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MAster Tomkins, and Master Chaloner, the one Clark of the Queens Council, the other a Linnen-Draper in Corn-hill, two persons of Eminent Loyalty and Integrity, who seeing the whole Kingdom running to ruine by the Seditious practises of the Rebels, procured a Commission from the King; the design whereof was, that they should Seize into their Custody the Kings Children, some Members of Parliament, the Lord Mayor, and Committee of the Militia, all the City
Out-works and Forts, the Tower of London, and all the Magazines; then to let in the Kings Army to Surpize the City, to destroy all Opposers; and this grounded upon refu∣sal of paying of Taxes imposed without Au∣thority.
This Commission was brought to London by the Lady Aubigney, Wife to that Gallant Lord, who died of his wounds at Edge-Hill, and upon receipt thereof, several Meetings and Conferences were held in order to the promoting thereof, which was chiefly pro∣secuted by those two Loyal Persons, who made such progress therein, that the business was brought into some form; but so many being concern'd in it, through the Treachery of some, it came to the Parliaments eares; whereupon those two Gentlemen amongst others were Apprehended, and Arraigned before a Council of War at Guild-Hall, and there Sentenced to be Hanged for this Hay∣nous Crime of Loyalty, which accordingly was Executed near their own doors, July 5. 1643.