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 Poor Kindred many of themselves if not the greatest part before those Times of so little Account and Esteem that they could not Write Gentleman Then that their Pride and Ambition was as great as their Covetousness is easie to be discern'd for after that Horrid Murther of his Sacred Majesty How did those Cocks of the Game peck at one another Cromwell's Ambition never stinting untill such time he had attained the end of his Desires Resolving to sit in the Seat of Soveraignty although he waded to the same in Blood and Perjury and thereupon turned out his Rebellious Masters which he might the more easily do their Horrid Actions having made them so notoriously odious to all sorts of People who rejoyced at their Downfall Now though Cromwel were so Bloody a Tyrant that People might have prayed for his Life with the same intent as the Sicilian Old Woman did for the Life of Dionisius For fear that the Devil should come after for no other could parallel him Yet he being dead we find other's Pride and Ambition as high as his such striving amongst themselves to get into the Seat of Soveraignty untill they thrust one another off of the Cushion and by their Divisions made a ready way next to the Providence of Almighty God for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty So that we see what ever was pretended of Religion Liberty and such like fine Devices the main End of their Designs was Pride Envy Covetousness and Ambition Against those Wicked Persons and Practises how many Gallant Men Opposed Themselves both in their Lives and Estates The Chief of whom we have given you an Account of in this Book which we have Divided into Three Centuries or Catalogues The First of which are those Loyal Martyrs who suffered under a Formal kind of Justice in which as in the rest we have observed the Order of Time and not of Dignity Some perhaps may Object against Two or Three Persons therein mentioned such as Duke Hamilton Master Love c. as having the Presbyterian Interest inter-woven with the Royal Account but certainly the main end of their Designs was Loyalty as they manifested at the time of their deaths and therefore may deservedly challenge a place in that Catalogue In the Second Place You have an Account of the most Eminent Commanders and Officers who were Slain in the Kings Service Sealing their Love to that Cause with their dearest Bloods and Manfully Fighting died in the Bed of Honour If we have over-slipped any of Extraordinary Eminency for it is impossible to mention every one We desire to be better Informed by their Friends or Acquaintance and upon a Second Edition we shall endeavour to do them Right according to their Deserts In the Third Ranke We have placed the Royal Confessors such as Suffered in the Kings Cause by Imprisonment Sequestration Banishment c. Of which We have mentioned but only some few of the most Eminent the Total Arising to such a Vast Number as would Pose Arithmetick to reckon them up To These Worthies We have in the Second Place Adjoyned a Catalogue of the Unworthies or Brief Characters of the most Notorious Regicides and Others of that Gang who were the Chief Authours and Abetters of all Those Miseries and Calamities which so long a Time Afflicted this Nation that as the One may be an Encouragement to Virtue and Loyalty so the Other may Deter Men from Vice and Villany This is the summ of our Design which if it finde Kind Acceptance it shall Encourage me to a further Enlargement thereof If otherwise yet this shall be my Comfort that I have Discharged my Duty and shown my Self to be A True Lover of His King and Country W.W. The Names of the Martyrs according as they are Figured in the Frontispiece with the Page wherein to finde their several Histories I. King Charles Page 16 II. E. of Strafford Page 1 III. E. of Derby Page 33 IV. Lord Capel Page 24 V. Sir Charles Lucas Page 13 VI. Sir George Lisle Page 14 VII Col. Morris Page 27 VIII Col. Penruddock Page 36 IX Col. Grove Page ibid X. Col. Eus Andrews Page 29 XI Col Gerard Page 34 XII Col. Benbow Page ibid XIII Cap. Burleigh Page 12 XIV Col. Pitcher Page 14 XV. Col. Poyer Page 15 XVI Sir T. Fetherstonh Page 34 XVII D. Hamilton Page 21 XVIII E. of Holland Page 23 XIX Cor. Blackburn Page 28 XX. Mr. Benson Page 30 XXI Cap. Bushel Page 32 XXII Col. Ashton Page 40 XXIII Sir Hen. Slingsby Page 38 XXIV Cap. Symkins Page 34 XXV Arch B. Laud Page 9 XXVI Dr. Hewyt Page 39 XXVII Mr. Beaumont Page 27 XXVIII Mr. Vowel Page 35 XXIX Mr. Love Page 32 XXX Dr. Levens Page 28 XXXI Sir Hen. Hide Page 30 XXXII Mr. Yeomans Page 5 XXXIII Mr. Bowcher Page ibid XXXIV Mr. Tomkins Page 7 XXXV Mr. Challoner Page ibid XXXVI Mr. Kniveton Page 9 XXXVII Mr. Gibbons Page 32 XXXVIII Mr. Kensy Page 37 XXXIX Mr. Lucas Page ibid XL. Mr. Betly Page 40 XLI Mr. Stacy Page 41 The Loyal Martyrologie OR A Brief Historical Relation and Character of all those Persons that were Murther'd by Colour of any Sentence during the late Rebellion I. THomas Wentworth Earle of Strafford and Lord Deputy of Ireland a most Wise Prudent and Honourable States-Man Descended from the Illustrious Family of the Wentworths in Yorkshire and Educated according to the Greatness of his Birth He was at first a great stickler against the Prerogative untill allured by Court-Preferment he turned Royalist being by King Charles the First for his great Parts made Baron Wentworth of Raby and employed in diverse Offices of Trust which he discharged with great Honour and Faithfulnesse So thus his Deserts soon mounted him from one degree of Honour to another till at last he was made Lord Lievtenant of Ireland in which Government he exceeded all that went before him in the Careful Management of the Affairs of that Realm Reclaiming the Irish from many of their Barbarous Customes and reducing them to the English civility suppressing their Out-Lawes and Tories and bringing them to perfect entire Obedience to the Kings Authority and Laws He much advanced the Protestant Religion and setled a constant Revenue for the Clergy of that Kingdom and made so good a procedure in what he undertook that had not those Disloyal Times of Confusion fallen out no doubt he had attained his Ends and setled that Kingdom in a most flourishing condition The Scotch War being the Prologue to all our late Troubles breaking out he was sent for out of Ireland to Advise with the King about those Troubles which so unpreparedly had surprized him To which work he Contributed his Head Hands and Purse advancing by subscription Twenty Thousand Pound as a Coppy for the rest of the Nobility to write after In this Expedition he was made Lievtenant General and was very eager to Fight with the Scots But the English being defeated at Newborn and
over the Scotch Forces that came into England when the King was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight the cause of their coming being contained in a Declaration which they brought along with them consisting of five heads 1. That the King be forthwith brought to London to Treat in Person with the Two Houses of Parliament 2. That all those who had a hand in or contrived the carrying of the King away from Holmby be condignly punished 3. That the Army be Disbanded 4. That Presbitery be setled 5. That the Members of Parliament who were forcibly secluded from the Houses may be restored But these Demands were answered with Fire and Bullet the Duke and his great Army totally defeated by Cromwel and Himself taken Prisoner by Colonel Wayte and being now in their hands they thought to make good use of him to cajole and fish out what great Ones Members of both Houses the City and Clergy had a hand in his Undertaking It being more then suspected that he had such Invitation to which purpose he was exceedingly importuned by Cromwell the Lord Grey of Grooby Colonel Wayte and Hugh Peters who promised him they would not much obstruct his pretended Plea of Quarter from Lambert upon Articles Nay Peters avouched Quarter so given for which Hamilton gave him Thanks and Mony and Peters in consideration thereof prayed for him openly as his Lord and Patron still feeding him with hopes If he would impeach their Opposites but when they could not extort it from him the Scene was soon altered they which smiled on him before then frowned and being at his Tryal asked what he could say for himself he pleaded Quarter and vouch'd Peters Testimony but that wretched Priest with a brazen face renounced the same saying He now remembred no such matter but that the Army scorned to give Quarter to Him or any of his Nation whereupon he was Condemned to the Block which Sentence was Executed upon him March 9. 1648. XV. HEnry Earle of Holland a special Favourite of King Charles the I. in the beginning of his Reign though afterwards when the long Parliament began to sit that Religion became the Bone of Contention he sided with them But afterwards perceiving that they made Religion only a cloak to cover their Rebellion he deserted them and took up Armes for the Royal Interest together with the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Francis Villers's Brother the Earle of Peterburgh and some others But they no sooner Rose but were Encountered by the Parliaments more Numerous Forces by whom they were Defeated and the Earle the next day taken Prisoner being afterwards brought to his Tryal before those Lawless Regicides he was by them Condemned together with my Lord Capel and Duke Hamilton and suffered on the same Scaffold the aforesaid 9. of March 1648. XVI ARthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham a most Noble Heroick Gallant Peer Eminently Famous for his Charity and other Rare Endowments whose Noble Virtues fill the Trumpet of Fame to all Posterity This Noble Lord was Son and Heir to Sir Henry Capel of Hadham-Hall in Hartford-shire well known for his Bountiful House and diffusive Charity to the Poor which some Eminous of good works in others because they will practise none themselves have bespattered with the Name of Popery which as they set forth onely the speakers malice so were they no hinderance to this Noble Lord when as he came to possess that Vast Estate to tread in the same steps his Father and Honourable Predecessors had done His great Parts and Deserts Advanced him from the Degree of Knight-hood the antient Dignity of his Family to Baron Capel of Hadham his Son being since by our Gracious Soveragn Created Earle of Essex a little before the time the Earle of Strafford received his Tryal whose giving his Vote to that Bill was in his conscientious Judgment of himself his Original Condemnation in foro Caeli During the time of Rebellion and those unhappy Differences betwixt the King and Parliament none more Constant and Loyal to his Majesty then He Assisting him in all that he could both in Head Hand and Purse and was by Him for his singular Wisdome and Prudence appointed Councellour unto the Prince whom he left not till the Disbanding the Lord Hoptons Army in Cornwall being then dismist with an Honourable Character from that discerning Prince But long had he not continued here at home when some fresh hopes appearing of his Majesties Restauration to his former Authority by the Rising of several Parties for the King he resolved to set his helping hand thereto and joyning with those Valiant Sons of Mars Sir Charles Lucas c. was together with them Besieged in Colchester which for Thirteen Weeks they Valiantly Defended Enduring and Suffering almost all Extremities imaginable at last they were forced to yield upon Articles of Quarter for Life in which this Noble Lord was included yet notwithstanding all Articles he was sent up Prisoner to London and committed to the Tower from whence he endeavoured an Escape and had effected it had he not been betray'd by one Jones a Waterman a second Banister soon after he was brought to their bloody Slaughter-house nick-named by them a Court of Justice whereby those Enemies of Honour and Loyalty he was Condemned and March 9. aforesaid brought to the Scaffold where he resolutely afferted his own Actions his dead Masters Cause and his present Soveraigns Rights recommending him to the People as the great Example of True English Worth and the only Hope of the distracted Kingdom and so like a True Christian Hero suffered the pains of the Axe sealing his Glorious Cause with his last breath and blood XVII MAster Beaumont a Reverend Divine belonging to the Garrison of Pomfract who for his Loyal Endeavours towards the Restoration of his Majesty in holding Correspondency in Cyphers with some Active Royalists was by those Murdering Miscreants who spared none either for their Age or Function most barbarously murdered Feb. 15. 1648. XVIII COlonel John Morris a Gentleman of an Undaunted Courage and Resolution bred up in the Earle of Straffords's House where he was taught his Duty to God and Obedience to his King whom he Faithfully Served in that time of Rebellion being that Gallant Person that Surprized Pomfract Castle which he Valiantly Defended even to the very pinch of Extremity and was for his Valour and Loyalty being suspected by them to be one of those that sent Rainsbrough's Ghost to trace the Infernal Shades most inhumanly butchered by those Scelerate Villanies at the City of York August 23. 1649. XIX COronet Michael Blackburn Emiently Famous for his Loyalty and Faithfull Service to his Soveraign being also taken at Pomfract Castle and likewise suspected for Rainsbrough's death he was therefore by those sworn Foes to true Valour basely murdered at York August 23. aforesaid XX. DOctor Levens Doctor of the Civil Law a Gentleman well Descended of an Antient Family in Oxfordshire who at the first beginning of these
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
recruit chosen Burgess for that Country-Town as Colleague to Sir Arther Hazelrig that Furious Northern blast He was made a Captain of a Troop of Horse and besides was a great Committee-man yet was he a person of very weak parts and easie to be led to Act any thing to which the hope of Profit called him yet as ill gotten goods never prosper so he thrived not notwithstanding his gainfull Trade but was Fool'd by Oliver into the snare as he often afterwards confessed the same LXIX Thomas Wait A Rutland-shire man who from a very mean beginning came to be Governour of Burleigh and was by the influence of the Army chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament by which means he became ingaged to their Interests and Designs joyning with them in the Murther of his Majesty He is now a Prisoner under Sentence of death which by the Kings clemency is hitherto respited Thus have you a Catalogue of Sixty Nine of those Notorious Regicides which Sat and Sentenced the King a Crime of so High a Nature as will almost startle the belief of Posterity that Men professing themselves to be Christians should under a pretense of Religion and Justice Murther so Good and Pious a Prince one whom envy its self could not but confess to be beyond Parallel and whom Cook one of his inveterate enemies confessed to be a most Virtuous most Innocent most Religious King and every way most fit for the Government The Reader may also consider that though many otherwise well meaning men were drawn in at first to further their Designs yet the mean persons that were his Judges and Murtherers were generally mean and desparate persons such as were lifted up by Ambition Sacriledge Covetousness and Success and had no other wayes to Rise but by others Ruines in the Downfall of the King Nobility and Gentry But God would not suffer the Lamented and Barbarous Death of this Prince to pass unrevenged nor his own Sacred Name to be Blasphemed many of those desparate Wretches making Him the Author and Maintainer of their Impiety arguing from the Success the Goodness of their Cause although they might plainly perceive that when God had made use of them as his Rod to correct his Children he then threw it into the fire We shall next give you a Catalogue of some other Accessaries notoriously Guilty in this Horrid Murther and how Divine Vengeance found them out rewarding them according to the fruits of their Works I. JOhn Cook the Solicitor of that High Court of Injustice a man of great Parts had he not imployed them to foul purposes He was a Grays-Inn Gentleman but in a poor and wanting condition before he undertook this most Scelerate piece of Service His indigency by some charitable opinions being the greatest motive that induced him unto it and so did it not out of Malice but Avarice as he himself Alleadged at his Tryal Thus we see what a narrow Fortune and the streights of Debt and the Devils wide World and vast Preferments can tempt a man to After this horrid Paricide he was by his Fellow Regicides greatly Advanced especially in Ireland of which he was made Lord Chancellour and from whence after his Majesties return he was sent into England to be Tryed his for his Treasons which was done accordingly at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily where he shewed very much respect and reverence to the Court behaving himself to the removal of that prejudice which the Generality had of him as of a Monster He was for his Horrid Treasons Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which was accordingly Executed upon him October 16. 1660. at the Place where Charing-Cross formerly stood His Head was set on a Pole on the North-East end of Westminster-Hall and his Quarters on the Gates of the City II. Hugh Peters An Antique in Religion the shame of the Clergy a Pulpit Buffoon Oliver's Chaplain and Jester to tell Stories and make the People laugh a most Seditious abominable Fellow the Trumpet to this Pagantry High Court of Justice and the most unparallel'd Ecclesiastick in all Stories and Times Who like Doctor Shaw in the time of King Richard the Third but more shameless was employed to cry down the King and to cry up the Protector He was a principal in the Cabal for the Murther of the King whose Death he contrived in five several places viz. at Ware Windsor Coleman-street the Painted-Chamber and Bradshaws House comparing the King in his Sermon to Barrabas and in another the Text whereof was to Bind Kings in Chains c. He declared that there was an Act of Gods own making That they that spilt mans blood by man should their blood be spilt and that out of that Law neither the King nor Prince nor Prince Rupert nor none of that Rabble were excepted Upon the return of the King being conscious of his own guilt he hid his head but his lurking place was found out and he taken in the Burrough of Southwark where at first he denied his Name but being brought before Sir John Robinson then made Lievtenant of the Tower he was known and acknowledged himself where he was kept Prisoner till such time as his Tryal which was October 13. 1660. at which time it is very remarkable that this Person who by his Function as a Priest had most dishonoured God in Preaching and pressing this Particide making use of his Holy Writ to this wicked purpose had then nothing to say but to cavil at the Witnesses and that he was sorry to hear of his carriage towards the King we may believe him but he had no malice towards him but was meerly Engaged in the Army He was condemned together with Cook and with him October 16. Drawn on Two Hurdles to Execution where the miserable Wretch had not a word to say for himself or to God of whom he said he was abandoned He that was so nimble and quick in all projects in this nature before was now like a Sot or a Fool playing and toying with the straw in the Sledge as he went to Execution nay so stupid was he that the Hangman was forced to use more then ordinary strength to throw him off the Ladder being almost hanged dead he was cut down and Quarter'd his Head set upon London-Bridge and his Quarters exposed upon the tops of some of the City Gates III. Daniel Axtell who at first kept a Country Pedling-shop in Bedford-shire and was double diligent in running after Seditious Persons who then vented Treason in Pulpits and believing their Doctrine for currant obey'd the Call as he called it of those blind Guides and went forth a small Officer to fight against the Mighty His great Industry in their Service brought him after many Traverses to be a Lievtenant Colonel and employed by Cromwel out of Favour to him as he said though the Devil could not have done him a greater Discourtesie to be Captain of the Guard at the Kings Tryal where to show his Complacency
they passed and came into the City without opposition as far as Threadneedle-street with such a confident resoluteness that a Party of the Trained Bands designed to Watch that day being sent out to follow them were forced to Retreat to their Main-Guard when the whole Body advancing towards them they retreated into Bishopsgate-street where some of them took into an Ale-House at the signe of the Helmet where they maintained a sharp Dispute two of them being Killed and two Taken and as many Killed and Wounded of the Trained Bands The next News of them was at Colledge-Hill from whence they marched up into Cheap-side and so into Wood-street as far as the Counter where Venner who Headed them being Armed with a Murrion on his head and a Halbert in his hand commanded the Prisoners to be let out or else he told them they were but dead men But before he could accomplish his designs they were charged by the Life-Guard whom they put to the Retreat but they being seconded by two Companies of the Trained Bands the Dispute was very sharp and desparate untill at last Venner being knockt down and Tuffnel and Crag two of their prime Teachers fled they began to give ground and betook themselves to flight by several wayes the greatest part of them went down Wood-street and so to Criplegate firing in the Rear at a Trained Band of Yellow who closely pursued them at last they took in at the Blew Anchor Ale-House by the Postern which House they maintained with much desparate courage and would not hear of any Termes of Yielding soon after came Lievtenant Colonel Cox with his Company and surrounded all places about it and then some of the Souldiers got up upon the Tilings of the next House which they cast down and fired into the uppermost Room where the Rebells were yet were they so desparately bent in their wickedness that even then they refused Quarter untill a File of Musqueteers got up the Stairs and having shot down the door entered upon them six of them being killed and another wounded yet one of them still refused Quarter who being knockt down with the But end of a Musquet was afterwards shot the rest yielded who being demanded why they craved not Quarter before Answered They durst not for fear their owne Fellows should shoot them of such a desparate resolution was the temper of their Spirits In this Rebellious Insurrection were slain alike of both sides Twenty Two of the Kings Leige People and Twenty Two of the Traytors Twenty One more besides were taken whose Names were as followeth viz. Thomas Venner their Chief Ring-leader the Captain of this Rebellious Rout The Second to Venner were one Tuffnel a Carpenter living in Grays-Inn-lane a desparate Fellow who after He and his Party were forced over the Houses through More-lane they fled into the Fields and he having four or five Pistolls about him discharged them all before he could be got down but at last he was so mortally wounded that they brought him in a Chair to Newgate and so they sent him to Christ-Church Hospital where after three dayes space he dyed of his wounds and was carried into Christ-Church-Yard for to be viewed to see if any body would own him but a hole being digged the Blew Coat Boyes covered him with the Earth and he was never further lookt after The next was Roger Hodgkins a Button-Sellor in St. Clements Lane neer Lumbard street Giles Pritcherd a Cow-keeper Leonard Gowler Jonas Allen John Pym William Orsingham William Ashton Stephen Fall John Smith William Corbet John Dod Iohn Elestone Thomas Harris Iohn Gardener Robert Bradley Richard Marten Iohn Patshall Robert Hopkins and Iohn Wells These Twenty and One were all brought to the Bar together Tuffnel excepted their Tryal succeeding soon after their Desparate Engagement where the wounded Men had Chairs allowed them to sit down in and after the Indictment was read which was laid both to Treason and Murther Thomas Venner was first called who being asked Guilty or not Guilty ran out into a wild Discourse about his Conversation in New-England and concerning the Fifth Monarchy and the Testimony within him above these Twenty years He confessed He was in the late Rising but was not Guilty of Treason intending not to Leavy War against the King and again ran out into impertinent Stories and Discourses as before but being pressed by the Court to Answer to his Indictment he pleaded Not Guilty and for his Tryal put himself upon God and the Country In the like manner all the rest used many rambling diversions from the business but at last pleaded to their Indictments Whereupon the Witnesses were sworn who made it appear that Venner Tuffnel and Crag the two last being killed in the business Did several times perswade their Congregation to take up Arms for King Iesus against the Powers of the Earth which were his Majesty the Duke of York the General c. That they were to Kill all that opposed them That they had been Praying and Preaching but not Acting for God That they Armed themselves at their Meeting-House in Coleman-street with Blunder-busses Musquets c. Marten Hopkins Wells and Patshall the Witnesses being not so clear against them were acquitted by the Jury the other Sixteen were found Guilty and being brought to the Bar were demanded to shew cause why Sentence of Death should not pass upon them which they not doing they were all Sixteen Condemned to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered The Lord Chief Justice Foster charging Venner with the blood of his Complices by his Seduction and Leading of them he Answered He did not to which the Witnesses being produced again he blasphemously evaded it with this quible and said It was not He but Iesus that Led Them According to the Sentence pronounced on them Ianuary 19. 1661. Venner and Hodgkings both desparately wounded in the Rebellion and as yet uncured were Drawn on Sledges from Newgate through Cheap-side over against their Meeting House in Swan-Alley in Coleman-street where they were Executed according to the Sentence pronounced against them Venner according to the nature of most desparate Traytors vindicating Himself and his Fact being confident he said That the time was at hand when other judgement would be reflecting much upon the Government But if the one was mad the other raved Hodgkins in way of Praying Calling down Vengeance from Heaven upon the King the Iudges and the City of London nor would he leave until the Hangman by the Sheriff's order turn'd him off the Ladder so that as they lived in a mad Religion they died as madly in the same Their Quarters were set upon the Four Gates of the City by the late Executed Regicides whose quarrel and revenge they undertook in this desparate attempt and their Heads upon Poles as lovingly by some of them on London-Bridge The same day Giles Pritchard a Cow-keeper and another of them were Executed in Cheap-side and on the Munday following being the 21. of Ian.