The Second Part

To the same tune.

Monday was the fifteenth day,
   As Carew then did follow, ¹
Of whom all men I thinke might say
   In tyranny did deeply wallow;
Traytor proved unto the King,
Which made him on the gallowes swing,
   And all the people hallow.

Tuesday, after Peters, Cooke, ²
   Two notorious traytors,
That brought our soveraigne to the blocke,
   For which were hang’d and cut in quarters;
’Twas Cooke which wrought the bloody thing
To draw the charge against our King,
   That ever blessed martyr.

Next, on Wednesday, foure came,
   For murthur all imputed,
There to answer for the same,
   Which in judgement were confuted.
Gregorie Clement, Jones, and Scot,
And Scroop together, for a plot, ³
   Likewise were executed.

Thursday past, and Friday then,
   To end the full conclusion,
And make the traytors just up ten,
   That day were brought to execution,
Hacker and proud Axtell he, ⁴
At Tyburne for their treachery
   Received their absolution.

Being against the King and States,
   The Commons all condemn’d ’um,
And their quarters on the gates
   Hangeth for a memorandum
’Twixt the heavens and the earth;
Traytors are so little worth,
   To dust and smoake wee’l send ’um.

Let now October warning make
   To bloody-minded traytors,
That never phisicke more they take,
   For in this moneth they lost their quarters;
Being so against the King,
Which to murther they did bring,
   The ever blessed martyr.

London, printed for Fr. Coles, T. Vere, M. Wright, and W. Gilbertson.

Footnotes

1. “October 15th.  This morning Mr Carew was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great favour, are not to be hanged up.”—Pepys.  Colonel John Carew, like Harrison, was one of the Fifth-monarchy men, a violent and visionary but honest enthusiast. ↩

2. Hugh Peters, for his zeal in encouraging the Commonwealth soldiery, was particularly hated by the Royalists.  John Coke, the able lawyer, conducted the prosecution of the King. ↩

3. Gregory Clement, John Jones, Thomas Scott, and Adrian Scrope, were charged with sitting in the High Court of Justice which tried the King.  Scott was further charged with having, during the sitting of the Rump Parliament, expressed his approbation of the sentence against the King.  Colonel Scrope, although he had been admitted to pardon, was selected as one of the objects of vengeance, and was condemned chiefly on a reported conversation, in which, when one person had strongly blamed what he called the “murder” of the King, Scrope observed, “Some are of one opinion, and some of another.” ↩

4. “October 19th.  This morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are.”—Pepys.  Colonel Francis Hacker commanded the guards at the King’s execution.  Axtell was captain of the guard of the High Court of Justice at which the King was tried. ↩