OLIVER cronwell The Late Great tyrant HIS lifeguard: OR THE Names of those who complied and conspired with him all along in his Horrid Designs to bring this NATION to universal ruin and Confusion.  
Together with, A proper and peculiar Character of every one of the Persons, suitable to their barbarous Actions, and the several Inclinations of their most violent aod greedy Natures.  
AS ALSO The Covenant which they took, and the most eminent Danger into which they had brought both State and Church, and the miraculous Mercies of God in delivering us from them by restoring unto us our most gracious KING, whom GOD sand long to Reign over us.  
London, Printed for Francis coals dwelling in the Old bailie, 1660.   

Cromwells the late TYRANTS lifeguard.  
THe Guard being called according to custom, and every man being name by his Name, there began to arise some scruple concerning John Lambert; whether he ought to belong to the lifeguard, or not; in regard that the great Usurper some few years before his death, had not only discountenanced him, but took away his Commission from him; To which it was suddenly answered by Berkstead, Tichburn, and Ireton, that he ought to appear above any other, and to be numbered in the chiefest rank amongst them; for as Lucifer was afraid when Bradshaw was dead, that he would have been too hard for him, and made himself President of Hell, so cronwell alive stood in great fear of Lambert, not in vain believing that if he had been left alone, he took the right way to make himself Protector in his place; Lambert was therefore called in the first place, and that it might appear how well he did deserve it, he had this Character given him.  
John Lambert, the unstable heady, and ambitious that preferred his desire of greatness and supremacy above reason, or conscience, that made Religion a slave and a prostitute to his own lust, that would put out and in again the eye of Justice as he himself pleased, and who in all parts was equal to his Mr. cronwell, if not before him, the excess of blood only excepted, and who undoubted had had his place, if cronwell had not forestalled him.  
The next who was called, was John Berkstead, a man delivered up to cruelty, fraud, and avarice, and who seemed as much to be Cromwels Creature, as of his lifeguard.  
The third was Sir Henry Vane, who had his honesty by inheritance from his father, and the best part of his Religion from Rome.  
The next was Tho. Chaloner, a man of the same temper and Religion, witness Father Coe Confessor to the late Pope Urban the 8th, and Clement the 7th. the Pope now living.  
Oliver St. John, who held counsel with cronwell all night, and contrived all by day how to gratify the Tyrant and raise himself by bringing this Nation to an universal ruin and confusion.  
Thomas Pride, heretofore a Dray-man, but he was not of Davids mind; for he forsook the sword to take the Sling, but Pride forsook the Sling to take the Sword.  
John Hewson the cobbler, who being made a Lord by the Tyrant, and meeting with his Corrival Pride, Pride in derision of his greatness,  told him he saw a piece of cobblers Wax sticking to the scape of his Scarlet Cloak, to whom Hewson presently replied, It was no matter, a handful of Brewers grains would take it away at any time.  
Nicholas Love, who in hate to the King, and love to novelty, and avarice, swallowed down whole bishoprics, and consented to the Kings Murder, being one of the wicked Judges of their high Court of Justice.  
Sir Michael Levesey, so little beholding unto Christendom, that hardly any one in his Country of Kent, will afford him a good word.  
Robert T●ichburn, a man so delivered up to Faction, and of so obstinate a spirit against Order and true Piety, that he often muzzled the mouths of dying men, and most unchristianly silenced them by his barbarous authority in their last Confession and Devotions.  
Henry Ireton his brother in blood and mischief, and more near in blood and cruelty of complexion to the Usurper himself then his own Sons were, whose Acts( as the Times then stood, and in comparison of these men) may be more dispensed with, as only bearing a relish of original Sin.  
Christopher Pach, worse then the Dog in the Fable, who to gain the shadow lost the substance.  
Henry Martin, whose honesty you may find in a Goat, whose Religion in a Weather-cock, whose conscience is like a Cork on the top of the Sea, and whose Fortunes like a Plummet, desperately lost in the bottom of it.  
charles Fleetwood, the Fiddle-saddle of the Times, the stirrup of his Rivals, the Indeed la of Reformation; a man, of the whining folly of whose spirit, the wisdom of God made a great use, for the restoring of my Lord the King.  
John Lisle, to the cruelty, the malice, and the subtlety of whose Spirit, the Usurper in his most prodigious exigencies and attempts, made always his constant addresser, as if he had contracted with the Devil for the tradition and monopoly of sin.  
John Desbrough, mad with the height of his unexpected Fortunes; a man always on the gallop, a poor mans Son on horse back, the most hasty and worst counselor, but the greatest pretender in nature.  
Sir John Danvers, an empty Tub, that makes the greatest sound; a boys gay bubble blown in the air, and broken; a true Courtier, that would fain seem something, when he is nothing, nay, one that is worse then nothing, being all over perfidious & ungrateful.  
Miles Corbet, a godly proud man, one that believes that God is served with faction, noise, and hypocrisy, and accordingly doth serve him, and counteth any thing Religion, that tendeth to profit & Innovation.  
Thomas Harrison, the great Professor of Purity and Parity, one who believes the greatest Order is to observe no order, the resolved Leveller of Churches, States, and Kingdoms, and though like a Boat-man he looks not the same way he rows, yet the master of all irregularity, and Confusion.  
Edm. Ludlow, a man as all the rest, principled against Magistracy & Ministry, a promoter of faction, & protessed friend to the Anabaptists, Quakers, and Antinomians.  
Tho. Scot, This is a man of a delicate Atheism, that thinks he is able to circumvent the Devil, and hath wit enough to out reach Hell, the presence, and person of this man addeth much more estimation to this horrible Lifeguard of the Tyrant.  
Isaac Pennington that hath been a Traitor over and over, and whose example at the beginning of the War was much prejudice to the City.  
Edm. Prideaux, who road Post to be rich, and in his whole practise, since the Rebellion began, made use of one wickedness to another.  
John B●adshaw, a very Judas who for lucre and prefcrment sold his Master.  
Dan. Axtel, who came out of Ireland, having sowed the seeds of Rebellion and sedition there, to raise the fruits of it in England.  
Sir Arthur Hasterig, a blustering Northern wind; that would bear down all before it; one that will carry no coals, though he hath got many thousands by them; a bold Incendiary, and who to satisfy his violent apprehensions would be always in the Van of an insurrection, and mingle heaven and earth together.  
Luke Robinson, A Wolf in Sheeps clothing, a pill of poison cunningly gilded over; an underminer, and the supplanter of peace, Jacobs voice, but Esau's hands.  
Edw. Whaley, he deserveth to be ranked amongst the foremost, for cruelty, craft, hypocrisy, & ambition, and who, as all the rest, pretending Gods made it the only End of the War to enrich themselves.  
William Goffe, of the same temper and complexion altogether, who to secure his ill gotten goods would have it sealed with the most innocent blood of his own sovereign.  
John Okey, A man who took up Arms, being weary of his low condition and carried on by Fortune, made plunder, Innovation, and profaneness his Religion.  
John allured, a man of a turbulent Spirit, and apt to take fire like Gunpowder, but a cruel, and a close pursuer of whatsoever he intended to put in execution.  
Will. Smith, the very Minion of the late Usurper, & apt to take any impression which he would stamp upon him, whether good, or bad, witness the death of John Syndercomb.  
Sir Hardress Waller, who beieg one of those appointed to consider of the time and place for the murdering of the late King, reported that the open street before Whiteball was the fittest place, whereupon it was ordered that he should be there executed between the hours of 10. in the morning, & 5. in the afternoon.  
Thomas L. Gray of Groby, a man of as daring a Spirit as the Tyrant himself, and who once demanded his Commission from them, but receiving a blow for a word, he always afterwards jumped into the same judgement, and designs with him.  
own row, who would venture through any thing that seemed to obstruct Democratical power, and having sealed and subscribed to the taking away of the life of our late King, made it afterwards his business to tread and to trample upon all Kingly power.  
Bulstrode Whitlock, that would persuade the Q. of Sweden how far the most unjust power of a Tyrannical Protector was to be preferred before the ancient and lawful Government of this Nation, under a most heroic, Wise, and a most merciful King.  
Will. Puresoy, that loved to go with the Gang, and being tied up to the Army principles, believed the strongest way was the best way, of this sense were many more, whose names we want room in this place to comprehend.  
But Hugh Peters Chaplain to the Tyrant, and his abhomined lifeguard, must not be forgotten, who instead of preaching the Gospel, made it his business to preach dissension, and himself confessing it, conspired with the late Tyrant to take away the Kings life, in a Meadow betwixt Ware & Hodsden.  
William cuthbert, one of the suborned Witnesses, that were produced and sworn in the pretended High Court of Justice, to give evidence against the Kings most sacred Majesty.  
Robert Lacie and Robert Roads of Nottinghamshire, with 16. more of that desperate and perjured Crew, whose fellows are hardly to be found in Hell, and who preferring the profit of unrighteous Mammon, before the honour and the interest of the Kings most sacred person, do most justly merit to have their names to hang on the files of eternal infamy.  
These men having the Tyrant for their Leader, and being possessed with the spirit of avarice, and armed with the desperate affectuation of Innovation, and the malice of Ambition, at what thunder would they startle, at what uncontrolled Almightiness would this Fury turn dastard? These are they who made a Covenant with Hell, and into whom the Romish Emissaries, and Ingeneers of darkness had most subtly insinuated themselves, to divide and distracted, to delude and destroy this Nation; and the powers and policies of Hell so far prevailed as to have laid the very necks of Magistracy & Ministry upon the block of direful Anarchy, and Arbitrary Government; All foundation: both Religious & politic were put out of course, and threatened a sudden ruin both to Church and State: The Ordinances of God were flighted and opposed by strong, & spetious pretences, & strong delusions; the distempers both personal & public were growing so inveterate so complicate & so manifold, that our Physitians could do little else then pity & bewail our expiring Liberties. What cause then have we now to admire the miracalous patience, and bounty of our most gracious God, who hath made us the living monuments of so great a mercy? How are we to praise him that so great a change should be brought about with so little blood, and opposition? How are we bound to pray unto him for the long life of King charles our dread sovereign, that under his most happy reign our Land may flourish again with righteousness peace, and plenty, Amen.  
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