WHen Subjects rebel against their Lawful Soveraign , great are the Omens of their destruction ; and an hasty Sentence once past , may be sooner repented then recalled , as it is clearly demonstrated from the case of many of those Members , who sate in the pretended high Court of Justice again our precious and never too much lamented Soveraign King Char●es the first , of ever blessed Memory ; many being unfeignedly sorrowful , that ever they had a hand in so wicked , so great , and execrable an Act as to murther so pious vertuous , and loving a King , that so patiently received Martyrdom at the ●ates of his own Royal Palace rather then he would betray a good Conscience , the Kingdoms peace , or the liberty of his Subjects ; and as it is exprest in the Holy writ . That he that sheddeth mans blood , by man shall his blood be shed again ( especially Royal Blood ) there being an express command , [ Touch not the Lords Anointed ] &c. But how contrary to this many have gone , let the World judge . Some have already drank of the bitter Cup of Death for their Disobedience and Rebellion , others are like to taste of the Dregs ; but thrice happy are they who shall walk holy , and in all reverend obedience fear God and honour the King : But some Zealots of the Zuinglian faction , spreading their woful Schisms throughout these Brittish Islands , many loyal Subjects paid Death for it , whose Blood was poured forth like Water in most parts of the Kingdom , but no no where more aboundant then at Cromwels-slaughter-house , in , and about the City of London . And observe , the stones that they cast at others fell upon their own heads , for several changes and mutations hapned , in somuch that there was a most miraculous deliverance from the hands of Usurpers , by a providential restoring of our dread Soveraign Lord King Charles the second , and the bringing of His Majesties grand Enemies to the Bar of Justice , and others to publick shame and disgrace ; amongst whom the Lord Mounson , Sir Henry Mildmay , and Mr. Robert Wallop , being all Members of Parliament for constituting of that most unjust , illegal , and pretended High Court of Justice ; and although they were not present at the Sentence of the Kings death , yet they were A bettors thereunto ; but through the tender mercy of King and Parliament being not immediate , they were excepted for life , and to receive reward according to their merits ; which was by the High and Honourable Court of Parliament to be secured and kept in safe custody , and on the 27th of January to be drawn upon a Sledge from the Tower of London to Tiburn , there to be degraded and devested from all their Titles of Honour , which accordingly was put in execution on Monday last , but Sir James Harrington having made his escape prevented that which otherwise had been determined for him .

But before we proceed to particulars , observe this by the way , That as for Mildmay , he was raised and prefered by his Majesty ; the King not onely ordering him to be his Jeweller , but preferred him to other places of profit , and was in high Trust as well as in great Gain ; And because , as the Proverb goeth , Much would have more , his Covetousness , egged forward by his Ambition to be Great , snatching at more then was just , laid him open to lose what was due , and to be deprived of his place that formerly was so good . Then he , like the unjust Steward spoken of in the Gospel , withal alluding to Mr. Pym , that grand enemy against Monarchy , took unjuster courses against his Royal Master ; for he not onely advised with himself to destroy his M●jesty and to deceive him gaining Riches to himself , as his false Steward that Christ spea●s of , had had shewed him the way before ; but as After-ages grew more subtle , so they became more wicked then the former times ; even so this unjust and unthankful Servant became more wicked then before ; for such hatred and malice did he lay up against his Lord and Master the King , that he sealed it in the depth of his heart , wherein the same boiled like New Wine that wanted vent ; so that it was like Meat and Drink to an hungry Stomack , or thirsty Soul , for him to find any opportunity to broach the same , and was against all Concessions of peace with the King ; for when the Essex Petition for a personal Treaty with the King [ during His Majesties confinement in the Isle of Wight ] was published in London , the Printer was sent for by a Pursivant , and being carried before a Committee where this Judas Mildmay was Chairman he used these words : Sirrah ▪ sirrah , How dare you Print or Publish such wicked Papers as these , for a personal Treaty with him whom we have conquered . To which the Printer replied , That to his apprehension and judgement there was nothing therein contained but what was just and lawful ; whereupon he was committed : But to the deportment of this precious Jeweller and the rest , upon the Sledge and at Tiburn , this is very remarkable ; That ,

On Munday being the 27 of January , ( and the day that our late Gracious Lord and Sovereign King Charles , received that most horrid excrable , and detestable Sentence , ) the aforesaid William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay , Robert Wallop Esquire , were drawn from the Tower of London , on three several sledges , with Ropes about their Necks , to Tyburn , being guarded by the Sheriffs Officers , &c. The first was the Lord Mounson , who lay along in the sledge , and seemed very much dejected , having almost the Picture of Death in his face ; The second was Sir Henry Mildmay , who lay as it were crooked on the sledge , in a long Gown ; And the third was Mr. Wallop , who likewise lay in the same posture . But when they came to Tyburn , after some Discourse betwixt the Worshipful Sheriffs , and the Prisoners , in order to the Effect and Causes of their being brought to that Place , with so great and deserved Reproach and Ignominy : To which the Lord Mounson deelared , That what he had done , he was sorry from his very Soul , and had he ten thousand lives he would facrifice them all for the King . The like regret of Spirit were upon the other two , who when they came near to the Gallows , shaked their heads , and said , It was but just , their sins had deserved it . And all three Sledges being drawn under the Gallows , they were afterwards guarded back to the Tower .