Upon the turn of the Times he ran away for fear of Squire Dun and by report is since dead and buried at Amsterdam XXXIII William Goffe bound an Apprentice to a Salter but run away e're he had served out his time and betook himself to the Army where by his boldness and pretended Piety he came to be taken notice of by the Grandees in Rebellion who liking his temper preferred him to serve themselves in that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty He likewise betook himself to his heeles at the restauration of our Soveraign being of the opinion of Caine That his Crimes was too great to be forgiven XXXIV Cornelius Holland a Monster in Nature once Servant to Sir Henry Vane who preferred him to the Green-cloath in the Kings House-hold of base conditions as well as extraction His Father was a poor man and dyed a Prisoner in the Fleet but he himself by his Ingatitude and Disloyalty made a ladder of mischief to climb up to Riches and so thrived by Rebellion that he got a vast Estate and like Herostratus grew very Eminent for Villanies the chief of which was the Murther of the King in which he had a principal hand and for which upon his Majesties return he fled the Land fearing belike he should become a spectacle to men hanging betwixt the Earth and Heaven XXXV John Carew Brother to that Loyal Knight Sir Alexander Carew beheaded by the prevalency of Rebellion in An. 1644. This Person being a rank Fifth-Monarchist was a great Enemy to all Earthly Government and Power expecting Christ to come Personally and Raign amongst them and therefore they would have no King but King Jesus which made him to joyn with those other Infamous Regicides in the Murther of his Soveraign being deluded thus by the impulses of Satan for those of the spirit At his Tryal he rambled into a wild discourse of the fear of God and the Authority of the Parliament by which he Acted that he declined it at first but being put in the Act for Tryal could not disobey the Lord nor the Parliament He was condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed upon him October 15. 1660. His quarters should have been exposed on the City Gates but upon intercession to his Majesty his Body was ordered to be buried XXXVI Colonel John Jones a Weltch Saint who in the night of Rebellion grew from a Mushromp to a Stately Cedar He was at first a Serving-Man but that kind of life not serving his turn he set up the gain-fuller trade of a Committee-man and thrived exceedingly in that Barren Country and being a person of known Abilities for the ruining a Kingdome he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament and inprocess of time Married one of Cromwel's Sisters who as one writes had as many Females to bestow as a Cardinal This alliance being prone enough of himself otherwise brought him in to have a hand in the Kings Murther and in fine brought him to the Gallows being Executed October 17. 1660. XXXVII Peregrine Pelham a York-shire Tike whose Abominable Treasons helped to verifie that Proverb From the cold North all ill comes forth He was for a while a kind of Governour of Hull after Hotham where being Endoctrinated in Machivillian Principles he came to London to put them in Execution being one of the Judges that Sat and Sentenced the late King and died before his Majesties Restauration XXXVIII Thomas Wogan a recruit likewise to the Long Parliament who was as active to contribute towards the ruine of the Kingdome as the chiefest of them all and as forward as the rest to destoy the King to become himself one of the Princes in the Anarchy but upon the change of the Times he betook him to his heeles and accompanied with a guilty conscience wander about to save a wretched Carcasse out of the Hangmans hands XXXIX Francis Allen once a Gold-Smith in Fleet-street whose first Rice was from the Placket and by Marrying his Mistris of her Servant became her Master being thus leapt into a pretty Estate he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament where he improved his time to the most gainfull advantage getting to be one of the Treasurers at War a Customer and as if that were not enough had Crone House given him and held it in Capite Regis These gifts made him not to stick to joyn with them in the Murther of the King and after to enjoy a part of the profit of their Parricide being made one of the Committees for the Sale of his Majesties Lands but lived not long to possess the fruits of his wickedness dying before his Majesties Happy Restauration XL. Daniel Blagrave of a small but competent Fortune sufficient to have maintained him without being guilty of this great Offence but he was resolved to get Riches although he swam to them in blood and being chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament for Reading in Bark-shire in hopes to be partaker with them in the spoyl of the Kingdome He joyned with them in the Murther of the King But upon the turn of the Times betook him to his heeles the best refuge as he thought for one in his condition XLI John Moor formerly Colonel of the Guards and had the benefit of all passes from London the profit whereof endeared him to their Side and made him joyn with them in the Horrid Murther of his Soveraign He dyed before his Majesties Return XLII William Say Esquire a Member of the Long Robe and a well practised but ill councelled Lawyer who being foysted in as one of the illegal recruites of the Long Parliament exercised his Abilities to the greater mischief having now power joyned to his will to Act what the Devil should prompt him to and therefore feared not to become one of the Murtherers of his Majesty and afterwards to joyn with the rest of those Regicides to help forwards the ruine of the Kingdome He was by them chosen their Speaker when Lenthall for Ten dayes together was sick of the Sullens upon the approach of General Monke But upon the Return of the King was non est inventus betaking him to his heeles for fear he should have had a Habeas Corpus to have removed his body from Newgate to Tyburn XLIII Francis Lascels a York-shire Man who being nominated one of the King's Judges Sat once but neither Sentenced nor Signed those Accursed Warrants for the Murther of the King He was Fined a years Profit of his Estate to his Majesty and discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts XLIV James Challoner Esquire who for sitting in that pretended High Court of Justice was with some others deprived of their Estates by Act of Parliament and ordered to be drawn to Tyburn in Sledges with Ropes about their Necks as Traytors are used and so back again to the Tower their to be Imprisoned during their natural lives but before the Execution of this Sentence he died in the
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
THE LOYALL Martyrology OR Brief Catalogues and Characters of the most Eminent Persons who Suffered for their Conscience during the late times of Rebellion either by Death Imprisonment Banishment or Sequestration Together with those who were Slain in the Kings Service AS ALSO Dregs of Treachery With the Catalogue and Characters of those Regicides who Sat as Judges on our late Dread Soveraign of ever Blessed Memory with others of that Gang most Eminent for Villany For encouragement to Virtue and determent from Vice By William Winstanley Rebellion is as the Sin of Witch-craft LONDON Printed by Thomas Mabb for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain 1665. ON THE FRONTISPIECE O What a glorious sight do I behold Apples of Silver Pictured thus in Gold Immortal Hero's who of life bereaven Are now become bright fixed Stars of Heaven The first of all this Glorious Company King 1 Charles presents himself unto your eye Like Phoebus glistering in the Morning tide Surrounded with Brave Hero's on each side Under him 2 Strafford that Great Pro-toto-Martyr On each side Loyal 3 Derby Gallant Arthur Lord 4 Capell three such Peeres we may conclude For to be Stars of the first Magnitude Brave 5 Lucas and Stout 6 Lisle whose Gallant Worth Deserves a Golden Pen to set them forth Undaunted 7 Morris 8 Penruddock and 9 Grove Stout 10 Andrews who deserv'd all Peoples love Brave 11 Gerard 12 Benbow 13 Burleigh 14 Pitcher 15 Poyer Who for their Country did their best devoyer 16 Fetherstonhaugh 17 Hamilton 18 Holland's Earle 19 Blackburn 20 Benson 21 Bushel each a Pearle Of Valourous Loyalty 22 Ashton well skill'd in Wars Kind 32 Slingsby 24 Symkins all stout Sons of Mars Who for King Charles his Cause so strongly stood And seal'd their Love to 't with their dearest blood Next view great 25 Laud whose worth doth strike me dumb The Reverend 26 Hewyt England's Chrysostome Grave 27 Beaumont and Religious 28 Vowel who With 29 Love for Loyalty their Lives forgo Learn'd 30 Levens Glory of his Family Well skill'd in Law practised in Loyalty Next view that unmatchless Hero Gallant 31 Hide 32 Yeomans and 33 Bowcher who at Bristol dy'd 34 Tomkins and 35 Challoner of Active Spirits 36 Kniveton 37 Gibbons 38 Kensy men whose merits With those foregoing Hero's rais'd them High Whil'st Traytors live Infam'd in Hystory THE LOYALL MARTYROLOGY Printed for Edward Thomas 1665. To the Honourable Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet His Majesties Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON SIR TWo Things have Emboldened me to Dedicate this Book unto You The First is your known Loyalty and Integrity to the Royal Cause which hath made Your Name as Conspicuous as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day not only since the Happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty but in those Times of Rebellion when Loyalty was accounted a Crime of the Highest Nature which as it made you one of Those Loyal Confessors that by your Sufferings have indeared your Memory to all Posterity so no doubt had not that Gangreen of Rebellion been the sooner cut off your Eminent Parts would by those bloody Regicides who were Enemies to Worth and Loyalty have brought you into the Number of These Royal Martyrs who laid down their Lives in Defence of Gods Laws and his Annointed's Cause of both which you were so Gallant an Assertor The Second is the Relation you had to that Reverend Martyr Arch-Bishop Laud who laid down his Life in Defence of the Church and is now involved in that Glorious Company who Suffered for the Testimony of a Good Conscience of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a candle Daigne Sir to Accept this Mite of Acknowledgement of Your Worth from him who Subscribes himself Your Most Humbly Devoted Servant William Winstanley THE PREFACE TO THE Reader WHat sad Effects the Miseries and Calamities of a Civil War doth produce this Nation cannot but be sensible of and our late Times do sufficiently evidence How all things were turned topsie turvy Religion subverted by Rebellion Truth troden down by Treason the Gown giving place to the Corslet and the Law over-awed by the Sword How under pretense of a Reformation all things were turned into Confusion The Law which should be the Rule and Direction whereby to walk made useless or at least like unto a Spiders Webb through which those Rebellious Bug-bears could with ease break out but the poor Caveliers were insnared in the same How under a pretense of the breach of our Fundamental Laws they Murthered divers Gallant Persons when they themselves committed the greatest breaches on it by riding over the Royal Power of the King putting down the Bishops and the Book of Common Prayer Usurping the Militia Counterfeiting the great Seal Seizing on the Kings Forts Ports Shipping Castles and all his Revenue Raising Rumors putting out Declarations and giving out words to alienate the Peoples Affections from their Soveraign Sessing Souldiers upon the People of the Kingdom without their Consent making Judges Justices and Sheriffs contrary to the Kings mind breaking all Law themselves and Governing the Land by New-found Ordinances of their own imposing several Taxes on the People by wayes never before known in this Kingdom namely Contributions Sequestrations Meal-Money Sale of Plundred Goods Loans Collections upon their Fast-Dayes new Imposition upon Merchandizes Guards maintained at the charge of Private Men Compositions Sale of Bishops Lands with divers other strange Impositions all wracked from the People to maintain them in their Rebellious Pride But had they stay'd here their crimes had been the more inexcusable but they proceeded to the Murther of their King and that under a pretense of Justice a Crime so great that History cannot shew a parallel that people professing themselves Christians Protestants yea the most Reformed of all the Protestants should in the face of the whole World in the Metropolis of the Kingdom under a formal show of Justice Condemn the most Pious Prudent and Gracious Prince then living in the whole World contrary to the Word of God the Laws of the Land the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiancy it was a matter of Wonder and Astonishment not only to all Good and Godly Christians but even to the very Turks and Pagans Now notwithstanding their specious pretenses of Religion and Liberty who can be so blind as not plainly to see that the main drift of their pretenses was only to Tyrannize over the People and to wallow in all manner of Pleasure and Epicurisme for how notoriously debauched were some of the Chief of those Grand Reformers such as Gregory Clement Henry Martin Hugh Peters c. Besides their Covetousness which was so unmeasurably great that some Wise Men have wondered the Kingdome could be able to pay so much Money as hath been Collected from them in a year and yet for all those immeasurable Taxes the Souldiers and Navy unpaid that money going towards the Raising
Petitions succeeding for an accommodation a Cessation followed and soon after that a Parliament which was Summoned by the Advise of this Earle and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury where the very first thing of Consequence that was done was a Charge of High Treason Exhibited against this Earle by the House of Commons consisting of Twenty Eight Articles whereupon he was Sequestred from sitting as a Peer and soon after committed to the Usher of the Black Rod and so to the Tower His Tryal quickly after ensued which was done with great Solemnity in Westminster-Hall the Earle of Arundal being Lord High Steward The substance of his Articles were That he had Endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Lawes and Governments of England and Ireland That he had done ill Offices betwixt the King and the Scots and betwixt the King and his Subjects of this Kingdom That he had Advised the King to bring up the Army out of the North and over-awe the Parliament And that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of Ten Thousand Men in Ireland ready to be Transported for the same Service His Accusers were Pym St. Johns Whitlock Sir Walter Earles Serjant Glyn Maynard Stroud Mr. Selden Hambden c. But the Earle defended himself so Bravely and Learnedly that the Lords Conscious of his Innocency would not find the Bill Wherefore the Commons seeing they could not speed that way drew up a Bill of Attainder and presented it to the Lords declaring the matter of Fact to have been sufficiently proved and that as to Law he had incurred the Censure of Treason But the Lords adjudged this a strange way of Proceeding unsutable to their own Safety and against Common Justice Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults stopped the Lords Coaches menacing to post up the Names of those who favoured him under the Title of Straffordians and with an impetuous Cry of Justice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill so hard a task had his Blood-thirsty Enemies to bereave him of his Life which yet notwithstanding passed but by the plurality of Seven Voices against him But the hardest matter was to get the Kings assent who very much declined it and in a set Speech cleared the Earle from any design of Treason or consulting to any Arbitrary Government But being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal but principally being desired by the Earle himself to satisfie the Parliament though with his own blood His Majesty after Advise with the Bishops signed that Fatal Bill which afterwards proved the Axe against his own Life Thus fell this Noble Earle being one of the Chief Pillars and Basis of this Nation without whose Ruine the Grandees of the Faction knew it a hard matter to Effect or Accomplish any thing such an Absolute Rare Honest and Loyal Master-Piece of Reason and Prudence as this present Age saw not and well will it be for the next if it may compare and parallel him He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. being the Pro-to-Martyr of the Late Times II and III. MAster Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowcher two Worthy Loyal Citizens of Bristol of good Esteem Plentiful Estates and known Integrity Master Yeomans was Sheriff of that City in the Year 1642. being but the year before his Execrable Murther Master George Bowcher was an Able Pious Loyal Gentleman whom his very Enemies confest to be a Religious Man These Two Loyal Persons seeing the miserable condition of those Places where the Rebells Ruled Entered into a Consultation with some others how to deliver the City of Bristol into Prince Ruperts hands and thereupon it was resolved that upon Munday March 7. 1642. Prince Rupert with some Forces should draw down towards the City whilst they within would Seize the Courts of Guard and open the Gates and by Ringing St. Johns and St. Michaels Bells give him notice thereof Accordingly Prince Rupert came by Five of the Clock the same morning expecting the Signal but the Confederacy being discovered those Two Gallant Gentlemen with some others were apprehended and after Eleven Weeks hard Imprisonment brought to their Tryal at a Council of War where by Fiennes the Governour and others of that Gang they were Condemned to Dye and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals Mandates and Threats of Retaliation having with great patience endured the Scorns and Barbarous Insultations of the Enemy who continually pursued them with Threats and Revilings they were on May 30. 1643. barbarously murthered Master Yeomans professing at his death That if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to his Soveraign in that way And Master Bowcher in his last Speech exhorted all those who had set their hands to the Plow meaning the defence of the Kings Cause not to be terrified by their Sufferings and therefore to withdraw Their bodies were afterwards decently Enterred in the same City whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance whilst those who murthered them shall rot and perish in infamy IV and V. MAster Tomkins and Master Chaloner the one Clark of the Queens Council the other a Linnen-Draper in Corn-hill two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruine by the Seditious practises of the Rebels procured a Commission from the King the design whereof was that they should Seize into their Custody the Kings Children some Members of Parliament the Lord Mayor and Committee of the Militia all the City Out-works and Forts the Tower of London and all the Magazines then to let in the Kings Army to Surpize the City to destroy all Opposers and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney Wife to that Gallant Lord who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill and upon receipt thereof several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof which was chiefly prosecuted by those two Loyal Persons who made such progress therein that the business was brought into some form but so many being concern'd in it through the Treachery of some it came to the Parliaments eares whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Haynous Crime of Loyalty which accordingly was Executed near their own doors July 5. 1643. VI. MAster Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleetstreet afterwards a Messenger to his late Sacred Majesty by whom he was sent to London to signifie the King's Pleasure That the Term of Michaelmas should be prorogued which Message he delivered to the Judges at Westminster-Hall and for performance of his Duty was by those who had quite forgotten all Allegiance and Duty apprehended for a Spy and contrary to the Universal Custom and Honourable Practise of all Nations which gives security and free liberty of passage to all such Persons Tryed before a Council of War held at Essex
House where he was as unjustly Condemned to be Hanged and according to that inhumane Sentence barbarously Murthered by those Bloody Rebels Novem. 27. 1643. VII WIlliam Laud Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a Pious Learned Orthodox Prelate of whom as one observes It would trouble Plutarch if he were alive to finde out a fit parallel with whom to match him This Reverend Bishop was born at Reading extracted from an Honest and well Reputed Parentage his Father being a Wealthy Cloathier of that Town from which place having attained to Learning answerable thereto he was Trans-planted to St. John's Colledge in Oxford where with great Credit and Estimation he passed through all the Honourable Employments of his Colledge so that his Worth came to be taken special Notice of preferring him first to be Chaplain to the Earle of Devon-shire and Proctor of the University Soon after from Bachelour of Divinity he proceeded to Doctor and became Chaplain to Doctor Neal Bishop of Rochester afterwards Translated to York who for his great Abilities preferr'd him to King James so that now having cast Anchor at Court the Haven of Hope he was by that Bountifull King first made Prebend of Bugden and Westminster next Dean of Glocester and Arch-Deacon of Huntington then President of his own Colledge and not long after Bishop of St. Davids King James dying his Son King Charls took him into more especial Favour bestowing on him the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells made him Dean of his Chappel and one of his Privy Council then Bishop of London and Chancellor of Oxford and last of all Arch-Bishop of Canterbury As he grew thus High in the Kings Favour so as it is common with Princes Favourites was he high in disgust with the People for being a Prelate who stood stifly for the strict observation of the Rites of the Church of England which then by the growing Power of Non-Conformists were every where termed Innovations by this means Episcopacy was by many Traduced and diverse Libells scattered up and down against that Sacred Function wherein as being most Eminent he was sure to bear the greatest burthen falsly reporting him inclining to Popery notwithstanding his firmness in the Protestant Religion witnessed by that Book of his against Fisher the Jesuite an unanswerable Work which like a hammer hath beaten all the Romish Arguments into pieces and of which they will never clear themselves brag and vapour what they please Yet notwithstanding this his great Learning Prudence Zeal Humility and other Graces wherewith he was stor'd though he had done nothing worthy of Death or Bonds yet in the beginning of our Dissentions when the mad fury of blind zeal like an impetuous torrent bore down all before it This Reverend Prelate was committed to the Black-Rod and from thence to the Tower where he remained four years before any Charge was brought against him afterwards he was several times brought to the Barr of the House of Commons where notwithstanding his Innocency and Integrity appeared transparent yet being parties Witnesses and Judges too they Voted him Guilty and January 10. 1644. he was wickedly Murthered on Tower-hill In whom was verified that presage of King James No Bishop No King Monarchy soon after falling in the death of that blessed Martyr King Charles VIII ANd Captain Burleigh a Gentleman of the Isle of Wight who after those wicked Votes of Non-Address and that the King was a Prisoner in the said Island he Beat a Drum intending to gather a Force sufficient to Rescue him from his Imprisonment but was quickly seized and supprest by Hamond who sent him over to Winchester where by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer he was Arraigned and Tryed and by a pact-Jury brought in Guilty of High Treason and accordingly barbarously Murthered Feb. 10. 1647. IX and X. SIr Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle those Gemini of Valour Honour and exact Loyalty who gallantly Served the King during the time of Rebellion being without any partiality of affection declared by those that knew them one of them the best for Horse-Service and the other for the Infantry that ever Commanded in their Quality in the Kings Armies These two Gallant Hero's when there was some hopes given of his Majesties Restitution by the Rising of several Counties they likewise put to their helping hand and joyned with them maintaining the City of Colchester for the space of Thirteen Weeks against a Potent Enemy satiated with Victories and supplyed with fresh and continual Recruits having in that time eaten up most of the Horses in the Town together with the Dogs and Cats and whatsoever else could afford them Nourishment though most reluctant to Nature yet notwithstanding this Gallant Opposition with the Miseries they endured upon the Surrender of the Town the Enemy out of hatred to them for their signal Valour and Loyalty inhumanely butcher'd them in cold blood August the 30. 1648. XI MAjor Pitcher a Valiant Loyal Gentleman who out of his sense of the King and Kingdomes Misery and a deep apprehension of the sad Consequences thereof Engaged in Armes for the Restitution of his Sacred Majesty being one of those who with so much Valour and Magnanimity Defended Pembroke against Cromwell and his Army of Janizaries for the space of three months but no hopes of Relief appearing after a most gallant Defence they Rendred themselves upon Articles by which he was To depart the Kingdome for Three Years and not to Return upon pain of Death But he well hoping there might be further occasion of Service to his Majesty by reason the strange Actions of the Men at Westminster had rendred them so odious to the generality of the People He therefore accounting it base to Desert his Prince when so great help required stayed at London in expectation as I said of some further Service but being betrayed by some ignominious wretches was Apprehended and Condemned by a Council of War who seldome quitted any whom they thought might be able to do them a mischief and according to that wicked Sentence he was as barbarously Murthered being shot to death against St. Faith's door December 29. 1648. XII COlonel Poyer who with Major General Langhorne and Colonel Powel took up Armes for the King in Wales in detestation of those bloody Votes of Non-Addresses by the Faction at Westminster But it pleased God not to succeed that Enterprize being defeated at St. Fagons by Colonel Horton whereupon they Retreated with the broken remains of their Army to the Town of Pembroke which they Fortified and Valiantly Defended for the space of Three Months against Horton and Cromwell who with a great Power was come in to their Recruit But wanting Necessaries and hopeless of Relief Valour was forced to condescend to what Barbarity should propound which was to Render at Mercy the effect whereof was according to the Order of a Council of War That the three Colonels should draw Lotts for their Lives which fell upon him and thereupon he was shot
to death in Covent Garden XIII CHarles the I. of Blessed Memory the most Glorious Martyr of this late Age the exact pattern of Piety Patience and Prudence who in the manner of his Sufferings came the nearest to our Saviour of any we have read or heard of whose Christian Virtues and Patience in Afflictions will be had in Everlasting Remembrance Whose History being so exactly delivered by several Learned Pens and his Divine Thoughts so Heavenly set forth in His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other rare Pieces of his own Writing we shall therefore take no further a prospect of Him then from that barbarous and execrable Murther which to the horrour and astonishment of all good Men and to the great shame of the Christian World was most impiously committed on him and that in as brief a method as we can After that it had so pleased God for the sins of the Nation that the Kings Armies were all Overthrown and He Himself a Prisoner under their merciless hands several Endeavours having been used for his Restoration which also proved fruitless Cromwel Ireton and divers others of that Antimonarchial Faction who resolved to Enrich themselves though with the Ruine of the Kingdome and the loss of their own Souls By a Violent and Treasonable Force Seized upon divers Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament such as they thought had any Courage or Honesty to Vote according to their Consciences and neglect their wild Diabolical proposals leaving onely Fifty or Sixty Schismaticks of their own Engaged Party such as had made a prey of the Common-Wealth to Enrich Themselves and their Faction These Offalls of a Parliament quickly Voted down the Kingly Office and House of Peers and that the Supream Authority was in the People and in the House of Commons as their Representative and to bring the King to Capital Punishment before a new invented Illegal mixt Court consisting of Engaged Persons Erected for that purpose having Foundation neither by Prescription nor Law These proceedings though contrary to Law Sense and Religion yet being back'd by an Army they went on in their most wicked Design and to shew that they were as devoy'd of Grace as without shame they kept a Mock-Fast where Hugh Peters that Pulpit-Buffon Acted a Sermon before them the subject whereof was Moses leading the Israelites out of Aegypt which he applyed to the Leaders of the Army covering his eyes with his hands and laying down his head on the Cushion and such other antick gestures as moved the People unto laughter so audaciously impudent were they as to delight in their abominable wickednes Soon after was that accursed High Court of Justice Erected before which Audacious Traytors his Majesty was often brought who refused to hear the King speak of Reason but contrary to all Law Reason Religion Honesty Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy several Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations and Covenants He was by the mouth of that Grand Murthering Rebel Bradshaw Sentenced to be Beheaded the rest of those Miscreant Traytors by standing up assenting to the same and so not being admitted to reply he was by their Guards hurried away the Souldiers as he passed along in imitation or being set on by their Rebellious Masters that they might not be much behind them in Villany scoffing and reviling Him casting the smoak of their Tobacco a thing odious to Him in his face and strewing the Pipes in his way one more insolent then the rest spitting in his face the Souldiers all along as he passed Crying out Justice Justice Execution Execution to whom his Majesty onely said Alas poor Souls for a piece of Money they would do so for their Commanders From the time of that bloodly Sentence to the time of his execrable Murther how barbarously the Souldiers continued their insolencies to him and how base and bruitish they were in their carriage would almost exceed belief of a rational man not suffering him to rest in his Chamber but thrusting in smoaking their Tobacco and disturbing him in his Privacy abusing those that seemed to shew any respect or even compasion to him But through all those Tryalls and Barbarous Affronts he passed with such a calm and even temper that he let nothing fall unbeseeming his former Majesty and Magnanimity but despight of their malice proved himself a Glorious Conquerour When that fatal day was come which they had appointed for his Glorious Martyrdome he was brought from his Palace of St. James's to White-Hall marching on foot through the Park being Guarded by a Regiment of Foot Souldiers with their Colours flying and Drums beating the Guards marching a slow pace he bid them go faster saying That he now went before them to strive for a Heavenly Crown with less solitude then he had often Encouraged his Souldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem After he had come to the Chamber appointed for him in White Hall he spent that little remnant of time he had to live in Devotion and received the blessed Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of London who was Licensed to attend on him from which he received great Spiritual comfort continuing at his Devotions till about Twelve a Clock when he eat a bit of Bread and drank a glass of Clarret returning to his Devotions again when about an hour after he was brought on the Scaffold attended by the foresaid Bishop where with a Christian Courage and Resolution He finished his Glorious Martyrdome which at the falling of his Body mounted his Soul to Heaven in whose bliss-full Mansions he now sings Hallelujahs for ever Thus this Noble Prince sanctified by many Afflictions after he had escaped Pistol Poyson and Pestilent Air which means the Regicides had design'd to take him away by during his restraint could not escape the more venomous tongues of Lawyers and Petty-Foggers Bradshaw Cook Dorislau c. We shall conclude our Discourse of Him with this Epitaph made by a Loyal Person Within this Sacred Vault doth lye The Quintessence of Majesty Which being set more Glorious Shines The best of Kings best of Divines Brittains shame and Brittains glory Mirrour of Princes compleat Story Of Royalty One so exact That th' Elixars of praise detract These are fair shaddows but t' endure He 's drawn to th' life in 's Pourtracture If such another Piece you 'ld see Angels must Limn it out or He. XIV NOw next in order should we proceed to Duke Hamilton Earle of Cambridge who though of another Nation yet being a Peer of this and dying by Sentence of their Illegall High Court of Injustice we cannot without injustice leave him out of this Catalogue It is indeed confest by most that the Kings Interest was but Collateral and though his Actions and Promises at his Tryal in hopes of life may seem evidently to confirm the same yet in his last words and words of dying men do carry great force with them he did Evidence a real Love and Affection to that Cause This Duke was General
of their cruelty upon the most stoutest asserters of the Kings Cause I. COlonel Nathaniel Gordon a Gentleman of exquisite valour who accompanied the Noble Marquess of Montross in all dangers and difficulties his constant Fidelity rendred him odious to the Covenanting-gang who having him in their hands most basely murther'd him at St. Johnstons 1647. II. SIr Robert Spotswood whose Worth and Learning would have preserved him from the hands of his most barbarous Enemies but those of his own Nation He was a Gentleman of most polite and deep learning especially in the Oriental Languages and was for his extraordinary parts made the Kings Secretary of Scotland in the place of the Earle of Lanerick His great Endowments and large Abilities for what he undertook accelerated his end dying with a Noble and Christian courage breathing his last with these words Jesu have mercy on me and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race III. MAster Andrew Guthrey Son to the Bishop of Murrory a Loyal Gentleman and therefore rendred the more obnoxious to the Kirk-men those great pretenders of dutifull affection to the King a strange riddle to love the Master and murther his Servants this gallant person was by them barbarously murthered the aforesaid year 1647. IV. MAster William Murrey Brother to the Earle of Tullibardin one whose hopefull Spring promised a flourishing fruitfull Harvest who in his Youth performed wonders and gave undeniable proofs of what he would have proved afterwards had he not been thus basely cut off in the prime of his strength at Nineteen years of age He most magnanimously couragiously encountered death behaving himself with such a Christian carriage and contempt of death as he said His End would prove the greatest Honour of his Family These four Gentlemen all Sacrificed their lives in defence of their Soveraign and dyed Royal Martyrs at St Johnstons the year of our Lord 1647. aforesaid V. THe Renowned and ever Glorious Marquess of Montross the Honour of Chevalry pattern of true Magnanimity whose glorious exploits were such and so great as would pose Antiquity with all her feign'd Hero's to find his parallel of whom we shall give you the more larger account and shew you how barbarously they used this gallant Worthy He at first sided with the Covenanters against his Majesty their specious pretenses carrying a fairer gloss then his green years could so soon look into but reason quickly rectified his Judgment and he perceived that those fair shews were but painted cloaths on purpose to catch the simple yet would he not so soon on the sudden decline but endeavoured in his Revolt to have done his Majesty an Excellent Piece of Service by bringing that Army to him which was under his Command but being disappointed he endeavoured to display his Loyalty another way The King having then few friends in Scotland but such as were so over-aw'd by the Convenanters they durst not shew themselves the Noble Marquesse obtained a Commission from the King to be Governour of Scotland whither he went attended onely by two Master William Rollock and Master Sibbalds and thorow many dangerâ— came at last to his Cousin Master Patrick Graham in the Sheriff-dome of Perth where he stai'd but a while but went into the High-Lands the Earle of Antrim having promised to send him sufficient Supplies out of Ireland as a stock to begin with which he performed though very defficient in the Number some One Thousand One Hundred only coming over however having some little addition under the Lord Kilpont and the Earle of Perths Son he resolved not to lye idle but with a bold Courage to finde out the Army of the Covenanters then gathered together under the Earle of Tullyburn and other Scotch Lords in Perth-shire where at Tepper-Moor he set upon them and though not equal to his Enemies in number yet so exceeding them in Valour that he obtained of them a Glorious Victory which he might well ascribe to Providence for his Souldiers wanting Ammunition were supplyed by the stones which lay thick on the ground whereon they fought to their very great advantage Here he killed no lesse then Two Thousand of his Enemies whereupon the City of Perth opened her gates and yielded to the Conquerour This Victory obtained he Marches into Argyles Country one whose Actions hath since rendred him deservedly infamous here he made a miserable havock minding utterly to break the spirits of that People who were so surely Engaged to Argyle's side To withstand and represse this so dangerous an Enemy the Covenanters soon Raised another Army under the Earle of Seaforth and the Marquess of Argyle whose Forces being divided he sets upon that Party under Argyle first which he totally Routed killing One Thousand Five Hundred on the Place soon after he Defeated the other Army being newly put under the Command of Colonel Hurry then offers battel to Bayley who declined to Fight without great advantage whereupon he marches after Hurry who was now Recruited and at Alderne sets upon him discomfits him killing One Thousand Eight Hundred and dispersing the rest Then next with his Victorious Army he goes to seek for Bayly to whom was joyned the Earle of Lindsey and joyning battel with them at Alesford-Hills gives them a total Rout but not without the losse of some of his own men whereof the Lord Gourdon deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance then with an uncontrollable march he goes to St. Johnstons putting the Parliament who there satt into a great fright from thence he goes into the Low-Lands to Encounter with Bayly who was again Recruited with another Army by the Kirk At Kilsith both Armies met where betwixt them was fought a very bloody Battel which continued doubtfull for a good space but Victory at length crowned the head of Montross almost Six Thousand of his Enemies falling in that Fight nor were the effects thereof lesse profitable to him then the Victory it self for hereupon almost all Places of Strength yielded to him even as far as Edenburgh the Nobility and Gentry every where readily Assisted him and acknowledged him for their Rightful Governour But what Estate on Earth is long permanent How soon may a serene skie be shadowed with clouds Whiles Montross was now as he thought almost secure most part of his Army returning home he expecting Ayd from the King under the Lord Digby Leshly being called out of England by the Scottish Estates made such hast that he fell upon Montross at Philips-haugh almost before his Scouts could give him Intelligence and there Routed him he hardly escaping with his life being forced to cut his way through his Enemies and with a poor remainder of his Army fly into the High-Lands where he began anew to Levy Forces but the fortune of the King failing every where he was the next year Ordered by the King then in the Scotts Custody to Disband and Depart the Kingdome which notwithstanding he knew it would be prejudicial
was for some misdemeanours of Loyalty brought to the Bar in Chancery where he denyed the Authority of the Court because their Seal was contrary to Law as well as their Commissioners and so baffled those puny Judges that instead of a further prosecution there they committed him Prisoner to the Tower where he gave further Demonstrations of his Loyalty by publishing several Presidents and Statutes wherein he proved them Rebells and Traytors and owned the same again at other Bars So that he did more mischief to the Enemies of the Royal Cause with his Pen then their best Regiment could do with their Swords He used his utmost endeavour to set the Parliament and Army at ods thereby to promote the Kings Cause according to that well known maxime Divide and Conquer defying them and their threats and asserting the King and the Laws against their Usurpation He was kept a close Prisoner a long time in the Tower where wearied of him by his indefatigable industry in the Kings Cause he was removed from thence to Windsor where he continued in the same quality and of the same mind till without thanks to them he was permitted the liberty of the Town and hath survived to see the Return of Majesty the Restauration of the Laws and the Liberty of the Subjects restored to them again in as ample a manner as it was before VIII That Valiant Loyal Son of Mary Sir Ralph afterwards Lord Hopton whose Courage and Prudence in the management of the Kings Affairs for whom he Commanded in the West did gaine him the approbation of an Expert Captain and Gallant Commander having his Endeavours Crowned with many notable Successes After his Disbanding in Cornwall Rebellion then flourishing with a high hand he took shipping with the Prince our now Gracious Soveraign and with him Sailed into the Island of Scilly and from thence into the Realm of France following the Kings hard fortune in his Peregrinations till death in the end put a period to his Travells and after a Troublesome life he found a quiet Grave at the City of Paris in France IX Master Secretary Sir Edward Nicholas who constantly and faithfully adhered to his Majesty from the beginning of his Troubles being a great Prop to the Royal Cause by his Prudent Counsells and Great Abilities in the Management of the most Difficult Affairs and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to our present Soveraign in all his Troubles and Negotiations abroad having with great Faithfulness and Prudency Managed that Employment all along to the happy Effect of his Majesties Glorious Restitution X. Sir Edward Hide since the Right Honourable Earle of Clarendon and Lord Chancellour to his present Majesty of whose Worth and Abilities to speak were to cry out the Sun shine by whose Counsels the late King had in special Esteem and therefore made him his bosome Favourite which caused such a hatred against him by the Faction at Westminster as excluded him out of their Spurious Act of Mercy But escaping their mercilesse cruelty by a timely avoidance of the Land through his prudent carriage of Affairs together with the providencial mercy of God he survived to see those Enemies of Monarchy and Regal Government brought to a Just Tryal and himself advanced to such a pitch of Honour as to see the Laws Administred in their right form and the Subject to enjoy the just priviledges of them XI The Lord Wilnot afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earle of Rochester being Raised thereunto by his superlative Deserts not only by his Valour which shone transcendent clear at Round-way-down neer the Devizes but also in his prudent carriage in that grand Affair concerning the Kingdoms happiness in his Majesties Miraculous Escape from Worcester He died a little before the Kings Restitution not surviving to participate of those Grandeurs whereof his Abilities would have made him a deserved Sharer XII The Right Reverend Doctor Shelden whose Deserts and Sufferings advanced him upon the Restauration of his Majesty to be Lord Bishop of London since by the death of Doctor Juxon as none more able to supply his place to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan of all England of whose Abilities to speak were to show the light of the Sun by a Candle Let it suffice that his very Name is enough to strike Envy dead and to put to silence the most obstinate Heretick and riged Schismatick upon the face of the whole Earth XIII The Religiously Loyall Doctor Hammond a constant assertor of our English Liturgy and one whose Abilities rendred him dear to King Charles the Martyr to whom Imprisonment was no stranger during the time Rebellion was Rampant expecting every day for his Loyalty to have been transported yet would never yield nor deviate from those wayes wherein Conscience ascertain'd him he was in the right though not the predominate side XIV Sir Marmaduke Langdale afterwards Lord Langdale whose Abilities in Martiall Affairs would in the time of Paganism have deified him the God of Battel though in our times his constant Loyalty had rendred him to a higher pitch of Honour being deservedly accounted a Pylot for all Noble and Gallant Spirits whereby to direct and steer their Course XV. Master Roger L' Strange of whose Worth and Abilities to speak would to an Intelligible Reader appear superfluous like the labours of him who writ a whole Volumn in the praise of Hercules whom no man dispraised This Loyal Gentleman for his Endeavours of Reducing Linn to their Obedience to his Majesty suffer'd the utmost malice of a prevailing Faction even to Condemnation besides a long Imprisonment in Newgate Yet could not their Tyranny so much depress his Spirits but his Pen was still a constant Assertor of the Royal Cause in which he continued his best endeavours unto and untill the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty by whom he is looked upon as one of the Agents of his Restauration XVI The Right Honourable the Earle of Norwich a Gentleman of such Worth and Abilities that this mite will signifie nothing to those Rare and Excellent gifts both of Learning and Wisdom wherewith he was Adorned XVII Sir John Stowel a Somerset-shire Gentleman whose Loyalty rendred him so sufficiently Famous that Envy it's self cannot but grant him a prime place with those Glorious Confessors who suffered under the Barbarous Tyrannies of the Rump in the Cause of that Blessed Martyr King Charles who so constantly and vigourously adhered to the King during the War untill the Surrender of Exeter where was good Articles granted upon which he came to London to make composition for his Vast Estate then under Sequestration but contrary to the Capitulation agreed upon at Exeter the Committee at Gold-Smiths-Hall those Horse-leeches of the Nation tendered him the Negative Oath before he could have any admission to Compound to which unjust and perfidious dealing he pleaded the benefit of the said Articles who good Conscientious Men committed him first to the Serjant
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
Nine more of them were Executed at five several places viz. Two at the West end of St. Pauls Two at the Bull and Mouth in St. Martins Two at Beech-lane Two at the Royal Exchange and One a notable Fellow named Leonard Gowler at Bishopsgate They all especially the last obstinately persisted in their Errour only a young man who was Hanged in Redcross-street did relent and repent of his sin and the blood he had spilt but yet could not be perswaded out of his opinion of Chilianisme Thus this desparate attempt ended in a halter and their Declaration called A door of Hope opened proved to be a trap door to draw silly souls to destruction I shall here add those Verses made under Venners picture as being pertinent to this purpose and so take my leave of them His Helmet was a Crown by Revelation His Halbert was a Scepter for the Nation So the Fifth Monarchy anew is grac'd King Venner next to John a Leydon plac'd To these we may add one John James a Small-cole-man by Trade a rank Fifth Monarchist and one who had been engaged in Venners busines but was absent or had saved himself the last day they broke out yet notwithstanding that fair warning departed not from his malice but continued his Meetings and Conventicles with others of his desparate Crue amongst whom he was a principal Rabby or Teacher This man as Venner had done before him and as was couched in their Declaration flew out into several Traytorous Speeches and Invectives against the Kings Person Government and Family which being over-heard by some Neighbours living near James was seized upon and carried before a Justice who committed him to Newgate and the next Terme was brought to a Tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar where the words were proved against him and he convicted and condemned as a Traytor November 27. 1661. He was drawn on a Sledge from Newgate to Tyburn some of his Sect throwing themselves into the same Sledge and embracing him so highly opinionated were they of this their silly though bold Seducer At the Gallows he denied the words but owned and avowed his Chilianisme and the Personal Reign of Christ and with the usuall confidence of his Party resolutely died His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesties Orders and his Head fixed upon a Pole in White-Chappel neer to their Meeting House for an Example to his Fellows Yet could not the ill success of these discourage others from Plots against his Majesty but still new Treasons was hatched by the Rebellious Spirits of one Captain Baker a New-England man and great acquaintance of Hugh Peters who preferred him to be one of Olivers Pensioners with him was engaged one George Phillips a Serjant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment Thomas Tongue a distiller of Strong Waters Francis Stubbs a Cheese-monger James Hide Gunner John Selly Compass-maker and Nathaniel Gibbs Felt-maker Their Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King the Duke of York General Monk and Sir Richard Brown and generally the Bishops the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their opinion and assisted them not Their Commander in Chief was to be Ludlow and one Colonel Danvers Master Nye Master Lockyer Lievtenant Strange the Captains Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design Their Councils was carried on by Six who never sat twice in a Place nor could be known to any two Deal Castle in Kent and Windsor was promised to be theirs This Treasonable Plot was by one Hill who was endeavoured to be drawn into it by Captain Baker discovered to Sir Richard Brown with the Names of the Conspirators who were for the same apprehended and December 11. 1662. brought to a Tryal where being by plain Evidence convicted they were condemned and December 22. Four of them viz. Phillips Tongue Gibbs and Stubbs were Executed and their Heads set upon several Poles two on each Tower-Hill the nearest place to the Tower Afterwards February the 20. one Gibbs Brother of the aforesaid Nathaniel who fled and was re-taken was sent to the Sessions House in the Old Baily and with the said Captain Baker condemned for the former Treason and both of them Executed at Tyburn To these might be added the Intended Rebellion in York-shire and some other of the Northern Counties by some desparate Fanaticks for which divers of them were Executed at York and else-where but we shall wave our Discourse of them and conclude with the Execution of some Notorious Scotch Traytors And first of the Marquess of Argyle one who was a desparate Enemy to the Old King all along a chief Contriver and Fomenter of that Destructive Covenant the Ignis Fatuus of that Nation which the Scots believed as the Trojans did by their Image of Pallas came from Heaven a greater Sider with Cromwel and one who had carried himself very undutifully and irreverently to his Majesty at what time he was amongst them in Scotland yet notwithstanding all these insolencies upon the Kings Restitution with great confidence he came up to London hoping to have obtained his pardon for all those base Treasons he had so covertly Acted in that Kingdome and that his Majesty according to his Gracious Inclination would have past by all his Offences But such was the general hatred and detestation of that People towards him especially of the Nobility that by the Kings Order he was committed to the Tower and from thence not long after in order to his Tryal conveyed to Edenburgh in Scotland where he was brought to account for all his abominable Treasons and notwithstanding he cunningly defended himself and pleaded the Kings Pardon and the Treaties in 1650. and 1651. yet was there such Crimes of a later date besides the never to be forgotten Treachery of Selling King Charles the First to the English as justly condemned him whereupon June the 1. 1661. He was accordingly Beheaded with the Maiden for so is the Axe called in Scotland At his death he very much justified the Covenant that Scottish Witch which consisted of 666 words the number of the Beast in the Revelation and which cost almost as many Thousand Mens lives as there were words contained in the same Neer unto the same time Master James Guthery a prime Remonstrator and a violent Adversary to the King in his Lievtenant the Marquess of Montross together with one Captain Giffan a Runnegado to Cromwel were by Sentence and Decree of Parliament hanged at Edenburgh so far to use the words of an Elegant Authour writing upon these Affairs the Laws and a suffering sense of the Miseries and Reproaches that Nation lay under by these Men and their Partisans Guilt did now prevail against the Dominion of the Kirk which had Enslaved and Enchanted the whole Masse of that People We shall conclude all with the Lord Warreston a wicked Knave a Committee of Safety Man notoriously Infamous for his Treason in Scotland and a fugitive there who being Proclaimed a Rebel and Traytor was taken