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A64214	The traytors perspective-glass, or, Sundry examples of Gods just judgments executed upon many eminent regicides, who were either fomentors of the late bloody wars against the King, or had a hand in his death whereunto is added three perfect characters of those late-executed regicides, viz. Okey, Corbet, and Barkstead : wherein many remarkable passages of their several lives, and barbarous actions, from the beginning of the late wars, to the death of that blessed martyr Charles the first are faithfully delineated / by I.T. Gent.	J. T. (John Taylor)	1662 (1662)	Wing T521; ESTC R2371	28,672	48

High-Treason and justly executed as he justly deserved it Gods judgements against the Irish Rebels Nor did it happen otherwise with the Irish then with the beforementioned Scotish Rebels who having palpably forged several pretended Commissions under his late Majesties Great-Seal and thereby raised an Army first impudently slandred Gods anointed then openly rebelled against him and afterward fell to butchering of his loyal Subjects women with childe young infants aged Matrons old Fathers and all others of what age sex or condition soever Insomuch that their barbarous inhumanity far exceeded all the cruelties of Phalaris Busyris Dionysius and the rest of those Heathen Tyrants or bloody persecutors of the primitive Christians whose bloody slaughters were but merciful punishments compared with their Tragick acts so as they who felt them could hardly believe such infernal destruction could be invented much less executed by any humane Creatures upon earth But exitus acta probat Mark what is now become of all these Irish Traytors were not the chiefest instruments of that Rebellion Mac-Mahoon Mac-Quire and mac-Mahoon most miraculously seized upon and notwithstanding their strange escape ou● of the Tower how strangely did Gods judgements find them out causing one of their servants to be the principal occasion of their discovery for which they were shortly after brought to condign puuishment and condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered at Tyburn which was accordingly executed As for the rest of them together with their wives and children were they not either killed banished or enslaved and such as remained alive requited by Cromwel with the like inhumanity after the storming of Drogedah where above three thousand of them were in cool blood massacred by the lemnian hands of that unmerciful Tyrant Next for that long Parliament here in England The English Rebellion in the long Parliament which first raised up a Rebellious Army against their King and at last a High Court of Justice to take away his life Did not God stir up their own General Oliver Cromwel a Philistine amongst these Philistines and a grand Rebel amongst these Rebels who finding his opportunity wisely broke in pieces this Brazen Engin and with a hero-Hero-like courage dissolved that knot and scattered those grand Proditors of their King and Countrey as the Lord dispersed the Jews that were the murderers of his Son and their own King over all the parts of this Kingdom The whole mass of that long Parliament who thought to remain as Kings for ever being scattered like chaff with the wind from the face of the earth and now made ludibrium opprobriumque vulgi the mock-game and laughter of this Nation But I must now descend from generals to particulars and shew you the just judgement of God upon the dismembred parts of this great body and their adherents as I finde them worthy of observation I will therefore begin with him Earl of Essex who was the beginner of our troubles the first disturber of our peace and the General of that late unhappy War the Earl of Essex with whom though the character given by Plutarch of Dionysius King of Sicily may well agree that he was a Tyrant begotten of Tyrants as the other was a Traytor begot of a Traytor yet I cannot but say of him that he was pius inimicus a noble Adversary to the King who confirmed the restauration of him to those Lands and Honors which were taken from him by Queen Elizabeth for the Treason of his Father and the late King made him one of his privy Council and Chamberlain of his Houshold which for honor is one of the best Offices at Court and worth 2000 l. per annum and conferred many other favours upon him yet for no other cause as is conceived then ambition of popular praise or as others think for a secret grudge he bore to his Majestie for giving way to his Ladies being divorced from him he undertook when all others refused it the Conduct of a Rebellious Army against him for which act God never suffered him after to prosper in his attempts witness his first fight at Edge-hil where he was routed and forced to hide his head in the day of Battel and the next day dishonorably to retreat to Warwick Castle and afterwards in Cornwal he was compelled shamefully to abandon his whole Army and glad to fly away by Sea to London For which disasters the Parliament who so solemnly swore before to live and dye with him do now vote a dispensation of that Oath and not without some disgrace disrobing him of his Excellency and another General is chosen in his room At length to prevent any mutiny or discontent that might happen in him or the Army by means of this affront put upon so noble and popular a person it is generally reported by all that see him dye that they applied more violent physick then either the quality of his disease or constitution of his body would admit of in giving him a Spanish fig or some Aconites that wrought so strongly upon him that it soon brought his head into the grave his body so soon as he was dead being covered over with turfs of green earth to prevent the swelling of the poyson that was in him Thus was he rewarded for his good services to the Parliament and ill offices against his King God in justice suffering the same people that magnified him to destroy him Sr. John Hotham his Son The next persons I shall instance in are Sir Iohn Hotham and his Son with him whom I shall put together because both were guilty of the same crime of disloyalty to their King and equally tasted of the same sauce and suffered the like punishment This man was the first who so insolently durst presume to enter into Hull his Majesties own proper Town and there to seize upon the Kings Magazine and when his Majestie came in person and requested admission into the same he very undutifully to say no worse with much scorn and contempt refused to let him in But how God approved of these their unjust doings you may guess by the subsequent punishment which both the Father and his Son have since undergone for they having first most disloyally plaid their parts in the House of Commons against the King and next more egregiously by seizing upon Hull these false Traytors greedy of a reward promised by some of the Kings friends resolved within a short while after to play the like game with the Parliament and to comply with his Majestie by redelivering up the Town and Magazine to his use but their plot being discovered and their persons cunningly secured in their hands they wrought upon the Son in hopes to get pardon for himself to accuse and betray his Father and then with the like subtilty and for the like hope they brought the Father to accuse his Son So both by mutual treachery being found guilty and condemned had both their heads severed from their bodies in one day

as the just reward of their former wickedness God now rendring to them what before they had so well deserved by suffering them willingly and wickedly to be the Authors and Instruments of each others punishment The Lord Brooks The next Member of the long Parliament that I shall set down in this list of Disloyal Subjects is the Lord Brooks a man while he lived beyond the Seas much debauched and very loose in his life and conversation as by several letters sent from thence to his Uncle Sir Fulk Grevil afterwards Lord Brooks may appear And how he passed from one extreme to another from a very dissolute youth to a most resolute Saint I know not onely these things were observed to be remarkable in him that he was a very obstinate and violent opposer of the King who was Pater Patriae and a very gracious Prince ro him an extreme hater and persecutor of the Reverend Bishops and all the Grave and Learned Clergy a great demolisher of Cathedrals and so great an enemy to that excellent Prayer in our Letany That it would please God to deliver us from sudden death that he moved the House to abolish the whole Liturgy alledging every man ought to be at all times so prepared for death as they need not at any time pray against sudden death But here behold and adore the judgement of the just God how that as Goliahs head was cut off with his own sword so judicium suum super caput suum this Lords judgement and practice fell upon his own head for in his prosecution of his hate against his King as a just reward for his Rebellion his Lordship being in Litchfield on St. Chad's day the Founder of that Church whilest at a little window he viewed the Colledge or Close as they term it to the Church of S. Chad ro batter them down with his Canons being harnessed cap-a-pe from top to toe as he lifted up his helmet to see the same more clearly God directed the hand of a dumb youth that was a Prebends Son with a shot from a fowling peice to hit him just in the eye insomuch as he fell down suddenly dead without speaking one word no not so much as Lord have mercy upon him Mr. John Pym. The next I shall bring upon the stage is Mr. Iohn Pym a man preferred to a great Office of trust and of much gain under the King But so soon as he became a Member of the Long Parliament he proved so active in traducing the King that he was the principal of those five against whom his Majestie demanded justice a man so bitter and invective in his malice towards the Earl of Strafford that knowing how much he was beloved of the King and that whatsoever evil could be conceived against him would reflect upon His Majestie he first with invective Orations poysoned the greater part of the House and the seditious vulgar with a conceit against the good King his Master then never left profecuting the Earl till he had brought his head to the block And now finding how Scelera sceleratioribus tuenda that great crimes committed cannot be safe but by attempting greater he secretly complies with the Scots to raise an Army to assist him and the rest of his seditious Compeers against his Majestie But the King having full intelligence both of his own and his Partners practices against him laboured to bring them to a legal tryal whereupon to save themselves they take Sanctuary in the City and in short space so corrupted the Citizens that they first drew them and afterwards the whole Kingdom to engage themselves in a desperate Civil War against their lawful Soveraign But though his Majesties hand was then too weak to fetch him out of his guarded palace to condign punishment yet the hand of the Almighty who is the Lord of Hosts as he raised up a great Army though composed of little Creatures Rats and Mice who devoured Pepiel the second King of Poland Anno 830. for treacherously poysoning of his Uncles and those worms that destroyed Herod the King so he caused infinite swarms of Lice to seize upon this strong Rebel who eat him up alive that he might do no further mischief against his Anointed Hamden The like judgement fell upon Colonel Hamden who for his disloyalty to his King was shot to death upon the same plot of ground where he first mustered his Souldiers against the King Alderman Hoyle As also upon Thomas Hoil late Major of York and a Member of the long Parliament a bitter enemy against his Prince and one who had a great hand in his death for which Cromwel caused him to be rewarded with Sir Peter Osborns place viz. Treasurers Remembrancer in the Exchequer valued at 1300 l. per annum who on that day twelve moneths that the King lost his life made a Bonfire for joy he was beheaded but on the same day twelve moneths after miserably hanged himself Oliver Cromwel But I must not here forget the Arch-Machiavilian Rebel and prodigious Monster of men Oliver Cromwel who adding strength to the wings of his ambition soared an Eagles height and striving by a grasp of the Scepter to enoble his Name and Family to posterity resolved to put on the purple Robes of Majestie though deep-dy'd in the blood of his Soveraign to whom he had sworn allegiance and stood engaged by many solemn oathes and horrid execrations upon himself and his Family to preserve and re-settle in his Throne Nevertheless contrary to all his former protestations and promises he treacherously caused the King to be kept close Prisoner in Carisbrook Castle where he plotted with Rolf to have him secretly made away though afterwards he was publiquely murthered And that he might palliate the breach of his Faith Vows and Allegiance to his Soveraign he by a printed Declaration makes God the Author of his wickedness affirming he could not resist the motions of the Spirit which would not suffer him to keep his word with the King or let his Conscience rest quiet till he had taken away hife life Thus Sua cuique Deus fit dira libido This Hob-goblin serves all turns and Oliver was so perfect a Juggler that he had got the right knack of Pulpit canting so as it is was easie for him under this mask of Religion that old stalking-horse of Rebellion by deceiving the ignorant sort of people up to exalt himself up to the usurped Throne of his Martyred Prince Into which he was no sooner entered but this Ioshua of the Saints was prayed for in every Conventicle and a day of general Thanksgiving for his enstallment appointed to God I think for his patience in not striking this Atheistical Tyrant with Thunder and Lightning for making him a stale to his premeditated villanies But God permitted not this Son of Belial to raign long in his cruelties but speedily cut him off by a miserable and tormenting sickness which caused him two days

fire in burning and laying waste their strongest Holds next by the sword in cutting off the chiefest of their Covenanters and lastly by famine in reducing those poor captive Souldiers that were taken after Dumbar fight to such an exegent Dunhar fight Anno 1656. Sep. 3. that above three thousand of them were at Durham starved to death and those who survived were by hunger torced to feed upon the dead bodies of their Countreymen to preserve their own lives And therefore what Martial saith of the Lyon which is the Arms of Scotland I may fitly apply to these treacherous Scots Laeserat ingrato l●● persidus ere Magistrum Ausus tarn not as contaminare manus Sed dignas tante persoluit crimine poenas Et qui non tulerat verb●●a tela tulit A treacherous Lyon hurt his Keeper late Daring those well known hands to violate But for his foul offence he paid full dear Instead of stripes he felt a killing spear Thus you see that God will not suffer any Traytors or Regecides to go unpunished as may further appear by that one remarkable example of Hatto late Bishop of Mentz in Germany who having betrayed his neer Kinsman Allebert Count Palatine of Franconia to whom he had sworn allegiance into the Emperors hands God soon after suffered this Traytor as you may finde in the Chronological Collections of Petreius to be carried away by Devils and to be thrown into a burning pit in Mount Gebel a voyce in the mean time being heard to cry on t in the ayr Sic peccaudo lues sicque ruendo rues Thus art thou worthily punished for thy wicked deeds So heinous are the sins of Treason and Perjury and so just is the Almighty in the severity of his punishments for them that he suffers none who are guilty of such horrid deeds either early or late to escape unpunished And fince I am speaking of these treacherous Scots give me leave to give you a short account of the Life The Marquess of Argsle Actions and End of that ingrateful and perfidious Traytor to his King and Countrey the late Marquess of Argyle whose dealings with his Kindred Friends and Confederates ought to be a warning to all Protestants how they trust such an Apostate Covenanter whose ambition and avarice did ruine the King and Church together with three flourishing Kingdoms and in the conclusion himself His Father having married a second Wife and turned Catholick this his Son obtains by his Majessies favour the possession of his whole estate allowing him a small pension to live upon after whose death he outed his brother of his estate at Kyntire and afterwards cheated his Sisters of 12000 l. given them by the last Will and Testament of their Mother in Law forcing them all for want of maintenance to hazard the loss of their souls by forsaking that Religion they were ever nursed up in and to cloyster themseves up in Nunneries beyond the seas Having thus taken a view of his Religious carriage towards his Parents Friends and Allies let us next observe his deportment towards his Soveraign and how he kept the Solemn League and Covenant with his Brethren in England It cannot be denied but His Majestie did confer many great and Princely favours upon him at his Father in Law the Earl of Mortons desire making him Lord of Lorn with the additional honor and title of Marquess and a full pension well paid him ever fince together with not onely an act of Oblivion but approbation of all his tyranni at proceedings against the Athel men the Earl of Aireley and others But his first endeavour in requiral of all these and many more Royal favours undeservedly heaped upon him was his ent●ing into a conspiracy with his Co●n Lawers and the Ea●l of Lothian who married his Neece and was once heard to say That the three Kingdoms would never have peace so long as King Cha●ls his head was on his shoulders to banish Antrim and the Macdonalds out of Ireland for which he had a great gift and three R●gi●● h●s sent him from the Parliament of England Next he projected to joy● counsel with Say Pierpoint Cromwel and others of the Independant Juncto against the Presbyte●ians doing them that Master-piece of good service first under colour of loyalty and friendship to prevail with his Majestie to return to the Scots Army then at Newark Cromwel subtilly contributing a pass to his Maiesties g●ides with a slack guard that he might the more freely escape Secondly after many loyal speeches for Monarchy the Kingdom of Scotlands interest in the person of the King and many publique and private vows and protestations not to abandon his Majestie without his own consent Contrary to all which he and his Confederates corrupted the loyalty of that once famous Gentleman Lieutenant General David Lesley who had deeply sworn and engaged himself to his Majestie to convey him safely into Scotland or to see him peaceably settled in his Throne in England sorcing him and he prevailing with the Souldiers to abandon his Majestie and leaving him behind now little better then an assured prisoner and the whole power of the sword i● the hands of his bloody enemies the Independants and Sectaries to the ruine and overthrow of the Covenant and the Presbyterian cause in the City and Parliament Which design of his having taken the desired effect he presently by letters encourages the Independant party to proceed in their dethroning votes and accusarion of his Majestie assuring them that no party in Scotland should be able to hinder their proceedings Whereupon they imm-diately imprisoned the King and next erected a High Court of Justice to take away his life and afterwards publiquely murthered him Thus you see Argyle having overthrown all Laws tyrannized over the lives liberties and estates of his Countrey men and contrary to his duty and and allegiance conspired to extirpate all Monatchial Government by betraying his natural Prince into the hands of his enemies and opposing all ways of peace to prevent his Majesties deliverance and the settlement of his Kingdoms Now thinking himself secure in his villanies and having likewise by treachery gotten the person of the Marquess of Montross into his hands whose onely fault was loyalty to his Prince he caused him to be brought with as much ignominy as possibly he could desire to Edinburgh and afterwards to be barbarously murthered just at such time as his Majestie that now is was coming into Scotland even as it were in despite to his Soveraign But God having at length most miraculously restored his Sacred Majestie Charls the second to the Royal Throne of his blessed Father did also put it into his heart to avenge himself upon this underminer of Princes insomuch as this arch Rebel was suddenly seized upon then committed close Prisoner to the Tower in which place he remained till such time as he could be shipped away in order to his tryal at Edinburgh in Scotland where he was legally convicted of

did those two Knights of the Post Pitts and Bernard against Sr. Iohn Gell and Colonel Andrews to take away their lives by a High Court of Injustice when he could no longer squeeze any profit out of their bodies Witness his private transporting of many hundred of poor Caveliers beyond the Seas whom this States spirit barbarously sold to be made Gally-slaves to Turkes and Pagans which miser able servitude they must inevitably endure till Death more merciful than this Monster puts a period to their miseries I could instance above two hundred Gentlemen by him clapt in the Tower without any accusation or accusor made known where some of them were detained many years without any legal proceedings or charge against them he and his Master Oliver who continually furnished him with blanck Warrants for that purpose sharing between themselves in the mean time their Estates Offices and Revenues whilst these were left to starve rot and dye in nasty rooms purposely provided to destroy them without any relief or maintenance whatsoever For not one of their Friends dare lend or send them money or any of their Kindred come near them for fear of being committed Prisoners or at least questioned for malignants So as his Prison was become a private Slaughter-house and Olivers Court the publick Shambles of injustice It was the Custom of King Charles the first and his Predecessors to grant all owance to Prisoners in the Tower during their confinements according to their several degrees viz. 51. weekly for an Esquire c. and so proportionably for every person suitable to his quality But so far was this Canibal from giving or allowing any thing towards their subsistance that he converted those Fees to his own use and caused them to be shut up close Prisoners in unwholsome Chambers denying them the liberty of the Tower and b●nefit of the fresh air the Camelious dyet for their healths or resort of Friends for their accomodations The Fable of the Promethean vulture was but an Embleme of this Monster for so long as his power lasted he continually knaw'd upon the hearts of such persons as were under his custody his Office resembling that of the Sheep-heards Dog to worry Sheep first and afterwards drive them into his pinfolds He was Cromwels Coy-duck whilst he lived Offitiosa aliu exiti sa suis ever imployed and very officious to bring store of game into his Masters nets one that had learned to give poyson into a golden cup and knew well how to deceive even with Scripture plarases like her in Claudian * Claudian de voluptate Stiliconis lib. 2. Blanda quidem vultu sed quae non tetriox ulla Interius fucatagenas amict a doloru Illecibris An outward Saint an inward Devil A painted face but full of evil One who coveted to be rich and great in power that his greatness might equal his malice like him in the Poet Qui tantum ut noceat cupit esse potens Who rays'd himself out of the dirt That he might have more power to hurt Base men when they climb to any height prove above all others most proud and ambitious as appeared by this man who being beggarly born and of contemptible Parents became the most cruel and fiercest blood-hound of all Olivers pack Asperius nihilest humili cum surgit in altum None are more cruel than mean men rays'd high Or Beggars mounted on a Palfery For set but any of these proud Raskals on Horse-back and they will never rest till like their Comerade Pride aux they have made good the Proverb and ride Post to the Devil When Traytors are climbing up Fortunes Wheel Derrick commonly watches under-neth it to catch them toll untur in altum Ut lapsu graviore ruant This proved at last his reward for his horrid villanies treasons and murdering his Soveraign A Legacy long since given and bequeathed to him by his fellow-sufferers and Brethren in iniquity Harrison Scot Axtel and Hugh Peters who made the Hang-man Executor to their last Wills and Testaments To whose mercy I leave him and Corbet concluding with this Epitaph HEre lyes poor Iohn who was not beat to death As Stock-fish are but onely lost his breath Whilst he aspir'd himself on high to rayse He gain'd a wreath of Hemp instead of Bayes The Fate of Traytors may all perish so That seek their King and Kingdoms over-throw Dun was his Doctor who thought fit to bind A Cord about his neck to keep the wind From fuming up his head But O! sad note The Rope begot a squinzy in his throat Which choakt him up although some busie tongues Report it was the obstruction of his lungs That caus'd his sudden Death Let all who are His Friends by his example have a care How they come under this rude Doctors pawes Who onely practices the Tyburn Lawes In making falling-bands or knitting-knots That cure diseases beyond the Galli-pots A Rogue so known in Hell each Sessions thence They send Fiends to him for intelligence What guests are coming to the Sti●ian Court Whether the greater or the meaner sort Traytors or Thieves to whom he answer makes When Phoebe once her waining horns forsakes And Easter Term begins I 'le send you * Corbet one Whose looks shall ' ffright grim Pluto from his throne And scare the lesser Devils thence when there They see one Blacke● than themselves appear But when Dun named Corbet they reply'd He 's Pluto's Kinsman by he mothers side We know him well bid him make haste for hee Is welcome to our black Fraternitie William Munsun Henry Mildmay and Rob. Wallup As for that female Town-top and great devourer of of buttered Peason William late Lord Munson formerly a Page but now a close Prisoner in the Fleet Harry once Sr. Henry Mildmay and Robert Wallup who did all actually sit as Judges upon the Tryal of their lawful Soveraign King Charles the first by reason it appeared that they were absent from the pretended Hight Court of Justice at such time as Sentence passed to take away the Kings life His Masesty was g●atiously pleased to refer the manner of their punishments to His High Court of Parliament who soon after upon a Serious debate in both Houses passed an Act too merciful for such ingrateful Traytors though in some sort suitable to the quality of their Crimes viz. That their Estates should be Confiscated and their persons drawn upon Sledges from the Tower to Tyburn with Ropes about their Necks and to be degraded of their Honours and Titles c. which was accordingly Executed upon the 27th of Ianuary following An. 1661. it being the same day that the King was Condemned to death many thousands of people being Spectators of their infamy who not onely at the Gallows but as they passed in the streets bitterly cursed and reviled them insomuch that Wallup being of that shameful punishment more sensible than the other of the horrid sin he had committed as well as of the eternal