1659. March. Chaldren, upon the Coals there, amounting to Inter-regnum 50000 1. per Annum. He got three great Manors of the Bishops, Auckland, Everwood, and another, for an inconfiderable Matter: He hath been an implacable Enemy to one Mr. Collingwood, and wronged him of a great Eftate: He hath a rich Fleece, reported to the Value of 20,000l. per Annum; but it is hoped he will, e'er long, be fheared. Sir Edward Hungerford, Colonel, famous for plundering of Warder-Castle; had the Lands of the Countess Dowager of Rutland, worth 1500 l. per Annum, and she was allowed but 500 1. out of them. Cornelius Holland. His Father died in the Fleet for Debt, and left him a poor Boy in the Court waiting on Sir Henry Vane, then Comptroller of the Prince's House. He was ftill Sir Henry Vane's 'Zany, but now, coming in with his Mafter for the Revenue of the King, Queen, and Prince, this Pharifee was engaged with other Monopolifts and Patentees, while they ftood, his Confcience fcrupling not the Means where Profit was the Prize. He was turned out of the Office of the Green Cloth for Fraud and Breach of Truft; but, with the Help of his Mafter, made himself a Farmer of the King's Feeding-Grounds at Crefoe, in Buchinghamshire, worth 1800. or 2000 l. per Annum, at the Rate of 201. per Annum, which he difcounted. He poffeffed Somerfet-Houfe a long Time, where he and his Family nefted themselves. He was Keeper of Richmond-Houfe for his Country Retreat, and Commiffary for the Garrifons at Whitehall and the Mewes. He had an Office in the Mint, and, having ten Children, he long fince gave 5000 with a Daughter, after which Rate we must conceive he had laid afide 50,000 /. for Portions. He was one of the King's Judges, and one of the Committee of Safety. Sir Robert Harley, Mafter of the Mint in the Place of Sir Ralph Freeman, and Sir Thomas Aylesbury. Before the Parliament he was much indebted, very poor, and could not pay; now he is rich, and will not pay. • Henry Inter-regnum. 1659. March. Henry Herbert had given him 3000l. and the Plunder of Ragland-Cafile. John Hampden, Colonel of Foot, killed at Culgrove Field, where he made his firft Mufter. His eldeft Son made fince a Lord by Oliver Cromwell. Col. Hacker, Governor of Lincoln, a Commiffioner to bring in the Scots, and one of the three to whom the bloody Warrant, for his late Majefty's Execution, was directed. Sir Henry Hayman had given him 5000 1. • Denzil Holles had 5000 7. ordered him, but refufed it, and defired them to pay their Debts before they paid their Legacies. He was one of the eleven Members impeached by the Army, was very hot in the Beginning of the Troubles, but is fince of a better Temper, and hath contributed much to the Reftoration of his Prince, and his Nation's Peace. Roger Hill, a Barrifter of the Temple, of no confiderable Eftate till he had granted him, from the Houfe, the Bishop of Winchester's Manor of Taunton-Dean, being the beft in England, worth 12,000l. per Annum, when the Eftates for Lives determine. He was one of the Commiffioners of Haberdashers-Hall. a John Hewfon, at first a Cobler of London, or at beit a Shoe-maker, went out a Captain upon the Account of the Caufe. His Zeal brought him to be a Colonel, and was afterwards made Governor of Dublin in Ireland, from whence he was fent for to be one of Barebone's Parliament, and of all the mock Parliaments fince; was made a Knight of the new Stamp, and afterwards was thought a fit Perfon to be a Lord of the Other Houfe; and, for his Wifdom and good Service in all his other Employments, was thought worthy to be one of the twenty-three honourable Perfons of the Committee of Safety, that were to manage all public Affairs of the Nation, and to confider upon a Frame of Government to be establifhed; but, in the Heat of that great Work, he was in all Hafte, by his Brethren of that Committee, fent in a Rage into London, to kill and still the innocent Boys playing at Foot ball in the Streets, much March. much like his Brother Pride, who cruelly deftroyed Inter-regnum. the innocent Bears. Afterwards, the Coroner's Jury 1659: that fat upon the murdered Perfons, found his Lordfhip guilty. He had been tried at the Seffions House in the Old Baily, had not the News of his Majefty's happy Arrival prevented the fitting of that Court; and no doubt, before this Time, received the Reward of his Works. He was likewise one of the murderous Judges fitting upon his Prince.: •* Oliver St. John, the Son of one Mr. St. John, of Bedfordshire, who was supposed to be à Bye-blow of one of the Earls of Bedford. This Oliver was a Gentleman of flender Fortune, brought up to the Profeffion of the Law; who, by fpecial Grace of his late Majefty, was both his Sollicitor and Attorney-General. He deferted his Mafter, and, adhering to the Parliament, was promoted to Places of very great Advantage many Years together. He and Walter, called Lord Strickland, were fent Ambaffadors to the United Provinces. He had alfo, many Years together, the paffing of all Fines and Compofitions, faid to be worth 5000l. per Annum. He was alfo Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas many Years, a Place of vaft Profit. He was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, in the Earl of Manchester's room, a Perfon fignally anti-monarchical, till the Ufurpation of Oliver Cromwell. Henry Ireton, Commiffary-General and Colonel, Lord-Deputy of Ireland, one of the King's Judges, and one of the Appointers of the Time and Place of his Execution. Richard Ingoldfby, Colonel, and Governor of Oxford, related to Cromwell, one of the King's Judges; but fince a true Penitent for it. Sir Thomas Jarvis had Mr. Web's Place in Richmond Little Park, and had 9000 . given him out of the Marquis of Winchester's Estate. Philip Jones, Colonel, a Member of the Long Parliament. His Original is from Wales: At the firft of the War it is faid he had not above 20l. per Annum, but hath fince very much improved his In tereft 16-9. March. Inter-regnum. tereft upon Account of the Caufe; became Gover nor of a Garrison, and Steward of fome of the Protector's Lands in Wales; was a great Stickler to advance his Mafter to be Protector, for which good Service he was advanced to be one of his Council, worth 1000 per Annum; afterwards Comptroller of his Houfhold, or Court. He made Hay while the Sun fhined, and hath improved his Revenue, as it is believed, to 4000 1. per Annum, if not more. He was alfo one of the Rump. 6 John Jones, at firft a Serving-Man, then a Colonel of the Long Parliament; was fent a Commiffioner into Ireland for the governing that Nation. He likewife helped to change the Government, was Governor of the Ifle of Anglesey, married the Protector's Sifter, and thorough-paced for his Court Proceedings; who was thought fit, with his Namefake and Countryman Philip, to be called Lords, and to be taken out of the Rump into the Other House, to have a Negative Voice against the People. He was also one of his Prince's Judges. • William Lenthall, of Lincoln's-Inn, a Counsellor at Law, Speaker of the House of Commons, worth 2000 l. per Annum, befides Rewards for Courtefies; Mafter of the Rolls, worth 3000 l. per Annum ; befides the Sale of Offices; Chamberlain of Chefter in the Earl of Derby's Place, and, untill lately, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, worth 1000l. per Annum. He was a Commiffioner of the Seal, worth 1500 1. per Annum, and had 6000 l. one Time given him by the House, and the Rectory and Demefne of Burford, with a stately House belonging to the Lord Falkland, worth 500 l. per Annum. Oliver once made a Spunge of him, and fqueezed him out of 15,000l. who turning him and his Tribe out of Doors, he veer'd about to fave himself and his great Offices; and he that had been fo long Bell-weather in the Commons Houfe, was thought, for his Compliance and his Money, to deferve to be one of the Herd of Lords in the Other Houfe. John Life, Barrifter of the Temple, Master of S. Croffes', in Dr. Lewis's Place, being a Place for a Divine, 1659. March. a Divine, worth 800 1. per Annum ; one of the Lords Inter-regnum. Commiffioners of the Great Seal, worth 1500 per Annum ; one of the King's Judges, afterwards became a Cromwellian, and fwore Oliver, at his first inftalling, Chief Magiftrate. He was Prefident of the High Court of Juftice, (fo called) which tried Sir Henry Slingsby, Dr. Hewit, &c. for Treafon against the Protector, and passed Sentence of Death against them. ↑ Nicholas Love, the fon of Dr. Love, of Winchefter, Mr. Speaker's Chamber-Fellow in LincolnsInn, was made one of the fix Clerks in Chancery, in Mr. Penruddock's Place, worth 1000 l. per Annum; one of the Council of State in 1651; a conftant Rumper, one of his Sovereign's cruel Judges, and one of the Abjurators against Kingly Power. •* John Lenthall, Son to the Speaker, made one of the fix Clerks, worth 1500 l. per Annum, knighted by Oliver Cromwell; was a Colonel of Foot, and Governor of Windfor-Caftle. • Sir Oliver Luke, Colonel of Horse. • Sir Samuel Luke, his Son, Colonel and ScoutMafter for the Counties of Bedford, &c. <*Sir Michael Livefey, of the Ifle of Sheppey, in Kent, heretofore a Colonel under Sir William Waller, but a moft, notorious Coward; a penurious sneaking Person, and one that could act an Hypocrite to the Life, in Voice and humble Gesture. He was one of his Sacred Majefty's cruel Judges, Committee-Man General of Kent, and an eminent Rumper. Walter Long, Colonel, had 5000 l. and the Office of Register in Chancery for four Years. net Henry Lawrence, a Member of the Long Parliament, fell off at the Murder of his Majefty, for which the Protector, with great Zeal, declared, That a neutral Spirit was more to be abhorred than a Cavalier Spirit, and that fuch Men as he wer fit to be used in such a Day as that, when God was cutting down Kingship Root and Branch. Yet he came into Play again, and contributed much to the fetting up of the Protector and a Single Perfon, af firming |