A DECLARATION CONCERNING 

Colonel Henry Martin,  
Colonel Robert Lilburn,  
Colonel Downs,  
Colonel Temple,  
Colonel Waite,  
Mr. Smith,  
And Mr. Carew Esq;    
Who sat as Judges on the life of Our late martyred Sovereign King CHARLES;  
With a Charge and Impeachment of their Traitorous and dangerous Proceed, against His Majesty's Loyal Subjects;  
And the Committing of them to the Custody of that worthy and faithful Sir John Robinson, Knight and Baronet, His Majesty's Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON.  
As also, a Discovery of their Treasonable Designs with those two perfidious Hannibals, 

Colonel John Barkstead, AND  
Colonel John Hewson.    
London, Printed for George Horton, 1660.   
Etched by S. Allen 
KEY TO THE ENGRAVING BY S. BELLIN AFTER J. BRIDGES PICTURE REPRESENTING CHARLES THE FIRST AFTER PARTING WITH HIS CHILDREN.  
Portraits of the King, The Princess Elizabeth, Duke of Gloucester, Bishop Ju●on, Guards, Troopers of the Parliament  
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Published by Mary Parkes 22. Golden Square London 1●th F●bruary 1841   

A Declaration OF Col. Martin, and the rest of the Prisoners in the Tower of London.  
THere is not any thing in the Universe deserves less to be a Member of it, than a self seeking Man, who unconcerned in the Public Good, regards only his private Interest. The World unwillingly contributes to his maintenance; and Nature less abhors a Vacuum, then that any place should be filled by Subjects so empty of desert He is a savage Creature in the midst of civil People, not deserving to be born of others, as not caring to live but for himself. Such were those ●ho sat as Judges on the life of his lat● Majesty, pretending nothing more than Liberty and Freedom. Indeed, it is a truth so manifest, and not to be dissembled, that never yet was there a Tyrant, but pretended to be a Saviour to the People: Liberty, Conscience, a Glorious Nation, The Good Old Cause, and such specious Names are made use of.  
These Machiavilian Tricks, and Political Cheats, so often put upon his Majesty's good Subjects in these late bleeding a●d distracted Kingdoms, have now by the good Hand of Providence awakened Us, and undeceived the People with a sad experience of the miseries we have subjected ourselves to, by a perpetual Itch of reforming, annulling, creating Laws, and framing New Governments to the model of every Usurper and Tyrant's Ambition; And all this under pretence of the Good Old Cause, did divers Colonels of the Army now in happy and safe Custody, assume unto themselves the Name of Supreme Authority, acting in a most unjust and arbitrary Way by their own insatiate Wills, and Tyranny of the bloody and persecuting Sword: Witness that horrid and most unparallelled execrable Murder upon our late Martyred Sovereign, who not long before that wicked and fatal blow, was reviled mocked, and with indignation spit upon; yet was this gracious King, and Mirror of Princes, not disturbed in his precious Soul so much as to tread one foot awry, or to show the least discontent in His Princely Face; but after Sentence, on the Saturday, having spent that last Sabbath of His on Earth, in holy meditations with his Chaplain, in hearing, reading, and prayer, he trimmed up his celestial Spouse (his Soul) for her celestial Bridegroom, which he every hour looked for; Nay more, the night approaching▪ he spent the most part thereof in devout prayer, never putting off his , praying so sweetly, so fervently, and so charitably, that one of His Enemies confessed, who privately he●rd Him, That if ever any King had Communion with God on Earth, it was this glorious and martyred Prince: The next morning being very desirous to see His Children that were in England, with mu●h ado they were permitted to go and visit their imprisoned and condemned Father; And his two tender & Princely Babes, the Lady Elizabeth, and the Duke of Gloucester, b●ing come to weep in their Royal Father's Bosom, the King with a pleasant Countenance & Voice, blessed them and embraced them etc.  
The young Lady went weeping, not only tears, but blood and the Duke, like a Dove in the Valley, grieving for the loss of his dear Father; both (as two weaned Lambs out of the Pasture) being bereft of Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters, were taken by strangers from the Earl of Leicester, and carried to the Isle of Wight, there to be penned up in that Castle, which their Royal Father, by wicked Traitors, had been kept a prisoner.  
Well now let us take an account of these Rebellious Brethren, and declare to the World their great Enormities for which they stand committed to the Tower of London: And first we shall begin with that ignoble Schismatic, deboist Lunatic, and disloyal Subject Henry Martin, whose notorious same hath been sufficiently spread over all Sodom and Gomorrha, and has the character of courage and abilities, fitting to sit with Betty Blunt, or amongst the greatest kennel of Whores in Crosse-lane or Bloomsbury.  
Next comes the two Arch-brethrens in iniquity, Col. Wait, and Col. Temple, whose right valiant treacherous and ambitious achievements are sufficiently made manifest, since the denouncing of that most horrid Sentence for the execrable & bloody Murder of our late Dread Sovereign and Martyred King CHARLES.  
Next comes that gr●nd Champion Col. Robert Lilburn, a great Protectorian, a most implacable Enemy against Kingly-Government, and a most insolent Infringer of the People's Liberties; one that had more Wit than Honesty, but despised the Good old Law called Magna Charta. A pure Bird of Old Noll's Hatching; and one whose dark and obscure Actions sprung and were delineated from the blind and preposterous Principles of Col Hewson, who by his base prudence vile and ambitious Wit drew up a thousand perfidious Hannibals to the Royal Exchange, and there slew his poor Brother-Cobler; for which he stands indicted for Murder upon Record at the Old-Bayley; and in due time may receive the just Reward of a notorious Traitor.  
The next are Col, Downs, Mr. Carey, and Mr. Smith, all Birds of the same Feather, and three of the late King's Tryers; for which they stand impeached, and committed, in order to the several Misdemeanours, Rebellions, and Perjuries; And to whom also some others of the same Order are sent to custody; amongst whom, that worthy Imp Colonel Barkstead (we hear) is one.   
FINIS.