A lively Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded upon the Scaffold jan: 30: 1648:  
A representation of the execution of the King's Judges.    

The True CHARACTERS OF THE Educations, Inclinations and several Dispositions Of all and every one of those Bloody and Barbarous Persons, Who Sat as Judges upon the Life of our late Dread Sovereign KING CHARLES I. Of ever Blessed Memory.  
TOGETHER With a True Account of the Horrid Temptations and Suggestions, by which the Principallest of them did first draw in themselves, and afterwards their Associates unto the Committing of that Execrable Murder.  
LONDON, Printed for Edward Thomas, at the Sign of the Adam and Eve in Little Britain without Aldersgate, 1661.   

To the Reader.  
THe Conspirators and Abettors in taking away the Life of His late Sacred Majesty, as they were many in Number, so their Crimes were not all of one Latitude; they are therefore distinguished by their Punishments, as they are distinguished by the Nature and Degrees of their Offences: The most Capital being Excepted both for Life and Estate; in which Number there are Forty nine: Others only to suffer in their Estates, in which Number there are Seven. And some others the Abettors, the Principal whereof is William Lenthall, to suffer both in Life and Estate, if they shall be found for the time to come to accept of any Offices, Civil or Military, or to act any thing prejudicial to the Government of his Sacred Majesty: And in this Number there are Eighteen specified in the Act of General Pardon and Indemnity.  
You are to understand, that divers of the Contrivers and Actors in the Life of His late Sacred Majesty, were taken away by the hand of Death, before the Eye of Justice could take any notice of them. They are in Number four and Twenty; the Chiefest and the Ringleaders of them Oliver Cromwell, that Bloody and Prodigious Usurper; and john Bradshaw, who Sentenced His Majesty to Death; two Persons so odious in their Deeds and Memory, that Needham who became their own Creature, and Wrote upon their accounts the Public Intelligencer, and Mercurius Politicus, doth in his Praises of them recite it, as a thing very Remarkable, That they both died on their own Beds! These two above with Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride's Bodies are Ordered by the Parliament to be taken out of their Graves, and Drawn on an Hurdle to Tyborn, where they are to be Hanged up, for being Traitors to their lawful King and Country, and then after buried under the Gallows, as a just Desert for such Regicides.   

The true Characters of the Educations and several Disposition of all those Barbarous Persons, who Sat as Judges on our late dread Sovereign King Charles the I.  
THIS Oliver Cromwell, was always a great stickler against Monarchy and Episcopacy, and long before the Wars began, had many long and private Conferences with his Friends, for a thorough Alteration: On the beginning of the Wars his Estate was not valued to amount to above Thirteen hundred pounds in money, with which he intended to purchase at a cheap rate, some of the new drained. Lands in Lincolnshire; but the Wars favouring him, he passed the several Degrees of Military Command, and aspiring after Sovereignty, waded through the blood of his own natural Prince; after which no Cruelty was unpractised by him, for the maintenance of his greatness. In the height whereof, he was taken out of the world; And he who spilt so much blood, and thirsted after more, being dead, and dissected (to the Admiration both of the Chyrurgians and standers by) there was not so much as one Drop of Blood found in his own heart.  
john Bradshaw, A Councillor at Law in Gray's Inn, and a Judge at Guild Hall, London, was Precedent of the High Court of Justice, where having Sentenced our Sovereign Lord the King to Death: was afterwards heard to say, That he had very well satisfied his own conscience with the Vnparalleled Murder that he had committed.  
Thomas Harrison, Major General: The son of a Butcher in Staffordshire, servant to Mr. Hulher an Attorney in Clifford's Inn, a man always of a factious spirit, and of dangerous principles in Religion; which made him acceptable to the beginners of the late War, he was not only a malicious Judge against his Majesty, but one of those who appointed the time and place of execution, and was executed by the hand of Justice in the sight of the place he appointed.  
Henry I●eton, The son of a Minister, and a great enemy to the Clergy, he married the daughter of the Usurper, and was altogether of his fathers-in-law temper, and was one of those who appointed, the time and place for the Execution.  
Sr. Hardresse Waller, A Colonel of Horse, and a Great Committee-man, one of those who Sentenced the King, and who at his arraignment confessed himself to be guilty.  
Col. john O●ey. First a Stoaker in a Brewhouse at Islington, and afterwards a Chandler in Thames-street, where he converted his blue Apron into a Buff Coat, and afterwards became a Colonel of Dragoons, an inveterate enemy to the King, and one who appointed the place of the Execution.  
Francis Allen, A Gold Smith in Fleet street, and a very unfit man, if he had either wit or grace in him, to be a judge on his own King  
john Alured, One who at first pretended to much conscience, but afterwards being made Colonel, and enured to blood and cruelty, made nothing to wash his own hand in the blood of his Royal Sovereign.  
john Carew, a man assenting to his brother's death, as he had done to the Kings, he was of Major General Harrisons principles, and did partake of the same end with him.  
Adrian Scroop, Descended of a good family in Buckinghamshire, but being a great Puritan was easily drawn in to be one of the black list, which sat upon the death of his own King, for which he himself suffered as a Traitor.  
Thomas Scot, Borne in Buckinghamshire, by his policy did arise to great preferment, and to a vast Fortune, he was not only one of those who Judged the King, but desired that the infamy of the act might be engraven as a Badge of Honour on his Tomb, in these words, Here lies. Thomas Scot who adjudged to Death the late King.  
john Blackistone, A shopkeeper in Newcastle, and by an access of fortune swollen to an excess of ambition, he was one of the King's Judges.  
Daniel Blagrave, A Councillor at Law, and a great Committee man, he was a Constant Rumper, and by the Tribe of Traitors thought a very fit person to sit among them on the Death of their Sovereign.  
Miles Corbet, Of Norfolk, at the beginning of the Parliament, a man of a very considerable estate; If he had not been a Jew or worse than Judas, he had never condemned his innocent Master unto Death.  
Cregory Clement, A merchant who having sold his conscience, not so much betrayed as condemned his Master, for which he hath since suffered as a Traitor.  
Sir William Constable, being driven into necessity by his Debts, sold his Land to Sir Marmaduke Langdale for twenty thousand pound, the money being received, he had his Lands given him again by the Parliament for his good service, (be like) being one of the Judges on the Death of the King.  
Sr. john Danvers, a person much degenerating from the honour of his noble Family, who thinking it safest to go on the strongest side, was drawn to be one of the Judges, who sat on the King's Death.  
George Fleetwood, another of the same temper, and who being one of his Sovereign Judges, acknowledged himself to be guilty of it.  
Cornelsus Holland, was first a poor Boy in the Court, and waited on Sr. Henry Vane, Controller of the Prince's House. He afterwards by fraud attained unto a very great Estate, and was one of the King's Judges, and the Rump being turned out by Lambert, he was thought worthy to be one of that most ridiculous Committee of Safety.  
john Hewson, a Schoomaker of London, he was also a great stickler for the Cause for which he was made first a Colonel, and afterwards a Lord; having been the cause of the murder of some boys playing at Football in the streets, he was found guilty by the Coroners Jury, but being one of the murderous Judges that sat upon his Prince, he will be found guilty by another Jury, if he be apprehended.  
john jones, first a Servingman, afterwards a Colonel, and married the Usurpers sister, and a very fit man to join with him in the taking away the life of his Prince, for which he suffered as a Traitor.  
john Lisle, none of the least Adversaries to the late King, he constantly assisted the Usurper in all his Ambitious Practices, and in his spilling of Innocent blood, He was a great man amongst the chiefest of those that passed sentence upon their King.  
Nicholas Love, the son of Doctor Love of Winchester, a constant and a contumacious Rumper, one of his Sovereign's cruel Judges, and an Abjurator against Kingly Power.  
Sr. Michael Livesey, one that could act an Hypocrite to the life in voice and gesture; he was one of his Majesty's most cruel Judges, and very eminent in the Rump Parliament.  
Henry Marten, Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, and (somesay) of a Regiment of Whores: Having sold his Estate three times over, he lay many years a Prisoner in the King's Bench for debt; he laboured a long time under a bad Reputation, but the greatest of all is, that he was one of the wilful Judges of his own Sovereign.  
Thomas Hammond of Surrey, was first under the Lord Fairfax, and afterwards a great Creature of the Usurpers, and a Constant promoter of his Interests, by whom he was induced to be one of those most cruel Judges against his own Prince, to the great grief of his most Learned and Reverend Brother, Dr. Henry Hammond.  
john Moor, heretofore Colonel of the Guards, and who sometime had the benefit of the Passes out of the City of London; and one of the black List, who condemned his own Sovereign.  
Gilbert Millington, a kind of a Lawyer, and a Chairman to the Committee of Plundered Ministers, where Phelps and he shared large Fees; another of the Kings most unlawful Judges.  
Sir john Bourchier, a person of no great repute, nor estate till in those troubled times, he got that which he fought for; He was observed to be as constant at Committees, as at his Dinners in Hel● in Westminster, one would have thought a man that did eat so much, should have but a little desire to drink any deep draughts, especially of the Royal blood of his own Sovereign, at whose Trial he was too unmerciful a Judge.  
Thomas chaloner, a man most violently invective against Monarchy, as for his hypocrisy and Religion, there is no man can give you a better Testimony of him than Monsieur Cone, who was Confessor to the late Pope, and who was very Conversant with him, when some years since he was at Rome; but it is to be believed, that the Confessor himself (unless without some manifest signs of true Repentance) would be very unwilling to Absolve him of his barbarous Murder of his own Sovereign  
Richard Dean, first, but as a kind of a Hayman in Suffolk, and afterwards a Matrosse in the Artillery of the Army: Being an absolute creature (amongst many others) of the Usurpers; he was by him constituted one of the Generals at Sea, where he lost his life; but neither the loss of his Bowels or his Arm, was able to make the least satisfaction for the loss of his Majesty's life, who by him (being one of his Judges) not long before was barbarously Sentenced to a most unworthy Death.  
Henry Mildmay▪ a monster of Ingratitude, a shallow fellow (by some not unfitly called Sr. Whimsy Mildmay) of a shallow apprehension, and fit to take any Impression, otherwise he would never become Judge of that King, whom he was bound to honour and pray for all the days of his life.  
john Barkstead, in his minority of Francis Allens occupation, and a pitiful Goldsmith in the Strand: He forsook his shop at the very first news of the War, and shuffled himself into the Camp; being a true servant all along to the Usurper, who constantly preferred him from one place to another; he became a most severe persecutor of the King's party, and was one of his worst Judges.  
Edmund Harvey, heretofore a poor Silkman, but being become a Colonel, he juggled himself into the Bishop of London's house at Fulham; he was a factious Rumper, and one of his Majesty's most cruel Judges.  
William Heavingham, of Heavingham Castle in Suffolk, a Gentleman of an ancient Family, and by the evil Council of the implacable Rumpers drawn in to be one of the Judges against the King.  
john Downs, a professed hater of any Government in one single Person, and therefore more easily wrought upon to be an Assistant in the death of his most righteous Sovereign.  
james Temple, a great Rumper himself, and a person much be friended by them, he made himself famous by no other Act at all, but that most abominable one of being one of the Judges of his own Sovereign.  
Simon Meyn, a great Committee man in the Long Parliament, and having got much by them, he easily became a Rumper, and so became one of the Judges of his King.  
john Dixwell, Burgess for Dover, a person who hath many curses from the greatest part of those who had to do with him in Kent; but that which renders him most accursed, is his wilful Conspiring amongst many others of his fellow Judges, to take away the life of our most gracious Sovereign.  
Isaac Ewer, at first but a Servingman, was preferred afterwards to be a Colonel, and had many Acres given him in Ireland for his good service, and for being one of the cruel Judges against the King.  
Sr. Gregory Norton, a man of no considerable fortune before these wars, but he obtained afterwards Richmond House, and much of the King's goods for an inconsiderable value, which made him to lend so ready an ear for the taking away of the King's life, he being one of the Judges that murmured themselves into a conspiracy against it.  
William Purefoy, Governor of Coventry; advancing once to fight with a party of the Kings, and hearing they were numerous, he hide himself in a Barley field, for which one of his servants that was afterwards a Waterman, refused to Ferry him over the water; he was a great Committee man, and one of the King's Judges.  
Isaac Pennington, Alderman, he was protected against creditors, yet hath bought store of Bishop's Lands; he was an implacable enemy to the King and one of his murderous Judges.  
Thomas Andrews, Was Illegally made Lord Mayor, on purpose to Proclaim the act against Kingly Government; A fit person therefore to be one of the Judges that murdered their most Gracious Sovereign.  
Owen Roe, One of the Firebrands of the City, being a professed enemy to its ancient Government and one of the King's Judges.  
Robert Titchborn, Alderman; a Knight, and a Lord of oliver's making, which he deserved for being one of the most cruel Judges against his King; afterwards was very forward in proclaiming the Act for no kingship: He was one of Doctor Hewits' Judges, and not long since a mighty man in the Committee, so called, of Safety.  
William G●ffe, Apprentice to a Salter in London, and his time being out, he be took himself to the Cause, and from a Quartermaster was preferred to be a Colonel; He was a Lord of the Usurpers making, a great aspirer unto Military dignities; and one of his Sovereign's most cruel Judges.  
Thomas Horton, In his extraction very inconsiderable, being Servant and Falconer to Sr. Arthur Haselrige, a person of so little note, that he seemed only to be remarkable in wickedness, by filling up the number of the Judges that sat on the Life of our late renowned Sovereign.  
Henry Smith, one of the Six Clerks, an implacable Enemy to all Sovereignty, and another of his Prince's Murderers.  
Anthony Stapley, lived sometimes in the reputation of an honest man, but by the temptation of crooked Interests, being drawn aside unto the Usurpers Faction, he became one of the merciless Judges of his most gracious Sovereign.  
William Say, a stately Committee-man in Kent, and through paced Lawyer, who conceiving he could not better add unto his greatness, then by complying with the Times, became one of the most unjust Judges against his own Sovereign.  
Peter Temple, another great Committee-man; an odious Rumper, and one of the Judges of his Sovereign.  
john Venus, sometimes Governor of Windsor, and one who had made himself rich with the King's goods and moveables, and rather than part with any of it, he became one of his greedy and covetous Judges.  
Edward Whaley, a kind of a Woollen Draper, flying from his Debts in London, to the exercise of Arms, was always a great promoter of the Usurpers designs, he was one of the accursed crew that durst sit in Judgement upon the death of his Sovereign.  
Thomas wait, a great and greedy heaper up of moneys, an Enemy to the Public, to advance his private Interests, and one of the King's Judges.  
Valentine Wauten, Governor of Lin Regis, who hath often times been accused for Corruption and Oppression, and knew not how to defend one wickedness, but by committing a greater, viz. by being one of the Judges on the life of our late Sovereign.  
john Cook, who was he that did Read his Majesty's Charge, in the pretended High Court of Justice, and for which and many other Treasonable attempts of the same nature, he hath since suffered as a Traitor.  
Daniel Axtell, Colonel, who being proved to have a very high hand in the King's Death, by encouraging his Soldiers and otherwise, hath since suffered as a Traitor.  
Francis Hacker, one of those to whom the bloody Warrant for his Majesty's Execution was directed, hath since suffered the pains of death according to the merits of that Treasonable Trespass which he committed.  
William Hewlet, having in a most desperate vainglory, boasted, that he was the Person who severed the Head (of our late Dread Sovereign King Charles the I.) from his Body, is Condemned to suffer accordingly, as he hath deserved.  
Hugh Peter, had very many Witnesses that did bring in their Evidence against him, and so clearly, that he could not deny it. Being Sentenced to death, he seemed afterwards in a kind of distracted condition, and unprepared to die, but on the day following, he was drawn on a hurdle to Charing Cross, where he was Hanged, Drawn and Quartered; His Head and Quarters fastened on several Poles, are hanging on several Gates of the City.  
Edward Dendy, Sergeant at Arms, who carried the Mace before the King, and behaved himself very insolently both in Words and Deeds to his late sacred Majesty, is Exempted from all Pardon, and to suffer the loss both of life and goods.  
Andrew Broughton, a great Committee-man, and an implacable Enemy to the Crown and King-ship, is another of that vile List, that durst sit in Judgement upon his late Majesty.  
Sir Henry Vane, a great discontent during all Governments that but tended unto Monarchy; and late Treasurer to the Navy, who intended to match his Son to Lambert's Daughter, is likewise Exempted from Pardon either to Life or Fortunes.  
john Lambert, Who was so inveterate against the King, that having lost all, he desired that Richard Cromwell might be chosen Protector, than Our Dread Sovereign should be restored to the Crown; Is for that and many other Treasonable Practices exempted also from Pardon either to Life or Fortunes.  
I shall conclude all with the memorable Example of God's Divine Justice upon Lockyer, and Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army, who had a principal hand in seizing and bringing the King to his death, Cried out, Justice, Justice, Justice, openly against him, and spit in the King's face in Westminster-Hall as he was going to his Trial, before his Condemnation, Conducted him to the Block; and was shortly after condemned in a Counsel of War by some of the Kings own Judges, and shot to death as a Mutinier in Paul's Churchyard, London. Also John Lilburn's double-Tryall for his life; soon after, a grand stickler against the House of Lords: The proceed against Saxbey, Syndercombe, and other Levellers, who were chief Instruments in that Horrid Murder of our late dread Sovereign, and the Grand Opposers of the House of Lords. The sudden and fearful Deaths of Colonel Venus, Rigby, and others who were Engagers against his Majesty, with the late pangs of Conscience, which Colonel William Purefoy sustained before his death, for having a hand in the King's blood, which LAY HEAVY ON HIS HEART, as he told some friends. The sudden death of that Tyrant Oliver Cromwell and his two Sons dismounting soon after; and God's signal Providence to his Majesty in his Peaceable Restauration, Maugre all the Plots and Contrivances of his Enemies.  
May it not awaken the stupid seared Consciences of all those now living, who had any hand in these Tragedies and Engagements against King and Parliament, to bring them to speedy and sincere public Repentance for them; Lest they fall into the like Terrors or Judgements, as others that have so wilfully Engaged in that execrable Murder.  
FINIS.