A Winding-Sheet FOR Traitors: With a Discovery of their great and dangerous Conspiracies; the horrid Perfidiousness and Treachery of divers Usurping Tyrants; their Judas-like Actings in several Counties; their Judgements, and Sel●-Exec●tions; their sudden Death; the Names of such who have both hanged and drowned themselves; And the Lamentation and Confession of Mr. Scot, and divers others of the wicked and cruel Judges, who most barbarously and inhumanely murdered our late gracious Sovereign Lord King CHARLES.  
London, Printed for J. Thomas, 1660.   

THE Traitor's Confession: Or, Strange News from the Tower of London.  
JUstice having taken place within these British Isles, and a discovery made of the grand Traitors, who struck even at the Root both of King, Parliament, Laws, and Privileges, their Confederacy in sin being their only security; give me leave in this following Narration, to present the Reader with a Catalogue of some of the Grandees, that could not be matched in any place but where they now are, viz. in the Tower of London, where the Marquis of Argyle, the Earl of Antrim, Sir Arthur Hasilrigg, Sir Henry Vane, Col. Axtel, Mr. Thomas Scot, who was sent prisoner out of Flanders, and Col. Hacker, one of the Gentlemen forsooth, that carried a Partisan, was on the Scaffold, and commanded the Guards when our late gracious Sovereign was most inhumanely and barbarously murdered; for which bloody act and wicked Treason, he, with the rest, are now honoured with an imprisonment in the Tower, where they may justly condole and lament their bypast Enormities; and thus centre with each other, in their direful Lachrymae: Oh! That the blood of that innocent Prince were washed from our Souls: Oh! the horror and guilt of Conscience: Let us surrender that which we cannot keep: Let us east off our vile and polluted Vizards, and appear in our Natural Colours, every one confessing his Villainies, which we can no longer conceal: Let us turn Converts, and as we have always been Dissemblers, so now out of our natural disposition of dissimulation acknowledge his Majesty to be our Right and lawful Sovereign, (for we cannot help it) that we were the unjust and bloody Murderers of his most Royal Father; that in all our Actions we sought our own profit, and not the public good; that our endeavours tended to the advance of our own private Interest and Estates, and not the benefit of the Trust imposed upon Us; That we were plunderers both of Church and State, never thinking that the day of Account would come; That we made Religion and the glory of God the Cloak for all our Villainy, Rapines and Murders; That we did intent if our Designs had been fixed firm, to have made ourselves perpetual Dictator's and State-Robbers.  
But since their hopes are frustrate, and that seemingly here is pointed out such an enrolled Confession; be pleased, in the next place, to take a Review of the just Confession of some of the unjust Judges, in these words:  

Our King we murdered, yet the Work's not done,  
For then on Holland, Capel, Hambelton  
Our pause we laid, by Us was Derby's loss,  
As by the Scotch Kirk that noble Earl Montross:  
We Gerrard killed, and valiant Brown-Bushel,  
Sir Alexander Cary, and Mr. Vowel,  
Aston, Stacy, and Hewet, who doth lie  
A martyred Saint, with noble Slingsby:  
Besides, to aggravate our sins above  
The thoughts of Man, we murdered Mr. Love;  
With many more, we took no pity,  
Drawn hanged and quartered in fair London's City.  
There's none of us but do deserve to die,  
Who for these cruel Evils new in prison lie,  
Where we had better be, our lives to save,  
Then (as deserved) the Gallow Tree to have.  
Our Brother Barkstead, once a man of power,  
Is fled whilst we have taken London's Tower.  
Like Hector bold, we did presume to kill  
Our King, though it be sore against our will  
To answer that pretended good Old Cause,  
By which we robbed poor England of just Laws  
Which would condemn us all, had we our due  
To be drawn hanged and then quartered too.   
These were the King-killing Basilisks, and weeping Crocodiles, who not only murdered their lawful Prince, but banished His Royal Consort the Queen, and caused the Offspring and Royal Issue for many years to suffer Exilement: Nay more, they destroyed and imprisoned all the King's Friends, and made it Treason for to name the King, or once to mention him. Nay more than that, they unjustly seized on all his Majesty's Lands, and gave or sold them one to another, felling his Timber, destroying his Deer, demolishing his Castles and stately Palaces, poling and oppressing his Subjects, and what not. But they are now like to deliver up their unjust got Lands and Goods to the right Owners. The ancient Palace of Oldcourt is to be delivered up by Mr. Edward's, which he purchased for a small sum. And Gaffer Obey must now forsake his Manor of Ampthill, and his Manor of Mill-brook, and betake himself to the old Road. The like must Goodman Whaley, for his two Manors of West-Walton, and Trington; Lightly come, lightly go, he purchased them at a very easy rate.  
These are the arbitrary Youths that lived upon the sweat of other men's brows; and these are the Canicals that for many years joined with the bloody Tyrant and Usurper; witness his insatiable proceed against the Western Gentlemen, who upon their Rising for the King in the year 1655. he not only proceeds against Col. Penruddock, and divers other Gentlemen, by capital punishment; but he decimates all the Cavaliers or Gentlemen of the late King's party, that had been in Arms for him, all over England; that is, he enjoins them to pay yearly the tenth part of their whole Revenue, notwithstanding their former Compositions made for their Estates, and their Pardons sued out as the Parliament had enjoined. And this Decimation was put in execution by the Major Generals of every County: In which Government, Cromwell much resembled the Turk; himself like the Grand Signior, ruling by sole Command, had his standing Army (as a Guard for his Person) answerable to the Janissaries; and his Major Generals representing the Bashaws in their several Provinces.  
These are the State-Juglers, that could at pleasure impose new Oaths, and set up their Dag●n or Westminsterian Engagement, in opposition to his Majesty's Regal Government, and so deceitfully to glory and triumph in their pretended Providences and Successes, ever since that fatal blow given to our late gracious Lord and Sovereign: But mark the apparent Demonstrations of Gods evident and eminent wrath and indignation against the Subscribers of the said Engagement, and Complices with the late Juntoe, viz. One Mr. Bray a Presbyterian Minister, for the gaining of an Augmentation to his Living at michael's in Lancashire, took the Engagement, turned a great Zealot for the Independent Faction, and immediately after, an O●der coming for pulling down of the late King's Arms in Churches, he was so not therein, that he would needs (as he did) pull them down himself, and sent the boards on which the King's Arms were painted, home to his house, intending to have made a door of them, to one o● the Rooms of his House; but it pleased the Lord presently to strike him with a sudden and violent sickness, whereof he presently died, and those boards were made his Coffin to bury him in.  
One Brown a Scottish-man, with other of his Countrymen, having betrayed his Majesty in several weighty businesses of great importance; and being extremely oppressed with horror and guilt, fell mad, and so died desperately: but Brown, the grand Impostor, going to Fern Island in the North Seas, within a League or two of the Holy-Island, wrapped himself in a White Sheet, and tumbled himself down from the Top of a Rock into the Main Ocean. Such was the horrid perfidy of the Treachery Scot, that in stead of the expected Safety of his Majesty's Person, Judas-like for Money, (though a far greater Sum) sold and delivered their Sovereign LORD and KING, into the hands of his English Rebels, who by this means had under God a power to re-settle the Kingdom's peace: But they were blinded to their own destruction; and having taken the Lords Anointed in their pits, they now used him as they listed, carried him whither they pleased, and indeed treated him no otherwise then as their prisoner; for with a strong Guard of Horse and Foot in the month of February, 1646. the depth of Winter, they removed him from Newca●●le to Holmby.  
Long had not his Sacred Majesty continued there, but He was by a part of the Army under one Joyce a Tailor, violently taken from thence, and brought to his Honour of Hampton-Court, where for a while he began to reassume his Pristine Majesty, being admitted to see and to be seen; but Cromwell fearing the frequency of so great resort might spoil his grand Plot and Traitorous Designs, with much Serpentine Craft and Devilish Subtlety, persuaded and insinuated into his Majesty's heart doubts and suspicions of mischief intended against him; the only way for preventing whereof, he affirmed to be the withdrawing his Person from thence, to a place of more strength and security, and to that purpose nominated the Isle of Wight, to which place his Majesty led by the Innocency of his spotless Conscience, was decoyed, and at his arrival found himself overreached; for he was immediately secured by Col Hammond, who then was Governor in the said Island, and kept a long time prisoner there in the Castle of Carisbrook; to the unspeakable grief of his Majesty, and all true Subjects.  
One Sir Thomas Martin Knight of Cambridgeshire, an Engager and great Complier with the Times, having been a Hunting in Holmby-Park, and the Deer being fallen, stuck and opened, and he desired (together with the other Gentlemen) to wash his hands in the Deers blood; No (said he) I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the young King of Scots: Immediately after this, riding home the same day at evening, his Horse very suddenly and violently threw him, in which fall, he pitched on his Head, mortally break his Skill and Shoulder, of which wounds he ve●● shortly after died.  
Doctor Dorislaus, the Westminsterians Junctoes-first-Ambassadosent from them into Holland, and therefore no doubt a great Engager and desperate Complier in all things with them, as in th● King's Death; this Dorislaus being arrived in Holland, was immediately and suddenly assaulted and slain as he sat at Dinner in his own house.  
Mr. Thomas Hoyle, formerly looked upon as a very pious and strictly Religious Gentleman, an Alderman of York and Member of Parliament; but having taken the Engagement, even against his Conscience, turned a great Complyer with them at Westminster: Not long after, it pleased the Lord so to leave him to himself, that on the very same day 12 month that King Charles was Beheaded; yea as near as possibly could ●e judged about the very same hour of that day, this Gentleman hanged himself at his own house in Westminster, and was found dead by his Wife when she came home, who had been abroad that morning.  
Mr. Shereman a Citizen and Silkman in Pater-noster-row in London, who had formerly been looked upon as a Godly and Religious man, had been a Tryer and an Elder in the Presbyterian-Church-Government, a very good friend to Mr. Love, than his Pastor; but afterwards he turning with the Times, took the Engagement, and that in form of an Oath, whereupon he was made a Common-Council-man, turned a desperate enemy and hater of the said Mr. Love, who shortly after being in the Shop with his W●fe, as well as e●er in his li●e, yet in the Evening standing at his Counter in his Shop, and his Wife close by him, he suddenly fell down dead by her, and spoke one word.  
Unto this I shall only add this Q●●ry, viz. Whether those persons that are living, that took upon themselves the Name, Style, and Title of The Parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland, (though bp their Writs by which they sat, they were but the fragments of the Parliament o● England only) Beheaded their Lawful Protestant King, Banished his Posterity, overturning our ancient Government it ●el●, consisting of King, Lords, and Commons, which constitution continued many hundreds of years, and was the best and fittest fo● the●e Nations that could be, and brought the Nation into such a Labyrinth and Confusion, by endear ouring to set up a Utopian Commonwealth, a mere Ne●-N●t●ing? Whether the orersons may not justly fear They may all down Q●●●k into He●●, or fall into the s●me Exemplary Terrors, Judgements, and Self-Executions with Others, i● they repent not for their Abominations.  
FINIS.