Harrison.  
I. Caren.  
●. Cook.  
●. Peter's.  
T. Scott.  
●. Cl●m●nt.  
O. Cromwell.  
Ad. Scroop.  
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THE LIVES, ACTIONS, AND EXECUTION OF The prime Actors, and principal Contrivers of that horrid Murder of our late pious and Sacred Sovereign King CHARLES the first, of Ever blessed memory.  
WITH Several Remarkable Passages in the Lives of others, their Assistants, who died before they could be brought to Justice.  
By GEORGE BATE, an observer of those Transactions.  
LONDON, Printed for Tho. Vere, at the sign of the Angel without Newgate, 1661.   

To the Right Honourable James Lord Marquis of Ormond, Earl of Brecknock, Lord High Steward of his Majesty's Household, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, etc.  
Right Honourable,  
I Hope your Lordship will be pleased to pardon the Author's presumption in his humble Dedication to your Lordship, of this small Description of the prime Authors and Contrivers of the most Horrid Murder that ever was committed in the Face of the Sun; For such I am sure your Lordship did always account that of our late Sovereign, and such likewise was it looked upon by all Truly and Piously Ingenious in the whole World.  
Fare be it from me to have the least thought, that my mean Pen should draw a Lively Representation of his late Majesties (both) natural and acquired virtues shining with so much splendour through the Dark and thick Clouds of his Afflictions; yet to the end the world might see the Blackness of the Designs of these Miserable Men, who so wickedly persecuted our Sovereign like a Partridge upon the top of the Mountains. I have at the close hereof attempted something that might make them appear the more Wicked, by how much they Murdered so Pious, so Incomparable a Prince.  
My LORD, You had your share of the miseries in those times, and your Life was hunted after by these Bloodhounds. The remarkable passages of whose Lives and Deaths are here presented to your Lordship's View; this being but as an Essay to what hereafter shall be set forth in a greater Volume.  
And now may your Lordship Live to see Peace Flourish all your time, and may your Children inherit ●he Blessing thereof, as well as your outward substance; May your Lordship's Loyalty (which cannot be exceeded) be Copied out by them; and may the reward of your Fidelity and Constancy be an immortal Crown when God shall take you to his own Kingdom, is the Prayer of,  
Your Lordship's Humbl● Devoted Servant, GEORGE BAT●   

The Prooemium.  
WHen it pleased Almighty God to turn again the Captivity of Zion, and to return with glory his Sacred Majesty, to the undoubted Dominions of his Ancestors, after a black and dark night of Confusion, Usurpation, and Rebellion; and (by his appearing within this his own Hemisphere) to dispel and scatter all those malignant Clouds which for twelve years together had benighted these three Nations; The Parliament thought it their duty in the behalf of the People of England, to make inquisition for that sacred and innocent blood which was shed in their names, and upon the pretended account of their consent: For which purpose, a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was issued, and the Session's House in the Old Bailie appointed for their tria● and condemnation: Now the inten● of this discourse is to give a discovery of the Lives, Educations, an● Deaths of the prime Actors an● principal Contrivers of that horri● Murder of Butchering our late pious & sacred Sovereign King Cha●● the First of ever blessed Memory wherein I cannot but premise th● prophetic expression of that hol● Man of God Mr. Christopher Love when he was upon the Scaffold viz. That those who had gotten pow●● by policy, and used it with cruelty, shoul● l●se it with ignominy, at the close o● which words, Mr. Love was interrupted by Alderman Titchbourn, the● S●●riff of Lo●don, who would no● suffer●●m to proceed; but the Alderman hath s●nce found it verified i● his own experience, having sinc● changed his Chain of Gold, for Fetters of Iron.  
In the prosecution of this design, many strange and horrid consultations were in debate; the original contrivers whereof were very few; ●he first Cockatrice Egg that was hatched in this wicked crew, was Lt. Col. Joyces seizing the King at Holmby, whereby he was immediately taken from Major Gen. Brown, who then attended him by order of the Parliament; and translated to the power and tyranny of a vicious and merciless Army, and at that time (being but the proemium of the Kings afterwards unhappy fate) it was the words of Cromwell to Hugh Peter, by way of question, Whether there could not be found a way to settle the Nation without the King? To whom that miserable wretch replied, That there was no way to do it, but by taking off his head.  
This Oliver Cromwell being thus the chief Actor in this sad Tragedy and for that he received not the reward of his iniquity in this Worl● but is conveyed to the immediate Judgement of the all just God, shall only give you a brief Character of his Education and Life, wi● some notes and observations on 〈◊〉 Death.  
Oliver Cromwell was a man, to gi● him his true Character, of val● in the head of an Army, and wicked policy in the front of 〈◊〉 Council; being born in Hunting 〈◊〉 Shire, and brought up in the University of Cambridge, until his debauched incivility, and sottish i● sobriety expelled him that plac● He was so constant and lewd a Live at his first coming into th● World, that his wits in his after years was chief employed to mak● up the breaches of the former; fo● which purpose he foresaw tha● there was no way to help his decayed Estate, but by turning facti●s, upon which account, he ●esently appears a great Stickler ●gainst Monarchy and Episcopacy: ●●d presently lays hold of the first ●●portunity to appear in Arms, and ●assed through all the degrees of military employment, until at last ●e arrived at General of the Army; ●aving first supplanted or under●●ined all honester men that stood in ●is way, wading to the Government ●f these Nations over head and ears 〈◊〉 blood; for having first spilt the innocent blood of our Sovereign, ●nd polluted his soul therewith, he ●ares not to spill the blood of his subjects like water, plenty whereof was shed in our streets, during ●is short and troublesome Reign, by ●is oppression, dissimulation, hypocrisy, and cruelty: When he was owned by a few to be Protector, he called several Parliaments, expecting that they would throw that Title and the Government of these Nations upon him; but this way would not do, for though he nominated the very men that should fit in some Parliaments, and sent his private letters to have his own creatures chosen in others; yet he could not be established by them, which occasioned that his desperate expression at the dissolving one of his Parliaments, That he would rather be roled in blood with infamy to his grave, then surrender up that power which God and the People had put upon him.  
In the year 1656, a Parliament was called, and indeed his last; where none were suffered to sit, but such as would sign to own his usurpation; and one day, when about a hundred and odd sat, the greatest part whereof were either his own servants, alliance, or friends, he is voted King (as some of them have said since, only to set him upon that ticklish pinnacle, that so his fall ●ight be the greater) but the Army ●ould not endure that title which so ●●tely they had buried with so much ●retetended seeking of God, otherwise called hypocrisy and mocking ●f God; but yet he accepts of the dignity, pre-eminence and pre●ence of a King in all respects whatsoever, and acts as one accordingly.  
But here his heart is broke, he ●o ingratiate himself with the People, mitigates the Tax, although his expense increased, the public Assessment is reduced from 120 to ●hreescore thousand pounds per men●em, and the charge of the Navy and Army continues as before, whereby he ran much behind hand with them both; and in the mean time the King our now gracious Sovereign began to revive in the hearts of the people, several sums of money are sent him out of England, of which Oliver gets intelligence, than he gins to contrive plots, many innocents' are drawn in, Dr. Herit t●a● innocent lamb, with others, are devoured by this ravenous Wolf, the Gen ry all the Nation over are disturbed and imprisoned, and all things now begin to be in a strange confusion; he sends for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, and to them Crocodile like he weeps and tells a story of the King's preparation on the other side the water, that a great plot had been designing against him to the imbruing the Nation again in blood, with other strange stories never thought of, before he contrived them himself; and now like the Devil he began to rave and tear when he perceived his Kingdom to be at an end; and at last having a Jury of distempers in him, all concentring together at one time to agonize that wicked body that had been the Author of so much mischief and Murder, he died on the ●hird of September 1658, and although he had at that time the solemnisation of a Funeral fit for a ●ing of England, yet his ignominious Statue and the mock Pomp of ●●at days glory was soon turned in●● shame and disgrace, by his own soldiers and friends, who (now ●y the change of Government from ●ichard his Son to the Rump Parliament:) defaced and destroyed that state wherein he was set up in Westminster Abbey, and converted ●is Protectorship into a more scurrilous disparagement, then that of ●ne of his meanest Soldiers. We ●ill take leave of this Monster, and ●ome to some of his wicked Abettors, only will leave this Superscription to be engraven on his Tomb (if he be thought worthy of one.)  

Here lies ignominious dust,  
Which was the only seat of lust;  
A man and yet a Monster too,  
That did both King and State undo;  
Most people say, this is his doom,  
That here he don't deserve a Tomb.    

The Life of Ma. Gen. Thomas Harrison.  
HAving given you a short account of the General of this black A●my; the next whose picture shall be presented to you, is Maj. General Harrison, a great Canter in Divinity, and a principal Header of the Fifth Monarchy Professors. He was born at Newcastle under line in the County of Stafford, of very mean parents, although he afterwards arrived to a very considerable Estate: being gained chief by the miseries of the times, and the hypocrisy of his pretended preaching. His Father was a Butcher, who brought him (according unto his ability unto Learning, and after a while placed him with one Mr. Hulk, an Attorney of Clifford's Inn. But, what ever the matter was, he desired to live rather by the ruins, than by the practice of the Law: For not long after, he betook himself from his Pen to the Sword, and so insinuated himself with the deluded Army, that he passed from one command to another, till at last he attained to be Major General of Wales; in which employment to  his tyranny, would swell to a volumn far exceeding this intended Discourse. The Laws of the Land were not executed in Wales, but Major General Harrisons Laws were there in full force. No Orthodox Minister could there be suffered, but whom he pleased to allow; and with the assistance of his Chaplain Mr. Vavasor Powel, (a giddy headed Parson, and second Brother to H. Peter) he endeavoured the modeling of that Country, so, as that none but their own proselytes should teach and instruct the people. In a word, he was the chief Holden forth to that dangerous people called Fifth Monarchiers, and the chief Incendiary to set on foot, malignant and evil designs against that sacred Institution of Kings and Princes; and one that upon the trial of our most innocent Sovereign, used this expression, That they should blacken that white person as much as they could, in drawing up their charge against him.  
About the time of the Murder of our said Sovereign, he was in great reputation with the Army; insomuch as he was several times entrusted with the King's person, during that wicked confinement: He brought him from the Isle of Wight to Windsor, and there had the charge of his person: And it was reported to the King at that time, That this Major General Harrison had a design on foot to murder him privately. Which upon Harrisons trial, he denied, saying, That the King did once task him with such a thing, but would not believe it when he saw his countenance: and that the King said unto him, If those persons had been present that brought him such a report, he would give them the lie, for that he himself had some skill in Physiognomy, and perceived in his face better principles.  
When the King was brought to his trial, this Harrison was every day at that bloody Court; he was at all the private meetings for carrying on that wicked Act; he was at the consultations for drawing up that horrid Charge; he was one who appointed the time, the place, and the manner of the King's Execution; and he was lying in the bed with Ireton in a Chamber in Whitehall, where Cromwell lay: Likewise, when those Miscreants contrived a Sub-warrant to murder the King, which was drawn up by Cromwell for Hacker to sign, that morning when this unparalleled act was done.  
He continued one of the Darlings of that Rump Parliament, until the year 1653. about which time they began to think of a New Representative, as they then called it.  
But Maj. General Harrison contents not himself with the illegal power of the Rump Parliament; but conspires with Cromwell for their dissolution, although by his own confession in Newgate, it happened otherwise, which take as followeth.  
That morning that Cromwell went to dissolve them, being the 23. of April, 1653. he called Harrison to go along with him; which he did, and as he pretended at that time, not knowing his design: But coming with him into the Parliament-house; and observing the disorder he put them into, by reason of his intention to dissolve them, he began to think that those Members intended to perpetuate themselves; and that there were others, whom, he said, God would finish his work by: and hereupon he sided with Cromwell, commanding the Speaker to come out of his Chair: but he said, he would not come out, unless he were pulled out: to which Harrison said, Sir, I will lend you my hand; which the Speaker giving him, he came out of his Chair, and so that piece of a Parliament were then interrupted.  
But Cromwell now seeing the way was laid open for himself to usurp; and having killed to take possession, puts Harrison upon the work of dissolving that mock Parliament: which being done, they now contrive which way to call such a Parliament as would do what they pleased: and this was that which was called the praying Parliament, of which Praise-God Bare-bone was a Member. These were not chosen by the Country, but by Cromwell and Harrison, but after they ●ad played with the Government too or three months, these were likewise in like manner dissolved.  
And now these two stand in competition, who should be greatest in ●his earthly Kingdom. But Cromwell having an Over-vote with the Officers of the Army, gets the head ●f Harris n, and will either make ●im bow to his designs, or break ●im in pieces: which Harrison refu●ing to do, lays down his Commission and Command together; and ●as ever after the Usurpers Prisoner, being carried from Castle to Castle through most parts of the Nation, like an exiled Malefactor. ●n which condition he continued for ●ome years, until he was released ●y the Rump Parliament, whom notwithstanding he would not acknowledge, but looks for the immediate Reign of our Saviour upon the ●arth.  
There was little more observable in the passages of his Life, but what were immediate forerunners of his Death. Maj. G. Lambert having made an escape from the Tower, had pre-engaged some factious persons in the Country, of which this Harrison was one, to raise Forces against the King, who was now voiced in most parts of the Nation, to be returning home. But Harrison was taken in the very point of time, wherein he intended to have headed a Party, and was brought Prisoner to the Tower of London, where he continued some months before he was arraigned in the Old Bailie.  
He being brought to the Bar, seemed to flight and unconcern himself in the Trial; his Conscience being feared, was not at all penitent for being instrumental in shedding the innocent blood of that pious Prince: But saying, That although other Kings had been privately assassinated, yet what he had done was in ●●e face of the Sun, and in the fear 〈◊〉 the Lord. He was found guilty ●y his Jury, and was condemned to ●e hanged, drawn and quartered.  
On Saturday the 13 day of October, ●e was brought from Newgate; conducted by a Troop of horse and some 〈◊〉 the Trained Bands, and attended ●y the Sheriff's Officers, being drawn ●n a Sledg through the streets to ●hairing-Cross: where a Gallows was ●●ected for his execution. All the ●ay as he went, he endeavoured to discover to the world the undauntedness of his spirit, by the smiles of ●is countenance; which notwith●āding would not do: for he betrayed 〈◊〉 himself much fear by an agony of sweat, and the more than ordinary trembling and shaking of his ●oynts.  
Being come to the Gallows, he ●scended the Ladder, where he ●pake to the following effect: That all that had been done in the late War, was by the strange and wonderful Providence of Almighty God; That all the Wind and Turn that had been seen in the late Changes had been ordered and contrived by the same Providence; That by this Providence he was drawn in to be an unhappy Instrument in the King's Death; And the same all wise-disposing Providence had brought him to that End.  
After he had spoke a little time to the same purpose, he went to Prayers; and then began to make himself ready for the Executioner. He bore up his spirits as much as could be, to flight Death, having taken a strong Cordial in the morning to that purpose. His last words were, That now he was going to the Lord Jesus, and should at the last Day, come again with him i● Glory, to judge the Kings and Princes of the Earth, and those that ha● been his Judges. He was not so much thrown off the Ladder by the Executioner, but went as readily off himself. After which, the sentence was executed upon him; his members were cut off, and with his bowels burnt; his Head was severed from his body, and on Tuesday following set on Westminster-Hall Gate; and his four Quarters were ordered to be set upon the Gates of the City of London.  

Thus ended He, that did betray  
H●s King and Country; made a prey  
Of Law and Gospel, and did spend  
His chiefest skill to pu● an end  
To Kingly Power, and throw down  
Both the King's ●itle and his Crown.    

The Life of Colonel john jones.  
Colonel John Jones, came of mean Family in Wales, was 〈◊〉 man of no repute before th● War; he was sent up to Londo● to be an Apprentice, but was placed as a Servingman to a Gentl● man; and afterwards was preferred to Sir Thomas Middleton Lor● Mayor of London, with whom h● lived many years in the said capacity; but the Wars coming on, h● like the rest thought it would b● good fishing in troubled waters, h● went forth at the beginning of th● Wars a Captain of foot, and b● his factious principles, which at tha● time was the only way to get into preferment, he was taken notice of, and was countenanced and advanced by the Cromwelian party; by reason whereof he was chosen a Parliament man in an absent place, and by degrees came to be made Governor of Anglesey in North Wales, and several other successive employments: And now the same party thirsting after the blood of the King, this John Jones is made a chief instrument in prosecuting that horrid Murder, and an eminent bloodhound in pursuing this innocent game; he set his hand to the Act for constituting that Court of Injustice, and likewise signed and sealed that black warrant for the Execution; for which service he gained more and more in the esteem of those wretched men, and was suddenly after sent with Corbet, Ludlow, etc. one of the Commissioners of Parliament: (so called) for the Government of Ireland, i● which place it is admirable to thin● with what state and tyranny he carried himself, persecuting all tha● were contrary to his principles, taking up old Laws concerning th● brewing of Beer and Ale, and putting them in execution with rigour plaguing all the houses in Dubli● that sold drink, and not suffering any one to be in any public employment, that was seen to go into an Alehouse; by which means pe●ple were forced to bugger Alehouses and Taverns, and to go in at bac● doors; and on the other hand, tur●ing all out of employment that wer● not of the same Church with him discountenancing Orthodox Ministers, & encouraging Mr. Patients, formerly a Stocking-footer in London to preach every Sunday before th● Council of Ireland in Christ-Church Dublin; finally, to go into an Alehouse or a Protestant Church, during his domination, were crimes alike, and alike punished; insomuch ●hat none but Anabaptists and Welshmen were entertained at that time in beneficial places.  
News hereof was brought to Oliver Cromwell, who by this time had assumed the Protectorship, and a way is contrived by him to get Col. Jones into England, but so as not to give him occasion of offence: which accordingly was done; for he was ●ent over with some Papers to Oliver Cromwell, but was never sent back again by him with an Answer thereunto.  
He being a Man of an active spirit, would not go off the Stage thus: out plays another game to ingratiate himself with the Protector, and so to come into favour again. For which purpose he marries a Widow, Oliver Cromwell's own Sister; conceiving, that he marrying into ●hat Family, he might take advantages, and lay hold of opportunities a the Court for the preferring of himself: but this likewise proved ineffectual, for he never raised himself on● step higher by this conjugal Tie, bu● only to be one of those Mushroom Lords, which Cromwell made out 〈◊〉 the meanest of the People. Whic● mock honour his Lordship did no● long enjoy, for soon after Cromwe● dying, and he being one of his dis-obliged kindred, made it his business 〈◊〉 unpin the frame of that new mad● Government, whereby the rubbi●● and ●afters fell upon their own hea● and limbs; he being one of the chi● supplanters of his Cousin Richar● Cromwell.  
This exploit being thus accomplished, he is now very active 〈◊〉 Wallingford-house, for bringing i● the Rump again; which succeedin● according to his expectation, he wa● again made one of the Commissioners for the Government of Irelan● with the aforenamed persons. He ●ent over again in July 1659., with lieut. Gen. Ludlow, who was Commander in chief of the Forces: and ●udlow coming back again, left this Col. John Jones his Deputy there; ●ho being now Dominus fac totum, acts as rigorously as ever: which ●range kind of carriage of his, Mr steel, than Chancellor of Ireland, (a ●an of as haughty a spirit as himself) could not brook: For finding himself overtopped by one whom he thought much his inferior; he very fairly left Ireland, and the Government thereof to this aspiring Phaeton, ●ho suddenly after run them all ●nto confusion.  
By this time the Rump Parliament was turned out again, by Lam●ert, and a Committee of Safety have ●ow the Government tossed into their dispose. With these Colonel John ●ones presently strikes in, and own●th their power by a Declaration from Ireland. But here this Unfortunate Jack was soon dethroned For on the 6. of December following about five of the clock in the evening, Col. Sir Theophilus Jones, Col▪ Bridges, and two or three more discountenanced Officers, in pursuance of a Design very privately contrive● and carried on, siezed on Col. Joh● Jones, and the rest of the then Council of Ireland, took the Castle of Dublin, and declared for a Parliament and Gen. Monck, who was than it Scotland, and had declared for th● like. This Col. Jones is kept close Prisoner in the Castle of Dublin, and the Rump Parliament getting into the saddle again, send for him and the rest over: but by that time he was come to Town, the Secluded Members had admittance into the House, by reason whereof, nothing was done against him at that time.  
And suddenly after, preparation being made for the Kings coming home, Col. Jones hides himself; but notwithstanding ●his concealment, ●e was discovered one Evening a●out twilight, in Finsbury fields near ●ondon, and apprehended, and car●●ed Prisoner to the Tower of London, ●here he remained till he was ●rought to his Trial.  
The twelfth of October 1660, he ●as brought with the rest to the Old ●ayly, and his Bedfellow, Mr. Scot, ●eing immediately tried before, and ●ound guilty, he thought it was but ●n vain to plead, for that their Arguments were the same, which they ●ad contrived to answer their Charge: and so he was soon found ●uilty.  
And on Wednesday following, he with others were drawn on a hurdle ●o Charing-Cross aforesaid, where he ●pake to the following effect: That ●e did now see what he had often believed, viz. That it was the Power ●hat made the Law, for that some years before they had the power i● their hands, and whatsoever the● did at that time, was accounted La● and executed accordingly; Tha● now the King had executed the La● upon them, and that the King di● nothing but what he would hav● done himself, were he in the King case: For the King did but like a loving and dutiful Son to a dear an● loving Father. After a small prayer, he committed his Soul into th● hands of God, seemingly penitent and was quartered as before.  

Go thou time-serving Servingman,  
Take thy reward from Dun, that can  
Best pay thee; one who will be sure  
Thy utmost payment to procure.  
Then Exit Jack, without applause,  
And bid adieu to th' Good Old Cause.    

The Life of Master john Cook.  
MR. John Cook, a man of very good natural parts, had they been employed to the purpose for which God gave them; Was of ●n inconsiderable birth, and of a ●mall and mean Fortune: however, ●y his missimployed policy, and the ●old attempt of being Solicitor in ●he cause against the King, in that wicked Court of Injustice; He was afterwards preferred to be a Judge in Ireland: by which, and other ways, he arrived to a considerable Estate.  
The first notice or mention which I find of him is, that he was a Barrister Gray's Inn, but had very little or n● practice, and such men were adjudged fit for the prosecution of that horrid Murder; who like Judas would betray their Lord for Thirty pieces of silver, which was the reward of his iniquity.  
The Rump Parliament about the 10. of January 1648, after they had made an Act for constituting a High Court of Justice, directed an Order to this Mr Cook, together with Mr Ask and Dorislaus, to draw up a Charge against his Majesty, in which Mr Cook was very active, and was the man that subscribed that wicked Libel in the behalf of the Commons of England, (who disowned that horrid Murder,) and therein called his innocent Majesty, Murderer and Traitor, and therefore prayed Justice against him as such a person; saying, That the blood that had been spilt, cried for it. When the King was brought before those bloody miscreants, Mr Cook stood up and made 〈◊〉 long Speech to them against the King, according to the aforesaid Charge; and when the King began ●o speak any thing by way of answer, ●●e would interrupt him. He did often complain to the Court, that the King trifled away time. He moved, ●hat if the King would not plead to ●hat wicked Charge, the things contained therein might be taken pro confesso: and the last day he demanded Judgement of the Court against the Prisoner at the Bar, (which was the title he gave the King of England, etc.) Upon which sentence passed, and the horrid murder was soon committed after the same,  
And it is to be observed, That this Mr Cook was at that time pricked in Conscience, by the expression which he used to an old friend of his, discoursing with whom about the King's Death, he said, That the King was a wise and a gracious Prince; but he must die, and Monarchy wit● him.  
And now having had a finger i● this innocent blood, he was resolved to plunge himself over head and ears therein; for presently after he writ● a Book entitled, Monarchy no creature of Gods making, and therein says, That the late King (meaning our blessed Sovereign King CHARLES the First) was the fattest Sacrifice that ever was offered to Queen Justice, etc.  
These things made the Rump Parliament begin to think of a way to reward him; and Ordered him as the thanks of the House, 300 l. per Annum in the County of Waterford in Ireland, whither they sent him likewise, and made him a Judge of that Law, which himself, contrary to his Oath, his Conscience, and his Reason, had thus traitorously and maliciously broken and offended.  
He was not long in Ireland, before the Commissioners for Government of Ireland made choice of him as the chief Judge to examine, try and give sentence upon the Irish, according to such Qualifications, as a pretended Act of that Rump Parliament had made and allowed, and to transplant whom they pleased, into Connaught: some for their murder of the Protestants, and others for their pretended delinquency in assisting of the King: For which action I have heard his moderation much commended.  
During the time of his being thus a Judge, he was smitten with sudden checks of Conscience, which often made him, even upon the Bench, to fall into strange sighs and groans, expressing his sorrow for the Death of the King; and hath been often seen to strike his breast, which was seconded with a groan, and then followed this expression, Ah poor Charles, poor Charles! As if the guilt of that innocent blood lay heavy upon his Soul, and tormented him with continual and renewed disturbances.  
He continued in Ireland for some years, during which time he preached up and down the Country; favoured the Anabaptists; and at last, the Government changing, he was fiezed upon in Ireland, and sent by the Parliament or Convention there, unto the Council of England, to receive the just punishment of his demerits. Being brought to London, he was immediately sent to the Tower, where he remained some time, until he was brought to Newgate, and received a fair Trial in the Old Bailie, London.  
Upon his Plea before the Court, he expressed himself with such Law & Learning, that the Judge applauded the same, saying, That he was very sorry to see, that one that understood the Law so much, should transgress it so much. It was proved against him, That he often interrupted the King in his Answers to that Court, and did use many unhandsome and uncivil expressions towards the King, all the time of that wicked Trial; he being one of the loudest-mouthed Bloodhounds that pursued that innocent Lamblike Prince, in a full cry, all those days in which he was brought before them. The Jury that were upon him, went not out of the Court, but suddenly found him guilty.  
On Tuesday following he was Ordered to die at Chairing Cross. He was now as penitent at his Death, as formerly he had expressed himself in his life. He was drawn upon a hurdle from Newgate to Chairing-Cross aforesaid; all the way as he went, lifting up his hands and his eyes, he would often turn his face towards the people, desiring them to pray for him. Being come to the aforesaid place, he went up the Ladder very penitently and cheerfully; he told the Sheriff, That as for himself, h● thanked God, he could welcome Death: but as for Mr Peter (who wa● to die with him) he could very well have wished that he might be repreived for some time, for that he was neither prepared nor fit to die.  
He said little as to the making of a Speech, but prayed most earnestly and with affection both for the King and people: which being done, the Executioner did his Office, and being quartered, his Head was Ordered to be set on Westminster-Hall, and his Limbs were sent to be set upon the Gates of the City of London.  

Law lies a bleeding; Monarchy  
Expires; sure then the Law must die.  
But both revive, and Cook is made  
A sad example to his Trade.  
His Head stands as a fair Take-heed,  
How they the bounds of Law exceed.    

The Life of Master Hugh Peter.  
MR. Hugh Peter, a man of a continued turbulent spirit, and as it is generally reported, little better than frantic: One that as he was a general Abettor and Encourager of all turbulent principles: so he particularly improved them in that horrid Act of the King's murder.  
He was brought up, as I am informed, in the University of Cambridg, and from thence (having taken his Degrees) he set up the trade of an itinerary Preacher, never being constant or fixed to any one place or benefice: and roved about the world, like an universal Churchman, called Jesuits: for sometimes he was in New-England; sometimes in Holland & about the Low Countries, and anon here in England, where he pretended, that his tender conscience could not be yoked to the Church of England, nor submit to the Order and Government of the Bishops.  
When these unhappy Wars began within these at that time unfortunate Nations, this Hugh Peter's began to show himself a forward Incendiary, to stir up and animate all factious and discontented persons, now to appear and vindicate themselves and children from the Imposition of Prelatical Tyranny; and persuaded such whose heads were as giddy and whimsical as his own, That it was the Lords Cause, and that now he was carrying on his own work among them.  
When the Parliament had raised Forces, he goes out Chaplain to a Regiment, and many times appear●ed a Captain in Arms himself, he preached the Soldiers into courage, to maintain and justify their Rebellion, and by wicked and absurd comparisons would tell the Soldiers, That Heaven was full of Red-coats that had been killed in that Cause; and that all they that continued in the same, should arrive at the like happiness. It would be too tedious to insert the many frenzical and frenetick humours, which this profane Prophet used during the time of the Armies tyrannical domination, and how the more politic chief Officers have laughed in their sleeves to see this sad wretch abuse both the Scriptures and the Soldiers too, with his wicked and scandalous interpretations thereof.  
When the King was siezed at Holmby, by the damnable impudence of a till that time mean and despised Officer, he was the first man that ever was heard to make mention of the King's Death, or for aught I know, so much as to imagine it. He was at the several meetings with Cromwell, Ireton, Harrison, and those other few persons that contrived it privately among themselves at the Star in Colemanstreet, and the Nag's head over against Basinghall street; he prepared the People and Soldiers by Sermons for that wicked murder; and made use of his Calling (wherein he should have been the Minister of Peace) to be the Trumpeter of Treason. Afterwards when the King was at Windsor, he was among the wicked Council of the Army, at the hatching of this Design; and when they brought the King from thence to London, he road before him audaciously like his Almoner.  
This wicked Jesuitical Priest, was the only busy man, that directed how and where the Act for Establishing the High Court of Justice, should be proclaimed; which done, he said, That there was a day a coming, (meaning that day when the King should be murdered) that the Saints had been for many years a praying for. And when that bloody Court sat, he used this expression, That he could even reverence them, their sitting did so much represent the great day of Judgement, and the trial of the whole world, which should then be performed by the Saints.  
And now Mr Peter gins not only as a private person, but as a Minister, to prosecute this worst of Evils. For the next day after the Court of that Injustice sat, he preached at Whitehall before that grand Tyrant Oliver Cromwell, and for his Text took that then abused place of Scripture, Psal. 149. the three last verses; To bind their Kings in chains, and their Nobles in fetters of iron: This honour have all the Saints, etc.  
The Murder of the King is finished, and now Hugh Peter runs on to make Divinity the handmaid of his Devilish Doctrine: For the next Sunday after that abominable Fact was committed, he preaches again, and took his Text, Isai. 14.18, 19, 20, 21. All the Kings of the Nations, even all of them lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave, like an abominable branch: and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial etc. Upon the top of the margin whereof was written, The Tyrant's fall. And in his Application of that misinterpreted Text, he compared the King of Babylon, to the King of England: all the time of which odious comparison, Cromwell sat before him laughing, not being able to forbear the same, to see this wicked Instrument of the Devils, thus plausibly and confidently to avouch and maintain this hellish practice.  
The next occurrence which happened during these strange transactions, was the Parliaments appointing Oliver Cromwell to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and to reduce the Earl of Ormond and the Lord In chiquin, to the obedience of that Rump Parliament: Who is appointed his Companion, but Mr Hugh Peter, and he must be the immediate Chaplain to the Devil's Champion. In this Expedition for Ireland, it was strange and almost wonderful to think how God cursed them with success, and how suddenly that Nation, which had so long groaned with the daily effusion of blood, was within the space of a year or a little more, reduced to that usurped power: Here Mr Peter advised them to make short work of the business, and by giving an example to the strongest Garrison, they might thereby frighten the whole Nation: Pursuant whereunto, Tredagh was stormed, and although Quarter was promised, yet none was given, and 4500 souls were there butchered; most of which were English and Protestants. Which cruel Act, giving an alarm to the whole Country, caused the rest to surrender upon Articles.  
About the year 1656. when Oliver Cromwell had assumed the Government, Hugh Peter is a great Courtier & a continual Asserter and Vindicator of his Usurpation: but however it came to pass, Hugh Peter is presently out of favour, because he had too far courted a Court-Lady, & as some say, his active spirit had carnally known her: hereupon Hugh Peter grows litrle better than stark mad, raves like a Bedlamite, and shows himself much more void of sense, than ever he was before: yet notwithstanding, for the wicked service he had done, and for the further more damnable services which they expected he might, he was again dubbed a favourite to his aforesaid wicked Patron.  
Finally, in the beginning of the last year of oliver's Tyranny, Dunkirk being now besieged, and every day expected to be taken, Hugh Peter is sent over to encourage the Soldiers as ●his former wont had been, and being landed upon the Sands of Flanders, he immediately fell down upon his knees, and hypocritically praying, told the Soldiers, That he had assurance from God, that they were to be the Instruments of making his name known to the utmost parts of the earth.  
Presently after Oliver dies, and Peter's preaching the next day in the Chapel at Whitehall, took his Text in Deuteronomy, My Servant Moses 〈◊〉 dead: The drift of his Sermon being to make out Oliver Cromwell equally the Servant of God, as Moses ha● been.  
And here ends the further mention of our Prophet, for Government ever and anon afterwards being shifted from one factious party to another, at last all proved for Restauration of our Gracious Sovereign which happy day now hastening, an● like the wings of morning makin● haste to a perfect day, Hugh Pete● with that black crew, desire to be a abscond, and as much in the dark 〈◊〉 their actions had been, now play N● inventus. But the eye of the Almighty Providence, at last found him out Although he flew for sanctuary to 〈◊〉 Woman's bed, that had now newly lain in. But the intelligence bein● certain, that he was there they press in upon him, he denying his name t● be Peter's, but his name was Thompson and begging of the Constable and ●●e rest, that they would not call ●im Peter's, for fear the people ●hould tear him to pieces: But be●●g brought to the Tower, he not only confessed himself to Sir John ●●binson, but was well known to be ●he same man.  
And here we shall conclude his wicked life, and come to the passages of his miserable death. Being ●rought to hi● Trial, it is strange to ●hink with what stupidity he behaved himself; for although upon ●is Arraignment he said he would not plead guilty for all the World, yet upon his Trial he was found ●o be as is before expressed, one of the principal Actors in that sad Tragedy, and brought in guilty by his Jury, not being able to plead the least rational circumstance for himself.  
On Tuesday following, he was ordered to die, but was much discomposed both in spirit and mind, for he retained much of his former Frenetick humours now he was going to Execution: He was drawn upon a Hurdle from Newgate to Charing Cross, sitting therein like a Sot all the way he went, and either plucking the Straws therein, or gnawing the Fingers of his Gloves. Being come to the place aforesaid, not like a Minister, but like some ignorant Atheist, he ascended the Ladder, but knew not what to say or how to carry himself at the hour of his death, but standing there a while, at length he perfectly burst forth into weeping, and then after a little pause he held his hand before his eyes, he prayed for a short space, and now the Hangman being ready, he very often remembered him to make haste by checking him with the Rope, and at last very unwillingly he turned him off the Lader, and after he had hung almost a quarter of an hour, he was cut down and quartered: His Head was set on London Bridge, and his Limbs on the City Gates.  
Upon Hugh Peter, written by an ingenuous Spectator of his Execution.  

See here the last and best Edition,  
Of Hugh, the Author of Sedition;  
So full of Errors, 'tis not fit  
To read, till Dun's Corrected it:  
But now 'tis perfect, nay far more,  
'Tis better bound than 'twas before.  
And now I hope it is no sin  
To say, Rebellion, take thy swing:  
For he that says, says much amiss  
That Hugh an Independent is.    

The Life of Mr. THOMAS SCOT.  
MR. Thomas S ot was born in the County of Buckingham, of no noted Family: The first occasion of their public notice, was by the wicked projects of this unfortunate m●n, He was sent to London by his friends to be brought up in some honest Calling, which he was never so honest as to practise. The highest preferment that he could reach before the Wars, was being a Partner to a Brewer in the Precinct of Bridewell, but of his honesty and faithfulness in his carriage therein, I leave to his acquaintance and Neighbours to judge.  
But he hoping to make better profit by having a hand in brewing of State Affairs, makes friends to a Borough in Buckinghamshire, where he was chosen a Burgess, and so improves the good will of this his Country, who made him a Parliament man, to the destruction and confusion of the whole; for being pre-prejudiced against the B shops and a constant envier against Monarchy, he now had an opportunity to vent his malice, and spit his venom by long Speeches and dilated Harr a gues in the Parliament.  
This Tho. Scot being now crept into the House of Commons, whispers Treason into many of the Members ears, animating the War, and ripping up and studying aggravations thereunto, was forward upon all Tumultuous occasions, to exasperate the people against the Bishops, and through them, striking at the King himself.  
But it is to be observed how the drift of his malice soon after appeared: This covetous wretch was so great an enemy to the Bishops, only that he might be partaker of their Lands; for not long after that too forward Abolition of that Order and Government, he than gets into the Bishop of Canterbury's house at Lambeth, and there Lords it with as much state, as if he wanted nothing but the Title of an Arch Bishop.  
And now his estate and his factious principles increase together, grasping as much of the Church Lands as he could, and being of opinion that it had been no Sacrilege, if he had pulled down the Churches themselves; and did not think it enough for himself to be engaged in the Lands of the Church, but he would engage his Son in the Lands of the King, who was chosen, and acted as one of the trusties at Worcester house in the Strand, for sale of the Lands of the King, Queen and Prince.  
In the year 1647. finding himself so far precipitated in the occasions and promoting of the War, he sticks close to the Army, and says, There was no putting up the Sword after they had once drawn it against the King, is admitted to the consultations of their private Meetings: When they were contriving the death of the King, he was one of the chief underminers of that Parliament; For when they Voted, the Concessions of the King at the Isle of Wight were a sufficient ground for the peace of the Nations, he with others, and their never failng Speaker, fly to the Army, and coming to Town caused most of them to be secluded; and he was one of the forty Members that Usurped the Title of a Parliament after they had driven away almost three hundred of their number, and was a chief instrument in setting on foot that wicked thing called An Act of Parliament for the Trying of the King. And because the King's Seal could not be used to pass an Act against himself, they all set their own Seals to that horrid instrument, amongst whom, this Mr. Scot's was one.  
Every day that this wretched Crew (called the High Court of Justice) sat, this Mr. Scot would be sure to be amongst them; he was present and stood up when that impudent and unparaleld Precedent commanded the Sentence to be read, and he set his ●●●nd and Seal to that bloody Warrant for the Execution.  
And now they thought their work was done after they had thus barbarously murdered the King: Those few Members take upon them the Authority of the three Nations, and Mr. Sc t is appointed one of their Council of State, acts in the nature of a Secretary of State, and is made the only person to manage the ●ntelligence, as well Foreign as domestic, both public and private, and thinks himself little other than a petty Prince, in which condition he continued till the year 1653. at which time they were dissolved by the Ambition of the Grand Usurper.  
He kept under him (during the time of his domination) several Spies, called Pursivants, and was a continual perplexer of Printers and Booksellers, not suffering them to vent the least light of Transactions fo● the information of the people, but by his Substitutes, especially Ledsum; all honest and true Intelligence was not only seized and suppressed, but the Divulgers thereof were both punished and imprisoned.  
When Oliver Cromwell took the Government upon himself, this busy body lay idle all the time, only behaved himself like a Wasp upon all occasions putting forth his sting: He did nothing observable during that Usurpation worth our mention in this abridgement of their actions.  
But that Government under him ceasing, and Richard Cromwell now being settled in the scornful seat of his Father, Mr. Scot gins again to show himself, and was a very active instrument in dethroning that foolish pretender, and a chief Counsellor at Wallingford house with Lambert, Fleetwood, etc. for the establishing of the Rump Parliament.  
Which succeeding according to his desire, he now appears as eminent as before, and is reinstated in the places which under the Rump Parliament he had formerly exercised.  
But a second breach occasioned their second disturbance, Lambert having lately victoriously overcome an undisciplined handful of men in Cheshire, under the command of ●ir George Booth, comes up to London like a Conqueror, and sets the Wheels so on work, as if possible, to turn out that Rump Parliament again, and so by oliver's policy to take the Government upon himself. And thus these Traitors fell out amongst themselves, which brought Our Sovereign to his Right.  
Mr. Scot was much tickled at this sudden News, and appears now as one that could not brook such an in●●rruption; to which purpose, he with Mr. Weaver, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, etc. Gentlemen of far honester principles than himself, set on foot several designs for regaining the sitting of that Juncto, as that of Portsmouth, taking the Tower of London, etc. which brought them again once more to their Usurped Government, and he is employed by them, with Mr. Luke Robinson, to be as Spies over the actions and intentions of wise General Monck, who was now upon his March towards London, which proved ineffectual for their design; for although they would not suffer him to speak with any persons but where they were present, yet they could not gain from him the least cranny to peep out at whereby they might understand or guests at his future intended purposes.  
Soon after, that Noble General gives the Secluded Members liberty to go into the House, who till that time had been debarred by force from that their privilege, who only sat to consider how another Parliament might be called and to dissolve that but supposed Parliament: And before their intended dissolution Mr. Scot stands up and moves the House, that before they did dissolve, they would declare, That all the Proceed which had been made in relation to the King's murder, should be confirmed by the Parliament; which motion was so ill recented, that had not some moderate persons interceded, he had been at that time called to the Bar of the House, for mentioning them to be so barbarous as to be conceived to countenance or own the King's murder; at which time he used this wicked expression, That he desired no greater honour then to have it Engraved upon his Tombstone, Here lies Thomas, Scot, one of the Judges of the late King, to the end the World might take notice of it.  
The Parliament which met the 23d. of April, being summoned, Mr. Scot flies beyond the Seas, to seek a place for that hot head, which he said he could not hid, which proved true, for not long after his Majesty's restauration, he was taken notice of in Fla●ders, and there seized and sent Prisoner into England, and brought to the Tower of London, where he remained some time until he was brought to his Trial.  
Upon his Arraignment in the Old Ba●ley he h●d little to say for himself, pleading the power by, which he acted to be a legal p were bec use they were owned by the people, etc. But being told that the power by which he acted were not the ●enth part of the Commons of England, and that if there had been a full House of Commons, and Lords likewise, they could not by any Act of theirs take away the life of the poorest Cripple at the Gate, much less the Kings: He was left to his Jury, and so was presently found Guilty.  
And on Wednesday following, he with others, were drawn from Newgate ●n a Hurdle to their aforesaid appointed place of Execution. All the way as he went, his countenance was composed with a seeming cheerful gravity, and being come to Charing Cross he obdurately and insensibly ascended the Ladder: He spoke very little to the people, his chief business there, as he said, being to pray which being ended, he made no long stay, but was soon executed and quartered, according to his Sentence; his Head was set up on the Gate of London Bridge, and his Qu●rters were set on the Gates of the City.  

This treacherous Scot desired to have,  
No other Motto on his Grave.  
Then this; That he was one that laid  
This bloody Scene, anth ' King betrayed.  
But he no Grave could now attain,  
Whereby that Motto should remain.    

The Life of Col. Daniel Axtel.  
COl. Daniel Axtel was a man of a malicious and covetous spirit; he was born of very private Parents, and sent up to London to be put forth Apprentice: He had not stayed long at his Trade, which was a Grocer, before these destructed Nations began to show their distempers; and seeing nothing but letting of it blood would (as they said) procure its settlement, he appeared a very forward instrument in taking up of Arms: He went forth into the War but a private Soldier, yet notwithstanding being a spiritually gifted man (for so he was termed) he very quickly arrived at the mark of a more public notice.  
When the Army were gathered together at New Market in a mutinous manner against their Masters the Parliament, Agitators were chosen out of each Company to represent their pretended grievances. Here Col. Axtel (then but an ordinary Officer) was looked upon as an eminent and fit person to carry on that factious and wicked design of refusing to disband the Army, when they were commanded thereunto by the Parliament, and when the Parliament and the King had come to Terms of Peace in the Isle of Wight, he comes up in the head of the Agitators, and at the Bar of the Parliament House, he is forward in impeaching the Members thereof, calling them rotten Members, etc. and at that time being Lieutenant Colonel to Col. Hewsons' Regiment of Foot, he was very active that day the Secluded Members were imprisoned and disturbed, and was more than ordinary Officious in the doing thereof.  
When the High Court of cruel Injustice was established, all the time during their sitting, he commanded the Guards in Westminster-hall which attended them, and when the King came through the Hall to his Trial, he commanded the Soldiers to cry Justice, Justice, and had the valour to beat such as did not execute his commands; and when Bradshaw taxed the King with delays and trifling away time, saying the Commons of England demanded him to answer to his Charge, (a Lady from the Gallery said not half the Commons of England) this Col. Axtel said to s Soldiers, shoot the Whore, pull her down, etc. And after upon the last day of their sitting, he again commanded them to cry Execution, Execution.  
Afterwards being the day when this unparaleld murder was to be accomplished, Col. Axtel was very busy that morning at Cromwel's Chamber door, where Ireton and Harrison then lay together in Whitehall, and Col. Hunks, Col. Hacker, and Col. Phaire, to whom the Warrant for execution was directed, being sent for thither, Oliver Cromwell would have had them signed a Sub warrant to the executioner for the murder of the King, but Col. Hunks refusing, this Col. Axtel told him, he was a peevish man, and that he was sorry to think, that now they were going into a safe Harbour, Col. Hunks should strike Sail before they had cast Anchor.  
He went afterwards into the next expedition for Ireland, where he soon comenced Colonel. And it is strange what Hellish cruelties he used there, not only against the Native Irish, whom he would murder like Vermine but even against Protestants and English not favouring either, although he had not only promised but assured them fair Quarter.  
The Army at this time being universally Anabaptists, and under the Government of that Grand encourage● of them Henry Ireton, than Deputy of Ireland, Son in ●aw to Oliver Cromwell, this Col. Axtel was so too, being a general disowner of Orthodox Ministers, and a great countenancer of Sects and Factions, and a self conceited Preacher himself.  
He was made Governor of the County and City of Kilkenny in Ireland, and here he shows his cruelty so conspicuous, as that his very merciless brethren of the Army condemn him: He hanged what Gentry of the Country he pleased, whether they were guilty or not, never affording them any Trial, but making his own Will his Law, he exercised it according to his discretion, by reason whereof, many Innocents' causelessly suffered; and for which, his own brethren on the Army drew up Articles against him in a Court Marshal, and he had then received punishment for the price of blood, had not the Anabaptist, and Charles Fleetwood in the head of them, at that time being the predominant party, passed by the business.  
Soon after Charles Fleetwood being removed from the Government of Ireland, and Henry Cromwell sent over thither to represent the Lord Deputy of that Nation; the Anabaptists was not only discountenanced by him, but their domination was reduced and leveled equal to those of different principles, which Col. Axtel perceiving (as likewise that now they were not suffered to have that rambling latitude to domineer over the weak brethren as formerly, for such they counted all not alike principled with themselves) he with three others, formerly like himself, Governing Charles Fleetwood, and indeed all Ireland, as they pleased, viz. Col. Barrow Adjutant, General Allen, and Quarter Master Gen. Vernon, came to Henry Cromwell, and in a great deal of seeming dissatisfaction, delivered him up their Commissions, from that time ceasing to act any further, because they could not act as they pleased.  
There was very little more observable during Oliver Cromwels ●ife, only that in that vacancy he ●ad a fair opportunity to increase his estate, which indeed he made ●rise to at least 2000 lib. per annum.  
At last Oliver dies, and Richard's weakness being practised upon, (by his cunning and treacherous Kindred, though false friends) Col. Axtel appears very busy therein, and the Rump Parliament appearing again upon the Stage, he has order for a Regiment of Foot, and is sent to Ireland, where he had not been long, before Sir George Booth appeared in the head of a party in Cheshire; for the overcoming whereof when the Army of England were thought too little but help must he had from Ireland also, for which purpose Col. Axtel is sent over ommander in Chief of the Foot, and Col. Sa●key of the Horse, which coming over of theirs proved ineffectual, for that the business was done before their landing.  
When Lambert and the Rump Parliament fell out, Col. Axtel is very forward and assistant for the dissolving of them; he is one of the Saints at Wallingford house, and a contriver of the settlement of the Nation by a Committee of Safety, and he likewise is resolved with Lambert And the rest to fetch Gen. Monck out of Scotland, or to make him submit to their terms; and accordingly he went down to head the Irish Brigade, then in Ch●shire, and marches them into the North, but they very unwilling undertaken that business, and although with entreaties, beggings, prayers, and tears he wo●d them to proceed in th' Good Old Cause yet he coul not prevail upon them; for they discerned both Lambert and their own chief Officers, and declare for General Monck and ●he Parliament, and now Col Ax●el is left to seek his fortune, which at that time was more despera●● h●● when he first left his Master to go into he Army.  
When the King was coming home, he commits himself to the private Chamber of a particular friend, who thought it not safe to entertain him long, since Proclamation was made or for that purpose, and so delivering him up to the next Constable he was ordered to be s●nt to the ●ower of London.  
And shortly a●ter that, he was brought to his Trial in te Old-bailey, where his ●hi●●●lea, was, That he had d●● 〈◊〉 ●●ng during the time of the Trial of the King, but what he was commanded t● by his superior Officers, That he might have suffered as much for disobeying them, as now he was like to do for performing them; That he was no Parliament man, none of the High Court of Justice, no Counsellor, no Contriver, none that Sat, none that Signed to the ●ings death, only acted as a Soldier under command by virtue thereof. But the Witness proving the aforementioned passages of his life, and that he had often confessed in Ireland, that he had been a chief instrument in bringing the King to that f●tal Axe, as also several other black and horrid, circumstances, to prove him a principle promoter thereof; he was soon found guilty by the Jury, and accordingly received Sentence of condemnation.  
And on Friday following he was drawn from Newgate to Tyburn upon an Hurdle: He seemed to be penitent, but yet retained a cheerful countenance. Being come to the Gallows, he seriously told the People, that he went out n the Wars at the beginning thereof, by the instigation and encouragement of a Minister in Ironmonger ●ane, who stirred him with many motives to show him it was the cause of God etc. and many words to the same effect. After which he prayed most affectionately for all sorts of people, uttering many Heavenly and Christian like expressions, and at last concluding desiring God for that poor Wretch that was then to imbrue his hands in his Blood, to bathe his Soul in the blood of Jesus Christ. His end Was full of penitence and sorrow, and now being fitted to die, he very willingly submitted to the hand of Justice, and being hanged, was soon after quartered, and his Limbs are disposed of upon the Gates of the City.  

This active Man commands the Guard  
Of that black Court, & loud was heard  
To c●ll for Justice, and did beat  
Such as would not the same repeat:  
Friend, pray be patiented, now I hope,  
Justice hath met you with a Rope.    

The Life of Gregory Clement.  
GReg. Clement was a man hardly, worth the mention, considering the wickedness of his lewd life; He was a Merchant by his first profession, but failing therein and growing into a desperate fortune, thought to thrive by merchandizing in Bishop's Lands, wherein he got a considerable estate: He was turned out of the Rump Parliam. for lying with his Maid at Greenwich, but was received amongst them again at their return after oliver's interruption. His guilty Conscience and his Ignorance together, would not suffer him to make any Plea at the Bar or Speech or Prayer at the Gallows: For being there, he was asked whether he had any thing to say before the Hangman did his Office, he said no, upon which, Execution was done, and being quartered, his Head was set upon London Bridge ' and his Limbs disposed of as the rest.   

The Life of Col. Adrian Scroop.  
COl. Adrian Scroop was descended of a good Family in Buckinghamshire. He was in those days a great Puritan and stickler against the Bishops, which made him in the beginning of the W●rs to take up Arms against the King. He went forth at first a Captain of Horse, but being inveterate against the King, he soon got preferment in the Army.  
He was no Parliament man, and yet was drawn in as he pretended, by Oliver Cromwell to be one in the black List for the Trial of the King: He was most days at that Court when that wicked crew sat upon His Majesty, and especially the last day w●●●. Sentence was giv● 〈◊〉 him, and afterwards 〈…〉 and sealed the bloody Warr●●t for that horrid murder.  
I find little mention of him all that short time of oliver's Usurpation: But when the King came home, and set forth the Proclamation commanding those that were his Father's Judges to appear, who were either fled or had hid themselves; Col. Scroop comes in, and delivers himself up unto the Speaker, with some others, and they had made a Vote, that he should be only fined a years value of his estate: But soon after, he discoursing with General Brown about the King's murder, justifies the act thereof, saying, He did believe it to be no murder; with other expressions tending to prove that the King did deserve death; which being reported to the Parliament, he was wholly excepted out of the Act of general pardon.  
And being brought to his Trial in the Old Bailey, the chief part of his plea was not so much to justify the act, as the power by which he acted, saying, That they were owned both at home and abroad, and that he was no Parliament man, but acted by their Authority, who were then the Supreme Authority of the Nations, and he hoped that Authority would excuse him. But being told as all the rest had been, the vanity of that plea, and the weakness of his Argument to prove the same, and how far they were from the least colour of Authority, he was left to his Jury, who soon brought him in guilty: And on Wednesday following, he was brought from Newgate to Charing Cross upon a Hurdle. He see 〈◊〉 to look very cheerfully upon the Ladder. He bewailed his unfortunate discourse with General Brown to be the chief cause of his being brought thither. And after he had prayed a pretty space, he surrendered himself up to death, which was soon done, and he was likewise quartered as the rest before him had been, and disposed of accordingly.   

The Life of Mr Joh●●arew.  
MR J●hn Carew was bor● Cornw●● and descended of a very ancient Family there: He was always of very f●ctio●s and turbulent principles; at last ●●rived at the same pitch of Op●●●●● with Major General Har ison, and did partake of the same 〈◊〉 with him; and it is no wo●● 〈◊〉 that n● was one of the Jud●es of 〈◊〉 King, wh● was con●●●●●ng to 〈◊〉 of his own Brother.  
All the time of the 〈◊〉 he app●●ed very maliciously against the King, and indeed all kind of Monarchy. And when the Army came up to pu●ge the House, when indeed none wanted more purging then those who were left afterwards in it. This Mr. Carew was one, and was very busy at the passing of the Act for establishing a High Court of Justice; he set his Hand and Seal thereunto; he w●s every day at the Court, and shown his assent to the King's murder by standing up when the Sentence was read against him, and he likewise signed and Sealed to that wicked Warrant.  
Afterwards when the Rump Parliament was turned out, he Sequestered himself from any public employment, and kept himself reserved and retired; being utterly against oliver's Usurpation, as indeed he was against all Monarchial Government; and to give h●m his due, he was one that made the least advantage by the m●series of the times, than any man besides which I knew in that Rump Parliament.  
But the King being now come home, and he being known in his own Country to have been a forward instrument in that evil design, was seized there, and sent up Prisoner to the Tower of London, and afterwards was brought to his Trial with the rest in the Old Bailie.  
Upon the reading of his indictment, which said, that they had committed that horrid murder, not having the fear of God before th●i● eyes, but being led by the instigation of the Devil; he pleaded error to the Indictment, saying, That what was done, was not in suc● a fear, but in the fear of the most Holy and most Righteous Lord, which troubled the Court much, to see him make ●od the Au hour of their murder. He was likewise about to have justified the Authority of the Rump Parliament, called by Mr. Prynn very well the Unparliamentary Juncto, which was answered as before, having no other matter to plead for himself, the Jury went forth and found him guilty.  
And on Monday following, he was drawn from Newgate to Charing Cross on a Hurdle: First having prepared himself by drinking three pints of Sack to bear up his spirits, which caused a more than ordinary flushing in his face, all the way he went, and sweat so much, that his Handkerchief could fiercely keep the water from running down his face: But his Spirits notwithstanding thus encouraged, could not outdare the conflict. Being come to the Ladder, he lifted up his Hands and his Eyes, and had s●me private jaculations to himself. He spoke very little, having now, as he said little else to do then to pray, in which he was but short; wherein he desired God to guide and direct the King's Majesty, to bless the three Nations with peace and happiness, and all sorts of people therein; after which he submitted, and being turned off the Ladder, he was soon dead, and quartered; which being done, his Quarters were begged by his Brother of the King, and by him they are buried.  

This wretched and unhappy man  
Appears, and does the most he can  
To shed his Sovereign's Royal blood;  
Which done, caused another flood  
Of tears and sorrow from all these  
Who with their Treason could not close    

The Life of Col. Francis Hacker.  
COl. Francis Hacker at the beginning of the Wars was a man of a desperate Fortune, one of a greater bulk of body then of perfections of mind; his factious principles advanced him in the Army, and made him of great repute with those Miscreants who contrived the King's death, insomuch, as the High Court of Injustice thought they could not pitch on a fit man unto whom to direct that wicked Warrant for to see the King's murder performed.  
That morning this horrible act was to be committed, Cromwell sends for this Hacker, with Col. Phaire and Col. Hunks, and would have those three to sign a Sub Warrant for the King's murder; the last two refused, but Col. Hacker subscribes to whatsoever Cromwell himself had Written for that purpose.  
This Col. Hacker likewise by virtue of the said unwarrantable Warrant from that High Court of Injustice, goes to Col. Thomlinson, who had then the custody of the King's person, and demands the King from him; carries him in the midst of his own Regiment through St. James Park, conducts him through the Gallery to the Banqueting House, and from thence brings him upon the Scaffold; and there stands according to his pretended Warrant, to see that bloody and unparaleld Execution.  
Afterwards he continues in the Army, sides with all parties that have the Government, and was a Col. in the Army at the very time when the King came home, and being seized and examined in order to find out the mystery of this Regicide, he was sent to the Tower of London, and shortly after with the rest brought to his Trial.  
His Trial was very short, in regard he could not deny the aforesaid actions of his in that unparaleld business; and being asked by the Court, to whom he directed his Sub warrant to strike the fatal blow, he answered, that he did not know, for Cromwell, bid him write something and bid him put his hand to it, but whose hand he put in for that purpose he could not tell: This being all his plea, he was soon brought in guilty likewise.  
And on Friday following, he was drawn from Newgate on a Hurdle to Tyburn; where he spoke very little for himself, only left the whole business of prayer to be carried on by Col. Axtel, who performed it for them both; after which being ended, he was only hanged, and being cut down he was put in a He●se which was there brought to carry b●ck his Body, his Son hath begged the same from the King, who granted him his Father's body without quartering, and accordingly buried the same in the City of London.  
As for Quarter Master William Hewle●, in regard that though he be Condemned, yet is Reprieved, in order to a clear discovery of this wicked act: I shall leave his Character and Description to the time, when Justice shall likewise make him an Example for putting on a Vizor on his Faces and a Frock on his Body for such a horrid purpose.  
There are eighteen more Condemned viz.  
Sir Hard ess Waller, William Hevenningham, Isaac Pennington, Hen. Ma tin, Gilbert Millington, Ro●ert Titch urn, Owen Roe, Robert Lilbu●n, Hen●y Smith, Edmund Harvey, John Dow●s Vincent Potter, Augustine Ga●land, George Fleetwood Simo● M●yne, Thomas W●it, James T mple, Peter Temple; of whom I think n●t convenient to write ●ny thing of their lives, till I shall be prepared to give an account al●o of the manner of their deaths. These are close prisoners in the Tower of London, till the pleasure of the Parliament shall be declared concerning them.  
Several others there are, viz.  
William Say, John Barkstead, Sir Michael Livesly Miles Cor●et, Thomas Woogan, Mr. Love, Daniel Blagrave, Andrew Broughton, E●ward Denby, John Dixwel, Thomas Challo●er, John L●sle, William Cawley, John Okey, Will. Goff, John Hewson, Valentine Wanton, Ed Whaley, Edw. Ludlow, Cor. Holland; Who wander about the World as Vagabons, like Cain with they cry of blood at their Heels, who at last will ●o question be found out by the All searching hand of divine Justice, and brought to receive a condign punishment f●r their horrible Treason; of whom also in time we shall give you a more perfect account.  
And thus I conclude the story of these few wretched and miserable Traitors, whose Limbs are set up as Lot's Wife's Pillar of Salt, the remarkable examples of the Almighty's just punishment, that thus would imbrue their hands in the Sacred blood of his own Anointed, which was so far a Deicide, as Kings are called Gods upon the Earth, and which ought to be the prayers of all truly Christianized, That God would cleanse the City and Nation from the guilt of that precious blood, so inhumanely and unchristianly shed, as before sail, and keep these Nations from Rebellion and privy Conspiracy, from all false Doctrine and Heresy, that no Jesuitical plots from abroad, or Anabaptistical or Schismatical consultations at home may he ever able to raise Sedition in the people, or dist●●● the peace of the King.   

The Life of Henry Ireton.  
HEnry Ireton, Son-in-Law to Oliver Cromwell, a man full of wicked policy and contrivance; and his Father's chief Counsellor, and second in all his undertake: he arrives at Comisary Gene. in the Army, very factious in his Principles, and a great encourager of all that were such; A great Promoter of the King's Death, & one that stood in the margin of oliver's enterprise in that wicked murder; he was not only of the High Court of Justice, but took upon him with Major Gen. Harison, etc. the appointing of the time, place, and manner of the King's Execution.  
After which he goes over with his Father Cromwell into Ireland, and by him is left Lord Deputy thereof; here he made victorious in the reducing of many Garrisons there, and at last sets down before Limerick, which Siege was the last that ever he made, for not long after the surrender of that City, he died of the Plague, his Death was very sudden and strange to the Army; but however he was sent into England, carried to Summerset House where his Father mocks his Body with that vain glory, which himself had often declared against, and a Funeral in great state is made by the Army, interring him among the Kings of England, and Iretons Wife Oliver Cromwel's own Daughters ordered by her Father's means 2000 pound in money, and 2000 pound per Annum out of the Land of Goran in Ireland, being of the Lands belonging to the Marquis of Ormond, which he hath now repossed again according to an Act of Parliament made in that behalf.  
Oliver erects a Tomb for this victorious Sectarian Champion, with his Effigies, and his Wife's lying by him in King Henry the sevenths' Chapel, which is since ignominiously broken down, and no footstep lest of his remembrance in that royal and stately memorial of our English Kings, and his name is now as rotten, as his Carcase perished through the wickedness of his bloody Life.   

The Life of John Bradshaw.  
JOhn Bradshaw borne in Cheshire, (and better sure it had been if he had ne'er been born) a man, although brought up in that honourable practice of the Law, yet a shameful and most wicked destroyer of the very foundation and corner stone thereof he was made Judge of the County Palatine of Chester, and afterwards of the Sheriff's Court in Guildhall London, and from thence most auda, tiously and impudently he appears in the Front of the High Court of Justice, as their Precedent; and judges him that was the Judge of the Law: and now I even tremble to think how I saw him the day of the King's Trial in Scarlet, with a heart and conscience as deep died as his Gown, most divilishly & inhumanely staining that white innocency of the King's Majesty, with approbrions and wicked language, which I dare not mention in this place, unless I give occasion of making that sad wound to bleed afresh in the sight of all tender, and truly pious Christians.  
This wicked and unparalleled murder, was not called to account in his Life but he lives (though in a very timorous condition) and acts as Precedent to the Council of State afterwards, and hath given him (by those who thought that by taking of Gods anointed, they did the Devil good service) several considerable Revenues, both in Hampshire and Cheshire, and among the rest lives (though not securely) in the Deanary of Westminster, where for his safety's sake he built his Study on the top of Westminster Abbey, higher than the like was ever seen before, getting as nigh Heaven as he could whilst he lived, as not expecting to come there when he died.  
All the time of oliver's short Reign, he acted not: But the Rump Parliament coming into play again, he is again reinstated in his former Presidentship, and is made the prime Lord Comissioner of the great Seal of England.  
But Lambert turned out the Parliamen again, he raves now like one stark mad, flinging out of the room in usury, and calling them all Traitors, and whilst the Committee of Safety sat, he seeing now that all things would make for the King's interest, goes home & takes his Bed, & never comes abroad more, his wicked body was tortured with many distempers, languishing in much pain and misery, insomuch that he was often reported, and really thought to be dead before he truly was, his conscience being seared, he repent not of his aforesaid wicked practices; and at last this miserable man passed through the aforesaid, much afflicted and tormented body to the immediate Judgement of God, and no doubt is gone to his place, his body was burned in Westminster Abbey.   

The Life of Doctor Dorislaus.  
DOctor Dorislaus formerly a Doctor of the civil (by him made the uncivil) Law was by an order of this corrupted piece of the Parliament, made one of the chief Council with Mr. Ask and Mr. Cook, to contrive and prepare a charge against the King, and very confidently he appears in the Court against him, seconding Mr. Cook in his wicked demanding of Justice against the King. This Dr. Dorislaus pleaded that the King ought to answer the Court, and not in the least to question their authority, which proved his own death at ●ast; for not long after, he being sent into Holland in the nature of an Agent from the Parliament, was stobbed in his lodging in the Hague by some resolute persons, who likewise not questioning their own authority) resolved to make him a part example of the King's Murder, his body was brought from Holland to Baynard's Castle in Thames Street, & from thence privately interred & accompanied with some pretended mourners in Westminster Abbey.   

The Life of Thomas Hammond.  
THOmas Hammond of Surry, and of no great fortune there. He went out into the Army one of the Life guard of the Earl of Essex, and was afterwards made Lie●yten●● Gen. to the train of Artillery under the Lord Fairfax; this Col Hammond afterwards was preferred to have the custody of the King at the Isle of Wight, and there not only undutifully but very saucily and peremptorily behaved himself towards him, not suffering the King to have any papers about him but what he would first peruse; and when the Parliament made those Votes of non addresses; as it hath been credibly reported, Letters were write to this Col. Hammond, by Oliver Cromwell (who found that nothing could be done in their own affair, till the King were taken off) that he should either remove the King out of the way or prison him by one means or other. Upon which Mr. Osborn then being in the Country, writs a letter to the House, that Major Rolfe had confessed that such a Letter was written to Hammond to the aforesaid purpose: but that Hammond had a good allowance for keeping the King, and therefore would not do it because he would not lose his allowance, and desired the said Mr. Osborn to join with him in conveying the King to some private place, and then they would do with him what they pleased.  
This business was strangely huddled up in the House, the Army party therein arguing that Osborn was a Malignant, and no notice was fit to be taken of his words; others said that the Examination of the business was a Malignant design to draw Col. Hammond to this Town that so the King might make his escape in the Cols. absence. But although the business was then hushed up, yet Mr. Osborne and others offered to confirm the design, and that Rolfe was appointed to pistol the King, but still they endeaver to abscond the truth, Rolfe is sent up by Col. Hammond with letters to the House, and therein denies the business, and although the thing appeared plain, (notwithstanding Rolfe with a trembling voice not half loud enough to make a satisfactory answer, pleads at the House Bar, that there w●s no such thing) he was suddenly conveyed out of the way by the Army, & Hammond was never so much as questioned.  
Presently after the design being carried on for the King's Murder this Col. Hammond presents to the House a Scandalous libel called the Agreement of the people, which contained nothing else but a desire of the King's trial and a subversion of the ancient Laws of the Land, which was ordered to be printed, although not a hundred part of the people had not the least thought thereof.  
And the next thing is the bringing the King to his trial in Westminster Hall instead of the pretended making him a glorious King, and bringing him home to his Parliament, and this Col. Hammond (contrary to the advice, and to the great grief of Dr. Hammond) appeared as one of the King's Judges, and afterwards became one of the great promotets of the Tyrannical usurper, and in the year 1654. When Oliver took the Protectorship upon him; Col. Hammond is sent into Ireland as one of the Privy Counsel of that Nation, Charles Fleetwood was made Lord Deputy, and Milts Corbet, C●l. Thom●●son, etc. were made of the same Council w●●● him, for Oliver durst not trust such near him who had so lately betrayed the King; as conceiving they would do the like by him; but Col. Hammond being landed at Dublin his Councelship was soon ended.  
For before a fortnight was ended he died of a spotted Fever there very suddenly and unexpectedly, dying senecless, and therefore no account can be given whether he repent of that horrid murder or no; Fleetwood and his factious crew, gave him a solemn funeral and interred his Body in Christ-Church Dublin.  
And here I cannot but observe, how that politic usurper Oliver Cromwell, desired to remove all those who were in the least concerned in the King's death as fare from him as he could for the aforesaid reasons. Who were all sent into Ireland, viz. This 

C. Hammond,  
Col. John jones,  
Lieut Gen Ludlow,  
Mr. St●●le,  
Col. Hews●n,  
Col. Phatre,  
C. M. Thomlinson  
Mr. Miles Corbet,  
Justice Cook,  
Col. Axtell Owlet, etc.  
Col. Hunks,    
With many other private Officers, of the Army.   

The Life of Colonel Richard Deane.  
RIchard Deane was first brought up by a Hoyman belonging to the Town of Ipswich, and afterwards going to Sea, was Boatswain of a ship. But the Wars coming on, he goes forth into the Army, and there thrives in many successive employments, because a man of like principles with those that then had the domination, viz. the Sectarian (which was the greatest) part of the Army when the King's Death was contrived amongst them: this Colonel Deane is a very forward busybody, to promote and countenance it; he was one of the High Court of Injustice, Seals the Warrant for the Murder, and with Harison and with Ireton appoints the place of Execution.  
After which he continued with the Army, went into Scotland with Cromwell when he conquered the covenanting Professors where he was a Colonel of Horse, and finally he is made one of the General at Sea with General Monck, and General Blake, in the Fights which were made with the Dutch; but in the second Fight with them, he encouraging the Seamen, was shot in pieces with a Cannon Bullet, and all the small remains they could find of him, were Coffined up and brought to Greenwich, and from thence were carried by water in a solemn manner to Westminster, and buried in the Chapel of King Henry the Seventh.   

The Life of Colonel Thomas Pride.  
THo. Pride a man of a very mean (yet of a very uncertain) Birth, some of the Ancients have reported that he was a poor boy brought up by the Parish of St. Brides, Allies St. Bridgets London, and by them put forth at first, to an Ale-House-keeper in Bride Lane to draw drink, but whether this be true or no I will not assert it: But the first mention that I find of him, was, being a Servant to Mr. Hiccocks' a Brewer in Southwark, and now living in the Bridg-house in S. Tulyes' Street, there, with him he was a Drayman, and a common carrier of Beer with the Slings.  
When the Wars began (he being a bustling fellow in any disturbance) he went forth an Ensign under the Earl of Essex, but by his continual siding with People like himself, viz. Ignorant, yet impudent in all their proceed, he at last commences Colonel of a foot Company, & now his meaness aims at nothing more than to be one of the Princes of the People.  
And when the Army at New-Market-Heath began the business of agitators, and by that means to forsake their old Masters the Parliament. Colonel Pride encourages and animates them thereunto, and upon their coming to London, he appears a great stickler to have the impeached Members, and Major Gen. Browne brought to Justice, and because the greater part of the House was so honest as to scorn to be taught and frighted into any illegal and base practices by the Army. This Colonel Pride together with Sir Hardress Walter, & Col. Hewson, seize all the aforesaid honest and conscientious Members, driving them away from the exercise of their trust commited to their charge by their Country, and for some time forcing the greatest part of them into an Ordinary, called Hell near Westminster-Hall, which occasioned some to use that expression that Pride carried the Parliament to Hell.  
After this he proceeds according as the faction lead him, and is a great Counsellor in all the consultations about the King's Death, and when the King was brought from Windsor to his own House at St. Jamses. Col. Pride was very angry that the King was brought into his Chamber, although (it being then cold weather) it was only for a small time (Col. Pride having a fire in that Chamber) until another fire in another room could be provided for the King.  
And now the time drawing near wherein they intended this horrid Murder; Colonel Pride is made one of the King's judges, he is among them very active every day, and when that black sentence was pronounced, Col. Pride sets his hand & seal to the murder, and with his Regiment is upon the guard that day it was accomplished.  
Matters thus succeeding, and his Pockets being filled with the spoils of the people, he gins to think, then of his Draymans' place, yet of a Brewer's trade, and accordingly he laid out a considerable sum of money upon a Brewhouse in Pie-Corner, and by his Wife and substitutes kept the same for many years together.  
After came on the Wars of Scotland, which when Cromwell undertook, he is a chief follower of his said Master, and is very forward in that enterpriz. And after when the Scotch Trophies and Colours were taken, and for the honour of that victory hanged up in Westminster Hall; he was the Man that uttered the expression, that he would have the Lawyer's Gowns hanged there too.  
And thus he continues till Oliver takes the Government upon himself, Col. Pride assists him in this too, and stands up very much for this new made Protector, no ways doubting but that if Oliver were a King he should be one of his Inferior Princes; not long after h● dubbed him S. Thomas Pride, and yet by his usurping Master when they were among themselves was often called Sir. Thomas Slingsby, which indeed was the more proper name of the two.  
Col. Pride being of a very great corpulent Body, by reason whereof his Gate was very uncomely, Cromwell would used ●o say, when he saw him coming ●owards him, see here how Pride comes wadling too and again, as if he h●d the Slings upon his back.  
And being newly Knighted, he thought to adventure upon some noble Achievement to make himself famous, and his first encounter was at the Bear-garden, where the Bea●es felt the couragousness of h●● valour, and were all slain in t● Fight, upon which Col. Pride can off the Conqueror;  
For which and other services, t●● valorous Knight was suddenly ●●ter made a Lord, and thinks th● Lords place would become a Dr 〈◊〉 man very well; This mock hom● sat not long before the Fabricator of it had an end put to his Life, and Col. Pride thought it not manners to stay behind him, whom he had always followed in all his designs, and fearing a swing, instead of his slings, he died about a month after him, near Nonsuch in the County of Surry, which Park of the Kings so called, he had as his Portion for his aforesaid wicked Services, the manner of his Death is uncertain, as that of his Birth, being buried in a Church, near there abouts, in the County of Surrey.   

The Life of Francis Allen.  
FRancis Allen, a Citizen and Gold Smith of London, and Lived Over against St. Dunstan's Church, near Temple Bar, was a great stickler against the King, and one that had no way to improve his now decaying Estate, but by siding with the rising Sectaries; by which means he was made one of the Commissioners for their Customs, and a Trustee for Sale of the Lands of the Bishops, Deans, and Chapters. And the time coming on wherein his Sovereign's blood was to be spilt, he appears a forward Designer of that wicked Act, and accepts very readily of the employment of one of the King's Judges; where he appeared every day to propagate the Murder, and was a great encourager of others to do the same. He likewise Signed to the warrant for the Execution, and was ever after a continued Rumper, and a great enemy of oliver's, because he dissolved them: and I think it will not be unseasonable to insert in this place part of a mock hymn, which was made pretendedly by Mr. John Goodwin; although only a Jeer made in imitation of the like Drollery which he made and caused to be Sung in his Church.  

Then spoke one Allen of the City,  
at which we gave a shout.  
Who said indeed it was great pity,  
we should be thus turned out.  
But Cromwell answered him again,  
and said, 'twas such as he,  
That were the Sponges of the land,  
and now must squezed be.   
Which indeed in some case was not said amiss, for he arrived at a very vast estate by being a Customer, and one of the Treasurers for sale of the King, Queen and Princess Lands at Worcester house, and of the lands belonging to the pretended Delinquents, at the Lord Cravens House in Drury lane; besides he compassed a considerable Estate out of the Lands of the Bishop of Chester, at a very inconsiderable rate.  
He died much about the time with Oliver Cromwell, at his assumed house at Fox-hall, and presently after him died his Wife also, leaving their illegal and ill-gotten Estate to his Brother Deputy Allen a Herald Painter in London, whose Heirs I doubt will have little cause to glory in it.   

The Life of Thomas Andrew's.  
ALderman Thomas Andrew's was at first a Linen Draper upon Fish-street hill, but improved his Estate better by the times then by his Trade, for which purpose he was made a Treasurer for Plate, Money, and one of the Treasurers at War, for which he received three pence per pound; he was likewise one of the Commissioners for the Customs, and with his brother Allen was likewise one of the Treasures for sale of the Lands of the late King, Queen and Prince, etc.  
These employments being gainful to him, made him take any course to maintain and propagate the power by which he received them, whereupon he sides with the King's Murderers, and appears at that Court as one of his Judges, and at last signs likewise the Warrant for Execution,  
And now having had a hand in the King's blood, he is resolved to blot out the Name thereof. For in the year, 1649. Alderman Reynoldson Lord Mayor of London, in whose Mayoralty an Act was set on foot for the abolishing of Kingly Government, and for the declaring our now Sovereign, than Prince, a Traitor; which was Ordered to be proclaimed in the City of London. But honest Alderman Reynoldson refused to be present at that wicked Proclamation, and publicly and plainly told them, he would not publish any such thing; and for such his denial, was fyned two thousand pounds, and three months' Imprisonment; yet notwithstanding this, Alderman Andrews accepts of the place of Mayor in his absence: proclaims the Act against Kingly Government, and serves out the remaining part of Alderm. Reynoldson's Government, as if he had been legally chosen to do the same, and the next year succeeding, was chosen himself by the City, Lord Mayor of London.  
He arrived at very little notice afterwards, unless a Knighthood from the Protector, which he but little while enjoyed, although he was a principal Man at the proclaiming Richard Cromwell after the Usurpers Death.  
He had very many Children, most of his Sons got their Estates in Employments under him, but never lived to enjoy them; for to his continued grief, he was hardly out of Mourning for one, before he had occasion to mourn for the loss of another; At last a Suit of law coming upon him for a wrongfully detained sum of money which he injuriously kept in his hands of another Man's, he died suddenly full of years, in the Year 1659. and had he lived a Year longer, three that had been Lord Majors of London in Twenty years' time had held up their hands at the same Bar where they had Condemned many Wretched persons which had not so much deserved it as themselves.   

The Life of Col. John Venn.  
COl. John Venn, was a Citizen of London likewise, and as I have heard a decaying Tradesman, he was taken notice of for his more than ordinary forwardness against the King's interest; when the Wars increased, his Factious Principles increased too, by reason whereof he was made Governor of Windsor, where he had the opportunity to increase his Estate, not only by the Plunder of the Country thereabouts, but by getting into his possession much of the King's household stuff, Hang, Linen, etc. He was a chief Consultator with the wicked Council of the Army at Windsor, and gave his Vote among them to Murder the King.  
Mr. Christopher Love, afterwards Martyred, Chaplain to his Regiment, who instructed him in better Principles than he afterwards professed, and about the year, 1645, or 1646: this Col. Venn took a house in Aldersgate-street, London, for the only reason that he might be near unto Mr. Love, who then preached at St. Anne's Church, Aldersgate, not far from Venns Lodging; and about the year, 1647: this professed Religious Colonel, being to remove from thence to a place called Brumley near Kensington, by reason of which distance he could not enjoy, as he pretended, the benefit of Mr Lov's soul searching preaching, whereupon he hired the Author of this small Treatise to be a constant Hearer of M. Love, and to take his Sermons in Short-writing, who made it his business all the week following to transcribe them again into a legible hand, whereby what Mr. Love preached one Sunday at St. Ann's, was the next Sunday re-preached by Col. Venn in his own Family. And yet this wretched Man acts contrary even to these Principles; in the year, 1648, he forsook both Mr. Love and his Religion too, and sides with the then prevailing factious party, and is nominated one of the Judges of the King, who by this time they had contrived to put to Death, to the great affliction and more than ordinary trouble of spirit of Mr. Love.  
Finally, he was one of the Judges of the King, and most impudently sat among them; he signed likewise to that black Authority that caused that unheard of Execution: and lastly, he proved a great enemy to Mr. Love, whom formerly he so earnestly thirsted after, and would not appear to help him either in his Imprisonment, Confinements, or Death.  
But at last, he himself was not much regarded, The judgements of God followed him in a troubled Conscience; and at last, going to Bed very well with his wife, he was found dead by her the next morning; no persons that were with him that night, nor his wife that lay by him, being in the least sensible of his approaching end.   

The Life of Sir William Constable.  
SIR William Constable, was one of those who appeared eminently against Kingly power, he was a Colonel in the Parliaments Army, and a great Cider with the Sectarian part thereof; his Estate was engaged for Debt, and he knew no way to recover his Decays but by saying and doing as those wretches commanded; He sold his Estate to Sir Marmaduke Langdale for twenty thousand pounds, and afterwards begs it again of the Parliament; for that as he said Sir Marmaduke Langdale was a Delinquent, and so his Estate was in their Dispose, his thus decayed fortune made him side with the Conspirers of the King's Death, and he was one of his Judges, and set his Hand and Seal for taking away the Life of the King, and did as much as in him lay for transplanting and removing the very Name & memory thereof. He died in the Reign of the last usurping Tyrant that I pray England may ever have.   

The Life of Sir John Danvers.  
SIR John Danvers was a Colonel in the said Army, was Brother to the Earl of Danby, who he proved to be a Delinquent in that Rump-Parliament, whereby he might overthrow his will and so compass the Estate himself; he sided likewise with the Sectarian party, was one of the King's Judges and lived afterwards some years in his sin without repentance.  
But drawing near to his Death I have cause to believe that he repent of the wickedness of his Life, for that, than Mr. Thomas (now Dr.) Fuller was conversant in his Family and preached several times at Sir John Danver's desire in Chelsey Church, where I am sure, all (that frequented that Congregation) will say he was instructed to repent of his misguided and wicked Consultations in having to do with the Murder of that just Man. He died, (but how I cannot give an account) and hath no Question received his Judgement.   

The Life of Isaac Ewer.  
ISaac Ewer, began his Estate with the Wars, and increased therein according to the success thereof; he was a Colonel at Colchester Siege and there was at the Council of War upon Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, he was one of the King's Judges, & Signed the Warrant for the Murder; afterwards went with Cromwell into Ireland, he was at that unheard of bloody Quarter which was given to 4000 five hundred accomplished Men, at Tredagh in Ireland; where none in Arms escaped their Murder; although many of them laid down their Arms upon promise of their lives, which notwithstanding they Murdered; he was afterwards at the Siege of Clonmel in Ireland, and from thence at Waterford where the Town being taken he died suddenly after of the Plague, and was there buried.   

The Conclusion.  
ANd thus you see how Evil pursued these wicked Men, who thus thirsted after the blood of their Sovereign; Nay, I say of one of the most Pious Princes as ever Ruled the English Sceptre. A King who had no other fault but his too much Clemency, wherewith his nature did abound; whose Piety was as Transcendent as his Clemency,  as the Rock which neither the unruly Waves of Sedition impetuously breaking thereupon, nor the Boisterous and  winds of persecution could work into the least compliance, or disturb in his resolved steadfastness; one that like the Palm Tree that could flourish with the greater splendour by how much he was Pressed with ponderous inconveniences, and with our Saviour could bear the Cross with as much ease as he did his Crown, and improve his Afflictions to the right use for which God Originally intended them, he could Spurn at the Glittering Glory of an Earthly Crown, and handling Christ's Crown of Thorns could by the eye of Faith discern an immortal and eternal Crown of Glory.  
His Patience under God's Afflicting hand was like that of St. Paul's fare above all that the world could do to abuse it, and not only so, but rejoicing in his Tribulation also. The Imprisonment of his Body could not in the least confine his mind, but rather give the greater advantages to his heavenly Soul for nearer and more desired converses with the King of Kings. No undutiful or unhandsome usage which he received from the meanest of his People could Aggravate him into any passionate reflections, or exasperate above the degree of his sweet and complacent Temper, he could not be wrought beyond the bounds of his reason, although he had to do with unreasonable Men, nor was ever heard to use any expressions of Gaul and Wormwood towards those that gave him Gaul and Vinegar to Drink; he blessed those that cursed him, he prayed for those that persecuted him; and he desired that those who would not suffer him to live with them in his Earthly Kingdom, might be received with him into the Capacious Kingdom of Heavenly Glory.  
His Charity was as Universal as that required from a Universal Christian; viz. To the greatest and most eminent of his forward Adversaries; to those who spit in his Face, he desired that their Faces might shine with the Unction of the Spirit, and others who Vilifyed him with crying out Justice and Execution against him, he prayed that their sin might be forgiven, and that they might not receive that Justice upon themselves which they called for unjustly to be Executed upon him. Nay, and further, he did often declare that he did as freely forgive all the world with as much freedom as he did hope to be forgiven, and named one particular person among the rest, saying, viz. I forgive Miles Corbet too, One who made it the greatest ●f his study to stretch abused law, Arguments against the King, and aggravating the Kings demanding Justice against the Five Members with all the exasperating circumstances imaginable, which was the chief Original cause of the future civil and unhuman Bloodshed, & yet our most Pious and charitable Prince had charity even for this Man.  
His moderation was known unto all men, far above all mortal rules or observations, take him which way you will, either as Man, a Christian, or a KING, and in all three you shall find him to abound in his moderation; his private Life as a Man was above the reach of envy to Tax him with any thing that might Blot or Stain his blameless conversation; His Christianity caused him to comply with the Peevish Precipitate Distempers of the times, hoping thereby to allay that furious Fire which broke out among the Giddy headed People. And this our Gracious Sovereign throwing the water of his compassionate Christianity thereon to quench it, it proved like water cast on Lime, burned and smoked with the greater Violence.  
His Kingly moderation far exceeded the other two, for he Stooped and Condescended even to things below himself, that he might let all the w●rld see his readiness to comply with any thing that might gratify their distempered and infatuated frenzy, which though nothing could do, he yet retained his aforesaid serious and moderate temper; and having at that time to deal with a contradicting and gainsaying People, he moderately contrives all things, as much as in him lay, to reconcile and make up their ruined and irrecoverable Breaches.  
And lastly, His moderate Diet, his temperance in all other affairs, his constancy to his Queen, his fixed Religion, his heavenly Inclinations, his continued Devotions, his melting Clemeny, and his abused Charity, do all like so many Foils show the blackness of that Barbarous Action of Butchering such a Pious Prince, the parallel of whom cannot be Sampled among the now Peaceable Kings of the Earth.  
In a word, His very Enemies could give him no worse a character then what is contained in this, dimidium of his real worth, which is represented but in dead colours, which no doubt but a more curious Pen will represent to its lively Species. Some have said (as Cornet Joyce) that if ever King of England went to Heaven, our Glorious Martyr King Charles did, who laid down his Life; and rather would lo●● his Prerogative, than the People shou●● lose their Privilege. Oliver Cro●well himself said, that he was a unwise and Pious Man, but that he wi●●Vnfortunate in his War. And Cook said he was Wise and a Gracious Prince, but that he must Die, and Monarchy with him.  
And this was he whom these miserable Men Sentenced to Death as a Murderer, and a Traitor, whom Devils must acknowledge as one whose pure conversation might cause his Name to be Registered in the Calanders of the Sainted Martyrs, valuing not so much his own, as the Lives and Safeties of his People.  
A Gentleman standing at his sad interment, threw this Distich into the Vault.  
Non Carolus magnus, nec Carolus quintus.  
Sed Carolus Agnus hic Jacet intus.  
FINIS.