Five of the seven were either acquitted or spared: only Slingsby and Dr.Hewit were brought to the scaffold.

They were beheaded on Tower Hill, June 8.

Much influence was exerted in behalf of Hewit; but, besides that he had been deeply implicated, he had been contumacious in the Court, challenging its competency, and refusing to plead.

Prynne had stood by him, and prepared his demurrer .-- From the evidence collected in Dr.Hewit's case it appeared that he, if not Ormond, had been calculating on the co-operation of Fairfax, Lambent, Sir William Waller, and a great many other persons of name, up and down the country, not included among those whom Cromwell had seen fit to arrest.

As Thurloe distinctly says, "It's certain Sir William Waller was fully engaged," the omission, of that veteran commander from the number must have been an act of grace.