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APPENDIX G 595 well's House of Lords. (^) At the Restoration he was excepted from the Act of Indemnity, both for life and estate, but escaped to Germany, where he was " received into protection at Hanau, and made a burgess ot that town/'C') Having imprudently ventured into Holland, to meet his wife, he was arrested at Delft by Sir George Downing, ii Mar. 1 66 1/2, and sent to London, (') where he was tried and convicted of High Treason. He was executed at Tyburn, () 19 Apr. 1662, and his head was set up over the Traitor's Gate in the Tower.('^) BERRY [60] James Berry is said to have been an overseer of some iron- works in Shropshire. In 1643 he was Captain-Lieut, of the famous regt. of " Ironsides " raised and commanded by Oliver Cromwell. He fought at the battle of Gainsborough, 28 July 1643; Capt. in the regt. of Horse com. by Sir Thomas Fairfax, in the "New Model," 1645; sup- pressed a Royalist rising in Notts 1655; and was app. "Major-General of the Militia " for North and South Wales, Hereford, and Salop, 9 Aug. 1655. M.P. for CO. Worcester 1656-57. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "James Lord Berry," 21 Jan. i657/8;(8) he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords. Councillor of State, in the " Restored Rump," 13 May to 25 Oct. 1659; and member (=) " He is one to the life to fulfil the protector's desires, whether right or wrong, for he will dispute no commands, nor make the least demur, but in an officious way will rather do more than his share." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). {•>) Ludlow's Memoirs, vol. ii, p. 330. He may have had relatives residing in that town, for in the pedigree recorded by his brother, " Michael Barksted of London goldsmith," at the Visitation of London, 1634, his great-grandfather is entered as " Barksted of Germany," and his grandfather as " Herman Barksted of Litchfeild in CO. Staff." {Add. MS. 5533, f. II i). if) " This morning we had news that Sir Geo. Downing . . . hath taken Okey, Corbett, and Barkstead, at Delfe in Holland, and sent them home in the Blackmore." (Pepys' Diary, 12 Mar. 1 66 1/2). C^) "This morning before we sat I went to Aldgate, and ... did see Barkstead, Okey, and Corbett drawne towardes the gallows at Tyburne, and there they were hanged and quartered. They all looked very cheerful, but I hear they all died defending what they did to the king to be just; which is very strange." (Pepys' Diary, 19 Apr. 1 662). («) Secretary Nicholas wrote to the Sheriflfe of London, 21 Apr. 1662: "Bark- stead's head is to be put over the Traitor's gate in the Tower, and Corbet's on the bridge, and their quarters on the city gates, ad libitum." [Cal. S. P. Dom., p. 344)- "Colonel Berry: his original was from the ironworks, as a clerk or overseer; betook himself to the wars, on the parliament-side; profited gready in his undertaking, and advanced his interest very far; who, though he wore not the jester's coat, yet, being so ready to act his part, and please his general, in time he became a colonel ot horse in the army, afterwards a maior-general of divers counties, a command fit for a prince." {Second Narrative of the late Parliament). (8) "This Day James Lord Berry, having taken the Oath in the room within the painted Chamber in presence of Henry Lord Lawrence Lord Presid' ot the CounccU, . . . came in to the house and tooke his place next to Joh. Lord Hewson on