THIS Oliver Cromwell, was alwayes 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 Soveraignty, waded through the blood of his own natural Prince; after which no Cruelty was unpractised by him, for the maintenance of his greatnesse. In the height whereof, he was taken out of the world; And he who spilled 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.

Iohn Bradshaw, A Councellor at Law in Grayes Inn, and a Judge at Guild Hall, London, was President of the High Court of Justice, where having Sentenced our Soveraign Lord the King to Death: was afterwards heard to say, That he had very well satisfied his own conscience with the Ʋnparalleled Murther that he had committed.

Thomas Harrison, Major General: The son of a Butcher in Staffordshire, ser­vant to Mr. Hulher an Atturny in Cliffords 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 father-in-laws 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. Iohn O [...]ey. First a Stoaker in a Brew-house at Islington, and afterwards a Chandler in Thames-street, where he converted his blew Apron into a Buffe 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

Iohn Alured, One who at first pretended to much conscience, but afterwards being made Colonel, and inured to bloud and cruelty, made nothing to wash his own hand in the bloud of his Royal Soveraign.

Iohn Carew, a man assenting to his brothers death, as he had done to the Kings, he was of Major General Harrisons principles, and did partake of the same end with him.

Adrean 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 sate upon the death of his own King, for which he himself suffered as a Traytor.

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 Tombe, in these words, Here lyes. Thomas Scot who adjudged to Death the late King.

Iohn Blackistone, A shopkeeper in New-Castle, and by an accesse of fortune swoln to an excesse of ambition, he was one of the Kings Judges.

Daniel Blagrave, A Councellor at Law, and a great Committee man, he was a Constant Rumper, and by the Tribe of Traytors thought a very fit person to sit among them on the Death of their Soveraign.

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 then 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 Traytor.

Sr William Constable, being driven into necessity by his Debts, sold his Land to Sr 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. Iohn 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 Kings Death.

George Fleetwood, another of the same temper, and who being one of his So­veraign Judges, acknowledged himself to be guilty of it.

Cornelsus Holland, was first a poore Boy in the Court, and waited on Sr. Henry Vane, Controwler of the Princes House. He afterwards by fraud attained unto a very great Estate, and was one of the Kings Judges, and the Rump being turned out by Lambert, he was thought worthy to be one of that most ridiculous Com­mittee of Safety.

Iohn 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 Foot-ball in the streets, he was found guilty by the Coroners Jury, but being one of the murtherous Judges that sate upon his Prince, he will be found guilty by another Jury, if he be appre­hended.

Iohn Iones, first a Serving-man, afterwards a Colonel, and married the Usurpers sister, and a very fit man to joyn with him in the taking away the life of his Prince, for which he suffered as a Traytor.

Iohn Lisle, none of the least Adversaries to the late King, he constantly assisted the Usurper in all his Ambitious Practises, 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 Soveraigns cruell Judges, and an Abjurator against Kingly Power.

Sr. Michael Livesey, one that could act an Hypocrite to the life in voice and ge­sture; [Page 3]he was one of his Majesties 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 Kings Bench for debt; he laboured a long time under a bad Reputa­tion, but the greatest of all is, that he was one of the wilfull Judges of his own Soveraign.

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 cruell Judges against his own Prince, to the great grief of his most Learned and Reverend Brother, Dr. Henry Hammond.

Iohn Moore, 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 Soveraign.

Gilbert Millington, a kinde of a Lawyer, and a Chair-man to the Committee of Plundred Ministers, where Phelps and he shared large Fees; another of the Kings most unlawfull Judges.

Sr Iohn 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 Royall blood of his own Soveraign, at whose Tryall he was too unmercifull a Judge.

Thomas Challoner, a man most violently invective against Monarchy, as for his hypocrisie 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 (unlesse without some manifest signes of true Repentance) would be very unwilling to Absolve him of his barbarous Mur­der of his own Soveraign

Richard Dean, first, but as a kinde of a Hayman in Suffolk, and afterwards a Matrosse in the Artillary 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 losse of his Bowels or his Arm, was able to make the least satisfaction for the losse of his Majesties 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. Whimsey 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 dayes of his life.

Iohn Barkstead, in his minority of Francis Allens occupation, and a pittifull 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 Kings party, and was one of his worst Judges.

Edmund Harvey, heretofore a poore Silkman, but being become a Colonel, he juggled himself into the Bishop of Londons house at Fulham; he was a factious Rumper, and one of his Majesties most cruell Judges.

William Heavingham, of Heavingham Castle in Suffolk, a Gentleman of an ancient Family, and by the evill Council of the implacable Rumpers drawn in to be one of the Judges against the King.

Iohn 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 Soveraign.

Iames 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 abhomi­nable one of being one of the Judges of his own Soveraign.

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.

Iohn Dixwell, Burgesse for Dover, a person who hath many curses from the greatest part of those who had to doe with him in Kent; but that which renders him most accursed, is his wilfull Conspiring amongst many others of his fellow Judges, to take away the life of our most gracious Soveraign.

Isaac Ewer, at first but a Serving-man, 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 cruell 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 Kings goods for an inconsiderable value, which made him to lend so ready an eare for the taking away of the Kings 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 hid 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 Kings Judges.

Isaac Pennington, Alderman, he was protected against creditors, yet hath bought store of Bishops 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 Soveraign.

Owen Roe, One of the Firebrands of the City, being a professed enemy to its antient Government and one of the Kings Judges.

Robert Titchborn, Alderman; a Knight, and a Lord of Olivers making, which he deserved for being one of the most cruell 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, Apprentise to a Salter in London, and his time being out, he be took himself to the Cause, and from a Quarter-master was preferred to be a Colonel; He was a Lord of the Usurpers making, a great aspirer unto Military dignities; and one of his Soveraigns most cruell 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 one­ly to be remarkable in wickednesse, by filling up the number of the Judges that sate on the Life of our late renowned Soveraign.

Henry Smith, one of the Six Clerks, an implacable Enemy to all Sove­raignty, and another of his Princes Murtherers.

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 mercilesse Judges of his most gracious Sove­raign.

William Say, a stately Committee-man in Kent, and thorough paced Law­yer, who conceiving he could not better add unto his greatnesse, then by com­plying with the Times, became one of the most unjust Judges against his own So­veraign.

Peter Temple, another great Committee-man; an odious Rumper, and one of the Judges of his Soveraign.

Iohn Ven, sometimes Governour of Windsor, and one who had made himself rich with the Kings goods and moveables, and rather than part with any of it, he became one of his greedy and covetous Judges.

Edward Whaley, a kinde of a Woollen Draper, flying from his Debts in Lon­don, to the exercise of Arms, was alwayes a great promoter of the Usurpers de­signes, he was one of the accursed crue that durst sit in Judgement upon the death of his Soveraign.

Thomas Wayt, a great and greedy heaper up of moneys, an Enemy to the Publick, to advance his private Interests, and one of the Kings Judges.

Valentine Wauten, Governour of Lin Regis, who hath often times been ac­cused for Corruption and Oppression, and knew not how to defend one wicked­nesse, but by committing a greater, viz. by being one of the Judges on the life of our late Soveraign.

Iohn Cook, who was he that did Read his Majesties 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 Kings Death, by incouraging his Souldiers and otherwise, hath since suffered as a Traytor.

Francis Hacker, one of those to whom the bloody Warrant for his Majesties Execution was directed, hath since suffered the pains of death according to the merits of that Treasonable Trespasse which he committed.

William Hewlet, having in a most desperate vain-glory, boasted, that he was the Person who severed the Head (of our late Dread Soveraign King Charls the I.) from his Body, is Condemned to suffer accordingly, as he hath deserved.

Hugh Peters, 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 kinde of distracted condition, and unprepared to dye, but on the day following, he was drawn on a hurdle to Charing Crosse, where he was Hanged, Drawn and Quartered; His Head and Quarters fastned on several Poles, are hanging on several Gates of the City.

Edward Dendy, Serjeant 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 losse 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 Lamberts Daughter, is likewise Exempted from Pardon either to Life or Fortunes.

Iohn Lambert, Who was so inveterate against the King, that having lost all, he desired that Richard Cromwell might be chosen Protector, than Our Dread Soveraign should be restored to the Crown; Is for that and many other Trea­sonable Practises exempted also from Pardon either to Life or Fortunes.

I shall conclude all with the memorable Example of Gods Divine Justice upon Lockyer, and Active Agitator and Leveller in the Army, who had a principal hand in seising and bringing the King to his death, Cried out, Justice, Justice, Justice, openly against him, and spit in the Kings face in Westminster-Hall as he was going to his Tryall, 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 Pauls Church-yard, London. Also John Lilburn's double-Tryall for his life; soon after, a grand stickler against the House of Lords: The proceedings against Saxbey, Syndercombe, and other Levellers, who were chief Instruments in that Horrid Murther of our late dread Soveraign, and the Grand Opposers of the House of Lords. The sudden and fearfull Deaths of Collonel Ven, Rigby, and others who were Engagers against his Majesty, with the late pangs of Conscience, which Collonel William Purefoy susteyned before his death, for having a hand in the Kings blood, which LAY HEAVY ON HIS HEART, as he told some friends. The sudden death of that Tyrant Oliver Cromwell and his two Sonnes dismounting soon after; and Gods 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 publick Repentance for them; Lest they fall into the like Terrours or Judgments, as others that have so wilful­ly Engaged in that execrable Murther.