pitch on a fitter man unto whom to direct that wicked Warrant for to see the Kings murther performed That morning this horrible act was to be committed Cromwel sends for this Hacker with Col. Phaire and Col. Huncks and would have those three to sign a Sub Warrant for the Kings murther the last two refused but Col. Hacker subscribes to whatsoever Cromwel himself had Written for that purpose This Col. Hacker likewise by virtue of the said unwarrantable Warrant from that High Court of Injustice goes to Col. Thomlinson who had then the custody of the Kings person and demands the King from him carries him in the middest of his own Regiment through St. James Park conducts him through the Gallery to the Banqueting House and from thence brings him upon the Scaffold and there stands according to his pretended Warrant to see that bloody and unparaleld Execution Afterwards he continues in the Army sides with all parties that have the Government and was a Col. in the Army at the very time when the King came home and being seized and examined in order to find out the mystery of this Regicide he vvas sent to the Tower of London and shortly after vvith the rest brought to his Tryal His Tryal vvas very short in regard he could not deny the aforesaid actions of his in that unparaleld business and being asked by the Court to whom he directed his Sub warrant to strike the fatal blow he answered that he did not know for Cromwel bid him write somthing and bid him put his hand to it but whose hand he put in for that purpose he could not tell This being all his plea he was soon brought in guilty likewise And on Friday following he vvas drawn from Newgate on a Hurdle to Tyburn vvhere he spake very little for himself onely left the vvhole business of prayer to be carried on by Col. Axtel vvho performed it for them both after vvhich being ended he vvas onely hanged and being cut down he vvas put in a Heâ—se vvhich was there brought to carry bâ—ck his Body his Son hath begged the same from the King vvho granted him his Fathers body vvithout quartering and accordingly buried the same in the City of London As for Quarter Master William Hewleâ— in regard that though he be Condemned yet is Reprieved in order to a clear discovery of this wicked act I shall leave his Character and Description to the time when Justice shall likewise make him an Example for putting on a Vizor on his Faces and a Frock on his Body for such a horrid purpose There are eighteen more Condemned viz. Sir Hard ess Waller William Hevenningham Isaac Pennington Hen. Ma tin Gilbert Millington Roâ—ert Titch urn Owen Roe Robert Lilbuâ—n Henâ—y Smith Edmund Harvey John Dowâ—s Vincent Potter Augustine Gaâ—land George Fleetwood Simoâ— Mâ—yne Thomas Wâ—it James T mple Peter Temple of whom I think nâ—t convenient to write â—ny thiâ—g of their lives til I shall be prepared to give an account alâ—o of the manner of their deaths These are close prisoners in the Tower of London till the pleasure of the Parliament shall be declared concerning them Several others there are viz. William Say John Barkstead Sir Michael Livesly Miles Corâ—et Thomas Woogan Mr. Love Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Eâ—ward Denby John Dixwel Thomas Challoâ—er John Lâ—sle William Cawley John Okey Will. Goff John Hewson Valentine Wanton Ed Whaley Edw. Ludlow Cor. Holland Who vvander about the World as Vagabons like Cain vvith they cry of blood at their Heels vvho at last vvill â—o question be found out by the All searching hand of divine Justice and brought to receive a condigne punishment fâ—r their horrible Treason of whom also in time we shall give you a more perfect account And thus I conclude the story of these few wretched and miserable Traytors whose Limbs are set up as Lots Wife 's Pillar of Salt the remarkable examples of the Almighties just punishment that thus would imbrew their hands in the Sacred blood of his own Anointed which was so far a Deicide as Kings are called Gods upon the Earth and which ought to be the prayers of all truly Christianized That God would cleanse the City and Nation from the guilt of that precious blood so inhumanely and unchristianly shed as before sail and keep these Nations from Rebellion and privy Conspiracy from all false Doctrine and Heresie that no Jesuitical plots from abroad or Anabaptistical or Schismatical consultations at home may he ever able to raise Sedition in the people or distâ—â—â— the peace of the King The Life of Henry Ireton HEnry Ireton Son-in-Law to Oliver Cromwell a man full of wicked policy and contrivance and his Fathers chief Councellour and second in all his undertakings he arives at Comisary Gene. in the Army very factious in his Principles and a great encourager of all that were such A great Promoter of the Kings Death one that stood in the margent of Olivers enterprize in that wicked murder he was not only of the High Court of Justice but took upon him with Major Gen. Harison c. the appointing of the time place and manner of the Kings Execution After which he goes over with his Father Cromwell into Ireland and by him is left Lord Deputy thereof here he made victorious in the reducing of many Garisons there and at last sets down before Limerick which Siege was the last that ever he made for not long after the surrender of that City he dyed of the Plague his Death was very suddain and strange to the Army but however he was sent into England carryed to Summerset House where his Father mocks his Body with that vain glory which himself had often declared against and a Funeral in great state is made by the Army interring him among the Kings of England and Iretons Wife Oliver Cromwels own Daughters ordered by her Fathers means 2000 pound in money and 2000 pound per Annum out of the Land of Goran in Ireland being of the Lands belonging to the Marquess of Ormond which he hath now repossed again according to an Act of Parliament made in that behalf Oliver erects a Tomb for this victorious Sectarian Champion with his Effigies and his Wifes lying by him in King Henry the sevenths Chappel which is since ignominiously broken down and no footstep lest of his remembrance in that royal and stately memorial of our English Kings and his name is now as rotten as his Carcass perished through the wickedness of his bloody Life The Life of John Bradshaw JOhn Bradshaw borne in Cheshire and better sure it had been if he had nere been born a man although brought up in that honourable practice of the Law yet a shameful and most wicked destroyer of the very foundation and corner stone thereof he was made Judge of the County Palatine of Chester and afterwards of the Sheriffes Court in Guild-hall London and from thence most auda tiously and impudently he appears in the
Mr. Love whom formerly he so earnestly thirsted after and would not appeare to helpe him either in his Imprisonment Confinements or Death But at last he himselfe was not much regarded The judgements of God followed him in a troubled Conscience and at last going to Bed very well with his wife he was found dead by her the next morning no persons that were with him that night nor his wife that lay by him being in the least sensible of his approaching end The Life of Sir William Constable SIR VVilliam Constable was one of those who appeared eminently against Kingly power he was a Colonel in the Parliaments Army and a great Sider with the Sectarian part thereof his Estate was engaged for Debt and he knew no way to recover his Decays but by saying and doing as those wretches commanded He sold his Estate to Sir Marmaduke Langdale for twenty thousand pounds and afterwards beggs it againe of the Parliament for that as he said Sir Marmaduke Langdale was a Delinquent and so his Estate was in their Dispose his thus decay'd fortune made him side with the Conspirers of the King's Death and he was one of his Judges and set his Hand and Seal for taking away the Life of the King and did as much as in him lay for transplanting and removing the very Name memory thereof He died in the Reigne of the last usurping Tyrant that I pray England may ever have The Life of Sir John Danvers SIR John Danvers was a Collonel in the said Army was Brother to the Earle of Danby who he proved to be a Delinquent in that Rump-Parliament whereby he might overthrow his will and so compasse the Estate himselfe he sided likewise with the Sectarian party was one of the King's Judges and lived afterwards some years in his sin without repentance But drawing near to his Death I have cause to believe that he repented of the wickednesse of his Life for that then Mr. Thomas now Dr. Fuller was conversant in his Family and preached severall times at Sir John Danver's desire in Chelsey Church where I am sure all that frequented that Congregation will say he was instructed to repent of his misguided and wicked Consultations in having to doe with the Murther of that just Man He died but how I cannot give an account and hath no Question received his Judgement The Life of Isaac Ewer ISaac Ewer began his Estate with the Wars and increased therein according to the successe thereof he was a Colonel at Colchester Siege and there was at the Councell of War upon Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle he was one of the Kings Judges Signed the Warrant for the Murther afterwards went with Cromwell into Ireland he was at that unheard of bloudy Quarter which was given to 4000 five hundred accomplisht Men at Tredagh in Ireland where none in Armes escaped their Murther although many of them laid down their Armes upon promise of their lives which notwithstanding they Murthered he was afterwards at the Siege of Clonmel in Ireland and from thence at Waterford where the Town being taken he died suddenly after of the Plague and was there buried The Conclusion ANd thus you see how Evil pursued these wicked Men who thus thirsted after the bloud of their Soveraign Nay I say of one of the most Pious Princes as ever Ruled the English Scepter A King who had no other fault but his too much Clemency wherewith his nature did abound whose Piety was as Transcendent as his Clemency immoveable as the Rock which neither the unruly VVaves of Sedition impetuously breaking thereupon nor the Boysterous and Irresistable winds of persecution could work into the least complyance or disturb in his resolved stedfastness one that like the Palme Tree that could flourish with the greater splendor by how much he was Prest with ponderous inconveniences and with our Saviour could bear the Crosse with as much ease as he did his Crown and improve his Afflictions to the right use for which God Originally intended them he could Spurne at the Glittering Glory of an Earthly Crown and handling Christs Crown of Thornes could by the eye of Faith discern an immortal and eternal Crown of Glory His Patience under Gods Afflicting hand was like that of St. Paul's farre above all that the world could doe to abuse it and not only so but rejoycing in his Tribulation also The Imprisonment of his Body could not in the least confine his mind but rather give the greater advantages to his heavenly Soul for nearer and more desired converses with the King of Kings No undutiful or unhandsome usage which he received from the meanest of his People could Aggravate him into any passionate reflections or exasperate above the degree of his sweet and complacent Temper he could not be wrought beyond the bounds of his reason although he had to do with unreasonable Men nor was ever heard to use any expressions of Gaul and Wormwood towards those that gave him Gaul and Vinegar to Drink he blessed those that cursed him he prayed for those that persecuted him and he desired that those who would not suffer him to live with them in his Earthly Kingdome might be received with him into the Capacious Kingdome of Heavenly Glory His Charity was as Vniversall as that required from a Vniversal Christian viz. To the greatest and most eminent of his forward Adversaries to those who spit in his Face he desired that their Faces might shine with the Vnction of the Spirit and others who Vilifyed him with crying out Justice and Execution against him he prayed that their sinne might be forgiven and that they might not receive that Justice upon themselves which they called for unjustly to be Executed upon him Nay and further he did often declare that he did as freely forgive all the world with as much freedom as he did hope to be forgiven and named one particular person among the rest saying viz. I forgive Miles Corbet too One who made it the greatest â—f his study to stretch abused law Arguments against the King and aggravating the Kings demanding Justice against the Five Members with all the exasperating circumstances imaginable which was the chief Original cause of the future civil and unhumane Bloudshed yet our most Pious and charitable Prince had charity even for this Man His moderation was known unto all men far above all mortal rules or observations take him which way you will either as Man a Christian or a KING and in all three you shall find him to abound in his moderation his private Life as a Man was above the reach of envy to Tax him with any thing that might Blot or Staine his blamelesse conversation His Christianity caused him to comply with the Peevish Precipitate Distempers of the times hoping thereby to allay that furious Fire which broke out among the Giddy headed People And this our Gracious Soveraigne throwing the water of his compassionate Christianity thereon to quench it it proved like water cast on Lime burn'd and smoak't with the greater Violence His Kingly moderation far exceeded the other two for he Stooped and Condiscended even to things below himself that he might let all the wâ—rld see his readinesse to comply with any thing that might gratifie their distempered and infatuated frenzy which though nothing could do he yet retained his aforesaid serious and moderate temper and having at that time to deal with a contradicting and gainsaying People he moderately contrives all things as much as in him lay to reconcile and make up their ruined and irrecoverable Breaches And lastly His moderate Diet his temperance in all other affairs his constancy to his Queen his fixed Religion his heavenly Inclinations his continued Devotions his melting Clemeny and his abused Charity do all like so many Foiles shew the blacknesse of that Barbarous Action of Butchering such a Pious Prince the parallell of whom cannot be Sampled among the now Peaceable Kings of the Earth In a word His very Enemies could give him no worse a caracter then what is contained in this dimidium of his reall worth which is represented but in dead colours which no dâ—ubt but a more curious Pen will represent to it's lively Species Some have said as Cornet Joyce that if ever King of England went to Heaven our Glorious Martyr King Charles did who laid down his Life and rather would loâ—â— his Prerogative then the People shouâ—â— loose their Priviledge Oliver Croâ—well himself said that he was a vnwise and Pious Man but that he wiâ—â—Vnfortunate in his War And Cook said he was Wise and a Graciouâ— Prince but that he must Dye and Monarchy with him And this was he whom these miserable Men Sentenced to Death as a Murtherer and a Traytor whom Divels must acknowledge as one whose pure conversation might cause his Name to be Registred in the Calanders of the Sainted Martyrs valuing not so much his own as the Lives and Safeties of his People A Gentleman standing at his sad interment threw this Distick into the Vault Non Carolus magnus nec Carolus quintus Sed Carolus Agnus hic Jacet intus FINIS
Harrison I. Caren â— Cooke â— Peters T. Scott â— Clâ—mâ—nt O. Cromwell Ad. Scroope 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 THE LIVES ACTIONS AND EXECUTION OF The prime Actors and principall Contrivers of that horrid Murder of our late pious and Sacred Soveraigne King CHARLES the first of Ever blessed memory WITH Severall Remarkable Passages in the Lives of others their Assistants who died before they could be brought to Justice By GEORGE BATE an observer of those Transactions LONDON Printed for Tho. Vere at the signe of the Angell without Newgate 1661. To the Right Honourable James Lord Marquess of Ormond Earl of Brecknock Lord High Steward of his Majesties Houshold Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel c. Right Honourable I Hope your Lordship will be pleased to pardon the Authors presumption in his humble Dedication to your Lordship of this small Description of the prime Authors and Contrivers of the most Horrid Murther that ever was committed in the Face of the Sun For such I am sure your Lordship did alwaies account that of our late Soveraign and such likewise was it look't upon by all Truly and Piously Ingenious in the whole World Farre be it from me to have the least thought that my mean Pen should draw a Lively Representation of his late Majesties both naturall and acquired vertues shining with so much splendor through the Darke and thick Clouds of his Afflictions yet to the end the world might see the Blacknesse of the Designes of these Miserable Men who so wickedly persecuted our Soveraign like a Partridge upon the top of the Mountaines I have at the close hereof attempted something that might make them appear the more Wicked by how much they Murthered so Pious so Incomparable a Prince My LORD You had your share of the miseries in those times and your Life was hunted after by these Blood-Hounds The remarkable passages of whose Lives and Deaths are here presented to your Lordships View this being but as an Essay to what hereafter shall be set forth in a greater Volume And now may your Lordship Live to see Peace Flourish all your time and may your Children inherit â—he Blessing thereof as well as your outward substance May your Lordships Loyalty which cannot be exceeded be Copied out by them and may the reward of your Fidelity and Constancy be an immortall Crown when God shall take you to his owne Kingdome is the Prayer of Your Lordships Humblâ— Devoted Servant GEORGE BATâ— The Prooemium WHen it pleased Almighty God to turn again the Captivity of Sion and to return with glory his Sacred Majesty to the undoubted Dominions of his Ancestors after a black and dark night of Confusion Usurpation and Rebellion and by his appearing within this his own Hemisphere to dispel and scatter all those malignant Clouds which for twelve years together had beniâ—hted these three Nations The Parliament thought it their duty in the behalf of the People of England to make inquisition for that sacred and innocent blood which was shed in their names and upon the pretended accompt of their consent For which purpose a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was issued and the Sessions House in the Old Baily appointed for their triaâ— and condemâ—ation Now the intenâ— of this discourse is to give a discovery of the Lives Educations anâ— Deaths of the prime Actors anâ— principal Contrivers of that horriâ— Murther of Butchering our late pious sacred Sovereign King Chaâ—â— the First of ever blessed Memory wherein I cannot but premise thâ— prophetique expression of that holâ— Man of God Mr. Christopher Love when he was upon the Scaffold viz. That those who had gotten powâ—â— by policy and used it with cruelty shoulâ— lâ—se it with ignominy at the close oâ— which words Mr. Love was interrupted by Alderman Titchbourn theâ— Sâ—â—riff of Loâ—don who would noâ— sufferâ—â—m to proceed but the Aldeâ—man hath sâ—nce found it verified iâ— his own experience having sincâ— changed his Chain of Gold for Fetâ—ers of Iron In the prosecution of this design many strange and horrid consultations were in debate the original contrivers whereof were very few â—he first Cockatrice Egge that was hatcht in this wicked crew was Lt. Col. Joyces seizing the King at Holmby whereby he was immediately taken from Major Gen. Brown who then attended him by order of the Parliament and translated to the power and tyranny of a vicious and mercilesse Army and at that time being but the proemium of the Kings afterwards unhapâ—y fate it was the words of Cromwell to Hugh Peters by way of question Whether there could not be found a way to settle the Nation without the Kiâ—g To whom that miserable wretch replied That there was no way to do it but by taking off his head This Oliver Cromwell being thus the chief Actor in this sad Tragedy and for that he received not the râ—ward of his iniquity in this Worlâ— but is conveyed to the immediaâ— Judgment of the all just God shall only give you a brief Charâ—cter of his Education and Life wiâ— some notes and observations on 〈◊〉 Death Oliver Cromwel was a man to giâ— him his true Character of valâ— in the head of an Army and wicked policy in the front of 〈◊〉 Council being born in Hunting 〈◊〉 Shire and brought up in the Unâ—versity of Cambridge until his dâ—bauched incivility and sottish iâ— sobriety expelled him that placâ— He was so constant and lewd a Live at his first comming into thâ— World that his wits in his afteâ— years was chiefly imployed to makâ— up the breaches of the former foâ— which purpose he fore-saw thaâ— there was no way to help his dâ—cayed Estate but by turning factiâ—s upon which accompt he â—esently appears a great Stickler â—gainst Monarchy and Episcopacy â—â—d presently layes hold of the first â—â—portunity to appear in Arms and â—assed through all the degrees of â—ilitary imployment until at last â—e arived at General of the Army â—aving first supplanted or underâ—â—ined all honester men that stood in â—is way wading to the Government â—f these Nations over head and ears 〈◊〉 blood for having first spilt the â—nnocent blood of our Sovereign â—nd polluted his soul therewith he â—ares not to spill the blood of his â—ubjects like water plenty whereâ—f was shed in our streets during â—is short and troublesome Reign by â—is oppression dissimulation hypocrisie and cruelty When he was owned by a few to be Protector he called several Parliaments expecting that they would throw that Title and the Government of these Nations upon him but this way would not do for though he nominated the very men that should fit in some Parliaments and sent his private letters to have his own creatures chosen in others yet he could not be established by them which occasioned that his desperate expression at the dissolving one of his Parliaments That he would rather be roled in blood with infamy to his grave then
a solemne funeral and interred his Body in Christ-Church Dublin And here I cannot but observe how that politique usurper Oliver Cromwel desired to remove all those who were in the least concerned in the Kings death as farre from him as he could for the aforesaid reasons Who were all sent into Ireland viz. This C. Hammond Col. John Iones Lievt Gen Ludlow Mr. Stâ—â—le Col. Hewsâ—n Col. Phatre C. M. Thomlinson Mr. Miles Corbet Justice Cooke Col. Axtell Hâ—wlet c. Col. Huncks With many other private Officers of the Army The Life of Colonel Richard Deane RIchard Deane was first brought up by a Hoyman belonging to the Town of Ipswich and afterwards going to Sea was Boatswain of a ship But the Warrs coming on he goes forth into the Army and there thrives in many successive imployments because a man of like principles with those that then had the domination viz. the Sectarian which was the greatest part of the Army when the Kings Death was contrived amongst them this Colonel Deane is a very forward busie-body to promote and countenance it he was one of the High Court of Injustice Seals the Warrant for the Murther and with Harison and with Ireton appoints the place of Execution After which he continued with the Army went into Scotland with Cromwell when he conquered the covenanting Professors where he was a Colonel of Horse and finally he is made one of the General at Sea with General Monck and General Blake in the Fights which were made with the Dutch but in the second Fight with them he encouraging the Seamen was shot in pieces with a Cannon Bullet and all the small remains they could find of him were Coffind up and brought to Greenwich and from thence were carryed by water in a solemn manner to Westminster and buried in the Chappel of King Henry the Seventh The Life of Colonel Thomas Pride THo Pride a man of a very mean yet of a very uncertain Birth some of the Ancients have reported that he was a poor boy brought up by the Parish of St. Brides Alies St. Bridgets London and by them put forth at first to an Ale-House-keeper in Bride Lane to draw drink but whether this be true or no I will not assert it But the first mention that I find of him was being a Servant to Mr. Hiccocks a Brewer in Southwark and now living in the Bridg-house in S. Tulyes Street there with him he was a Drayman and a common carrier of Beer with the Slings When the Warrs began he being a busling fellow in any disturbance he went forth an Ensigne under the Earle of Essex but by his continual siding with People like himself viz. Ignorant yet impudent in all their proceedings he at last commences Colonel of a foot Company now his meaness aims at nothing more than to be one of the Princes of the People And when the Army at New-Market-Heath began the business of agitators and by that means to forsake their old Masters the Parliament Colonel Pride encourages and animates them thereunto and upon their coming to London he appears a great stickler to have the impeached Members and Major Gen. Browne brought to Justice and because the greater part of the House was so honest as to scorne to be taught and frighted into any illegal and base practises by the Army This Colonel Pride together with Sir Hardress Walter Col. Hewson seize all the aforesaid honest and conscientious Members driving them away from the exercise of their trust comitted to their charge by their Country and for some time forcing the greatest part of them into an Ordinary called Hell near Westminster-Hall which accasioned some to use that expression that Pride carried the Parliament to Hell After this he proceeds according as the faction lead him and is a great Councellour in all the consultations about the Kings Death and when the King was brought from Windsor to his own House at St. Jamses Col. Pride was very angry that the King was brought into his Chamber although it being then cold weather it was only for a small time Col. Pride having a fire in that Chamber until another fire in another room could be provided for the King And now the time drawing near wherein they intended this horrid Murther Colonel Pride is made one of the Kings judges he is among them very active every day and when that black sentence was pronounced Col. Pride sets his hand seal to the murder and with his Regiment is upon the guard that day it was accomplished Matters thus suceeding and his Pockets being fil'd with the spoils of the people he begins to think then of his Draymans place yet of a Brewers trade and accordingly he laid out a considerable sum of money upon a Brew-house in Pie-Corner and by his Wife and substitutes kept the same for many years together After came on the Warrs of Scotland which when Cromwel undertook he is a chief follower of his said Master and is very forward in that enterpriz And after when the Scotch Trophies and Colours wer taken and for the honour of that victory hanged up in Westminster Hall he was the Man that uttered the expression that he would have the Lawyers Gowns hang'd there too And thus he continues till Oliver takes the Government upon himself Col. Pride assists him in this too and stands up very much for this new made Protector noe wayes doubting but that if Oliver were a King he should be one of his Inferior Princes not long after hâ— dubd him S. Thomas Pride and yet by his usurping Master when they were among themselvs was often called Sir Thomas Slingsby which indeed was the more proper name of the two Col. Pride being of a very great corpulent Body by reason whereof his Gate was very uncomely Cromwell would used â—o say when he saw him comming â—owards him see here how Pride comes wadling too and again as if he hâ—d the Slings upon his back And being newly Knighted he thought to adventure upon some noble Atchievement to make himself famous and his first encounter was at the Beare-Garden where the Beaâ—es felt the couragousness of hâ—â— valour and were all slain in tâ— Fight upon which Col. Pride can off the Conquerer For which and other services tâ—â— valourous Knight was suddenly â—â—ter made a Lord and thinks thâ— Lords place would become a Dr 〈◊〉 man very well This mock homâ— sate not long before the Fabricator of it had an end put to his Life and Col. Pride thought it not manners to stay behind him whome he had alwayes followed in all his designs and fearing a swing insteed of his slings he dyed about a month after him neer Nonsuch in the County of Surry which Parke of the Kings so called he had as his Portion for his aforesaid wicked Services the manner of his Death is uncertain as that of his Birth being buried in a Church near there abouts in the County of Surrey The Life of