THE LOYAL Martyrology, OR Brief Catalogues and Characters of the most Eminent Persons who Suffered for their Conscience during the late times of Rebellion, either by Death, Imprisonment, Banishment, or Sequestration; Together with those who were Slain in the King's Service.  
AS ALSO, Dregs of Treachery: With the Catalogue and Characters of those Regicides who Sat as Judges on our late Dread Sovereign of ever Blessed Memory; with others of that Gang, most Eminent for Villainy.  
For encouragement to Virtue, and determent from Vice.  
By William Winstanley.  
Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft.  
LONDON, Printed by Thomas Mabb, for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1665.   

ON THE FRONTISPIECE.  
O What a glorious sight do I behold,  
Apples of Silver Pictured thus in Gold;  
Immortal Hero's, who of life bereaven,  
Are now become bright fixed Stars of Heaven.  
The first of all this Glorious Company  
King 1 Charles presents himself unto your eye,  
Like Phoebus glistering in the Morning tide,  
Surrounded with Brave Hero's on each side.  
Under him 2 Strafford that Great Pro-toto-Martyr,  
On each side Loyal 3 Derby, Gallant Arthur  
Lord 4 Capell, three such Peers we may conclude  
For to be Stars of the first Magnitude.  
Brave 5 Lucas, and Stout 6 Lisle, whose Gallant Worth  
Deserves a Golden Pen to set them forth;  
Undaunted 7 Morris, 8 Penruddock, and 9 Grove,  
Stout 10 Andrews, who deserved all People's love,  
Brave 11 Gerard, 12 Benbow, 13 Burleigh, 14 Pitcher, 15 Poyer  
Who for their Country did their best devoyer;  
Hollands Earl,  
19 Blackburn, 20 Benson, 21 Bushel, each a Pearl  
Of Valorous Loyalty; 22 Ashton well skilled in Wars,  
Kind 32 Slingsby, 24 Symkin's, all stout Sons of Mars;  
Who for King Charles his Cause so strongly stood,  
And sealed their Love to't with their dearest blood.  
Next view great 25 Laud, whose worth doth strike me dumb,  
The Reverend 26 Hewyt, England's chrysostom;  
Grave 27 Beaumond, and Religious 28 Vowel, who  
With 29 Love for Loyalty their Lives forgo.  
Learned 30 Levens Glory of his Family,  
Well skilled in Law, practised in Loyalty.  
Next view that unmatchless Hero, Gallant 31 Hide,  
32 yeoman's and 33 Bowcher, who at Bristol died;  
34 Tomkins and 35 chaloner of Active Spirits,  
36 Kniveton, 37 Gibbons, 38 Kensy, men whose merits▪  
With those foregoing Hero's raised them High,  
Whilst Traitors live Infam'd in History.   


THE LOYAL MARTYROLOGY  
Printed for Edward Thomas 1665.    

To the Honourable Sir John Robinson, Knight and Baronet; His Majesty's Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON.  
SIR,  
TWo Things have Emboldened me to Dedicate this Book unto You; The First is your known Loyalty, and Integrity to the Royal Cause, which hath made Your Name as Conspicuous as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day, not only since the Happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty, but in those Times of Rebellion when Loyalty was accounted a Crime of the Highest Nature, which as it made you one of Those Loyal Confessors, that by your Sufferings have endeared your Memory to all Posterity; so no doubt, had not that Gangreen of Rebellion been the sooner cut off, your Eminent Parts would by those bloody Regicides, who were Enemies to Worth and Loyalty, have brought you into the Number of These Royal Martyrs who laid down their Lives in Defence of God's Laws, and his Annointed's Cause, of both which you were so Gallant an Assertor. The Second is the Relation you had to that Reverend Martyr, Archbishop Laud, who laid down his Life in Defence of the Church, and is now involved in that Glorious Company who Suffered for the Testimony of a Good Conscience, of whose Worth and Abilities to speak, were to show the light of the Sun by a candle; Deign Sir, to Accept this Mite of Acknowledgement of Your Worth, from him who Subscribes himself,  
Your Most Humbly Devoted Servant, William Winstanley.   

THE PREFACE TO THE Reader.  
WHat sad Effects the Miseries and Calamities of a Civil War doth produce, this Nation cannot but be sensible of, and our late Times do sufficiently evidence; How all things were turned topsie turvy turvy, Religion subverted by Rebellion, Truth trodden down by Treason, the Gown giving place to the Corslet, and the Law overawed by the Sword. How under pretence of a Reformation, all things were turned into Confusion; The Law (which should be the Rule and Direction whereby to walk) made useless, or at least like unto a Spiders Webb through which those Rebellious Bug-bears could with ease break out, but the poor Caveliers were ensnared in the same. How under a pretence of the breach of our Fundamental Laws, they Murdered divers Gallant Persons, when they themselves committed the greatest breaches on it, by riding over the Royal Power of the King, putting down the Bishops, and the Book of Common Prayer, Usurping the Militia, Counterfeiting the great Seal, Seizing on the King's Forts, Ports, Shipping, Castles, and all his Revenue; Raising Rumours, putting out Declarations, and giving out words to alienate the People's Affections from their Sovereign; Sessing Soldiers upon the People of the Kingdom without their Consent; making Judges, Justices, and Sheriffs contrary to the King's mind, breaking all Law themselves, and Governing the Land by Newfound Ordinances of their own, imposing several Taxes on the People by ways never before known in this Kingdom; namely Contributions, Sequestrations, Meal-Money, Sale of Plundered Goods, Loans, Collections upon their fast-days; new Imposition upon Merchandizes, Guards maintained at the charge of Private Men, Compositions, Sale of Bishop's Lands, with divers other strange Impositions, all wracked from the People to maintain them in their Rebellious Pride; But had they stayed here, their crimes had been the more inexcusable, but they proceeded to the Murder of their King, and that under a pretence of Justice, a Crime so great, that History cannot show a parallel, that people professing themselves Christians, Protestants, yea the most Reformed of all the Protestants, should in the face of the whole World, in the Metropolis of the Kingdom, under a formal show of Justice, Condemn the most Pious, Prudent and Gracious Prince then living in the whole World, contrary to the Word of God, the Laws of the Land, the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiancy, it was a matter of Wonder and Astonishment, not only to all Good and Godly Christians, but even to the very Turks and Pagans.  
Now notwithstanding their specious pretences of Religion and Liberty, who can be so blind as not plainly to see that the main drift of their pretences was only to Tyrannize over the People, and to wallow in all manner of Pleasure and Epicurism; for how notoriously debauched were some of the Chief of those Grand Reformers; such as Gregory Clement, Henry Martin, Hugh Peter, etc. Besides their Covetousness, which was so unmeasurably great, that some Wise Men have wondered the Kingdom could be able to pay so much Money as hath been Collected from them in a year, and yet for all those immeasurable Taxes, the Soldiers, and Navy unpaid, that money going towards the Raising of their Poor Kindred, many of themselves, (if not the greatest part) before those Times, of so little Account and Esteem, that they could not Write Gentleman.  
Then that their Pride and Ambition was as great as their Covetousness, is easy to be discerned; for after that Horrid Murder of his Sacred Majesty, How did those Cocks of the Game peck at one another? Cromwell's Ambition never stinting until such time he had attained the end of his Desires, Resolving to sit in the Seat of Sovereignty, although he waded to the same in Blood and Perjury; and thereupon turned out his Rebellious Masters, which he might the more easily do, their Horrid Actions having made them so notoriously odious to all sorts of People, who rejoiced at their Downfall.  
Now though Cromwell were so Bloody a Tyrant, that People might have prayed for his Life, with the same intent as the Sicilian Old Woman did for the Life of Dionysius, For fear that the Devil should come after, for no other could parallel him; Yet he being dead, we find other's Pride and Ambition as high as his, such striving amongst themselves to get into the Seat of Sovereignty, until they thrust one another off of the Cushion, and by their Divisions made a ready way (next to the Providence of Almighty God) for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty: So that we see what ever was pretended of Religion, Liberty, and such like fine Devices, the main End of their Designs, was, Pride, Envy, Covetousness and Ambition.  
Against those Wicked Persons and Practices, how many Gallant Men Opposed Themselves both in their Lives and Estates? The Chief of whom we have given you an Account of in this Book, which we have Divided into Three Centuries, or Catalogues; The First of which are those Loyal Martyrs, who suffered under a Formal kind of Justice, in which (as in the rest) we have observed the Order of Time, and not of Dignity; Some perhaps may Object against Two or Three Persons therein mentioned; such as Duke Hamilton, Master Love, etc. as having the Presbyterian Interest inter-woven with the Royal Account, but certainly the main end of their Designs was Loyalty, as they manifested at the time of their deaths; and therefore may deservedly challenge a place in that Catalogue. In the Second Place, You have an Account of the most Eminent Commanders and Officers who were Slain in the King's Service, Sealing their Love to that Cause with their dearest Bloods, and Manfully Fight, died in the Bed of Honour; If we have over-slipped any of Extraordinary Eminency (for it is impossible to mention every one) We desire to be better Informed by their Friends or Acquaintance, and upon a Second Edition, we shall endeavour to do them Right according to their Deserts. In the Third Rank, We have placed the Royal Confessors, such as Suffered in the King's Cause by Imprisonment, Sequestration, Banishment, etc. Of which We have mentioned but only some few of the most Eminent, the Total Arising to such a Vast Number as would Pose Arithmetic to reckon them up.  
To These Worthies We have in the Second Place Adjoined a Catalogue of the Unworthies, or Brief Characters of the most Notorious Regicides, and Others of that Gang, who were the Chief Authors and Abetters of all Those Miseries and Calamities, which so long a Time Afflicted this Nation, that as the One may be an Encouragement to Virtue and Loyalty, so the Other may Deter Men from Vice and Villainy; This is the sum of our Design, which if it find Kind Acceptance it shall Encourage me to a further Enlargement thereof; If otherwise, yet this shall be my Comfort, that I have Discharged my Duty, and shown myself to be,  
A True Lover of His King and Country, W.W.   

The Names of the Martyrs according as they are Figured in the Frontispiece; with the Page wherein to find their several Histories.  

I. King Charles Page 16  
II. E. of Strafford Page 1  
III. E. of Derby Page 33  
IV. Lord Capel Page 24  
V. Sir Charles Lucas Page 13  
VI Sir George Lisle Page 14  
VII. Col. Morris Page 27  
VIII. Col. Penruddock Page 36  
IX. Col. Grove Page ibid.  
X. Col. Eus. Andrews Page 29  
XI. Col▪ Gerard Page 34  
XII. Col. Benbow Page ibid.  
XIII. Cap. Burleigh Page 12  
XIV. Col. Pitcher Page 14  
XV. Col. Poyer Page 15  
XVI. Sir T. Fetherstonh. Page 34  
XVII. D. Hamilton Page 21  
XVIII. E. of Holland Page 23  
XIX. Cor. Blackburn Page 28  
XX. Mr. Benson Page 30  
XXI. Cap. Bushel Page 32  
XXII. Col. Ashton Page 40  
XXIII. Sir Hen. Slingsby Page 38  
XXIV. Cap. Symkin's Page 34  
XXV. Arch B. Laud Page 9  
XXVI. Dr. Hewyt Page 39  
XXVII. Mr. Beaumond Page 27  
XXVIII. Mr. Vowel Page 35  
XXIX. Mr. Love Page 32  
XXX. Dr. Levens Page 28  
XXXI. Sir Hen. Hide Page 30  
XXXII. Mr. Yeoman's Page 5  
XXXIII. Mr. Bowcher Page ibid.  
XXXIV. Mr. Tomkins Page 7  
XXXV. Mr. chaloner Page ibid.  
XXXVI. Mr. Kniveton Page 9  
XXXVII. Mr. Gibbons Page 32  
XXXVIII. Mr. Kensy Page 37  
XXXIX. Mr. Lucas Page ibid.  
XL. Mr. Betly Page 40  
XLI. Mr. Stacy, Page 41    

The Loyal martyrology. OR, A Brief Historical Relation, and Character of all those Persons that were Murdered by Colour of any Sentence during the late Rebellion.  

I.  
THomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and Lord Deputy of Ireland, a most Wise, Prudent, and Honourable Statesman; Descended from the Illustrious Family of the Wentworths in Yorkshire, and Educated according to the Greatness of his Birth: He was at first a great stickler against the Prerogative, until alured by Court-Preferment he turned Royalist, being by King Charles the First, for his great Parts made Baron Wentworth of Raby, and employed in divers Offices of Trust, which he discharged with great Honour and Faithfulness; So thus his Deserts soon mounted him from one degree of Honour to another; till at last, he was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in which Government he exceeded all that went before him, in the Careful Management of the Affairs of that Realm, Reclaiming the Irish from many of their Barbarous Customs, and reducing them to the English civility, suppressing their Outlaws and Tories, and bringing them to perfect, entire Obedience to the King's Authority and Laws. He much advanced the Protestant Religion, and settled a constant Revenue for the Clergy of that Kingdom, and made so good a procedure in what he undertook, that had not those Disloyal Times of Confusion fallen out, no doubt he had attained his Ends, and settled that Kingdom in a most flourishing condition.  
The Scotch War (being the Prologue to all our late Troubles) breaking out, he was sent for out of Ireland, to Advise with the King about those Troubles, which so unpreparedly had surprised him; To which work he Contributed his Head, Hands and Purse, advancing by subscription Twenty Thousand Pound, as a Copy for the rest of the Nobility to write after: In this Expedition he was made Lieutenant General, and was very eager to Fight with the Scots; But the English being defeated at Newborn, and Petitions succeeding for an accommodation, a Cessation followed, and soon after that, a Parliament, which was Summoned by the Advise of this Earl, and the Archbishop of Canterbury; where the very first thing of Consequence that was done, was a Charge of High Treason Exhibited against this Earl by the House of Commons, consisting of Twenty Eight Articles, whereupon, he was Sequestered from sitting as a Peer, and soon after committed to the Usher of the Black Rod, and so to the Tower. His Trial quickly after ensued, which was done with great Solemnity in Westminster-Hall, the Earl of Arundal being Lord High Steward: The substance of his Articles were, That he had Endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Governments of England and Ireland: That he had done ill Offices betwixt the King and the Scots, and betwixt the King and his Subjects of this Kingdom: That he had Advised the King to bring up the Army out of the North, and over-awe the Parliament: And that he had informed his Majesty that he had an Army of Ten Thousand Men in Ireland, ready to be Transported for the same Service: His Accusers▪ were Pym, St. john's, Whitlock, Sir Walter Earles, Sergeant Glyn, Maynard, Stroud, Mr. Selden, Hambden, etc. But the Earl defended himself so Bravely and Learnedly, that the Lords, Conscious of his Innocency, would not find the Bill; Wherefore the Commons seeing they could not speed that way, drew up a Bill of Attainder, and presented it to the Lords, declaring the matter of Fact to have been sufficiently proved, and that as to Law, he had incurred the Censure of Treason; But the Lords adjudged this a strange way of Proceeding, unsuitable to their own Safety, and against Common Justice; Whereupon the Londoners came down in Tumults, stopped the Lords Coaches, menacing to post up the Names of those who favoured him under the Title of Straffordians, and with an impetuous Cry of Justice, frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill; so hard a task had his Bloodthirsty Enemies to bereave him of his Life, which yet notwithstanding passed but by the plurality of Seven Voices against him.  
But the hardest matter was to get the King's assent, who very much declined it, and in a set Speech, cleared the Earl from any design of Treason, or consulting to any Arbitrary Government; But being over-persuaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal; but principally being desired by the Earl himself to satisfy the Parliament, though with his own blood; His Majesty after Advise with the Bishops, signed that Fatal Bill, which afterwards proved the Axe against his own Life.  
Thus fell this Noble Earl, being one of the Chief Pillars and Basis of this Nation, without whose Ruin the Grandees of the Faction knew it a hard matter to Effect or Accomplish any thing; such an Absolute, Rare, Honest and Loyal Masterpiece of Reason and Prudence, as this present Age▪ saw not, and well will it be for the next, if it may compare and parallel him. He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. being the Pro-to-Martyr of the Late Times.   

TWO, and III.  
MAster Robert yeoman's, and Master George Bowcher, two Worthy Loyal Citizens of Bristol, of good Esteem, Plentiful Estates and known Integrity; Master yeoman's was Sheriff of that City in the Year 1642. being but the year before his Execrable Murder. Master George Bowcher was an Able, Pious, Loyal Gentleman, whom his very Enemies confessed to be a Religious Man. These Two Loyal Persons, seeing the miserable condition of those Places where the Rebels Ruled; Entered into a Consultation with some others, how to deliver the City of Bristol into Prince rupert's hands; and thereupon it was resolved, that upon Monday, March 7. 1642. Prince Rupert with some Forces should draw down towards the City, whilst they within would Seize the Courts of Guard, and open the Gates, and by Ringing St. john's, and St. Michael's Bells, give him notice thereof; Accordingly Prince Rupert came by Five of the Clock the same morning, expecting the Signal; but the Confederacy being discovered, those Two Gallant Gentlemen, with some others were apprehended; and after Eleven Weeks hard Imprisonment, brought to their Trial at a Council of War, where by Fiennes the Governor, and others of that Gang, they were Condemned to Die; and soon after, notwithstanding the King, and his General's Mandates, and Threats of Retaliation, having with great patience endured the Scorns, and Barbarous Insultations of the Enemy, who continually pursued them with Threats and Revile; they were on May 30. 1643. barbarously murdered; Master yeoman's professing at his death, That if he had more lives, he would sacrifice them all to his Sovereign in that way. And Master Bowcher in his last Speech, exhorted all those who had set their hands to the Blow, (meaning the defence of the King's Cause) not to be terrified by their Sufferings, and therefore to withdraw. Their bodies were afterwards decently Interred in the same City, whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance, whilst those who murdered them shall rot and perish in infamy.   

IV, and V.  
MAster Tomkins, and Master Chaloner, the one Clerk of the Queen's Council, the other a Linen-draper in Cornhill, two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity, who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruin by the Seditious practices of the Rebels, procured a Commission from the King; the design whereof was, that they should Seize into their Custody the King's Children, some Members of Parliament, the Lord Mayor, and Committee of the Militia, all the City Outworks and Forts, the Tower of London, and all the Magazines; then to let in the King's Army to Surprise the City, to destroy all Opposers; and this grounded upon refusal of paying of Taxes imposed without Authority.  
This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney, Wife to that Gallant Lord, who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill, and upon receipt thereof, several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof, which was chiefly prosecuted by those two Loyal Persons, who made such progress therein, that the business was brought into some form; but so many being concerned in it, through the Treachery of some, it came to the Parliaments ears; whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended, and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall, and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Heinous Crime of Loyalty, which accordingly was Executed near their own doors, July 5. 1643.   

VI  
MAster Daniel Kniveton, formerly a Haberdasher in Fleetstreet, afterwards a Messenger to his late Sacred Majesty, by whom he was sent to London to signify the King's Pleasure, That the Term of Michaelmas should be prorogued; which Message he delivered to the Judges at Westminster-Hall, and for performance of his Duty, was by those who had quite forgotten all Allegiance and Duty, apprehended for a Spy, and contrary to the Universal Custom, and Honourable Practice of all Nations, (which gives security, and free liberty of passage to all such Persons) Tried before a Council of War, held at Essex House, where he was as unjustly Condemned to be Hanged, and according to that inhuman Sentence, barbarously Murdered by those Bloody Rebels, Novem. 27. 1643.   

VII.  
WIlliam Laud, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, a Pious, Learned, Orthodox Prelate, of whom (as one observes) It would trouble Plutarch if he were alive to find out a fit parallel with whom to match him. This Reverend Bishop was born at Reading, extracted from an Honest and well Reputed Parentage, his Father being a Wealthy Cloathier of that Town; from which place (having attained to Learning answerable thereto) he was Trans-planted to St. John's College in Oxford, where with great Credit and Estimation he passed through all the Honourable Employments of his College, so that his Worth came to be taken special Notice of, preferring him first to be Chaplain to the Earl of Devon-shire, and Proctor of the University. Soon after from Bachelor of Divinity he proceeded to Doctor, and became Chaplain to Doctor Neal Bishop of Rochester, afterwards Translated to York, who for his great Abilities preferred him to King James; so that now having cast Anchor at Court, the Haven of Hope, he was by that Bountiful King first made Prebend of Bugden and Westminster, next Dean of Gloucester, and Archdeacon of Huntingdon, than Precedent of his own College, and not long after Bishop of St. David's.  
King James dying, his Son King Charles took him into more especial Favour, bestowing on him the Bishopric of Bath and Wells, made him Dean of his Chapel, and one of his Privy Council; then Bishop of London, and Chancellor of Oxford, and last of all, Archbishop of Canterbury.  
As he grew thus High in the King's Favour, so (as it is common with Prince's Favourites) was he high in disgust with the People; for being a Prelate who stood stiffly for the strict observation of the Rites of the Church of England, which then by the growing Power of Non-Conformists were every where termed Innovations; by this means Episcopacy was by many Traduced, and divers Libels scattered up and down against that Sacred Function, wherein (as being most Eminent) he was sure to bear the greatest burden, falsely reporting him inclining to Popery, notwithstanding his firmness in the Protestant Religion, witnessed, by that Book of his against Fisher the Jesuit, an unanswerable Work, which like a hammer hath beaten all the Romish Arguments into pieces, and of which they will never clear themselves, brag and vapour what they please.  
Yet notwithstanding this his great Learning, Prudence, Zeal, Humility, and other Graces wherewith he was stored, though he had done nothing worthy of Death, or Bonds, yet in the beginning of our Dissensions, when the mad fury of blind zeal, like an impetuous torrent bore down all before it; This Reverend Prelate was committed to the Black-Rod, and from thence to the Tower, where he remained four years before any Charge was brought against him, afterwards he was several times brought to the Bar of the House of Commons, where notwithstanding his Innocency and Integrity appeared transparent, yet being parties Witnesses, and Judges too, they Voted him Guilty, and January 10. 1644. he was wickedly Murdered on Tower-hill; In whom was verified that presage of King James, No Bishop, No King; Monarchy soon after falling in the death of that blessed Martyr King Charles.   

VIII.  
ANd Captain Burleigh, a Gentleman of the Isle of Wight, who after those wicked Votes of Non-Address, and that the King was a Prisoner in the said Island, he Beat a Drum, intending to gather a Force sufficient to Rescue him from his Imprisonment, but was quickly seized and suppressed by Hamond, who sent him over to Winchester, where by a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, he was Arraigned and Tried, and by a pact-Jury brought in Guilty of High Treason, and accordingly barbarously Murdered, Feb. 10. 1647.   

IX, and X.  
SIr Charles Lucas, and Sir George Lisle, those Gemini of Valour, Honour, and exact Loyalty, who gallantly Served the King during the time of Rebellion; being without any partiality of affection declared by those that knew them; one of them the best for Horse-Service, and the other for the Infantry that ever Commanded in their Quality in the King's Armies. These two Gallant Hero's, when there was some hopes given of his Majesty's Restitution by the Rising of several Counties, they likewise put to their helping hand, and joined with them, maintaining the City of Colchester for the space of Thirteen Weeks against a Potent Enemy satiated with Victories, and supplied with fresh and continual Recruits; having in that time eaten up most of the Horses in the Town, together with the Dogs and Cats, and whatsoever else could afford them Nourishment, though most reluctant to Nature; yet notwithstanding this Gallant Opposition, with the Miseries they endured, upon the Surrender of the Town, the Enemy out of hatred to them for their signal Valour and Loyalty inhumanely butchered them in cold blood, August the 30. 1648.   

XI.  
Mayor Pitcher, a Valiant Loyal Gentleman who out of his sense of the King and Kingdom's Misery, and a deep apprehension of the sad Consequences thereof, Engaged in Arms for the Restitution of his Sacred Majesty, being one of those, who with so much Valour, and Magnanimity Defended Pembroke against Cromwell, and his Army of Janissaries for the space of three months; but no hopes of Relief appearing, after a most gallant Defence they Rendered themselves upon Articles, by which he was To depart the Kingdom for Three Years, and not to Return upon pain of Death: But he well hoping there might be further occasion of Service to his Majesty, by reason the strange Actions of the Men at Westminster had rendered them so odious to the generality of the People; He therefore (accounting it base to Desert his Prince when so great help required,) stayed at London, in expectation, as I said, of some further Service; but being betrayed by some ignominious wretches, was Apprehended, and Condemned by a Council of War, who seldom quitted any whom they thought might be able to do them a mischief, and according to that wicked Sentence, he was as barbarously Murdered, being shot to death against St. Faith's door, December 29. 1648.   

XII.  
COlonel Poyer, who with Major General Langhorne, and Colonel Powel, took up Arms for the King in Wales, in detestation of those bloody Votes of Non-Addresses by the Faction at Westminster; But it pleased God not to succeed that Enterprise, being defeated at St. Fagons by Colonel Horton, whereupon they Retreated with the broken remains of their Army to the Town of Pembroke, which they Fortified, and Valiantly Defended for the space of Three Months, against Horton and Cromwell, who with a great Power was come in to their Recruit; But wanting Necessaries, and hopeless of Relief, Valour was forced to condescend to what Barbarity should propound, which was to Render at Mercy; the effect whereof was, according to the Order of a Council of War, That the three Colonels should draw Lots for their Lives, which fell upon him, and thereupon he was shot to death in Covent Garden.   

XIII.  
Charles' the I. of Blessed Memory, the most Glorious Martyr of this late Age, the exact pattern of Piety, Patience and Prudence, who in the manner of his Sufferings, came the nearest to our Saviour of any we have read or heard of; whose Christian Virtues and Patience in Afflictions will be had in Everlasting Remembrance; Whose History being so exactly delivered by several Learned Pens, and his Divine Thoughts so Heavenly set forth in His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and other rare Pieces of his own Writing; we shall therefore take no further a prospect of Him, then from that barbarous and execrable Murder, which to the horror and astonishment of all good Men, and to the great shame of the Christian World, was most impiously committed on him, and that in as brief a method as we can.  
After that it had so pleased God for the sins of the Nation, that the King's Armies were all Overthrown, and He Himself a Prisoner under their merciless hands, several Endeavours having been used for his Restoration, which also proved fruitless, Cromwell, Ireton, and divers others of that Antimonarchial Faction, who resolved to Enrich themselves, though with the Ruin of the Kingdom, and the loss of their own Souls; By a Violent, and Treasonable Force Seized upon divers Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament, such as they thought had any Courage or Honesty to Vote according to their Consciences, and neglect their wild Diabolical proposals; leaving only Fifty or Sixty Schismatics of their own Engaged Party, such as had made a prey of the Commonwealth to Enrich Themselves and their Faction. These offals of a Parliament quickly Voted down the Kingly Office, and House of Peers, and that the Supreme Authority was in the People, and in the House of Commons, as their Representative, and to bring the King to Capital Punishment before a new invented, Illegal, mixed Court (consisting of Engaged Persons) Erected for that purpose, having Foundation neither by Prescription nor Law: These proceedings though contrary to Law, Sense, and Religion, yet being backed by an Army, they went on in their most wicked Design; and to show that they were as devoyed of Grace, as without, shame, they kept a Mock-Fast, where Hugh Peter's that Pulpit-Buffon Acted a Sermon before them, the subject whereof was, Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt; which he applied to the Leaders of the Army, covering his eyes with his hands, and laying down his head on the Cushion, and such other antic gestures, as moved the People unto laughter, so audaciously impudent were they as to delight in their abominable wickedness. Soon after was that accursed High Court of Justice Erected, before which Audacious Traitors, his Majesty was often brought, who refused to hear the King speak of Reason, but contrary to all Law, Reason, Religion, Honesty, Oaths of Allegiance, and Supremacy, several Votes, Declarations, Remonstrances, Protestations, and Covenants, He was by the mouth of that Grand Murdering Rebel, Bradshaw, Sentenced to be Beheaded, the rest of those Miscreant Traitors by standing up, assenting to the same; and so not being admitted to reply, he was by their Guards hurried away; the Soldiers as he passed along (in imitation, or being set on by their Rebellious Masters, that they might not be much behind them in Villainy) scoffing and reviling Him, casting the smoke of their Tobacco (a thing odious to Him) in his face, and strewing the Pipes in his way, one more insolent than the rest, spitting in his face; the Soldiers all along as he passed, Crying out, Justice, Justice, Execution, Execution; to whom his Majesty only said, Alas poor Souls, for a piece of Money, they would do so for their Commanders.  
From the time of that bloodly Sentence, to the time of his execrable Murder, how barbarously the Soldiers continued their insolences to him, and how base and brutish they were in their carriage, would almost exceed belief of a rational man, not suffering him to rest in his Chamber, but thrusting in, smoking their Tobacco, and disturbing him in his Privacy, abusing those that seemed to show any respect, or even compassion to him: But through all those Trials, and Barbarous Affronts, he passed with such a calm, and even temper, that he let nothing fall unbeseeming his former Majesty, and Magnanimity, but despite of their malice proved himself a Glorious Conqueror.  
When that fatal day was come, which they had appointed for his Glorious Martyrdom, he was brought from his Palace of St. James' to White-Hall, marching on foot through the Park, being Guarded by a Regiment of Foot Soldiers, with their Colours flying and Drums beating, the Guards marching a slow pace, he bid them go faster, saying, That he now went before them to strive for a Heavenly Crown, with less solitude than he had often Encouraged his Soldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem. After he had come to the Chamber appointed for him in White Hall, he spent that little remnant of time he had to live in Devotion, and received the blessed Sacrament from the hands of the Bishop of London, who was Licenced to attend on him, from which he received great Spiritual comfort; continuing at his Devotions till about Twelve a Clock, when he eat a bit of Bread, and drank a glass of Claret, returning to his Devotions again, when about an hour after, he was brought on the Scaffold, attended by the foresaid Bishop, where with a Christian Courage and Resolution He finished his Glorious Martyrdom, which at the falling of his Body, mounted his Soul to Heaven, in whose blissful Mansions he now sings Hallelujahs for ever.  
Thus this Noble Prince (sanctified by many Afflictions) after he had escaped Pistol, Poison, and Pestilent Air, (which means the Regicides had designed to take him away by, during his restraint) could not escape the more venomous tongues of Lawyers, and Pettifoggers, Bradshaw, Cook, Dorislau, etc. We shall conclude our Discourse of Him with this Epitaph made by a Loyal Person. 
Within this Sacred Vault doth lie,  
The Quintessence of Majesty,  
Which being set, more Glorious Shines,  
The best of Kings, best of Divines;  
Britain's shame, and Britain's glory,  
Mirror of Princes, complete Story,  
Of Royalty; One so exact  
That th' Elixirs of praise detract;  
These are fair shadows, but t' endure  
He's drawn to th' life in's Pourtracture,  
If such another Piece you'd see,  
Angels must Limn it out, or Herald    

XIV.  
NOw next in order should we proceed to Duke Hamilton, Earl of Cambridge, who though of another Nation, yet being a Peer of this, and dying by Sentence of their Illegal High Court of Injustice, we cannot without injustice leave him out of this Catalogue. It is indeed confessed by most, that the King's Interest was but Collateral, and though his Actions and Promises at his Trial in hopes of life, may seem evidently to confirm the same, yet in his last words (and words of dying men do carry great force with them) he did Evidence a real Love and Affection to that Cause. This Duke was General over the Scotch Forces that came into England when the King was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight, the cause of their coming being contained in a Declaration which they brought along with them, consisting of five heads; 1. That the King be forthwith brought to London, to Treat in Person with the Two Houses of Parliament. 2. That all those who had a hand in, or contrived the carrying of the King away from Holmby, be condignly punished. 3. That the Army be Disbanded. 4. That Presbytery be settled. 5. That the Members of Parliament who were forcibly secluded from the Houses, may be restored. But these Demands were answered with Fire and Bullet, the Duke and his great Army totally defeated by Cromwell, and Himself taken Prisoner by Colonel wait, and being now in their hands, they thought to make good use of him, to cajole and fish out what great Ones, Members of both Houses, the City, and Clergy had a hand in his Undertaking; It being more than suspected that he had such Invitation, to which purpose he was exceedingly importuned by Cromwell, the Lord Grey of Grooby, Colonel wait, and Hugh Peter, who promised him they would not much obstruct his pretended Plea of Quarter from Lambert upon Articles; Nay Peter avouched Quarter so given, for which Hamilton gave him Thanks and Money, and Peter in consideration thereof, prayed for him openly, as his Lord and Patron, still feeding him with hopes, If he would impeach their Opposites: but when they could not extort it from him, the Scene was soon altered, they which smiled on him before, then frowned; and being at his Trial, asked what he could say for himself; he pleaded Quarter, and vouched Peter's Testimony; but that wretched Priest, with a brazen face renounced the same, saying, He now remembered no such matter, but that the Army scorned to give Quarter to Him, or any of his Nation: whereupon he was Condemned to the Block, which Sentence was Executed upon him, March 9 1648.   

XV.  
HEnry Earl of Holland, a special Favourite of King Charles the I. in the beginning of his Reign, though afterwards when the long Parliament began to sit, that Religion became the Bone of Contention, he sided with them: But afterwards perceiving that they made Religion only a cloak to cover their Rebellion, he deserted them, and took up Arms for the Royal Interest; together with the Duke of Buckingham, the Lord Francis Villers' Brother, the Earl of Peterburgh, and some others: But they no sooner Rose, but were Encountered by the Parliaments more Numerous Forces, by whom they were Defeated, and the Earl (the next day) taken Prisoner, being afterwards brought to his Trial before those Lawless Regicides; he was by them Condemned, together with my Lord Capel, and Duke Hamilton, and suffered on the same Scaffold, the aforesaid 9 of March, 1648.   

XVI.  
ARthur Lord Capel Baron of Hadham, a most Noble, Heroick, Gallant Peer, Eminently Famous for his Charity, and other Rare Endowments; whose Noble Virtues fill the Trumpet of Fame to all Posterity. This Noble Lord was Son and Heir to Sir Henry Capel of Hadham-Hall in Hartford-shire, well known for his Bountiful House, and diffusive Charity to the Poor, which some, Eminous of good works in others, because they will practise none themselves, have bespattered with the Name of Popery; which as they set forth only the speakers malice, so were they no hindrance to this Noble Lord when as he came to possess that Vast Estate, to tread in the same steps his Father, and Honourable Predecessors had done.  
His great Parts, and Deserts, Advanced him from the Degree of Knighthood, (the ancient Dignity of his Family) to Baron Capel of Hadham, (his Son being since by our Gracious Soveragn Created Earl of Essex,) a little before the time the Earl of Strafford received his Trial, whose giving his Vote to that Bill, was in his conscientious Judgement of himself his Original Condemnation, in foro Caeli.  
During the time of Rebellion, and those unhappy Differences betwixt the King and Parliament, none more Constant and Loyal to his Majesty than He; Assisting him in all that he could both in Head, Hand, and Purse, and was by Him for his singular Wisdom, and Prudence appointed Counsellor unto the Prince, whom he left not till the Disbanding the Lord Hoptons' Army in Cornwall, being then dismissed with an Honourable Character from that discerning Prince. But long had he not continued here at home, when some fresh hopes appearing of his Majesty's Restauration to his former Authority, by the Rising of several Parties for the King, he resolved to set his helping hand thereto, and joining with those Valiant Sons of Mars, Sir Charles Lucas, etc. was together with them Besieged in Colchester, which for Thirteen Weeks they Valiantly Defended, Enduring and Suffering almost all Extremities imaginable; at last they were forced to yield, upon Articles of Quarter for Life, in which this Noble Lord was included; yet notwithstanding all Articles, he was sent up Prisoner to London, and committed to the Tower, from whence he endeavoured an Escape, and had effected it, had he not been betrayed by one Jones a Waterman, a second Banister; soon after he was brought to their bloody Slaughter-house, nicknamed by them a Court of Justice, whereby those Enemies of Honour and Loyalty, he was Condemned, and March 9 aforesaid, brought to the Scaffold, where he resolutely afferted his own Actions, his dead Master's Cause, and his present Sovereign's Rights, recommending him to the People, as the great Example of True English Worth, and the only Hope of the distracted Kingdom; and so like a True Christian Hero suffered the pains of the Axe, sealing his Glorious Cause with his last breath and blood.   

XVII.  
MAster Beaumond, a Reverend Divine, belonging to the Garrison of Pomfract, who for his Loyal Endeavours towards the Restoration of his Majesty, in holding Correspondency in Ciphers with some Active Royalists, was by those Murdering Miscreants, who spared none, either for their Age or Function, most barbarously murdered, Feb. 15. 1648.   

XVIII.  
COlonel John Morris, a Gentleman of an Undaunted Courage; and Resolution, bred up in the Earl of Straffords' House, where he was taught his Duty to God, and Obedience to his King, whom he Faithfully Served in that time of Rebellion; being that Gallant Person that Surprised Pomfract Castle, which he Valiantly Defended even to the very pinch of Extremity; and was for his Valour and Loyalty (being suspected by them to be one of those that sent Rainsbrough's Ghost to trace the Infernal Shades) most inhumanly butchered by those Scelerate Villainies, at the City of York, August 23. 1649.   

XIX.  
COronet Michael Blackburn, Emiently Famous for his Loyalty, and Faithful Service to his Sovereign; being also taken at Pomfract Castle, and likewise suspected for Rainsbrough's death; he was therefore by those sworn Foes to true Valour, basely murdered at York, August 23. aforesaid.   

XX.  
DOctor Levens, Doctor of the Civil Law, a Gentleman well Descended, of an Ancient Family in Oxfordshire, who at the first beginning of these Uncivil Wars, exchanged his Gown for a Sword, and Valiantly Served his Majesty during that Rebellion, till the Surrender of Oxford, being one that was concluded in the Articles of that Capitulation. After the death of that blessed Martyr, he Engaged for his Son, our present Sovereign, having Commission from Him for the Raising of Forces, and blank Commissions for divers Officers; but whiles he was in pursuance of the Design, he was discovered, and being brought before them stoutly stood in his justification, Telling them he was no way ashamed of his Cause, but that he would justify it with his Dearest Life; And though they gave him some fallacious hopes of Life, if he would reveal those Parties Engaged with him, yet would not those offers prevail on his more Noble Spirit, wherefore he was by them condemned, and according to their bloody Sentence Executed over against the Exchange in Cornhill, July 18. 1650.   

XXI.  
COlonel Eusebius Andrews, a Gentleman of a most sincere Life and Conversation, by Profession a Counsellor of Gray's Inn, who out of his Duty to God, and the King; took part with his Majesty, constantly adhering to the Royal Cause, being Secretary to the Renowned Lord Capel, whose Worth and Excellency being envied by Cromwell, he was by his Emissaries brought into a Plot, as they called it, and then by them betrayed; the chief Agent therein being one Bernard's, formerly his Major, who with one Pitts were suborned by Bradshaw, and Sir Henry Mildmay to swear against him; So that notwithstanding the Colonel notably defended himself, and by an accurate Legal Plea proved the Unlawfulness and Authority of their High Court of Justice, yet was he by those bloodsucking Cannibals Sentenced as a Traitor, having only the favour of altering the manner of his Execution, which was the Axe on Tower-hill, where he died like other Martyrs before him, full of joy and blessed hope, Aug. 22. 1650.   

XXII.  
MAster Benson, formerly a Retainer to Sir John Gell, having a Command under him during the time Sir John had the unhappiness to serve the Parliament; but having rectified his judgement, and desirous by some Eminent Service to his Majesty, to balance his former mistakes, he was by the aforesaid Bernard Trapan'd in the same business with Colonel Andrews, and suffered under their merciless cruelty, October 7. 1650.   

XXIII.  
SIr Henry Hide, Brother to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England now living; a Gentleman of Excellent parts for Navigation, who being sent by his present Majesty an Internuncio to the Grand Signior in matters of concernment, for the good of his Merchant Subjects; The Rebels by their Agents so wrought upon the Vizier, that he basely and unworthily sent him into England, where having remained for some time in the Tower, he was brought before their monstrous High Court of Justice, where his Crimes were aggravated with imputations of his design of seizing those Merchant Estates there, and affronting Sir Thomas Bendish the old Resident there with his New Commission. To which although Sir Henry made a Learned Defence, yet was all in vain to those who resolved beforehand to dispatch him, and only Herd him in way of form; wherefore he was by their Bloodthirsty Court Sentenced to be Beheaded, which death he suffered against the Old Exchange in Cornhill, March 4. 1650. courageously asserting his Master's Cause, and so rendering his Soul to God, is justly inscribed into the Roll of Martyrs.   

XXIV.  
CAptain Brown Bushel, an expert Seaman, who was Captain of a Man of War, and had some kind of Command in Scarborough, which he delivered to Sir Hugh Chomley then revolted in the year 1643. from the Parliament, and being Prisoner at Hull for the same, had been Exchanged by Hotham (then winding about to his Allegiance.) This Captain Bushel was for the same committed to custody in 1648. and being detained Prisoner about Three Years, now their hand was in for shedding of blood, he was by those inhuman Rebels murdered, April 29. 1651.   

XXV, and XXVI.  
MAster Love, and Master Gibbons, who though they died upon the Presbyterian Account, which abated much the lustre of their Sufferings, yet dying in opposition to Tyranny, and upon the Account of his Majesty's Restauration, deserve to be had in perpetual remembrance. They were charged with High Treason against the State, for holding correspondency with the King and his Party, and supplied them with money, contrary to an Act of Parliament in that case provided; for which they were by those bloody Regicides condemned, and lost their heads on Tower-hill, August 20. 1651.   

XXVII.  
JAmes Earl of Derby, the flower of English Fidelity, a most Honourable, Heroick, Gallant Peer, whose Prudence and Valour were always Assistant to his Royal Master; and whose Superlative Virtues of Liberality and Bounty made him Loved and Honoured of all sorts of People; He having ventured his Life and Large Estate in the continual Service of his Royal Masters, from which he in the least never deviated. Upon his Majesty's March out of Scotland, he Raised what Forces he could to his Assistance, but was first unfortunatly defeated at Wigan in Lancashire, from whence he fled to the King at Worcester; where also that Royal Army being overcome by Cromwell's▪ Numerous Forces, he unfortunatly fell into their hands, and suffered under their inhuman, merciless, execrable Tyranny, resigning up his Soul into the hands of his Maker, October 15. 1651.   

XXVIII.  
CAptain Symkin's, who for carrying the King's Letter of Invitation to Sir Thomas Midleton, was by a Court-Marshal held at Chester, Condemned, and accordingly Executed by those incorrigable Rebels, October 1651.   

XXIX.  
SIr Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, a Valiant Gentleman, who Engaging with the Noble Earl of Derby in the Service of his Sovereign, was defeated at Wigan in Lancashire, and suffered by those obdurate Rebels, Octo. 22. 1651.   

XXX.  
COlonel Benbow, who for his Loyalty and superlative Valour, was by those bloodthirsty Regicides, much about the same time shot to death at Shrewsbury.   

XXXI.  
COlonel John Gerard, a Gentleman of good Account, whose Family have been very Eminent for their Loyalty; upon a pretended Plot of Assassinating Cromwell, was with divers others committed to Prison, and Tried before their High Court of Injustice, where though there were little appearance of the Truth thereof, (but some few words extorted by fear, besides the confession of their own Agent;) yet was he by bloody Lisle the Precedent, Condemned, and lost his head on Tower-hill, July 10. 1654.   

XXXII.  
MAster Peter Vowel, Schoolmaster of the Free School at Islington, against whom they had suborned a blind Minister, whom this worthy Martyr had sustained and fed; they having received from him some words, that Master Vowel should say, as, That if the Tyrant were removed, or otherways laid aside, the Royal Interest would be gladly Embraced, and without any difficulty Re-assumed to its Authority. These cursed Caiphases more enlarged; with addition of several circumstances; and though the said Minister at his Trial denied and disowned the said words, yet they making for their purpose (O impudence without precedent!) he was by the mouth of Frontless Lisle condemned to death, and according to that unjust Sentence, Executed at Charing-Cross, where with a Roman spirit▪ tempered with Christian patience, he suffered Martyrdom, off, from a stool fetched from their Guard, his innocency appearing so transparent that the adjacent Neighbours refused to lend any thing towards his death. These Two Gentlemen were the first that suffered under the Tyrannical Government of Oliver Cromwell, whose Five Years Usurpation was cemented all along with a sacrifice of Loyal blood, as the Walls of Babylon were said to be mortured.   

XXXIII, and XXXIV.  
COlonel Penruddock, and Colonel Groves, two Valiant Gentlemen who had constantly and faithfully served his late Majesty, and now with several other Gentlemen of good Account, Joined in an Assosiation to free the Land from the Slavery they endured under that Abominable Tyrant Cromwell, and to restore his Sacred Majesty. To this purpose about some Two Hundred of them Rose in the West, and Entered the City of Salisbury, at such time as the Judges, Rolls and nichols were there in Circute, whose Horses they Seized, and Declared the Cause of this their Appearance; and having now Increased their Numbers to Four Hundred, they marched thence to Blundeford, where Colonel Penrudock himself Proclaimed the King in the Marketplace; from thence they marched more Westward towards Devon-shire, and Corn-Wall, but their numbers decreasing, they were at last at South-Molton in Devon-shire, set upon by a strong party of Horse, under the Command of Captain Crook, where being overpowered, they submitted upon Articles of quarter for life, which Crook afterwards basely denied when they were Tried at Salisbury; by which Treachery these two gallant Gentlemen were for their Loyal Undertake condemned, and wickedly murdered May 16. 1655.   

XXXV.  
JOhn Lucas, a Mercer of very good Estate in Hungerford, who joining with these gallant Royalists in their Attempts for Restoring the King, staying in the Town when he might have escaped, unluckily fell into their hands, by whom he was Sentenced, and lost his head.   

XXXVI. etc.  
MAster Kensey, Master Thorp, John Friar, and John Laurence, Persons of good esteem and credit in the West-country, who likewise joining with Colonel Penrudock, and those other gallant persons we formerly mentioned, were for this their Loyalty, barbarously murdered by those insolent Rebels at Salisbury; besides Eleven more (whose Names we cannot yet attain to) who upon the same account were by those Rebels murdered at Exeter, May 1655.   

XXXVII.  
SIr Henry Slingsby, a Knight of good repute in Yorkshire, and who for his Loyalty was seldom out of trouble during all the time of Rebellion; having been a Prisoner in Hull off and on ever since that fatal Fight at Worcester, he being now weary of this long restraint, and perceived so to be by some of the Officers of that Garrison, they (viz.) Major Waterhouse, Captain Overton, and one Lieutenant Thompson, to hook him in, cast out some disgustal words against their Sultan Cromwell, mixing thereto some Overtures of their good will to the King, and the Rendition of the Place to him, if he could procure a Commission for them from his Majesty. The Loyal Gentleman gladly Embraced a proffer of such Concernment, and made use of an Old Commission he had by him; But they having now brought him into their snare, sent him up a Prisoner to London, where at his Trial they were Witnesses against him; for being brought to Cromwell's slaughter-house ecleaped a High Court of Justice, where bloody Lisle▪ sat Precedent, he was by those monsters of Nature condemned, and wickedly murdered, June 8. 1658.   

XXXVIII.  
DOctor John Hewyt, a Reverend Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper, who taught the People both by Life and Doctrine, whose Excellent Parts, and known Loyalty, was two grand motives to the insatiable thirst of Cromwell to desire to taste his blood. To this purpose a Plot must be invented of Firing the City, and I know not what, whereof the Reverend Doctor was accused, and though his innocency appeared as transparent as the Sun in the most serene sky, yet being ignorant of the formalities of the Law, (though none more knowing in the Gospel) he was taken, or surprised for a mute, and by the mouth of that audacious and bloody Regicide, Frontless Lisle, condemned, and on the same Scaffold with Sir Henry Slingsby Beheaded, rendering his Soul into the hands of his Creator; the aforesaid 8. of June, 1658.   

XXXIX.  
COlonel Edward Ashton, a Valiant Loyal Person, whom Cromwell, acting Nero's part who set Rome on fire, and then punished the Christians for doing it; So this crafty bloodsucker having devized a Plot against their lives, laid to their charge, that they would fire the City; and having by Imprisonment, and other sinister ends prevailed on some to accuse others, notwithstanding their innocency, were condemned; amongst others this gallant Colonel suffered by their barbarous inhumanity, July 2. 1648.   

XL.  
MAster John Betley, a young man of Excellent Parts, who being trappaned by the Tyrant's Emissaries about the aforesaid Plott, was by the bloody Sentence of their High Court of Injustice condemned to be hanged, and accordingly was Executed in Cheapside the aforesaid 2 of July, where he made a solemn protestation of his Innocency, at whose death happened a thing something strangely remarkable, for having hung almost a quarter of an hour, he pulled off his cap with his own hands, so loath was the Soul to depart from that gallant body, which had it not been thus snatched away by this untimely death, might have lived to have done his King and Country gallant service, and have been a special Ornament to the City wherein he lived.   

XLI.  
MAster Edward Stacy, who for the same counterfeit Plott, was two days after murdered over against the Exchange in Cornhill, being the last man that suffered under the bloody Tyranny of Cromwell, who had taken such large draughts of loyal blood, and who himself expired not long after.  
Thus have we given you a brief Narrative of those worthy Martyrs who suffered under colour of Sentence by Law during that time Rebellion was Rampant; many others might be added to this Catalogue, whose Names and Qualities we cannot yet attain unto, and who dying in opposition to Tyranny, and upon the account of Law and Loyalty, deserve to be had in everlasting remembrance; My desire therefore will be to those of their Relations concerned in it, such timely notice might be given of them before a Second Edition of this Book, that their memories might have the right belonging to them, to the encouragement of others in persisting in Loyalty, and to the dread and terror of Traitors and Regicides, who shall dare to lift up their hand against the Lords anointed.    

We shall next add only a short account of some Loyal Persons murdered in Scotland by the same pretence of Law, to show that the men of the Kirk, notwithstanding their great pretensions of Loyalty, were not much behind the Independent gang, but drove the same trade, and exercised the utmost of their cruelty, upon the most stoutest asserters of the King's Cause.  

I.  
COlonel Nathaniel Gordon, a Gentleman of exquisite valour, who accompanied the Noble Marquis of Montross, in all dangers and difficulties; his constant Fidelity rendered him odious to the Covenanting-gang, who having him in their hands, most basely murdered him at St. Johnstons', 1647.   

II.  
SIr Robert Spotswood, whose Worth and Learning would have preserved him from the hands of his most barbarous Enemies, but those of his own Nation; He was a Gentleman of most polite and deep learning, especially in the Oriental Languages; and was for his extraordinary parts, made the King's Secretary of Scotland, in the place of the Earl of Lanerick; His great Endowments and large Abilities for what he undertook accelerated his end, dying with a Noble and Christian courage, breathing his last with these words, Jesus have mercy on me, and gather my soul with those that have run before me in this Race.   

III.  
MAster Andrew Guthrey, Son to the Bishop of Murrory, a Loyal Gentleman, and therefore rendered the more obnoxious to the Kirk-men, those great pretenders of dutiful affection to the King; a strange riddle, to love the Master, and murder his Servants! this gallant person was by them barbarously murdered, the aforesaid year, 1647.   

IV.  
MAster William Murrey, Brother to the Earl of Tullibardin, one whose hopeful Spring promised a flourishing fruitful Harvest; who in his Youth performed wonders, and gave undeniable proofs of what he would have proved afterwards, had he not been thus basely cut off in the prime of his strength, at Nineteen years of age. He most magnanimously, & courageously encountered death, behaving himself with such a Christian carriage, and contempt of death, as he said, His End would prove the greatest Honour of his Family.  
These four Gentlemen all Sacrificed their lives in defence of their Sovereign, and died Royal Martyrs at St, johnston's, the year of our Lord, 1647. aforesaid.   

V.  
THe Renowned, and ever Glorious Marquis of Montross, the Honour of Chivalry, & pattern of true Magnanimity; whose glorious exploits were such, and so great, as would pose Antiquity with all her feigned Hero's to find his parallel; of whom we shall give you the more larger account, and show you how barbarously they used this gallant Worthy.  
He at first sided with the Covenanters against his Majesty; their specious pretences carrying a fairer gloss than his green years could so soon look into; but reason quickly rectified his Judgement, and he perceived that those fair shows, were but painted clothes on purpose to catch the simple; yet would he not so soon on the sudden decline, but endeavoured in his Revolt to have done his Majesty an Excellent Piece of Service, by bringing that Army to him which was under his Command; but being disappointed, he endeavoured to display his Loyalty another way: The King having then few friends in Scotland, but such as were so overawed by the Convenanters, they durst not show themselves; the Noble marquis obtained a Commission from the King, to be Governor of Scotland, whither he went, attended only by two, Master William Rollock, and Master Sibbalds'; and thorough many dangers came at last to his Cousin Master Patrick Graham in the Sheriffdome of Perth, where he stayed but a while, but went into the Highlands, the Earl of Antrim having promised to send him sufficient Supplies out of Ireland, as a stock to begin with; which he performed though very defficient in the Number; some One Thousand One Hundred only coming over; however having some little addition under the Lord Kilpont, and the Earl of Perths' Son, he resolved not to lie idle, but with a bold Courage to find out the Army of the Covenanters, then gathered together under the Earl of Tullyburn, and other Scotch Lords in Perth-shire, where at Tepper-Moor he set upon them, and though not equal to his Enemies in number, yet so exceeding them in Valour, that he obtained of them a Glorious Victory, which he might well ascribe to Providence, for his Soldiers wanting Ammunition, were supplied by the stones which lay thick on the ground whereon they fought, to their very great advantage. Here he killed no less than Two Thousand of his Enemies, whereupon the City of Perth opened her gates, and yielded to the Conqueror.  
This Victory obtained, he Marches into Argyles Country, one whose Actions hath since rendered him deservedly infamous; here he made a miserable havoc, minding utterly to break the spirits of that People who were so surely Engaged to Argyles side. To withstand and repress this so dangerous an Enemy, the Covenanters soon Raised another Army, under the Earl of Seaforth, and the Marquis of Argyle, whose Forces being divided, he sets upon that Party under Argyle first, which he totally Routed, killing One Thousand Five Hundred on the Place; soon after he Defeated the other Army, being newly put under the Command of Colonel Hurry; then offers battle to Bayley, who declined to Fight without great advantage; whereupon he marches after Hurry, who was now Recruited, and at Alderne sets upon him, discomfits him, killing One Thousand Eight Hundred, and dispersing the rest.  
Then next with his Victorious Army he goes to seek for Bayly, to whom was joined the Earl of Lindsey, and joining battle with them at Alesford-Hills, gives them a total Rout, but not without the loss of some of his own men, whereof the Lord Gourdon deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance; then with an uncontrollable march he goes to St. Johnstons', putting the Parliament (who there sat) into a great fright; from thence he goes into the Lowlands, to Encounter with Bayly, who was again Recruited with another Army by the Kirk.  
At Kilsith both Armies met, where betwixt them was fought a very bloody Battle, which continued doubtful for a good space; but Victory at length crowned the head of Montross, almost Six Thousand of his Enemies falling in that Fight; nor were the effects thereof less profitable to him then the Victory itself; for hereupon almost all Places of Strength yielded to him, even as far as Edinburgh; the Nobility and Gentry every where readily Assisted him, and acknowledged him for their Rightful Governor.  
But what Estate on Earth is long permanent? How soon may a serene sky be shadowed with clouds? Whiles Montross was now as he thought almost secure, most part of his Army returning home, he expecting Aid from the King under the Lord Digby▪ Leshly being called out of England by the Scottish Estates, made such haste, that he fell upon Montross at Philipshaugh, almost before his Scouts could give him Intelligence, and there Routed him, he hardly escaping with his life, being forced to cut his way through his Enemies, and with a poor remainder of his Army fly into the Highlands, where he began anew to Levy Forces; but the fortune of the King failing every where, he was the next year Ordered by the King (then in the Scots Custody) to Disband and Depart the Kingdom, which notwithstanding he knew it would be prejudicial to the Kings Proceedings, yet lest he should be guilty of disobedience in himself, which he punished in others, he willingly condescend thereunto.  
From thence he betook himself to the Court of France, where he was proffered High Preferment, which he waved, his Noble Spirit more aiming at his own Prince's Service, desiring nothing more than to revenge the blood of his murdered Master on the heads of those that had so perfidiously sold him; To this purpose, after some long delays, (being stoutly opposed by Duke Hamilton, and the Earls of Lauderdale and Calendar) he at last obtained a Commission from the King for an adventure into Scotland; and in order to that Expedition, was furnished with four Ships from the Duke of Holstein; some supplies from the King of Denmark▪ and Fifteen Hundred Arms from the Queen of Sweden, with some few Horses under General King, and alittle neat Frigate for his own Conveyance; some moneys also were disbursed to him, which being Entrusted to Colonel Ogelby, were by him basely Squandered away, to the great prejudice of the design.  
With these small preparations did he precipitate himself into inevitable Ruin, it being judged a desperate Action with so small a Force to attempt so mighty a business; but his cross fate hurrying him to destruction, fearing (as is supposed) he should have an express▪ command to desist from his purpose, the King and the Scots coming near to an Agreement; he therefore to prevent all such Commands, sends over two Ships with a third part of his men before, which by storm of weather in those dangerous Seas were lost, with all the Men and Arms, nothing saved; Yet nothing terrified with this Success, he sends out a send Party, who making a more prosperous Voyage, landed at Orkney, and entered the Island without any resistance, he himself following not long after, attended with several persons of Note, whose valour had made them Eminently Famous in those Parts.  
From thence he soon Transports to Cathness, which is the furthest land to the North-West of Scotland; but the People instead of coming in to him, fled away in heaps, many of them not stopping till they came to the Chief City of Edinburgh, where the Parliament were then sitting, who being Alarmed with this sudden Invasion, ordered Colonel Stranglan with a Choice Party to march against him, Leshley and Holborn, with more Numerous Forces following after; The Marquis marched very slowly, but hearing of the Enemy's approach, he endeavoured the gaining of a Pass of great Advantage, whereupon both Armies came to Engage, and after some short fight the Marquis was Defeated; Two Hundred of his Men Killed, and about One Thousand Two Hundred Taken, very few Escaping; amongst other things, was taken a Standard he had caused to be made of Excellent Work-man-ship, being the Portrait of the late King beheaded, with this Motto, Judge and Revenge my Cause O Lord. He himself escaped from the Battle, and in a High-Landers habit kept himself from being discovered three or four days; but being destitute both of Meat and Drink, and no great probability of escaping, he at last discovered himself to the Lord Aston, who had formerly been one of his Followers, hoping to find friendship at his hands, but contrary to expectation was by him made a Prisoner, being greedy of the Reward, promised to his Apprehender by the Council of State. Being thus in the Custody of his mortal Enemies, from whom he could expect nothing but the worst of Cruelties, yet carried he himself with a singular constancy, and in a manner careless of his own condition; no object, though never so endeared to him, could alter his Resolution, or cause the least expression from him, which was not suitable to the greatness of his Spirit, and the fame of his former Actions.  
And that the World might see what Justice he was like to expect from them, before his coming to Edinburgh, this Sentence was drawn up against him.  
That he should be hanged on a Gibbet at the Cross in Edinburgh until he died, his History and Declaration being tied about his neck, and to hang three hours in public view of all the people; after which he should be Beheaded and Quartered; his head to be fixed upon the Prisonhouse of Edinburgh, and his Legs and Arms over the Gates of the Cities of Sterling, Glascow, Perth, alias St. Johns-Town, and Aberdeen; And in case he repented (whereby the Sentence of Excommunication may be taken off by the Church) the bulk of his Body should be buried in the Gray-Fryars, if not, in the Borrow-Moor (a Place like Tyburn.)  
Which Sentence was Executed upon him with as much shame and ignominy as they could possibly devise, not only in the Sentence it's self, but also in the preparatives unto it; for coming to Edinburgh, he was met by some Officers, and the Executioner in his Livery Coat, into whose hands he was delivered; there being prepared for his reception a high seat in fashion of a Chariot, upon each side of which were holes, through which a cord being drawn, and crossing his breast and arms, bound him fast down in the Chair: This done, the Executioner (according to command) took off the Marquis' Hat, and put on him his own Bonnet, and then mounting his fore-horse in this ridiculous bravery began to drive towards the Toll-booth; the people all the way he went shedding abundance of tears to see so Noble and Magnanimous a spirit become the object of his Enemy's Triumph; But the implacable Ministry having him now at their mercy, could never be satisfied with his calamities, but reviled him with all the spiteful ignominious words they could devise; and being asked why they could not be satisfied but by such base handling him? They replied, They knew no other way to humble him, and bring him home to God.  
May the 21 being come, the fatal day appointed for his Execution, he was brought to the Scaffold in a Scarlet Cloak, richly laced with Gold lace; He came along the Streets with as great State, and as much Majesty, as if he had been marching in the Head of an Army; insomuch that his very Enemies acknowledged him to be the gallantest Person in the World; when he was come to the Gibbet, which was built of a prodigious height; he was by the Scotch Clergy (in regard of his Excommunication) desired to pray apart, to whom he said, I have already poured out my soul before the Lord, who knows my heart, and into whose hands I have commended my Spirit, and he hath been pleased to return to me a full assurance of peace in Jesus Christ my Redeemer; and therefore if you will not join with me in prayer, my reiterating it again will be both scandalous to you and me. After which words he closed his eyes, and holding up his hands, stood a good while at his inward Devotions; afterwards he called for the Executioner and gave him money, and then preparing himself to receive the outward Ceremonies of Death; there was brought unto him his History and Declaration, hanging in a cord, which was put about his neck, which he cheerfully received, saying, Though it had pleased his Sacred Majesty, that now is, to make him one of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter, yet he did not think himself more Honoured by the Garter, then by that Cord and Book, which he would embrace about his neck with as much joy and content, as ever he did the Garter, or a Chain of Gold; and therefore desired them to tie them about him as they pleased, telling them, That what they thought was for his Disgrace, he took to be his greatest Honour.  
This being done, and his Arms tied, he asked the Officers, If they had any more Dishonour (as they conceived it) to put upon him, he was ready to accept it; and so with an undaunted Courage mounted the top of that prodigious Gibbet, where having commended his soul to God, he patiently underwent the Execution of their inveterate malice.  
Thus fell this Worthy Hero, by a most malicious and barbarous sort of cruelty, his Head and Quarters being disposed of according to that wicked Sentence pronounced against him, though afterwards, (viz.) May 11. 1661. they found a more Honourable Burial, being taken down from the Gates of those four distant Cities, and with great State and Solemnity Interred with a Funeral becoming his Family, and his own personal Renown and Glory. To conclude this Story, he was one of the Noblest, Gallantest Persons that age brought forth; a Captain whose unexampled Achievements have Famed a History, which were its Volumn ten times bigger, would yet be disproportioned to the due praises of this matchless Hero; the day of his Martyrdom was May the 21. 1650.    

To the Immortal Memory of those Worthy Martyrs who laid down their lives in Opposition to Tyranny, and Defence of the Ancient Fundamental Laws of this Nation.  
Hail Worthy Martyrs of the Royal Cause,  
Who stoutly stood up in Defence of Laws;  
And when the Land was sick of their own good,  
To cure the same offered their dearest blood;  
These were the Royal Martyrs of this age,  
Who 'gainst the Rebellion Rampant durst Engage;  
Whose Noble Virtues, and Illustrious Worth,  
Spite of their Foes base Cruelty broke forth;  
And with their Souls did unto Heaven aspire,  
Making the World their Virtues to admire;  
Thus what their Foes by Barbarous Cruelty  
Sought to depress, was raised far more high;  
As Gems i'th' dark do cast a brighter ray,  
Then when obstructed by the rival day;  
So did the lustre of their worth appear,  
Broke thorough those clouds, and shines transparent clear:  
Thus did they pass by Rebels bloody hand  
Through the Red Sea, unto the promised Land,  
There with the Blessed Saints to be partaker,  
And Hallilujahs sing unto their Maker:  
There rest blest Souls amongst that happy Choir,  
Whilst we your Noble Virtues do admire;  
And that your Names with Sacred Veneration,  
Do live Renowned for ever in this Nation.   

A Catalogue of the most Eminent Persons Slain in his Majesty's Service, in Opposition to Tyranny, and Defence of the Fundamental Laws.  
I. COrnet Porter, Son to Master Endimeon Porter of the Bedchamber, Slain at Newborn upon Tine, against the Scots, upon their Rebellious Invasion of England, August 27. 1639.  
II. The Lord Aubigney, Father to the most Illustrious Charles Duke of Richmond, who so Valiantly behaved himself at the Battle of Edge-hill, where he was mortally wounded, of which wounds he died at Abington, and was buried at Christ-Church in Oxford.  
III. The Earl of Lyndsey General of the Field at Edge-hill, where he behaved Himself like a Valiant Soldier, and Expert Commander, was at the said Battle unfortunately Slain, October 23. 1642.  
IV. Sir Edmond Varney, the King's Standard-Bearer, at Edge-hill, who Valiantly Fight was Slain under it; and the Standard being taken by one Chambers, Essex's Secretary, was Rescured by Sir John Smith, whom the King after the Battle Knighted.  
V. Colonel Munro, a Scotch Man, a man of Eminent Valour, Slain also at the same Battle.  
VI Spencer Earl of Northampton, a most Magnanimous Asserter of the King's Cause, who Besieged Leichfield; Sir William Breerton, and Sir John Gell, with Three Thousand Men came to relieve it; against whom the Earl Opposed, obtaining of them a Glorious Victory, though with the price of his own life; for Valiantly Fight, whether by disadvantage of the ground (being full of Conney-Burroughs) or born down by the Enemies, is uncertain, he was unhorsed, and refusing Quarter, was killed by a private unlucky hand, March 19 1642.  
VII. Earl of Denbigh, a Gentleman of much Worth and Excellency, unfortunately slain at the taking of Birmingham by Prince Rupert, April the 3. 1643.  
VIII. Sir Bevil Greenvil, a Gentleman whose Gallant Parts, and Active Service for his Royal Master, deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance; He Engaging with Sir Ralph Hopton, and other Eminent Cavaliers, against Sir William Waller, at a place called Landsdown, in his full Career of Victory was unfortunately killed, to the great loss of his Majesty, and unspeakable grief of all true Lovers of Heroic Valour.  
IX. Master Leak, Son to my Lord Deincourt, now Earl of Scours-dale, Master Barker, Colonel Wall, Captain James, Captain Cholwel, and Master Busturd, all Valiant Persons, who in the Service of his Majesty at the same Fight at Landsdown died in the bed of honour.  
X. Marques de Vieu Ville, who in the Fight at Auborn-chase behaved himself most Gallantly, and Valiantly Fight was there slain, Septem. 1643.  
XI. Earl of Carnarvan, a Nobleman of as great Spirit and Affection to the King's Service as any, who at Newberry Battle, Sept. 19 1643. giving a desperate Charge to the Enemy's Horse, under the Command of Sir Philip Stapleton, Routed them, and pursuing them to their Foot was unhappily shot in the Head of his Troops, whose loss was deservedly lamented by all Valiant Spirits, and to whose memory more Public memory is due, than a private Innterment in Jesus College in Oxford.  
XII. Earl of Sunderland, and Viscount Faulkland, persons of Superlative Worth and Honour, who in the just Defence of his Majesty, and the Laws, was slain at the foresaid Battle of Newberry, and that close by the King's Person, whose Cause they had so stoutly maintained.  
XIII. Lord Viscount Faulkland, a Person whose Worth cannot be forgotten, and whose Excellent Parts speaks him better than any Elegy I can bestow upon him, to the great grief of Learned Men, slain at Newberry, Septem. 17. 1643.  
XIV. Sir Henry Howard, and Sir Savile, Men of Extraordinary Worth, and Merit, who at the Battle of Adderton-heath by their Valour gained the Victory, but lost their own Lives, and were Interred together in York Minster.  
XV. The Earl of Kingston, Father to the Marquis of Dorchester now living, who being unhappily surprised by some Forces of the Lord Willoughbies, about Gainsbrough, he being a Person of great Quality, and of much concernment to the King's Affairs; they resolved to send him to Hull in a Pinnace; In the way thither, Colonel Cavendish, Brother to the Earl of Devonshire, with a Party, pursued the Pinnace to a shallow, which she could not pass, demanding her, and the Earls Surrender, which being refused, a Drake was discharged, which unfortunately killed the said Earl and one of his Servants being placed on purpose on the Deck, to deter the Royalists from shooting; whereupon they presently struck sail, and yielded; but with a just revenge, were all sacrificed to to the Ghost of that most Noble Loyal Peer.  
XVI. Colonel Charles Cavendish aforesaid, who quickly after the deserved death of those murdering Rebels, was set upon by a great Party under Colonel White a Lincolnshire Gentleman, who with those Forces came to relieve the Boat, or recover it if taken: Whereupon a sharp Encounter ensued betwixt them, but the Royalists being over-poured, the Valiant Colonel was forced to take the Trent with his Horse, which swum him safe to the other side, but there stuck in the Owze and Mud; but as soon as he could get a shore off his Horses back, the Enemy was come to him round by the Ford, and seeing him desparately wounded offered him Quarter, which he magnanimously refusing, throwing his blood amongst them, which he wipéed off his face, was by them killed outright upon the place.  
XVII. The Lord Grandison, who in the Service of his Majesty was wounded at Bristol, of which wounds he shortly after died.  
XVIII. Sir Ingram Hopton, Sir George Bolit, and Lieutenant Colonel Markham, men whose Names deserve to be recorded in the Book of Fame, who in a sharp and sore conflict against the Earl of Manchester's Forces, near Horn-Castle in Lincolnshire, valiantly fight were unfortunately slain.  
XIX. John Lord Stuart, second Brother to the Duke of Richmond, a most Gallant Heroic Person, slain in the Battle between Hopton and Waller, on Cheriton-Down Fight, March 29. 1644.  
XX. Sir John Smith, Colonel Sandys, and Colonel Scot, Persons of great Worth and Eminency, whose valorous minds scorned danger, and who hated no man so much as a Coward: These Gallant Sons of Mars, were slain at the foresaid Fight on Cheriton-Down, whose valiant Names succeeding Ages shall mention with honour.  
XXI. Colonel Manning, slain also at the foresaid Fight, a Gallant Person, only unhappy in this, in being Father to that Captain Manning, who betrayed the King's Council to Cromwell, while he resided at Colin, for which he was shot to death in the Duke of newburgh's Country.  
XXII. The Lord Cary, Sir Thomas Motham, and Sir William Lampton, who in that great Fight betwixt Prince Rupert, and the Parliamentarians at Maston Moor, July 2. 1644. wherein above Eight Thousand lost their Lives, and was indeed the Greatest of all the War; in this so memorable a Battle, those▪ Three Honoured Persons lost their Lives, sealing the love they bore to the King's Side with their dearest bloods.  
XXIII. Sir William Wentworth, Sir Charles Slingsby, Sir Francis Dane, who Engaging in Defence of his Majesty's Cause, were slain in that great and unfortunate fight at Maston Moor.  
XXIV. Lieutenant Colonel Smith, and Captain Boteler, who at the Raising of Banbury Siege, lost their lives to purchase to themselves an Honourable Name.  
XXV. Sir John Digby, whose very Family carries Loyalty in the Name of it, wounded at Langport in the County of Somerset, of which wounds he shortly after died.  
XXVI. Colonel Mine, an Active Loyal Person, who Commanded a Regiment of English which he brought with him out of Ireland; who Engaging with Massey in Glostershire, valiantly performed the Office of an Excellent Soldier, and Expert Commander, both in Rallying his Men, bringing them up, and keeping them from the Rout; but being overmastered in number, he was there slain, dying in the bed of Honour.  
XXVII. Colonel Sir William St. Leger, Lieutenant Colonel Topping, and Lieutenant Colonel Leake, who in the second Battlel at Newberry▪ valiantly fight lost their lives, making good that ground in their death, which in their life they had undertaken to keep; accompanying those Soldiers in their deaths, whom in their lives they had Commanded with so much Gallantry.  
XXVIII. Colonel Gage, the flower of Chevialry, and pattern of true Magnanimity, who to hinder the daily Excursions of the Abington Forces under the Command of Major General Brown, resolved to build a Fort at Culham Bride, to repress the boldness of those Forces who were constantly out thereabouts upon Designs; In the attempt thereof, the Abington Forces under Colonel Brown Sally out, to obstruct so dangerous an obstacle to their Eruption, Engaging with the Royalists, though with little hopes of prevailing, till an unlucky shot wounded Colonel Gage in the head, of which he died as soon as he came to Oxford, a great loss to the Royal Interest.  
XXIX. Colonel St. George, who at the storming of the City of Leicester in a Bravery and Gallantry of Courage, venturing upon the mouth of the Cannon, was slain with a great shot.  
XXX. Colonel Taylor, an Eminent Commander under Prince Rupert, who at the Siege thereof by Sir Thomas Fairfax, was in its Defence mortally wounded.  
XXXI. Sir Richard Crane, a great friend and familiar with Prince Rupert, who in a Sally upon the Enemies was unfortunately slain.  
XXXII. The thrice Noble Lord Bernard Stuart Earl of Leichfield, the last of the three Illustrious Brothers of the Duke of Richmond late deceased; who constantly adheiring to the King both in Weal and Woe, never left him for the greatest Danger or Extremity; for after the fatal fight at Naseby, the King with a flying Army intending for the relief of Chester, was set upon by General Poyntz at Routon-Heath, where happened a very sharp, sore fight, wherein this Noble Lord gallantly fight in Defence of his Royal Master, was unfortunely killed, Sept. 24. 1645.  
XXXIII. Sir Francis Carnaby, and Sir Richard Hutton, men of stout and magnanimous carriage, who feared not death in his nearest approaches, those two valiant Hero's were slain at Sherbon fight in Yorkshire, October 25. 1645. being in their march towards the Marquis of Montross.  
XXXIV. Major Cufaud, an Officer in Basin House, which so long and valiantly held out against the numerous assaults of a Potent Enemy, and who at last of all would hear of no Terms of surrender; but being stormed, and with great loss of the assailants Entered, this valiant Major after a stout resistance, not dreading death, was by the hands of his Enemies there slain.  
XXXV. Doctor Griffiths Daughter, who though a Female, yet of a Masculine spirit, and for her Loyalty deserving a large share amongst those Notable Hero's slain in the King's service; this Amazonian Lady (whose praise cannot be sufficiently celebrated) in the foresaid storm at Basin House, was by the barbarity of the Enemies killed, and shamefully left naked; a trophy of their Baseness, and her own eternal Renown and Honour.  
XXXVI. Master Gerard, the Author of that Elabourate Herbal which bears his Name, to whom succeeding Ages must confess themselves indebted; this gallant Gentleman Renowned for Arts and Arms, was likewise at the storming of that House unfortunately slain; a great loss to succeeding Ages.  
XXXVII. Sir Thomas Dallison, and Sir Richard Cave, who in that unfortunate Battle at Naseby, sealed their Affection to the King's Cause with their dearest bloods.  
XXXVIII. Sir Nicholas Fortescu a Knight of Malta (see the justness of the King's Cause, which invited Strangers from so far Countries to take his Part,) was slain in Lancashire, in defence of the Royal Cause.  
XXXIX. Sir Troilus Turbervil, Captain Lieutenant of the King's Life Guard, slain at his Majesty's marching from Newark to Oxford.  
XL. Major Threave, and Captain Fry, two Persons of Eminent Valour under the Lord Hopton, who when King Charle's Moon began to wain, yet stoutly stood up in their Sovereign's Defence, and at Torington, valiantly fight against the Fairfaxians, who came to storm the Town, were there slain, dying in the bed of honour.  
XLI. Colonel Stanhop, Governor of Shelford House, who being summoned to surrender the same by Major General Poynz, with a gallant resolution refused the same; whereupon the Enemy storming, and being overpowered, he was slain, whilst he valiantly strove to make good that place he had undertaken to keep.  
XLII. Sir Nicholas Kemish, an Eminent Cavaleir, whose Worth and Gallantry cannot be sufficiently mentioned; This Loyal Knight, after such time the Juncto at Westminster had made those Destructive Votes of No further Addresses to the King, and began to reject him in words, as they had done formerly in deeds; some hopes being given of Aid for his Majesty, Langhorn, Poyer, and powel, having an Army under them, to near the number of Eight Thousand, declaring for the King: Sir John Owen also having Risen in North-Wales with a good Force; This gallant Knight put to his helping hand, and surprised Chepstow-Castle; but providence having decreed that deliverance should come to the English Nation by a more mild way then the Sword; those Forces under the Three Colonels were utterly Routed; Sir John Owen suppressed and taken Prisoner, and the Castle of Chepstow stormed and taken by Colonel Ewer, where this Renowned Knight for his Gallant Loyalty, was by the barbarous Enemy slain in cold blood.  
XLIII. The Lord Francis Villers, Brother to the Duke of Buckingham, who with the said Duke, the Earl of Holland, and other Noble Personages, Rose in Arms for the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty at Kingston in Surry, but being set upon by Sir Michael Livesy, with other of the Parliament Forces, this Active Spark of Valour, being too far Engaged by his Mettalsome Courage, was taken Prisoner, and refusing Quarter, was basely killed by a mean and rude hand, with whose fall fell the Courage of all the other, he being a person of Excellent Parts, and of Valour far above his years.  
XLIV. Sir _____ Compton, a Gentleman of known Worth and Loyalty, who Engaging with those Noble Hero's, Sir Charles Lucas, Lord Capel, etc. for the Restoring the King, and the Laws to their Right, whose Authority was then trampled upon by the Juncto at Westminster; This Gallant Gentleman upon a sally out against the Fairfaxians, that besieged the Town, valiantly fight, was by a bullet (which differenceth not a Loyal Person from a Rebel) shot, and wounded, whereof he died, July 1648.  
XLV. Sir William Vaughan, whose Valour and Fidelity were often approved in his Majesty's Service, he was slain at the siege of Dublin serving under the thrice Renowned Marquis of Ormond.  
XLVI. Sir Arthur Aston, a Person whose Experience, Courage, and approved Fidelity rendered him worthy of the highest Trust and Command; This worthy Gentleman was Governor of Drogheda when Cromwell with his Army of Janissaries besieged it; valiantly defending the Place committed to his Charge, giving Cromwell two notable Repulses, and doubtless had given a good account of his Command, had not Colonel Wall's Regiment upon the unfortunate loss of their Colonel, in the third Assault been so unhappily dismayed, as to listen, (before any need was) unto the Enemy offering them Quarter, and admitted them in upon those Terms; betraying thereby both themselves, and all their Fellow Soldiers, to the insatiable Cruelty of that Monster of Nature, Cromwell, who gaining the Place, most inhumanely put them all to the sword.  
XLVII. Sir Edmond Varney▪ a Gentleman whose worth made him alike beloved and admired; his faithful service being often approved in Defence of his Majesty, this gallant Gentleman, whose merits rendered him odious to Cromwell, was one of those who by that bloody Cutthroat was butchered at Drogheda.  
XLVIII. Col. Warren, Col. Fleming Col. Brin, Lieutenant Colonel Finglass, and Major Tempest, all Active Sparks of Valour, whose Heroic Acts had purchased to them a spreading Fame, and whose supereminent valour marked them out to slaughter from the hand of that wicked (though fortunate) General Oliver Cromwell, at Drogheda aforesaid.  
XLIX. Colonel Hamond a Kentish Gentleman, and firm Royalist, who was a Colchesterian, and suffered for his Loyalty a sharp Imprisonment at Windsor; afterwards serving his Royal Master in Ireland, at the Castle of Garran, lost his life against Cromwell and his Conquering Army.  
L. Captain Goff, a person of eminent valour, who under the Marquis of Clanrickard in the Royal Cause, valiantly fight, was unfortunately killed.  
LI. Sir John Brown, a Major General of the Scots at such time as his present Majesty was amongst them, who with a Party of Scots Encountering with Lambert in Fife, was there wounded, of which he quickly after died.  
LII. The Lord Widrington, an Eminent, and Loyal Person, who after the King's march to Worcester, together with that ever Renowned Lord, the Earl of Derby, and other Eminent Hero's, gathered Forces together in Lancashire to oppose the Rebel's Army, which like an impetuous torrent were flowing after the Royal Party, and having gathered together about Twelve Hundred Men, marched upon a design to fall upon Cromwell's own Regiment then Quartering upon their march in Lancaster, when in the nick of time, in comes Lilburn with Ten Troops of Horse sent by the General from York upon that very Service, having with them Two Regiments of Cheshire Foot, and other additional Forces of Horse. Those gallant Royalists notwithstanding cheerfully resolved to fight with Lilburn, and accordingly charged him so furiously, that they totally Routed their first Troop, and with a gallant bravery entered their Body so far, that they began to run; but fresh reserves coming in, they were forced to retreat, being sorely annoyed with the Muskets; yet notwithstanding this repulse, they renewed their charge again, and were in great probability of obtaining a glorious Victory, when another supply resisted the torrent of their valour, and left deep impressions thereof in the death of many gallant Royalists, amongst whom this Noble Hero was one, who there died in the bed of Honour, August 25. 1651.  
LIII. Major General Sir Thomas Tilsely, a Gentleman of such Heroic Parts, that envy herself must commend him to be the pattern of true Chivalry and Mirror of Loyalty; So Great and Excellent were his Endowments, that had he lived in former Ages, his Valorous Achievements, would have quite shaded many of those who then passed for illustrious Hero's, he was also slain in that fatal defeat whereof we spoke of last.  
LIV. Colonel Matthew Boynton, Sir Francis Gamul, Lieutenant Colonel Gallyard, and Major Trollop, and Chester, Men of approved Worth and Loyalty, whose gallantry appeared the more conspicuous, Engaging in such a time when there was almost a general defection of Loyalty; These valiant Hero's Engaging with the foresaid Earl of Derby, being overpowered by Lilburn's numerous Forces, gallantly fight, were slain at Wiggan, August 25. 1651. dying there in the bed of Honour, and leaving to posterity a Noble Character of their Worth and Virtues.  
LV. Duke Hamilton, unfortunately wounded in the Fight at Worcester, of which wounds he shortly after died.  
LVI. Colonel Morgan, a Gallant Gentleman, who Engaged with Sir George Booth, for a Free Parliament, and to unyoke the Nation from the slavery of those bloody Cannibals at Westminster, who intended to have perpetuated themselves in their Tyranny; This magnanimous Loyal Person, valiantly fight against Lambert's numerous Forces, which like a violent Torrent overpowered them; after a gallant defence, and defiance of his Enemies, was there mortally wounded, and soon after died, being the last man whose blood was shed in War against those wicked Tyrants; the King's Restauration happening quickly after.  
And in the next place we should come to speak of those who suffered in their Estate for their Loyalty; those gallant Confessors, to whom nothing was more common than Imprisonment and Sequestration; but should we reckon them all up, it would make a Volume as big as Fox's martyrology, and tire the brain of the most sedulous Reader; not any one Rich Cavalier that scaped their clutches; a great Estate being enough to make them guilty of the most heinous Crimes, and how ever their Bodies sped, their Purses were sure to pay for it; Goldsmiths and Haberdasher's Hall was their Exchequer, as the High Court of Justice was their Shambles; The Good Old Cause devoured more than Bell and the Dragon, and it was their main Policy to be maintained by their Enemy's Estates; Take therefore here a Brief Catalogue of the most Eminent Sufferers, reserving those of a lesser magnitude to be recorded by more voluminous Historians.   

A brief Catalogue of the most Eminent of those Loyal Confessors, who Suffered by Imprisonment, Banishment, or Estate, for the Cause of his Sacred Majesty.  
And that no Occasion may be taken at this Catalogue for matter of Precedency, as nominating the most Eminent Sufferers in the first place, we will (as near as we can) observe the order of time, and begin first with:  
I. THe Lord Finch of Fordwich, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; a Person whose Abilities, and Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty rendered him obnoxious to the unruly rabble; and therefore upon their Arbitrary Proceedings against the Life of the most Noble Earl of Strafford, he wisely withdrew himself away in time, before Popular Fury had seized on him, against which Beast; Innocency would not then give Protection. He lived in Banishment and Exile from his Native Country for Sixteen years, and then returned with more Credit and Honour than he was forced from it, dying in the Love, and good Opinion of all Honest People; His Faithful Service to his Sovereign being all the Charge and Accusation they had against him.  
II. Master Secretary Windebanck, a person of approved Worth and Loyalty, against whom the darts of Popular Fury were in those times of Distraction especially aimed at, which to avoid, he pursued the same course with the Lord Finch, and died in the time of his absence abroad.  
III. The Right Reverend Father in God, Matthew Lord Bishop of Ely, who with Eleven more of that Sacred Function, were committed to the Tower in the year of our Lord, 1641. The pretensions against them being the same with the Complices of Korah, Ye take too much upon you ye Sons of Levi, when their Adversaries intentions was, to take all; for though the grave Rabbis of that prevailing Faction buzzed into the People's ears, that their Quarrel was against the Litturgy, against Ceremonies and the like a yet their after-Actions made it plainly appear, that it was more against Bishop's Lands; and that the Wealth of the Clergy was more in their aim, than the Weal the Subjects; and the Riches of the Prelates more indifferent to those strict Disciplinaries, than a Reverend decency in holy performances. Eighteen years did this Reverend Father suffer Imprisonment in the Tower, having in all that time no Charge exhibited against him; but in the end of the year, 1659. he was restored to his liberty by the means of the Renowned Duke of Albemarle, and is since Re-established in his former Diocese, to the Honour and Support of this restored Church.  
IU. Religious Doctor Featly, one most Eminent for Learning and Piety, to whom this Church is much indebted for his grave accurate defences of its Doctrine and Discipline, a man of excellent Endowments, and surpassing Knowledge, being a Divine of the Primitive stamp and temper, when the Church by lowliness of spirit did flourish in high examples; yet could not this his singular Piety, eminent Learning; nor those other extraordinary Gifts with which he was Endowed, privilege him from the protection of a Prison, being by an Order of Parliament committed to Peterhouse, where he languished in much pain and misery about a year and a half; and was afterwards (sickness increasing) through much importunity removed to Chelsey College, as a more wholesome Air; but he was so far spent by their barbarous misusage of him, that within three weeks after his coming thither, he died.  
V. Sir Robert Heath, Lord Chief Justice of England, a person much Honoured for his Integrity and Moderation, and as conspicuous for his constant Loyalty, as the Sun in the Firmament in a serene day. His constant approved service to the King had rendered him so odious to the Rebels at Westminster, that he was by them excepted from mercy; wherefore towards the expiration of the War, he abandoned his Country, and fled into France, where living in great grief and anxiety of mind to behold the Ruins of his King and Country, he fell into a Disease, and died thereof at Caen in Normandy, not long after the King's death.  
VI Judge Bartlet, whose innocency defied their threats, and like a rock stood in opposition against that torrent of Rebellion; but yet was forced at last to yield to their Tyranny in his Body, though his Mind they could not conquer; He was the first of that Reverend Robe that was committed, against whom was brought a Charge, fuller of malice then truth, and which his integrity made them ashamed of a further prosecution: Thus we see (by the Imprisonment of this Reverend Judge, and others) that the pretence of our Grand Reformers, was to put out the eyes of the Law, that the Subjects might see the clearer.  
VII. That heart of Oak, and Pillar of the Law, Judge Jenkins, one of his Majesty's Justices in Wales, whose Annagram is, David Jenkins, Kains did Envy. He was for some misdemeanours of Loyalty, brought to the Bar in Chancery, where he denied the Authority of the Court, because their Seal was contrary to Law, as well as their Commissioners; and so baffled those puny Judges, that instead of a further prosecution there, they committed him Prisoner to the Tower, where he gave further Demonstrations of his Loyalty, by publishing several Precedents and Statutes, wherein he proved them Rebels and Traitors, and owned the same again at other Bars: So that he did more mischief to the Enemies of the Royal Cause with his Pen, than their best Regiment could do with their Swords. He used his utmost endeavour to set the Parliament and Army at odds, thereby to promote the King's Cause, according to that well known maxim, Divide and Conquer, defying them and their threats, and asserting the King and the Laws against their Usurpation. He was kept a close Prisoner a long time in the Tower, where wearied of him by his indefatigable industry in the King's Cause, he was removed from thence to Windsor, where he continued in the same quality, and of the same mind, till without thanks to them he was permitted the liberty of the Town; and hath survived to see the Return of Majesty, the Restauration of the Laws, and the Liberty of the Subjects restored to them again in as ample a manner as it was before.  
VIII. That Valiant, Loyal Son of Mary, Sir Ralph, afterwards Lord Hopton, whose Courage and Prudence in the management of the King's Affairs, (for whom he Commanded in the West) did gain him the approbation of an Expert Captain, and Gallant Commander, having his Endeavours Crowned with many notable Successes. After his Disbanding in Cornwall (Rebellion then flourishing with a high hand) he took shipping with the Prince, our now Gracious Sovereign, and with him Sailed into the Island of Scilly, and from thence into the Realm of France, following the King's hard fortune in his Peregrinations, till death in the end put a period to his Travels, and after a Troublesome life, he found a quiet Grave at the City of Paris in France.  
IX. Master Secretary, Sir Edward Nicholas, who constantly and faithfully adhered to his Majesty from the beginning of his Troubles, being a great Prop to the Royal Cause, by his Prudent Counsels, and Great Abilities in the Management of the most Difficult Affairs; and afterwards continued the same Service and Office to our present Sovereign, in all his Troubles and Negotiations abroad, having with great Faithfulness and Prudency Managed that Employment all along, to the happy Effect of his Majesty's Glorious Restitution.  
X. Sir Edward Hide, since the Right Honourable Earl of Clarendon, and Lord Chancellor to his present Majesty, of whose Worth and Abilities to speak, were to cry out; the Sun shine; by whose Counsels the late King had in special Esteem, and therefore made him his bosom, Favourite, which caused such a hatred against him by the Faction at Westminster, as excluded him out of their Spurious Act of Mercy: But escaping their merciless cruelty by a timely avoidance of the Land, through his prudent carriage of Affairs, together with the providencial mercy of God, he survived to see those Enemies of Monarchy, and Regal Government brought to a Just Trial, and himself advanced to such a pitch of Honour, as to see the Laws Administered in their right form, and the Subject to enjoy the just privileges of them.  
XI. The Lord Wilnot, afterwards by King Charles the Second made Earl of Rochester, being Raised thereunto by his superlative Deserts, not only by his Valour which shone transcendent clear at Round-way-down near the Devizes; but also in his (prudent carriage in that grand Affair, concerning the Kingdom's happiness, in his Majesty's Miraculous Escape from Worcester; He died a little before the King's Restitution, not surviving to participate of those Grandeurs, whereof his Abilities would have made him a deserved Sharer.  
XII. The Right Reverend Doctor Shelden, whose Deserts and Sufferings advanced him upon the Restauration of his Majesty to be Lord Bishop of London, since by the death of Doctor Juxon, (as none more able to supply his place) to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England, of whose Abilities to speak, were to show the light of the Sun by a Candle; Let it suffice, that his very Name is enough to strike Envy dead, and to put to silence the most obstinate Heretic, and riged Schismatic upon the face of the whole Earth.  
XIII. The Religiously Loyal Doctor Hammond, a constant assertor of our English Liturgy, and one whose Abilities rendered him dear to King Charles the Martyr; to whom Imprisonment was no stranger, during the time Rebellion was Rampant, expecting every day for his Loyalty to have been transported, yet would never yield nor deviate from those ways wherein Conscience ascertained him he was in the right, though not the predominate side.  
XIV. Sir Marmaduke Langdale, afterwards Lord Langdale, whose Abilities in Martial Affairs, would in the time of Paganism have deified him the God of Battle, though in our times his constant Loyalty had rendered him to a higher pitch of Honour, being deservedly accounted a Pilot for all Noble and Gallant Spirits whereby to direct and steer their Course.  
XV. Master Roger L' Strange, of whose Worth and Abilities to speak would to an Intelligible Reader appear superfluous, like the labours of him who writ a whole Volumn in the praise of Hercules whom no man dispraised. This Loyal Gentleman for his Endeavours of Reducing Linn to their Obedience to his Majesty, suffered the utmost malice of a prevailing Faction, even to Condemnation, besides a long Imprisonment in Newgate; Yet could not their Tyranny so much depress his Spirits, but his Pen was still a constant Assertor of the Royal Cause; in which he continued his best endeavours, unto, and until the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty, by whom he is looked upon as one of the Agents of his Restauration.  
XVI. The Right Honourable the Earl of Norwich, a Gentleman of such Worth and Abilities, that this mite will signify nothing to those Rare and Excellent gifts both of Learning and▪ Wisdom, wherewith he was Adorned.  
XVII. Sir John Stowel, a Somerset-shire Gentleman, whose Loyalty rendered him so sufficiently Famous, that Envy its self cannot but grant him a prime place with those Glorious Confessors who suffered under the Barbarous Tyrannies of the Rump, in the Cause of that Blessed Martyr, King Charles, who so constantly and vigorously adhered to the King during the War, until the Surrender of Exeter, where was good Articles granted, upon which he came to London to make composition for his Vast Estate then under Sequestration; but contrary to the Capitulation agreed upon at Exeter, the Committee at Gold-Smiths-Hall (those Horseleeches of the Nation) tendered him the Negative Oath before he could have any admission to Compound; to which unjust and perfidious dealing he pleaded the benefit of the said Articles, who (good Conscientious Men) committed him first to the Sergeant at Arms, and from thence to Newgate, where having remained a long time, he was at last brought to their High Court of Injustice, where he very hardly escaped with life; his great Estate amounting to Seven or Eight Thousand pound per Annum, making him liable to any Treason those Incorrigible Traitors could suggest against him; he was from thence remanded to the Tower, but hath since survived to enjoy again his own Estate, and to see many of those Hanged, who would have used their utmost spite for the Enjoyment of his great Estate.  
XVIII. Sir John Berkenhead, a Gentleman whose Worth and Deserts are too high for me to delineate; He was a constant Assertor of his Majesty's Cause in its lowest Extremities, and suffered for the same several Imprisonments; I shall speak no more in his Commendation, whose own Pen hath so sufficiently displayed its self, that he who is ignorant thereof, must plead ignorance both to Wit and Learning.  
XIX. Doctor Barwick, a Reverend Orthodox Divine, who for his Loyalty was by an Order of the Long Parliament committed Prisoner to the Tower, where he lay until such time he was near famished, when Colonel West the then Lieutenant of the Tower, permitted him his liberty on Parol to render himself at a prefixed time soon after, which he accordingly performed; after the Lieutenant's death, his Wife gained him his Congee, and set him at perfect Freedom, there being nothing of Accusation against him, for it was the method of those Tyrants to bury Men in their Prisons, until their Estates and Healths were quite exhausted, if they had nothing against them which would presently reach their Lives. This Reverend Doctor survived to see the flourishing again of Episcopacy, and was by his Sacred Majesty made Dean of St. Paul's, in which place he continued till the month of October, 1664. when (like Abraham) he was gathered to his Fathers a good man, and full of days.  
XX. The Valiant Earl of Cleaveland, a person whose Worth and Honour cannot be forgotten so long as living Annals shall inform posterity of the miseries of our Civil Wars; This Loyal Earl, as he gave undoubted Testimonies all along the War, of his unfeigned Fidelity to the Royal Cause, so particularly at Worcester, where he was in Obedience to his Majesty's commands; suffering a tedious and cruel Imprisonment by those Barbarous Rebels, for the Testimonies of his Affection to his Royal Sovereign.  
XXI. The Lord Gerard, now Captain of his Majesty's Life Guard, who all along the War bore a part in the calamities and misfortunes of the King's Adventures, never forsaking the Royal Interest in its lowest ebb of Fortune, which he hath survived to see it restored again to its former resplendent Majesty.  
XXII. Sir John Owen, that undaunted piece of Welsh Loyalty, whose endeavours for the King in that Country, were truly Honourable, though not crowned with that success as such a Cause merited. This Loyal Gentleman, was at their High Court of Injustice condemned to death, together with Duke Hamilton, Lord Capel, etc. but by the mercy of the Parliament, (rare and wonderful) he was Reprieved.  
XXIII. The Earl of Norwich, the Lord Loughborough, Sir Bernard Gascoigne, Colonel Far, etc. these Heroic Persons were all Engaged in the Design at Colchester, where having suffered a sharp and bitter Siege, after the rendition of the Town, they had by the barbarity of those Rebels all of them suffered death, had not some of them made their escapes, and the rest give in such Pleas as would have freed them out of the hands of the most bloody Cannibals in the world.  
XXIV. Should I next go about to enumerate all those Excellent Persons who were forced out of their Fellowships, and other Collegiate Emoluments in both Universities, it would be a Task too large for so small a Volume; 
— A work so great,  
Would make Olympus bearing Atlas' sweat.  Such barbarity being used towards them, as may make Posterity to tremble at the thought of it, I shall therefore pass over that sad story and beadroll, desiring to be excused, though I give not to every person a due Character for their Loyalty in Suffering.  
XXV. Should I next mention the calamity of the Loyal and Orthodox Clergy, which they underwent in general, by that bloody and cruel Edict of Oliver, which by restriction of their Function, nay their particular abilities, permitting them not so much as to keep a School, taking thereby clearly away from them all hopes of sustentation and maintenance of life; this might better be expressed by sighs and tears, then by pen and paper.  
XXVI. Next I might make a record of that black Bill and List against several of the Nobility and Gentry, which passed against them for an Act of Parliament, by which their Estates were forfeited for Loyalty, and appointed to be sold by trusties of their Nomination; thus though they could not come at to eat the bird, they would be sure to pluck off all his feathers.  
XXVII. In the next place, the Martyred City of Worcester, the scene of ruined Loyalty deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance, each Citizen whereof might be transcribed into this Register, as being all sufferers for the Royal Cause, to which they constantly adhered during all the time of the War, and would not yield at last without a particular Order from his Majesty; and with the same resolution of Loyalty did they Entertain King Charles the Second in fifty one, whom they proclaimed with great solemnity, and in that Fatal Defeat suffered deeply with him being plundered by the insatiable covetousness of the Soldiers of what ever was worth the carrying away; yet in that desperate exigency (such was their love to the Royal Cause) that as if their own sufferings had been nothing, at the Rebel's entrance, the streets resounded with the people's cries, Oh! save the King, save the King; amongst which number of Royal Sufferers; Master Soles, the honest Mayor deserves a particular remembrance, for whom a Gallows was set up for him at his own door, and from which he as narrowly escaped.  
XXVIII. Next for the Honour of the City of London, we find Sir Abraham Reynoldson, who so gallantly refused to Proclaim the Act for abolishing Kingly Government, and was for the same committed to the Tower; Sir John Gaire, Alderman adam's, Sir James Bunce, who suffered much in their Vast. Estates, and Major General Brown, who endured a sharp and tedious Imprisonment.  
XXIX. The Honourable Colonel John Russel, Brother to the Earl of Bedford, a person of unfeigned Fidelity and Gallantry, who served his Majesty in his Armies during all the War, and was a constant sufferer for him all along afterwards in the Usurpers Prisons, being upon the least occasion of fear, sure to be one of the first that was secured, and so continued tossed from one custody to another, till such time as his Majesty's Happy Return.  
XXX. The Right Honourable the Lord Bellasis, who partaking in the same Cause, suffered in the very same predicament, being no where more resident or constant then in their custody, and so jealous were they over him, that he could not go or travel any where, without a Pass, or safe Conduct from the next Officer to the place of his abode; which restriction continued for many years together, being besides continually in danger of being trappanned out of his Life, by the Wiles and Snares of his Treacherous Enemies.  
XXXI. Colonel John and William Ashburnham, those Gemini of Loyal Fidelity, the former so well known in our Annals for the conveying the King away from Oxford; both signally famous for their endeavours in the Royal Cause, never free from trouble and molestation of the Regicides, whose guilty consciences (like Ishmael) thought every man's hand to be against them. These Loyal Brothers were in conclusion sent by them to remote Castles and Islands, and there debarred of any intercourse or correspondence with their Friends; so inhumanely barbarous were those bloody Rebels; that when they could not by any show of Justice deprive them of their lives, they would immure them up in Walls of stone, and debar them of all means which should in the least make life comfortable unto them.  
XXXII. Air Humphrey Bennet, an Eminent Royalist, formerly a Brigadier in the King's Army, who at that time of Colonel Penruddocks Rising at Salisbury, being of that Country, was seized and secured as a Partaker and Confederate with him, and for the same committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, where he remained near Three years, and then was brought before their High Court of Justice, which was Erected for the Trial of Sir Henry Slingsby, etc. but their Charge not taking as they would have had it, after some few day's attendance, he was superseded from his Trial, and remitted again to his confinement; but the return of Majesty put a period to his Troubles, and advanced him to be one of the Secretaries of State.  
XXXIII. The Right Honourable, John Lord Viscount Mordant, Brother to the Earl of Peterborough, an active Person against the Tyrannies of the Rump, and that Monster of Nature, Oliver Cromwell, being really Engaged in several Designs against him, for which he hardly escaped with his life, being acquitted but by one saving voice; After the death of that Tyrant, he still laboured indefatigably in the King's business, being as busy against the Rump, as before against the Protector, for which he was by Proclamation commanded to render himself by a prefixed time, or be reputed a Traitor, but was by providence preserved out of their hands, and hath since seen some of them suffer the same death designed for him; He is now Governor of Windsor Castle.  
XXXIV. Sir Thomas Woodcock, who Engaging in the same Design with my Lord Mordant, was by the Regicides intended for the slaughter; but he so wisely managed his Defence at their Bar of Injustice, that he escaped their clutches, being fairly acquitted by those bloody Justices.  
XXXV. Master Christopher Pitts, a Loyal Noble Gentleman, who was apprehended upon the same business of my Lord Mordant, and committed Prisoner to Newgate, where after Examination, having not found enough against him to take away his life, they would have made use of him as a Witness against his Associates, but his Noble Spirit scorning such baseness, refused so to do, whereupon after many vain threats and menaces, he was by their High Court condemned to perpetual Imprisonment, and Fined One Thousand Pound, all which his gallant spirit willingly submitted to, rather than to be guilty of his Friend's blood, though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to some a sufficient warrant for such an action. He continued after Oliver's death a Prisoner, (though with more freedom than was allowed him by that Tyrannical Sentence) until by the happy restauration of his Majesty, he commenced his Freedom with that of the Kingdoms.  
XXXVI. Master William Garrent, who for the same business was Tried before that accursed High Court, who would have no doubt designed him for the slaughter, but that they failed in their Evidence, of which it was thought they relied on Master Pitts, he was with much ado acquitted, and soon after set at liberty.  
XXXVII. Henry Friar, John Sumner, and Oliver Allen, who were all Three condemned at the aforesaid Court of Justice, the first of them being brought to suffer in West-Smithfield, where in the rounds a Gibbet was Erected, but being upon the Ladder, and ready to die, a Reprieve was produced, and he carried back again to the Tower, from whence not long after he was dismissed; the other two were likewise drawn on Hurdles, the one to Bishopsgate, and the other to Grace Church-street, the places appointed for their Execution, but were both there reprieved, and soon after freed.  
XXXVIII. The most Noble Marquis of Winchester, Newcastle, and Worcester, Hero's, whose Deserts require a better Character than I am able to bestow upon them, and their Memories a more durable Register, than this Little Breviary, having endured all the discommodities of those wretched times amongst them (Viz.) Imprisonment, Banishment, Distress, Diprivation of Estates, and all those other Miseries an Insulting Enemy could lay upon them, for the Duty they owed to God and their King, and the preservation of a Good Conscience.  
XXXIX. The Right Honourable Earls of Oxford and Northampton, the Lord Herbert, etc. who suffered Imprisonment in the Tower, upon suspicion of a Rising, from which afterwards for want of good; Proof they were released.  
XL. Sir George Booth, now Lord Delamere, who to free his Country from those Insulting Tyrannies of the Rump, appeared in Arms against them in Cheshire, and was Proclaimed Traitor, together with Major General Egerton, Colonel Warden, and Sir Thomas Midleton, but being defeated by Lambert's more numerous Forces, he fled in a disguise to Newport-Pagnel in Bedford-shire, where he was discovered, seized on, and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London, his Estate ordered to be sequestered and sold, and preparations made for his Trial, which had it gone on, he would no doubt have paid for it with his Life; but as when Thiefs fall out, true men speed the better, so the divisions betwixt that remaining scum at Westminster, and their Commander Lambert, thorough the Prudence and Loyalty of Noble General Monk, brought in the readmission of the secluded Members, by whom he was restored to his Liberty and Estate.  
XLI. Sir Thomas Middleton, a Gentleman who had attempted much to the Restauration of his Majesty, being Engaged in the same business with Sir George Booth, after the Defeat he was forced to flee, being sure to have suffered deeply had he fallen into their hands; He left Chirk Castle, his stately Mansion to be defended by his Sons, which soon after was rendered to Colonel Zanchy; but the happy Revolution aforesaid, restored his Estate again to him, and he to the free and peaceable possession thereof.  
But should I go about to Ennumerate all those Persons that suffered by Sequestrations, Plunderings, and Rapines, my Task were infinite; I shall therefore refer every particular of those sufferers to that great and general day of Account, when their Enemies shall receive the reward of their Fraud and Violence, and Themselves a just recompense for all their Sufferings.   

The Names and Characters of those Persons who Sat as Judges, and Sentenced our late Dread Sovereign, Charles the First of Glorious Memory, and how God's Vengeance overtook many of them for their Bloody, Barbarous Cruelty.  
I. JOhn Bradshaw, Precedent of the most Notorious Villainy that was ever Acted on the Theatre of this World; a Cheshire Man born, but hateful to his Country, that it should be the Production of so Vile a Viper, more hateful to those of the Long Robe, Acting the Highest Wickedness, and most Selerate Parricide that ever was committed; more abominable to his Name, but most odious of all to the Nation; who two Terms before the perpetration of that horrid murder of the King, took the Solemn Oath of Allegiance as a Sergeant at Law, being Advanced to that Dignity from the Scolding and Railing of Guild-Hall London, to Act the Highest piece of Impudence against his Pious and Gracious Sovereign; which he performed with such dexterity, as showed him to be a Grand Masterpiece in Villainy: But afterwards grew conscious (as to the safety of his body) of his Fact, when Oliver taking upon him the Supreme Power, the very Name of a Single Person frighting him above measures; But otherwise he was so canterized as to the salvation of his Soul, that he remained, and so departed this Life in a most damnably dangerous obstinacy, and maintenance of that Horrid Fact, either presuming there was no High Court of Justice in Heaven, or else, in desperation, judging he was judged already. The rewards of this most unparaleld Parricide, which no doubt were the motives to this Villainy, was the Presidency of their Council of State; the Lord Cottington's Estate, and the Duchy of Lancaster, with some advance money before hand (like his Predecessor Judas) for his undertaking. This Scelerate Villain died in his bed, at such time as Lambert and his Committee of Safety were Acting the Jack Puddings on the English Theatre, which by the Imps and Abetters of his Treason was Commented on with great Advantage; and indeed was by others taken as a note of admiration, that so blood-guilty a Person should descend the Grave so quietly, since according to the Poet; 
Few Traitors do unto their Graves descend,  
Without sierce slaughter, and a bloody end.   
But we must in this look upon the good Providence of God, who by removing this wicked Wretch, and other implacable Enemies of our Sovereign, thereby made way by an Easy hand (which otherwise might have been died in blood) to the Restauration of him to his Kingdom, and his People to the Enjoyment of their Laws, Liberty, and Religion. He was Buried in Westminster Abbey, but that Ground being too Holy to retain such a one as had been the Death of the Father of the Church, he was removed from thence, and thrown under the Gallows, a receptacle more fit for such a Scelerate Villain.  
II. Oliver Cromwell, an English Monster, the Centre of Mischief, a shame to the British Chronicle, a blot to Gentility, a pattern for Tyranny, Murder and Hypocrisy, whose horrid Treasons will scarce gain credit of posterity, and whose bloody Tyranny will quite drown the Names of Nero, Domitian, Caligula, etc. This wicked Monster, was the main Engine of all their Diabolical Proceedings, the Primum mobile, by which those other Sons of Mischief moved, the weight which set all the wheels of their bloody machinations a going: He was born at Huntingdon, the year of our Lord, 1599 Descended from an Ancient and Worshipful Family, unhappy only in this, that such a wicked Science should proceed from so good a Stock; His Grandfather, Sir Henry Cromwell, was a Gentleman highly Honoured both in Court, and Country, and died with such love that he had many weeping eyes attendant to his Grave, leaving behind him Five Sons, Oliver, Henry, Robert, Richard, and Philip; This Oliver was Son to the third Son Robert, and received his Name from Sir Oliver Cromwell his Uncle, at such time as he was received into the bosom of the Church by her Rites and Ceremonies, both which he afterwards most impiously and profanely rend and tore asunder, acting such horrid vallainies under the name of Providence, that Posterity may with some reason doubt how any one could commit such horrid Acts under the notion of Religious Principles; He having at last attained to the height of his Ambition, (viz.) the Superiority over the Three Kingdoms, and for Five years' space, wallowed in the blood of many Gallant and Heroic Persons, he at last descended (though unwillingly) to his Grave; but Divine vengiance (which would not suffer the blood, that so impiously and traitorously was spilt by his procurement) pursued this wicked Miscreant, and would not let him Enjoy the Privilege of a Grave; He being digged out of the ground, where a sumptious Monument was Erected for him, and from thence (January 30. the day whereon they Erected that execrable Murder on our late dread Sovereign) drawn in a Cart to the Red Lion in Holborn, and thence on a Sledge to Tyburn, where being pulled out off his Coffin, he with Bradshaw and Ireton were hanged at the several Angles of that Triple Tree, which though to some it may seem preposterous to hang Cromwell thus without Examination, yet they must know withal, this was not done without a Precedent.  
III. Henry Ireton, Commissary General of Horse; an Active Villain against his Sacred Majesty; Cromwell's second in all Mischief, who Espoused his Daughter as well as his Lesigns, and whose Ambition and Tyranny would if he had lived, no doubt have made him more Notoriously Eminent; He was a main Instrument in the Barbarous Murder of Sir Charles Lucas, and Sir George Lisle; a great fomenter of all our Troubles, and who gave as undeniable proofs of his bloodthirsty Tyranny as the best of them all. A Man of great Parts and Abilities, but natureed to Mischief, and the evil of those Times he was born to make worse, and most prodigiously infamous; no Man came suited with so great Capacity to the Overthrow of the Government, reckoning his Impiety, or rather vizzarded Piety unto his Endowments. He died of the Plague at Limbrick in Ireland, November the 27. 1651. from whence his Carcase was conveyed into England, and in great Pomp brought to London, where it lay for a time in great State at Somerset-house, which was all hung with black, and a Scutcheon over the Gate, with this Motto, Dulce est pro Patria Mori. How suitable to him that Countryman best told, who Englished it in these words; It is good for his Country that he is dead. February 6. following, He was with Great Magnificence Interred in Henry the Seventh's Chapel at Westminster, but hath since found a more fitting and deserved Sepulchre; his Carcase being with Cromwel's and Bradshaw's, as they were Trine in mischief, so buried under the Triple Tree Tyburn, Anno 1660.  
IV. Sir Hardress Waller, a Soldier of Fortune, and in Charity judged not to be of such a premeditated malice as the rest, though by the current of Times drawn to Act with the highest in Mischief; He was at the first a Cavalier in Opinion, but with the more gainfuller times turned Presbyterian, then afterwards upon the new module, when Presbytery began to decline, he became a strong Independent; where finding the uncontrollable sweetness of Pay, and minding Profit more than Conscience, he still grew more hardened in his Lawless practices, finding more likeliness of greater spoils in the destruction of Monarchy; He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesty's Execution, and Acted all along with them in their Murderous Counsels, having for his share in the price of blood, a Command afterwards in Ireland, where he continued till such time as the Happy Revolution of Affairs, brought Monarchy again to stand on its feet, when he surrendered himself, and upon his Trial showed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes; He still lives by the Mercy of the King, a condemned man, Prisoner in the Isle of Wight.  
V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Extract, or Remark, till such time as made notoriously famous for Villainy: He was by Marriage Cromwel's Brother in Law, who upon that account by his Authority and Command in the Parliament, preferred him to be Governor of Linn, and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely, which place he had stongly fortified as a safe Retreat for Cromwell, if before he had completed his damnable Designs, he should have been forced to have gone thither. Upon the Change of the Times, when Royalty began to grow splendid, he ran away (the wicked fleeth when no man pursueth) and hath hitherto escaped the hands of Justice.  
VI Colonel Thomas Harrison, the Son of a Butcher at Newcastle under line in Staffordshire, at first a Servant to one Master Hulker an Attorney; But finding the Law begun to be trodden under foot, he betook himself to the Army, the more hopefuller way of preferment; where by his Preaching, and such like Sanctimonious ways of proceeding, when the Army made a gain of Godliness, he came to be a Major, and being of a pragmatical daring spirit, was by the influence of Cromwell preferred to be a Colonel; and the Custody of the King's Person when taken from the Isle of Wight committed unto him, which he according to his Butchery Nature, most irreverently abused, by no less saucy behaviour then Treasonable Speeches of blacking the King, etc. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ringleader of all the Schismatics, especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men, and such as traded in Enthusiasms, in whose Love and especial Opinion he died, being expectedly Executed at the place where once stood Charing-Cross, October 14. 1660. His Head was set upon a Pole on the top of the Southeast end of Westminster-Hall, and his Quarters Exposed to Public View upon some of the City Gates.  
VII. Colonel Edward Whaley, Descended from a Family in Nottinghamshire, and bound Apprentice to a Woollen-Draper, which trade he followed for a while, but falling into decay, left the Ell and took up the Spear; and during all the time of our Troubles was very industriously Active, rising by degrees till he came at last to be Comissiary General of the Horse; He was a Man of a daring Spirit, and resolute to perform what ever he undertook; Crafty withal, and Covetous, having not wherewithal otherwise to maintain his Ambition; to which we may add his Perfidiousness, betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretence of Affection, the worst kind of perfidy; and having thus juggled him whither they would have him, he made no scruple to join with others in his horrid Murder; upon the turn of the Times he likewise fled to prevent the stroke of Justice worthily due to his Deserts.  
VIII. Colonel Thomas Pride, a Brewer; at first a Dray-man, but at the beginning of the Wars, contrary to David who left the Sword to take up the Sling, he forsook the Sling and took up the Sword; and though an Ignorant, Illiterate Fellow, scarce fit to carry guts to a a Bear, (whose destruction he performed at Paris Garden) yet being of a resolute Courage, and the blind goddess Crowning him with success, he was thought fit to partake with Cromwell, and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Parliament for him; and having thus Acted that which carried a show of Law and Justice, there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons, being a prime Agent in the Murder of the King, Acting with as much Impudence and Brutishness as any of them all: He died before his Majesty's Return, escaping thereby a more shameful and ignominious death.  
IX. Colonel Isaac Ewer, Descended from an Ancient and Worshipful Family in Yorkshire, but the Patrimony thereof being in the wave, to recruit his Decaying Fortunes, he betook himself to the Wealthiest Side, and added much to the Ruin of Monarchy; having gained a great proficency in their Destructive Principles; so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villainy, being cloaked under a vail of Religion; He was thought fit (because of his Birth) to be the King's Guardian from the Isle of Wight, and afterwards one of his Judges, where he gave his hand against his Sacred Sovereign, adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murder: He likewise died before his Majesty's Return, robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due.  
X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby, Son to the Earl of Stamford, who becoming a Colonel in the Army, grew infected with their Destructive Principles, and contrary to Honour, Acted with them in their odious Designs, having his hand in the Murder of the King, the Fountain and Source of all Honour, from whence others are derived. In regard of the Honour of his Family, he escapes a Mention or Condemnation for this Crime, as well as for some others: He died before his Majesty's Happy Restauration.  
XI. William Lord Mounson, a sordid Fellow, of Destructive Principles, and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villainies; being for Debt a long time a Prisoner, but by his Fellow Regicides fetched out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses: After the Return of his Majesty, he was for his Treasonable Practices, together with Sir Henry Mildmay, and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Commons, where their Estates were Declared Confiscate, and they degraged from all Titles and Arms of Gentility, and further Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London upon Sledges, with Halters about their Necks, and so back again to the Tower, there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment; which Sentence was accordingly Executed upon them, January 30. 1661.  
XII. Sir John Danvers Knight, Brother to that Loyal and Noble Peer the Earl of Danby, who for his Fidelity to his Sovereign, was by the Rebels Voted a Delinquent; the covetousness after which Estate, drew in this Knight to partake with them in their horrid Actions, swallowing thereby his Name and Honour in this Whirlpool of Confusion and Royal Blood: He deceased before his Majesty's Return.  
XIII. Sir Thomas Malverer, a Yorkshire Knight, whose Family had been raised to that Honour by the Two last Kings, which to a Noble Spirit should have been the more obliging; but great Benefits cause Ingratitude, and Covetousness to have wherewithal to live answerable to his Title, wickedly prompted him for the equalling of it, to consent to the Murder of him from whence his Honour was Derived; He also died before his Majesty's happy restauration.  
XIV. Sir John Bourcher, another Independent Yorkshire Knight, who making a gain of Godliness, under the pretence thereof Acted the most horrid Villainies, having God in their mouth, and the Devil in their heart; Like Watermens, looking one way, and rowing another; being sure always when they had the fearest pretences, they were then hatching the foulest Impieties. This Man that he might not be out of the way when occasion should serve, diligently dined at Hell; and to complete his other wicked Actions, consented to the Murder of his Sovereign: He likewise died before his Majesty's Return.  
XV. Isaac Pennington, a busy stickler of the Faction, and a Grand Agent in the perpetration of all our late Troubles; He was by the Faction continued Lord Mayor of London for Two Years together, though contrary to the Kings Express Command from Oxford; by his Authority in the City he contributed largely to the maintenance of Rebellion, and added much fuel to that fire of Descension betwixt the King and Parliament; and yet notwithstanding, he was a great sharer in the spoil of his Country; He broke twice, what being got over the Devil's back, being spent under his belly; and thinking to make good his broken Fortunes joined with them in the Murder of his Sovereign; After his Majesty's Happy Restauration, he surrendered himself according to Proclamation, and at his Trial pleaded Ignorance, and no Malice, and that he signed not the Warrant; yet was it made apparent that his Crimes were of a crimson dye; but by the King's Clemency his Execution was respited, and died a natural death in the Tower of London.  
XVI. Henry Martin, Son of Sir Henry Martin, Judge of the Prerogative Court; a most Wicked, Lewd, Vicious; and Infamous Person, whose Actions have rendered him odious to all Posterity: He first spoke Treason against the King and his Family in the House of Commons, and was in Compliment Committed and Suspended for a while, proving afterwards a Grand Actor in the Highest of Treasons, being one of the Chief of the Cabal in taking away the life of the King; ordering the Charge against him to go in the Name of The Commons in Parliament Assembled, and the Good People of England: After his Majesty's Return, he surrendered himself according to Proclamation, using many dilatory evasions at his Trial; afterwards being brought to the Bar of the House of Lords to Answer why Judgement should not be Executed upon him, he replied, That he understood the Proclamation extended to favour of life upon rendering himself; and withal added, That he never obeyed any of his Majesty's Proclamations before but this, and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the King's Word now.  
XVII. William Purefoy, a Warwickshire Gentleman, once Governor of Coventry, a busy Fellow in their Leger-de-main Juggle, and a great Zealot against Crosses, as Superstitious, and Crowns as Superfluous; This his blind Zeal, together with his Covetousness after Church, and Crown Lands, made him not scruple to imbrue his hands in the blood of his Prince; but lived not to receive the just reward of such horrid Villainy, dying before his Majesty's Return.  
XVIII. Colonel John Berkstead, a Man at first of a despicable Fortune, keeping a sorry Goldsmith's Shop in the Strand; but having learned a little City-Souldiery, was made Captain of a Foot-Company under Colonel Venus at Windsor; and being in Active Person, by Success of Rebellion was made Governor of Reading, and continued always a fast Friend to Oliver Cromwell in all his wicked Consultations and Purposes; joining with him in that horrid Murder of the King, for which, and other his Services to him, he was by Oliver made Lieutenant of the Tower, where by Extortion and Cruelty he gained a great mass of Wealth; but when Loyalty began again to be Predominant, his guilty Conscience hurried him beyond Sea, lurking a good while in some parts of Germany under feigned Names; but divine vengeance soon found him out, for He, Colonel Okey, and Miles Corbet, having resided for some time in the City of Hannow, about the beginning of March they came to Delf in Holland, appointing their Wives to meet them there; but Sir George Downing his Majesty's Resident at the Hague, having information thereof, they were luckily surprised, and sent into England; and having remained Prisoners some while in the Tower, were brought to the King's Bench-Bar, and there demanded what they could say for themselves, why they should not die according to Law, the Act of Attainder being then read unto them; to which they Alleged, they were not the same persons mentioned therein; but it being proved by Witnesses, Sentence of death was pronounced against them, and on Saturday, April 19 1662. they were Executed at Tyburn; the Head of this Grand Regicide being set on a Pole on Traitor's Gate in the Tower.  
XIX. John Blakeston, a Fellow who would not be idle when there was any thing to do, especially of Profit: He was at first a Shopkeeper in Newcastle, when according to the time he was a Rigid Presbyterian, and while the Scots were there, chosen a Burgess for that Town; but the Market of Independency being up, he turned with the Tide, and (like Judas) for the lucre of money, consented to the Murder of his Royal Master; but enjoyed the gain of his Impiety not long, dying before the return of his Majesty, when (without the greater Clemency) he might have received a reward more agreeable to his deserts.  
XX. Gilbert Millington, a Lawyer, who contrary to all Law sided with those bloody Regicides against his Lawful Sovereign; He was a constant Chairman of the Committee for Plundered Ministers, by which Trade he filled his Coffers, the sweets of which Employment set his teeth on edge, and sharpened him to that cruel attempt upon his Sovereign's Life: Upon the Kings return he surrendered himself according to Proclamation, and at his Trial confessed the Fact, and the guilt of it, and was favoured with an acceptance of it from the Court.  
XXI. Thomas Chaloner, one who had Traveled far in the World, and returned home poisoned with that Jesuitical Doctrine of King-killing, which he here put in practice, being the great Speech-Maker against the King, his Family, and Government, and a great stickler for their New Utopian Commonwealth, but upon his Majesty's Return, fled the Land, his Actions being so bad as would not endure the Touchstone.  
XXII. Sir William Constable, a Yorkshire Knight, whose Prodigality brought him to sell his Patrimony in the beginning of the late Troubles, to Sir Marmaduke Langdale, which he afterwards regained for nothing, when that Lord was for his Loyalty Voted a Delinquent, and his Estate at the dispose of Rebels, who carved fat shares unto themselves: He had a principal hand in the King's death, for which Parricide, and other his Treasonable Practices, he was by the Saints of the new stamp, made Governor of Gloucester, and a great Commander in the North: He died before his Majesty's return.  
XXIII. Edmond Ludlow, a Person much endeared to the fanatics, who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army, came at last to be a Lieutenant General, and one of the Chief Commissioners for Ireland: His Father before him uttered Treasonable words against the King in the House of Commons, Anno 1643. no marvel then if the Father were a Rebel, that the Son should prove a Traitor, since most commonly to what the Parents are affected, the Children prove addicted: Upon his Majesty's return, fearing the reward of his deserts, he fled the Land, like his predecessor Cain, living a Vagabond from place to place, fearing every one that he meets should slay him.  
XXIV. Colonel John Hutchinson, who by Cromwell and his prevailing Faction was overawed to Sign his Majesty's Execution; but by a timely repentance, bewailing with tears the heinousness of his Offence, he obtained Pardon; being only discharged the House of Commons, and all future Trusts, and Fined a years Profit of his Estate to the King.  
XXV. Sir Michael Livesey, a Kentish Knight, whose plague he was, being Plunder-Master-General of that County for many years, towards the repairing of his broken Estate: He was a very Active Person during the Progress of the whole War, and as nimbly ran away upon the King's return, making good that Proverb, That one pair of legs was worth two pair of hands.  
XXVI. Robert Titchburn, born in London, of good Extraction, by Trade a Linen-draper, coming by degrees to be Mayor thereof, whose Counsels he is said to betray to the Rump; Hope of Preferment, and want of Grace, drew him in to be one of the Infamous Tryars of his Sovereign: At his Majesty's return he surrendered himself according to Proclamation, and at his Trial showed much penitency for his Offences, declaring with much candour his sin, and ignorance of the atrocity of the crime; protested his Inability of contrivance, his raw years, and unskilfulness in the Laws; Saying, He would rather have gone into a hot Oven, then into that business if he had known the depth of it; instancing That Paul was a Persecutor, and found mercy, and hoped that he should find the like: He was with the other Regicides condemned, but by the King's Great Clemency, Execution of Justice was respited on him.  
XXVII. Owen Roe, formerly a Silkman in London, and being an Eminent Independent, had a Command of the Militia conferred on him; by the Advice of the Devil and Cromwell, he came to have a hand in shedding the King's blood; for which after his Majesty's return he was condemned; but pleading his reluctancy to the King's Sentence, and begging pardon for his Offence, which he affirmed was not of malice, he was by the Kings Favour Reprieved.  
XXVIII. Robert Lilburn, a great Enemy to Bishops, though come from the Bishopric of Durham; He was Brother to John Lilburn the great Trouble-World, who was always opposite to the Predominate Power; This Robert Lilburn to raise his Fortunes sided with Cromwell, who would never suffer them to want Preferment that were thoroughpaced to his Interests; By him he was advanced to be a Colonel of Horse, a little before the King's Murder; and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility then requite him with having a hand in it, and so ran fearlessly into the danger of it: He still lives by the King's clemency a condemned man in the Tower of London.  
XXIX. Adrian Scroop, a Colonel of Horse, a Person very Active against the King's Parties in 1648. and as violent in the taking away his Majesty's Life, and Honour in their pretended High Court of Justice; which he so little repent of, that after his Majesty's return, in an accidental conference with Sir Richard Brown, he seemed rather to allow and approve of it, by saying, Many people did not think it such a heinous matter, or that, some be of one mind, and some be of another. He was upon a fair Trial condemned to die, and accordingly Executed on the Railed place where Charing-Cross once stood, Octo. the 17. 1660.  
XXX. Richard Dean, a Fellow of mean Extraction, being at first a Hoymans' Servant in Ipswich, and at the beginning of the Wars to raise his despicable fortunes betook him to the Army, and was a matross in the train of Artillery, from whence he rose to be a Captain, and was first Famous at the Siege of Exeter; and being a cross Fellow fit for any mischief, one who cared not to build his own hopes though on a general ruin, was thought fit to be one of Cromwel's Complices in the Murder of his Sovereign: He was afterwards made one of the Generals at Sea against the Dutch, and was slain with a Cannon Bullet, being shot almost off in the middle, as he stood close by General Monk, June 2. 1653.  
XXXI. Colonel John Okey, at first a Stoker in a Brewhouse, than a Chandler near Bishopsgate, where having lived a while, he betook himself to the Army, the Haven of Hope for all Aspiring Minds, where in a short space he passed thorough the several commands to that of a Colonel; and being of a daring spirit, he was by the Artifice of Cromwell bewitched into the patner-ship of that accursed Murder of his Majesty. Upon his Majesty's return he fled the Land, but divine vengeance pursuing him, he was with Colonel Barkstead, and Miles Corbet taken in Holland, and sent over into England, where at the King's Bench Bar, they were Arraigned, and Condemned to be Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, which was Executed on the other two, and their Quarters exposed on the City Gates; but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian, and Dutiful carriage, to return his Quarters to his Friends to be Interred. He died with more penitency, and greater reluctancy than those of his Fellow-Regicides, who suffered in October 1660. acknowledging the King's Power as of God, and exhorting others to the like: He was a Person that for his Valour, and other good Qualities was pitied by all men, for his being so blinded, and ensnared in this crime to his destruction.  
XXXII. John Hewson, who from a Cobbler rose by degrees to be a Colonel, and though a Person of no Parts either in Body or Mind, yet made by Cromwell one of his Pageant Lords: He was a Fellow fit for any mischief, and capable of nothing else; a sordid lump of Ignorance and Impiety, and therefore the more fit to share in Cromwell's Designs, and to Act in that Horrid Murder of his Majesty: Upon the turn of the Times, he ran away for fear of Squire Dun, and (by report) is since dead, and buried at Amsterdam.  
XXXIII. William Goffe., bound an Apprentice to a Salter, but run away ere he had served out his time, and betook himself to the Army, where by his boldness and pretended Piety, he came to be taken notice of by the Grandees in Rebellion, who liking his temper, preferred him to serve themselves in that Horrid Murder of his Sacred Majesty: He likewise betook himself to his heels at the restauration of our Sovereign, being of the opinion of Cain, That his Crimes was too great to be forgiven.  
XXXIV. Cornelius Holland, a Monster in Nature, once Servant to Sir Henry Vane, who preferred him to the Green-cloath in the King's household; of base conditions, as well as extraction; His Father was a poor man, and died a Prisoner in the Fleet, but he himself by his Ingatitude and Disloyalty made a ladder of mischief to climb up to Riches, and so thrived by Rebellion that he got a vast Estate, and (like Herostratus) grew very Eminent for Villainies, the chief of which was the Murder of the King, in which he had a principal hand, and▪ for which upon his Majesty's return he fled the Land, fearing (belike) he should become a spectacle to men, hanging betwixt the Earth and Heaven.  
XXXV. John Carew, Brother to that Loyal Knight, Sir Alexander Carew, beheaded by the prevalency of Rebellion in An. 1644. This Person being a rank Fifth-Monarchist, was a great Enemy to all Earthly Government and Power, expecting Christ to come Personally and Reign amongst them; and therefore they would have no King, but King Jesus, which made him to join with those other Infamous Regicides in the Murder of his Sovereign, being deluded thus by the impulses of Satan for those of the spirit. At his Trial he rambled into a wild discourse of the fear of God, and the Authority of the Parliament by which he Acted, that he declined it at first, but being put in the Act for Trial, could not disobey the Lord, nor the Parliament: He was condemned to be Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, which was accordingly Executed upon him October 15. 1660. His quarters should have been exposed on the City Gates; but upon intercession to his Majesty, his Body was ordered to be buried.  
XXXVI. Colonel John Jones, a Weltch Saint, who in the night of Rebellion, grew from a Mushromp to a Stately Cedar; He was at first a Servingman, but that kind of life not serving his turn, he set up the gainfuller trade of a Committee-man, and thrived exceedingly in that Barren Country; and being a person of known Abilities for the ruining a Kingdom, he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament, and inprocess of time Married one of Cromwel's Sisters, who (as one writes) had as many Females to bestow as a Cardinal; This alliance (being prone enough of himself otherwise) brought him in to have a hand in the King's Murder; and in fine brought, him to the Gallows, being Executed October 17. 1660.  
XXXVII. Peregrine Pelham, a Yorkshire Tike, whose Abominable Treasons helped to verify that Proverb, From the cold North, all ill comes forth. He was for a while a kind of Governor of Hull after Hotham, where being Endoctrinated in Machiavellian Principles, he came to London to put them in Execution, being one of the Judges that Sat and Sentenced the late King, and died before his Majesty's Restauration.  
XXXVIII. Thomas Wogan, a recruit likewise to the Long Parliament, who was as active to contribute towards the ruin of the Kingdom as the chiefest of them all, and as forward as the rest to destoy the King, to become himself one of the Princes in the Anarchy; but upon the change of the Times he betook him to his heels, and (accompanied with a guilty, conscience) wander about to save a wretched Carcase out of the Hangman's hands.  
XXXIX. Francis Allen, once a Goldsmith in Fleetstreet, whose first Rice was from the Placket, and by Marrying his Mistress, of her Servant became her Master; being thus leapt into a pretty Estate, he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament, where he improved, his time to the most gainful advantage, getting to be one of the Treasurers at War, a Customer, and (as if that were not enough) had Crone House given him, and held it in Capite Regis: These gifts made him not to stick to join with them in the Murder of the King, and after to enjoy a part of the profit of their Parricide, being made one of the Committees for the Sale of his Majesty's Lands; but lived not long to possess the fruits of his wickedness, dying before his Majesty's Happy Restauration.  
XL. Daniel Blagrave, of a small but competent Fortune, sufficient to have maintained him without being guilty of this great Offence; but he was resolved to get Riches, although he swum to them in blood▪ and being chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament for Reading in Bark-shire, in hopes to be partaker with them in the spoil of the Kingdom; He joined with them in the Murder of the King: But upon the turn of the Times betook him to his heels, the best refuge as he thought for one in his condition.  
XLI. John Moor, formerly Colonel of the Guards, and had the benefit of all passes from London, the profit whereof endeared him to their Side, and made him join with them in the Horrid Murder of his Sovereign; He died before his Majesty's Return.  
XLII. William Say Esquire, a Member of the Long Robe, and a well practised, but ill counselled Lawyer, who being foisted in as one of the illegal recruites of the Long Parliament, exercised his Abilities to the greater mischief, having now power joined to his will to Act what the Devil should prompt him to; and therefore feared not to become one of the Murderers of his Majesty, and afterwards to join with the rest of those Regicides to help forwards the ruin of the Kingdom; He was by them chosen their Speaker, when Lenthall for Ten days together was sick of the Sullens upon the approach of General Monk: But upon the Return of the King, was, non est inventus, betaking him to his heels, for fear he should have had a Habeas Corpus to have removed his body from Newgate to Tyburn.  
XLIII. Francis Lascels, a Yorkshire Man, who being nominated one of the King's Judges, Sat once, but neither Sentenced nor Signed those Accursed Warrants for the Murder of the King; He was Fined a years Profit of his Estate to his Majesty, and discharged the House of Commons, and all future Trusts.  
XLIV. James chaloner Esquire, who for sitting in that pretended High Court of Justice, was with some others deprived of their Estates by Act of Parliament, and ordered to be drawn to Tyburn in Sledges, with Ropes about their Necks, as Traitors are used, and so back again to the Tower, their to be Imprisoned during their natural lives; but before the Execution of this Sentence he died in the Tower.  
XLV. Gregory Clement, a lustful Goat, who being a moneyed Merchant, Purchased himself a place in Parliament, that he might the more freely, and with the greater Authority exercise his notorious debaucheries, which were so vulgarly known, that his fellow Villains could not but upon pretence of honesty discard him their company. He contributed largely to the destruction of his Sovereign; for he who fears not to Commit Adultery, will not stick out to do Murder; He received afterwards the reward of his Treasons, being hanged drawn and quartered, Octob. 17. 1660. His Head set upon London-Bridge, and his Quarters on the Gates of the City.  
XLVI. Sir Gregory Norton, One whose means was not answerable to his Title, being one of the Pensioners to the King, who ungratefully for the lucre of money joined also in the King's murder, and had by his fellow Regicides for his Service, as good as given Richmond Manner and House: He died before his Majesty's Return.  
XLVII. John Venn, A broken Silkman in Cheapside, who to recruit his Fortunes took part with the Strongest Side, carrying as great a pretence to Religion as the best, it being the Stalking Horse in those Times for them who meant to ride in the Chair of Preferment: He was at the beginning of the War made Governor of Windsor Castle, and had other Places of great Profit bestowed on him; this drew him on to Act in the Murder of his Sacred Majesty, though afterwards stricken with the horror thereof; He is said desparately to have hanged himself, certain it is, he died very strangely and suddenly, though the certainty thereof was by his friends smothered up as much as they could.  
XLVIII. Thomas Andrews, a Linen-draper in Cheapside, but thinking the Trade of Rebellion more gainful, he resolved not to stand out, having so fit an opportunity for him to come into Play, and so got to be a Treasurer for the Guild-Hall Plate, and a Receiver for the Army, whereby he got great sums of money to himself, which so Encouraged him in Treason, that he feared not to Sat and Sentence his Sovereign, and afterwards (Alderman Reynoldson, Lord Mayor of London refusing to Proclaim the Act for Abolishing Kingly Government) he being Elected Lord Mayor in his Place, Proclaimed the said Act in Great State: He died just upon the Revolution of the Times, and very narrowly prevented Justice.  
XLIX. Anthony Stapley, a Sussex Gentleman, Colonel and Governor of Chichester, who by partaking with those Bloodthirsty Regicides, grew infected, and was strangely wrought into this Wicked Conspiracy: He likewise died before the King's return.  
L. Thomas Horton, one of so mean and unknown a Quality, that his Pedigree is not to be found, unless we should derive it from Judas that Prince of Traitors: He so thrived by the Wars, that he was chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament, and was one of those that dipped his hands in his Royal Sovereign's blood: He also died before the King's return.  
LI. John Lisle, Of a good Family in the Isle of Wight, whose Father died there during the Treaty, being possessed of a fair Patrimony in the said Isle, this his ungracious degenerate Son, whom he bred up a Lawyer, taking part with those Bloody Regicides, proved in process of time as bad as the worst of them, and arrived to the very height of Cruelty and Impiety, for having once washed his hands in his Sovereign's blood, he feared not to Act any Murder whatsoever, becoming Precedent to all the High Courts of Justice during the Usurpation, by whose Sanguinous violence fell many Gallant and Heroic Spirits; for reward of which his cruelties, he was made one of the Commissioners of the New Great Seal, and Master of Saint Crosses, a Place only fit for a Divine, worth Eight Hundred Pound per Annum: He fled upon the return of the King, but divine vegeance (which will not suffer the sin of Murher to go unpunished) found him out, and at Genuah by Three disguised Irishmen he received the reward of his deserts, though not in so Legal a way as could be wished, they being forced to Kill whom they could not bring away, by reason of the strong Guards he had about him; a shame to those Places which professing Christianity, yet will give harbour to such wicked, abominable Villains.  
LII. John Dixwell, A recruit likewise of the Long Parliament for Dover, of which Castle he was Colonel and Governor; and therefore so far obliged to them for his Promotion, that in requital of their Favours, he joined with them in the Murder of his Majesty; but fearing the reward of his Treachery, upon the King's return, he quitted the Land, which too long had groaned under the weight of so hateful a Regicide.  
LIII. Miles Corbet, A stain to his Family, of very good Reputation in Norfolk; He was one of the male-contented Members of the former Parliament▪ with Sir John eliot, and Others, and being chosen a Burgess for Yarmouth in the Long Parliament; finding the Times fit for his purpose, he resolved to wreak his malice upon the King and was a principal Instrument to help forward the ensuing calamities; and having raised himself by others ruins, to retain what be had so wickedly got, and in hopes of greater Preferment, he joined likewise in the murder of the King, for which he was rewarded with several great Places in England and Ireland, where he was in effect Lord Chancellor, but long enjoyed he not that Honour, for upon his Majesty's return, he with Berkstead and Okey privately sneaked into Germany, where having remained a while, they returned to Delf in Holland, intending under feigned Names to visit their Wives there; but divine vengeance which never sleepeth, found them out, and by the vigelance of Sir George Downing his Majesty's Resident at the Hague, they were apprehended, which made Corbet to purge upwards and downwards in a very strange manner, being afterwards sent into England, they were at the Kings-Bench-Bar Arraigned and Condemned, and according to Sentence, Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, April 2. 1662. where now Corbets Head overlooks the Thames on London Bridge, and his Quarters exposed to the view of the beholders on the City Gates.  
LIV. Simon Meyne, a Buckingham-shire Man, of a good Estate, but being of a covetous disposition, he endeavoured to enlarge it though by indirect means, getting two good Trades for that purpose (viz.) a Committee and a Sequestrator, to which we may add a third, being chosen an Illegal recruit in the Long Parliament, and now having his hand in, thought it no great matter to assist in taking away the King's Life: At his Majesty's return he surrendered himself according to Proclamation, and at his Trial pleaded Ignorance and no Malice, but his crimes were found to be of so crimson a die, that Sentence of death was passed on him, however Execution of that Sentence was respited, since which time he died a natural death in the Tower.  
LV. John Alured, A Soldier of Fortune▪ who to climb the higher on the blind Goddesses wheel, dipped his hands in the King's blood, and was for his Villainy promoted to be a Colonel: He died just defore his Majesty's restitution, or else it might have been his Fortune to have been preferred to the Gallows.  
LVI. Henry Smith, One who had a fair Estate in Leicester-shire, and was a kind of a Lawyer, but understood it so little, that quite contrary to all Law, he joined with those Regicides in condemning the King, and for reward of his Villainy had a Six Clarks Place in Chancery bestowed on him: He was thought to be drawn into this business by the Artifice of others, more than his own inclination; and therefore at his Majesty's return he surrendered himself according to Proclamation, and remaineth a Prisoner in the Tower.  
LVII. Humphrey Edward's, A Member of the Long Parliament, which bred Monsters of more savage Natures then either Egypt or Africa; This Fellow for being denied by the King a Preferment he was not worthy of, grew discontented, which rankled and festered him into this malicious Parricide: He died before his Majesty's return.  
LVIII. John Fry, A High-shooe blade in Dorsetshire, but being active in mischief, was made a Committee-man, and afterwards chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament; You may judge of the Man by his Principles, being an Arrian in Print, who deny the Divinity of our Saviour Christ; No wonder then if he who wrote against the King of Heaven, would fear to act against his Earthly Prince; He lived not long after the Horrid murder of his Majesty, the divine vengeance cutting him off from acting any further mischief against the Royal Party.  
LIX. Edmond Harvey, One who was brought in to have a hand in that fatal business of the King's Murder: He rendered himself upon his Majesty's Restitution according to Proclamation, and at his Trial pleaded Ignorance and no Malice, for that he Signed not, though he was present at Sentence; then he proved by Witness his reluctancy of Conscience, his Endeavours with a few others to Adjourn the Court upon the King's motion, and that he resolved to have no more to do with them, etc. He was with the other Regicides condemned, but Execution respited, and remaineth now a Prisoner in the Tower.  
LX. Thomas Scot, One who though he came not in play at first, yet plied his business so, that he was not behind hand, the forwardest in mischief; His Original was a Brewer's Clerk, than next a Country Attorney, and by countenance of the Grandees, chosen a recruit for the Burrow of Wickam in Buckingham-shire: He was a thoroughpaced Regicide, and so gloried that he had a hand in the Murder of the King, that he desired it might be inscribed on his Tomb, Here lies Thomas Scot one of the King's Judges; though it might more properly be written on the Gallows at Charing-Cross where he was Hanged, Here lies Thomas Scot one of the King's Murderers; His Guts was said to make the Hangman maw-sick, and that the stench of of his body when he was Quartered, far exceeded the stink of the most loathsome Carrion, to the great endangering of the Hangman's health.  
LXI. William Cawley, A Brewer of Chichester, and returned a recruit for the Long Parliament, whose Trade as it is maintained by the sins of the People, so he could not but for Trades-sake to concur with his Brethren in the Murder of the King, (viz.) Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Pride, Thomas Scot, etc. But fearing his Treason would cost him hot water, upon return of the King he fled the Land, and lives disguised for to preserve his hated life.  
LXII. John Downs, A Citizen of London, a Colonel in the Army, and a recruit to the Long Parliament; He was by menaces and threats engaged in this fatal business of Trying the King; and being checked in Conscience of the wickedness thereof, endeavoured to have opposed the violence that carried it, saying in the Court, Have we hearts of stone, or are we men? And desired the King according to his request might be heard by the Parliament, but was overborn, his Allegiance and Conscience, by that wicked Machiavellian Oliver Cromwell, and so contrary to the dictates of his Conscience consented to that Execrable Murder: He surrendered himself, was condemned, and lives by the special Mercy of the King and Parliament.  
LXIII. Thomas Hammond, Born of a very Good Family, his Father was Physician to Prince Henry, his Brother Doctor Henry Hamond, the beloved Chaplain of King Charles; This degenerate Son most Ungratefully and Disloyally was the King's Jailor in the Isle of Wight, and verified that sad Presage and Oracle of the King, That there are but few steps between the Prisons and Graves of Princes. He died before his Majesty's return.  
LXIV. Vincent Potter, A Mushroom Member of the Long Parliament, brought in by their Illegal recruits; His Pedigree, as well as his good Actions are very obscure and unknown; being only Famous for the Infamous Murder of the King: After his Majesty's return he rendered himself, confessed his Gild, had Judgement, but by his Majesty's clemency his Execution was respited  
LXV. Augustine Garland, A recruit of the Long Parliament for the Burrow of Quinburough in Kent, as youare a blade as the worst of them all at the spoil of the Kingdom, the notority of whose Crimes are so public as not to be hid; He was at first a kind of Lawyer, which he horribly perverted, was Chairman of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the King's Trial, and after Sat as one of his Judges, and Signed that bloody▪ Warrant for his Execution; He was shrewdly suspected to be the man that spit in the King's Face at his Trial, though after the King's restitution when he came to be Tried himself, he vehemently denied it, wishing no favour from God if he was guilty of that inhumanity: He is still a Prisoner in the Tower, and lives by the clemency of the King and Parliament.  
LXVI. Colonel George Fleetwood, A Buckingham-shire Gentleman, Son to Sir Miles Fleetwood Master of the King's Court of Wards, and had two Brothers of very different conditions the one Sir William Fleetwood a very Loyal and Honest Gentleman, the other, Charles' Fleetwood, a very Knave and Fool: He surrendered himself after the King's return, and at his Trial pleaded not guilty, but soon waved that Plea, and with many tears besought mercy: He is now a Prisoner in the Tower.  
LXVII. Colonel James Temple, A Sussex Man, not so much Famous for his Valour as his Villainy, being Remarkable for nothing but this horrible business of the King's Murder, for which he came into the Pack to have a share in the spoil; He is now a Prisoner, and lives by the King's Favour and Clemency.  
LXVIII. Peter Temple, Another of the same Gang, Simeon and Levi, Brethren in Iniquity; He was at first a Linen-draper, Apprentice in Fryday-street, but his Elder Brother dying, he forsook his Trade, and was possessed of an Estate of some Four Hundred Pounds a Year in Leicester-shire, and being a Person well affected to the Cause, was as a recruit chosen Burgess for that Country-Town, as Colleague to Sir Arthur Hazelrig, that Furious Northern blast. He was made a Captain of a Troop of Horse, and besides was a great Committee-man, yet was he a person of very weak parts, and easy to be led to Act any thing to which the hope of Profit called him, yet (as ill gotten goods never prosper) so he thrived not, notwithstanding his gainful Trade, but was Fooled by Oliver into the snare, as he often afterwards confessed the same.  
LXIX. Thomas Wait, A Rutland-shire man, who from a very mean beginning came to be Governor of Burleigh, and was by the influence of the Army chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament, by which means he became engaged to their Interests and Designs, joining with them in the Murder of his Majesty: He is now a Prisoner under Sentence of death, which by the King's clemency is hitherto respited.  
Thus have you a Catalogue of Sixty Nine of those Notorious Regicides which Sat and Sentenced the King, a Crime of so High a Nature as will almost startle the belief of Posterity, that Men professing themselves to be Christians, should under a pretence of Religion and Justice, Murder so Good and Pious a Prince, one whom envy its self could not but confess to be beyond Parallel, and whom Cook, one of his inveterate enemies, confessed to be a most Virtuous, most Innocent, most Religious King, and every way most fit for the Government. The Reader may also consider, that though many otherwise well meaning men were drawn in at first to further their Designs, yet the mean persons that were his Judges and Murderers, were generally mean and desperate persons, such as were lifted up by Ambition, Sacrilege, Covetousness, and Success, and had no other ways to Rise but by others Ruins, in the Downfall of the King, Nobility and Gentry: But God would not suffer the Lamented and Barbarous Death of this Prince to pass unrevenged, nor his own Sacred Name to be Blasphemed, many of those desperate Wretches making Him the Author and Maintainer of their Impiety, arguing from the Success, the Goodness of their Cause, although they might plainly perceive that when God had made use of them as his Rod to correct his Children, he then threw it into the fire.   

We shall next give you a Catalogue of some other Accessaries notoriously Guilty in this Horrid Murder, and how Divine Vengeance found them out, rewarding them according to the fruits of their Works.  
I. JOhn Cook, the Solicitor of that High Court of Injustice, a man of great Parts, had he not employed them to foul purposes; He was a Grays-Inn Gentleman, but in a poor and wanting condition, before he undertook this most Scelerate piece of Service; His indigency by some charitable opinions being the greatest motive that induced him unto it, and so did it not out of Malice, but Avarice, as he himself Alleged at his Trial; Thus we see what a narrow Fortune, and the straits of Debt, and the Devils wide World, and vast Preferments can tempt a man to: After this horrid Parricide, he was by his Fellow Regicides greatly Advanced, especially in Ireland, of which he was made Lord Chancellor, and from whence after his Majesty's return he was sent into England to be Tried his for his Treasons, which was done accordingly at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, where he showed very much respect and reverence to the Court, behaving himself to the removal of that prejudice which the Generality had of him, as of a Monster. He was for his Horrid Treasons Condemned to be Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered, which was accordingly Executed upon him, October 16. 1660. at the Place where Charing-Cross formerly stood; His Head was set on a Pole on the North-East end of Westminster-Hall, and his Quarters on the Gates of the City.  
II. Hugh Peter, An Antique in Religion, the shame of the Clergy, a Pulpit Buffoon, Oliver's Chaplain and Jester, to tell Stories, and make the People laugh; a most Seditious abominable Fellow, the Trumpet to this Pagantry High Court of Justice, and the most unparallelled Ecclesiastic in all Stories and Times; Who like Doctor Shaw in the time of King Richard the Third (but more shameless) was employed to cry down the King, and to cry up the Protector; He was a principal in the Cabal for the Murder of the King, whose Death he contrived in five several places, (viz.) at Ware, Windsor, Coleman-street, the Painted-Chamber, and bradshaw's House, comparing the King in his Sermon to Barrabas, and in another, the Text whereof was to Bind Kings in Chains, etc. He declared that there was an Act of Gods own making, That they that spilt man's blood by man should their blood be spilt, and that out of that Law, neither the King, nor Prince, nor Prince Rupert, nor none of that Rabble were excepted. Upon the return of the King, being conscious of his own guilt, he hid his head, but his lurking place was found out, and he taken in the Burrow of Southwark, where at first he denied his Name, but being brought before Sir John Robinson then made Lieutenant of the Tower, he was known, and acknowledged himself, where he was kept Prisoner till such time as his Trial, which was October 13. 1660. at which time it is very remarkable, that this Person, who by his Function as a Priest had most dishonoured God in Preaching, and pressing this Particide, making use of his Holy Writ to this wicked purpose, had then nothing to say, but to cavil at the Witnesses, and that he was sorry to hear of his carriage towards the King (we may believe him) but he had no malice towards him, but was merely Engaged in the Army; He was condemned together with Cook, and with him October 16. Drawn on Two Hurdles to Execution, where the miserable Wretch had not a word to say for himself, or to God, of whom he said he was abandoned: He that was so nimble and quick in all projects in this nature before, was now like a Sot or a Fool, playing and toying with the straw in the Sledge as he went to Execution, nay, so stupid was he, that the Hangman was forced to use more than ordinary strength to throw him off the Ladder; being almost hanged dead, he was cut down and Quartered, his Head set upon London-Bridge, and his Quarters exposed upon the tops of some of the City Gates.  
III. Daniel Axtell, who at first kept a Country Pedling-shop in Bedford-shire, and was double diligent in running after Seditious Persons, who then vented Treason in Pulpits; and believing their Doctrine for currant, obeyed the Call (as he called it) of those blind Guides, and went forth a small▪ Officer to fight against the Mighty; His great Industry in their Service, brought him after many Traverses, to be a Lieutenant Colonel; and employed by Cromwell out of Favour to him as he said (though the Devil could not have done him a greater Discourtesy) to be Captain of the Guard at the King's Trial, where to show his Complacency to their Commands, he made his Janissaries by blows and threats, to cry out Justice, and Execution; much more blood had he contracted to his guilt, (though none comparable to this) in Ireland, and had as the reward of his Villainies, gotten a pretty foul Estate; but wickedness seldom prospers long, upon the King's return, he was one of those Persons exempted by the Parliament out of the Act of Indemnity, and for his Treasons brought to a Trial at Justice-Hall in the Old Bailie, where notwithstanding, he pleaded for himself with more Art and Cunningness than was imagined to be found in him, yet were his Crimes so Notorious as not to be covered with such Fig-leaves; He was therefore by the Jury found Guilty, and Sentenced to be Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered, which was accordingly Executed on him at Tyburn, October the 19 1660. His Head fixed on a Pole at the furthest end of Westminster-Hall, and his Quarters a spectacle on the City Gates.  
IV. Doctor Dorislaus, A Dutch Schoolmaster, who for some misdemeanours fled his Country, and here became Civilian, afterwards a professor in the University of Oxford, where being disappointed of his Ambitious Expectations, the War then on foot, he became the Parliaments Judge Advocate in their Army, by which he much bettered his broken Fortunes, and became a great Associate of Sir Henry Mildmay's, (who though raised by the King, was one of his greatest Enemies,) who promoted him to that business of drawing up a Charge against the King, the Horrid Nature thereof being such, that no Englishman durst find, or make a way to such an Illegal, and unprecedented business. After the perpetration of that horrid Murder, he was looked upon by the Regicides for his Abilities, as a fit person to be sent over as an Envoy to his Countrymen, to prosecute the Designs of the Faction, which would carry the better face, being managed by one of their own Subjects: He Arrived there in May, with great Pomp and Attendance, in his Coach with Six Horses before, and Vengeance behind; for the first night, as he was at Supper there, one Colonel Whitford a Scotchman, with some Twelve other Caveliers, disdaining the King should be affronted by the impudent boldness of such an Audacious Traitor,) entered his Lodging, and with a broad Sword cloven his Head and killed him, having by a mistake wounded another Dutchman for him at their first coming in; and having done the deed, they quietly departed, it not being known (but privately) for a long time after who did it.  
To this we may adjoin that of Aschams, another great confident of the Regicides, who being sent their Envoy to Spain, some little while after, was served in the same manner at his Arrival at Madrid, in his Inn, by one Sparks, and some other English Royalists upon the same score; Sparks having done the deed, fled to the Venetian Ambassadors for shelter, but judging that not secure enough, he betook himself to Sanctuary, from whence he was by the cunning Don, to curry Favour with the English Regicides, then dreadful to his Plate-Trade, taken thence, and with great pity, and disdain, at the meanness of the Spaniard, was Executed for the same.  
V. Daniel Broughton, A Clerk bred up amongst the Committees of War, where he became so Principled, as he was judged fit, and preferred to be Chief Scribe to this pharasaical Murderous Crew of the High Court of Justice; for which Gild, upon his Majesty's Return, immagining his Crime too great to be forgiven, he ran away, and in Foreign Countries disguised hides his hated head.  
VI Edward Dendy, Sergeant at Arms to the said cursed Court, who had before outed his Father from the Employment of the Mace; no marvel then, that such a Rebel to his Father, should prove a Parricide to his Prince; He likewise fled the Land upon his Majesty's Return, to preserve his forfeited life from the Hangman.  
VII, and VIII. Sir Henry Mildmay, and Master Robert Wallop, who had Sat as Judges in that High Court of justice, although not Sentenced nor Signed to the Warrant for his Execution; The first of these was one who had been raised by his Majesty, though most ungratefully (the worst of Vices) he Acted with a high hand against him; but divine Vengeance at last overtook him, and the Iron hand of Justice delivered him to the punishment (though not so great as his deserts) due to that grand Impiety, january 30. 1661. They were on Sledges drawn from the Tower of London, through the City, with Halters about their necks to Tyburn, where having threaded that triple Tree, they returned in the same Equipage back to the Tower, there to suffer perpetual Imprisonment, their Estates Confiscated, and they Degraded from all Titles and Arms of Gentility.  
Sir James Harrington was to have suffered the like punishment, but he having his Liberty upon Bail from the Sergeant at Arms, gave them the slip, and most unworthily left his Bail in the lurch. Phelps also one of the Clarks of that Court, was marked out for this Punishment, but not Sentenced.  
IX. Master Thomas Hoyle, an Alderman, and Burgess of York, a great Rumper, and Enemy to Regal Government, who the same day Twelve Month that the King was Beheaded, and as near as possibly could be judged about the very same hour of the day▪ hanged himself; Which day the Regicides Celebrated in most Solemn manner, in commemoration of their lately recovered Liberty, from the Laws, by the Murder of the King: But this was such a signal remark mark of the Just Judgement and Vengeance of God upon that detestable Fact, and their no less abominable mockery of him as the Author thereof in this their Irreligious observation of that Fatal Providence, as they razed this Festival out of their Calendar, which was attended with so ill an Omen.  
X. One Lockier, an Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army, who had a principal hand in Seizing and Bringing the King to his Death; He was afterwards by them of his own Gang (the Divine Vengeance so ordering it) condemned for a Mutiny in Bishopsgate-Street, a shot to death in St. Paul's▪ Churchyard, being buried by some of his own Party with great Solemnity in the New Churchyard, London.  
XI. Sir Thomas Martin, A Knight of Cambridge-shire, a great stickler for the Times, and a sworn Enemy of the Royalists; who having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park, at the opening of a Deer he was desired (together with some other Gentlemen) to wash his hands in the Deeres blood, No (said he) I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the Young King of Scots; but observe the punishment that attended this Impious wish, as he was riding home the same Evening, his Horse threw him, in which fall he pitched on his head, mortally broke his Scull and Shoulder, and died shortly after of those wounds.  
XII. Sir Henry Holcroft, A grand Pillar of the Independent Faction, a Committee Gentleman, and one who Acted very strenuously for the Rump, hoping to be a great sharer in the spoil of the Kingdom; but Man proposes, and God disposes, for it pleased the Lord that he fell into a sore Disease, bleeding abundantly at the nose and mouth, and at last fell to a strong vomiting up of gobbets of blood at his mouth, and such abundance of blood flowed with mighty violence at his nose, that in a most sad manner he departed this life, in one of the extream-fits thereof.  
XIII. To these we may add Colonel Rainsbrough, a prime stickler for the Power at Westminster, and a desperate Enemy against the King, who though he was killed before the Horrid Murder of his Majesty, yet the manner of his Death being so remarkable, is not to be passed over in silence. He being turned out of the Navy by the Seamen, went with a strong Party to the Reducing of Pontefract, then Besieged by Sir Edward Rhodes, and the County Forces, and took up his Quarters at an Inn in Doncaster, where having his Soldiers about him, and in as great security (as he though) as might be, some Caveliers from Pontefract under a pretence of delivering him a Letter from Cromwell, entered his Inn, and would have only taken him Prisoner, and carried him into their Leaguer, but he refusing, they pistolled him in his Chamber, and returned back again untouched, a very strange, yet gallant Adventure.  
XIV. One Marston, a great Leveller and Agitator in the Army, a sort of People suspected many of them, and that rationally for Jesuits, who were as good at wicked Plots and Contrivances, as either Cromwell, or Ireton, or the chief of those Catiline's and as accomplished for Execution, having such Lawless, yet most Powerful Indemnity not only to protect them, but to shroud their other Conspiracies for themselves either against Church or State. He was one of those that had a principal hand in Burford business, and being thought to be discontented against their New Fangled Government, was by the Regicides Ordered to be taken into Custody; But those Messengers sent for him, found it a matter of more difficulty than they were aware of, for coming to his Lodging in Aldersgate-Street, and sending him word to come down to them, he resolving not to be taken, with a Stiletto killed two of them outright, and sorely wounding the third, escaped; but afterwards was retaken, being terribly wounded in his endeavouring to escape; when he was Arraigned at the Sessions-House in the Old Bailie, and Condemned to be Hanged, which was accordingly Executed on him, preventing thereby another more milder kind of Death, which must necessarily have ensued not long after by reason of his wounds.  
XV. Sir Henry Vane, the Proteus of the Times, a mere hodgepodge of Religion, one composed only of Treason and Ingratitude, whose Offences were of so crimson a die, that he was excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, and having remained a Prisoner for a good space, first in the Tower of London, and afterwards in the Isle of Scilly; He was at last for his manifold Treasons Arraigned at the King's Bench-Bar before the Lord Chief Justice, Foster, for Immagining, and Compassing the King's Death, and for Taking upon him, and Usurping the Government; To which he Pleaded the Authority of the Parliament, Justified it, and put the Court to a great deal of needless trouble, and impertinent repetitions, but disowned his meddling or making with the King's Death; but the notority of his crimes were so apparent, and obvious to the whole World, that he was Condemned to be Hanged, Drawn and Quartered; but through the intercession of some of his Friends who had deserved well in the King's Service, his Sentence was mitigated to a Beheading only, which was Executed on him June the 14. 1662. on the Scaffold at Tower-Hill, (where the Earl of Strafford first bled by his, and his Father's Treachery;) At the time of his Execution he ran out into Treasonable Discourses, but was stopped in his carreir, and after two or three fruitless warnings, his Notes endeavoured to be taken from him, which to prevent, he tore them in pieces, and in great passion not to be suffered to proceed in that Traitorous way, he submitted his Neck unto the Block.   

Come we in the next place to speak of those who were Executed for committing of Treason after his Majesty's Happy Restauration, and Setlement in his Throne again; where we shall find Traitors of so Desperate and Sanguine a disposition, as scarcely to be paralleled in former Ages; Men who though of different Tenets, and and who like Hydra's heads seemed to look several ways, yet cemented together in the tail, wherein lies the sting, being Enemies to all Civil Government, and whatsoever was decent, either in Church or State.  
And first of that bloody Attempt of Venner and his Myrmidons, which strange and unparallelled Action will afford the Truest Light and Judgement of that Fanatique, and desperate opinion of Chilianisme, and make after Ages to admire, that a handful of wild-brained People should dare to undertake such an Attempt against Metropolis of the Kingdom, which a well Governed Potent Army would not without good advice be driven unto.  
This Venner, a Wine-Cooper by Trade, with several others of his Gang, who were strongly persuaded that now was the Time come for Christ Personally to Reign upon Earth; having had several Meetings at Bell-Alley in Coleman-Street, where it was agreed amongst them, that the Powers of the Earth were to be Destroyed, and King Jesus alone to be set Up; Venner Preaching to them to this purpose (alluding to that of the Psalmist) That one of them should chase a Hundred, and a Hundred put Ten Thousand to flight; Assuring them also, That no Weapons form against them should prosper, nor hair of their head be touched. January 6. 1660. They took Arms, and in the dusk of the Evening came to St. Paul's Churchyard, where they mustered their small Party, and placed Centinals for the time, where an Innocent Person coming by accidentally, being by them asked whom he was for, and he answering according to the usual mode, For God, and King Charles, they immediately shot him, which Action soon Alarumed the City, and some Parties of the Trained Bands marched against them, but their strength being too great for those few Files, they without control marched along to Aldersgate, where the Constable being but weakly attended, was forced to let them out again; Here they Declared themselves for King Jesus, and those of their Friends whose Quarters were upon the Gates: From thence they proceeded to Beech-lane, where a Head-borough opposing them, they shot and killed him, and so with all hast marched to Cane-Wood, where for a while they remained; But the City having Intelligence thereof, sent out a Party of Horse and Foot, which took about Thirty of them, and brought them before the General, who sent them Prisoners to the Gatehouse.  
January the 9 after some Encouragement and Assurance of Victory from their Chieftain Venner, they again assumed their first Enterprise, and no sooner were the Watches and Guards removed, but they made their appearance at Bishopsgate, which they passed, and came into the City without opposition as far as Threadneedle-street, with such a confident resoluteness, that a Party of the Trained Bands designed to Watch that day, being sent out to follow them, were forced to Retreat to their Mainguard, when the whole Body advancing towards them, they retreated into Bishopsgate-street, where some of them took into an Alehouse at the sign of the Helmet, where they maintained a sharp Dispute, two of them being Killed, and two Taken, and as many Killed and Wounded of the Trained Bands. The next News of them was at Colledge-Hill, from whence they marched up into Cheapside, and so into Wood-street, as far as the Counter, where Venner who Headed them, being Armed with a Murrain on his head, and a Halberd in his hand, commanded the Prisoners to be let out, or else he told them they were but dead men; But before he could accomplish his designs, they were charged by the Lifeguard, whom they put to the Retreat, but they being seconded by two Companies of the Trained Bands, the Dispute was very sharp and desperate, until at last Venner being knocked down, and Tuffnel and Crag two of their prime Teachers fled, they began to give ground, and betook themselves to flight by several ways, the greatest part of them went down Wood-street, and so to Cripplegate, firing in the Rear at a Trained Band of Yellow who closely pursued them; at last they took in at the Blue Anchor Alehouse by the Postern, which House they maintained with much desperate courage, and would not hear of any Terms of Yielding; soon after came Lieutenant Colonel Cox with his Company and surrounded all places about it, and then some of the Soldiers got up upon the Tiling of the next House, which they cast down, and fired into the uppermost Room where the Rebels were, yet were they so desparately bend in their wickedness, that even then they refused Quarter, until a File of Musqueteers got up the Stairs, and having shot down the door, entered upon them, six of them being killed, and another wounded, yet one of them still refused Quarter, who being knocked down with the But end of a Musket, was afterwards shot; the rest yielded, who being demanded, why they craved not Quarter before, Answered, They durst not for fear their own Fellows should shoot them, of such a desperate resolution was the temper of their Spirits.  
In this Rebellious Insurrection were slain alike of both sides, Twenty Two of the King's Liege People, and Twenty Two of the Traitors. Twenty One more besides were taken, whose Names were as followeth, (viz.) Thomas Venner, their Chief Ringleader, the Captain of this Rebellious Rout; The Second to Venner were one Tuffnel a Carpenter living in Grays-Inn-lane, a desperate Fellow, who after He and his Party were forced over the Houses through Morelane, they fled into the Fields, and he having four or five Pistols about him, discharged them all before he could be got down; but at last he was so mortally wounded, that they brought him in a Chair to Newgate, and so they sent him to Christ-Church Hospital, where after three day's space he died of his wounds, and was carried into Christ-Church-Yard, for to be viewed, to see if any body would own him; but a hole being digged the Blue Coat Boys covered him with the Earth, and he was never further looked after. The next was Roger Hodgkins, a Button-Sellor in St. Clement's Lane near Lombard street; Giles Pritcherd, a Cowkeeper, Leonard Gowler, Ionas Allen, John Pym, William Orsingham, William Ashton, Stephen Fall, John Smith, William Corbet, John Dod, john Elestone, Thomas Harris, john Gardener, Robert Bradley, Richard Marten, john Patshall, Robert Hopkins, and john Wells. These Twenty and One were all brought to the Bar together, Tuffnel excepted; (their Trial succeeding soon after their Desperate Engagement) where the wounded Men had Chairs allowed them to sit down in, and after the Indictment was read, which was laid both to Treason and Murder; Thomas Venner was first called, who being asked Guilty or not Guilty, ran out into a wild Discourse about his Conversation in New-England, and concerning the Fifth Monarchy, and the Testimony within him above these Twenty years. He confessed, He was in the late Rising, but was not Guilty of Treason, intending not to Levy War against the King; and again ran out into impertinent Stories and Discourses as before; but being pressed by the Court to Answer to his Indictment, he pleaded Not Guilty, and for his Trial put himself upon God and the Country. In the like manner all the rest used many rambling diversions from the business, but at last pleaded to their Indictments: Whereupon the Witnesses were sworn, who made it appear, that Venner, Tuffnel, and Crag, (the two last being killed in the business) Did several times persuade their Congregation to take up Arms for King jesus, against the Powers of the Earth, (which were his Majesty, the Duke of York, the General, etc.) That they were to Kill all that opposed them: That they had been Praying and Preaching, but not Acting for God: That they Armed themselves at their Meetinghouse in Coleman-street, with Blunderbusses, Muskets, etc. Marten, Hopkins, Wells, and Patshall, the Witnesses being not so clear against them, were acquitted by the Jury, the other Sixteen were found Guilty, and being brought to the Bar, were demanded to show cause why Sentence of Death should not pass upon them? which they not doing, they were all Sixteen Condemned to be Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered. The Lord Chief Justice Foster charging Venner with the blood of his Complices, by his Seduction and Leading of them, he Answered, He did not; to which the Witnesses being produced again, he blasphemously evaded it with this quibble, and said, It was not He, but jesus that Led Them.  
According to the Sentence pronounced on them january 19 1661. Venner and Hodgkings (both desparately wounded in the Rebellion, and as yet uncured) were Drawn on Sledges from Newgate through Cheapside, over against their Meeting House in Swan-Alley in Coleman-street, where they were Executed according to the Sentence pronounced against them. Venner (according to the nature of most desperate Traitors) vindicating Himself and his Fact, being confident he said, That the time was at hand when other judgement would be, reflecting much upon the Government: But if the one was mad, the other raved, Hodgkins in way of Praying, Calling down Vengeance from Heaven upon the King, the judges, and the City of London; nor would he leave, until the Hangman by the Sheriff's order turned him off the Ladder; so that as they lived in a mad Religion, they died as madly in the same: Their Quarters were set upon the Four Gates of the City, by the late Executed Regicides, whose quarrel and revenge they undertook, in this desperate attempt, and their Heads upon Poles as lovingly by some of them on London-Bridge.  
The same day Giles Pritchard, a Cowkeeper, and another of them were Executed in Cheapside, and on the Monday following, being the 21. of jan. Nine more of them were Executed at five several places, (viz.) Two at the West end of St. Paul's, Two at the Bull and Mouth in St. Martin's, Two at Beech-lane, Two at the Royal Exchange, and One a notable Fellow named Leonard Gowler at Bishopsgate. They all (especially the last) obstinately persisted in their Error, only a young man who was Hanged in Redcross-street, did relent and repent of his sin, and the blood he had spilt, but yet could not be persuaded out of his opinion of Chilianisme.  
Thus this desperate attempt ended in a halter, and their Declaration called A door of Hope opened, proved to be a trap door, to draw silly souls to destruction. I shall here add those Verses made under Venners picture, as being pertinent to this purpose, and so take my leave of them. 
His Helmet was a Crown by Revelation,  
His Halberd was a Sceptre for the Nation;  
So the Fifth Monarchy anew is graced,  
King Venner next to John a Leydon placed.   
To these we may add one John James, a Small-cole-man by Trade, a rank Fifth Monarchist, and one who had been engaged in Venners business, but was absent, or had saved himself the last day they broke out; yet notwithstanding that fair warning, departed not from his malice, but continued his Meetings and Conventicles with others of his desperate Crew, amongst whom he was a principal Rabbi or Teacher. This man, as Venner had done before him, and as was couched in their Declaration, flew out into several Traitorous Speeches and Invectives against the King's Person, Government, and Family, which being overheard by some Neighbours living near, James was seized upon, and carried before a Justice, who committed him to Newgate, and the next Term was brought to a Trial at the King's Bench-Bar, where the words were proved against him, and he convicted and condemned as a Traitor. November 27. 1661. He was drawn on a Sledge from Newgate to Tyburn, some of his Sect throwing themselves into the same Sledge, and embracing him, so highly opinionated were they of this their silly though bold Seducer. At the Gallows he denied the words, but owned and avowed his Chilianisme, and the Personal Reign of Christ, and with the usual confidence of his Party resolutely died. His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesty's Orders, and his Head fixed upon a Pole in White-Chappel, near to their Meeting House, for an Example to his Fellows.  
Yet could not the ill success of these discourage others from Plots against his Majesty, but still new Treasons was hatched by the Rebellious Spirits of one Captain Baker, a New-England man, and great acquaintance of Hugh Peter, who preferred him to be one of Olivers Pensioners; with him was engaged one George Phillips a Sergeant in the Colonel's Company of the White Regiment, Thomas Tongue a distiller of Strong Waters, Francis Stubbs a Cheesemonger, James Hide Gunner, John Selly Compass-maker, and Nathaniel Gibbs Feltmaker. Their Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King, the Duke of York, General Monk, and Sir Richard Brown, and generally the Bishops, the Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty, that were not of their opinion, and assisted them not: Their Commander in Chief was to be Ludlow, and one Colonel Danvers, Master Nye, Master Lockyer, Lieutenant Strange; the Captains, Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design; Their Councils was carried on by Six, who never sat twice in a Place, nor could be known to any two; Deal Castle in Kent, and Windsor was promised to be theirs. This Treasonable Plot was by one Hill (who was endeavoured to be drawn into it by Captain Baker) discovered to Sir Richard Brown, with the Names of the Conspirators, who were for the same apprehended, and December 11. 1662. brought to a Trial, where being by plain Evidence convicted, they were condemned, and December 22. Four of them, (viz.) Phillip's, Tongue, Gibbs and Stubbs were Executed, and their Heads set upon several Poles, two on each Tower-Hill, the nearest place to the Tower. Afterwards February the 20. one Gibbs, Brother of the aforesaid Nathaniel, who fled, and was retaken, was sent to the Session's House in the Old Bailie, and with the said Captain Baker condemned for the former Treason, and both of them Executed at Tyburn.  
To these might be added the Intended Rebellion in Yorkshire, and some other of the Northern Counties, by some desperate fanatics, for which divers of them were Executed at York, and elsewhere; but we shall wave our Discourse of them, and conclude with the Execution of some Notorious Scotch Traitors.  
And first of the Marquis of Argyle, one who was a desperate Enemy to the Old King all along, a chief Contriver and Fomenter of that Destructive Covenant, the Ignis Fatuus of that Nation, which the Scots believed (as the Trojans did by their Image of Pallas) came from Heaven; a greater Cider with Cromwell, and one who had carried himself very undutifully and irreverently to his Majesty, at what time he was amongst them in Scotland; yet notwithstanding all these insolences, upon the King's Restitution with great confidence he came up to London, hoping to have obtained his pardon for all those base Treasons he had so covertly Acted in that Kingdom, and that his Majesty according to his Gracious Inclination would have passed by all his Offences; But such was the general hatred and detestation of that People towards him, especially of the Nobility, that by the King's Order he was committed to the Tower, and from thence, not long after in order to his Trial conveyed to Edinburgh in Scotland, where he was brought to account for all his abominable Treasons, and notwithstanding he cunningly defended himself, and pleaded the Kings Pardon, and the Treaties in 1650. and 1651. yet was there such Crimes of a later date, (besides the never to be forgotten Treachery of Selling King Charles the First to the English) as justly condemned him, whereupon June the 1. 1661. He was accordingly Beheaded with the Maiden, for so is the Axe called in Scotland; At his death he very much justified the Covenant, that Scottish Witch, which consisted of 666 words, the number of the Beast in the Revelation, and which cost almost as many Thousand men's lives as there were words contained in the same.  
Near unto the same time, Master James Guthery, a prime Remonstrator, and a violent Adversary to the King in his Lieutenant the Marquis of Montross, together with one Captain Giffan a Runnegado to Cromwell, were by Sentence and Decree of Parliament hanged at Edinburgh; so far (to use the words of an Elegant Author writing upon these Affairs) the Laws, and a suffering sense of the Miseries and Reproaches that Nation lay under by these Men, and their Partisans Gild, did now prevail against the Dominion of the Kirk, which had Enslaved and Enchanted the whole Mass of that People.  
We shall conclude all with the Lord Warreston, a wicked Knave, a Committee of Safety Man, notoriously Infamous for his Treason in Scotland, and a fugitive there; who being Proclaimed a Rebel and Traitor, was taken and secured in France, and sent over hither, where having remained some time in the Tower, he was conveyed into Scotland, and there Tried, Condemned, and Executed according to Law, 1662.  Ecclesiastes, 10.20. 
Curse not the King, no not in thy thought, for a bird in the Air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.   

The Contents.  

The Loyal Martyrs Murdered in Scotland.  
1 COl. Nathan. Gordon 42  
2 Sr. Robert Spotswood 43  
3 Mr. Andrew Guthrey ib.  
4 Mr. Will. Murrey. 44  
5 marquis of Montross idem   

The Loyal Persons slain in his Majesty's Service.  
1 COronet Porter 57  
2 Lord Aubigney 58  
3 Earl of Lindsey idem  
4 Sir Edw. Varney idem  
5 Col. Munro idem  
6 Earl of Northampton idem  
7 Earl of Denbigh 59  
8 Sir Bevill Greenvil idem  
9 Mr. Leake idem  
10 Mar. de Vieu Ville idem  
11 Earl of Carnarvan 60  
12 Earl of Sunderland idem  
13 Lord Fauckland idem  
14 Sir Hen. Howard idem  
15 Earl of Kingston 61  
16 Col. Cavendish idem  
17 Lord Grandison 62  
18 Sr. Ingram Hopton idem  
19 Lord Stuart idem  
20 Sir John Smith 63  
21 Col. Manning idem  
22 Lord Carey idem  
23 Sr. W. Wentworth 64  
24 L. Col. Smith idem  
25 Sr. John Digby idem  
26 Col. Mine idem  
27 Sr. W. St. Leger idem  
28 Col. Gage 65  
29 Col. St. George idem  
30 Col. Taylor idem  
31 Sr. Rich. Crane 66  
32 Earl of Leichfield idem  
33 Sr. Fr. Carnaby idem  
34 Major Cufaud idem  
35 M Griffith 67  
36 Mr. Gerard idem  
37 St. Tho. Dalison idem  
38 Sr. N. Fortescu 68  
39 Sr. T. Turbervil idem  
40 Major Threave idem  
41 Col. Stanhop idem  
42 Sr. N. Kemish idem  
43 Lord Villers 69  
44 Sr. Compton 70  
45 Sr. W. Vaughan idem  
46 Sr. Art. Aston idem  
47 Sr. Edw. Varney 71  
48 Col. Warren idem  
49 Col. Hammond 72  
50 Cap. Goffe. idem  
51 Sr. John Brown idem  
52 Lord Widrington idem  
53 Sr. Tho. Tilsely 73  
54 Col. Boynton 74  
55 Duke Hamilton idem  
56 Col. Morgan idem   

The Loyal Confessors.  
1 LOrd Finch 76  
2 Secret. Windebanck 77  
3 Bishop of Ely idem  
4 Dr. Featly 78  
5 Sr. Robert Heath 79  
6 Judge Bartlet idem  
7 Judge Jenkins 80  
8 Lord Hopton 81  
9 Sr. Ed. Nicholas 82  
10 Earl of Clarendon idem  
11 Lord Wilmot 83  
12 Dr. Sheldon 84  
13 Dr. Hammond idem  
14 Sir Marm. Landale idem  
15 Mr. Ro. Le Strange 85  
16 Earl of Norwich idem  
17 Sir John Stowell 86  
18 Sir John Berkinhead 87  
19 Dr. Barwick idem  
20 Earl of Cleaveland 88  
21 Lord Gerard idem  
22 Sir John Owen 89  
23 L. Loughborough idem  
28 Sir A. Reynoldson 92  
29 Col. Russel idem  
30 Lord Bellacis idem  
31 Col. Ashbornhan 93  
32 Sir Hum. Bennet idem  
33 L. Mordant 94  
34 Sir Tho. Woodcock 95  
35 Mr. Chr. Pits idem  
36 Mr. W. Garrant 96  
37 Henry Friar idem  
38 Marq. Winchester 97  
39 Earl of Oxford idem  
40 Sir Geo. Booth idem  
41 Sir Tho. Midleton 98   

The King's judges.  
1 JOhn Bradshaw 99  
2 Oliver Cromwell 102  
3 Henry Ireton 104  
4 Har. Waller 105  
5 Col. Walton 106  
6 Thomas Harrison 107  
7 Col. Ed. Whaley 108  
8 Col Tho. Pride idem  
9 Col. Isaac Ewer 109  
10 The Lord Grey 110  
11 Lord Munson idem  
12 Sir I. Danvers 111  
13 Sir Tho. Maleverer idem  
14 Sir Io. Bourcher 112  
15 Isaac Pennington idem  
16 Henry Martin 113  
17 Will. Purefoy 114  
18 Col. Berkstead idem  
19 john Blakeston 116  
20 Gilbert Millington idem  
21 Tho. Chaloner 117  
22 Sir W. Constable idem  
23 Edmond Ludlow 118  
24 Col. Hutchinson idem  
25 Sir Micha. Lieusie 119  
26 Robert Titchburn idem  
27 Owen Rowe 120  
28 Robert Lilburn idem  
29 Adrian Scroop 112  
30 Richard Dean idem  
31 Col. Okey 122  
32 john Hewson 123  
33 William Goffe. idem  
34 Cornel. Holland 124  
35 john Carew idem  
36 John Jones 125  
37 Per. Pelham 126  
38 Thomas Wogan idem  
39 Fran. Allen idem  
40 Dan. Blagrave 127  
41 John Moor 128  
42 Will. Say idem  
43 Franc. Lascels 129  
44 Ja. Chaloner idem  
45 Gregory Clement idem  
46 Sir G▪ Norton 130  
47 John Venus idem  
48 Thom. Andrews 131  
49 〈◊〉 Stapely idem  
50 Tho. Horton idem  
51 John Lisle 132  
52 John Dixwell 133  
53 Miles Corbet idem  
54 Simon Meyne 134  
55 John Alured 135  
56 Henry Smith idem  
57 Humphrey Edward's 136  
58 John Fry idem  
59 Ed. Harvey 137  
60 Tho. Scot idem  
61 William Cawley 138  
62 John Downs idem  
63 Thomas Hammond 139  
64 Vincent Porter idem  
65 Augustine Garland 140  
66 George Fleetwood idem  
67 James Temple 141  
68 Peter Temple idem  
69 Thomas Wait. 14●   

Accessary Regicides.  
1 John Cook 144  
2 Hugh Peter's 145  
3 Daniel Axtel 147  
4 Dr. Daurislaws 149  
5 Da. Broughton 150  
6 Edw. Dendy 151  
7 Sr. Hen. Mildmay idem  
8 Robert Wallop idem  
9 Tho. Hoyle 152  
10 Lockier 153  
11 Sir Tho. Martin id.  
12 Sir Hen. Holcroft 154  
13 Col. Rainsbrough idem  
14 〈◊〉 Marston 155  
15 Sir Hen. Vane 156   

Traitors Executed since his Majesty's return.  
1 Tho. Venner etc. 158  
2 John James 167  
3 Cap. Baker, etc. 169  
4 The Rebels in Yorkshire 170  
5 Marq. of Argyle idem  
6 James Guthery 172  
7 Lord Warreston idem   
FINIS.