CONTENT S. Their Exile, and living together in their various Lodg- On Mr. THEOPHILUS WHALE, of Narragansett. HI STORY OF THREE OF THE JUDGES WHO, OF KING CHARLES I. ESCAPING ROYAL VENGEANCE, FOUND AN ASYLUM IN NEW-ENGLAND, AND PARTICULARLY IN CONNECTICUT. CHAP. I. Of the Three Fudges feparately, and before their Exile. OF F about one hundred and thirty Judges, appointed in the original commiffion, by the commons' Houfe of Parliament, for the tryal of King Charles I. only seventy-four fat, and of these, fixty-feven were prefent at the last feffion, and were unanimous in paffing the definitive fentence upon the King; and fiftynine figned the warrant for his execution, 1649. Of thefe fifty-nine, about one-third, or twenty-four, were dead at the Restoration, 1660. Twenty-feven perfons, Judges and others, were then taken, tried and condemned; fome of which were pardoned, and nine of the Judges, and five others, as accomplices, were executed. Only fixteen Judges fled, and finally escaped: three of whom, Major-General EDWARD WHALLEY, Major-General WILLIAM GOFFE, and Colonel JOHN DIXWELL, fled and fecreted themselves in NewEngland, and died here. One of the Judges piftoled himself in Holland, another fled to Laufanna, and was |