We shall next add only a short account of some Loyal Persons murdered in Scotland by the same pretense of Law, to shew 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 Kings Cause.

I. JOhn Bradshaw, President of the most Noto­rious Villany that was ever Acted on the Theatre of this World; a Cheshire Man born, but hatefull to his Country, that it should bee [Page 100] the Production of so Vile a Viper, more hatefull 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 murther of the King, took the Solemn Oath of Allegi­ance as a Serjant at Law, being Advanced to that Dignity from the Scolding and Rayling of Guild-Hall London, to Act the Highest piece of Impudence against his Pious and Graci­ous Soveraign; which he performed with such dexterity, as shewed him to be a Grand Master-Piece in Villany: But afterwards grew conscious (as to the safety of his body) of his Fact, when Oliver taking upon him the Supream Power, the very Name of a Single Person frighting him above measures; But otherwise he was so canteriz'd as to the salvation of his Soul, that he remained, and so departed this Life in a most damnably dangerous obstinacy, and maintainance 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 Parracide, which no doubt were the mo­tives [Page 101] to this Villany, was the Presidency of their Council of State; the Lord Cottington's Estate, and the Dutchy of Lancaster, with some advance money before hand (like his Predecessor Judas) for his undertaking. This Scelerate Villaine dyed in his bed, at such time as Lambert and his Committee of Safty were Acting the Jack Puddings on the En­glish Theatre, which by the Impes 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;

But we must in this look upon the good Providence of God, who by removing this wicked Wretch, and other implacable Ene­mies of our Soveraign, thereby made way by an Easie hand (which otherwise might have been dyed in blood) to the Restauration of him to his Kingdome, 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 [Page 102] Father of the Church, he was removed from thence, and thrown under the Gallows, a re­ceptacle more fit for such a Scelerate Vil­laine.

II. Oliver Cromwel, an English Monster, the Centre of Mischief, a shame to the Brit­tish Chronicle, a blot to Gentility, a pattern for Tyranny, Murther and Hypocrisie, whose horrid Treasons will scarce gain credit of po­sterity, and whose bloody Tyranny will quite drown the Names of Nero, Domitian, Cali­gula, &c. 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 wheeles of their bloody machinations a going: He was born at Hun­tington, the year of our Lord, 1599. De­scended from an Antient and Worshipfull Family, unhappy onely in this, that such a wicked Science should proceed from so good a Stock; His Grand-Father, Sir Henry Crom­well, was a Gentleman highly Honour'd both in Coutt, 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 [Page 103] Robert, and received his Name from Sir Oli­ver Cromwel his Uncle, at such time as he was received into the bosome of the Church by her Rites and Ceremonies, both which he afterwards most impiously and profanely rent 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 Kingdomes, and for Five years space, wallowed in the blood of many Gallant and Heroick Persons, he at last descended (though unwillingly) to his Grave; but Divine ven­giance (which would not suffer the blood, that so impiously and trayterously was spilt by his procurement) pursued this wicked Miscreant, and would not let him Enjoy the Priviledge 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 Murther on our late dread So­veraign) 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 [Page 104] with Bradshaw and Ireton were hanged at the several Angles of that Triple Tree, which though to some it may seem preposterous to hang Cromwel thus without Examination, yet they must know withall, this was not done without a President.

III. Henry Ireton, Commissary General of Horse; an Active Villaine 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 maine Instrument in the Barbarous Murther of Sir Charles Lucas, and Sir George Lisle; a great fomenter of all our Troubles, and who gave as undenyable proofes of his blood-thirsty Tyranny as the best of them all. A Man of great Parts and Abilities, but na­ture'd to Mischief, and the evil of those Times he was born to make worse, and most prodigiously infamous; no Man came suted with so great Capacity to the Over-throw 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 Carcass was conveyed into En­gland, [Page 104] 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 Scutchion over the Gate, with this Motto, Dulce est pro Patria Mori. How suita­ble to him that Country-man 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 Chappel at Westminster, but hath since found a more fitting and de­served Sepulcher; his Carcass 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 Souldier 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 turn'd Presbyterian, then afterwards upon the new module, when Presbytery began to decline, he became a strong Independant; where finding the un­controulable sweetness of Pay, and minding Profit more then Conscience, he still grew more hardned in his Lawless practises, find­ing [Page 106] more likeliness of greater spoiles in the destruction of Monarchy; He was one of those Committees to consider of the Time and Place for his Majesties Execution, and Acted all along with them in their Murther­ous 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 surrendred himself, and upon his Tryal shewed much reluctancy and grief for his Crimes; He still lives by the Mercy of the King, a condemn'd man, Prisoner in the Isle of Wight.

V. Colonel Valentine Walton of small Ex­tract, or Remarque, till such time as made notoriously famous for Villany: 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 Governour of Linn, and Bashaw of the Isle of Ely, which place he had stongly For­tefied as a safe Retreat for Cromwel, if before he had compleated 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 [Page 107] ( 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 Atturney; But finding the Law begun to be trode under foot, he betook himself to the Army, the more hopefuller way of pre­ferment; where by his Preaching, and such like Sanctimonious wayes of proceeding, when the Army made a gain of Godliness, he came to be a Major, and being of a pragma­ticall daring spirit, was by the influence of Cromwel preferred to be a Colonel; and the Custody of the Kings 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, &c. He was afterwards the great Captain and Ring-leader of all the Schismatiques, especially Fifth-Monarchy-Men, and such as traded in Enthusiasmes, in whose Love and especial Opinion he dyed, 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 South-East end of Westminster-Hall, [Page 108] and his Quarters Exposed to Publick View upon some of the City Gates.

VII. Colonel Edward Whaley, Descend­ed from a Family in Nottingham-shire, 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 withall, and Co­vetous, having not where-withall otherwise to maintain his Ambition; to which we may add his Perfidiousness, betraying the King at Hampton-Court under pretense of Affection, the worst kind of perfidy; and having thus juggled him whither they would have him, he made no scruple to joyne with others in his horrid Murther; 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 forsooke the Sling and took up the Sword; and though an [Page 109] Ignorant, Illiterate Fellow, scarce fit to carry gutts to a a Beare, (whose destruction he per­formed at Paris Garden) yet being of a reso­lute Courage, and the blind goddess Crown­ing him with successe, he was thought fit to partake with Cromwel, and to venture on that prime and daring Act of Garbelling the Par­liament for him; and having thus Acted that which carried a shew of Law and Justice, there was little thoughts he would fear to venture on the Highest of Treasons, being a prime Agent in the Murther of the King, Acting with as much Impudence and Bru­tishness as any of them all: He died before his Majesties Return, escaping thereby a more shamefull and ignominious death.

IX. Colonel Isaac Ewer, Descended from an Antient and Worshipfull 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 Ruine of Monarchy; ha­ving gained a great proficency in their De­structive Principles; so that he feared not to Act the Highest Villany, being cloaked un­der a vail of Religion; He was thought fit (because of his Birth) to be the Kings Guar­dian from the Isle of Wight, and afterwards [Page 110] one of his Judges, where he gave his hand against his Sacred Soveraign, adding to his other Crimes that most Execrable sin of Murther: He likewise died before his Ma­jesties Return, robbing thereby Squire Dun of his due.

X. Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby, Son to the Earle 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 Murther 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 dyed before his Majesties Happy Restauration.

XI. William Lord Mounson, a sordid Fel­low, of Destructive Principles, and therefore a fit Companion to Act the Horridest Villa­nies; being for Debt a long time a Prisoner, but by his Fellow Regicides fetcht out to Act with them in their Lawless Courses: After the Return of his Majesty, he was for his Treasonable Practises, together with Sir Henry Mildmay, and Master Robert Wallop brought to the Bar at the House of Com­mons, [Page 111] where their Estates were Declared Confiscate, and they degraged from all Ti­tles and Armes 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 Earle of Danby, who for his Fidelity to his Soveraign, was by the Rebells 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 Whirle-pool of Confusion and Royal Blood: He deceased before his Majesties Return.

XIII. Sir Thomas Malverer, a York-shire Knight, whose Family had been raised to that Honour by the Two last Kings, which to a Noble Spirit should have been the more oblidging; but great Benefits cause Ingra­titude, and Covetousness to have where­withall to live answerable to his Title, wic­kedly prompted him for the equalling of it, to consent to the Murther of him from [Page 112] whence his Honour was Derived; He also died before his Majesties happy restauration.

XIV. Sir John Bourcher, another Inde­pendant York-shire Knight, who making a gain of Godliness, under the pretense there­of Acted the most horrid Villanies, having God in their mouth, and the Devil in their heart; Like Water-men, looking one way, and rowing another; being sure alwayes when they had the fearest pretenses, 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 compleat his other wicked Actions, consented to the Murther of his Soveraign: He likewise dyed before his Majesties Return.

XV. Isaac Pennington, a busie 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 fuell to that fire of Desention betwixt the King and Parliament; and yet notwithstanding, he was a great [Page 113] sharer in the spoyle 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 joyned with them in the Murther of his So­veraign; After his Majesties Happy Restau­ration, he surrendred himself according to Proclamation, and at his Tryal 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 Kings 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 Com­plement Committed and Suspended for a while, proving afterwards a Grand Actor in the Highest of Treasons, being one of the Chief of the Caball 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: [Page 114] After his Majesties Return, he surrendred himself according to Proclamation, using many dilatory evasions at his Tryal; after­wards being brought to the Bar of the House of Lords to Answer why Judgement should not be Executed upon him, he replyed, That he understood the Proclamation extended to favour of life upon rendering himself; and withall ad­ded, That he never obeyed any of his Majesties Proclamations before but this, and hoped that he should not be Hanged for taking the Kings Word now.

XVII. William Purefoy, a Warwick-shire Gentleman, once Governour of Coventry, a busie Fellow in their Leger-de-main Jug­glings, 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 embrue his hands in the blood of his Prince; but lived not to re­ceive the just reward of such horrid Villany, dying before his Majesties Return.

XVIII. Colonel John Berkstead, a Man at first of a despicable Fortune, keeping a sorry Goldsmiths Shop in the Strand; but having learned a little City-Souldiery, was made Captain of a Foot-Company under Colonel [Page 115] Ven at Windsor; and being in Active Person, by Success of Rebellion was made Gover­nour of Reading, and continued always a fast Friend to Oliver Cromwel in all his wicked Consultations and Purposes; joyning with him in that horrid Murther of the King, for which, and other his Services to him, he was by Oliver made Lievtenant of the Tower, where by Extortion and Cruelty he gained a great masse 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 vengance 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 Majesties Resident at the Hague, having information thereof, they were luckily surprized, and sent into England; and having remained Prisoners some while in the Tower, were brought to the Kings Bench-Bar, and there demanded what they could say for themselves, why they should not dye according to Law, the Act of Attainder being then read unto them; to [Page 116] which they Alleadged, 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 Traytors 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 Shop-Keeper 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 Murther 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 Lawfull Soveraign; He was a constant Chair-Man of the Committee for Plundered Ministers, by which Trade he [Page 117] filled his Coffers, the sweets of which Em­ployment set his teeth on edge, and sharpned him to that cruell attempt upon his Sove­raigns Life: Upon the Kings return he sur­rendred himself according to Proclamation, and at his Tryal 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 Tra­velled far in the World, and returned home poysoned with that Jesuitical Doctrine of King-killing, which he here put in practise, being the great Speech-Maker against the King, his Family, and Government, and a great stickler for their New Utopian Com­mon-Wealth, but upon his Majesties Re­turn, fled the Land, his Actions being so bad as would not endure the Touch-Stone.

XXII. Sir William Constable, a York-shire 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 Rebells, who carved fat shares unto them­selves: He had a principal hand in the Kings death, for which Parricide, and other his [Page 118] Treasonable Practises, he was by the Saints of the new stamp, made Governour of Glo­cester, and a great Commander in the North: He died before his Majesties return.

XXIII. Edmond Ludlow, a Person much endeared to the Fanaticks, who by several gradations in the Parliament and Army, came at last to be a Lievtenant 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 Rebell, that the Son should prove a Traytor, since most commonly to what the Parents are affected, the Children prove addicted: Upon his Majesties return, fearing the reward of his deserts, he fled the Land, like his predecessor Caine, 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 over-awed to Sign his Majesties Execution; but by a timely repentance, bewailing with tears the heinousnesse of his Offence, he obtained Pardon; being onely discharged the House of Commons, and all future Trusts, and Fi­ned a years Profit of his Estate to the King.

[Page 119]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 Kings return, making good that Proverb, That one pair of leggs was worth two pair of hands.

XXVI. Robert Titchburn, born in London, of good Extraction, by Trade a Linnen-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 Soveraign: At his Ma­jesties return he surrendred himself accord­ing to Proclamation, and at his Tryal shewed 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 [Page 120] Kings Great Clemency, Execution of Justice was respited on him.

XXVII. Owen Roe, formerly a Silkman in London, and being an Eminent Indepen­dant, had a Command of the Militia confer­red on him; by the Advice of the Devil and Cromwel, he came to have a hand in shedding the Kings blood; for which after his Maje­sties return he was condemned; but plead­ing his reluctancy to the Kings 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 Bishop­prick of Durham; He was Brother to John Lilburn the great Trouble-World, who was al­wayes 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 thorow-paced to his Interests; By him he was advanced to be a Colonel of Horse, a little before the Kings Murther; and therefore he thought he could do no less in civility then requite him with having a hand in it, and so ran fear­lesly into the danger of it: He still lives by the Kings clemency a condemned man in the Tower of London.

[Page 121]XXIX. Adrian Scroop, a Colonel of Horse, a Person very Active against the Kings Par­ties in 1648. and as violent in the taking a­way his Majesties Life, and Honour in their pretended High Court of Justice; which he so little repented of, that after his Majesties re­turn, in an accidental conferrence 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 Tryal condemned to dye, and ac­cordingly Executed on the Rayled place where Charing-Cross once stood, Octo. the 17. 1660.

XXX. Richard Dean, a Fellow of meane 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 ruine, was thought fit to be one of Cromwel's Complices in the Murther of his Soveraign: He was af­terwards made one of the Generals at Sea [Page 122] against the Dutch, and was slain with a Can­non Bullet, being shot almost off in the mi­dle, as he stood close by General Monke, June 2. 1653.

XXXI. Colonel John Okey, at first a Stoker in a Brew-House, then a Chandler neer 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 thorow 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 Murther of his Majesty. Upon his Majesties 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 Kings 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 Dutifull carriage, to return his Quarters to his Friends to be Interred. He dyed with more penitency, and greater re­luctancy then those of his Fellow-Regicides, [Page 123] who suffered in October 1660. acknowledg­ing the Kings Power as of God, and exhort­ing others to the like: He was a Person that for his Valour, and other good Qualities was pittied by all men, for his being so blinded, and ensnared in this crime to his destructi­on.

XXXII. John Hewson, who from a Cob­ler rose by degrees to be a Colonel, and though a Person of no Parts either in Body or Mind, yet made by Cromwel 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 Murther 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 e're 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 Murther of his Sacred [Page 124] Majesty: He likewise betook himself to his heeles at the restauration of our Soveraign, being of the opinion of Caine, 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 Kings House-hold; of base conditions, as well as extraction; His Father was a poor man, and dyed 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 Villanies, the chief of which was the Murther of the King, in which he had a principal hand, and ▪for which upon his Majesties 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 Raign amongst them; and [Page 141] therefore they would have no King, but King Jesus, which made him to joyn with those other Infamous Regicides in the Mur­ther of his Soveraign, being deluded thus by the impulses of Satan for those of the spirit. At his Tryal 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 Tryal, 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 Serving-Man, but that kind of life not serving his turn, he set up the gain-fuller trade of a Committee-man, and thri­ved exceedingly in that Barren Country; and being a person of known Abilities for the ruining a Kingdome, he was chosen a recruit for the Long Parliament, and inpro­cess of time Married one of Cromwel's Sisters, [Page 126] 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 Kings Murther; and in fine brought, him to the Gallows, be­ing Executed October 17. 1660.

XXXVII. Peregrine Pelham, a York-shire Tike, whose Abominable Treasons helped to verifie that Proverb, From the cold North, all ill comes forth. He was for a while a kind of Governour of Hull after Hotham, where be­ing Endoctrinated in Machivillian 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 Majesties Restauration.

XXXVIII. Thomas Wogan, a recruit like­wise to the Long Parliament, who was as ac­tive to contribute towards the ruine of the Kingdome 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 heeles, and (accompanied with a guilty, conscience) wander about to save a wretched Carcasse out of the Hang­mans hands.

XXXIX. Francis Allen, once a Gold-Smith [Page 127] in Fleet-street, whose first Rice was from the Placket, and by Marrying his Mi­stris, 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 gainfull 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 joyn with them in the Murther 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 Majesties Lands; but li­ved not long to possess the fruits of his wic­kedness, dying before his Majesties 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 swam 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 spoyl of the King­dome; He joyned with them in the Mur­ther of the King: But upon the turn of the [Page 128] Times betook him to his heeles, 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 joyn with them in the Horrid Murther of his Sove­raign; He dyed before his Majesties Re­turn.

XLII. William Say Esquire, a Member of the Long Robe, and a well practised, but ill councelled Lawyer, who being foysted in as one of the illegal recruites of the Long Par­liament, exercised his Abilities to the greater mischief, having now power joyned to his will to Act what the Devil should prompt him to; and therefore feared not to become one of the Murtherers of his Majesty, and afterwards to joyn with the rest of those Re­gicides to help forwards the ruine of the Kingdome; He was by them chosen their Speaker, when Lenthall for Ten dayes toge­ther was sick of the Sullens upon the approach of General Monke: But upon the Return of the King, was, non est inventus, betaking him to his heeles, for fear he should have had a Habeas Corpus to have removed his body from Newgate to Tyburn.

[Page 129]XLIII. Francis Lascels, a York-shire Man, who being nominated one of the King's Judges, Sat once, but neither Sentenced nor Signed those Accursed Warrants for the Murther 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 Challoner 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 Traytors 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 lustfull Goat, who being a monied 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 Villaines could not but upon pretense of honesty discard him their company. He contributed largely to the destruction of his Soveraign; for he who fears not to Commit [Page 130] Adultery, will not stick out to do Murther; He received afterwards the reward of his Treasons, being hang'd drawn aud quarter'd, 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 joyned also in the Kings murther, and had by his fellow Regicides for his Service, as good as given Richmond Manner and House: He died before his Majesties Return.

XLVII. John Venn, A broken Silk-man in Cheap-side, who to recruit his Fortunes took part with the Strongest Side, carrying as great a pretense 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 Governour of Windsor Castle, and had other Places of great Profit bestowed on him; this drew him on to Act in the Mur­ther of his Sacred Majesty, though after­wards stricken with the horrour thereof; He is said desparately to have hanged him­self, certain it is, he died very strangely and [Page 131] suddainly, though the certainty thereof was by his friends smoothered up as much as they could.

XLVIII. Thomas Andrews, a Linnen-Draper in Cheap-side, but thinking the Trade of Rebellion more gainfull, 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 summs of money to himself, which so En­couraged him in Treason, that he feared not to Sit and Sentence his Soveraign, 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 Governour of Chichester, who by partaking with those Blood-Thirsty Re­gicides, grew infected, and was strangely wrought into this Wicked Conspiracy: He likewise died before the Kings return.

L. Thomas Horton, one of so mean and un­known a Quality, that his Pedigree is not [Page 132] to be found, unless we should derive it from Judas that Prince of Traytors: He so thri­ved by the Wars, that he was chosen a re­cruit to the Long Parliament, and was one of those that dipt his hands in his Royal Sove­raigns blood: He also died before the Kings 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 Soveraigns blood, he fear­ed not to Act any Murther whatsoever, be­coming President to all the High Courts of Ju­stice during the Usurpation, by whose San­guinous violence fell many Gallant and He­roick 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 [Page 133] 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 Villans.

LII. John Dixwell, A recruit likewise of the Long Parliament for Dover, of which Castle he was Colonel and Governour; and therefore so far oblidged to them for his Pro­motion, that in requital of their Favours, he joyned with them in the Murther of his Ma­jesty; but fearing the reward of his Treache­ry, upon the Kings return, he quitted the Land, which too long had groaned under the weight of so hatefull 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 Elliot, 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 [Page 134] principal Instrument to help forward the en­suing calamities; and having raised himself by others ruines, to retain what be had so wickedly got, and in hopes of greater Pre­ferment, he joyned likewise in the murther 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 Majesties 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 Majesties 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 over-looks 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 [Page 135] Man, of a good Estate, but being of a cove­tous disposition, he endeavour'd 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 Kings Life: At his Maje­sties return he surrendred himself according to Proclamation, and at his Tryal pleaded Ignorance and no Malice, but his crimes were found to be of so crimson a dye, 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 Souldier of Fortune▪ who to climb the higher on the blind God­desses wheele, dipped his hands in the Kings blood, and was for his Villany promoted to be a Colonel: He died just defore his Maje­sties 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 [Page 136] quite contrary to all Law, he joyned with those Regicides in condemning the King, and for reward of his Villany 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 then his own inclination; and therefore at his Ma­jesties return he surrendred himself accord­ing to Proclamation, and remaineth a Pri­soner in the Tower.

LVII. Humphry Edwards, A Member of the Long Parliament, which bred Monsters of more savage Natures then either Aegypt or Africa; This Fellow for being denied by the King a Preferment he was not worthy of, grew discontented, which ranckled and fe­ster'd him into this malicious Parricide: He died before his Majesties return.

LVIII. John Fry, A High-shooe blade in Dorset-shire, 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 wrot against the King of Heaven, would fear to act against his Earthly Prince; He lived not long after [Page 137] the Horrid murther 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 Kings Murther: He rendred him­self upon his Majesties Restitution according to Proclamation, and at his Tryal 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 Kings motion, and that he resolved to have no more to do with them, &c. 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 plyed his busi­ness so, that he was not behind hand, the for­wardest in mischief; His Original was a Brewers Clark, then next a Country Attor­ney, and by countenance of the Grandees, chosen a recruit for the Burrough of Wickam in Buckingham-shire: He was a thorow-paced Regicide, and so gloried that he had a hand [Page 138] in the Murther of the King, that he desired it might be inscribed on his Tomb, Here lies Thomas Scot one of the Kings 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 Kings Murtherers; His Gutts was said to make the Hang-man 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 Hang­mans 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 Murther of the King, ( viz.) Oliver Cromwel, Thomas Pride, Thomas Scot, &c. 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 [Page 139] 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 over-born, his Al­legiance and Conscience, by that wicked Machivillian Oliver Cromwel, and so contra­ry to the dictates of his Conscience consent­ed to that Execrable Murther: He surren­dred 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 Phisitian to Prince Henry, his Brother Doctor Henry Ha­mond, the beloved Chaplain of King Charles; This degenerate Son most Ungratefully and Disloyally was the Kings Jaylor 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 Majesties 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 onely Famous for the [Page 140] Infamous Murther of the King: After his Majesties return he rendred himself, con­fessed his Guilt, had Judgement, but by his Majesties clemency his Execution was re­spited

LXV. Augustine Garland, A recruit of the Long Parliament for the Burrough of Quin­burough in Kent, as yare a blade as the worst of them all at the spoyle of the Kingdome, the notority of whose Crimes are so publick as not to be hid; He was at first a kind of Lawyer, which he horribly perverted, was Chair-man of the Committee that drew up the pretended Act for the Kings Tryal, 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 Kings Face at his Tryal, though after the Kings restitution when he came to be Tryed himself, he vehemently denyed 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 Kings Court of Wards, and had two Brothers of very different con­ditions [Page 141] the one Sir William Fleetwood a very Loyal and Honest Gentleman, the other, Charles Fleetwood, a very Knave and Fool: He surrendred himself after the Kings re­turn, and at his Tryal 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 Vallour as his Villany, being Remarkable for nothing but this horrible business of the Kings Mur­ther, for which he came into the Pack to have a share in the spoyle; He is now a Pri­soner, and lives by the Kings Favour and Clemency.

LXVIII. Peter Temple, Another of the same Gang, Simeon and Levi, Brethren in Iniquity; He was at first a Linnen-Draper, Apprentice in Fryday-street, but his Elder Brother dying, he forsook his Trade, and was possest 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 Arther Hazelrig, that Furious Northern blast. He was made a Captain of a Troop of Horse, and besides [Page 142] was a great Committee-man, yet was he a person of very weak parts, and easie 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 gainfull Trade, but was Fool'd 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 Governour of Burleigh, and was by the influence of the Army chosen a recruit to the Long Parliament, by which means he became ingaged to their Interests and De­signs, joyning with them in the Murther of his Majesty: He is now a Prisoner under Sentence of death, which by the Kings 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 pretense of Religion and Justice, Murther so Good and Pious a Prince, one whom envy its self could not but confess to be beyond Parallel, and [Page 143] 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 Murther­ers, were generally mean and desparate per­sons, such as were lifted up by Ambition, Sa­criledge, Covetousness, and Success, and had no other wayes to Rise but by others Ruines, 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 desparate 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.

Come we in the next place to speak of those who were Executed for commit­ting of Treason after his Majesties Happy Restauration, and Setlement in his Throne again; where we shall find Traytors of so Desparate and Sanguine a disposition, as scarcely to be paralleld in former Ages; Men who though of different Tenets, and and who like Hydra's heads seemed to look several wayes, yet cemented together in the tayle, 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 Mirmidons, which strange and unparalleld Action will afford the Truest Light and Judgement of that Fanatique, and desparate opinion of Chilianisme, and make after Ages to admire, that a handfull [Page 159] of wild-brain'd People should dare to un­dertake such an Attempt against Metro­polis of the Kingdome, 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 perswaded that now was the Time come for Christ Personally to Raign 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 chace a Hundred, and a Hundred put Ten Thousand to flight; Assu­ring them also, That no Weapons formed against them should prosper, nor hair of their head be touched. January 6. 1660. They took Armes, and in the dusk of the Evening came to St. Pauls Church-Yard, 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 usuall mode, For God, and King Charles, they immediately shot him, which Action [Page 160] soon Allarum'd the City, and some Parties of the Trained Bands marched against them, but their strength being too great for those few Files, they without controule 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 Gate-House.

January the 9. after some Encouragement and Assurance of Victory from their Chief­tain Venner, they again assumed their first En­terprize, 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 [Page 161] Trained Bands designed to Watch that day, being sent out to follow them, were forced to Retreat to their Main-Guard, when the whole Body advancing towards them, they retreated into Bishopsgate-street, where some of them took into an Ale-House at the signe 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 Cheap-side, and so into Wood-street, as far as the Counter, where Venner who Headed them, being Ar­med with a Murrion on his head, and a Hal­bert 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 Life-Guard, whom they put to the Retreat, but they being seconded by two Companies of the Trained Bands, the Dispute was very sharp and desparate, untill at last Venner be­ing knockt down, and Tuffnel and Crag two of their prime Teachers fled, they began to give ground, and betook themselves to flight by several wayes, the greatest part of them went down Wood-street, and so to Criple­gate, [Page 162] firing in the Rear at a Trained Band of Yellow who closely pursued them; at last they took in at the Blew Anchor Ale-House by the Postern, which House they main­tained with much desparate courage, and would not hear of any Termes of Yielding; soon after came Lievtenant Colonel Cox with his Company and surrounded all places about it, and then some of the Souldiers got up upon the Tilings of the next House, which they cast down, and fired into the uppermost Room where the Rebells were, yet were they so desparately bent in their wickedness, that even then they refused Quarter, untill 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 knockt down with the But end of a Musquet, was afterwards shot; the rest yielded, who being demand­ed, why they craved not Quarter before, Answered, They durst not for fear their owne Fellows should shoot them, of such a desparate resolution was the temper of their Spi­rits.

In this Rebellious Insurrection were slain alike of both sides, Twenty Two of the Kings [Page 163] Leige People, and Twenty Two of the Tray­tors. Twenty One more besides were taken, whose Names were as followeth, ( viz.) Thomas Venner, their Chief Ring-leader, the Captain of this Rebellious Rout; The Se­cond to Venner were one Tuffnel a Car­penter living in Grays-Inn-lane, a desparate Fellow, who after He and his Party were forced over the Houses through More-lane, they fled into the Fields, and he having four or five Pistolls 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 dayes space he dyed 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 Blew Coat Boyes covered him with the Earth, and he was never further lookt after. The next was Roger Hodgkins, a Button-Sellor in St. Clements Lane neer Lumbard street; Giles Pritcherd, a Cow-keeper, Leonard Gowler, Jonas Allen, John Pym, William Orsingham, Wil­liam Ashton, Stephen Fall, John Smith, William Corbet, John Dod, Iohn Elestone, Thomas Harris, Iohn Gardener, Robert Bradley, Richard Marten, [Page 164] Iohn Patshall, Robert Hopkins, and Iohn Wells. These Twenty and One were all brought to the Bar together, Tuffnel excepted; (their Tryal succeeding soon after their Desparate 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 Murther; 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 Leavy 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 Tryal 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 perswade their Congregation to take up Arms [Page 165] for King Iesus, against the Powers of the Earth, (which were his Majesty, the Duke of York, the General, &c.) 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 Meeting-House in Coleman-street, with Blunder-busses, Musquets, &c. 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 shew 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 quible, and said, It was not He, but Iesus that Led Them.

According to the Sentence pronounced on them Ianuary 19. 1661. Venner and Hodg­kings (both desparately wounded in the Re­bellion, and as yet uncured) were Drawn on Sledges from Newgate through Cheap-side, [Page 166] 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 desparate Traytors) 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 Iudges, and the City of London; nor would he leave, until the Hangman by the Sheriff's or­der turn'd 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 desparate at­tempt, and their Heads upon Poles as loving­ly by some of them on London-Bridge.

The same day Giles Pritchard, a Cow-keeper, and another of them were Executed in Cheap-side, and on the Munday following, be­ing the 21. of Ian. Nine more of them were Executed at five several places, ( viz.) Two at the West end of St. Pauls, Two at the Bull and Mouth in St. Martins, Two at Beech-lane, [Page 167] Two at the Royal Exchange, and One a notable Fellow named Leonard Gowler at Bishopsgate. They all (especially the last) obstinately per­sisted in their Errour, 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 perswaded out of his opinion of Chilianisme.

Thus this desparate 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.

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 busines, 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 [Page 168] and Conventicles with others of his despa­rate Crue, amongst whom he was a principal Rabby or Teacher. This man, as Venner had done before him, and as was couched in their Declaration, flew out into several Traytor­ous Speeches and Invectives against the Kings Person, Government, and Family, which being over-heard by some Neigh­bours living near, James was seized upon, and carried before a Justice, who committed him to Newgate, and the next Terme was brought to a Tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar, where the words were proved against him, and he convicted and condemned as a Tray­tor. 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 usuall confidence of his Party resolutely died. His Quarters were disposed of by his Majesties Orders, and his Head fix­ed upon a Pole in White-Chappel, neer to their Meeting House, for an Example to his Fel­lows.

[Page 169]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 Peters, who preferred him to be one of Olivers Pensioners; with him was enga­ged one George Phillips a Serjant in the Co­lonels Company of the White Regiment, Thomas Tongue a distiller of Strong Waters, Francis Stubbs a Cheese-monger, James Hide Gunner, John Selly Compass-maker, and Na­thaniel Gibbs Felt-maker. 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, Lievtenant 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 [Page 170] 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 Tryal, where being by plain Evidence convicted, they were condemned, and December 22. Four of them, ( viz.) Phillips, 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 re-taken, was sent to the Sessions House in the Old Baily, 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 York-shire, and some other of the Northern Counties, by some desparate Fa­naticks, for which divers of them were Ex­ecuted at York, and else-where; but we shall wave our Discourse of them, and conclude with the Execution of some Notorious Scotch Traytors.

And first of the Marquess of Argyle, one who was a desparate Enemy to the Old King all along, a chief Contriver and Fo­menter of that Destructive Covenant, the [Page 171] Ignis Fatuus of that Nation, which the Scots believed (as the Trojans did by their Image of Pallas) came from Heaven; a greater Sider with Cromwel, 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 insolencies, upon the Kings 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 Kingdome, and that his Majesty ac­cording to his Gracious Inclination would have past by all his Offences; But such was the general hatred and detestation of that People towards him, especially of the Nobi­lity, that by the Kings Order he was com­mitted to the Tower, and from thence, not long after in order to his Tryal conveyed to Edenburgh 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 [Page 172] 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 Mens lives as there were words contained in the same.

Neer unto the same time, Master James Guthery, a prime Remonstrator, and a violent Adversary to the King in his Lievtenant the Marquess of Montross, together with one Captain Giffan a Runnegado to Cromwel, were by Sentence and Decree of Parliament han­ged at Edenburgh; so far (to use the words of an Elegant Authour 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 Guilt, did now prevail against the Domi­nion of the Kirk, which had Enslaved and Enchanted the whole Masse 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 Traytor, [Page 173] 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 Tryed, Condemned, and Executed according to Law, 1662.