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A66699	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 / by William Winstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1665 (1665)	Wing W3066; ESTC R9014	71,216	190

1660. IV. Sir Hardress Waller a Souldier of Fortune and in Charity judged not to be of such a premeditated malice as the rest though by the current of Times drawn to Act with the highest in Mischief He was at the first a Cavalier in Opinion but with the more gainfuller times turn'd Presbyterian then afterwards upon the new module when Presbytery began to decline he became a strong Independant where finding the uncontroulable sweetness of Pay and minding Profit more then Conscience he still grew more hardned in his Lawless practises finding more likeliness of greater spoiles in the destruction of Monarchy He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesties Execution and Acted all along with them in their Murtherous Counsels having for his share in the price of blood a Command afterwards in Ireland where he continued till such time as the Happy Revolution of Affairs brought Monarchy again to stand on its feet when he surrendred himself and upon his Tryal shewed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes He still lives by the Mercy of the King a condemn'd man Prisoner in the Isle of Wight V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Extract or Remarque till such time as made notoriously famous for Villany He was by Marriage Cromwel's Brother in Law who upon that account by his Authority and Command in the Parliament preferred him to be Governour of Linn and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely which place he had stongly Fortefied as a safe Retreat for Cromwel if before he had compleated his damnable Designs he should have been forced to have gone thither Upon the Change of the Times when Royalty began to grow splendid he ran away the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth and hath hitherto escaped the hands of Justice VI. Colonel Thomas Harrison the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle under line in Staffordshire at first a Servant to one Master Hulker an Atturney But finding the Law begun to be trode under foot he betook himself to the Army the more hopefuller way of preferment where by his Preaching and such like Sanctimonious wayes of proceeding when the Army made a gain of Godliness he came to be a Major and being of a pragmaticall daring spirit was by the influence of Cromwel preferred to be a Colonel and the Custody of the Kings Person when taken from the Isle of Wight committed unto him which he according to his Butchery Nature most irreverently abused by no less saucy behaviour then Treasonable Speeches of blacking the King c. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ring-leader of all the Schismatiques especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men and such as traded in Enthusiasmes in whose Love and especial Opinion he dyed being expectedly Executed at the place where once stood Charing-Cross October 14. 1660. His Head was set upon a Pole on the top of the South-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters Exposed to Publick View upon some of the City Gates VII Colonel Edward Whaley Descended from a Family in Nottingham-shire and bound Apprentice to a Woollen-Draper which trade he followed for a while but falling into decay left the Ell and took up the Spear and during all the time of our Troubles was very industriously Active rising by degrees till he came at last to be Comissiary General of the Horse He was a Man of a daring Spirit and resolute to perform what ever he undertook Crafty withall and Covetous having not where-withall otherwise to maintain his Ambition to which we may add his Perfidiousness betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretense of Affection the worst kind of perfidy and having thus juggled him whither they would have him he made no scruple to joyne with others in his horrid Murther upon the turn of the Times he likewise fled to prevent the stroke of Justice worthily due to his Deserts VIII Colonel Thomas Pride a Brewer at first a Dray-man but at the beginning of the Wars contrary to David who left the Sword to take up the Sling he forsooke the Sling and took up the Sword and though an Ignorant Illiterate Fellow scarce fit to carry gutts to a a Beare whose destruction he performed at Paris Garden yet being of a resolute Courage and the blind goddess Crowning him with successe he was thought fit to partake with Cromwel and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Parliament for him and having thus Acted that which carried a shew of Law and Justice there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons being a prime Agent in the Murther of the King Acting with as much Impudence and Brutishness as any of them all He died before his Majesties Return escaping thereby a more shamefull and ignominious death IX Colonel Isaac Ewer Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family in Yorkshire but the Patrimony thereof being in the wave to recruit his Decaying Fortunes he betook himself to the Wealthiest Side and added much to the Ruine of Monarchy having gained a great proficency in their Destructive Principles so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villany being cloaked under a vail of Religion He was thought fit because of his Birth to be the Kings Guardian from the Isle of Wight and afterwards one of his Judges where he gave his hand against his Sacred Soveraign adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murther He likewise died before his Majesties Return robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby Son to the Earle of Stamford who becoming a Colonel in the Army grew infected with their Destructive Principles and contrary to Honour Acted with them in their odious Designs having his hand in the Murther of the King the Fountain and Source of all Honour from whence others are derived In regard of the Honour of his Family he escapes a Mention or Condemnation for this Crime as well as for some others He dyed before his Majesties Happy Restauration XI William Lord Mounson a sordid Fellow of Destructive Principles and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villanies being for Debt a long time a Prisoner but by his Fellow Regicides fetcht out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses After the Return of his Majesty he was for his Treasonable Practises together with Sir Henry Mildmay and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Commons where their Estates were Declared Confiscate and they degraged from all Titles and Armes of Gentility and further Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London upon Sledges with Halters about their Necks and so back again to the Tower there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment which Sentence was accordingly Executed upon them January 30. 1661. XII Sir John Danvers Knight Brother to that Loyal and Noble Peer the Earle of Danby who for his Fidelity to his Soveraign was by the Rebells Voted a Delinquent the covetousness after which Estate drew in this Knight

Tower XLV Gregory Clement a lustfull Goat who being a monied Merchant Purchased himself a place in Parliament that he might the more freely and with the greater Authority exercise his notorious debaucheries which were so vulgarly known that his fellow Villaines could not but upon pretense of honesty discard him their company He contributed largely to the destruction of his Soveraign for he who fears not to Commit Adultery will not stick out to do Murther He received afterwards the reward of his Treasons being hang'd drawn aud quarter'd Octob. 17. 1660. His Head set upon London-Bridge and his Quarters on the Gates of the City XLVI Sir Gregory Norton One whose means was not answerable to his Title being one of the Pensioners to the King who ungratefully for the lucre of money joyned also in the Kings murther and had by his fellow Regicides for his Service as good as given Richmond Manner and House He died before his Majesties Return XLVII John Venn A broken Silk-man in Cheap-side who to recruit his Fortunes took part with the Strongest Side carrying as great a pretense to Religion as the best it being the Stalking Horse in those Times for them who meant to ride in the Chair of Preferment He was at the beginning of the War made Governour of Windsor Castle and had other Places of great Profit bestowed on him this drew him on to Act in the Murther of his Sacred Majesty though afterwards stricken with the horrour thereof He is said desparately to have hanged himself certain it is he died very strangely and suddainly though the certainty thereof was by his friends smoothered up as much as they could XLVIII Thomas Andrews a Linnen-Draper in Cheap-side but thinking the Trade of Rebellion more gainfull he resolved not to stand out having so fit an opportunity for him to come into Play and so got to be a Treasurer for the Guild-Hall Plate and a Receiver for the Army whereby he got great summs of money to himself which so Encouraged him in Treason that he feared not to Sit and Sentence his Soveraign and afterwards Alderman Reynoldson Lord Mayor of London refusing to Proclaim the Act for Abolishing Kingly Government he being Elected Lord Mayor in his Place Proclaimed the said Act in Great State He died just upon the Revolution of the Times and very narrowly prevented Justice XLIX Anthony Stapley a Sussex Gentleman Colonel and Governour of Chichester who by partaking with those Blood-Thirsty Regicides grew infected and was strangely wrought into this Wicked Conspiracy He likewise died before the Kings return L. Thomas Horton one of so mean and unknown a Quality that his Pedigree is not to be found unless we should derive it from Judas that Prince of Traytors He so thrived by the Wars that he was chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament and was one of those that dipt his hands in his Royal Soveraigns blood He also died before the Kings return LI. John Lisle Of a good Family in the Isle of Wight whose Father died there during the Treaty being possessed of a fair Patrimony in the said Isle this his ungracious degenerate Son whom he bred up a Lawyer taking part with those Bloody Regicides proved in process of time as bad as the worst of them and arrived to the very height of Cruelty and Impiety for having once washed his hands in his Soveraigns blood he feared not to Act any Murther whatsoever becoming President to all the High Courts of Justice during the Usurpation by whose Sanguinous violence fell many Gallant and Heroick Spirits for reward of which his cruelties he was made one of the Commissioners of the New Great Seal and Master of Saint Crosses a Place only fit for a Divine worth Eight Hundred Pound per Annum He fled upon the return of the King but divine vegeance which will not suffer the sin of Murher to go unpunished found him out and at Genuah by Three disguised Irishmen he received the reward of his deserts though not in so Legal a way as could be wished they being forced to Kill whom they could not bring away by reason of the strong Guards he had about him a shame to those Places which professing Christianity yet will give harbour to such wicked abominable Villans LII John Dixwell A recruit likewise of the Long Parliament for Dover of which Castle he was Colonel and Governour and therefore so far oblidged to them for his Promotion that in requital of their Favours he joyned with them in the Murther of his Majesty but fearing the reward of his Treachery upon the Kings return he quitted the Land which too long had groaned under the weight of so hatefull a Regicide LIII Miles Corbet A stain to his Family of very good Reputation in Norfolk He was one of the male-contented Members of the former Parliament with Sir John Elliot and Others and being chosen a Burgess for Yarmouth in the Long Parliament finding the Times fit for his purpose he resolved to wreak his malice upon the King and was a principal Instrument to help forward the ensuing calamities and having raised himself by others ruines to retain what be had so wickedly got and in hopes of greater Preferment he joyned likewise in the murther of the King for which he was rewarded with several great Places in England and Ireland where he was in effect Lord Chancellor but long enjoyed he not that Honour for upon his Majesties return he with Berkstead and Okey privately sneaked into Germany where having remained a while they returned to Delf in Holland intending under feigned Names to visit their Wives there but divine vengeance which never sleepeth found them out and by the vigelance of Sir George Downing his Majesties Resident at the Hague they were apprehended which made Corbet to purge upwards and downwards in a very strange manner being afterwards sent into England they were at the Kings-Bench-Bar Arraigned and Condemned and according to Sentence Hanged Drawn and Quartered April 2. 1662. where now Corbets Head over-looks the Thames on London Bridge and his Quarters exposed to the view of the beholders on the City Gates LIV. Simon Meyne a Buckingham-shire Man of a good Estate but being of a covetous disposition he endeavour'd to enlarge it though by indirect means getting two good Trades for that purpose viz. a Committee and a Sequestrator to which we may add a third being chosen an Illegal recruit in the Long Parliament and now having his hand in thought it no great matter to assist in taking away the Kings Life At his Majesties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice but his crimes were found to be of so crimson a dye that Sentence of death was passed on him however Execution of that Sentence was respited since which time he died a natural death in the Tower LV. John Alured A Souldier of Fortune who to climb the higher on the blind Goddesses wheele dipped his hands in

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