A Catalogue of God's just Judgements against such Persons as are mentioned in the following Treatise.  

THE Scots in general. 

Argile in particular.    
The Irish in general. 

Macquire and Mac-mahoon in particular.    
The English long Parliament. 

The Earl of Essex.  
Hotham the Father, and Hotham his Son.  
The Lord Brooks.  
John Pym, one of the five Members in the Long Parliament.  
Col. Hamden.  
Alderman Hoyl.    
Oliver Cromwell, 

Richard and Henry Cromwell, his Sons.  
Mrs. Claypool. and The Lady Frances his Daughters.  
Col. Ireton, his Son in Law.    
john Bradshaw.  
Col. 

Dean.  
Rainsbrough.  
Reynolds.    
Capt. White.  
Dr. Dorislans.  
Mr. Askam.  
Denis Bond.  
Christopher Love,  
Mr. Martial.  
Richard Pym.  
Horizon.  
Carew.  
Cook.  
Hugh Peter.  
Gregory Clement.  
Col. Scroop.  
jones.  
Seot.  
Axtel.  
Hacker.  
Hulet.  
Will. late Lord Munson.  
Mr. Wallup.  
Mildmay.  
Capt. Thomas.   

Traitors Condemned, but not yet Executed.  

ON●● Kass.  
Augustine Garland.  
Edm. Hare●●y.  
Hen. Smith.  
Simon Meyn.  
William Heveningham.  
Isaac Pennington.  
Sr. Hardresse Waller.  
George Fleetwood.  
james Temple.  
Peter Temple.  
Thomas Waite.  
Robert Lilburn.  
Gilbert Millington.  
Vincent Potter.  
Thomas Wogan.  
john Downes.     

THE TRAITOR'S Perspective-glass. OR, Sundry Examples of Gods just judgements executed upon many Eminent Regicides, who were either Fomentors of the late Bloody Wars against the King, or had a hand in His Death.  
Whereunto is added Three Perfect Characters of those late-executed Regicides, Viz. OKEY, CORBET, and BARKSTEAD.  
Wherein many Remarkable Passages of their several lives, and barbarous actions, from the beginning of the late Wars, to the Death of that blessed Martyr CHARLES the first.  
Are faithfully delineated by I.T. Gent.  
— Lex non est justior ulla  
Quam necis Artifices, arte perire sua.  
LONDON, Printed by H. B. for Phil. Stephen's the younger, at the sign of the King's Arms, over against the Middle Temple in Fleetstreet, 1662.   

THE TRAITOR'S Perspective-Glass.  
WHosoever shall peruse either Sacred, or Profane Histories, will soon find how just God is in his Judgements toward such as have rebelled against their natural Sovereigns, or conspired their Deaths. Zimri, when he found his opportunity, flew his Master Elah; the servants of King Ammon, their own Prince; Phocas, his Emperor Mauritius; Artabanus Captain of the Guard, killed his own King and Master Xerxes; Brutus and Cassius, murdered Julius Caesar; Thessalus poisoned Alexander: But the end of all these was lamentable; for Heavens Divine Vengeance (at last) pursued each of them close at the heels, and not one of them but perished miserably; nay, so crying a sin is murder, that God usually inflicts upon the murderer a punishment answerable to the crime committed: According to the Law of Retaliation, or that Divine Rule, He that sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man.  
Qui struit insidias aliis sibi damna dat ipse.  
Who doth for others dig a pit,  
Oft times himself falls into it.  
Thus it fared with the Egyptians, who having drowned all the male-childrens of the Israelites, were themselves drowned in the Red-sea: And the children of Israel, when they took Adonibezek, cut off his thumbs, and his great toes, judg. 1.6 7. whereupon he said, Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs, and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table; and now as I have done, so God hath requited me. So when Perillus had made his brazen Bull to torment others, Phalaris thought it just, that himself who made it, should first taste of his own invention, and he burned alive in it.  
— Lex non est justior ulla,  
Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.  
And when Egypt wanted the usual inundation of Nilus, Thracius having told Busyr●s, that the weath of the gods would be appeased by the sacrificing a stranger's blood; the King knowing him to be an Alien, thought it the justest act to offer him up first unto the gods: 
Illi Busyris fies jovis hostia primus  
Inquit, & Aegyptotu dabis hospes aquam.  
Since thou a stranger art, Busyris cries,  
We first will thee to the gods sacrifice.   
So we read, that those Lords who first called the Moors into Spain, to destroy their King Roderick, were themselves and their families destroyed by the means of those Moors; and the Britain's that rejected their just and lawful King Aurelius Ambrose, and sent for the Saxons to aid them against him, were not long after driven by the Saxons into the Rocky Mountains, where they remain exiled from their own right to this day.  
But if we cast our eyes either upon those that were the instruments of our late bloody wars, or such as were guilty of shedding the precious blood of that blessed Martyr Charles the first, we shall find such a series of Gods just judgement against his enemies, as no History of any times, or any Kingdom besides our own, can parallel the like.  


God's judgements against the Scots.  I Will first begin with the Scots in general; for they were the first Pomentors and Ringleaders of the late Rebellion, by raifing not only an Army against thei● natural Prince, but by encouraging our Nation to the like, and afterwards in betraying their Sovereign to a Jewish faction of bloody Independants and Anabaptists, who thirsted after his life: For when the good King upon their deep (but perfidious engagements) thought he might be safe with those his own Native Subjects, he resolved to go unto them; and thereupon disguising himself, with a very great hazard of his own person, he adventured to pass through all difficulties, and to commit himself into the hands of those men; who very fai●ly, but falsely, made merchandise of his Majesty, and sold him to his enemies, at a far dearer rate than the Traitor judas sold the Saviour of the world, and the King of Kings unto the Jews: And no such wonder neither, for judas was but an Ass to Lesley, who had been a Pedlar, or Merchant (as Pedlars are termed in that Country) before he became Commander of an Army; and therefore he knew how to sell his ware better than the other; though his sin in one respect was far worse, for judas repent of his treachery and brought back the thirty pieces he had received, and cast it down with a penitent confession of his fault: But we find not that either Lesley, or any other of these Scotish Merchants did repent their treacheries, con●ess their faults, or return one penny of the price they received for their King back again.  
But never was any Nation more justly dealt withal for their perjuries towards their Sovereign than those perfidious Scots; who having watted against their King, Covenanted with, and sold him to the Parliament, God was pleased to make the same Parliament that invited them to these their impieties, to become the instruments of their punishment; and that dear Brother of theirs Oliver Cromwell, who not long before made speeches in their commendation, and gratulory orations for that blessed union betwixt these two Nations, at length proved the chiefest Agent (another Attalus, called flagellum Dei) whom the Lord used for the execution of his Fury upon these perjured people: First by fire, in burning and laying waste their strongest Holds: next by the sword, in cutting off the chiefest of their Covenanters; and lastly, by famine, in reducing those poor captive Soldiers (that were taken after Dumbar fight) to such an exegent, 
Dunhar fight, Anno 1656. Sep. 3.  that above three thousand of them were at Durham starved to death, and those who survived were by hunger torced to feed upon the dead bodies of their Countrymen, to preserve their own lives: And therefore what Martial saith of the Lion, which is the Arms of Scotland, I may fitly apply to these treacherous Scots, 

Laeserat ingrato l●● persidus ere Magistrum,  
Ausus tarn not as contaminare manus.  
Sed dignas tante persoluit crimine poenas,  
Et qui non tulerat verb●●a, tela tulit.   

A treacherous Lion hurt his Keeper late,  
Daring those well known hands to violate;  
But for his foul offence he paid full dear,  
Instead of stripes, he felt a kill spear.    
Thus you see that God will not suffer any Traitors, or Regecides to go unpunished; as may further appear by that one remarkable example of Hatto late Bishop of Mentz in Germany, who having betrayed his near Kinsman Allebert Count Palatine of Franconia (to whom he had sworn allegiance) into the Emperor's hands, God soon after suffered this Traitor (as you may find in the Chronological Collections of Petreius) to be carried away by Devils, and to be thrown into a burning pit in Mount Gebel, a voice in the mean time being heard to cry on't in the air, Sic peccaudo lues, sicque ruendo rues.  
Thus art thou worthily punished for thy wicked deeds.  
So heinous are the sins of Treason, and Perjury, and so just is the Almighty in the severity of his punishments for them, that he suffers none who are guilty of such horrid deeds, either early, or late to escape unpunished.  

And since I am speaking of these treacherous Scots; give me leave to give you a short account of the Life, 
The Marquis of Argsle.  Actions, and End of that ingrateful, and perfidious Traitor to his King and Country, the late Marquis of Argyle, whose deal with his Kindred, Friends and Confederates, aught to be a warning to all Protestants, how they trust such an Apostate Covenanter, whose ambition and avarice did ruin the King and Church, together with three flourishing Kingdoms, and in the conclusion himself. His Father having married a second Wife, and turned Catholic, this his Son obtains, by his Majessies favour, the possession of his whole estate, allowing him a small pension to live upon: after whose death, he outed his brother of his estate at Kyntire, and afterwards cheated his Sisters of 12000 l. given them by the last Will and Testament of their Mother in Law; forcing them all, for want of maintenance, to hazard the loss of their souls, by forsaking that Religion they were ever nursed up in; and to cloister themselves up in Nunneries beyond the seas.  
Having thus taken a view of his Religious carriage towards his Parents, Friends and Allies, let us next observe his deportment towards his Sovereign; and how he kept the Solemn League and Covenant with his Brethren in England.  
It cannot be denied but His Majesty did confer many great and Princely favours upon him at his Father in Law the Earl of Mortons' desire, making him Lord of Lorn, with the additional honour, and title, of Marquis, and a full pension well paid him ever since, together with (not only an act of Oblivion, but) approbation of all his tyranni at proceed against the Athel men, the Earl of Aireley, and others.  
But his first endeavour in requiral of all these, and many more Royal favours, undeservedly heaped upon him, was his ent●ing into a conspiracy with his Co●n lawyers and the Earl of Lothian (who married his Niece, and was once heard to say, That the three Kingdoms would never have peace, so long as King Cha●ls his head was on his shoulders) to banish Antrim, and the Macdonalds out of Ireland; for which he had a great gift, and three R●gi●● h●s sent him from the Parliament of England: Next he projected to joy● counsel with Say Pierpoint, Cromwell and others of the Independent Juncto, against the Presbyte●ians: doing them that Masterpiece of good service; first under colour of loyalty and friendship, to prevail with his Majesty to return to the Scots Army then at Newark, Cromwell subtly contributing a pass to his Majesty's g●ides, with a slack guard, that he might the more freely escape: Secondly, after many loyal speeches for Monarchy, the Kingdom of Scotland's interest in the person of the King, and many public and private vows and protestations, not to abandon his Majesty, without his own consent; Contrary to all which, he and his Confederates corrupted the loyalty of that once famous Gentleman, Lieutenant General David Lesley (who had deeply sworn and engaged himself to his Majesty to convey him safely into Scotland, or to see him peaceably settled in his Throne in England) forcing him (and he prevailing with the Soldiers) to abandon his Majesty: and leaving him behind (now little better than an assured prisoner) and the whole power of the sword i● the hands of his bloody enemies, the Independants and Sectaries, to the ruin and overthrow of the Covenant, and the Presbyterian cause in the City, and Parliament. Which design of his having taken the desired effect, he presently by letters encourages the Independent party to proceed in their dethroning votes, and accusarion of his Majesty, assuring them that no party in Scotland should be able to hinder their proceed: Whereupon they immdiately imprisoned the King, and next erected a High Court of Justice to take away his life, and afterwards publicly murdered him.  
Thus you see Argyle having overthrown all Laws, tyrannised over the lives, liberties, and estates of his Country men and contrary to his duty and and allegiance, conspired to extirpate all Monatchial Government, by betraying his natural Prince into the hands of his enemies, and opposing all ways of peace to prevent his Majesty's deliverance, and the settlement of his Kingdoms; (Now thinking himself secure in his villainies, and having likewise by treachery gotten the person of the Marquis of Montross into his hands, whose only fault was loyalty to his Prince) he caused him to be brought with as much ignominy as possibly he could desire to Edinburgh, and afterwards to be barbarously murdered, just at such time as his Majesty (that now is) was coming into Scotland; even as it were in despite to his Sovereign. But God having at length most miraculously restored his Sacred Majesty Charles the second, to the Royal Throne of his blessed Father, did also put it into his heart to avenge himself upon this underminer of Princes; insomuch as this arch Rebel was suddenly seized upon; then committed close Prisoner to the Tower; in which place he remained till such time as he could be shipped away in order to his trial at Edinburgh in Scotland; where he was legally convicted of High-Treason, and justly executed, as he justly deserved it.    


God's judgements against the Irish Rebels.  Nor did it happen otherwise with the Irish, then with the beforementioned Scotish Rebels; who having palpably forged several pretended Commissions under his late Majesty's Great-Seal, and thereby raised an Army; first impudently slandered Gods anointed, then openly rebelled against him, and afterward; fell to butchering of his loyal Subjects, women with child, young infants, aged Matrons, old Fathers, and all others, of what age, sex or condition soever: Insomuch, that their barbarous inhumanity far exceeded all the cruelties of Phalaris, Busyris, Dionysius, and the rest of those Heathen Tyrants, or bloody persecutors of the primitive Christians, whose bloody slaughters were but merciful punishments, compared with their Tragic acts; so as they who felt them, could hardly believe such infernal destruction could be invented, much less executed by any humane Creatures upon earth.  

But exitus acta probat. Mark what is now become of all these Irish Traitors? were not the chiefest instruments of that Rebellion, 
Mac-Mahoon.  Macquire, and mac-Mahoon, most miraculously seized upon? and (notwithstanding their strange escape ou● of the Tower) how strangely did God's judgements find them out, causing one of their servants to be the principal occasion of their discovery; for which they were shortly after brought to condign pwishment, and condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, which was accordingly executed.  
As for the rest of them (together with their wives and children) were they not either killed banished, or enslaved; and such as remained alive, requited by Cromwell with the like inhumanity, after the storming of Drogedah, where above three thousand of them were in cool blood massacred by the lemnian hands of that unmerciful Tyrant.    

Next for that long Parliament here in England, 
The English Rebellion in the long Parliament.  which first raised up a Rebellious Army against their King, and at last a High Court of Justice to take away his life: Did not God stir up their own General, Oliver Cromwell, a Philistine, amongst these Philistines; and a grand Rebel, amongst these Rebels; who finding his opportunity, wisely broke in pieces this Brazen Engine, and with a Hero-like courage, dissolved that knot, and scattered those grand Proditors of their King and Country; as the Lord dispersed the Jews that were the murderers of his Son (and their own King) over all the parts of this Kingdom. The whole mass of that long Parliament (who thought to remain as Kings for ever) being scattered like chaff with the wind, from the face of the earth; and now made ludibrium, opprobriumque vulgi, the mockgame, and laughter of this Nation.  
But I must now descend from generals to particulars, and show you the just judgement of God upon the dismembered parts of this great body, and their adherents, as I find them worthy of observation.  

I will therefore begin with him, 
Earl of Essex.  who was the beginner of our troubles (the first disturber of our peace, and the General of that late unhappy War) the Earl of Essex; with whom though the character given by Plutarch of Dionysius King of Sicily, may well agree, that he was a Tyrant, begotten of Tyrants; as the other was a Traitor, begot of a Traitor; yet I cannot but say of him, that he was pius inimicus, a noble Adversary to the King, who confirmed the restauration of him to those Lands and Honours which were taken from him by Queen Elizabeth, for the Treason of his Father; and the late King made him one of his privy Council, and Chamberlain of his Household, which for honour is one of the best Offices at Court, and worth 2000 l. per annum, and conferred many other favours upon him; yet for no other cause (as is conceived) than ambition of popular praise; or as others think, for a secret grudge he bore to his Majesty, for giving way to his Ladies being divorced from him he undertook, when all others refused it, the Conduct of a Rebellious Army against him; for which act, God never suffered him after to prosper in his attempts; witness his first fight at Edgehil, where he was routed, and forced to hid his head in the day of Battle; and the next day dishonourably to retreat to Warwick Castle; and afterwards in Cornwall, he was compelled shamefully to abandon his whole Army, and glad to fly away by Sea to London: For which disasters, the Parliament, who so solemnly swore before to live and die with him, do now vote a dispensation of that Oath, and not without some disgrace, disrobing him of his Excellency, and another General is chosen in his room: At length, to prevent any mutiny, or discontent that might happen in him, or the Army, by means of this affront put upon so noble and popular a person, it is generally reported by all that see him die, that they applied more violent physic, then either the quality of his disease, or constitution of his body would admit of; in giving him a Spanish fig, or some Aconites, that wrought so strongly upon him, that it soon brought his head into the grave; his body, so soon as he was dead, being covered over with turfs of green earth, to prevent the swelling of the poison that was in him. Thus was he rewarded for his good services to the Parliament, and ill offices against his King; God in justice suffering the same people that magnified him, to destroy him.   


Sr. John Hotham & his Son.  The next persons I shall instance in, are Sir john Hotham, and his Son with him; whom I shall put together, because both were guilty of the same crime of disloyalty to their King, and equally tasted of the same sauce, and suffered the like punishment. This man was the first who so insolently durst presume to enter into Hull (his Majesties own proper Town) and there to seize upon the King's Magazine; and when his Majesty came in person, and requested admission into the same, he very undutifully (to say no worse) with much scorn and contempt, refused to let him in.  
But how God approved of these their unjust do, you may guests by the subsequent punishment, which both the Father and his Son have since undergone; for they having first most disloyally played their parts in the House of Commons against the King; and next more egregiously, by seizing upon Hull, these false Traitors, greedy of a reward promised by some of the King's friends, resolved within a short while after, to play the like game with the Parliament; and to comply with his Majesty, by redelivering up the Town and Magazine to his use; but their plot being discovered, and their persons cunningly secured in their hands; they wrought upon the Son (in hopes to get pardon for himself) to accuse, and betray his Father; and then with the like subtlety, and for the like hope, they brought the Father to accuse his Son. So both by mutual treachery being found guilty, and condemned, had both their heads severed from their bodies in one day, as the just reward of their former wickedness; God now rendering to them, what before they had so well deserved, by suffering them willingly, and wickedly to be the Authors, and Instruments, of each others punishment.   


The Lord Brooks.  The next Member of the long Parliament, that I shall set down in this list of Disloyal Subjects, is the Lord Brooks; a man, while he lived beyond the Seas, much debauched, and very lose in his life and conversation; as by several letters sent from thence to his Uncle Sir Fulk Grevil (afterwards Lord Brooks) may appear; And how he passed from one extreme to another; from a very dissolute youth, to a most resolute Saint, I know not; only these things were observed to be remarkable in him, that he was a very obstinate and violent opposer of the King (who was Pater Patriae, and a very gracious Prince ro him) an extreme hater, and persecutor of the Reverend Bishops, and all the Grave, and Learned Clergy; a great demolisher of Cathedrals; and so great an enemy to that excellent Prayer in our Litany, That it would please God to deliver us from sudden death, that he moved the House to abolish the whole Liturgy; alleging every man ought to be at all times so prepared for death, as they need not at any time pray against sudden death.  
But here behold and adore the judgement of the just God; how that as Goliahs' head was cut off with his own sword, so judicium suum, super caput suum, this Lord's judgement, and practice fell upon his own head; for in his prosecution of his hate against his King (as a just reward for his Rebellion) his Lordship being in Litchfield on St. Chad's day (the Founder of that Church) whilst at a little window he viewed the College (or Close, as they term it, to the Church of S. Chad, ro batter them down with his Canons,) being harnessed cap-a-pe, from top to toe; as he lifted up his helmet to see the same more clearly, God directed the hand of a dumb youth, that was a prebend's Son, with a shot from a fowling piece, to hit him just in the eye; insomuch as he fell down suddenly dead, without speaking one word; no, not so much as Lord have mercy upon him.   


Mr. John Pym.  The next I shall bring upon the stage, is Mr. john Pym; a man preferred to a great Office of trust, and of much gain, under the King: But so soon as he became a Member of the Long Parliament, he proved so active in traducing the King, that he was the principal of those five against whom his Majesty demanded justice; a man so bitter, and invective in his malice towards the Earl of Strafford; that knowing how much he was beloved of the King, and that whatsoever evil could be conceived against him, would reflect upon His Majesty; he first with invective Orations, poisoned the greater part of the House, and the seditious vulgar, with a conceit against the good King his Master; then never left profecuting the Earl, till he had brought his head to the block. And now finding how Scelera sceleratioribus tuenda, that great crimes committed, cannot be safe, but by attempting greater; he secretly complies with the Scots, to raise an Army to assist him, and the rest of his seditious Compeers, against his Majesty: But the King having full intelligence both of his own, and his Partners practices against him, laboured to bring them to a legal trial; whereupon to save themselves, they take Sanctuary in the City; and in short space so corrupted the Citizens, that they first drew them (and afterwards the whole Kingdom) to engage themselves in a desperate Civil War against their lawful Sovereign.  
But though his Majesty's hand was then too weak to fetch him out of his guarded palace, to condign punishment; yet the hand of the Almighty, (who is the Lord of Hosts,) as he raised up a great Army, though composed of little Creatures, Rats and Mice, who devoured Pepiel the second, King of Poland, Anno 830. for treacherously poisoning of his Uncles, and those worms that destroyed Herod the King; so he caused infinite swarms of Lice to seize upon this strong Rebel, who eat him up alive, that he might do no further mischief against his Anointed.   


Hamden.  The like judgement fell upon Colonel Hamden; who for his disloyalty to his King, was shot to death upon the same plot of ground where he first mustered his Soldiers against the King.   


Alderman Hoyle.  As also upon Thomas Hoil, late Major of York, and a Member of the long Parliament; a bitter enemy against his Prince, and one who had a great hand in his death; for which Cromwell caused him to be rewarded with Sir Peter Osborns place, viz. Treasurer's Remembrancer in the Exchequer, valued at 1300 l. per annum; who on that day twelve months that the King lost his life, made a Bonfire for joy he was beheaded; but on the same day twelve months after, miserably hanged himself.    


Oliver Cromwell.  But I must not here forget the Arch-Machiavilian Rebel, and prodigious Monster of men, Oliver Cromwell; who adding strength to the wings of his ambition, soared an eagle's height; and striving by a grasp of the Sceptre to ennoble his Name, and Family to posterity, resolved to put on the purple Robes of Majesty, though deep-dyed in the blood of his Sovereign, to whom he had sworn allegiance, and stood engaged (by many solemn oaths, and horrid execrations upon himself and his Family) to preserve, and re-settle in his Throne: Nevertheless, contrary to all his former protestations and promises, he treacherously caused the King to be kept close Prisoner in Carisbrook Castle; where he plotted with Rolf to have him secretly made away, though afterwards he was publicly murdered: And that he might palliate the breach of his Faith, Vows, and Allegiance to his Sovereign, he by a printed Declaration, makes God the Author of his wickedness, affirming, he could not resist the motions of the Spirit, which would not suffer him to keep his word with the King, or let his Conscience rest quiet, till he had taken away hife life: Thus, Sua cuique Deus fit dira libido.  
This Hobgoblin serves all turns; and Oliver was so perfect a Juggler, that he had got the right knack of Pulpit canting; so as it is was easy for him, under this mask of Religion (that old stalking-horse of Rebellion) by deceiving the ignorant sort of people, up to exalt himself up to the usurped Throne of his Martyred Prince: Into which he was no sooner entered, but this joshua of the Saints, was prayed for in every Conventicle, and a day of general Thanksgiving for his enstallment appointed to God (I think) for his patience in not striking this Atheistical Tyrant with Thunder and Lightning, for making him a stolen to his premeditated villainies.  
But God permitted not this Son of Belial to reign long in his cruelties, but speedily cut him off, by a miserable, and tormenting sickness; which caused him two days before his death to roar so loud, and make such doleful clamours, that his Council being informed, that many persons as they passed by his chamber window, took much notice of his cries, thought fit to have him removed from the place where he than lay, to one more private; where with extremity of anguish, and terror of Conscieence having his soul at the parting from his body (accompanied with such a hellish tempest, as was by all men judged to be prodigious,) he finished his miserable life; for he died mad, and despairing, as the Author of the fourth part of the History of Independency affirms: Out of whom give me leave to insert this remarkable passage, viz.  
That it was believed, and not without some good cause, that Cromwell the same morning he defeated the King's Army at Worcester fight, had conference personally with the Devil, with whom he made a Contract, that to have his will then, and in all things else for seven years after from that time (being the third of September, 1651.) he should at the expiration of the said years, have him at his command, to do at his pleasure, both with his soul, and body: Now if any one will please to reckon from the third of September, 1651. till the third of September, 1658. he will find it to a day just seven years, and no more: 
Richard Protector.  At which time he died, declaring his eldest Son Richard his Successor, his Son Henry Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and leaving his Daughter Fleetwood married to the Commander in chief of the Army under himself.  
This was the end of our English Nero: A person of an unlimited ambition, and restless spirit; of whom I have heard it credibly reported, by such as attended upon him in his bedchamber, that after he had imbrued his hands in the blood of his Sovereign, he was observed to sleep so little, that he scarce took any repose; but oft in the night time would arise out of his bed, take a pistol into his hand, and call to his guard to watch his door, and have a care of sleeping.  
Nor was his guilty conscience less terrified in the day time, then in the night; as appears by the testimony of Sir Theophilus jones; who waiting upon him one morning in his Chamber, the wind on a sudden blowing up the hang before the door, possessed him with such a Panic fear, that he cried out Traitors! Traitors! and drawing out his sword, could not be persuaded to disperser his fears, or put up his weapon, till the wind playing the same game again, convinced him of his error.  
The like story I find written by Polidore Virgil, of Richard the third; who having caused his two Nephews to be secretly murdered, he could never after (whilst he lived) enjoy any quiet in his mind, but would be still starting, and clapping his hand upon his dagger. Thus do to mented Consciences continually carry a Hell about them; as Lucan saith the wicked man doth.  

Nocte dieq, suum gestare in pectore testem,  
Hunc omnes gladii, quos aut Pharsalia vidit  
Aut ultrix visura dies stringente Senatu,  
Illa nocte premiunt, hunc infera monstra flagellant.   
Englished thus,  

The murderer nor night, nor day can rest,  
But bears about a witness in his breast:  
He fancies all he sees are Lictors sent,  
To bring him to deserved punishment.  
Furies reign in his soul—   
And Pictorius in his Epigram upon the same subject, saith, 

Illud habet damni vitium inter coetera, quod mens  
Palpitat assiduo flagitiosa mecu.  
Semper enim si non deprehendatur in ipso  
Seize deprendi posse put at scelere.  
Deque suo quoties alterius do crimine sermo est  
Cogitat, & credit se magis esse reum;  
Inque dies timor hic crescit—   

The wicked man this Fate attends, that he  
Is never from pursuing torments free;  
He dreams he's taken, though he waking find  
Himself deceived, fear still torments his mind.  
If any talk of others crimes arise,  
His guilty Conscience in his face straight flies.  
Each day begets new tortures—    
But 'tis time to leave him off, and return to his Children, who have also drank deep of the bitter Cup of Affliction, for their Father's perjuries, according to that of the Poet: 
In prolem dilatarunt perjuria patris.  
The Child often suffers for his Parents crimes.   


Richard Protector.  For although before his death, Oliver strove to entail his tyrannical power, as well in England as Ireland, upon his Son Richard, and Harry: yet God soon cast them both out, by stirring up their Brother in Law Fleetwood, and their near kinsman Disborough to effect it. So as this Pageant of Honour continued few Months in his Protectorship, before he was reduced to such extremity (being indebted in 290000 l. for his Father's Funeral) that at the sitting of the Rump Parliament, he who lately was styled the Nations Protector, is now necessitated to let his Highness stoop so low, as to beg their protection to preserve himself from rotting in a Prison. Thus vanished this magni nominis umbra, the shadow and Puppet-play of a Protector.   


Henry Cromwell.  Nor did it far better with his Brother Harry, who having the Government and strength of Ireland in his power, and a considerable Army ready to hazard their lives in his service, might in all probability have resettled his Brother again, or at least have made himself great in the King's favour, had he adhered to his interest; but God struck such a terror into his Soul, as he had not courage enough left to be an Instrument of good either to his Country, or Prince; b●t this pitiful cowardly Imp, tamely surrendered up all his power into the R●mps hands; whereupon he was ordered to return speedily into England, to attend the pleasure of the House, where (after a tedious waiting upon them at the Commons Bar) at length he was for his good service stroaked on the head, called a good Boy, and dismissed; for which kindness, he bussed his hand, made a leg, and Exit.   


The Lady Claypool.  Next for Cromwel's Daughters; the strange end of his Darling Child, Mrs. Claypool is very remarkable: For finding her Father violently bend in prosecuting the Death of that Learned and Pious Divine Dr. Hewitt, her Conscience was so extremely troubled at his cruelty that she both night and day solicited him by prayers and supplications, to spare the life of that innocent person; But he (who never before denied any thing she requested of him) is now grown inexorable; and like the Deaf Adder stops his Ears against the charm of this sweet Charmer: at which unheard of inhumanity, she took such excessive grief, that she suddenly fell sick; the increase of her sickness making her rave in a most lamentable manner, calling out against her Father for Hewitts blood; and then telling him, that God now laid his heavy punishments upon her for his heinous crimes, she desired him to repent, and pray for her, till at length these violent extravagant passions, working upon the great weakness of her body, carried her Soul into another World, where (doubtless, if we balance her Christianlike penitency against parent's impiety,) we ought charitably to judge, that her Soul enjoys the felicity of Heaven, whatsoever is become of her Fathers.   


The Lady Francis.  As for another Daughter of his, though he sought to strengthen himself at home by intermixing her blood in marriage with that of the heir apparent of the Earldom of Warwick, yet soon after such an antipathy happened between their affections, that he hated her perfectly; and at haft by the suddenness of his death, left his wife the widow of a loathed bed.    

I could say much of Bradshaw, 
Bradshaw.  that notorious Regicide; who being terrified at the turning out of Richard the Protector, the rising of Sr. George Booth, and the mutining of the City against the Army, began to suspect he should soon be called to account for his villainies, insomuch as he quickly hastened his passage into another world, to prevent his punishment in this. Nevertheless, God did not long suffer the stinking carcase of this bloody Monster to rest in the grave, but being thence taken out, together with the bodies of his Master Cromwell, and Ireton, they all were drawn, hanged, and buried at Tyburn, a fit Tomb for such egregious Rebels: but their heads were by the Hangman cut off, and set upon Westminster-Hall, over the same place where they erected their High Court of Justice, and sat in Judgement against His Majesty.   

Nor are those memorable Examples of God's judgements against Col. Dean, Rainsborough, Reynolds, White, Dorislaus, Askam, Milton Bond, Martial, and Love, less eminent than the former.  


Dean.  FOR Col. Richard Dean being made one the those Judges, who actually did sit upon the Trial of His Majesty, was so vigorous in the prosecution of his Death, that he complained to the Army of their delays, and against Bradshaw, for not condemning him without permitting him to speak; and was one of the four persons to consider of the time and place for the King's Execution. But God requited him with a punishment answerable to his own deal; for he who so lately pressed the Soldiers to cut off their Sovereign's Head, had soon after his own shot clear off from his body by a Chain-bullet, in the last Naval fight between the English and the Flemings.   


Rainsboborough.  HOW strangely was (that Quondam Neptune of the Seas, and Governor of Pomfrett Castle) Col. Rainsborough stabbed in his own Quarters by unknown persons, in a strong guarded Garrison, and before the face of some of his own Soldiers, who having then neither strength to preserve his life, nor power to seize on the actors; after the deed done, they boldly passed by the Guard, and escaped. This was he who was employed by the Committee of Derby house to solicit the Common sort of Mariners, (to whom he gave 12 d. a piece) to subscribe, and present a Petition to the house of Commons for Justice against the King, wherein they offered to live and die with the Parliament, etc. For which traitorous act against his Prince, Heaven was likewise pleased by a sudden and violent death to destroy him. And without doubt there was Digitus Dei, the finger of the Almighty in this action, otherwise it had been impossible for such a bloody Tragedy to be acted (even at noon day) in such a wel-fortified place, and upon so eminent a Rebel as this was, without the apprehension of those persons who committed the deed.   


Reynolds and White  THE next in this Catalogue of Traitors, are Col. john Reynolds Commander in Chief at Mardike, and Col. White, two of Cromwel's best beloved Beagles for Hunting after His Majesty's blood: who embarking themselves at Mardike for England, to consult with their Master Oliver about Martial affairs, were by a sudden Tempest cast away upon the Goodwin sands, a place notorious for the History of that perjured Earl Goodwin, who being treacherous to his Prince, had all his estate and manners together with himself and family, (as these traitors were for the like fact) swallowed up in the same place by the Sea.   


Dr. Dorislaus.  AS for Dr. Dorislaus, a Saint of Cromwel's Rubric, who was formerly a poor Schoolmaster in the Low-countrieses, but by his late Majesty's favour translated from thence to read the History Lecture in Oxford. Where he decrying Monarchy in one of his Lectures; was complained of, yet forgiven by the benignity of the King. Then he became Judge Advocate in his Army, against the Scots; afterwards he forsook his Master, and took the like employment under the Earl of Essex, and next under Sr. Thomas Fairfax, and at last was ordered to be one of those Counsellors who were to assist the High Court of Justice, and draw up the Charge against the King; but God justly punished this ingrateful Regicide within four Months after, by suffering him to be stabbed to death (whilst he was then Agent for the Parliament in Holland) where about 18 Scotchmen repairing to his Lodging, six of them went up the Stairs to his Chamber, whilst the other twelve guarded the Stair-foot; whom Heaven sent to revenge the Sacred Blood of His Majesty, and those four Lords, viz. Capel, Goring, Holland, and Hamilton, whom he had unjustly before condemned to death.   


Mr. Anthody Askam.  THE like Judgement befell Mr. Anthony Askam, another of the Long Parliaments Creatures, and an active person against his Sovereign, who being sent in the quality of an Agent into Spain, arrived at the Port of Sancta Maria, junij 5. 1650. where notwithstanding he was forewarned of the Danger he was in, and guarded from thence to Madrid; yet could he not escape the hand of Divine vengeance upon him, for the next day after he came at Madrid; as he was at dinner, six men knocked at his Chamber-door, which was immediately opened unto them, and he rising from the Table to receive them, was stabbed in the head with a Dagger, so that he fell down suddenly dead upon the ground, together with his Interpreter, who was likewise stabbed in the belly; they who committed the fact escaping to a Sanctuary, where they were by the Clergy of Spain protected against the rigour of the Law, and not one of them punished.   


Mr. John Milton.  LIkewise how wonderfully was Mr. john Milton, who writ the seditious Antimonarchical Book against the King, in answer to Learned Salmasius, strucken blind soon after, and could never since by any art, or skill, either recover his sight, or preserve his Books from being burned by the hands of the common Hangman.   

NExt observe what became of Mr. Denis Bond, 
Mr Denis Bond.  another o● His Majesty's Judges, and one of Cromwel's Councillors. Was he not in a horrid manner tormented with the Strangury, and much anxiety of spirit before his death? Insomuch, as he dying about 14 days before his Master Oliver; some unhappy wits raised a report about the Town, that the Devil had taken Bond or security, that the Protector should appear before him within a fortnight after, which indeed proved a prophetic jest, for the third of September following Oliver died.   

I shall say little of Love, 
Mr. Christopher Love.  or Marshal, (those two firebrands of Rebellion) But this; That as Love was by his own Confession the first Scholar ever heard of in Oxford, that publicly refused to subscribe to the Canons of the Church, for which he was expelled the Congregation house: as also the first Promoter of the Scotch War against the King; so he proved afterwards the first Presbyterian Clergyman that suffered Death in defence of the King, the Covenant, and the Presbyterian cause.   

NOR was the end of Martial (that Turncoat Presbyter) less observable. 
Stephen Martial.  How active an Instrument was he for the Army? How invective a Rebel against his Prince? But he who had so long cursed Meroz, and (like Shimei) reviled his Sovereign, had at length Gods curse brought upon his own head, for falling into a desperate sickness, he died mad, and raving.    


Rich. Pym.  THE next in order is Richard Pym, originally a Shoemaker, afterwards an Innkeeper living at the Bull within Bishop gate, a person so egregiously malicious, that he could not forbear to vent his passionate treason publicly amongst such guests as were dining with him at an Ordinary kept in his house, saying, that he hoped he should live to see the day, when he should wash his hands in King Charles' blood; which words being taken notice of by one Mr. Grigory an Attorney who was present, were by him related to some Members of the Long Parliament; who thereupon caused the said Pym to be committed a Prisoner to Newgate: But so prevalent at that time was Cromwel's power in the house, that (being a Favourite of his) he speedily obtained his releasement without being ever further questioned about it. But God would not so release him from punishment.  
For in a short while after he visited his house with a violent Pestilence, which suddenly swept away his Wife, two Children, and such Servants as remained in it, who all died of the Plague; Hereupon the house being shut up, whether the loss of his Trade, or the Judgement of God upon him for his sins, were the occasion of his future destruction, I cannot tell, but this I am sure, that he who before the uttering of those words against His Majesty, was possessed of a clear estate in Land, estimated at above 300 l. per annam; as also a great Trade continually driving within his house, could no longer (notwithstanding all his care, and industry in the management of his affairs) preserve his estate, or himself from consuming and mouldering away to nothing, insomuch, as within five year after he became so poor and indebted, that he was forced to fly from his house, and sell all his goods, and at last to betake himself to a Prison; from whence, though he was afterwards released, yet he perished miserably.   

The next knot of Traitors, of whose Arraignment, and Condemnation I shall only give you a brief account; were,  

Harrison and Carew  FIrst Harrison, and Carew, against whom it was proved that they did often meet, and consult together, with others, how to put the King to Death; that they sat at the time of the Sentence, and signed the Warrant for the King's Execution, and were found guilty of compassing and imagining his Death, for which they were Condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered, which accordingly was done upon Harrison between 9 and 10 of the clock in the morning, Octob. 13th. 1660. and the like upon the Monday following to Carew, at Chairing-Cross, with their faces looking upon the Banqueting-house at White-Hall, the fatal place pitched upon by those infernal Regicides, for the solemn murder of our late Sovereign Charles the first, of glorious memory.  

THE next in order was Mr. john Cook the Solicitor, 
John Cook  Hugh Peter, that Jesuitical Chaplain to the traitorous High Court; it was proved against Cook, that he examined Witnesses against the King, drew up his Charge, exhibited it in the name of the Commons of England; that the Charge was of High Treason; that he complained of delays; prayed the Charge might be taken pro confesso; and at last that it was not so much he, as innocent blood that demanded Justice, etc.   


Hugh Peurs.  THen Peter was set at the Bar, against whom proof was made, that he did at five several places, viz. it Winds●r, at Ware, in Coleman-street, in the Painted Chan ber, and at Bradsraws house, consult about the King's Death; that he compared the King to Barrabas, and preached to bind their Kings in Chains, etc. That he called the Day of His Majesty's Trial a glorious Day, resembling the judging of the World by the Saints: That he prayed for it in the Painted Chamber; preached for it at White-Hall, St. James', St. Sepulchers, and other places. Of all which the Jury finding him guilty, together with Cook of the former Charge. they were both the 16th of October Executed at Chairing-Cross.   

THE next brought to Trial were Scot, Clement, 
Scot, Clement, Scroop, & Jones.  Scroop and jones; against Tho. Scot it was proved, that he did sit and consult about the King's Death; that he agreed to the Sentence, and signed the Warrant, whereby the King was murdered: that since he hath owned the King's Death, by glorifying in it, defending it, and saying, he would have it engraven on his Tombstone, that all the world might know it; which being aggravations of his crime, he was sound guilty by the Jury, and Executed the 17th of October following. Hic exitus, hic vitae finis. This was the deserved end of that Great demolisher of old Cathedrals, and painful deflowerer of young Maidenheads.   


Clement.  AFter him Gregory Clement, (confessing himself guilty) was Sentenced and Executed at the same place with the former, and on the same day.   


Scroop & Jones.  THen Scroop was tried upon the like Indictment for compassing the King's death; against whom it was proved, that he did not only sit in the Court, Sentence the King, and sign the bloody Warrant, but after the coming in of His Majesty that now is, justified the committing of that detestable murder; for which the Jury finding him guilty: As also Mr. john jones of the like crimes; the Court gave Sentence of death against them as the former, to suffer as Traitors and accordingly on Wednesday the 17th of October about nine of the clock in the morning. Thomas Scot and Gregory Clement were brought on several Hurdles to the Gibbet erected near Chairing-Cross, and were there hanged, bowelled and quartered; and about an hour after Adrian Scroop and john jones together in one hurdle were carried to the same place, and suffered the same pains of Death.    


Axtel.  THese being thus dispatched, and having received the reward of their Treason, Daniel Axtel, and Francis Hacker were brought before the Court, and tried; against Axtel it was proved, that when His Majesty was brought to be tried at Westminster-Hall, he bid his Soldiers cry out Justice, Justice, and Execution, Execution, and bear them till they did it. That he bid shoot a Lady there for calling Cromwell Traitor, and saying, that not a quarter of the people of England consented to their wicked Charge. That he said to Col. Hunks upon his refusing to sign the Warrant against the King: I am ashamed of you, the Ship is now coming into the Harbour, and will you strike Sail before we come to Anchor; That he laughted at the Transactions, as applauding them, whilst others sighed; that after the King was murdered, he kept guards upon the dead body, and knew who cut off the King's head, having sent one Elisha Axtel for the Executioner; upon which proof the Jury found him guilty of the said Treason whereof he stood indicted.  


Hacker.  THen Francis Hacker was arraigned; and by divers Witnesses it was sworn against him, that he was Commander of the Halbeteers who kept the King Prisoner, and would not suffer any access to be unto him; that he guarded him to their Mock-Court, and after kept him sure till he was murdered; that he was one of the persons to whom the Warrant for the Execution was erected; and that he signed it; and brought the King to the fatal Block; and was upon the Scaffold, being a principal Agent about the King's Death: for which horrid Treason the Jury found him guilty. After which, the Court sentenced both him and Axtel to suffer death as Traitors; according to which Judgement, they were on Friday the 19th of October about nine in the morning, drawn upon a Hurdle from Newgate (the common place of Fxecution) to Tyburn, and there hanged; Mr. Axtel was bowelled, and quartered; but the body of Hacker by His Majesty's great Grace and Favour, (and at the humble suit, and intercession of his Friends (was given to them entire, and by them afterwards buried.    


Hulet.  THE last of this Crew, was Will. Hulet; against whom it was proved, that he was one of those which came with a frock on his body, and a Vizard on his face to perpetrate the horrid Murder on the Person of the King; that being so disguised upon the Scaffold, he fell down before the King, and asked him forgiveness, being known by his voice, that himself said, that he was the man that beheaded King Charles: for which deed he had 100 l. and preferment. That Heuson said of him, that he did the King's business upon the Scaffold. That he either did cut it off, or took it up, and said, Behold the head of a Traitor. That being questioned about the said words, he said, Whosoever said it matters not, I say now it was the head of a Traitor, with many other things to the like effect. For which most abhorred Treason, the Jury found him guilty; and he was Condemned to be hanged at Tyburn: nevertheless, his Execution (for some reasons) is hitherto suspended.   

This was the end of such Traitors as were then taken; as for those who surrendered themselves according to the Proclamation set out by the King for that purpose: viz.  

OWen Row.  
Augustine Garland.  
Edmund Harvey.  
Henry Smith.  
Henry Martin.  
George Fleetwood.  
Simon Meyne.  
Will. Heveningham.  
Isaac Pennington.  
Sr. Hardess Waller.  
Robert Tichbourn.  
james Temple.  
Peter Temple.  
Tho. Wait.  
Rob. Lilburn.  
Gilbert Millington.  
Vincent Potter.  
Thomas Wogan, and john Downes.   
Though they be all attainted, and convicted of High Treason by the Law of the Land, at a fair and legal Trial, yet are they not to suffer the pains of Death, until His Majesty by the advice and assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, shall order their Execution by an Act to be passed for that purpose.   


John Okey  THis was one of oliver's Insecta animalia. A Welsh Salamander, in plain English, a States Cricker; for he was begot, and bred up in a Brewer's Stoke hole. A Maggot of his new Commonwealth: generated out of putrefaction, (like a Docc from a Dunghill:) whose chief subsistence depended upon the destruction of others.  
But the State's Chronicles speak him of a better extraction; affirming the Original of this Babe of Grace was (like that of the Goddess Venus) from such frothy dregs as were purged, and raked out of the Bunghole, (of that chosen Vessel of Reformation,) Cromwell the Brewer, by Pride his Dray-man: who afterwards being listed by Scot, the Brewer's Clerk, in the Musterroll of the Saints militant, he quickly became a Stout Champion for their Good Old Cause.  
A Fellow, indeed (give the Devil his due) of excellent courage; full of valour; but empty of brains. A better Conductor, than a Politician; one whom Cromwell seldom made other use of, than the Monkey of the Cat's foot, to rake Chef-nuts out of the fire, whilst he devoured them: for in all Battles, or desperate attempts, the General usually put him in the Van, to break the enemy's wings; but reserved the command of the Rear to himself, for the glory of the Victory.  
February the 22. 1648, It was debated at a Council of War (this Okey then being one of the Cabab) to massacre, and put to the Sword all the King's party; the question was carried in the Negative only by two voices; doubtless they had otherwise put it in execution.  
Nor was he less officious in his combination with some others of the Army (soon after the siege of Colchester) when they petitioned the House, that two or three principal Gentlemen of the King's party by name (of every County) might be sacrificed to justice, whereby the land might be freed from bloodguiltiness.  
A true Disciple, and Imitator of his  companion Haslerig, who upon 
* May 14th. 1649.  a report made to the House of the Death of Doctor Dorislaus, (formerly a poor Schoolmaster, but afterwards the Parliament Agent in the Low-countrieses, notwithstanding upon the examination of his own Servants, it appeared he was nabbed by some Scotchmen in revenge of Homiltons' Death yet) upon the occasion of this debate he moved, that six Royalists of the best quality might be put to death, as a revenge for Dorislaus; and to deter men from the like attempts hereafter. Which barbarous motion, though it was then rejected, yet the 18th of May following the House passed this prodigious Declaration;  
That if any more Acts of the like nature happened hereafter, it should be retaliated upon such Gentlemen of the King's party as had not yet compounded.  
Yet this not satisfying some of the bloodthirsty Grandees at White-Hall, they consulted (without them) of a way to diminish the number of their opposites, Royalists, and Presbyterians, by a private massacre in the night time; for which purpose many dark-Lanthornes, and Poniards were provided against 
* Anno 1649.  the Winter ensuing; this (Son of Belial) Okey, and his blind brother Hewson, being designed two of the chief instruments, for effecting it. But the Plot being by one of their conclave timely revealed to the then Lord Major of London, and the City alarmed with the danger; these Jesuitical Fauxes, were forced to hid their horns, and put up their Daggers, for fear of a further discovery.  
Thus you see of what Nature this Cannibal Saint was. Ex pede Herculem; by the footsteps of this Monster you may guests at the proportion of his whole body.  
Yet all these his barbarous actions, fell short of those committed against the precious life of his Royal Sovereign, Charles the first. But, Ne fandum scelus, majori scelere ad impletur; every heinous offence, strives to secure itself by a more heinous crime; for 
When Tyrants Swords in blood are died,  
The Scabbards they must throw aside.   
This was Machivils' rule, and Okeys practice. For Cromwell having before well fleshed, this Beagle of his, in cruelties; he is now made one of the pack, (or rather Butcher-row of Judges) for the Trial of His Majesly; and by his Master, hallowed on to hone in full cry after his death. In which he shown himself so active an instrument; that finding his power; he resolve to improve it to the uttermost; and to deal with the King, as it fareth with a Traveller fallen into the hands of unmerciful Thiefs; who first seized on his purse, and then (to secure themselves,) take away his life: So he being a Sharer with others in Crown Lands, that he might prevent the future revenge of his Treasons, and Rebellions, and preserve his illgotten estate, at last determines to seal his anjust Title with the innocent blood of his natural Sovereign.  
Not did his implacable Malice against his Majesty rest here: for, when a Committee, consisting of four persons, was ordered by the House, to consider of a fit place (as they styled it) to Execute the King. Okey (being appointed one of the number) persuaded them to have the Scaffold erected before the Banqueting house at White-Hall; alleging, it was not only the most convenient place to bring him safe to the block; but probably, it would strike the more terror into His Majesty, to see himself bronght upon the Stage, to suffer before his own Palace-door, and so near that place his Father had built, and He, and his Children formerly enjoyed so much felicity.  
In the mean time, to complete this last tragic act of murdering his Prince; that he might mortify him by degrees, he caused the King to be laid in a room at White-Hall the Sunday night after the day of his Sentence, so near the place appointed for the separation of his soul from his Body, that he might hear every stroke the Workmen gave upon the Scaffold, (where they wraght all night) thinking by that Stratagem to have daunted his patient, and unconquered Soul, which neither the hellish shapes of his disguised Executioners, nor the Horror of Death itself, were any ways able to affright.  
Nor can I here let pass in silence, what I have heard reported from very credible persons; That the night before the King's Death, (having removed him from White-Hall to St. James', he and Axtel caused a guard of dissolute Soldiers to be placed in his Chamber; who (with talking; clinking of Pots; opening, and shutting of Doors; and taking of Tobacco there, (a thing very offensive to the King's nature) were ordered to keep him waking; that so by distempering and amazing Him for want of sleep, they might not only disturb his present meditations; but so discompose his spirits, as he might not the next day be able, by any premeditated speech, to vindicate the innocency of his actions to the People.  
O! barbarous! and unheardof Cruelty! never hitherto paralleled by any Precedent in the world! But God at length delivered him up into the hands of his Majesty, to suffer condign punishment for being guilty of the Murder of His Father, and to be made an Example to deter posterity from doing the like. Which Divine vengeance, though he had long escaped; yet he in the end found, that God does usually recompense the slowness of his coming, with the severity of his wrath; according to that of the Poet, 

To piece are sinit siquidem divina potestas  
Temporis ad spatium, parcit quandoque nocenti;  
Sed gravius tandem tormentum Rector Olympi  
Injungit, parcitque malis delict a nocentum.   

Though God permits thy crimes long time to be  
Unpunished, and the ' nocent oft go free:  
'Tis but deferred thy torments to augment  
For murdering the just, and innocent.    
And such was lately the end of this bold and bloody Regecide for being (together with his complices, Barkstead and Corbet brought to the King's Bench Bar upon the first day of Easter Term last, they were all by a Legal sentence condemned to be hanged drawn and quartered, at Tyburn the Saturday following, which was according-Executed, upon Bark stead and Corbet, but by reason of Okeys penitent acknowledgement of his crimes and hearty prayers for his Majesty, his body was by the King's clemency ordered to be delivered to his wife, and was buried in the Tower of London.   


Miles Corbet.  TO wright his life, or draw his picture in its proper colonus, were to attempt impossibilities; since neither his actions, or his face can be paralled by any but the Devil: for he is his own Son; and so like his father; that a Major in Ireland meeting him upon the road, and by his looks, suspecting him to be rather a Pursuivant of Hell, than one of the Parliaments Judges, forced him to alight from his Horse, set down upon the ground; pull off his boots, and stockings; and (at last) to show him his bare feet: which being done, he in a very merry compliment told him, he might now pass for a man, but before he had searched, whither or not he had Cloven feet, he could not believe him any other than the Devil.  
This is he who was Inquisitor General, to the close Committee of Examinations. An indigent person at the beginning of the Long Parliament, being indebted for himself, and his Mother above three thousand pound more than he was worth. The Prologue to the Hangman, that looks more like a Hangman, than the Hangman himself; and may, (like Don Quixote) not undeservedly be styled, the Knight of the ill favoured face.  
His disposition also holds good intelligence with his looks: you cannot say of him, as Suetonius of Galba, ingenium Galae male habitat, for they suit so well the one with the there, that in my life I never met with a better decorum.  
Int us Nero: foris Cato; tet sambiguus; monstrum est. A cruel Nero within; a grave Cate without; always distrustful, and a Monster, Astutam vapido servat sub pectore vulpem.  
His inside is lined with Fox furt; his outside with Sheeps-wool. One who had deeply engaged himself to live, and die with his Patron Oliver; for which reason he was appointed to make a scrutiny into the lives, and actions of all such persons as he conceived dis-affected to the Cromwellian party. A strict examiner of every man's carriage but his own. So active, and vigorous in the prosecution of his malice, that when he could not suborn witnesses to take away the life, of that ingenious writer of the History of Independency, Mr. Clmenst Walker, he was permitted to be informer, witness, and judge against him, himself. But finding his defigne at that time fall short of his expectation, he caused him privately in the night to be soon after seized upon in his bed, by a Guard of Soldiers, and conveyed far off from the City, to a close Prison, where being debarred the use of either pen, ink, or Paper, or the liberty of any Friend to visit him, after six years strike confinement, Death put a period to this poor old Gentleman's sufferings.  
Philip King of Spain, Lord of the Seventeen Belgic Provinces, sent Duke D' Alva thither (another Cromwell in his cruelties) with a powerful Army; who taking advantage of some new commotions there, erected a new Tribonal Criminal, or High Court of Justice, called by the multitude Concilium Sanguinis, or the bloody Conventicle, consisting of twelve Persons of mean extraction, to whom were given full power to inquire into, judge, examine, and determine, all causes whatsoever; and to dispose of the lives and estates of every such person they as thought fit to destroy, at their wills, and pleasures. Which Counsel, or inquisition, did supersed all other Courts of Judicature, and made void all Laws, constitutions, jurisdictions, and privileges of that Nation, by making every thing they pleased High Treason.  
Corbet taking advantage of this Precedent, persuades Haslerig to move the Parliament to put it in execution here in England; which was accordingly done; and they finding him a fit Agent for such a damnable enterprise, Ordered him (by an Act passed in the House) to be chief Interpreter to this their State Puppet-play; commonly called the close Committee of Examinations: erected to purge the House of such Loyal Members as stood disaffected with their proceed. And the first experiment he made of this his Tyrannical Power, was upon the aforesaid Mr. Walker, Mr. Baynton Mr. Recorder Glyn, Commissary General Copely, and several others of the House of Commons; who without any legal trial; hearing, or witnesses produced beside himself, (who supplied the office of a Judge, Prosecutor, Jury, and evidence against them) they were immediately expelled the House of Commons, and soon after (together with the Earls of Suffolk, Lincoln, Middlesex, the Lord Berkley, Willioughly, Hunsdon, and Maynyard) impeached by him of high Treason, in the names of the Commons of England, for levying a War against the King and Parliament. Wherein this Bloodhound Corbet, (who of an Examiner, was now become an Advocate General) moved for judgement to be pronounced against them; like the greedy Horseleech, Nec missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris hirudo,  
Still thirsting after blood, but never satisfied. For which bold act, and diligent service, (though it succeeded not) he was afterwards recompensed with a Rich Office of Register in the Chancery (a place estimated at One thousand six hundred pound per annum; and next made one of the Judges for the Circuit in Ireland, (valued at five hundred pounds more per annum,) where he condemned many persons to the Gallows, whose crimes far less deserved it then his own.  
Nor was he less troublesome to the Church, than he had formerly been to the State. For finding Vespasian's Motto, Bonus odor lucri ex re qualibet, (that wealth was sweet how ill soever got) he obtained another office from his bountiful Masters at Westminster (worth at least) One thousand five hundred pound more per annum, viz. to be Chairman for scandalous Ministers. The Preisis Tormentor; or Master Examiner of all such Clergy men, as were either already Beneficed, or to be admitted to any Benefice throughout the Nation. In which place he so well played his Cards, that such of the King's friends as were before settled in their live, were forced to compound with him for their continuance; and others who came to him for admittance, if he could not object any thing against their answers to such impertinent questions as he usally propounded to them; his next artifice was to render them the new Engagement, to be obedient to Oliver, and maintain the Good Old Cause, against all Kingly power, or House of Lords; in so much as not one of such as were Learned, Loyal, or Orthodox Divines, could ever gain his consent to any living; nor indeed any other (though of his own Tribe and Faction) without giving him a considerable gratuity, to the full value of their first years fruits (at the least) for a Bribe.  
A perfect Symonaick; one that was able to devour a whole Church at a Breakfast; and swallow down St. Peter's Patrimony after it, instead of a Mornings-draught. Always feeding; yet never filled; like Erisict hons bowels in Ovid, 
— Quodque urbibus esse,  
Quedque satis poter at populo, non sufficit uni.  
What populous Cities might alone  
Suffice, is not enough for one.   
This was the man who so much applauded Coronet joice for surprising the King's person at Holdenby house, when he was by Cromwell sent to him with Orders to bring his Majesty the same night with all speed and secrecy to the Army; boasting the next day, that since the Army had gotten the Cavalier Idol (for so he styled his Sovereign) into their power, they would soon put the Parliament, and all their Enemies, into their pockets.  
An insolent slave! whofe Crimes transcending all hopes of Pardon, made him as violent in the prosecution of his Hellish machinations, as he was desperate of Heaven's mercy in the for giveness of his fins.  
But I will not cast any more Ink upon this Aethiopians face, since I find it impossible (whether I reflect upon his crimes, or his countenance) to represent either of them to the view of the world, blacker, or more horrid, than really they are. He is now rewarded for his Treason, so as to speak more against him were but to wage War with the Dead; which Italian severity, is as much averse to my nature, as it is contrary to the Principles of Christianity: Therefore no quid gravius dicam; whether I look upon his actions, or his end, I shall be no more invective against him.   


John BarkRead.  ROom for this Jack of all Trades. A Congregational Saint. The Holy-sisters Thimble-maker. Cromwel's setting Dog.. The Commonwealths Cerberus; Inferna janitor aulae, The Hellish Jailor of the Tower, and cruel Tormentor of such Gentlemen as he could get into it. A fellow cut out, and fitted for all Designs, Religions, and Fashions, whatsoever: so as you may say of him, as the Poet of Pretem, Que teneam nodo mutantem Proter a vultum? A Devil incarnate in his cruelties. No Fury in Hell ever transcended him in his Tyranny over Prisoners, durinst his Lieutenantship of the Tower.  
Witness his inhuman deal with divers eminent persons (loyal to His late Majesty's interest) into whose favours, (under pretence of Eriendship) having first insinuated himself, he next trappaned into his snare, by forging lies, and Plots of his own making, against them, and afterwards suborned Witnesses (as formerly Bradshaew and Mildmay did those two Knights of the Post, Pitts and Bernard, against Sr. john Gell and Colonel Andrews) to take away their lives (by a High Court of Injustice) when he could no longer squeeze any profit out of their bodies.  
Witness his private transporting of many hundred of poor Caveliers beyond the Seas, whom this State's spirit, barbarously sold, to be made Galleyslaves to Turks, and Pagans: which miser able servitude they must inevitably endure, till Death (more merciful than this Monster,) puts a period to their miseries.  
I could instance above two hundred Gentlemen by him clapped in the Tower, without any accusation, or accusor made known; where some of them were detained many years, without any legal proceed or charge against them: he, and his Master Oliver (who continually furnished him with blank Warrants for that purpose) sharing between themselves in the mean time, their Estates, Offices, and Revenues; whilst these were left to starve, rot, and die in nasty rooms (purposely provided to destroy them,) without any relief, or maintenance whatsoever. For not one of their Friends dare lend, or send them money, or any of their Kindred come near them, for fear of being committed Prisoners, or (at least) questioned for malignants. So as his Prison was become a private Slaughter-house, and oliver's Court the public Shambles of injustice.  
It was the Custom of King Charles the first, and his Predecessors, to grant all owance to Prisoners in the Tower, during their confinements, according to their several degrees; viz. 51. weekly for an Esquire, etc. and so proportionably for every person suitable to his quality. But so far was this Cannibal from giving, or allowing any thing towards their subsistence; that he converted those Fees to his own use, and caused them to be shut up close Prisoners, in unwholesome Chambers; denying them the liberty of the Tower, and benefit of the fresh air (the Camelious diet) for their healths, or resort of Friends for their accommodations.  
The Fable of the Promethean vulture was but an Emblem of this Monster: for so long as his power lasted, he continually gnawed upon the hearts of such persons as were under his custody: his Office resembling that of the Shepherds Dog, to worry Sheep first, and afterwards drive them into his pinfolds.  
He was Cromwel's Coy-duck whilst he lived. Offitiosa aliu, exiti sa suis, ever employed, and very officious to bring store of game into his Master's nets: one that had learned to give poison into a golden cup; and knew well how to deceive, even with Scripture plarases: like her in Claudian, 

* Claudian de voluptate Stiliconis lib. 2.  Blanda quidem vultu, sed quae non tetriox ulla  
Interius fucatagenas, & amict a doloru  
Illecibris—  
An outward Saint; an inward Devil;  
A painted face, but full of evil.  One who coveted to be rich, and great in power, that his greatness might equal his malice: like him in the Poet, 
Qui tantum ut noceat, cupit esse potens—  
Who raised himself out of the dirt,  
That he might have more power to hurt.   
Base men, when they climb to any height, prove above all others, most proud, and ambitious; as appeared by this man, who being beggarly born, and of contemptible Parents, became the most cruel, and fiercest bloodhound of all Olivers pack.  
Asperius nihilest humili, cum surgit in altum.  
None are more cruel than mean men raised high,  
Or Beggars mounted on a Palfery.  
For set but any of these proud Rascals on Horseback, and they will never rest, till (like their Comrade Pride aux) they have made good the Proverb, and ride Post to the Devil.  
When Traitors are climbing up Fortune's Wheel, Derrick commonly watches underneth it to catch them.  
— toll untur in altum  
Ut lapsu graviore ruant.  
This proved at last his reward, for his horrid villainies, treasons, and murdering his Sovereign. A Legacy long since given and bequeathed to him by his fellow-sufferers and Brethren in iniquity, Harrison, Scot, Axtel, and Hugh Peter's; who made the Hangman. Executor to their last Wills, and Testaments, To whose mercy I leave him and Corbet, concluding with this Epitaph; 

HEre lies poor john; who was not beat to death  
As Stockfish are; but only lost his breath.  
Whilst he aspired himself on high to raise,  
He gained a wreath of Hemp, instead of Bays;  
The Fate of Traitors! may all perish so,  
That seek their King, and Kingdoms overthrow.  
Dun was his Doctor; who thought fit to bind  
A Cord about his neck, to keep the wind  
From fuming up his head. But, (O! sad note!)  
The Rope begot a squinzy in his throat,  
Which choked him up! although some busy tongues  
Report, it was the obstruction of his lungs  
That caused his sudden Death. Let all who are  
His Friends, by his example have a care  
How they come under this rude Doctor's paws;  
Who only practices the Tyburn Laws,  
In making falling-bands, or knitting-knots,  
That cure diseases, beyond the Galli-pots.   

A Rogue so known in Hell; each Sessions thence  
They send Fiends to him for intelligence,  
What guests are coming to the Stygian Court?  
Whether the greater? or the meaner sort?  
Traitors, or Thiefs? to whom he answer makes  
When Phoebe once her waning horns forsakes,  
And Easter Term gins; I'll send you 
* Corbet.  one  
Whose looks shall 'ffright grim Pluto from his throne,  
And scare the lesser Devils thence, when there  
They see one Blacke● than themselves appear.  
But when Dun named Corbet, they replied  
He's Pluto's Kinsman by he mother's side,   

We know him well, bid him make haste; for he  
Is welcome to our black Fraternity.     


William Munsun, Henry Mildmay, and Rob. Wallup.  As for that female Town-top (and great devourer of of buttered Peason) William (late Lord) Munson, (formerly a Page, but now a close Prisoner in the Fleet;) Harry (once Sr. Henry) Mildmay, and Robert Wallup, who did all actually sit as Judges upon the Trial of their lawful Sovereign King Charles the first; by reason it appeared that they were absent from the pretended Hight Court of Justice at such time as Sentence passed to take away the King's life; His Masesty was graciously pleased to refer the manner of their punishments to His High Court of Parliament who soon after (upon a Serious debate in both Houses) passed an Act (too merciful for such ingrateful Traitors, though in some sort suitable to the quality of their Crimes) viz. That their Estates should be Confiscated, and their persons drawn upon Sledges from the Tower to Tyburn, with Ropes about their Necks, and to be degraded of their Honours and Titles, etc. which was accordingly Executed upon the 27th of january following, An. 1661. (it being the same day that the King was Condemned to death) many thousands of people being Spectators of their infamy; who, not only at the Gallows, but as they passed in the streets, bitterly cursed and reviled them; insomuch; that Wallup (being of that shameful punishment more sensible than the other of the horrid sin he had committed, as well as of the eternal ignominy, and general Odium of the people upon him, for being guilty of so barbarous a Crime) was suddenly after violently surprised with such tormenting passions of Grief & Despair, that they soon made a separation between his soul and his Body, so as he finished his miserable life in the Tower, within a few days after his Procession to Tyburn.   


Capt. Thomas.  NOR was the late strange, but just Judgement of God less observable upon Captain Thomas, that notorious Quaker, and violent Agitator in Cromwel's Army; who having poisoned his Fellow-soldiers with Heresy, and Rebellion, and persuaded many of them to join with him in promoting the Army's Remonstrance, for bringing King Charles the first to a speedy Trial; it at length pleased the Almighty in a miraculous manner, to revenge the innocent blood of that Blessed Martyr, upon this Fanatic Rebel; for in the beginning of April last past 1661. he (then being in the City of Hereford) went to an Apothecary's Shop, where he bought some quantity of Acovitum, or Ratsbane, which having put into Milk, he drank it up privately in his Chamber, but finding it not of so quick operation as was expected, he went back to the Apothecary to be satisfied, whether it was right Ratsbane or not, that he had sold him? He answered, it was; whereupon he replied, Then I have what I desired; and departing back to his Lodging, the poison began to work so violently upon him, that within few hours after he in great torment ended his wretched life, whose dead body the Magistrates of that City, (considering the quality of the person, and the Laws against self-murder) would not permit to be buried in Christian burial.   

Thus Reader you may see how many several ways God hath hitherto pleased to execute his vengeance, upon the persons, and posterity of such men who without any cause, nay contrary to Reason, Laws both Divine, and Humane, yea, even in defiance of Heaven, dipped their hands in the sacred blood of their lawful Sovereign according, to that of the Wise Man, The eye that mocketh his Father (viz. the King, who is styled Pater Patriae) and despiseth his Mother (that is the Church, called Regni pia Mater) the Ravens of the Valley shall pick it out. Which judgement we see hath befallen many of the  Regicides, their heads in several places being become a Spectacle both to Angels and Men, and a prey to the Birds of the Air.  
I shall conclude all with this Exhortatory Advice, That though God hath been pleased in his wrath to deprive this Nation of the best, and most pious King that ever before reigned over it, Yet hath he since in mercy restored (even to admiration) His Son to the Throne of His Blessed Father; (a Prince of such accomplished Virtues, Piety, Wisdom, and Magnanimity, that render Him the delight of his Subjects, and a terror to his Enemies;) let us therefore lay aside all animosities, one against the other: and render (without grudging) unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; acknowledging Him Gods immediate Vicegerent; without being so impudent as to prescribe Him in what manner or by what means we will be ruled; or so Rebellious, as to draw our Swords against Gods Anointed under pretence of Religion, or public good; But rather with Obedience, and Humility, submit to His Commands, and confess with the Children of Israel, Because the Lord hath delighted in us, therefore He hath made Him King over us.  
And finally, let every good Subject pray, that God would send us Peace, and Truth; preserve His Sacred Majesty, and his Posterity; and confound the wicked Counsels of all such as are Enemies to Peace, Piety, and Monarchy. Amen.   
FINIS.   

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