THE STATE martyrology. OR, INNOCENT BLOOD Speaking its Mournful TRAGEDY, In the HISTORY of the late ANARCHY since 1648. to this present Time 1660.   portrait of James, Marquess of Montrose 
The undaunted Marquis of Montross   portrait of Arthur Lord Capell 
The Renowned Lord Capell   portrait of Charles II 
The high and Mighty Monarch CHARLES the second by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the faith G:   portrait of James, Earl of Derby 
The valiant Earl of Derby   portrait of Dr John Hewitt 
The Reverend and truly Pious Doctor Hewitt  

A List of some Worthy Persons Who have Suffered Violent Deaths for their Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty KING Charles the Second.  
DUke Hamilton, Earl of Cambridge,  
Henry Lord Rich, Earl of Holland.  
Arthur Lord Capell; All three Beheaded in the Palace Yard Westminster, March 9th. 1649.  
Col. John Morris late Governor of Pontefract-castle, executed at York, August 23. 1649.  
James marquis of Montrosse Hanged on a Gallows 30 Foot high at Edingburgh, his Head, Legs, and Arms set on several places.  
Colonel Eusebius Andrews Beheaded on Tower Hill, August the 22d. 1650.  
Sir Henry Hid, Beheaded near the Exchange London, March the 4th. 1650.  
James Earl of Derby Beheaded at Bolton in Lancashire, October the 15th. 1651.  
Mr. John Gerbard, Beheaded on Tower Hill, July the 10th. 1654.  
Mr. Peter Vowel, Executed at Charing Cross, the 10th of July, 1654.  
Colonel Penruddock. Hugh Grove Esq. both Beheaded in the Castle at Exon, May the 16, 1655.  
Sir Henry Slingsby. The Reverend and Pious, Dr. John Hewit, both Beheaded the 8th. of June, 1658.  
Colonel Ashton, and John Betteley, both Hanged and Quartered, the first in Tower street, the other in Cheapside, and Edmund Stacy Hanged in Cornhill.   
THe whole Intrigue and design of the Detestable and Horrid Murder of the KING, with all its concomitant and succeeding passages of State, with which the Counsels and contrivements of all the complices and partakers in that abominable fact, have pieced and patched up their several forms of pretended Government; are herein (as fare as the best insight can take a view of it both by the public, and some private papers) produced to the light: to the end that monstrous Gild which hath so infamed our times and Nation, may be palpably detected and imputed only to the parties engaged about, and conspiring in it; to the discharge of the Kingdom from the wickedness of that unparalle'ld Regicide.  
It is past all question that Oliver Cromwell was principal, and the chief accessary in complotting of it was Henry Ireton his Son in Law the than Commissary General of the Army, Sir Gilbert Pickering was a great Privado, and Sir Arthur Hasilrigge a choice instrument to the plot. the first Overt and open Act of the Design to oliver's often dreamt of Sovereignty was the seizing of his Majesty by Cornet joice at Holmeby; next the Army's Declaration to the Parliament, (in pursuance of the Agreement of the People) for impartial justice, then forcing the House of Commons and debarring the Lords from sitting in their House, putting a juncto of Common Council upon the City; all which pernicious and villainous courses meeting with a Degenerate sort of men, and of mean Births and Fortunes still remaining in the lower House, who were assured of making themselves by the spoils of the Church and State, when they came to be sole Lords of them, quickly brought that sad and calamitous parricide to maturity.  
These irregular violent proceed were delivered of a High Court of Justice, more Exorbitant than any their former Actions; to make this up they pack Commissioners, like Master, like Men, and with precious promises purchase Bradshaw to be the impudent Mouth of their Lawless Court; the main Engineers whereof were William Say, Augustine Garland, Gilbert Millington, both Sir Henry Vanes, etc. This pretended formal Judicature being by such Diabolical Machinations erected, they bring the KING to their BAR, and there against all Law, Reason, and Humanity, (Duty, and Allegiance was lost before) condemn their Liege Lord and Sovereign.  
Immediately after the Barbarous Execution of his Majesty; they make an Act against Kingly Government printed at large, Vote the Supreme power and Authority to be and reside in the people thinking thereby to Collogue and ingratiate with them, then fall they to their former Butchery, set their High Court of Justice at work again with fresh Bloodhounds and a New Precedent, for Bradshaw was Lorded, and Scorned to do Journey work; and by that same power Murder Duke Hamilton, the Earl of Holland, and the renowned Lord Capell, March 19 1648. And make an Act to abolish the House of Peers.  
Then they make an Act for an Assessment of 120000 per mensem to secure the Liberties of the people, Declare themselves a Free State, and Commonwealth, take off the KING'S Head from his Statue in the Royal Exchange, and by and by after (as ashamed of their ridiculous malice) Remove the said Statue.  
The next thing in order to the Establishment of their unmatchable Tyranny, they endeavour Leagues with Foreign States, send over Dorislaus one that drew up the Charge against KING, to the States of Holland; but the first night he came to the Hague where the KING our present Sovereign than was, he was killed by one Whitford a Scotchman, the like was done to Ascham another of their Ministers sent into Spain; they send Richard Bradshaw the Kinsman of that Belial Precedent to the City of Hamborough maintain Intelligencers and Spies in all the Courts of Christendom, and with the grand Signior. The 22d of August 1650. thirsting after more blood, their High Court of Justice Condemns Colonel Eusebius Andrews for receiving Commissions from the KING, and by a Committee Sentenced Sir Henry Hid for being the KING'S Agent at Constantinople. And now upon some Reasons of State the King of Spain acknowledges them for a Free State, than they pick a quarrel with the Hollander in which they were successful: but their Usurped Tyrannical Dominion began to wain, when they thought themselves settled and sure in the Saddle; for after the defeat given to the KING at Worecster, their General purposed to rule the Roast himself, and reap the fruit of his perjuries and time serving Declarations, to which purpose he minded their Rumpships, of the General suspicion and grievance of the people, as if they intended to perpetuate themselves in the Government: this overture from him they promised to take into consideration, and to Lull him a sleep (who was Restless in his Ambition) confer upon him all the Honours and Respects imaginable, (though they had before gratifyed him largely out of the Sales of Delinquents Estates, out of which they had raised vast sums to their Exchequer.)  
But all would not do, he had dreamt he should be a KING and he was resolved to pursue such leading hopes to it as (his much celebrated) providence had so fairly offered him. And it is here remarkable that he took the same advantage by their intended indissolution to turn them out of doors, as they did to turn the KING out by his Gracious Act of continuing the parliament till their own pleasure; so justly was their ingratitude and baseness retaliated. This year March 29, 1651. Brown-Bushel, beheaded under Tower Hill; and now so odious were they to their own party by oliver's defaming of them to the Saints, that a Council of Officers after a Humiliation and seeking of God, find it a duty incumbent on their spirits to move the General to put a period to the present parliament, this happened in April, 1653. Accordingly the General acquaints the House with the proposals of the Army, and that the good people of the Nation ought not longer to be delayed, or frustrated of the price of that blood and treasure had been expended. Now the Rump began to stink, and found out what their Myrmidon Oliver aimed at, and therefore to obviate his aspiring conceits, they appoint a Committee to inform him that as the Nation stood, there was no probability of asserting the good Old Cause without the continuance of the parliament, that they would fill up their House immediately, and then proceed to qualifications for new Elections, to which end they laid before him the danger of the return of the Common Enemy (so they termed his now Majesty) & that this would be the greatest Service could be done him, with sundry other reasons, which when Oliver had laughed at, at a Conference with some twenty of their Members, and acquainted them with his Resolution; he accompanied with several chief Officers of his Army entered the House, where having Declared his business, some by force, some through fear, some not without murmuring and reluctancy departed thence; And to set a fair Gloss on what he had done, and give some satisfaction to the people (who were as glad of the change as himself) he published a Declaration wherein he tells the people the same story he had told as aforesaid to the parliament. And this was the first Comical Scene of our troubles, to which the Kingdoms cried plaudite.  
This Action as it made Cromwell the more acceptable to the sober part of people, who were overjoyed to be any way rid of that accursed thing, so did it highly conduce to his Designs in the minds and affections of the Phanatique Crew, who were always the constant Votaries of the Army: from among these therefore he picks up, and gathers a Congregation which he calls a Parliament, in the interim erects a Council of State, and by a Letter of Summons in May 1653. they were convened at Whitehall. Monday June 4. 1653 their business was after a short sitting to confer their power of Parliament upon Cromwell, (for any pretence of right would serve turn that had the Authority of the SWORD) and accordingly the major part did so, as they were bid, and by a thing called an Instrument resigned their power into his hands. (Note that in this foolish or Barebones Parliament, which consisted of 120, there were near 20 Rumpers.)  
That Instrument begot another of 42 Strings or Articles, and by the Music of this, Cromwell was made Lord protector, and on the 16. of December, 1653. he was installed in Westminster-hall, in the Court of Chancery, Precedent Lisle administering him an Oath, to which Oliver lifting up his NOSE, and EYES, swore devoutly and religiously, as he had used, in the presence of mine Heers the Judges, and my Lord Mayor, and his Brethren the Aldermen, who were invited to the Solemnity. In requital whereof, they invited his Highness to dine with them at Grocers-Hall, where he was magnificently treated in February following. A Proclamation that all Writs should run in the name and stile of the Lord protector. An Ordinance to repeal the Act of Engagement, several Ordinances touching the Administration and Government of Scotland. All this while he kept square with the Cavalier, now it was time (July 1654.) to think of a plot, to that purpose he had a Secretary for his turn one Thurloe, formerly Judge St. John's Man, he and his Emissiaries, Trepan Mr. John Gerard, and Mr. Vowel, as guilty of conspiring with one Fox, about the protector's death, for which the two first were Executed by Sentence of Lisle Precedent of a new High Court of Justice.  
By this time he thought he was Radicated in the Government, and to try ●onclusions (for as long as the SWORD was in his hand he was safe enough) he summoned a parliament in November which continued 5 Lunary months, wholly spent in questioning the power that called them, and debating the Instrument; at the dissolution of this parliament, OLIVER used these words, viz. This one thing I speak advised before God, that this is my constant judgement, if this one thing had been inserted, that this Government should have been and placed Hereditary in my Family, I would have rejected it. And after, If this be of humane structure and invention, and if it be an old plotting to bring things to this pass, and that they are not the births of providence, than they will come to nothing. Note, the Rump was too hard for Oliver this parliament, and spoiled all his projects and designs upon it, this goes by the name of the Dumb parliament, presently after follows the insurrection in the West.  
But he had purposed to have money by Hook or Crook, (he had a little before made peace with the Hollanders upon disadvantageous terms) he therefore by the advice of Mazarine, falls out with the Spaniard, and a Fleet was sent to conquer his West Indies, and dispossess him of his Mines; but he reaped nothing from thence, but Loss, and Dishonour. A peace is concluded with Sweden, by the management of Bulst. Whitlocke, one of his prime Engines of State, presently after the French peace; so that there was no danger to him from abroad. Still money was lacking, and Authority to obtain it from the people, and he saw that he must either govern arbitrarily or precariously; Wherefore in 1656. he calls another parliament, by which secluding the major, and Honester part, and by corrupt Elections, he was declared to be protector, and accordingly vested by Sir Thomas Widrington, Speaker. June 20. 1657. another House Voted and then the parliament prorogued. Met again in a full House January after, and ready to question him; he comes to the painted Chamber, and in a fury dissolves them. And now he began to be cruel in earnest, and discovers the bloodiness of his mind, Innocent Sir Henry Slingsby, Dr. Hewit, etc. murdered by a High Court of Justice. An English Army in Flanders take Mardike and Dunkirk. His daughter Cleypoole dies. And on the 3d. of September, 1558. death summoned him to an account, and put an end to his short and troublesome Domination and Rule.  
Richard succeeds his Father, calls a parliament, dissolves it through the threats of the Army, and Exit. Enter again Sir Rump, and out again and for ever, whose exorbitant late wicked actions stink so fresh yet every where, that it will be irksome and loathsome to repeat them.  
To Conclude, by the wisdom and unparallelled Conduct of our Noble General, we are hopefully arrived at a reestablishment of our Laws, Liberties, and Religion, under the Government of his most Excellent Majesty, CHARLES the 2d, whom God long, and long preserve. He was proclaimed, May 8. 1660.   

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