyal Confessors who Suffered by Imprisonment Banishment or Estate for the Cause of his Sacred Majesty And that no Occasion may be taken at this Catalogue for matter of Precedency as nominating the most Eminent Sufferers in the first place we will as near as we can observe the order of time and begin first with I. THe Lord Finch of Fordwich Lord Keeper of the Great Seal a Person whose Abilities and Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty rendred him obnoxious to the unruly rabble and therefore upon their Arbitrary Proceedings against the Life of the most Noble Earle of Strafford he wisely with-drew himself away in time before Popular Fury had seized on him against which Beast Innocency would not then give Protection He lived in Banishment and Exile from his Native Country for Sixteen years and then returned with more Credit and Honour then he was forced from it dying in the Love and good Opinion of all Honest People His Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being all the Charge and Accusation they had against him II. Master Secretary Windebanck a person of approved Worth and Loyalty against whom the darts of Popular Fury were in those times of Distraction especially aymed at which to avoid he pursued the same course with the Lord Finch and died in the time of his absence abroad III. The Right Reverend Father in God Mathew Lord Bishop of Ely who with Eleven more of that Sacred Function were committed to the Tower in the year of our Lord 1641. The pretensions against them being the same with the Complices of Korah Ye take too much upon you ye Sons of Levi when their Adversaries intentions was to take all for though the grave Rabbies of that prevailing Faction buzzed into the Peoples eares that their Quarrel was against the Litturgy against Ceremonies and the like a yet their after-Actions made it plainly appear that it was more against Bishops Lands and that the Wealth of the Clergy was more in their ayme then the Weal the Subjects and the Riches of the Prelates more indifferent to those strict Disciplinaries then a Reverend decency in holy performances Eighteen years did this Reverend Father suffer Imprisonment in the Tower having in all that time no Charge exhibited against him but in the end of the year 1659. he was restored to his liberty by the means of the Renowned Duke of Albemarle and is since Re-established in his former Diocess to the Honour and Support of this restored Church IV. Religious Doctor Featly one most Eminent for Learning and Piety to whom this Church is much indebted for his grave accurate defences of its Doctrine and Discipline a man of excellent Endowments and surpassing Knowledge being a Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper when the Church by lowliness of spirit did flourish in high examples yet could not this his singular Piety eminent Learning nor those other extraordinary Gifts with which he was Endowed privilege him from the protection of a Prison being by an Order of Parliament committed to Peter-House where he languished in much pain and misery about a year and a half and was afterwards sickness encreasing through much importunity removed to Chelsey Colledge as a more wholesome Aire but he was so far spent by their barbarous misusage of him that within three weeks after his coming thither he died V. Sir Robert Heath Lord Chief Justice of England a person much Honoured for his Integrity and Moderation and as conspicuous for his constant Loyalty as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day His constant approved service to the King had rendered him so odious to the Rebells at Westminster that he was by them excepted from mercy wherefore towards the expiration of the War he abandoned his Country and fled into France where living in great greef and anxiety of mind to behold the Ruines of his King and Country he fell into a Disease and died thereof at Caen in Normandy not long after the Kings death VI. Judge Bartlet whose innocency defied their threats and like a rock stood in opposition against that torrent of Rebellion but yet was forced at last to yield to their Tyranny in his Body though his Mind they could not conquer He was the first of that Reverend Robe that was committed against whom was brought a Charge fuller of malice then truth and which his integrity made them ashamed of a further prosecution Thus we see by the Imprisonment of this Reverend Judge and others that the pretense of our Grand Reformers was to put out the eyes of the Law that the Subjects might see the clearer VII That heart of Oake and Pillar of the Law Judge Jenkins one of his Majesties Justices in Wales whose Annagram is David Jenkins Kains did Envy He
constant then in their custody and so jealous were they over him that he could not go or travel any where without a Pass or safe Conduct from the next Officer to the place of his abode which restriction continued for many years together being besides continually in danger of being trappanned out of his Life by the Wiles and Snares of his Treacherous Enemies XXXI Colonel John and William Ashburnham those Gemini of Loyal Fidelity the former so well known in our Annalls for the conveying the King away from Oxford both signally famous for their endeavours in the Royal Cause never free from trouble and molestation of the Regicides whose guilty consciences like Ismael thought every mans hand to be against them These Loyal Brothers were in conclusion sent by them to remote Castles and Islands and there debarred of any intercourse or correspondence with their Friends so inhumanely barbarous were those bloody Rebells that when they could not by any shew of Justice deprive them of their lives they would immure them up in Walls of stone and debar them of all means which should in the least make life comfortable unto them XXXII Air Humphry Bennet an Eminent Royalist formerly a Brigadier in the Kings Army who at that time of Colonel Penruddocks Rising at Salisbury being of that Country was seized and secured as a Partaker and Confederate with him and for the same committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he remained near Three years and then was brought before their High Court of Justice which was Erected for the Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby c. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it after some few dayes attendance he was superseded from his Tryal and remitted again to his confinement but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of State XXXIII The Right Honourable John Lord Viscount Mordant Brother to the Earle of Peterborough an active Person against the Tyrannies of the Rump and that Monster of Nature Oliver Cromwel being really Engaged in several Designs against him for which he hardly escaped with his life being acquitted but by one saving voice After the death of that Tyrant he still laboured indefatigably in the Kings business being as busie against the Rump as before against the Protector for which he was by Proclamation commanded to render himself by a prefixed time or be reputed a Traytor but was by providence preserved out of their hands and hath since seen some of them suffer the same death designed for him He is now Governour of Windsor Castle XXXIV Sir Thomas Woodcock who Engaging in the same Design with my Lord Mordant was by the Regicides intended for the slaughter but he so wisely managed his Defence at their Bar of Injustice that he escaped their clutches being fairly acquitted by those bloody Justices XXXV Master Christopher Pitts a Loyal Noble Gentleman who was apprehended upon the same business of my Lord Mordant and committed Prisoner to Newgate where after Examination having not found enough against him to take away his life they would have made use of him as a Witness against his Associates but his Noble Spirit scorning such baseness refused so to do whereupon after many vain threats and menaces he was by their High Court condemned to perpetual Imprisonment and Fined One Thousand Pound all which his gallant spirit willingly submitted to rather then to be guilty of his Friends blood though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to some a sufficient warrant for such an action He continued after Oliver's death a Prisoner though with more freedom then was allowed him by that Tyrannical Sentence untill by the happy restauration of his Majesty he commenced his Freedome with that of the Kingdomes XXXVI Master William Garrent who for the same business was Tryed before that accursed High Court who would have no doubt designed him for the slaughter but that they failed in their Evidence of which it was thought they relyed on Master Pitts he was with much adoe acquitted and soon after set at liberty XXXVII Henry Fryar John Sumner and Oliver Allen who were all Three condemned at the aforesaid Court of Justice the first of them being brought to suffer in West-Smithfield where in the rounds a Gibbet was Erected but being upon the Ladder and ready to dye a Reprieve was produced and he carried back again to the Tower from whence not long after he was dismist the other two were likewise drawn on Hurdles the one to Bishopsgate and the other to Grace Church-street the places appointed for their Execution but were both there reprieved and soon after freed XXXVIII The most Noble Marquess of Winchester Newcastle and Worcester Hero's whose Deserts require a better Character then I am able to bestow upon them and their Memories a more durable Register then this Little Breviary having indured all the discommodities of those wretched times amongst them Viz. Imprisonment Banishment Distress Diprivation of Estates and all those other Miseries an Insulting Enemy could lay upon them for the Duty they owed to God and their King and the preservation of a Good Conscience XXXIX The Right Honourable Earles of Oxford and Northampton the Lord Herbert c. who suffered Imprisonment in the Tower upon suspition of a Rising from which afterwards for want of good Proof they were released XL. Sir George Booth now Lord Delamere who to free his Country from those Insulting Tyrannies of the Rump appeared in Armes against them in Cheshire and was Proclaimed Traytor together with Major General Egerton Colonel Warden and Sir Thomas Midleton but being defeated by Lambert's more numerous Forces he fled in a disguise to Newport-Pagnel in Bedford-shire where he was discovered seized on and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London his Estate ordered to be sequestred and sold and preparations made for his Tryal which had it gone on he would no doubt have paid for it with his Life but as when Thieves fall out true men speed the better so the divisions betwixt that remaining scum at Westminster and their Commander Lambert thorow the Prudence and Loyalty of Noble General Monke brought in the re-admission of the secluded Members by whom he was restored to his Liberty and Estate XLI Sir Thomas Middleton a Gentleman who had attempted much to the Restauration of his Majesty being Engaged in the same business with Sir George Booth after the Defeat he was forced to flee being sure to have suffered deeply had he fallen into their hands He left Chirk Castle his stately Mansion to be defended by his Sonns which soon after was rendered to Colonel Zanchy but the happy Revolution aforesaid restored his Estate again to him and he to the free and peaceable possession thereof But should I go about to Ennumerate all those Persons that suffered by Sequestrations Plunderings and Rapines my Task were infinite I shall therefore refer every particular of those sufferers to that
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
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
but Man proposes and God disposes for it pleased the Lord that he fell into a sore Disease bleeding abundantly at the nose and mouth and at last fell to a strong vomitting up of gobbetts of blood at his mouth and such abundance of blood flowed with mighty violence at his nose that in a most sad manner he departed this life in one of the extream-fits thereof XIII To these we may add Colonel Rainsbrough a prime stickler for the Power at Westminster and a desparate Enemy against the King who though he was killed before the Horrid Murther of his Majesty yet the manner of his Death being so remarkable is not to be passed over in silence He being turned out of the Navy by the Sea-men went with a strong Party to the Reducing of Pontefract then Besieged by Sir Edward Rhodes and the County Forces and took up his Quarters at an Inn in Doncaster where having his Souldiers about him and in as great security as he though as might be some Caveliers from Pontefract under a pretense of delivering him a Letter from Cromwell entered his Inn and would have onely taken him Prisoner and carried him into their Leaguer but he refusing they pistolled him in his Chamber and returned back again untouched a very strange yet gallant Adventure XIV One Marston a great Leveller and Agitator in the Army a sort of People suspected many of them and that rationally for Jesuites who were as good at wicked Plots and Contrivances as either Cromwell or Ireton or the chief of those Catalines and as accomplisht for Execution having such Lawless yet most Powerfull Indempnity not only to protect them but to shroud their other Conspiracies for themselves either against Church or State He was one of those that had a principal hand in Burford business and being thought to be discontented against their New Fangled Government was by the Regicides Ordered to be taken into Custody But those Messengers sent for him found it a matter of more difficulty then they were aware of for coming to his Lodging in Aldersgate-Street and sending him word to come down to them he resolving not to be taken with a Stilletto killed two of them out-right and sorely wounding the third escaped but afterwards was re-taken being terribly wounded in his endeavouring to escape when he was Arraigned at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily and Condemned to be Hanged which was accordingly Executed on him preventing thereby another more milder kind of Death which must necessarily have ensued not long after by reason of his wounds XV. Sir Henry Vane the Proteus of the Times a meer hodge-podge of Religion one composed onely of Treason and Ingratitude whose Offences were of so crimson a die that he was excepted out of the Act of Indempnity and having remained a Prisoner for a good space first in the Tower of London and afterwards in the Isle of Scilly He was at last for his manifold Treasons Arraigned at the Kings Bench-Bar before the Lord Chief Justice Foster for Immagining and Compassing the Kings Death and for Taking upon him and Usurping the Government To which he Pleaded the Authority of the Parliament Justified it and put the Court to a great deal of needlesse trouble and impertinent repetitions but disowned his medling or making with the Kings Death but the notority of his crimes were so apparent and obvious to the whole World that he was Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered but through the intercession of some of his Friends who had deserved well in the Kings Service his Sentence was mittigated to a Beheading only which was Executed on him June the 14. 1662. on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill where the Earle of Strafford first bled by his and his Fathers Treachery At the time of his Execution he ran out into Treasonable Discourses but was stopt in his carreir and after two or three fruitless warnings his Notes endeavoured to be taken from him which to prevent he tore them in pieces and in great passion not to be suffered to proceed in that Traytorous way he submitted his Neck unto the Block Come we in the next place to speak of those who were Executed for committing of Treason after his Majesties Happy Restauration and Setlement in his Throne again where we shall find Traytors of so Desparate and Sanguine a disposition as scarcely to be paralleld in former Ages Men who though of different Tenets and and who like Hydra's heads seemed to look several wayes yet cemented together in the tayle wherein lies the sting being Enemies to all Civil Government and whatsoever was decent either in Church or State And first of that bloody Attempt of Venner and his Mirmidons which strange and unparalleld Action will afford the Truest Light and Judgement of that Fanatique and desparate opinion of Chilianisme and make after Ages to admire that a handfull of wild-brain'd People should dare to undertake such an Attempt against Metropolis of the Kingdome which a well Governed Potent Army would not without good advice be driven unto This Venner a Wine-Cooper by Trade with several others of his Gang who were strongly perswaded that now was the Time come for Christ Personally to Raign upon Earth having had several Meetings at Bell-Alley in Coleman-Street where it was agreed amongst them that the Powers of the Earth were to be Destroyed and King Jesus alone to be set Up Venner Preaching to them to this purpose alluding to that of the Psalmist That one of them should chace a Hundred and a Hundred put Ten Thousand to flight Assuring them also That no Weapons formed against them should prosper nor hair of their head be touched January 6. 1660. They took Armes and in the dusk of the Evening came to St. Pauls Church-Yard where they mustered their small Party and placed Centinals for the time where an Innocent Person coming by accidentally being by them asked whom he was for and he answering according to the usuall mode For God and King Charles they immediately shot him which Action soon Allarum'd the City and some Parties of the Trained Bands marched against them but their strength being too great for those few Files they without controule marched along to Aldersgate where the Constable being but weakly attended was forced to let them out again Here they Declared themselves for King Jesus and those of their Friends whose Quarters were upon the Gates From thence they proceeded to Beech-lane where a Head-borough opposing them they shot and killed him and so with all hast marched to Cane-Wood where for a while they remained But the City having Intelligence thereof sent out a Party of Horse and Foot which took about Thirty of them and brought them before the General who sent them Prisoners to the Gate-House January the 9. after some Encouragement and Assurance of Victory from their Chieftain Venner they again assumed their first Enterprize and no sooner were the Watches and Guards removed but they made their appearance at Bishopsgate which
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.