be made for the freedom of such Elections 6. That the Parliament onely have Power to direct further as to Parliaments and for those two ends expressed before their Orders there to pass for Laws 7. That there be a Liberty for Entring Dissents in the House of Commons and no man further censurable for what he shall say in the House exclusion by c. from that Trust and that by the House it self 8. That the Iudicial Power in the Lords and Commons without further Appeal may be cleared The King not to be capable to forgive persons adjudged by them without their consent 9. That the Peers have no Iurisdiction against the Commons without the concurring Iudgment of the House of Commons as also may be vindicated from any other Iudgement c. than that of their equals 10. That Grand Iury-men be chosen by several parts or divisions of each County respectively not left to the discretion of any Vnder-Sheriff which Grand Iury-men at each Assize shall present the names of persons to be made Iustices of the Peace and at the Summer-Assizes the names of three out of which the King may prick one for Sheriff Secondly being another principle For the future security to Parliaments and the Militia in general in order thereunto That it be provided by Act of Parliament 1. That the power of the Militia by Land and Sea during the space of ten years shall be disposed by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament or persons they shall nominate 2. That it shall not be exercised by the King nor any from him during the said space nor afterwards but by advice of the Parliament or Council of State or such Committees in the Interval 3. That the said Lords and Commons c. raise and dispose of Money for the Forces thought necessary and for payment of publike debts and uses of the Kingdom 4. That these ten years security may be the firmer It be provided That none that have been in hostility against the Parliament in the late War shall be capable of any Office or Trust for five years without consent of Parliament nor to sit as Members thereof till the second Biennial Parliament be past Thirdly For the ordering of the peace and safety of this Kingdom and Ireland 1. That there be Commissioners for the Admiralty an Admiral and Vice-Admiral now agree on with power to execute amply the said Offices and pay provided for the service 2. That there be a Lord-General for the Forces that are to be in pay 3. That there be Commissioners for the standing Militia in every County consisting of Trained Bands and Auxiliaries not in pay to discipline them 4. A Council of State to surperintend the powers given those Commissioners 5. That the said Council have the same power with the Kings Privy Council but not make War or Peace without consent of Parliament 6. That that Council consist of trusty and able persons to continue si bene se gesserint but not above seven years 7. That a sufficient Establishment be provided for the pay of the standing Forces the Establishment to continue till two months after the meeting of the first Biennial Parliament or Saint Tibs Eve Fourthly That an Act be passed for disposing the great Offices for ten years by the Lords and Commons in Parliament and by the Committees in the Intervals with submission to the approbation of the next Parliament and after that time they to name three and the King out of them to appoint one for the succession upon a vacancie Fifthly For disabling the Peers made by the King since the Great Seal was carried away May 21. 1642. to sit and Vote in Parliament Sixthly An Act to make void all the Acts Declarations c. against the Parliament and their Adherents and that the Ordinances for Indempnity be confirmed Seventhly An Act to make void all Grants passed under the said Seal since May 1642. and to confirm and make those valid that passed under the Great Seal made by Authority of Parliament Eighthly An Act for Confirmation of Treaties between England and Scotland and constituting Conservators of the Peace between them Ninthly That the Ordinance for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries be confirmed by Act but the Kings Revenue made up another way and the Officers thereof to have reparation Tenthly An Act declaring void the Cessation of Ireland leaving that War to the prosecution of the Parliament Eleventhly An Act to take away all Coercive Power Authority and Iurisdiction of Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Officers whatsoever extending to civil Penalties upon any and to repeal all Laws whereby the Civil Magistracie hath been or is bound upon any Ecclesiastical Censure to proceed ex Oââicio unto any Civil Penalties against any persons so censured Mark here is not a word of abolishing Episcopacy or confirming the sale of their Lands in which they knew the Presbyterians were entangled but the King extreamly gratified who abominated Sacriledge and so was the likelier never to comply with the Parliament who made it one of their principal demands which Cromwel designed Twelfthly That there be a repeal of penal Acts or Clauses enjoyning the Common-Prayer and imposing Penalties for not coming to Church some provision to be made for discovering of Recusancie Thirteenthly That the taking of the Covenant be not inforced upon any c. but that all Ordinances enjoyning that be repealed Fourteenthly That the things before proposed being provided for his Majestie his Queen and Royal Issue may be restored to a condition of Safetie Honour and Freedom in this Nation without diminution to their personal Rights or further limitation to the exercise of their Power than according to the particulars aforegoing Fifteenthly For the matter of Compositions 1. That a less number out of the persons excepted in the two first qualifications not exceeding five for the English being nominated particularly by the Parliament besides the Irish Rebels may be reserved to the Iudgment of the Parliament c. And many more good morrows in favourable restrictions of the Parliament's severity to poor Cavaliers whom they reserved for their more ravenous jaws thinking by these wiles first to betray and then devour them and therefore now the Tyger is become a mediator to the Wolf to spare the innocent sheep that 's encompassed between them The rest of this batch was for particular redresses of the Law and abuses of the Lawyers concerning Imprisonments for Debts Regulating Assessements and remedies against the contentious Suits of Tythes for asserting the peoples right in Petitioning against Forrest-Lands and almost all particular grievances especially the Excise and Monopolies against Corporation-Oaths as grievous to tender Consciences being too long to enumerate The drift of all being to please all sorts of people one or other hitting the humour of every man but chiefly gratifying the Fanaticks and miserable Vulgar who were to be deluded and then used as a bridge to their own slavery
load upon the Parliament through their neglect of paying them when indeed the supernumeraries with which Cromwel daily recruited the Army without any Authority far beyond the pay or number established was the cause of the Arrears and this oppression of Free-quarter for upon complaints thereof made in the House the Army being quartered in several Brigades supernumeraries have been disbanded in one Brigade their Arms taken by their Officers and shortly after they have been listed again in another Brigade and their Arms sold again to the State after a while to new arm them By which means Cromwel had amassed a Magazine of such which being lodged in the City and rumoured by some zealots to be for arming some Reformadoes were now upon examination found to belong unto Him and so the business was husht up which if they could have fastned upon the other Party should have been noised for horrid Treason By this grievance of Free-quarter they were doubly and trebly payed taking it in one place and Composition for it in another perhaps in three or four places at once by false Billets yet nevertheless though by these tricks they owed money to the State they demanded and compelled an Ordinance from the Parliament to secure their Arrears of the 24 of December whereby they had the two thirds of Delinquents Estates mentioned or comprehended in the three first qualifications of them in the Propositions sent to the King at the Isle of Wight and all the money arising out of the remaining part of Bishops Lands appointed to be sold by former Ordinances and the sum of 600000 l. charged on the receipt of EXCISE with the Forrest-Lands and other incomes for the securing of the said Arrears to be issued out to the Treasurers at War to such and such persons for the uses aforesaid in such manner as the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Army or any five of them under their hands would limit and appoint which was by way of Audit and Debentures sold not long after upon doublings on purchases of the Crown and other forfeited Lands for Half a Crown in the pound besides innumerable cheats by counterfeit hands but more to the talk than trouble of the Kingdom whose general Note was Caveat Emptor Wonderful it is since we have now mentioned that Dutch Devil as it was called the Excise what vast sums of money the Parliament had raised by it amounting as by their Ordinance of the 28 of August this year appears to that time from its Commencement some three years before to One million three hundred thirty four thousand five hundred thirty two pounds ten shillings and eleven pence half peny clear and deducted of all charges in the levying of it which defalked not above two shillings in the pound No wonder therefore they did so carefully enjoy and uphold this Tax which had supported and enabled them in all their atchievements and upon this score they made it over to the Souldiers several Uproars and Tumults happening in the refusal of payment particularly at Smithfield-bars London where the Butchers who then paid Excise for the Flesh sold at two shillings in the pound rose and fired the Excise-house neer adjoyning with all the Papers of Books of Account for which several of them were tryed but acquitted thereafter that Duty upon Cattle as likewise upon all Salt made in the Kingdom was wholly laid aside But a most severe injunction was now made for the continuance of the rest and the refractory threatned with exemplary punishments So that while Cromwel could finde Men and Arms at such a rate and the Parliament such heaps of Money by several Revenues it was in vain to think of a Peace when such visible powerful advantages subserved to those wicked designes of inthralling King Parliament City and Kingdom now mainly prosecuted by the Adjutators but so lendly and unseasonably that Cromwel to palliate his secret impiety abandoned one of the Ringleaders one White to his Execution at Ware by a Sentence of a Council of War for mutinous speeches and Papers of the Levelling principle but suspected also to aim at himself among the Common Souldiers Neer the same time one Tompson of the same Crue was seized on in the Lobby of the House of Commons supposed to be ready with some Impeachment or Articles against him and condemned in the same manner by a Council of War They cryed out of the King as useless and had got a Stork of their own making ten times more dangerous who durst crush them to Ruine in the very rise of his Ambition These misdoings and no Government highly displeased and incensed the people who too late Sero sapiunt Phryges saw how they had fool'd themselves into slavery the resentments whereof became so publike and so fearlesly Voyced that the Parliament was constrained to humour it and to personate a serious study to an Accommodation Hereupon the same 24 day of December on which they had Voted Security for the Armies Arrears an ill Omen of what Kindness they had for the King whom they would not bate an ace of their demands their Commissioners present to the King at Carisbrook-Castle four Bills to be Passed as Acts of Parliament with divers other Proposals such or worse than those at Hampton-Court before any Treaty might be admitted The first was an Act with this Title Concerning the raising setling and maintaining Forces by Sea and by Land within the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and Dominion of Wales the Isles of Gernsey and Jersey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed whereby it was to be Declared That the Lords and Commons then Assembled in Parliament or whom they should appoint that was a Council of State of Pickt Grandees should for twenty years have the Militia in their disposal against the King His Heirs and Successors for that term and after that term the same Power to be exercised by the King but with the consent of the Parliament if they shall declare the safety of the Kingdom to be concerned and the Moneys raised for that purpose to be imployed by the same persons in the like manner Which was in effect to take away the Kings Negative Voyce from him and His Heirs for ever Besides it grants an unlimited Power to the two Houses to raise what Forces and of what persons they please and to raise money in what sort and as much and of whom as they shall think fit without any restriction or exception The second was An Act for Iustifying the Proceedings of Parliament in the late War and for Declaring all Oaths Declarations Proclamations and other proceedings against it to be Void whereby they were to bâ declared to have stood upon the Defensive part their Conscience prickt them with their Blood-guiltiness and they would fain throw it off and by adding more Guilt to it load it upon the Innocent a wicked shift and be Indempnified still they are tormented for all their past
actions therein The third was An Act whereby all Titles and Honour of Peerage conferred on any since the 20 of May 1642. being the day that the Lord Keeper Littleton deserted the Parliament and carried away the Seal were Declared Void And it was further to be Enacted that no person that shall hereafter be made a Peer or his Heirs shall sit or Vote in the Parliament of England without the consent of both Houses of Parliament The fourth was An Act concerning the Adjournment of both Houses of Parliament whereby it was Declared that when and wither the two Houses shall think fit to Adjourn themselves the said Adjournments shall at all times be valid and good and shall not be judged or deemed to end or determine the Session of this Parliament The Proposals were 1. That the new Seal be Confirmed and the old Great Seal and all things passed under it since May 1642. be made Void 2. That Acts be Passed for raising moneys to pay publike Debts 3. That Members of both Houses put from their places by the King be restored 4. That the Cessation in Ireland be made Void and the War left to both Houses 5. That An Act of Indempuity be passed 6. That the Court of Wards be taken away and such Tenures turned into common Soccage 7. That the Treaties between England and Scotland be confirmed and Conservators of the Peace and Vnion appointed 8. That âhe Arrears of the Army be paid out of Bishops Lands Forfeited Estates and Forrests 9. That An Act be passed for abolishing Bishops and all appendants to them 10. That the Ordinance of disposing Bishops Lands be confirmed by Act. 11. That An Act be passed for the sale of Church-lands 12. That Delinquents be proceeded against and their Estates disposed of according to their several Qualifications 13. That an Act be passed for discharge of publike Debts 14. That Acts be passed for setâling the Presbyterian Government and Directory Fâurteen of the 39 Articles revised by the Assembly of Divines Rules and Directions concerning suspension from the Lords-Supper 15. That the chief Officers in England and Ireland be named by both Houses 16. That an Act be passed for the conviction of Popish Recusants 17. That an Act be passed for the Education of the Children of Papists by Protestants 18. and 19. Against Papists for levying penalties and prohibiting the hearing of Mass. 20. An Act be passed for Observation of the Lords-day 21. A Bill for Suppressing Innovations 22. And Advancement of Preaching 23. And against Pluralities and Non-residencie Withâl The Commissioners were to desire His Majesty to give His Royal Assent to those four Bills by His Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England Signed by His Hand and Notified to the Lords and Commons Assembled together in the House of Peers it not standing then with the safety of the Kingdom for His Majesty to do it otherwise to wit at London and a Bill to be drawn for such Letters Patents to be presented Him and then a Warrant to Edward Earl of Manchester c. whereupon a Committee shall be sent to the Isle of Wight to Treat with Him only It was not intended to shew these shapeless abortions of Laws but that they should have been buried in their Chaos yet being the though unprepared matter of this beautiful Form of the Kings Answer the darkness of the one occasioning and preceding the light of the other they are here represented in this unreasonable lump anâ ãâã Nothing indeed shews them better or it may be said worse so that they ãâ¦ã Paraphrase or Comment Give me leave only to insert thâ Scots sense of ãâã Bills and Proposals The Commissioners of Scotlanâ having understood the proceeding of the Parliament in the business now ãâã publikely protested against it here and immediately followed the Commissioâers to the Isle of Wight where they likewise presented His Majesty with this Paper There is nothing which we have more constantly endeavoured and do more earnestly desire than a good Agreement and happy Vnion between Your Majesty and your Parliaments of both Kingdoms neither have we left any means unessayed that by united Councils with the Parliament of England and making joynt applications to Your Majesty there might be a composition of all differences But the new Propositions communicated to us by the two Houses and the Bills therewith presented to Your Majesty are so prejudicial to Religion the Crown the Vnion and Interest of the Kingdoms and so far different from the former proceedings and engagements betwixt the Kingdoms as we cannot concur therein Therefore we do in the name of the Kingdom of Scotland dissent from these Proposals and Bills tendred to Your Majesty Lowden Lauderdale Charles Erskin Kennedy Berclay This was the first equal and good Office meant the King though they had greater concerns of their own but it something served to justifie the King to His people in His refusal to Sign them The Kings Answer was as followeth For the Speaker of the Lords House pro tempore to be Communicated c. CHARLES REX THe necessity of complying with all engaged Interests in these great distempers for a perfect Settlement of Peace His Majesty finds to be none of the least difficulties he hath met with since the time of His afflictions which is too visible when at the same time that the two Houses of the English Parliament do present to His Majesty several Bills and Propositions for His Consent the Commissioners for Scotland do openly protest against them so that were nothing in the case but the consideration of that difference His Majesty cannot imagine how to give such an Answer to what is now proposed as thereby to promise himself his great End A Perfect Peace And when his Majesty further considers how impossible it is in the condition he now stands to fulfil the desires of his two Houses since the onely ancient and known ways of passing Laws are either by his Majesties personal Assent in the House of Peers or by Commission under his Great Seal of England He cannot but wonder at such failings in the manner of Address which is now made unto him unless his two Houses intend that his Majesty shall allow of a Great Seal made without his Authority before there be any consideration had thereupon in a Treaty which as it may hereafter hazard the security it self so for the present it seems very unreasonable to his Majesty And though his Majesty is willing to believe that the intention of very many in both Houses in sending those Bills before a Treaty was onely to obtain a Trust from him and not to take any advantage by passing them to force other things from him which are either against his Conscience or Honour yet his Majesty believes it's clear to all understandings that these Bills contain as they are now Penned not onely the devesting himself of all Soveraignty and that without possibility of recovering it either to him or his
Bishoprick and Deanery but he was of too great a spirit to relinquish either of them as being places conferred on him by Patent from his bountiful Master King Iames and so chose to pay the aforesaid fine which upon a new score was soon after doubled These harsh proceedings against him so exasperated his mind that in the troubles ensuing he openly sided with the Parliament In effect this whole years revolution as to matters of importance was concerned in Episcopacy But this smoak and smother in England concerning Ceremonies broke out into fire in Scotland these petty and particular discontents here being blown up there into a National dislike and abhorrence of them so that this here was but the forerunner of that conflagration there which afterwards laid waste Three Kingdoms And because of the remarkable and strange eruption and effects of it I think fit to give those Scotish Troubles their particular Narrative connext and intire together Which here follows The Troubles and Tumult in Scotland about the Service-Book Book of Canons High-Commission and Episcopacy THe great and long designed Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland had taken its desired effect by the assumption of King Iames the Sixth to this Crown and the National feud between the two people thereof well allayed if not wholly extinguished being both as one body under one supream Head and Governour That King at his departing from that his Native Kingdom had left it in a very flourishing condition as ever it boasted of the State well provided for by wholsom Laws and the management thereof committed to the prudentest and most honourable of the Nobility the Church-Regiment under a godly and a learned Orthodox Episcopacy reverenced and well accepted by the people All things both in Church and State being well ordered supported and maintained by that accession of power and greatness to their Soveraign in this Kingdom that Nation continued in a firm and unvariable quiet till about the middle of the Reign of King Charles the first of blessed memory by whom as also by his Royal Father several endeavours were used for the better strengthning and perpetuating the Union aâoresaid by conforming the Discipline of that Church to the pattern of this Religion being the most sure and indissolvable tie and mutual security In the time of King Iames those memorable Five-Articles were made by the Assembly at Perth whereby the High-Commission the Book of Canons and other Rites and Ceremonies were introduced and established By King Charles the First the Book of Service or Common-Prayer was endeavoured likewise to be brought in it having constantly been used for twenty years before in his Majesties own Royal Chappel in that Kingdom before his Majesties Ministers of State and the Nobility and Gentry attending them And now all things appeared Retro sublapsa referri to precipitate into Confusion and Disorder the period of that peace was come which had so long blest that Kingdom Not that really and singularly that Book was the cause of those Commotions but accidentally ministring the male-contents of that Kingdom an occasion of revolt and disloyalty For the seeds of that Sedition were sown by the Plotters of the Covenant which was afterwards so magnified under the pretence of Religion long before any of the grievances or pretended innovations in Religion complained of by them were ever heard amongst them The true Original of these Tumults was a Revocation made by King Charles the first of such things as had passed away in prejudice of the Crown especially by some of the late Princes in their minorites by this course some of the principal Contrivers of this Covenant found their Estates within the danger of the Laws And though the King to rectifie that proceeding of his had made appear his clemency in waving all the advantages which the Laws afforded him not one of his Subjects being damnified by the said Revocation yet for all this the principal persons laboured a disaffection to the Government laying the envy of procuring that Revocation upon the Prelates who in this were as innocent as the thing it self onely because they hoped that the very name of Church-men or Religious persons should in the point of Faction have that operation with their followers which they conceived the Church or Religion it self might have had if they could have seen how to have perswaded them that by this Revocation either of them had been endangered Other things there were relating to the Ministers themselves the Gentry and their Farmers who paid the Tythes to the Nobility being the burthen of Impropriations This the King thought to remedy by granting out a Commission to a great number of the prime of all estates and degrees to relieve if they should see cause both the Ministers and others who suffered by that grievance This Commission was called The Commission of Superiority and Tythes which effected as to the agrieved its intended effect and for which all possible thanks were rendred to his Majesty Nor were the most of the Nobility unsensible of the advantage by this means to matter of profit but they fretted privately for being robbed of that Lordliness over the Clergy and Laity which by right of Tythe they enjoyed and therefore had recourse to the former fetch of making the Bishops when indeed it was obtained by the importunity of Clergy and Laity the Procurers also of this Commission The last ingredient to this bitter Cup which was prepared in Scotland for the three Nations was matter of Honour and Title For the King going to his Coronation there in 1631. a Parliament being called to honour the same wherein an Act passed that gave his Majesty power to appoint such Vestures for Church-men which he should hold most decent and another for ratifying all Acts heretofore made concerning the established Religion and the liberties and priviledges of the Church his Majesty finding some principal men who were suitors at the same time for the Dignities aforesaid dissenters to the confirmation and allowance of the said Acts did not confer such expected Honours but passed those by and justly advanced more Loyal persons at which they then muttered but mutined not till his Majesties departure Then they with Seditious private Libels taxed this Parliament with prevarication and obliquity in their proceedings as if it had been pack'd and also that the voyces were not truly numbred but that some Acts were past without plurality of Votes This being sifted by the Kings Privy Council there the Author was known who fled but the principal engager the Lord Balmerino was apprehended His Father had been raised by King Iames to his Barony and Fortune but for the most ungrateful of Treasons was condemned by his Peers His Son at his time fell into the same crime and condemnation but both by their Majesties favour and clemency restored to Life Honour Liberty and Estate But all these devices could not serve
by night which was the usual course carried Links in their hands like right boutefeus to light their Complices and Partakers in this monstrous Riot So that the danger appearing in a method and form the dire prognostick of Battalia and flighting the opposition of a Corps du Guard erected over against Scotland-yard which was maintained by the Trained Bands of St. Clements and St. Martins the Gentlemen of the honourable Society of Grayes-Inne under the leading of Sir William Mason in good order ranked two and two marched from their randezvouz at Covent-Garden to White-Hall and proffered their Loyal Service to the King as a Guard to his person against those formidable tumults They were received by the King with all respect and acknowledgements of this seasonable tender which manifested that Law Reason and Civility were disengaged from the Rebellion but the Kings sudden remove dispensed with their Duty The King sensible from what quiver this Arrow came and not longer able to endure these indignities which he had so often moved the two Houses though in vain to prevent or punish resolved to seize on those Grandees who principally abetted those tumults and also had had a deep hand in the Scotch troubles having intercepted Letters of correspondence between them and the Covenanters the untoward Issue and Event whereof as whereby his English Subjects had presumed to obtain by tumults the same demands lay yet heavy on his heart and boded the fame conclusions Taking therefore with him a Guard of his own domestick Servants and some Gentlemen casually then in the Court late in one of the Christmas-nights he came to the door of the House of Commons and entred and demanded five members thereof as also one of the House of Peers the Lord Kimbolton viz. Mr. Pyns Mr. Hambden Mr. Holles Mr. Stroâd and Sir Arthur Haslerig but they having notice of the Kings coming to this purpose by one Langrish a Servant of the Queens had time and but just enough to withdraw themselves into Westminster-Hall where they lay hid in the Kings-bench-Court until the business of that night was over and then betook themselves into London to the Guild-Hall whereto the House not long after adjourned it self in a grand Committee for their safeguard and security This attempt of the King the House presently voted a breach of priviledge and ran so high as to complain of evil Councellours about the King demanding the persons of those who gave that advice to the King Nay so highly did they insist upon and urge this violation of their freedom that all the King could do gave them no satisfaction though he endeavoured to excuse it so that it continued their plea throughout the War But how it was retaliated upon them both by themselves and Oliver in the several Exclusions and Forces afterwards put upon that House needs no particular indigitation Having therefore got this claw against the King they resolve to revenge themselves on the Bishops some of whom they suspected to be the chief instruments in that business Particularly to gratifie the City whom they had wholly devoted at their service who might see the Parliaments readiness to comply with their clamours against that Venerable Order Twelve of these the Commons accused to the Lords as guilty of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower and two to the Black Rod. At the same time also the Irish were proclaimed Rebels thirty Proclamations hereof being onely Printed for some reasons of State the King reserved to himself then though afterwards when the Parliament among other things taxed him with this he gave them a full and satisfactory answer as not willing to make the Irish desperate and utterly undo his Protestant Subjects who were as then far too weak to withstand so potent a Rebellion which the King was willing so far to comply with the Parliament as to declare it so For the number of them he said it was the request of the said Lords Justices of Ireland there should be but twenty as many of themselves well knew Like wise to satisfie the Parliament about that business of the five members he now declared his charge against them which consisted of several things relating to intelligence held with the Scots while declared Traytors That they trayterously endeavoured by many foul Aspersions upon his Majesty and Government to alienate the affections of the people and to make his Majesty odious to them That they trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom and to deprive the King of his Regal and to place on Subjects an arbitrary and illegal power That they endeavoured to draw his Majesties late Army in the North to disobedience to his Majesties command That they invited the Scots to invade England That they trayterously endeavoured the subversion of the rights and very being of Parliament That for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have endeavoured as far as in them lay by force and terrour to compel the Parliament to joyn with them in their trayterous designes and to that end countenanced and raised the tumults against the King and Parliament That they had trayterously conspired to levy and had actually levyed war against the King This was as I said before declared by the King but in hopes and order to accommodation this course being thought a good expedient thereto was laid aside and not prosecuted But the Parliament left it not so imprisoning for a while the Kings Atturney Sir Edward Herbert demanding those evil Councellours that gave this advice against the five Members to punishment Herewith the Tumults so increased about White-Hall and Westminster that the King Queen Prince and Duke of York were forced for security of their persons to retire to Hampton-Court being necessitated to take sufficient forces of his Courtiers for his guard About this time there was a false rumour raised by the Lord Digbies passing through Kingston neer London of a plot to raise Horse against the Parliament whereupon Col. Lunsford then with him was committed to Prison and this story improved into a calumny against the King The Scots now interposed themselves betwixt the King and Parliament though siding clearly with the Parliament having by Treaty agreed with them to send over 2500 men into the North of Ireland upon the English pay Through their thus taking of their parts the Parliament flew high now in their demands requiring the disposal of the Command of the Tower and the management of the Militia which being refused they desisted not but on the 26 of Ianuary Petitioned the King for them both to which the King by several reasons answered in the nagative Now again they insisted upon it as also upon the business of the five Members still to exasperate the people who cryed out against Popish Lords and Bishops sitting in Parliament to which the King answered as before and declared his readiness to pass an Act of general
Sea-marks set up much riding posting with packquets whispering and tales telling The Earl of Northumberland Admiral of England is commanded with all speed to rigg the Kings ships and equip them forth-with for the Sea And because of his indisposition that charge is conferred on the Earl of Warwick against whom the King took great exception one very affectionate to the Cause which then first began to be in every mans mouth The Declaration aforesaid was carried to Royston whither the King was removed from Theobalds by the Earls of Pembrook and Holland who delivered him the substance of it to which he returned in a most polite Declaration also and verbally told the Lords that for the Militia he would not trust his wife and children with it for an hour that it was never asked of any King That to their Fears and jealousies he would take time to satisfie all the world hoping that God would in his good time discover the bottoms and secrets of all plots and treasons and set him upright with his people The substance of his Declaration was this That he had little encouragement to Replyes of this nature when he is told of how little value his words are with them though accompanied with Love and Iustice That his honour ought not to be wounded under the common stile and imputation of evil Councellours That he had formerly declared his faithful affection to the Protestant Profession his whole life answerable in practice which should rather be acknowledged by them than any designe of his framed and declared to alter it in this Kingdom calling God to be witness and wishing that the judgement of Heaven may be manifested on those that have or had any such designe Concerning his sense of his good Subjects in Ireland what had he not done in his Messages to both Houses offering his own person ready to venture for their preservation and redemption being to give God an account of his interest in them Denyes any designe of forcing the Parliament by his Army and other particulars of the Petition of passes granted Col. Leg my Lord Jermins Pass as likewise the Lord Digbies And as for advertisements from Rome Venice Paris the Popes Nuncio the Kings of France and Spain He is confident âo sober man in the Kingdom will believe that he is so desperate or senceless to entertain such designes to bring the Kingdom to destruction and bury his name and posterity in perpetual infamy He adds in conclusion could there yet want evidence on his part to joyn with his Parliament Look back upon their own Remonstrance in November last of the State of the Kingdom which valued his Acts of Grace and Iustice at so high a rate that it declared the Kingdom a gainer though it should charge it self by Subsidies and Pole-money six millions of pounds besides the Contracting the Sents demands of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds Nay more he hath passed those Bills for the triennial Parliament for relinquishing his Title to impose upon Merchants goods and his power of pressing of Souldiers for suppressing the Court of Star Chamber High-Commission regulating the Council-Table Are these but words The Bills for the Forrests the Stannery Courts the Clerk of the Markets the taking away the Vote of the Bishops nothing but words what greater earnest can be given than the Bill for the continuance of the Parliament The length of which he wishes may never alter the nature of Parliaments And for a perfect reconciliation with his people he offers a free pardon Nor doth he repent of his favours done them but will meet them in an honourable way to add more with the greatest readiness and kindness for the peace Honour and Prosperity of the Nation This seemed satisfactory to the unprejudiced and sober but prevailed not at all with the factious and giddy multitude and less with their Chiefs and Abetters who now emit the Ordinance for the defence of the Kingdom which is resolved to be no whit prejudicial to the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy and next that the Kings Commissioners of Lieutenancy over the respective Counties are illegal and void That their Ordinance for the Militia is to be obeyed as the fundamental law of this Kingdom and prepare another Declaration to that purpose As the King removed North-ward his mind went South-ward though the Showers gathered there which soon after came down in a storm But it is a question whether if the King had returned his influence had not dispelled and dissipated them which thickned presently together and resisted that light which Majesty dispenced in many after-gratious offers and condescentions till the setting of it after a big and fatal revolution Therefore he sends another Message to them from thence that he means to take up his residence at York conjures them to dispatch the business of Ireland and if calamities increase upon his Protestant Subjects there he shall wash his hands before all the World from any imputation upon him He saith that as he hath been forward to retract any thing intrenching upon them so he expects an equal tenderness in them towards him in any unquestionable and fundamental priviledge That his Subjects be not obliged to obey any Act Order or Injunction to which his Majesty hath not given his consent And therefore requires that they presume not upon pretence of any Order or Ordinance to which his Majesty is not a party of the Militia or any other thing to do or execute against the laws he being to keep the laws himself and his Subjects to obey them To this all the reply they made was That to have their Vote questioned or contradicted is a high breath of priviledge of Parliament and a Committee was by them appointed to examine where and by whom this Message was counselled and as the total of all this absurdity they justifie their last Declaration in every particular The King knowing what the Parliament drove at chiefly to render him suspect of favouring Papists being at Stamford published a Proclamation for putting the Laws in due execution against Papists this somewhat abated the charge which his enemies laboured to fix on him for this particular though they wrested this also giving out that it was a time-serving policy and that nothing less was intended What the two Houses did ambiguously supplicate the York-shire Gentry did cordially beg of the King desiring by such expedients as his Majesties own judgment should dictate a right understanding betwixt him and his Parliament to whom they would likewise address themselves The King returned a gratious answer with thanks tells them that he is not mistaken in the confidence of their affections nor will he ever deceive their expectations from him But as to the prayer of the Petition the alone way of a good understanding was for the Parliament to consider of his Message of the 20th of Ianuary that the Militia be setled by Act of Parliament explained in his
Dragoons with him and the place Tenable and Prince Rupert was also on his way to relieve it from Bristol with 1500 Horse and Foot but Okey's Dragoons creeping on their bellies over the Bridge to the Gate which they fired made the Governour surrender Iuly the 29. upon Articles To return to Sherburn-Castle there Sir Lewes Dives was Governour who made a most notable defence which for the honour of that noble Knight who so constantly and through so many hazards adhered to the King and because this was a place of remarque and the first that endured a formal siege in the beginning of the War shall be more largely spoken of A Hay-stack August the fifth at night within a stones throw of the Works was gained a Storm was then resolved on but afterwards deferred and Battery and Approaches pitcht upon together with Mining for that the ground wherein the Castle stood was minable Much hurt was done out of the Castle by Birding-peices by very skilful Marks-men several Officers and Gunners being killed by such shot Both Mines and Galleries were now made every worker being rewarded with twelve pence a day and twelve pence a night so hazardous was the service and then a second Summons was sent in with an offer from the General that the Ladies and Women might depart Sir Lewis acknowledged that civility but contemned the peremptoriness of the demand The Miners were got within two yards of the Wall where the Rock appearing they began to doubt of any effect but it proving but a soft stone on the 14 of August the great Guns played and had made a Breach by the evening in the middle of the Wall so that ten a breast might enter and one of the Towers was beaten down when the Parliament-Souldiers were so venturous as for six pence a Bullet to fetch off all the Cannon-shot that rebounded from the Castle of which there was great scarcity A third Summons was now sent in to deliver the Castle or expect extremity to which Sir Lewis told the Drum that he would hang him That the language was so far different from what he had formerly received that he could not believe it came from the same hand That whatever happened he would not lose his honour to save his life which he should think well bestowed in the service The Mine being now ready to spring a general Assault was resolved on the Gallery being advanced so neer the Works that the Souldiers pulled the Wool out of the Woolsacks from the besieged who made fires all night to discover the Mines and Approaches Two of the Towers were also gained and with that encouragement the Assaylants without order improved it forcing them within from their Guns which they had planted to oppose their entrance at the Breach so that presently they were forced to quit the great Court within the Castle Which so disheartned them that the Besiegers hastily and before the time appointed leapt over the Works and so into the Castle which was followed by the whole Army who presently possessed themselves of it and plundered it sufficiently stripping every person within it but because of the little opposition they found giving indifferent good quarter Sir Lewis was taken Prisoner and kept so a long while in the Tower till after the death of the King being designed for the slaughter also he made an escape from his Keeper at White-hall whither he was brought to be examined and soon after did notable service in Ireland for his present Majesty There were taken also 400 Prisoners Colonel Giles Strangeways Sir William Walcot Colonel Thornhil and the Clubmen of the parts adjacent fully quieted by the loss of this place their Leaders being sent Prisoners with those of Sherburn The next place designed as a further Trophee of the Parliaments victorious Army after some dispute because Plymouth was straightly beset and in the same plight now as Taunton formerly was Bristol In the march of the Army thither Colonel Rainsborough took in Nunny-Castle the 21 of August upon condition of liberty to go to their own houses Commissary-General Ireton was first sent with 2000 Horse to secure the Villages and Towns adjacent to Bristol from being fired by the Royalists in that City which because of its importance being justly reckoned in the first rank of populous Cities of the Kingdom and the onely considerable part the King had for Shipping Trade and Riches and lay advantagious for supplies from Ireland was thought necessary to be reduced and the danger of leaving so considerable a strength of 3000 Horse and Foot as Prince Rupert could make in the field and leave a sufficient Garrison besides was no inconsiderable motive to the attempt At the setting down of the Army several Salleys were made with different success Sir Bernard Ashley mortally wounded and taken under the Walls when on the fourth of September a Summons was sent in unto Prince Rupert which for its extraordinary civility and stile and that seeming reverence it bears for here the game began this being the first tast of this Model and drawn by Ireton is very delightful to insert For his Highness Prince Rupert SIR FOr the service of the Parliament I have brought their Army before the City of Bristol and do Summon you in their Names to render it with all the Forts belonging to the same into my hands for their use Having used this plain language as the business requires I wish it may be as effectual unto you as it is satisfactory to my self that I do a little expostulate with you about the Surrender of the same which I confess is a way not common and which I should not have used but in respect to such a person and such a place I take into consideration your Royal Birth and Relation to the Crown of England your Honour Courage the vertues of your person and the strength of that place which you may think your self bound and able to maintain Sir the Crown of England is and will be where it ought to be we fight to maintain it there but the King misled by evil Counsellours or through a seduced heart hath left his Parliament under God the best assurance of his Crown and Family the maintaining of this Schism is the ground of this unhaâpie War on your part and what sad effects it hath produced in the three Kingdoms is visible to all men To maintain the rights of the Crown and Kingdom joyntly a principal part thereof is that the King in Supream Acts is not to be advised by men of whom the Law takes no notice but by his Parliament the great Council of the Kingdom in whom as much as man is capable of he hears all his people as it were at once advising him and in which multitude of Counsellours lies his safety and his peoples Interest And to see him right in this hath been the constant and faithful endeavours of the Parliament and to bring those
by the Scots Commissioners first because they were not the same with those formerly sent to Oxford and Vxbridge Secondly Because all the additions omissions and alterations made in them are in those things which concern the joynt interest and union of both Kingdomes And thirdly the danger of wholly excluding the King and his Posterity and so the Crown from their right to the Militia which was an alteration of the Fundamental Laws And fourthly the uncertainty of the Religion the Parliament would establish they refusing to give their Brethren the Scots the particulars thereof Presbytery being then piece-meal offered by the Assembly of Divines to the Parliaments consideration In this point the Scots urged how many promises of UNIFORMITY the Parliament had made at their instances to them throughout the War and that this Uniformity might be extensive and become the Discipline of the Reformed Churches every where and so be the Catholick Rule had ordered the Covenant as a Model or Pattern to be printed in most of the Forrain Languages that it should be a sin and shame to England that all sorts of Heresies Sects and Schisms should be so multiplied Liberty of Conscience not onely pleaded for but in place already and all the kindnesses done them so unhandsomly slighted And as to the Presbyterial Government to be established here Exceptions were taken at the subordination of Church-Assemblies to Parliament in the words prescribed lest it should be interpreted as if the Civil Power were not onely conversant about matters of the Church and Religion but were formally Ecclesiastical and to be exercised Ecclesiastically and be counted such a Supremacy in the Church as in the Pope and the late High-Commission of England Next they scrupled their Provincial Commissioners for judging of Scandal there being no such Warrant for such a mixture of Lay with Spiritual Officers which they suppose may be the laying of a New Foundation of the said High-Commission or Episcopacy Thirdly That admitting the Power of calling and convening a National Assembly be in the Civil Magistrates as positive yet they cannot allow it privative or destructive and that therefore such Assemblies may not be restrained to times of Session the safety of the Church being the supreme Law That therefore it should not be left ad libitum to the pleasure of the Civil Power but that fixed times for their meeting might be appointed From this the English perceived that the Scotch Yoak would not fit their necks and though they could be content with their Spirituals there was no enduring of their Temporals which consideration with those Cavils printed and published produced a Declaration of the House of Commons wherein being now in no need of further assistance having no Enemy left but that Army they come to a point and withal thus gird their gude Brethren we shall repeat onely one Paragraph Concerning Church-Government we having so fully declared for Presbyterian Government having spent so much pains taken up so much time for the settling of it passed most of the particulars brought to us from the Assembly of Divines called onely by us to advise of such things as shall be required of them by the Parliament and having published several Ordinances for putting the same in execution because we cannot consent to the granting of an arbitrary and unlimited Power and Jurisdiction to near TEN THOVSAND IVDICATORIES to be erected within this Kingdom and this demanded in a way INCONSISTENT with the FVNDAMENTALS of GOVERNMENT excluding the POWER of PARLIAMENT in the exercise of that IVRISDICTION nor have we resolved yet how a due regard may be had that TENDER CONSCIENCES which differ not in any Fundamentals of Religion may be so provided for as may stand with the word of God and peace of the Kingdom And let it be OBSERVED that we have had the more reason not to part with the Power out of our hands since all by-past Ages manifest that the Reformation and purity of Religion and the preservation and protection of the people hath been by Parliament and the exercise of this power our endeavours being to settle the Reformation in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches and according to our COVENANT That 's the burden of the Ditty but how that comes to be set in opposition to the Scotch Model of Presbytery may be left to the distinguishing Expositors between Bell and the Dragon The Poets Fiction concerning Proteus was certainly a meer vaticination and prediction of this variable Monster for the King the Kirk the Parliament the Sectaries for every thing according to its present interest as the Camelion appears in the colours that are neerest it A serious Kirk-fallacy made a Parliament-Riddle Come we now to those long-hammered Propositions sent to the King at Newcastle Iuly 11. as aforesaid which were twenty three in number First That his Majesty would pass an Act for nulling all Declarations and Proclamations against both or either Parliaments of England or Scotland Secondly The King to sign and swear the Covenant and an Act for all persons in the three Kingdoms to do the like Thirdly An Act to take away Bishops c. Fourthly To confirm by Act the Assembly of Divines at Westminster Fifthly To settle Religion as the Parliament shall agree Sixthly In Vnity and Vniformity with Scotland as shall be agreed by both Parliaments Kill Episcopacy point-blank and shoot at Scotch wild-fowl at randome Seventhly An Act to be confirmed against Papists Eighthly Their Children to be educated in the Protestant Religion Ninthly For taking away part of their Estates Tenthly Against saying of Mass in England Eleventhly And the same in Scotland if they please Twelfthly For observation of the Lords day against Pluralities and Non-residents and for Visitations and regulating the Vniversities Thirteenth That the Militia of the three Kingdoms be in the hands of the Parliament for twenty years with power to raise money and suppress all Forces c. Fourteenth That all Honours and Titles and Dignities conferred on any since the great Seal was conveyed from the Parliament May 21 1642. be nulled and that those who hereafter shall be made Peers by the King shall not sit in Parliament without consent of both Houses Fifteenth That an Act be passed to confirm all the Treaties between England and Scotland and a Committee of both Houses to be nominated Conservators of the Peace between both Kingdoms Sixteenth An Act for the establishing the Declaration of both Kingdoms of the THIRTIETH of JANUARY 1643. touching Delinquents with other qualifications added now which were so comprehensive that they seemed accommodated for the fatal prognostick of that days Revolution in 1648. when accumulative treason a word invented by themselves against the Earl of Strafford was extended to other the Kings Friends as to number and in the amassed guilt of all impiety afterwards practised upon
and to carve to the Grandees the spoils of the Kingdom which were to be secured by these misunderstandings But against these Writers there appeared a Champion of Loyalty Judge Ienkins who out of the Parliaments Wrath with the Earl of Cleveland Sir Lewis Dives Sir Iohn Stawel and others Royalists was Committed to the Tower and being brought to the Chancery-Bar refused to own the Court and the Authority thereof and so was remanded in Order to a Tryal at the Kings-Bench where in the meân while he fully Answered all those Cavils against the King by Reason Law and from the Parliaments own words and Declarations ridling their nice time-serving distinction of the Kings Person and Authority his Politick and Natural Capacity to be a meer Fiction never heard of before and that their as bold assumption of the Kings Vertual presence in the two Houses was also and alike Treasonable as he cited in the Case of the two Spencers in the 7 of Edward the 2. from their own Oracle Sir Edward Coke in the 7 part of his Reports fol. 11. He then runs over the whole Case and state of the Question and Dispute betwixt the Royalists and Parliamentarians which being published incredible it is how greedily they were bought up and how many honest people undeceived so that His Majesties Cause was every where under the nose of the Faction well spoken of We will for the honour of that Noble person give this short and summary account of it as a Sea-mark to Posterity First The Royalists have aided the King in this War contrary to the Parliaments Negative Oath and Votes warranted by the Statute of 25 Ed. 2. ch 2. They have maintained the Commission of Array by the Kings Command against their Votes by the Statute of the 5 Hen. 4.3 They have maintained Arch-bishops Bishops c. from Magna Charta and many other Statutes 4. They have maintained the Book of Common prayer warranted by five Acts of Parliament in Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for Libels against which and Church-Government some have been Executed 5. They maintained the Militia of the Kingdom to belong to the King from the Statute of the 7 Edw. 1. and many Statutes since 6. They maintained the Counterfeiting of the Kings Great Seal to be High Treason as likewise the usurpation of the Kings Forts Ports and Shipping c. from the said Statute of 25 Ed. 3. and divers others since and the practice of all times 7. They maintain that the King is the only Supreme Governour in all Cases the Parliament that his Majestie is to be governed by them The former's warrant is the Statute of Queen Eliz. c. 8. They maintain that the King is King by an inherent Birth-right by Nature by Gods Law and by the law of the Land These say that his Kingly Right is an Office upon Trust. Their warrant is the Statute of the 1 of King James and the 5 of Queen Eliz. 9. They maintain that the politick capacity is not to be severed from the natural vide Coke as before their Oracle who hath declared to posterity that it is Damnable Detestable and Execrable Treason 10. They maintain that who aids the King at home or abroad ought not to be molested or questioned for the same These practice the contrary Their warrant is the Statute of 11 Hen. 7. 11. They maintain that the King hath power to disassent to any Bill agreed by the two Houses which these deny Their warrant is the Statute of 2 Hen. 5. the practice of all times the 1 Car. ch 7. and 1 Jam. ch 1. 12. They maintain that Parliaments ought to be holden in grave and peaceable manner without Tumults These abet and keep guards of armed men to wait upon them Their warrant is the Statute of 7 Edw. 2. 13. They maintain that there is no State within this Kingdom but the Kings Majesty and that to adhere to any other State within this Kingdom is High Treason Their warrant is the 3 of King Jam. and 23 Eliz. 14. They maintain that to levy a War to remove Counsellours to alter Religion or any Law established is High Treason These hold to the contrary Their warrant is the resolution of the Iudges Queen Elizabeth and Sir Edward Coke 15. They maintain that no man should be imprisoned put out of his lands but by due Course of Law and that no man ought to be adjudged to Death but by the Law established These have practised the contrary in London Bristol and Kent Their warrant is Magna Charta ch 29. The Petition of Right 3 Car. and divers others 16. They believe what the Laws say that the King can do no wrong that He is Gods Lieutenant and not able to do an unjust thing These charge Him with the spoil and blood of His Subjects which false imputation was like the rest of their actions contrary to all Law Reason Christianity or Humanity This eye-salve made the wilfully blinde more peevish and fuller of smart and anguish so that they were resolved to have hanged him but he had so hedged up their way to it by upbraiding them with their former Illegal and Tyrannical Cruelty that they only kept him in a strict duress which was enlarged by degrees till the time of Restitution 1660 when he was in health and at perfect freedom He was a great stickler likewise in the Feud betwixt the Presbyterian and Independent siding with the Army and doctrinating them with the Principles of Allegiance which they pretended to and animating them against the Parliament by perswading them that all their Ordinances made for their Indemnity and Arrears were insignificant and invalid and were but so many blinds for the present and that their security and satisfaction depended wholly upon the King which designe of his in that juncture of time did operate successfully until the cause of the contention ceasing Cromwel having mastered and surmounted all the rubs to his designe the effect the ruine of both likewise failed Miserable now were the complaints from several parts of the Kingdom by reason of the burden of Free-quarter In the third year of King Charles upon the Expedition for the Isle of Rhee the Lords and Commons in their Petition of Right when not above 2 or 3000 Souldiers were thinly Quartered upon the people but for a Month or two complained thereof to his Majesty as a great grievance contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm and humbly prayed as their right according to the Law of the Land that he would remove it which his Majesty presently granted Yet now though the Country was ten times more oppressed no remedy could be had the Army under pretence of Lodging Fire and Candle taking all other necessaries for which if at any time they pretended to offer money yet durst none take it for fear of greater damage the spoiler being only triable by a Council of War This the Souldiers were taught likewise by their Adjutators to
making him co-ordinate with his Parliament An impious Treasonable Tenet and the corrupt Fountaân and bitter source of all those undutiful and rebellious actions âgainst that blessed Prince and since damn'd by a Parliament it self in those âxâress Epithets It thereforâ the Indians do customarily every night with sorrowful Lamentations take leâve of the Sun whom yet undoubtedly they expect in the Morning no wonder will it seem to posterity nor will these evidences of our consternation before recited be thought an hyperbolical strain if so disconsolately we saw our Sun pulled out of his Orb and darkned in the shadow of Death his Beams cut off and eloigned into obscure and remote corners from whence it was treason against these Princes of Darkness to return and with their hereditary successive influence to re-visit and revive the drooping dying hearts of a forlorn and deserted people Such was our condition in the deprivation and extinguishing of that lamp of life which supplied with so many vertues and graces rendred our Martyr'd Soveraign the most conspicuous of all Monarchs and might have prolonged his days to an extraordinary term so proportionate and fit had God and Nature made him to Eternity The same was our fearful case in the absence and exile of our present miraculously-restored Prince Charles the second whom yet wiser and kinder providence had secured in that cloud and by a timely rescue had in safety conveyed into Forrain Parts out of the reach of these Herods who would have stretched out their Hands also against his innocent and most precious Life Now when there was neither Sun Moon nor Stars the King murthered Regal Authority abolished the Heir excluded the House of Lords turned out of doors and the House of Commons turned into a Den of Thieves and packt Juncto and Conventicle of a most perdite sort of men did these Bats and Scritch-owls usurp the Dominiou of the night of our confusions and take upon them to Enact and give Laws suitable to their interests as rational as true which shewed they concerned the Law-givers not the receivers The first hoarse and ominous noise they made as a foundation and main principle of their wild Government was a fained note to catch the Vulgar and the mad rabble on whom they wholely depended and whom they were to flatter no force into slavery and servitude by the specious hopes of their arriving also in time to be Governours and States-men and to share in the honours and profits of their new Commonwealth This was concluded as is mentioned before in these few words viz. That all power and Authority is originally in the people And in order to that they now emitted a Tidy Act by way of a Proclamation which was with wonderful Expedition sounded all the Kingdom over in these or the like words That where as several pretences might be made to this Crown and Title to the Kingly Office set on foot to the apparent hazard of the publike Peace Be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same that no Person whatsoever do presume to Proclaim declare publish or any ways to promote Charles Stuart Son of the said Charles late King of England commonly called Prince of Wales or any other person to be King on chief Magistrate of England or Ireland or of any Dominions belonging to them by colour of Inheritance Succession Election or any other claim whatsoever without the free consent of the People in Parliament first had or signified by a particular Act or Ordinance for that purpose any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And whosoever shall contrary to this Act Proclaim or cause to be Proclaimed c. shall be deemed and adjudged a Traytor and suffer accordingly So did they contrive and imagine to obstruct and bar the way to the Throne which themselves had Invaded and parted into shares but such monstrous wickedness boyling up to an excess of malice towards the dead and living Proprietors of the Crown was not suffered to pass without an allay and cooler in a Printed Proclamation thrown about streets letting them see the people would not run a gadding after their Calves at Bethel as they would have fancied to themselves but would keep in the old path and beaten track of Government in the succession of Charles the second to the Majesty of England Which Proclamation was as followeth We the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Ministers Freeholders Merchants Citizens c. and other Free-men of England do according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these Presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and Proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next Heir of the Blood Royal to his Blessed Father King Charles whose late wicked and Trayterous Murder we do from our soâts abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by Hereditary Birth-right and Lawful Succession rightful and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And that we will faithfully constantly and sincerely in our several places and callings defend and maintain his Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our Blates Lives and last drop of our Blood against all Opposers thereof whom we do hereby declare to be Traytors and Enemies to his Majesty and his Kingdoms In Testimony whereof we have ordered and caused these to be published and Proclaimed throughout all Countries and Corporations of this Realm the first day of February and the first year of his Majesties Raign God save King Charles the second This without any solemnity or indeed open appearance met with the chearful reception and inward Loyal resolutions as if vent had been given to a publike manifestation of Duty and Joy upon his Majesties present accession to the Crown for it revived the Hearts of mourning and disconsolate Subjects to see the sure and certain Succession thereof to be continued in the same most beloved name the Eldest Branch and descendant of their Martyr'd Soveraign in whose ruines the Regicides thought to have raked up and buried all the claims and just Titles to this Impartial Diadem In tendency whereunto they first considered how to keep the honest Members the Army had Secluded from entring in again that they might not have too many partakers in the spoil of the Kingdoms and therefore another Legislative by-blow was Enacted That all those Members that had assented to the Vote of the 5 of December concerning the Kings Concessions should never be re-admitted and such as Voted in the Negative should presently enter their said dissent or before they were to be admitted And this characteristical discrimination they most punctually insisted on to the very last as the main Pillar of their Oligarchy and we shall see this difference hardly laboured throughout their Usurpation On the 5 of February they fell again upon the standing remains of the dissolved Government the Peerage and Nobility of the Kingdom whose medling in
it also is to all considering persons that this Parliament through the corruption of some the jealousie of others the non-attendance and negligence of many would never answer those ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them but that this Cause which the Lord hath so greately blessed and bore witness to must needs languish under their Hands and by degrees be wholly lost and the Lives Liberties and Comforts of his people delivered into their Enemies hands All which being sadly and seriously considered by the honest people of this Nation as well as by the Army and Wisdome and Direction being sought from the Lord it seemed to be a duty incumbent upon us who had seen so much of the power and presence of God going along with us to consider of some more effectual means to secure the Cause which the good people of this Commonwealth had been so long engaged in and to establish Righteousness and Peace in these Nations And after much debate it was judged necessary and agreed upon that the Supream Authority should be by the Parliament devolved upon known persons men fearing God and of approved Integrity and the Government of the Commonwealth committed unto them for a time as the most hopeful way to encourage and countenance all Gods people reform the Law and administer Iustice impartially hoping thereby the people might forget Monarchy and understanding their true Interest in the Election of successive Parliaments may have the Government setled upon a true Basis without hazard to this glorious Cause or necessitating to keep up Armies for the defence of the same And being still resolved to use all means possible to avoid extraordinary courses we prevailed with about twenty Members of Parliament to give us a Conference with whom we freely and plainly debated the necessity and justness of our Proposals on that behalf and did evidence that those and not the Act under their Consideration would most probably bring forth something answerable to that Work the foundation whereof God himself hath laid and is now carrying on in the World The which notwithstanding found no acceptance but in stead thereof it was offered that the way was to continue still this present Parliament as being that from which we might reasonably expect all good things And this being vehemently insisted upon did much confirm us in our apprehensions That not any love to a Representative but the making use thereof to recruit and so to perpetuate themselves was their aim They being plainly dealt with about this and told that neither the Nation the honest Interest nor we our selves would be deluded by such dealings They did agree to meet again the next day in the Afternoon for mutual satisfaction it being consented to by the Members present that Endeavours should be used that nothing in the mean time should be done in Parliament that might exclude or frustrate the Proposals before-mentioned Notwithstanding this the next Morning the Parliament did make more hast than usual in carrying on their said Act being helped on therein by some of the persons engaged to us the night before none of them which were then present endeavouring to oppose the same and being ready to put the main Question for consummating the said Act whereby our aforesaid Proposals would have been rendered void and the way of bringing them into a fair and full Debate in Parliament obstructed For preventing whereof and all the sad and evil consequences which must upon the grounds aforesaid have ensued and whereby at one blow the Interest of all honest men and of this glorious Cause had been endangered to be laid in the Dust and these Nations embroyled in new Troubles at a time when our Enemies abroad are watching all advantages against us and some of them actually engaged in War with us We have been necessitated though with much reluctancy to put an end to this Parliament which yet we have done we hope out of an honest heart preferring this Cause above our Names Lives Families or Interests how dear soever with clear intentions and real purposes of heart to call to the Government persons of approved fidelity and honesty believing that as none wise will expect to gather Grapes of Thornes so good men will hope that if persons so qualified be chosen the fruits of a just and righteous Reformation so long prayed and wished for will by the blessing of God be in due time obtained to the refreshing of all those good hearts who have been panting after these things Much more might have been said if it had been our desire to justifie our selves by aspersing others and raking into the Mis-government of affairs but we shall conclude with this That as we have been led by Necessity and Providence to act as we have done even beyond and above our own thoughts and desires so we shall and do in that of this great Work which is behinde put our selves wholly upon the Lord for a Blessing professing we look not to stand one day without his support much less to bring to pass any of the things mentioned and desired without his assistance And therefore do solemnly desire and expect that all men as they would not provoke the Lord to their own destruction should wait for such issue as he shall bring forth and to follow their business with peaceable spirits wherein we promise them protection by his assistance And for those who profess their fear and love to the Name of God that seeing in a great measure for their sakes and for Righteousness sake we have taken our Lives in our hand to do these things they would be instant with the Lord day and night on our behalfs that we may obtain Grace from him And seeing we have made so often mention of his Name that we may not do the least dishonour thereunto which indeed would be our confusion and a stain to the whole profession of Godliness We beseech them also to live in all Humility Meekness Righteousness and Love one towards another and towards all men that so they may put to silence the Ignorance of the Foolish who falsly accuse them and to know that the late great and Glorious Dispensations wherein the Lord hath so wonderfully appeared in bringing forth these things by the travel and Blood of his Children ought to oblige them so to walk in the Wisdom and love of Christ as may cause others to honour their holy Profession because they see Christ to be in them of a truth We do further purpose before it be long more particularly to shew the grounds of our Proceedings and the Reasons of this late great Action and Change which in this we have but hinted at And we do lastly Declare That all Iudges Sheriffs Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs Committees and all other Civil Officers and Publick Ministers whatsoever within this Commonwealth or any parts thereof do proceed in their respective Places and Offices and all persons whatsoever are to give Obedience to
take in fresh Water leât Rear-Admiral Stayner with 7 Frigats to ply before that Port who about the middle of September descryed at Sea eight sail as it proved from the West Indies who having met and taken a Portugal Prize and informed by them that the English were gone off the Coast made securely to Cadiz where Captain Stayner and his Squadron but two whereof engaged with him in the Speaker viz. the Bridgewater and Plymouth taken by them at first for Fisher-men by reason of their lying so low in the Water assailed them and after a fierce fight the Spaniard being loth to part with his Treasure overcame them There were two Sunk two escaped two run aground and two taken by the Speaker-Frigat In one of them was the Marquess of Badajox of the Family of Lopez who had been Governour for the King of Spain's Peru who was killed in the Fight with his Wife and a Daughter the Eldest Son and his Brother were saved and brought safe to the Generals with this Prize wherein were two millions of Pieces of eight and as much there was in one of them that was Sunk The Admiral who carried the Flag for concealing of the chiefest ship with the Portugal prize recovered the Shore Soon after General Montague with the young Marquess and part of the Fleet to convoy the Silver returned into England and delivered the Bullion into the Mint and the young Marquess was set at liberty For this a Thanksgiving with a Narrative to be read thereon was appointed by the Parliament who emitted their Declaration of War against Spain About the same time Five Frigats returned also from Iamaica According to the 34th Article of the Instrument which this Juncto roundly danced to Cromwel having Named Fiennes and Lisle to be Lord-Commissioners of the Great Seal and Serjeant Glyn to be Lord Chief-Justice of England he now proposed them to the House for their approbation which they did with Glee and confirmed them in their places and to reciprocate his officious comportment they of their part opened the intercourse betwixt him and the Parliament by presenting him several Bills to Signe and Ratifie as Acts the chief whereof were the Annulling the Title of the King for security of his Person taking away Wards and Liveries and that the Passing those Acts should not determine the Session these were firmed in the Painted-Chamber in ample manner and form by this new-fangled-Legislator Nov. 27. At the latter end of October died Iohn the 4th King of Portugal who had so sucessfully wrested the Kingdom of Portugal from the unjust possession of the Spanish Monarchy after almost 100 years Usurpation of it in the remarkable year of 1640. He died of the Stone in his Kidneys in the fifty and odd year of his Age leaving behinde him by his Queen the Sister of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in Spain his Son Alphonso the sixth King of Portugal and Donna Catharina the Illustrious Infanta of the same since Married to our Gracious Soveraign King Charles the second The Sect of Quakers was grown to such a heigth of Impudence by the presumptions and deceitful Revelations of the Light within that there was scarce any Blasphemy which they would not say and act and yet very many were bewitched with it The Divinity of Christ had been oppugned by Biddle the Socinian and now it was Personated with reverence be it spoken by one Iames Naylor a Quaker who resembling in his Proportions and Complexion the picture of Christ had in all other things as the setting of the Beard and Loâks in the same fashion âarâd to counterfeit our Blessed Lord. To this purpose he had Disciples and Women ministring to him whose Blasphemous Expressions and aâââications of several Scriptures relating properly to the loveliness and Transceâââânt Excellency of Christ ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã to this Impostor will if repeated move Horrour and Trembling in every Christian. His first appearance in this manner was at Bristol where a man leading his Horse Bare-headed and one Dorcas Erbury and Martha Symmonds going up to the Knees in Mire by his Horse-side sung aloud Holy Holy Holy Hosanna c. For this they were seized by the Magistrates and being complained of to the Parliament were brought up to Town into which as in all places they entred singing the same Blasphemies At the Bar of the House a Committee having reported their opinion concerning his punishment he was Sentenced in December to be set in the Pillory twice and Whipt twice and his Forehead to be Stigmatized with the letter B. for Blasphemer and Bored through the Tongue with which he used to answer to any Question Thou hast said it and the like He was likewise Whipt at Bristol and thence returned to Bridewel to be kept close and to eat no more than what he earned In Newgate after his punishment the Impostor continued one Mr. Rich a Merchant of credit that held him by the Hand while he was in the Pillories with divers others licked his Wounds the Women were observed some to lay their Head in his Lap lying against his Feet others to lean it upon his Shouldiers and questionless the Quakers would have persisted in this delusion and set up and made something of this Idol if he had not been kept from them for as soon as ever any came into his Company they would first take him by the Hand and in a strange note say Holy c. But being thus removed after three days wilful abstinence having weakned himself even unto Death he begged some Victuals and then was set to work which he performed and came by degrees to himself and to reduction At the return of the Rump he got his liberty but survived it not his additional pretended Divinity having attenuated and wasted his Humanity and that Body sublimed and prepared for Miracles went the way of all Flesh. It is to be noted that Lambert stickled much to have saved him from Sentence and punishment he being his Souldier but the truth was Lambert perceived what Cromwel was driving at to engross the Soveraignty to himself and Family and it was high time therefore to ingratiate with all parties the better to be able to oppose him and henceforth sprung and appeared the feud betwixt these two Army-Potentates The King kept his Court at Bruges some eight Leagues from the Court at Brussels where Don Iohn was now Governour for the King of Spain and had had several consultations together about the carrying on of the War and many fair overtures made The Duke of York was newly arrived as also the Princess of Aurange so that all the Royal Family except the youngest Daughter and Mother were present together He had newly listed some Regiments of his three Nations into his service and pay which were now quartered about Flanders Several Prisoners of both sorts were now released as Sir Henry Vane Mr. Feak Mr. Rogers Judge Ienkins Esquire as
Treason for any person whatsoever to put force upon any Members of the House And next that all Votes Acts and Resolutions passed by any Members of Parliament when the rest were detained from or taken out of the House should be null and void and other motions becoming English-men to that end judging themselves under a force and finding they were very unanimous though neer 400 in the House In the things proposed they resolved no question but adjourned till Munday-morning the 25 of April and attended the Speaker in order through Westminster-hall to his Coach in the face of the Souldiery Now the Court according to the guise of the World in like accidents shrunk out of White-hall into Wallingford-house and Fleetwood Desborough and the rest of the Officers great and small took the Government into their own hands and discarded their Idol the Protector whom they had Worshipped and Deified in their Addresses the Milksop not so much as muttering at these Affronts and Indignities a fineâ worthy Fellowâ and becoming the greatness of his House out of which God wonderfully rescued the Majesty Royal and Honour of the Crown of England from being sullied with such base and sordid wearing and great talk there once was of such a thing as Richard the 4th Within two or three Mornings after this cast out of his Office instead of his Guards poor Richard was beset with all the Bayliffs of Middlesex who had a Writ against him for a Debt of the late Funeral-Expences by the Name of Richard Cromwel Esq. Is curre per ALPES Vt pueris placeas Declamatio Fias The House of Commons was also shut up and entrance denied to the Members when they came on Monday even to Sir Henry Vane and Sir Arthur Haselrig themselves according to Adjournment the Court of Requests and all Avenues being full of Souldiers who told the Members that they must Sit no more THE RUMP AFTER the new Officers had moduled themselves Cashiering Whaley Ingoldsby Goffe and divers others of the Protector 's party and restoring Lambert Haslerig Okey and others displaced by Protector Oliver and played with the Government for a few days and grew weary of it the inferiour Officers and the Pamphlets that now flew about daily without controul carrying things beyond the intention of the Chief Officers they sent to some of their old âlackney Drudges of the Long Parliament then in London who they knew would do any thing so they might be suffered to Sit and on the fifth and sixth days of May had conference with them the last of which was at their never-failing Speaker the Master of the Rolls's House in Chancery-lane where both Officers viz. Lambert who had already gotten his old place and others with him and Members viz. Sir Henry Vane Sir Arthur Haslerig Ludlow Iohn Iones Mr. Chaloner Mr. Scot and others to the number of twenty sollicited William Lenthal Esquire to sit Speaker again but he objected scruples in Judgement and Conscience and the uncertain state of Commonwealth and Army nevertheless fifteen Articles between the Officers and some of the Members who it seems over-confidently undertook for the rest being agreed on at some of their Meetings they resolved to meet in the House on Saturday the 7 of May yet that they might do it by surprize they gave out that they would not sit till Tuesday the 10th of May But the Itch of Ambition and Lording it over the peoplâ giving them no quiet on Saturday the 7th of May early they met in the Painted-Chamber at Westminster and to make up their number sent for the two chast Cock-Sparrows the Lord Munson and Mr. Henry Martin out of Prison where they were in Execution for Debt and Mr. Whitlock and Lisle off the Chancery-Bench and with this addition being two and forty in number the Chancery-Mace for hast being carried before them whose Names from a Noble Hand with this Account I have Transcribed viz. William Lenthal Lord Munson Henry Martin Mr. Whitlock Mr. Lisle Mr. Chaloner Alderman Atkins Alderman Pennington Thomas Scot. Cornelius Holland Henry Vane Prideaux Attorney-General Sir Iames Harrington Ludlow Oldsworth Sir Arthur Haslerig Iohn Iones Purefoy Colonel White Henry Nevil Mr. Say Mr. Blagrave Colonel Bennet Mr. Brewster Serjeant Wilde Iohn Goodwin Mr. Lechmore Augustine Skinner Mr. Downes Mr. Dove Mr. Iohn Lenthal Mr. Saloway Mr. Iohn Corbet Mr. Walton Gilbert Millington Mr. Gould Colonel Sydenham Colonel Bingham Colonel Ayre Mr. Smith Colonel Ingoldsby Fleetwood stole on a sudden into the House the Invitation of the Army for the sitting of the Long Parliament as they call it being first published in Westminster-hall wherein at the conclusion they added that calling to minde that Gods presence and his Blessing was visible among the late Members of the Long Parliament who sate till April 23. 1653. they did invite them to their Trust and they answer this with a like Declaration not dashing at the least upon the Army setting forth that they are resolved to apply themselves to the discharge of their Trust and to endeavour a Settlement upon such a Foundation as might best secure all Christian and civil Interest Liberty and Propriety without King Single person or House of Peers and shall endeavour the work of Reformation so much desired and often declared for and a Godly and Faithful Ministry to the glory and praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the reviving and making glad the Hearts of the Upright in the Land Upon Notice of their sitting there being double their number Members of the same Parliament in Town and many of them in the Hall to prevent the mischiefs of a surreptitious packed Parliament they agreed among themselves in the Hall though they were doubtful that Parliament was dissolved that about a dozen or fourteen of them should immediately go to the House and the persons that did so were these viz. Mr. Ansley since Earl of Anglesey my right Noble Author Sir George Booth Mr. Pryn. Mr. George Montague Sir Iohn Eveling Mr. Gowen Mr. Eveling Mr. Knightly Mr. Clive Mr. Hungerford Mr. Harley Mr. Peck Who though with much ado they got into the Lobby where they found Mr. Iames and Mr. Iohn Herbert they were not suffered by the Officers of the Army to go into the House though they disputed their priviledge of Sitting if the Parliament were yet in being but Reason as well as the Laws must be silent among men of War and therefore after they had fairly made their claim and found the House under force they retired and resolved by Letter to acquaint the Speaker and those Gentlemen assembled with him what usage they had received And accordingly on Munday the 9 of May they went to Westminster where understanding that there were no Guards upon the House Mr. Ansley Mr. Pryn and Mr. Hungerford went up to the House and had free admittance receiving the Declaration of the 7th of May at the Door which was published the same day but
Croxton yet held out the Castle and had it presently delivered from thence to Leverpool which was yielded likewise by Colonel Ireland while in the mean time Colonel Zanchy and Axtel took in Chirk-castle delivered by young Mr. Middleton upon terms of having two Months time to make Addresses to the Parliament the rest were to be Prisoners of War and among them was Colonel since Sir Edward Broughton Harding-Castle was yielded likewise upon the like Capitulations Sir George Booth had made his escape out of the Field and got away accompanied with four of his Servants in a Womans Disguise but at his Inne in Newport-pagnel was discovered and being guarded and secured one Gibbons a Minister posted to give the Parliament account of it and was rewarded by them as were no less than three several Messengers sent before from Lambert with the particulars of the Cheshire-defeat Upon his bringing to London Fleetwood was ordered to send a Guard and meet him at Highgate and secure him to the Tower whither the next day Sir Henry Vane and Sir Arthur Haslerig were sent to Examine him It hath since been plainly confirmed that General Monke was engaged with him in the same designe under pretence of a Free-Parliament and that the Marquess of Ormond in the Habit of a Pedlar was seen abâââ his House at Dalkeith but it was so secretly carried that nothing appeared at this time nor would Sir George be drawn to accuse any man Most certain it is the Kings Restitution was the bottome of this Designe for before the appearance of it he had withdrawn privately from Brussels and lay ready upon the Coast of Britany about St. Malo's and those places to take shipping for England upon the first good event of those his Loyal Friends and Subjects but Kent or Sussex was the place intended for his Landing Turenne the French General having engaged to wait upon him if he would oblige it But this unhappy account reaching him there he resolved to give over the prosecution of his right by the Sword at present seeing the almost-impossibility of recovering it by his English Subjects against these standing Armies and pass to St. Iean de Luz where the Treaty betwixt the two Crowns was then begun and whither Lockhart upon the arrival of a French Embassador hither was ordered to Travel where after several affronts done him while the Ministers of the King not to mention the Grandeurs of the Honours done to himself by the Cardinal and Don Lewis de Haro and during his short stay in the Realm of Spain who were first the Lord Iermyn his Plenipotentiary at that Treaty the Earl of Bristol the Lord Chancellor Sir Henry Bennet the Kings Resident at the Court of Spain after Secretary of State and others he was better advised to return and be gone with more hast than he came His Master's Concerns being wholly rejected and his Majesty's most affectionately undertaken by both those Potentates in private distinct Articles agreed between them As those Iuncto-men or Rumpers would have been taken into this affair of the Peace between France and Spain so they thrust themselves into the difference between the two Northern Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden sending Mr. Sidney and Sir Thomas Honeywood Sir Henry Vane's Brother-in-law their Plenipotentiaries to those Crowns who having sâaid there to no purpose returned some time after to as much their Masters at home being lurcht before they had order to proceed in the same method and as far as the French or Dutch whose project of the Peace framed at the Hague being humbly tendered here by their Embassador was approved and these Commissioners to act according to that Module General Montague returned September the 24 about their coming thither and having given an account not of all he knew or did there concerning the War there to the Council of State was dismissed having given the King very good assurance of his readiness and affection to his service The Parliament now were consulting what more standing Forces to keep in the Kingdom and to keep in with the Sects and Quakers now numerous they repealed the Act of Iohn Lilburn's Banishment and released Iames Naylor as aforesaid out of Bridewel then against the last Royalists caused a new Sequestration-Act to be presently passed and Commissioners Names expedited Thus brisk they were always upon the Atchievement and accomplishment of every success which when it tickled them to arrogance and confidence scratched them soon after to their trouble and vexation for Lambert having done the Feat for them was now upon his progress in the Country to his own House at Craven in York-shire caressing the people having used his Victory very civilly although he was heard to say upon his setting forth questionless to make him more acceptable and less suspect to the Rump That he would not leave a Cavalier to Piss against the Wall or words to that effect Especially he made much of his Officers having invited them to his House aforesaid where their entertainment was concluded with a Draught of another Advice stiled A Petition to the Parliament General Monke in the mean time the better to conceal his affection to the King caused most of the Scotch Nobility to be seized on a sudden and upon the refusal of the Engagement secured them in Castles Very many yea most of them refused besides the Earl of Glencarn the General 's Confident and Privado as appeared not long after Lambert was Voted a Jewel of 1000 l. for a gratuity from the Parliament for his Cheshire-service but his ambition aimed at a higher Gem he therefore desired the Parliament that they would think of paying off the Militia who had deserved well as also the Irish Brigades and the Widows and relicts of such whose Husbands were drowned passing from thence to their assistance which they readily promised sitting brooding continually upon Acts of Sale and Forfeitures of such Estates whose last moities upon purchase had not been paid as also in sifting out all the persons engaged with Sir George and had traced it so close by their Beagles as to bring Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper one of their Council of State into suspicion as really he was a principal in the Plot having been of the Cabal and had kept intelligence with Sir George and had a party in Dorset shire which timely dispersed themselves but the great opinion they had of him stop'd the mouth of his Accusers and he knew well enough how to defend himself at their Bar. They had likewise got one of the King's Letters dated the 16 of May and other Papers which with the several Examinations were read in the House and a Thanksgiving-day thereupon appointed for this their great preservation They likewise Voted the Charter of the City of Chester void and that it should be no longer a County of it self but lie in Common as also the Ejection of the whole Ministry as Malignant and received soon after
and inflict the punishment of the Rebellion if they delayed his imbraces In fine it was an Affair in which all the faculties and passions of the Soul Love Fear Hope and Joy were tempered together to a MIRACLE by his skilful hand and art of Government and wherein Reason and Necessity jumpt together and to which the whole frame of Policie officiously humbled and submitted it self at this his Majesties most absolute and uncontroulable disposal of his Empire Tibi numine ab omni Cedetur jurisque tui Natura relinquet Quis Deus esse velis ubi regâum ponere mundo All the Heavenly powers yield And Nature as thy right and choice doth leave Where thou wilt reign what Realms shall thee receive But besides those of the first Magnitude there were Illustrious persons and others that rendred themselves conspicuous by their conjunction in this Revolution such were the Lord Chancellour the Earls of Southampton Oxford Bristol S. Albans the two Secretaries of State the old Earl of Norwich Ld. Goring a person whose memory is highly ennobled by such grand Events and Occurrences of State as the Spanish Peace with the Low Countries which owes it self to his Transaction and Accommodation the Earl of Manchester the noble Earl of Sandwich whose hand was engaged with his head and was the excellent General 's second in this Affair the faithful and couragious Lord Ashly Cooper who intrepidly engaged himself among the Usurpers and dreaded not their spies and quicksighted sagacious discovery of designes and intelligence against them which he constantly managed the Lord Annesly now Earl of Anglesey Lord Hollis Lord Booth of Delamere who broke the Ice and endangered his Life and Fortunes in the Attempt but was bravely rescued by his Reserve the General who came time enough to preserve him not to omit the Dii minores persons of lesser Rank but Eminent in their Qualities Sir Samuel Moreland Thurlo's Secretary and Cromwel's Resident in Savoy where he was set as Intelligencer which he proved most punctually to his Majesty and countermined all the designes of his Masters and by which means the King came to have intelligence of those disloyal treacherous and ingrate persons formerly of his side whom we have mentioned He came to the King at Breda where his Majesty Knighted him and made him a Baronet and gave him this Testimony That he had done him very signal Services for some years last passed Neither was Sir George Downing unserviceable to the same designe in his station in Holland as his Majesty's Respects to him at his coming to the Hague with recommendation from the General did sufficiently declare To conclude the whole Mass of the people had a hand at the least in it conspiring the same purposes in their wishes and affections with the effect whereof in a compendious Narrative for the Subject grows upon me to a bulk I am next to indulge and pleasure the Reader The King was yet at Brussels in a setled quiet expectation of the sitting down of the Parliament the results of whose Counsels were not thought so quick by the deliberating and slow Spaniard who had allowed the King yearly the sum of 9000 l. besides the pay of his Forces which his Majesty kept there which money was since repayed by the King soon after his return and therefore upon the King's departure from Breda upon assurance that the Parliament would not fail of sitting down at the appointed time he having traversed to and fro back and again to Antwerp the civil Governour of these Countries gave the King his Complement of departure and honourably conveyed him on his way to the City of Antwerp the Road to Breda aforesaid when it was feared by very many that the slye Spaniard would have put some demur or stay upon him in his Dominions He afterwards indeed sent a Complement to him by an Envoy well attended intreating him to return that way and to take shipping at one of the Ports of Flanders for England and acquainted him that for his greater honour and satisfaction he should see his Souldiers payed as he passed but the King civilly refused that kind proffer The King was no sooner come to Breda the Town and Castle whereof belonged to his Nephew the Prince of Aurange but having notice the Parliament was ready to sit he dispatcht away his Letters by Mr. now made Lord Viscount Mordant the Lord Goring having been sent before to the Council of State and General and Sir Iohn Greenvil now Earl of Bath with his Letters to the Parliament in both Houses respectively to the Lord-General and City which were speedily made publick and the Town in a kind of extasie for two days together the Press never ceasing to print them and all persons having no other thing to do but to read them the substance of which Message with the like Declaration to the House of Commons and his gracious Letters enclosed to his Excellencie the Lord General to be communicated to the Officers of the Army with a Letter likewise and Declaration to the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London was this His Majesty granted a free and general Pardon to all his Subjects whatsoever that shall within forty days after publication thereof lay hold upon that grace and by any publick Act declare their doing so such onely accepted as the Parliament shall think fit to be excepted which he will confirm upon the word of a King And as to tender Consciences none shall be called in question for differences in opinion which disturb not the peace of the Kingdom For Sales Purchases he will refer himself in all matters to the determination of Parliament that he will consent to an Act or Acts of Parliament for paying off and satisfying the Arrears of the Army and Navy and that they shall be received into his Majesty's service upon as good Pay and Conditions as they then enjoyed This gracious Message with the Letter to his Excellencie and the Declaration were read in the House of Commons with most extraordinary Ceremony and Reverence as if some strange awe had seized upon the minds of the Parliament every man at the Speakers naming of the King rising up and uncovering himself desiring the Letters might be forthwith read the like also was done in the House of Lords In the House of Commons remarkable was that of Mr. Luke Robinson who being a great Commonwealths-man first of all spoke to the Letters and acknowledged his conviction Nor was this Declaration less acceptable to all the people who were overjoyed with the news and the infallible hopes of having their gracious Prince and Soveraign restored to them in Peace and Honour The Parliament resolved That they do own and declare that according to the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom the Government is and ought to be by King Lords and Commons And having a deep sense of the Miseries and Distractions in
Fourth the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France under the English Soveraginty and Earl of Torrington in his own native County of Devon and Baron of Potheridge his own Patrimony Beauchamp and Teyes by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself and now most deservingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities which were compleated Iuly the 13 by his taking his place in the House of Lords attended by the House of Commons and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire and Baron of St. Neots in the same County and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers where they both shine with that degree of splendor by which the Duke reduced and the Earl dawned at the day of Englands Glory and Liberty The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock and took his place among the Peers of England he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Chamberlain the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller and other Royalists were made Officers therein Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom in Gold and Plate and resignation of Fee-farm-rents purchased from the Usurpers among the rest the City of London with a Complement of their good Stewardship by the mouth of their Recorder Sir William Wilde rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings Queens Bishops Dean and Chapters lands for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetousness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark to congratulate his Majesties most happy Restitution as a little before the Lord Iermyn newly made Earl of Saint Albans the Title last failing in the renowned Marquess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh who had so eminently asserted his Majesties Rights in Ireland and after the reduction thereof came into England and died in London in some distress far unfitting his nobleness of minde as well as former most honourable Estate a while before the Kings Return was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown Soon after the Prince de Ligne with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed was with great state received and had solemn Audience by the King and departed and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resident and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account by name the Count of Soissons who had married the Cardinal's Neece and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence In sum there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion The Parliament after many debates and disputes alterations and insertions at last finished the Act of Oblivion which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent to the regret of many injured Royalists who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it but their unalterable duty to the King whose special Act this was Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign as to Life and Estate besides Colonel Lambert and Sir Henry Vane and Twenty others reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared the principal of these were Sir Arthur Haselrig Oliver Saint Iohn William Lenthal the Speaker Mr. Ny the Independent Minister Burton of Yarmouth and some Sequestrators Officers and Major-Generals of the Army amongst whom was Desborough Pine Butler Ireton c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 of May the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration a day indeed memorable and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar and worthy of a Parliaments Canonization Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy which once looked upon us with the same feared perpetual danger as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness yielded after many Modules to its last Dissolution Great sums by Pole-money and other Assessments were imposed and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid to finish this desired work which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure Mr. Scowen Mr. Pryn Col. King and Sir Charles Doyley were appointed Commissioners to disband them to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Donative and Largess The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on as the course of all worldly things is guided were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties youngest Brother a Prince of very extraordinary hopes Silence will best become our lamentation for his vertues and our loss of them transcend expression He died of the Small-pox Aged Twenty years and two months after much Blood-letting and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Orange who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Restitution With the King and Monarchy the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops recovered it self by his Majesties Piety and Prudence that Aphorism being most sadly verified No Bishop No King and therefore on the 20 of September Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London that antient and excellent Prelate was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury which was performed with great Solemnity and not long after several new Bishops persons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster and all the Diocesses filled of which together presently in an ensuing Catalogue Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Martyr'd Soveraign and through several Mazes at last overtook them the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety nor was it
To Thomas Scot the same Witnesses were produced in all things as the former only he added that the Authority of the remaining Members might be as good as the Parliament was when the Bishops were excluded and if two Estates may take away a third if the second do not continue to Execute their Trust he that is in occupancie may have a title to the whole by which Argument he affirmed the Parliaments Authority To this was answered that the Bishops were taken away by an Act with the consent of the King Lords and Commons and that the Justification of this blasphemous principle as the Lord Finch termed it as also Lord Annesly and the whole Court was unsufferable and High Treason Mr. William Lenthall Mr. Theophilus Biddulph and Lord Mayor Elect were sworn to prove that he said he would have it written on his Grave That Here lies Thomas Scot one that adjudged the King to Death And to this purpose afterwards in the House upon the Dissolution of the Parliament he was heard to have added Since it is your pleasure to Dissolve the House I know not how to hinder but when that is done I know not where to hide my hated head Gregory Clement waved his Plea and confessed his Crime and delivered a Petition as Waller had done before And Colonel Iones made little defence but acquiesced upon the proof of his sitting and signing and so they all had Sentence as before The Sollicitour Iohn Cook was next Arraigned for Assuming a Power over the King's Life for drawing and exhibiting the Charge for demanding Judgment for pressing the Charge to be taken pro Confesso in sum for being instrumental in the Kings Death To this he Answered very acutely to the glory of his parts and infamy of his practice and to set up his Law above the Gospel from whence he borrowed St. Pauls elegant Defence Neither against the Law nor against Caesar have I I hope offended He alledged he was but Counsel and acted in his Sphere for his Fee in that his Crime was avaritiae of covetousness not malitiae nor falsly nor Treasonably in advising the Charge that he was no Sword-man that he executed no Power over the King that in drawing the Charge he discharged rather the part of a good Subject for the King being Prisoner to accelerate his Tryal was a Courtesie that he had retrencht the prolixity of it to that purpose he denyed the examining of any Witnesses against the King that in demanding Judgment he did not mean Judgment against the King of Condemnation but of Absolution He observed that the word Instrumental in the exception of the Act was insignificant or otherwise incomprehensive of him that by the Kings gracious Letter a Free Parliament was to declare the excepted persons which this could not be not being called by his Majesties Writ All which were fully Answered by Sir Heneage Finch but for fear I may pervert or miss the sinewy strength of that Reply this shall suffice to be the reduction That his entring the Charge and a protestation in the Conclusion of Liberty to put in a new one and desiring that the King as a Traytor may be brought to Justice was no such demand as could be imagined to end in acquittal that to the Act of Indemnity the Parliament having made a special proviso and inserted him by name therein the Words concluding him it is not material what the subsequent Reasons are so that though he might say the Parliament was mistaken in their Reason yet not in their Conclusion As to the Kings Letter from Breda referring all Crimes and Offences soever to a Free Parliament that the Honour of the King might be for ever Sacred he said that in case the Parliament was not a right Parliament that Letter in it self is no Pardon until it had been under the Broad Seal and in more express terms as in the Case of Sir Walter Raleigh but as to the Parliament it is plain the King meant this Parliament the Letter being directed to the Speaker of our House of Commons to them it was left to provide for security and indemnity and to expiate this crying Sin and to dispence his Mercy and Justice in this particular they then Address themselves to his Majesties Clemency for the whole Nation and the Kings Proclamation grants a Pardon so that this must needs be the Parliament though as the times were it were not so duly Constituted but since Confirmed by his Majesty It was added by Mr. Windham that words and advice when the Act follows will make any Counsellor guilty as if a Counsellor should advise one man to kill another and he does it All was sum'd up in an accurate repetition of it with Evidence and Defence by Sir Orlando Bridgman and he thereupon found guilty The Court used him very civilly and he shewed very much respect and reverence to the Court behaving himself to the removing of that prejudice which the generality had of him as of a Monster But see what a narrow Fortune and the streights of Debt and the Devils wide World and vast Preferments can tempt man to since his first Delusions bewitcht our understanding Hugh Peters came to the Bar. He was charged with contriving the Kings Death at Ware with Oliver Cromwel at Windsor at Coleman-street at the Painted Chamber Bradshaw's House that in a Sermon he had compared the King to Barabbas that in another the Text whereof was to bind Kings in Chains c. he had declared that there was an Act of Gods own making that they that spilt mans blood by man should his blood be spilt and that out of that Law neither the King nor Prince or Prince Rupert nor none of that rabble are excepted that on the Twenty seventh of Ianuary he had Preached before the High Court of Justice at Westminster on the 14 of Isaiah 18 19. verses All the Kings of the Earth c. All he said to this was to cavil at the Witnesses he declared his course of Life and his Orthodox perseverance but as to the purpose he said he was sorry to hear of his carriage towards the King but he had no malice toward him but was meerly engaged in he Army He was also upon suspition of being the Executioner but he proved he was sick a bed that day so Cook and he were Sentenced together Daniel Axtel was next set to the Bar He had escaped as he thought the exception in the Act being lately added to this miserable number for there was other blood barbarously shed by him that lay upon him and charged with imagining and compassing the Kings Death the overt Act whereof was commanding the Guard at his Tryal his beating the Souldiers for not crying out Justice and Execution for bidding them to do it and to shoot at a Lady supposed the Lady Fairfax whom he there termed Whore for saying that Cromwel was a Rogue and that the twentieth part of the
People never consented to the Tryal of the King For defence he said that he was Commanded thither by his General whom the Lords and Commons had Commissioned that they had declared themselves to be the Interpreters of the Law and if he had not obeyed his Generals Command he was then liable to the Punishment that that Statute of 25 Edward the 3. did not extend to private persons in that Case that Iermyn Nichols and Thorpe Judges had declared that it was lawful and justifiable to obey the Parliament that if the Collected body in Parliament be guilty of Treason where will they find a Jury to try him in the distributed part of the People Here he was charged for being one of those that actually and in person put the force upon the House by Mr. Annesly and made the Parliament a Juncto To this he answered That he was not to Justifie that fault for being no Statesman he did as commanded produced his Commission said that Fairfax nay General Monke were guilty for acting by the same Commission that it was no Treason to silence a Lady that spoke impertinently and being charged with smiling at the same time he said that was no Treason that he was set there to keep the Peace that the People and Souldiers did cry Iustice Iustice to quiet the Souldiers he might beat them and say I 'le Iustice you I 'le Execution you That at the worst Justice being an Attribute of God it were no Treason to require it and that the execution of it is no more He took much advantage of a Witness against him who said he had been imprisoned by him his Evidence was about hiring the Executioner to which one Nelson likewise and Hewlet was named That as Cook said before he neither Sentenced Signed Sealed nor Sate that Throgmorton in Queen Maries days was acquitted for Words that Words may make a Heretick not a Traytor and cited Sir Edward Coke urged also the Statute of Hen. 7. ayding the King de facto He was answered to all that there are no excuses for Treason That the Parliament could never give any Authority to Murther the King nor the General nor was it in his Commission to Guard the Court of Justice at Westminster-Hall nor to cry for Execution that any of those things was an Overt Act of his imagination and Proved sufficiently that Justice and Execution was the intent of Murthering the King and his wrathful Speech to the Lady discovered it After a little Consultation the Jury brought him in guilty to whom he had pleaded his Family and small Children Colonel Francis Hacker was the next He was Charged with Guarding the King at the High Court of Justice of taking him from Colonel Tomlinson the day of Execution for Signing of the Warrant of Execution to him that did it writ by Cromwel but who the man was named in it his memory could not tell or he would not upon much inquisition that he was on the Scaffold and brought the King thither He Pleaded little and said he was under Authority and that he did not read the Warrant that Cromwel writ and so could not inform the Court concerning the same He was also found guilty His being the most Overt Act in compassing the Kings Death William Hewlet a Serjeant of Colonel Hewson's Regiment was Indicted for being the man that was in the Frock and cut off the Kings Head it was averred from his own Confession by three several witnesses and as many attested it was Brandon the Common Executioner that he viz. the Executioner was put into a Boat and trembled after it was done every joynt of him that he affirmed as much to the Lord Capel at his Suffering by the same Axe of which the Executioner assured him He said that he could make it appear he was not upon the Scaffold that day nor near it for that he and other Serjeants were secured that day for refusing to be there but the other Witnesses Evidence being express He was found guilty The Court gave him all the advantage that could be and reprieved him so that he Suffered not The other of the Judges that rendred themselves upon the Proclamation were called Mr. Daniel Harvey was called first who pleaded his ignorance and no malice for that he Signed not though he was present at Sentence then he proved by witness his Reluctancy of Conscience his endeavours with few others to adjourn the Court upon the Kings motion that he resolved to have no more to do with them and that he endeavoured to save his Life Isaac Pennington next Pleaded his ignorance and no malice and utterly refused to Sign the Warrant Henry Marten against whom the Sitting Signing and Sealing were proved and also that at the meeting of the High Court of Justice before they went into Westminster-Hall being in the Painted Chamber and upon the Landing of the King from White-Hall to Sir Robert Cotton's House Cromwel upon sight thereof asking them this question The first thing the King will demand of us will be by what Authority we bring him before us what shall we say by whose Authority After a little pause Marten replyed In the Name and Authority of the Commons in Parliament Assembled and the good People of England To this he answered that he had no malice to the King It was replyed It is evident he had against the Government Further he said that the Commission ran in the name of the good people and so it was no great matter for him to repeat it Here Sir Heneage Finch took hold and gave notice to the Jury of the entituling the good people to it and hoped they would be none of them and observed the impenitence of the Man then he justified the Parliament and though it were but a remnant of Parliament yet in the case of Commons to a Cottage if a stick be but left the Commons appertained to that Cottage He added conclusively his acquiescing in the Royal Government since the King was called in by the People in Parliament which he intimated as the Kings best right and so added to his greater Condemnation Gilbert Millington Confessed the Fact and the guilt of it and was favoured with an acceptance of it from the Court. Alderman Tichburn did the same with much candidness declaring his sin and ignorance of the atrocity of the Crime protested his inability of Contrivance his raw years his unskilfulness in the Laws said he would have rather gone into a hot Oven than into this business if he had known it instanced that Paul was a Persecutor and found Mercy and had rendred himself with the three before upon the Proclamation Owen Roe pleaded the same and his reluctancy to the Kings Sentence and the Proclamation Colonel Robert Lilburn did the same mentioned his endeavour for withdrawing the Court of Justice as Mr. Harvey said before that he wept and mourned the day of the Kings Death Mr. Smith
in private in all Duties we owe to God and Man to amend our lives and each other to go before another in the Example of a real Reformation that the Lord may turn away his Wrath and heavy Indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdoms in Truth and Peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighây God the Searcher of all Hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all Hearts shall he disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end And to bless our desires and proceedings with such success as may be deliverance and safety to his People and encouragement to the Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the York of Antichristian Tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant to the Glory of God the Inlargement of the Kingdom of Iesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths It consisted just of 666 Words as some curious Criticks observed the number of the Beast in the Revelations Most certain it is the baiting and disputing of it made the Field the Pulpit and the Press a sad Theatre The good Progress was made by this Parliament in this way to return us where we were did highly urge the discontents of the late Anarchy and their anger suggested to them some hopes of undoing all again and in this revenge they parted themselves because they saw the Presbyterians concerned who either must comply or equally Suffer with them by such proceedings and therefore new designs were meditated and divers Conspiracies framed and Councels and Meetings had by several of that Party who afterward were seized into custody after they had vainly endeavoured and projected new troubles such were Praise God Barebone Samuel Moyer Colonel Salmon Major Wildman late Alderman Ireton since secured in a remote Castle Major Hains and others some of them since released and discharged by the Kings favour In the like manner as the renowned Montross had been interred so with proportionable solemnity the two most Loyal Commanders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were re-interred at Colchester the Seventh of Iune the same day thirteen year they took up Arms for the King in that Town which extremity they nobly defended the vicine Gentry and Townsmen in Arms and Mourning attending their Hearses both Corps being laid in the Vault set apart for the Sepulchry of Sir Charles his Family The Earl of Sandwich the Streights and the Levant-seas being infested with the Pirats of Algier Tunis and Tripoly notwithstanding our late League by the âright of Porta Ferino for since the departure of Captain Stoaks who was left by Blake in 1657. with eight Ships and returned in 1659. the old Piâây was frequently exercised was sent with a Fleet of War to reduce them ãâã better ãâã He set sail with his Vice-Admiral Sir Iohn Lawson leaving ãâ¦ã Admiral Sir Richard Stayner on the 19 of Iune and the 29 of Iuly câme before that Port of Algier sending in a civil Message to the Dy or Bashaw ãâã the place that he came to confirm the League made formerly between us ãâ¦ã and a Treaty accordingly ensued but they refusing to deliver the ââpâves except upon hard conditions and not to be brooked by those who had made them feel the smart of their former Insolence the General weighed and stood into the Harbour but they ever since their former disaster had with new Fortifications and a Mole with Forts so secured themselves that after the firing of some of their Ships and doing some Execution on them it was advised the Fleet should make out again which they did with the loss of some men and the Wounding and maiming of others as also of their Yards Sails and Rigging After which Enterprize the Earl leaving Sir Sohn Lawson to block them up and their Thieving-trade being stopt departed with part of his Fleet to the Coast of Spain to Tangier and so at length to Lisbon according to his Orders In the mean time the Parliament at the special instance desire of the King had passed an Act for Confirmation of the Act of Oblivion which being done by the Free Parliament not called by his Majesties Writ was not thought by the guilty valid and security enough to them They likewise ratified most or all of the other Laws Enacted by the same Authority They framed another for Regulating Corporations Impowring Commissioners to displace such as bore Offices and were any way suspected as Ill-willers to the Government and his Majesties Authority or should refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy or finally which was the onely Test if they would not renounce the Solemn League and Covenant as unlawful in it self and illegally imposed the Wisdom of the Parliament knowing what Seeds were sown of that Thistle and how untractable it was During this Debate of the House Mr. Pryn could not refrain against the priviledge of the House of which he was a Member from publishing of certain Reasons against the said Bill as contrary to Magna Charta which the House being informed of the Serjeant at Arms was ordered to seize the Printer and Mr. Pryn owning of it he was brought to the Bar and rebuked by the Speaker but upon his submission and the Houses favourable reflection on his great endeavours to the Restitution of the King he was remitted the censure and punishment he had by this oversight incurred not considering the necessity and Peace of the Kingdom required this course and how usual and constant it was with the Usurpers whereas now the Supreme Legislative Power who may and do substitute Repeal and Enact such Laws as the times require had thought fit to establish this There passed also another Act repealing that of the 1 Caroli 7. against the Prelacy and the Bishopâ medling in civil Judicature and Affairs debarring them also from their Priviledges to fit as Peers in the House of Lords to all which Honours they were by this Repeal restored to all purposes as if the same had never been Enacted a little before which the whole Order of them were magnificently feasted at Sir Richard Brown's the Lord-Mayor his house the 25 of Iune The Free-Parliament having respited the punishments of several of the Regicides as well those that lay under Condemnation as others not so fully guilty of that Crime the Houses resumed the matter and caused the Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Mr. Robert Wallop to be brought to the Bar where their Estates were declared confiscate and they degraded from all Titles and Arms of Gentility and farther Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London to Tyburn on the 30 of Ianuary next and so back again with Halters about their Necks upon Sledges and to suffer perpetual Imprisonment Sir Iames Harrington was to have been in this
disaffection to the Government but not many they were that were upon this account outed and discharged By virtue of the Allyance and Treaty with the Crown of Portugal several Forces were sent hence to Assist that Kingdome against the prevailing Power of the Spaniard who just at the Majority of that King and his taking the Government into his own hands had made a formidable Invasion and Progress into those Dominions These Forces most of them immediately set Sayl from Dunkirke some Troops and Companies Landing there from Leith all Commanded in chief by his Excellency the Earl of Inchiqueen the famous Souldier in Ireland Colonel Morgan late Governour of Scotland being his Major-General they arrived well and in good health there on the Twenty ninth of Iune and after a little refreshment and being prohibited to eat the Fruit of the Countrey for fear of Fevours and other Distempers advanced towards the Campania but the Spaniard having notice thereof thought it not advisable to Fight with them in their strength and vigour but to waste them with the usual incommodities of those Climates to us and retreated back again immediately into Spain In Iuly following the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland His Majesty having given him a very Honourable and friendly farewel and having received the like civilities from the whole Court set forwards in his Journey and Voyage to that Kingdome where he Arrived three weeks after and was most Magnificently received into the City of Dublin and congratulated and welcomed by the whole Body of that People in Parliament to whom in their Assembly he delivered himself in a most Excellent Speech There was mention made before of the Commissioners for Regulating Corporations for the securing of the peace of the Kingdome by these Gentlemen named for each County City and Borrough it was ordered besides the displacing of Officers that the Walls of the respective Cities and Towns of Gloucester and Coventry Northampton Taunton and Leicester and other places which had Bulworks and Garrisons and maintained them throughout the War against the King and were the Reception of and maintenance the Rebellion should be demolished as Examples and Security to successive times the County-Troops and respective Trained Band-Regiments guarded these places when they were Demolished Dr. Gauden the Bishop of Exeter died about this time September as also William Lenthal the Speaker of the Long Parliament very penitently The Town of Dunkirk taken from the Spaniard in One thousand six hundred fifty eight and kept ever since at a vast and great charge was by advice of the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councel as being never annexed by Act of Parliament to the Crown of England returned to the French King who upon surrender of it in the year aforesaid delivered it unto us Now for the sum of Five hundred Thousand pounds fully paid that Fortress was delivered into the Possession of the French under the Government of the Count d'Eâirades and his Deputy the Marquess of Montpear two English Companies with the Governour only Guarding the Gates at their entrance and delivering the Keys of the same Town The Honourable Sir Edward Nicholas having served his Majesty and his Father as Secretary of State for many years obtained his Quietus est from the King who would have dignified his Merit with a Barrony which Sir Edward modestly declined because His Majesty should not increase the Nobility and Sir Henry Bennet late the Kings Resident in Spain a very excellent Person was named to that Preferment Among these and the like Honours conferred by the King upon his Faithful and Loyal Servants and Subjects which the purport of this Chronicle obliged me to take notice off and be their Herauld this time challenged my observance of a Dignity conferred on that eminent and worthy Personage Dr. Iohn Berkenhead Knighted with a Testimony from his Majesty that he had done his Father and himself very signal and great services during the last twenty years Revolution and there is scarce any Honest man in the Three Kingdoms who will not say Amen to this his Majesties EVGE There had been suspition of a Plot and the City Trained Bands had watched and warded every Night for the most part of the Summer ever since the Kings departure to meet the Queen but now the Design appeared the first named was one Captain Baker a New-England-man an acquaintance of Hugh Peters there and preferred to be one of Olivers Band of Pensioners this Fellow acquaints one Hill the Son of a Phanatick or Independant Preacher in the Street and tells him of a Designe and brings him acquainted at several Meetings of divers of the Conspiracy which he having good information of revealed with the names of the Conspirators to Sir Richard Brown Some of those engaged thus only met and heard and reported their discourses of Arms and other preparations to their own gang but approved the Treason so well that they never discovered it This Plot was against the Sacred Life of the King the Duke of York the noble Duke of Albemarle and Sir Richard Brown and generally the Bishops Nobility Gentry and Commonalty that were not of their Opinions and Assisted them not and they had ready prepared a draught of their Government their Councels were carried on by six who never sate twice in a Place nor could be known to any two their Commander in chief was Ludlow Colonel Danvers Mr. Nye Mr. Lockyer and one Lieutenant Strange the Captains Spencer and Taverner were favourable to the Design and would surprize Deal Castle in Kent as Windsor was certain to be theirs and the Word the Night they were to fall on which after several put offs was appointed the last of October was to be given them by George Phillips a Serjeant in the Colonels Company of the White Regiment For this the Eleventh of December the said George Phillips Thomas Tongue a Distiller of Strong Waters Francis Stubs being a Cheesmonger Iames Hind Gunner Iohn Sellers Compass-maker and Nathanael Gibs Felt-maker were Convicted by Evidence of their fellow-Conspirators Edward Rigge Bradley and others only Hind Pleaded Guilty and craved the King's Mercy they alledged they never Acted such Trayterous intentions but the Design was proved to have been communicated and laid open to them after their full Defence they were all found Guilty and on the Twenty second of December Phillips Tongue Gibs and Stubs were Executed according to Sentence but His Majesty was graciouâly pleased to give their Quarters to be buried but their Heads to be set up upon several Poles two on each Tower-Hill the nearest place to the Tower On the Twenty sixth of December his Majesty to satisfie the Kingdome of his intents in reference to the unsatisfiedness of Dissenters to the Established Settlement of the Church expressed his Indulgence to their Consciences so far as such Liberty would not Disturb the Publick Peace nor entrench upon the Orthodox Religion professed and that he
defend themselves so that the River was quite covered with men and Horses The Count made use of the opportunity not taking so much as one Prisoner so that between killing and drowning very few escap'd though above 10000 in all above a thousand of their Horses were taken coming out of the water A considerable prevention of their entring Stiermark and coming up as far as Grats without any possibility of opposition The like success had the Portugals against the Spaniards taking the Town of Ginaldo in Gallicia wherein was the Magazine of Spain Afterwards giving Battle to Don Iohn of Austria who commanded 7000 Horse 12000 Foot and 18 pieces of Ordnance they routed him in the open field and took all his Bag and Baggage being assisted by the English They slew 1000 took 4000 Prisoners and most of the eminent Commanders But a worse fate had attended the Protestants of Piedmont had not they sâoutly defended themselves For while their Delegates were pleading for them at Turin under the Protection and Safe-conduct of the Duke of Savoy their Sovereign Prince protesting their Loyalty and Submission to him his Forces to the number of between 16 or 18000 Horse and Foot entred the Valleys at Prerustine St. Bartholomew Rocheplate and other places endeavouring to possess themselves of Angrogue and St. Martins two of the strongest Holds in all the Valley of Piedmont In their way they set all on fire cut and tore the Vines and destroy'd all The Inhabitants seeing themselves assaulted contrary to Faith given and seeing they were undone made head the Fight was hot for the time but though the Savoyards were thirty for one they were at length forc'd to retreat with the loss of above a thousand men kill'd and wounded and many Officers All which was said to be done by the Iesuits Council de Propaganda Fide Anno Dom. 1664. WE shall begin this Year with the Trial of several persons for their Lives being of the same Party with those last Year executed at York The greatest part of their hopes of destroying his Majesty was built upon the confidence of a power they had as well to divide and distract his Friends as unite his Enemies which they endeavour'd to do by divers false and scandalous Rumors which upon all occasions they scatter'd among the people as being one half of their business The Tragedy was to have begun in the Counties of Westmerland Durham and Yorkshire by seizing upon Carlisle all the eminent Persons and Justices of the Peace of the said Counties and what Publick Treasure they could find A small Party met at Kirkby-Steven but failing of their number soon dispers'd themselves again Several were executed particularly at Appleby Robert Waller Stephen Weatherhead and Henry Petty But such was the inveterate malice of these kind of people such was the Influence of Ejected Ministers among them that notwithstanding so many persons had suffer'd the year before yet at Newbury the Mayor and Company of the Town being met upon Easter Tuesday to chuse Church-wardens for the year ensuing they were assaulted by a rude and confus'd multitude of all sorts of Phanaticks some crying one thing and some another and though sundry times excluded by the Constables that were call'd to keep the peace yet they still broke in with fresh clamours crying out that it did not belong to the Mayor and Company but the whole Parish to make the choice In fine they came to this at last that they did not matter who was chosen so one Pocock render'd odious to the Rabble for his Loyalty to the King were not one But Sir Thomas Doleman coming immediately to Town upon notice of the disorder with a Guard of Soldiers seiz'd the chief sticklers who were afterwards proceeded against according to their demerits And understanding that certain Grand Phanaticks being charg'd with Arms refus'd to send in their men he with the rest of the Deputy-Lieutenants caus'd them to be fin'd and levied their fines by distress of their goods In the mean time notice being taken of several dangerous applications made to some Prisoners in the Tower Mildmay Wallop Fleetwood and Garland were sent away to Tangier and certain other Prisoners dispos'd of into other places of security This Month also brought Intelligence of the proceedings of the Earl of Teviot then Governor of Tangier who finding Gayland unwilling to comply with him in his propounded Articles of Peace resolv'd to make use of Force and having worsted the Moor in an Attack which he made upon the English with great courage and vigor for some time afterwards undisturb'd began and finish'd a great part of the outermost Fortifications and to make room for the English and Strangers of better account turn'd all the Jews out of the City Now was it less welcom news for his Majesty to hear that his Embassador Sir Rich. Fanshaw was magnificently receiv'd and entertain'd by the King of Spain in testimony of the high value which that King put upon his Majesties Alliance and the reverence he had for that Correspondence which so great an Embassador was sent to continue and preserve between both Kingdoms But as if the heat of the Spring had warm'd the English bloods His Majesty and his Parliament at this time sitting began to take into their deep Consideration the great Complaints that had been made against the Dutch whose injuries and affronts had not a little enrag'd the Nation Whereupon a Report being made by Mr. Clifford of their Encroachments upon Trade from a Committee appointed to examine that affair Thereupon the House made two Resolves the Substance of which were That the wrongs dishonours and indignities the damages affronts and injuries done by the Subjects of the United Provinces to our Merchants were the greatest Obstructions to Forein Trade That His Majesty should be mov'd to take speedy and effectual course for the redress thereof and that they would assist him with their lives and fortunes against all opposition whatsoever The Lords concurr'd and thereupon both Houses attended his Majesty who declar'd his Royal Sense and high Esteem of their care and tenderness for the Honor and Good of the Nation Letting them farther know That he would examine and prove the particular Complaints that he would demand satisfaction by a Publick Minister and do his utmost endeavour to secure his Subjects from the like Violences for the future depending upon the Promise of both Houses to stand by him Upon which Declaration both Houses return'd their humble and hearty Thanks April 6 th Soon after this the King came to the House pass'd two particular Acts the one for holding Parliaments once in three years at least and repealing a former Act call'd An Act for preventing the inconveniencies by long intermissions of Parliament At the signing thereof his Majesty gave them thanks for their ready concurring in a thing so advantageous to the Nation and for recalling the other so prejudicial and so
hands while he had such large Sums to carry on the War In a short time the Prâpositions of the several Counties and the Names of the Commissioners were agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament Upon the Eleventh of February following the King Sign'd the Act being Entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds For which his Majesty return'd his Royal thanks In the beginning of March following his Majesty having passed several other Acts presented him by both Houses and receiv'd their good wishes for the prosperity of his undertakings delivered in a Speech by the Speaker Prorogued them till the Twenty first of Iune 1665. A little before the Parliament met His Majesty set forth a Declaration for Encouragement of Marriners and Seamen employ'd in the Service Allowing all Officers and Seamen after the rate of Ten shillings per Tun for every lawful Prize and to take to themselves as free Pillage whatever they should take on or above the Gun-Deck with his Royal Promise to provide for the Sick and Wounded Widows Children and Impotent Parents of such as should be Kill'd with several other advantages mention'd in the said Declaration His Majesties Wisdom and Goodness in that and in all other things plentifully providing for all Events both of War and Peace In December following His Majesty setting forth the Consideration which he had taken of the Injuries Affronts and Spoyls done by the Subjects of the Vnited Provinces to the Ships Goods and Persons of His Majesties Suâjects notwithstanding many and frequent demands for Redress by the Advice of His Privy Councel ordered That general Reprisals should be granted against the Ships and Goods and Subjects of the Vnited Provinces As this did not a little vex the Dutch so with greater reason the action of De Ruyter in Guiny did Incense the King of England and therefore in the beginning of February he put forth a Declaration That the Subjects of His Majesty had sustained several Injuries and Damages from the Subjects of the United Provinces That he had made Complaint thereof and frequently demanded Satisfaction That instead of Reparation they had not only ordered De Ruyter to desert the Consortship against the Pyrats of the Mediterranean Sea but also to do all acts of Violence and Hostility against His Majesties People in Africa And that therefore His Majesty did with the Advice of his Privy Councel Declare the Dutch the Aggressors Impowring His Majesties Fleet to Fight and Destroy the Ships of the Netherlanders This Declaration being a solemn Denuntiation of War was proclam'd in the beginning of March at White-hall Temple-bar and the Royal-Exchange with the usual Solemnities This Declaration charging them to be the Aggressors stuck heavily in their Stomachs and they took it into their serious consideration But instead of answering to so high a Charge they contented themselves with a second Libel which they had publish'd somewhile before which they call'd A Summary Observation and Deduction delivered by the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Great Britain As lewd a piece for foulness of Language and weakness of Defence as ever came into the light under pretence of Authority In the mean while their Embassies to Swedeland and Denmark went slowly on and instead of being befriended by France the Embassador of that Crown is order'd to demand reparations for the loss of two very considerable East-India Ships taken from the Subjects of that Kingdom And at the same time his Electoral Highness renewed his demands of satisfaction from the Governors of Wasel for the affront offerâd to the Son of his Excellencie the Earl of Carlisle of which it may not be unseasonable now to give the Relation The Lord Morpeth Son of the Earl of Carlisle travelling from Munster to Collen found a Tâoop of Horse drawn up in his way the Captain whereof coming to the young Lord told him he had Orders to carry that Company to Wesel by a Verbal Order from the Governour which he did and lodg'd the Company in two Inns. After they had been two days Prisoners one Hayes a Gentleman belonging to the Duke of Brandenburghs Council in Cleve demanded the Prisoners in the Dukes name threatning to seize the Goods of the States Subjects in the Dukes Dominions in case of refusal The Governor answer'd that he was inform'd they were gathering a Party to fall upon his Garrison but finding the Information false he gave them all free liberty to proceed in their Journey But the Lord Morpeth and the English not so contented went to Cleve and there in the Dukes Court exhibited a Charge against the Governor Not long after Major Holmes was committed to the Tower upon several Accusations laid against him But when the whole matter came to be strictly enquired into and examined he did so fully clear himself upon every point that the King was not only pleas'd to discharge but to honour him with a singular mark of his favour Toward the middle of March several Memorials were delivered in by the Ministers of France Portugal and Swede complaining of their Ships being detained contrary to the Usage and Practice of their Friends and Allies To which the States gave little or no satisfaction only permitted some French Ballast-ships to go out About the latter end of March Captain Allen arriv'd in the Downs with a considerable Squadron of his Majesties Fleet and a Convoy of rich Merchants together with a rich Prize one of them that were taken at Cadiz a lusty Ship which was afterwards made a man of War and carried above 40 Guns About this time his Majesty publish'd a Proclamation prohibiting the Importation or Retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of the States of the United Provinces occasion'd by a Prohibition on their parts of the Importing or Vending any Goods or Wares made in any of the Kings Dominions But while we prepare for War at home we make Peace abroad For the English in Tangier had by this made an advantageous Accord with Gayland the Mâors being very ready to agree with them in all Amity and good Correspondence Nor was it less pleasing to hear of Sir Charles Cotterels reception at Bruxels who being sent on his Majesties behalf to preserve and continue the Ancient Amity had an entertainment sutable to his Quality If there were any thoughts of Peace among the Hollanders it was only in shew for their preparations for War were open and publick and therefore the King with most indefatigable diligence journey'd from Port to Port to hasten out his Fleet already in great readiness as also by his presence to incourage the Seamen that by the 25 th of March ending the Year 1664 the Fleet most magnificently prepar'd with all Provisions necessary was ready to receive their most
Embassador who began to deal roundly with 'um and to insist upon the very Letter of a late Treaty for the restitution of two French East-India Ships which had been so long and often demanded The Dutch offer'd certain small Vessels which they pretended would do the French business as well Hereupon a general Embargo was order'd by the King of France upon all their Merchants Vessels till the Dutch made satisfaction for the two Ships for though the Netherlanders had the confidence to with-hold 'um yet the King of France had effectually paid for 'um so that at length they were forc'd not only to part with the Ships but the Lading to booâ In the mean while they enlarg'd their Embargo upon the English and not only made a Prohibition of Trade with England but also provided that none of the Subjects of that State should ensure any Goods belonging to the Subjects of the King of England And all Newters were forbid to carry Counterband-goods to the Dominions of his Majesty The Reason why the States were so backward with the Fleet was most certainly the aversness of the people whom it cost the States not a little cunning to make tractable to their purposes To which intent they insinuated into the ears and minds of the people That the King of England was not in a condition to set out a Fleet which they not only found to be otherwise but also purely done upon the stock of his own proper Authority and Credit When they saw that brought to pass the next thing they flatter'd the people withal was that though the King had strain'd himself to bring a Fleet to Sea yet that the Parliament would never supply him with a sum of Mony answerable to the Charge of so expensive a War Finding themselves deluded therein also by their Act for the Royal Aid the next suggestion was that the people would never submit to pay it But the voluntary Present made to his Majesty by the City of London soon clear'd that mistake To these they added that they should find friends in England together with great Aid and Support from Forein Princes wherein they found themselves at length totally disappointed Among the rest of their disappointments the King of Denmark's calling in all his Seamen out of Forein Service was not the least for thereby they were disfurnished of many able Sea-men which otherwise they might have had for their Mony This Month also arriv'd at London the Duke of Verneuil and Monsieur Courtin from the King of France and from the King of Spain the Conde de Molina The two former had their Audience within three days after their Entry which was very magnificent They were sent upon Mediation and Composure the event whereof the Dutch did much depend upon and extremely hearken after Nor were the Dutch a little active in hopes to deceive Forein Princes in Printing and publishing Libels to the scandal and defamation of the English Nation Among others the most remarkable of their Papers were the Remarks of the Deputies of the States General upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoy Extraordinary c. A Discourse full of irreverence and falsehood of which the world was sufficiently convinc'd when they read the Reply of Sir George Downing thereto In the next place they Printed a pretended Letter from one Valkenburgh Director-General of Guinee to the States feigning how that at Adia the English after they had given quarter with rusty Knives cut off the Noses of those whom they had taken alive and exercised many other strange Amboyna-cruelties upon the Hollanders in these parts Therefore that so great a scandal might appear the more notorious there was publish'd an Account of the Guinee-Transactions In brief That Captain Robert Holmes who was Commanded for the Coast of Guinee in October 1663 coming thither all people complain'd how âll the Dutch had treated the English how they had engag'd the King of Barra to assault the English Factories which Designe failing how they had endeavour'd to corrupt the Officers of the Charles and Iames Islands to deliver up their Forts How they had counterfeited the King of England's Signe-Manual and Signet to countenance their Entry into the River had they not been frustrated by the notice which the King of Barra gave of the whole Designe After this Captain Holmes for the better security of some English Ships daily expected sailed to Cabo Verde fearing one Iohnson that was said to lie in the way where without any provocation they âired from the Fort killing his Master and wounding divers of the Company notwithstanding all which the Governour surrendring the place next morning he and all his Company were treated with all possible respect and civility by the Captain At Sestos they had been dealing with the King of that place to throw out the English inveigling the people abroad and then abusing them under English Colours the better to attain their ends The like was done upon the Coast of Castle de Mina where Valckenburgh offer'd a Bendy of Gold for every English head At another time they shot at a Convoy of Capt. Holmes from a Fort of theirs which so enrag'd the Moors that they fell upon the Fort and took it and would have put all the Hollanders to the Sword had not the Captain prevented them Lastly Captain Holmes having sent a Drum to Ariamaboa with Honorable Proposals contrary to the Rule of War they mangled stript and left him dead upon the place Which Account being so far from the Accusations of Valckenburgh gave no small satisfaction to the world so that they lost their aim among all just and sober Persons But now the Netherlanders finding how little they could boast of their Alliances near home they made great Brags of the kindness shewn their Embassador at a distance by the Emperor of Russia though by his reception no such thing appear'd for as for his Present which was of silver Plate it was so miserably thin that it would scarce endure the carrying His allowance was very ordinary and the person appointed to attend him as Master of the Ceremonies was only a Merchant and Alderman of the City who having at a drinking Bout began the Prince of Orange's health before that of the States General rais'd a very great Dispute so that upon the whole his Entertainment seem'd rather a matter of State and Custom than of kindness In England was observ'd a general Fast with a reverence befitting the Solemnity of the occasion both Queens did most affectionately concern themselves therein by express and particular Appointment commanding all their Servants to set themselves apart with more than ordinary Devotion for the Service of the Day This was answer'd with the happy Omens of future Victory from the fair success of small Enterprises For not long after were taken three men of War The first a Caper of seven Guns and 47 men The other were Direction-Ships
agreed upon by the Respective Ministers meeting at the Spanish Embassador's-House at the Hague where they sign'd and exchang'd all acts thereto belonging Anno Dom. 1670. IN the beginning of April the Parliament having prepar'd several Acts ready for the King to signe the King came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent signifying also his consent for an Adjournment till the 24 of October ensuing having only granted the King an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar for such a certain time And prepar'd a Bill to Authorize such Commissioners as the King should nominate for treating with the Scotch Commissioners in order to the Union desir'd This Moneth also the Lord Iohn Berkley arriv'd in Dublin to succeed the Lord Roberts as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland who upon weighty considerations was call'd back again into England And now in this time of leisure the Princess of Orleans comes to Dover to visit her two Brothers his Majesty and the Duke of York her stay in England was short and her stay in this World not much longer for in a short while after her return into France she departed this life the Court of England being not only grieved but astonished at the suddenness of her death Upon some apprehension of private designes a Proclamation was issu'd out commanding all Souldiers and Officers who had serv'd under the late Usurped Powers to depart the City and not to come within twenty miles of the same for a prefix'd time and in the mean while not to wear Arms upon a severe penalty The Parliament of Scotland now sitting and understanding what the Parliament of England had done in that Affair the Act for the Treaty of Union pass'd both Houses at Edenburgh and was touch'd by the Commissioner with the Royal Scepter of which although the designe were of high concernment yet because the Event was not correspondent it will be enough to say that the Commissioners on both sides had often Conferences and great encouragements from the King but it met with so many delays and difficulties that as a thing not to be compass'd it was at length laid aside The King was every year very intent upon the suppression of the Pyrates of Argier which was the only War he now had wherein though his Commanders had prosper'd by taking particular Prizes and single Ships yet never could they meet with a Body of those Rovers to signalize their Courage till now neither was this a Body of above seaven men of War too many for the Algerines to run the Fate they did There were the Hampshire Portsmouth Iersey and Centurion Frigats under the Command of Captain Beach these met the seven Argier Men of War the least of which had 38 Guns and full of Men who after a short dispute were forc'd to run all their Ships ashore where they were all burn'd two by themselves and the rest by the English besides the loss of most of their men and the Redemption of 250 Christian Captives Valour gets Renown but Cowardise Disgrace therefore Captain Iohn Peirce and Andrew Legate for the loss of the Saphire Fregat in the Streights were both about this time which was in September try'd for their Lives at a Court Marshal held upon the River of Thames where it plainly appearing that the said Frigat was basely and shamefully lost through the default and cowardise of the said Captain and Lieutenant they were both Condemn'd to be Shot to Death and soon after both Executed Both Houses of Parliament re-assembl'd according to their Adjournment This Month the Ratification of the Peace between England and Spain beyond the Line was agree'd and Ratifi'd and the Ratifications Exchang'd and Notice given to the Governors in those Parts for the punctual observation thereof on both sides In the mean while the Prince of Orange Arrives to give his Uncle a Visit He came to London upon the 30th of October but his stay here was not long However he visited both the Universities and his entertainmenâ was in all places answerable to the Dignity of his Person His coming no question had a Mysterie in it but Mysteries of State are not to be div'd into However at the beginning of the Spring he return'd well satisfi'd both as to his Publick Reception and private Concerns In November Sir Thomas Allen return'd home with his Squadron having made many attempts upon the Pyrates of Argier whose Cowardice still shuning the English Force made the Voyage seem the less successful leaving Sir Edward Sprage in his Room December seldom passes without some act of Villany one more remarkable was at this time perform'd for the Duke of Ormond going home in his Coach was between St. Iames'â and Clarendon-House by six persons Arm'd and Mounted forc'd out of his Coach and set behind one of the Company who was riding away with him but he was at length Rescu'd partly by his own strength partly by others coming to his Assistance A Fact which rendred the performers not so bold as it render'd the Duke Memorable in his Forgiveness Sir Edward Sprage was now the King's Admiral in the Mediterranean Sea of whose Action the next year must give a farther Accompt The Parliament having at this time compleated several Acts the King came to the House and gave his Royal Assent to them being chiefly for Regulation of the Law and for an Additional Excise upon Beer and Ale During this Session the Lords and Commons by their Humble Petition Represented to the King Their fears and apprehensions of the growth and encrease of the Popish Religion whereupon the King in compliance with their desires by His Proclamation commanded all Iesuits and English Irish and Scotch Priests and all others that had taken Orders from the See of Rome except such as were by Contract of Marriage to wait upon the Queen or Forreign Embassadors to depart the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales upon pain of having the Laws and Statutes of the Realm inflicted upon them Forrein Affairs 1670. The first occurrence of Moment is the Election of the new Pope Cardinal Altieri who at first refus'd the Honour but the perswasion of the Cardinals prevailing he told them they had open'd upon Him the Gates of Hell and so yielded to their importunity He had no Nephews and therefore Adopted Cardinal Paluzzi whose Brother had Married his Neece And now the Grandeur of the House of Orange began to revive again The States Concluding in a full Assembly his admission into the Council of State and setling an honourable Pension upon him Nor was he long without the Title of their Captain General by Sea and Land In Flanders some Alteration happen'd by reason that the Constable of Castile growing sickly could not abide the trouble of business any longer he departed privately to Ostend and so by Sea for Spain in his place the Count de Monterey was soon advanced While Tangier makes us concern'd
next day being resolv'd into a Grand Committee upon their taking into consideration the King 's and the Lord Chancellor's Speeches they made an unanimous Vote that a supply should be given the King of 18 Moneths Assessment not exceeding 70000 l. a Moneth While they were thus acting Sir Iob Charleton falls sick and his Indisposition continuing the House by the King's permission chose a new Speaker Edward Seymor Esq by Name a person of great Loyalty and known ability Soon after they presented the King an humble Address for satisfying and composing the mindes of his Majesties Subjects To which the King return'd for Answer That he did readily and freely agree thereto That on the other side it was five Moneths since he had demanded a Supply and that their Vnanimous Vote did both give life to his Affairs and disheartned the Enemy but their delay would make them take new courage That the Enemy was preparing a greater Fleet than ever they had and therefore desir'd them that the fears and jealousies of some might not bring a Ruine upon all That if there were any Scruples remaining with them concerning the suspention of Penal Laws He promis'd that what had been already done should not be drawn into future Example Lastly That as he expected the Bill for his supply so He should as willingly receive and pass any other to give them satisfaction The Effect of all which appear'd at the beginning of the following Year Forrein Affairs 1672. The most important difference between the Lesser Princes and States of Christendom was between the Duke of Savoy and the State of Genoa who taking advantage of a difference between the Officers and Souldiers of the Garrison had surpris'd Oneglia and the Territories thereto belonging Thereupon the Duke with a strong Army invades the Jurisdiction of the Genoeses takes Guado the Key of the Genoese State towards Monâferrat after that Sissello a most delicious place and full of rich Booty together with Iustinesi Not thus content he over-ran all the Riviera toward Nizza and retakes the Principality of Oneglia But then by the Interposition of the King of France first a Cessation then a Peace was Concluded Nor was Poland without a great share of Civil Dissention by reason of great differences between one part of the Nobility who were term'd Male-contents and the other part of the Nobility who sided with the King The Army under Sobieskie undertook the Defence of the Male-contents and Marches for Warsaw under pretence of protecting their Nobility which were so severely prosecuted The Archbishop of Gnesne a potent Prelate kept himself from Court in Opposition to the Kings Interests though all endeavours were used to reconcile him In this posture the Popes Nuntio arrives to Mediate but it was too hard a task to be accomplisht this Year From these troubles Casimire having withdrawn himself by a timely Resignation liv'd for some time privately in France where he this Year dy'd of an Apoplexy at Nevers But his Death was not so much taken notice of as the Death of the Empress to whom this Year was equally Fatal Anno Dom. 1673. THE first remarkable passages of this year were the Transactions in Parliament who being press'd by the King for a Supply fell with that seriousness and quickness to their Work that by the latter end of March they had compleated several Bills among the rest an Act for raising the Sum of One hundred thirty eight thousand seven hundred and fifty thousand pound for supply of his Majesties Extraordinary occasions And another Act of General and Free Pardon To which when the King had given his Assent the Parliament was Adjourn'd till the 20th of October next ensuing About this time the Earl of Northumberland being Dead and the Family of the Peircies being Extinct one Iames Percy an ordinary Mechanick coming out of Ireland laid claim both to the Title and Estate and went so far as to present a Petition to the House of Lords to hear him in Relation to his Claim but when his Petition came to be read notwithstanding that he had two Months time given him before and that he had caus'd above forty Witnesses to be sworn at the Bar he made so little of any probability appear toward his said Claim that the Lords resolv'd that the Petition of the said Iames Percy should be dismiss'd and that they would consider how to proceed against him as an Impostor Much about this time was the Island of Tabago taken from the Dutch by the English under the Command of Sir Tobias Bridges with a Booây of 400 prisoners and as many Negroes though a greater loss hapn'd to the English by the taking of Sr. Hellenâs by the Dutch and might have prov'd great Obstruction to the Trade of the East-Indies had it not been soon after regain'd by the English with a more fatal Loss to the Dutch of Three very considerable East-India ships which with the regaining of the Island was such a seasonable piece of Service perform'd by Captain Monday that the King himself thought it worthy the honour of a Knighthood which was conferr'd upon him at his return in August when he brought along with him both the good News and Prizes But now the English and Dutch Fleets being abroad Actions of higher Importance call to be related wherein it will not be amiss to follow the whole Series of this Years Maritime Transactions without any digression The Belgians first got to Sea and shew'd themselves at the Rivers Mouth with an intention to have stopt up the Mouth of the Thames by sinking several great Ships in the Narrow Passages of the Channel call'd the Middle-ground but the broadness of the Channel and the commodiousness of other Channels rendred their Attempts altogether in vain Prince Rupert who Commandâd the English Fleet that he might not seem to be shut in sails toward the Enemy wâo unwilling to abide his coming recover their own Shoar The Prince therefore sails away for the Streights of Calis with an intention to joyn with the Fleet from Portsmouth and the French and coming to Dunganess there casts Anchor in expectation of their coming who were not long absent in this interim no small danger threatned the Admiral by which the Edgar and Lyon were forc'd from their Anchors by the accidental firing of a Fireship But now the French consisting of 27 great Ships and the Portsmouth Fleet being joyn'd with the rest of the Navy the Prince resolves to visit the Dutch Coast and comes before Schonevelt where the Fleet of the Enemy lay the Prince's intention was to have Engag'd but the Sea growing rough they came to an Anchor till the 28th The morning proving fair and a fresh Gale the English prepare to Engage to which end the Prince Commands some 35 of the more nimble Frigats to provoke 'um out of the Sands with which they lay surrounded but they contrary to expectation boldly come âorth and in excellent
chief there 253 266. His cruelty to the English Cavaliers ibid. Arrives in England 267. Made Gen. for Scotch Expedition 268. His Sophistry with the Scots 271. Marcheth for Sterling 275. his progress in Scotland 279. Alarms the Scots 283. At Glascow sick 289. His designe upon the Parliament 324. A Dictator 343. Made Protector and Installed at Westminster 354. The module of Government and his Oath ibid. Proclaimed and gratulated 355. Names his Privy-council ibid. Invited to dinner by the City and dines there 357. Supplies the Courts with able Iudges ibid. Concludes a Peace with the Dutch ibid. His designes to secure himself 358. Falls from the Coach-box in Hide-park 363. Calls a Parliament Sept. 3d. his speech to them and designes 363 364. His designes in the West-Indies 365. His Mother dieth buried in state in Hen. 7th's Chappel 366. His Cabal with the French Cardinal 369. His Conspiracy with the King of Sweden and the Prince of Transilvania 373. Affronted by Coney a Merchant 374. Gives preferments and sends his son Henry to command in Ireland 358. His oppression of the Loyal party 378. His designe in setting up Major-Generals 378. To awe the Parliament new called 381. Treats with the Iews about a Toleration 379. Allows 200 l. towards Bishop Usher's Funeral 380. Excludes divers Members ibid. Congratulated by his Convention on Syndercomb's Plot 385. His designe is motioned to take the Title of a King 386. The danger makes him refuse it 390 Assists the French with 6000 men 391. Confirmed in his former Dignity of Protector 392. Signes several Acts 392. His speech to the Parliament containing Thanks for the money-Money-Acts 392. His Investiture and Inauguration in the Protectorship 394. Frighted at a Book 395. Sends Embassadors to mediate betwixt the Dane and Swede 397. Advanceth and prefers his Children 398. Swears his Privy-council ibid. Chooseth another House 399. The frame of his Government questioned by the Parliament 401. He dissolves them ibid His policy in discharging Sheriffs of their pences at Assizes 401. In fears and troubled condition 402. Falls sick his Family and himself vainly presumptuous of his recovery Dies 408. His Character ibid. Sixty thousand pound allotted for the expence of his Funerals from 411 to 413 Cromwel Bradshaw and Ireton digged up and hanged at Tybourn 432 Cromwel Henry tamely surrenders Ireland 423 Crosby betrays Kingsale Condemned 248 Cumberland Earlâ 44 Cyrencester 42 D Danemark War declared against it 556 Daniel Col. John Articles 252 Davison c. kills a Souldier at St. James's 379 Daws Capt. his courage 560 Davis a Water-man betrays Lord Capel 220 Declaration of the King conecrning the Act of Vniformity 514 Declaration of Cromwel upon dissolution of Parliament 340 to 343. Of the Rump 420 Decimation of Cavaliers 378 Delinquents Capital and otherwise qualified 229 Democracy established in the City 231 Denbigh Earl killed 44 Dennington Castle Besieged and stoutly defended and yielded 98 Denial Self order 67 126 Denmark King 225. Dies 577 Deploration of the loss before Dublin the causes thereof 242 Derby Earl corresponds with the King 234. Discovered ibid. Ioyns with the King in Lancashire 295. Defeated at Wigan and flies to Worcester 296. Taken at Newport Sentenced by a Court-Marshal Beheaded at Bolton 302 303. Derby-house Committee formerly the Committee of Safety 166 De Ruyter sayls for New-found-land 540. Returned to Holland 541. Made Admiral ibid. De Ruyter and Tromp fall out 554. Presented by the Cornish Gentlemen 562 Desborough Col. and others summoned 549 Dean General slain 344 Devizes 46 Digby Lord honoured with the Order of the Garter at Paris 344 Dignities conferred by the King 455 Dillon Lord at Baggot-rath 242 Directory 125 126 Disorders and divisions the ruine of the Irish Army 251 Dives Sir Lewis escapes 220 Divisions among the Scots fomented by Cromwel 271 Dorrington Sir Francis 63 Dorislaus slain at the Hague 236 Downing Sir George 448. Sent into Holland 528 529. Presses for answer to the King's demands 582. Returns ibid. He is Committed ibid. Drogheda besieged and taken by Cromwel and a bloody Massacre there 244 Dublin besieged by the Marq. of Ormond 241. Siege raised and Besiegers routed 242 Duckenfield Lieutenant-Colonel stops the Speakers Coach 429 Dunbarton yielded 308 Dunslo pacification 10 Dundalk taken 23. Retaken 25 Dundee stormed by Gen. Monke 301 Dunferling Earl to London 10 Dumfreize Riot there 557 Dunkirk taken by the Spaniards 325. Siege 405. The Battle there ibid. A defeat given the Spaniard 406. Yielded and put into the English possession 407. Restored to the French 512 Dunotter-Castle yielded 313 Dury's religious Cabal in Germany 377 Dutch Embassadors to Oxford 57. Commerce and Fishing molested at Sea 308. War towards ibid. Send Embassadors to treat ibid. Embassadors extenuate and mediate the Rupture their Papers and our States answer thereunto 320 321. Fleet gives the English a go-by in the North-Seas and comes into the Downâ 344. Engage with the English ibid. Defeated 345. Send to England in order to Peace ibid. Trade at a stand 346. Their Embassadors have Audience of the Protector 355. Peace and private Articles of it against the Prince of Orange 357. Magnificently treat the King 448. Surprised by the Turk 524. Complain by the English 525. House resolves therein ibid. King declares himself ibid. Bravado 528. Bourdeaux-fleet taken 529. A Dutch Libel 530. Dutch arrive in Guernsey 530. Their Smyrna-fleet encountered by Captain Allen 536. Reprisals granted against them 531. Dutch War declared ibid. Dutch Libel ibid. Dutch Embassie proves fruitless 531. Dutch Manufactures prohibited 532. Cashire the English Officers 533. Dutch Imbargo in France 534. Dutch ibid. Dutch Libel 535. Ill treated in Russia 536. Dutch lost in China 541. Make peace with the Dane 548. Dutch attempt Brunt-Island 560. Sheerness ibid. Come up the River 561. At Harwich ibid. At Wenbury in Devonshire 562. At Cowland in Cornwal ibid. Dutch lose several Towns 585. Dutch Mutinies 586. Dutch East-Indie-fleet escape the English 587. Dutch Magistrates changed Dutch make peace with the Bishop of Munster 600. Dutch take the Island of Normantier from the French ibid. E Earles of Pembroke and Holland sent with a Declaration of the fears of the Parliament to the King 31. Answered ibid. Earls created 470 Earthquake in Cheshire 395 East-Indie ships Dutch taken 541 Edinburgh entred by Cromwel 275. Castle yielded 280 Elector Prince Palatine comes to London departs taken in France 10 Elections for a free Parliament 440 Elizabeth Princess dies 276 Emperor his Brother dies 146. Makes peace with the Turk 147. Offers to mediate 584. His Forces marched 597 Enfield-chace a Skirmish there 423 Engagement annulled 439 England and the Dominions made a free State by Act 235 English under Lord Marquiss Ormond and Inchiqueen disbanded and dismist by the Irish 252 Eniskillon delivered to Sir Charles Coot 250 Episcopacy re-established here 456. And in Scotland 503 Escapes of divers Cavaliers 227 Escurial burnt 583 Essex Earl Lieutenant-General of Foot against the Scots 9. General
of the Parliament Forces departs London 38. Attends the King's motion 39. Fights at Edge-hill retreats to Coventry 40 41. Relieves Gloucester 49. At Newberry 50. At Theal Redding London 52. Marches reduce the West 58. Pounded at Lestithiel and escapes with Lord Roberts by Boat to Plymouth 58. Resignes his Commission 72. Dies 124 Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy 587 Essex County joyns with Lord Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle 174 Estate of the Kingdom in a sad condition after the death of the King 124 125 Everts taken 536. dismist ibid. Exchange Royal finished 574 Exchequer shut 582 Execution of the Kings Iudges 466 Exeter yielded and Articles 98 99. Engagement forced by the Independant-party for the Parliament to live and die with the Army City refuse the Parliaments Orders and Acts 231. Tumults about a free Parliament Excise 157 Exclusion of secluded Members 229. F Fairfax General in Commission 74. Marcheth 75. Is cajoled to manage the seizure of the King Made Generallissimo and Constable of the Tower 141. Marcheth against the Levellers 234. Complemented and graduated at Oxford with Cromwel and Lambert ibid. Magnificently treated and presented by the City ibid. Lays down his Commission 268. Arms against Lambert 434 Faulkland Lord-Viscount slain 51 Fanshaw Sir Richard Embassador in Spain 525 Fatality among the Clergy 504 Farrel Lieutenant-General of Ulster-Army 245. Put into Waterford to defend it 247 Farewel to the Scotch-War Fast general 540 Faulkner perjured 291 Faulconbridge Lord Arms against Lambert sent to Venice 575 Fee-farm Rents 455 Feak Parson 540 Fiennes Lord Commissioner Fifth-Monarchists plot against Cromwel 366 FIGHTS at Newborn with the Scots 13 Worcester in the Lanes 40. Brainford 41. Yarum 42. Wakefield 43. At Liscard ibid. Caversham-bridge ibid. Hopton-heath 44. Bramham-moor ibid. Chalgrave-field 45. Stratton ibid. Middleton-Cheney Lansdown 46. Round-way-down ibid. Adderton-heath and Bradford 47. Stow in the Wold 49. Auburn-chace 50. Newark at the relief of it by Prince Rupert 56. Brandia or Cherington 57. Cropredy 58. Lidbury 74. Sherburn 90. Torrington 93. Saint Fagons 171. Maidstone 174. At Dublin 241. Muscleborough 264. Warrington 295. Wigan 296 Fincher Mayor vide Pye resigned Finch Sir Heneage his Reading 501. Made Lord-Keeper 594 Fire in London 554. In the Horse-Guards 556. In Fleet-street 368. Another at Aberfoyle in Scotland ibid. Another in Thred-needle-street 368. At Lambeth 373. At St. Johnstons in Scotland 381 Fleet sent under Hamilton to the Frith in Scotland 9 Fleet Spanish denied protection and ruined by the Dutch in the Downs 11 Fleet returns to the Prince Earl of Warwick imployed against them as Admiral 175 176. Fleets Dutch and English at Shetland 322 Fleet under Pen from Jamaica accidents of the return 376 Fleet declare their Royal acceptance c. 446 Fleet English 532. Beats the Hollander 538. English Hamburgh-fleet taken 538. Rendezvouz ibid. Fleet ready 250. Divided ibid. Fleets Engage ibid. Engage again 552. Out again 553 Fleets Engaged 584. Fleets Engaged 591 Fleetwood made Deputy of Ireland 366. More of him Forrain Princes how affected to our States 254 Forces from Ireland to assist the King 53. Surprized and defeated 54. Sent by Cromwel to assist the French 391. Vnder Earl Inchiqueen to Portugal 511 Fornication Act 225 Fray likely at Westminster At Tower-hill Fundamentals of the Army French prohibit English Cloath and are prohibited their Wines 255. Conclude a peace with Cromwel 377. Their Fleet taken by Blake 325. At Gigery 533. Embassadors in England 535. King supplies the Dutch 544. Declares against England ibid. Embassadors beaten and Imprisoned in Turkey 558. Lays claim to the Low-Countries breaks with Spain 579. Invades Lorrain 579. Breaks with the Dutch 583 Free Parliament noised 434 Frigats of Brest rove at sea 356 Furstenburgh Count seized 598 G Gates and Portcullices of London pulled down 437 Gayland 522 523. Makes peace 532. Transports himself for Tangier 571 Gell Sir John Sentenced 270 A General required by Officers of the Army 439 Gentry secured over England 373 Gerrard Col. John and Sir Gilbert 538. Col. John beheaded 361 Gibbons Sentenced 290 Glencarn Earl submits to the English 362. Prisoner in Edenburgh 380. Chair-man to the Scotch Convention 432 Gloucester Duke born 13. With the King at Colen from the Iesuits at Paris 365. Dies 456 Gloucester Siege and Summons and Relief by Essex 49. Walls demolished 512. Cathedral begged 381 Godolphin Sir Will. Knighted and sent into Spain 568 Goff Col. friend to Richard Cromwel 417 Goring Col. into France 39 Goring Lord Condemned but saved 228 Goodman Bishop refuseth to subscribe Canons against the Church of Rome 12 Good Old Cause 417 Grace Colonel 324 Graigs Town 245 Grantham Col. killed 380 Grantham Town 44 Granger a Forger 256 Greenvile Sir John 445. Rewarded by the Parliament and City 446 Greenvile Sir Bevil 46 Great Cities and Towns in Ireland refuse to admit Garrisons which proved their ruine 244. Accept of them at last upon condition the English be dismist Cavaliers and others 251 Grey Lord Grooby 291 Groves Col. vide Penruddock Guiny Relation 535 Guernsey-castle stormed 284. A designe uppon it discovered 554 Gunning Dr. in Divinity his Congregation seized and plundred for celebrating Christmass 398 Gurney Lord Mayor in the Tower 34 Guthury and Giffan Hanged 497 H Haberdashers-Hall 129 Hackney-coaches regulated 368 Haddington Earl blown up by Gunpowder in Scotland 14 15 Hamilton Marquiss the Kings Commissioner into Scotland at London 7. Prisoner to Pendennis-castle 52. Defeated and taken Prisoner 178 Hamilton Duke tryed and sentenced 228. Beheaded 229 Hamond Col. secures the Kings person 151. His baseness 163. Shot in Ireland ibid. Hannam the Infamous Thief breaks Prison and escapes 376. Hanged 381 Harman Capt. his Exploit 595. Beats the Dutch 564 Harrisons impudence in bringing the King to London 193. A main man for the little Parliament outed and dissatisfied 353. Apprehended 453 Harris a great Cheat 368 Harvey Sir Daniel sent to Constantinople 568 Hazelrig Sir Arthur seizes Portsmouth 433. returns to Westminster and is thanked by the Rump 435. Dies 474 Healing Parliament 470 Henrietta Princess 469 Henchman Dr. Bishop of London 524 Hertford Marquiss 38 Heresies and Schismes 368 Hewit Dr. seized 404. Tried and Beheaded ibid. Hewson Col. made Master of Arts in Oxford 234 Marcheth into London 433 Hide Sir Henry beheaded 285 Highland-War in Scotland its account 361 362. Hinde the High-way man 303 Hispaniola expedition from 369 to 372 Holland Earl Lieutenant-General of Horse against the Scots 9. Rising at Kingston and defeated 177. Tryed and Sentenced 228. Executed in Palace-yard Westminster 229 Hollis Lord Embassador into France 522. Returns for England 550 Holmes Major Committed 532. Discharged ibid. Enters the Vly 553. Attacques the Dutch Fleet 582. Holstein Duke 255 Honours and Dignities denied to some Male-Contents another cause of the Scotch troubles 4. Honours given by the King vacated 292 Hopton Lord 42. Disbanded honourably after many services and Victories at Truro in Cornwal 96 97 Horse-races and
Mentz and Collen at odds 547 Messiah counterfeit 548 Meetings supprest 573 Middleton now a Parliamentarian General 62. Taken 301. Seeking aid from the Dutch 344. Lands in Scotland 358 Militia Ordinance 29 30. Petitioned by the Parliament 30 to 33. Messages about it ibid. On foot in Lincoln-shire 34 Mings Sir Christopher chaced the Dutch 544. Sails for the Coast of Sweden 545. General Wrangle comes aboard him ibid. Miracle ominous 390 Mohun Lord for the King Lord Hopton Sir John Berkley and Col. Ashburnham Commissioners for the King in the West 43 Montross Marq. his Battles and activity 73 74. His Declaration 254. Tragedy and death from 255 to 266. His Interment 497 Monarchy the antient and only British Government 223. Abolished in Scotland by English States 308 Monke a Colonel from Ireland to assist the King taken prisoner at Namptwich and thence to the Tower of London 53. To Ireland again 123. General his acts in Ireland for the pretended States 237. He had the honour of Dunbar 274. In Scotland 358. In Sir George Booths c. 426. Secures the Scotch Nobility 427. Declares against the proceedings of Lambert c. And secures Anabaptist Officers maintains intelligence in England and protracts time by offers of Composure 430 431. Sends Commissioners to London they agree to no purpose obtains his desire of the Scotch Convention 432. Signifies his coming to London 435. His passage and Narrative of his Cabal 436 437. Thanked by the Parliament 442. The great instrument of the Restitution Meets the King at Dover 450. Dignified with the Order of the Garter 451. With the title of Duke of Albemarle 455 Monmoth betrayed and regained 64 Monmouth Duke made Capt. Kings Guard 568. His valour at Maestricht 596. Made Chancellor of Cambridge 599 Monro Sir George defeated 247. His enterprize in Ulster 250 Modiford Sir Thomas in Jamaica 530 Mordant Lord John seized 403. Tryed and quitted 404. Summoned 423 Morris Col. Executed 254 Moor Lord 240 Morpeth Earl affronted in Holland 532 Moreland Sir Samuel 448 Mother of Cromwel dies 366 Montague Gen. 416. Dignified with the Earldome of Sandwich 455. To Algier and Lisbon 500. Brings home the Queen 507 Mulgrave Earl made Knight of the Garter 598 Munster success in Holland 544 Munson Lord Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop Sentenced 501 Musco alteration in their Religion intended 558 Myn Colonel slain and his party routed by Massey 64 N Naerden taken from the Dutch 597 Nailor James the Quaker personates our Saviour 384. Sentenced ibid. Released by the Rump 426 Newburg Prince arrives in England 602 Newberry disorders 525 Newark yielded 701 Newcastle Earl afterwards Marquiss 42. Besieged in York 58. Disswades fighting after the defeat at Marston-moor sets sail for Hamburgh with most of the Nobility and Officers of his party 61 Newcastle taken 67 New-park given the City by the Rump 235 News of the Change by Cromwel acceptable to the King at Paris 344 New-buildings 392 Nimmegen taken 586 No Address votes 162 Nobility of the Loyal and Presbyterian party 444 Noblemen English for the Scotch peace against Strafford's advice 15. Summoned to a general Council at York ibid. Conclude the Peace ibid. Secured by the Rump in the Tower 753 Nobles their Catalogue 488 Nonconformists increase in the Reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and King James 2 Indulged 582 Norfolk-Insurrection 278 Northampton burnt 602 North Sir Francis Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-pleas 599 Northumberland Earl General of the Scots second expedition 22. His reasons to reject the Ordinance for the Trial of the King 194 Northampton Earl 42. Killed 44 Northern Counties oppressed by the Scots 120 Norton Colonel 66 Norwich Earl General in Kent at Rochester and Black-heath at Bow and Stratford 174 Nuntio of the Popes in Ireland his business 123. Party in Ireland 238 Nye one of the Commissioners for approbation with Lockier 359 O Oblivion Act by the Parliament 309 Oblivion Act by the King 456. Another 590 Obstructions in sales of Kings and Queens Lands c. removed 310 Okey Col. dismist from Command 366 Okey Berkstead and Corbet seized in Holland tried and Executed 505 506 Omens and Prognostications of the Dutch War 315 O Neal Hugh put into Clonmel 248. Defends it very handsomly 252 O Neal joyns with the Independant-party 237 O Neal Sir Phelim hanged 333 Opdam made Lieutenant-Admiral in place of Van Tromp 349 Orange Prince arrives in England 578. Made Captain-General in Holland 579 584. Declared Stadtholder 586 Order for the Murther and Execution of the King 217 Ordinances of Parliament obeyed as Acts 36. For tryal of the King disputed and thrown aside by the Lords entituled by the Iuncto and passed as an Act 194 to 196. Ordinances published in Parliament 364 Orleans Dutchess comes into England 577. Dies ibid. Ormond Marquiss Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 53. Capitulates with the Parliament Commissioners 164. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 238. He hath no power to punish any faults or Delinquents 243. Recruits his Forces and Garrison-Towns ibid. Makes agreement with O Neal by means of Daniel O Neal his Nephew 244. Resolves to fight Cromwel before Duncannon 246. Before Carrick 247. But disappointed he leaves Ireland 277. Hardly escapes out of Sussex 401. Main Instrument of the Restitutioâ Made Earl of Brecknock 455. To Ireland Lord-Lieutenant 511. Duke of Ormond Chancellor of Oxford 571. Assaulted in the Night 578 Osborne Sir Thomas Lord-Treasurer 591 Other House meet and fawn upon the Commons 399. The Names of the Members ibid. Overton Maj. Gen. seized in Scotland 366 Overton Colonel 469 Owen Dr. preacheth before the Protector and Parliament 382 Owen Ro the great Rebel dies 248 Oxford the Kings chief Quarters and Court 47. Besieged by Fairfax 75. Yielded 106 P Pack Alderman 374 and 386 Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour 548 Parliament in Ireland 4. Grant Subsidies to carry on the Scotch War 20 Parliament in England called and dissolved and why 12 Parliament in Scotland and Assembly and adjourned 17. Meet again and order their Army to march into England 13 Parliament meets at Oxford 56 Long Parliament 15. Enact a Triennial one 18. Deny his Majesties desire of going for Ireland the reasons 32 33. Forbid any resort to the King but his Servants Arm the several Counties Admit of no ways of accommodation 35. Arm and fight c. and having prevailed agree not about disposing the King 113 114 121. Buy the King from the Scots after much tampering and send Propositions to the King 118 119 121. Are refractory to all his condescentions offers and messages as appears 121. New Speakers 139. Fugitive Members sit with the Army in Council 140. Constrained to humour a Treaty in the Isle of Wight 158. Four Bills passed as Preliminaries with Proposals ibid. Necessitated to vote a personal Treaty the votes of Non-addresses cancell'd 180 181. Agree to his Majesties condescention as a ground for Peace 192. Forced by the Army ibid. Turned into a Iuncto 193. Parliament-men twelve a penny 339. Dissolved the manner of
it 340. Dumb one meets 362. Another pretended Parliament 382. Memberr excluded ibid. In a full House with the Other House 398 399. Dissolved 401. One called by Richard their Transacting with him and the Other House and the Army 413 to 418. The Long one dissolved 439. Most gladly and reverendly reecive the Kings Letters 445. Their resolves thereupon 446. Their affairs before the King's return 453. They say hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda 454. Dissolved 470. Another meet by the Kings Writ 496 Parliament 519.520 Prorogued 523 527. Meet 530. Prorogued 532. Meet at Oxford 542. Prorogued 543. Their Thanks to the Vniversity ibid. Prorogued 545 549. Meet 555. Vote a supply ibid. Prorogueâ and meet 563. Adjourn 564. Meet 566. Adjourn 568. Adjourn ibid. Prorogued 569. Meet and Prorogued 574. Meet 576. Adjourned 577. Prorogued 580. They make an address about English Manufactures 580. Prorogued 581. Adjourned 587. Meet 589. Adjourned 590. Meet and prorogued 591. Meet 602. Prorogued ibid. Meet again ibid. Parliament of Scotlaud 524 526. Proceed against Nonconformists 545. Meet at Edinburgh 574. Pass the Act for a Treaty of Vnion 577 Parliament in Ireland 545 Patrick Pursel Irish Maj. Gen. his treachery and cowardise 241 Pauw Embassador from Holland 227. Dies 324 Piercy James pretends to the Earldom of Northumberland 590 Piercy Capt. Executed 578 Pembroke Siege 172 Pen Sea-Capt. 293. Sea-General 369 376 Pennington and Pym 36. Pym dieth 56 Penâeââis-castle 111 Pendruddock's Insurrection c. 367. Tried and Beheaded 372 Perth in Scotland five Articles 3 Petitions from Essex Surrey c. for peace 172 Petition and Advice 393 Phanatick Plots 500 512 Phelim O Neal Irish General 21 Phenix lost 328. Regained 330 Philips Young Stubs Baker and two Gibs Executed 513 Piedmont story of a Massacre 373 ââague in the Loyal-Irish Provinces 242 ãâã ships taken by Sir Richard Stainer 383 ãâ¦ã tentiaries of the Rumpin the Sound 462 ãâ¦ã tentiaries return from Cologne 599 Plot pretended against the Protector 358. Another started 403. vide Cavalier Plot in Ireland 520. Plotters Executed 545 Plot in England 520. Plotters tryed 521. Executed ibid. More Plotters 549. Condemned and Executed 550 Pontefract-Castle 72. Dâlivered 131 Poland King his ill success 545. Polanders revolt 546 549. Make peace with the Tartars 568. The King resignes 571. Several pretend to the Crown ibid. New King Elected 577. New dissentions there 590. King dies 596. Defeats the Turks ibid. Popham Sea-General dies 303 Pope and King of France quarrel 524. Agree 525. Popes Iustice 571. Dies 577. A new one chosen 579 596 Popish Priests Banished 578 599. Orders against popish Priests ibid Porta Ferina Fight 374 Porto Longone fight between the Dutch and Capt. Badily 328 Portsmouth taken 39 Portugueze murthered 522 Portugal Embassador to the new English States 277. Concludes a peace 332. Concludes a League ibid. His Brother Dân Pontaleon Sa Beheaded for what 361. That King dies 383 Portugal Match declared by the King 497 Portugal routs the Spaniard 526. Victory 533 546. Invade Spain 547. At peace with Spain 570. Prince of Portugal made Regent 572 Potter Condemned 290 Powel and Laughorn saved ibid. Power onely in the people 225 Poyntz Col. 89 91 139 143. Poyer Col. shot to death 231 Prentices Tumult 568 Presbyterian Government established for three years 125. Ministers own not the Parliament 255. Seized by the Council of State 290 Presbytery tending to an establishment 439 Presbyterians endeavour a Toleration 511 Pride and Hewson and Sir Hardress Waller force the Houses 192 Private Bills pass'd by the King 509 Prizes taken from the Dutch 322 Proclamation of the King 's Privy Council slighted in Scotland 5 7. Of the King for the Kings Iudges to render themselves 454 Of twenty miles to Rump Officers 511. Against Papists 565 Propositions to the King at Colbrook on his march to London 41. Made for tryal of the King by the Iuncto 194 195. Protestants in Savoy 526 Pryn writes agaidst Bishops and Ceremonies put in the Pillory for it 2. Meets the Rump 420 Publick Faith 37 Putten Van his fall 589 Q Qualifications made by the Rump of all such to bold Offices 421 Quarter free 156 Quarrel the state of it between the Scots and Cromwel 271 Queen-Mother Mary de Medicis coming to England taken for Ominous why 9 Queen with the Princess of Aurange for Holland carries the Crown-Iewels 27. Lands in Burlington-Bay 42. Endangered by shot proclaimed Traitor 44. Meets the King at Edgââ hill 43. Goes for security from Oxford to Exeter 57. From thence to France 58 Queen-mother arriââs ãâã England 469. Departs Returns 4ââ Returns for France 539. Dies 573. Queen of Bohemia likewise dies 504 Queen Catherine âmbarkes from Lisbon 507. Arrives aâ âââââmouth 508. At Hampton-court 509. To White-hall ibid. R Ragland-Castle 109 110 111. Duke of Richmond with the King 132 147 Rainsborough tur ãâ¦ã of the Navy by the Sea-men ãâ¦ã at Doncaster 193 Ramsey Colâ 42 Rea Lord defeatââ ãâã ââotland 233 Reâââng besieged and rendred 43 ãâ¦ã in Ireland 20 to 25. The Rebels proclaimed Traitors 26 recognition-Recognition-Act and expedient for it the Army jar-with Richard 414 Red-house stormed 272 Remedies proper against late troubles 508 Remonstrance a second of the Parliament worse than the former 35 Armies villaâââ Remonstrance first against the King 185 186. The Module of our ruine 136 Remonstrance of the Western Scots 280 Remonstrants their folly 304 Repeal of Act against Bishops 501 Resolution of Parliament in answer to the Kings Declaration 51â Restitution of King and Kingdom 444 Revocation and impropriation-Impropriation-Act in Scotland original of those troubles ââ4 Reynolds Commissary-General in âreland his actions 310 Reynolds Col. Knighted 373. Meets the Duke of York 397. Sent for by Cromwel there upon and cast away ibid. Reynoldson Lord-mayor refuseth to proclaim the Act against Kingly Government fined Imprisoned and degraded 231 Richard Protector 409. his advice and Councellors ibid. Proclaimed a story of his guards 413. Calls a Parliament ibid. Offered terms by the King his suspence 417. Consents to a Commission and Proclamation to dissolve the Parliament 317. Layd aside by the Army in danger of arrest and hides himself 418. Gives a transcript of his debts resolveth and promiseth to acquiesce under the Rump 422 Richlieu intermeddles with the Scotch War 9 Riches Regiment of Horse mutiny at Bury 438 Richmond Duke diâs 589 Riot at Lambeth-house Riâers rescued 12 13 Roberts Lord for the Parliament Deputy of Ireland 573 De la Roche taken 5ââ Roch David defeated vide Broughil âââ Rochester Earl at Ratisbone Diet in Gerâââny 329 Rolf treacherously intends to murther ãâã King 16â Rosa Canonized at Rome 57â Ross in Ireland yielded by Luke Taaff ââ Cromwel 2ââ Rothes Earl L. Commissioner in Scotland 5ââ Rous Francis Speaker to the little Parl. 349 Rudyard Sir Benjamin a Patriot â36 De Ruyter at mouth of Channel 326 Ruines of St. Pauls ââ4 Rump 419. Debar the secluded Me ãâ¦ã Derivation of the Rump
by which his Subjects are frighted from coming or sending to him That all men of necessary Professions be admitted to come to him Note That His Majesty had suffered his Beard to overgrow in that solitary restraint of near seven Months so that Compassion wooed where Majesty once awed That the Scots may be invited to send their Propositions The King declaring a tendâr affection for both his Kingdoms The King appoints Newport for the place of Treaty But urgeth the reconveniencies of Treating so far from London His Majesty ãâã the Delegates to expedite the Treaty by dispatching their Commissioners The Parliament appoint Commissioners five Lords ten Commoners And desire his Majesties Royal Word for his continuance in the Island till 20 days after the Treaty Their Votes of Non-address repealed His Majesty sends the Parliament a List of such Persons he desired might attend him The Treaty began Sept. 18. The Parliament dissatisfied with the Kings Propositions They send thanks to their Commissioners His Majesties Propositions He is willing to confess himself Author of the War rather than the Peace shall be frustrated That the Assembly of Divines shall sit at Westminster 3 years That the Directory shall be confirmed for 3 years c. That Legal Estates for Lives or Years shall be made of Bishops-lands Provided the Propriety remain in the Church That there be a Reformation and concerning Papists * Thrust in by some rigid Presbyterians and maintained there by the Independants because they knew the King would never Assent to it and so no Conclusion That the two Houses shall dispose of the Militia for 10 years or during his Reign That the affairs of Ireland be determined by the Parliam That Taxes he levied for the payment of the Army and publike Debts That all the Chief Officers of State shall be nominated by the Parl. for 10 years That the Militia of the City of London Liberties for ten years may be in the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common-Council and Sheriffs thereof With the Tower and Chief Officers thereof His Majesty proposeth his liberty to repair to Westminster and to be restored to his Revenues Proffereth an Act of Oblivion to all persons The Parliament imperious Most of their Commissioners dutiful in their behaviour towards the King The Army's Remonstrance at St. Albans The villanous heads thereof That the King be brought to Iustice. That the Prince of Wales and Duke of York render themselves by a certain day or be proclaimed Traytors That the Revenue of the Crown be sequestred That Capital punishments be inflicted on some Chief Instruments in the Wars That all Delinqâents come in by a certain day or their Estates be confiscated and they to die without mercy That Fines Compositions and Confiscations be disposed for the payment of the Souldiery That the Parliament set some period to their own Power That the future Government of of the Kingdom may be setled That no King be hereafter admitted but upon Election And he to accord to these Propositions as they shall be established by the Agreement of the people Something near the same stuff except what toucht the King was Signed by nine Regiments of Horse and seven of Foot and afterward promoted in London by Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne and Mr. Prince by Petition to the Parliament who condemned both Novemb. 1647. and yet the same Moneth next year it revived The Levellers set on by Cromwel to prosecute this designe The Kings Queries to the Remonstrance A strict Guard put upon the King His Majesties Pathetick Expressions to the Parliaments Commissioners at parting His Majesties Declaration concerning the Treaty and his dislike of the Armies proceedings The Presbyterians satisfied with this Declaration and troubled at the proceedings of the Army His Majesties Letter to the Prince his Son our present Sovereign His excellent Advice to him The Army conspire to force the House The Parliament Vote the Kings Answer satisfactory Dec. 5. The Army require that the Iâpâaâhed Members and Major-General Brown be secured and brought to Iustice The House guarded Col. Pride Col. Hewson and Sir Hardress Waller seize on several Members Dec. 6. Hugh Peters an Agent for the Army in this Designe The Parliament impriâoââd Ireton 's insolent expression Major-General Brown sent prisoner to Windsor Note that Skippon thrust in that clause The Iuncto take upon them to act as a Parliament Rainsborough slain at Doncaster Oct. 29. Scarborough Castle yielded to the Parl. The Army seize the King and carry him from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle Dec. 1. From thence to Winchester To Farnham To Windsor The King brought to St. James 's Jan 19. Harrison 's insolent behaviour to the King The Ordinance for Trial of the King brought into the Iuncto by Tho. Scot. They Vote it Treason for the King of England to levy War against his Parliament The Vote and Ordinance carried to the Lords by the Lord Gray of Grooby The Lords cast out the Ordinance and adjourned for 7 days The Commons netled they resolve to rid their hands of King Lords and dissenting Commons An Act of the House of Commons for the Tryal of King Charles the First Jan. 9. Serjeant Dendy makes Proclamation that the Commissioners of the High Court of Iustice were to sit the next day and all persons invited to give in Evidence against Charles Stuart Proclaimed in three places Westminster Cheap-side and the Old Exchange The Names and Câaracters of the King's Iudges Cromwel a Native of Huntingdon-shire Ireton his Soâ-in-law Bradshaw a Cheshire-man died obstinately 1659. He took the Oath of Allegeance but two Terms before the King's death He is rewarded with the Lord Cottington 's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster Harrison a Butchers Son at Newcastle in Stafford-shire was executed at Charing-Cross Octob. 1660. John Carew John Cook Sollicitor of the High Court Hugh Peters the shame of the Clergy Thomas Scot a Brewers Clerk his rash wish Gregory Clement a Merchant Adrian Scroop Brother to Sir Adrian John Jones a Serving-man marries Cromwels sister Francis Hacker a Souldier of Fortune Daniel Axtel a Country-Mercer Capt. of the Guard at the Kings Trial. Okey a Chandler near Billingsgate London a daring Commander Miles Corbet of a good Family in Norfolk Burgess for Yarmouth John Berkstead a Goldsmith Lieutenant of the Tower Thom. Pride â Brewer ãâ¦ã Isaac Ewer of ãâ¦ã in Yorkshire The Lord Gray of Grooby Son to the Earl of Stamford Sir John Danvers Brother to the Loyal Earl of Danby Sir Tho. Maleverer of a good Family in Yorkshire Sir John Bourchier a diligent Independent Mercenary Col. Purefoy Governour of Coventry John Blakestone a Shop-keeper in Newcastle Sir William Constable of Yorkshire Governour of Gloucester Rich. Dean General at Sea slain by a Cannon shot Fr. Allen a Goldsmith one of the Committees for the saâe of Kings Lands Peregrine Pelham Governour of Hull John Moor. John Allured Humph. Edwards a Member of the Long-Parl Sir Gregory Norton John Ven a Silkman Governour of
gives the Signal He is Executed The Corps committed to the care of his servants Carriâd to Windsor Some Lords get an order for the burial of the King They desire it might be in St. Gorge 's Chappel by Common-prayer are denyed They expostulate but prevail not Seeking a place for Burial they finde Hen. 8 's Vault The Funeral England had not been without Regal Government from the begininng It had change of Governours not change of Government The Royal race had continued 562 years in ouâ Regality Now clouds aââ darknâââ blackâess and ãâ¦ã Horrour and Amazemânt ãâ¦ã dissolution His Majesty might have lived very long The Prince abââât but in safety In the night of confusion Bats and Scritch-owles rule They make an Act forbidding the Proclamation of a King c. Jan. 30. A Proclamation thrown about streets The Procclamation They Vote the Exclusion of the Members the Army had secluded The House of Lords Voted useless Feb. 5. The protestation of the Nobility against it The Kingly Power Voted Useless Feb. 7. A Council of Sate in Force Iudges Commissioned They declare to preserve and maintain the Laws A new stamp for Coyn Voted Agents and Envoys designed to Forrain Princes The monthly Fast Nulled Several escapes of the Cavalier party viz. Col. Massey Sir Lewis Dives Mr Holden and Lord Capel the last of them betrayed by Davis a Water-man and retaken Lord Loughborough escapes from Windsor-Castle with several others The King at the Hague Feb. c. The Prince of Aârange a friend to the Royal Family Mr. Beaumont Executed at Pomfret Feb. 7. A new High Court of Iustice erected Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Lorâ Capel Trâed by the High Court of Iustiââ The Lord Capel ' s legal Defences The Lord Goring and Sir John Owen reprieved Dâke Hamilton E. of Holland and Lord Capel beheaded Mar. 9. Other capital Delinquents in nomination As Sir John Stowell Iudge Jenkins and Cap. Brown Bushell Marq. of Winchester Bâ Wren Ma. Gen Brown and Sir John Cloâworthy hardly escaping Several qualifications of Delinquents to life and Eâtate Tâe chief of whom were the Kings Majesty the D. of York E. of Britol D. of Buckingham Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marq of New-castle Marq of Worcester Sir Ed. Hide Lârd Culpepeâ and Lord Wâddrington Secluded Members totally Excluded The Parliaments proceâdings in reference to the City Alderman Reynoldson the Lord Mayor outed and fined and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Iudges placed in his stead He proclaims the Act for abolishing Kingly Government Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Culham degraded Col. Poyer Executed April 25. Col. Laughorn and Col. Powel condemned Pomfret-Castle delivered Mar. 24 to Maj. Gen. Lambert John Lilburn and some of his party secured An account of the state of Scotland Charles the second proclaimed King at Edingburgh The English ãâã State tampers with the Scotch Parliament Sir Jos. Douglas is sent from the Scots to the King at the Hague Innerness seized for the King Lord ãâ¦ã Lockier the Leveller shot to death in Saint Paul 's Church-yard Eleven Regiments designed by Cromwel for the Irish service Thompson a corneâ with 2 Troâps enters Northampton and declares his and the Armies resolution against that Expedition Several Regiments confederate in the same designe Cromwel by treachery surprizeth them Levellers defeated at Burford in May. Thompson and two more Executed Their Chieftain slain in Wellingborough wood Fairfax complemented at Oxford and treated at Dinner in the City of London They present Fairfax and Cromwel with Gold and Plate England made a Free-State Iune A new Mace made 4000 l. a year out of the D. of Buckinghams Estate given to Fairfax Lord Cottington's Estate to Bradshaw Several Acts to raise money Several Castles demolished A short account of the King at the Hague Salmasius ãâã in the Kings defenâe Is ãâã by Miltoâ the likâwise answerâ His Majââties Meditations which Answer was since burned by the common Hang-maâ The condition his Majâsty was in at the Hague Dr. Dorislaus their Envâr to the Estates General killed at the Hague May. Ascham their Envoy to Spain killed by one Sparks âho was therefore Executed King Charles the second departs for France Iune The King magnificently treated by the Arch-Duke The Dutchess of Savoy assignes him 50000 crowns per Ann. Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Eliz. at Penshurst with the Countess of Leicester The affairs of Ireland summed up together Note they taxed the King with what themselves were guilty Lieut. Gen. Cromwel Voted Lord-Governour of Ireland The Parl. Army hiââ from Milford-Haven to Wales Cromwel lands at Dublin The State of the Kingdom âf Ireâand The English Roman Catholikes declare for the King and desire the Marq. of Ormond may be their General An Association with O Neal by Sir Charles Coot and Col. Monke then in Arms for the Parliament The Cânfederates aâd the Lord Inchiqueens Forces do not brook one another thây with the Marq. of Clanrickard and the E. of Castlehaven designe to reduce Dublin Lord Inchiqueen Lieâ Gen. for the King O Neal joyns with the Independent party Col. Monke agrees with him O Neal Relieves London-Derry The ill consequence thereof to the Kings affairs The Marquess of Ormond comes before Dublin Aug. Sir Thomas Armstrong Col. Trevors and the Lord Moor declare for the King O Neal defeated Drogheda taken Dundalke surrendred to the King His Majâsties Presence most necessary and most desired in Ireland The Siege of Dublin by the Kings Forces Aug. Dublin Relieved by a sally the Forces of the Gairison made Aug. 22. The Marq of Ormond ãâ¦ã Dâblin Aug. â Sir William Vaughan ãâ¦ã Wogan ãâã pâisoners Marq. oâ Ormond âakes Bâllâsannon for the Kiâg A âust deploration of this calamity O Neal relieveâ Coot The Plaguâ in the Loyal Provinces of Ireland The Marq. of Ormond not able to punish the cowardise and treachery of the Parties The Marq. of Ormond recruits his Forces Drogheda Garrisoned with the flower of the Army Sir Arthur Aston made Governour of Drogheda Col. Daniel O Neal Governour of Trim dispatched to treat with Owen O Neal. Sir Richard Barnwell and ãâã Nicholas Plunkett sent to assist him and conclude an Agreement Drogheda besieged by Cromwel The Masââââ at Drogheda Sir Arthur Aston c. kiliâ Sep. 16. 3000 Souldiers put to Sword The Marquess of Ormond endeavours to strengthen other places Sir Edmund Butler Governour of Wexford for the K. It is besieged by Cromwel surprised and stormed 2000 put to the Sword Several Troops of the Lord Inchiqueens Revolt Luke ãâ¦ã Rosâe ãâ¦ã Rosâe surrââdred Litu Geâ Farrâll ãâ¦ã of Oâmond Lord Inchiqueen 's Officers are treachârour They are discovered and taken and no conditions Released Cromwel baâââed by Colonel Wogan at Duncannon Corke Youhall and all the English Towns of Munster revolt Lord Inchiqueen suspected accused by the Marq. of Antrim Carrick taken by Lieu. Gen. Jones The Marq. of Ormond deââââ to sight Cromwel Lieu. General Farrel made Governour of Waterford Cromwel
King ââtertains Forces in Flanders Cromwel assists the French with 6000 Geâ Blake desperate attempt on the Spaniard Sancta Cruz fight Apr. 20. The Spanish Fleet fired The English in danger but delivered by a Miracle The Parâ appoint a Thanksgiving and present their General Blake with 500 l. Capt. Stainer Knighted The Lord Craven 's Case offered to the Parl. but deferred by the Protector Cromwel Signes Acts. His Speech The Humble Petition and Advice Cromwel's Speech at his acceptance thereof His Investiture The Protector installed c. The Speaker's Comment on the Ceremonies thereof A Book called Killing no Murther published now A terrible Blow of Gunpowder neer Wapping An Earthquake in Cheshire Several Murthers and other accidents c. Bernards that betrayed Col. Andrews Hanged for Robbery St. Venant taken by the United Forces Mardike taken Sep. 23. and put into English hands Mardike Stormed by night Octo. 22. Col. Reynolds c. cast away on the Goodwyn-sands Sir Philip Medows the Protector 's Envoy to Denmark Colonel Jephson to Sweden Cromwel Swears his Privy Council The Earl of Mulgrave made onâ Rich. Cromwel another Lord of the Council and Chancellor of Oxford Cromwel 's advancement of his Sons His Daughter Mary Married to the Lord Faulconbridge His Daughter Francis Married to the E. of Warwick 's Grand-son A new East-India Company constituted Mr. Downing Cromwel 's Envoy into Holland The solemnizations of Christmass forbidden c. Dr. Gunning 's Congregation seized and Plundered The Other House as instructed fawn upon the lower The Names of Cromwel 's Other Houses The Names of the Iudges of both Benches with the Barons of the Exchequer and Serjeants at Law A Humiliation day appointed The Parliament dissolved Cavalier-Plot discovered and Marq. of Ormond hardly escapes Sheriffs discharged of expence at Assizes Blake dies returning home His Character Cromwel 's Fears and perplexed condition Royalists ordered to depart from London A Plot discovered and the persons engaged in it secured The King in readiness with Forces under General Marsin Sir Henry Slingsby decoyed The City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot May 16. A High Court of Iustice. The Tryal of Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. John Hewit Mr. John Mordant tryed and acquitted Sir Henry Slingsby and Dr. Hewit Beheaded on Tower-hill June 8. Ashton Bettely and Stacy hanged c. Earl of Warwick dieth The Lady Claypole dieth Earl of Mulgrave dieth A great ââhale at Greenwich Sir Tho Widdrington made Lord Chief-Baron Dunkirk Besieged by English and French Forces Don John of Austria designes to relieve Dunkirk Dunkirk Battle The Spanish Army routed The Duke of York 's Conduct and Valour in this service The Governour Marquess De Lede killed Thâ Dunkirkers treat June 22. And âurrendered upoâ Articles The English possess Dunkirk Cromwel dies Sep. 3. Cromwel senseless before his death His Character Richard 's Adviââ and Coââsellors Richard Proclaimed ãâã Sworn French Cardinal âoys the Queen-Mother with Cromwel 's death Addresses to Richard full of Blasphemous expressions of Oliver 60000 l. allotted for the Expence Cromwel 's Funeral Independent Synod at the Savoy Richard out-runs his guards and endangered at hawking Richard 's Parliament meet Jan. 27. An Expedient in Recognizing Richard and the other House not Excluding the ancient Peers The notable proceedings of the Parliament The Revenue and charges of the Kingdom The Army and Protector jar Gââ Montague with a Fleet to the Sound Mar. 30. The Armies Remonstrance to Richard The Speaker Mr. Chaloner Chute dieth Richard offered terms by the Danish Embassador The wretched suspence of Richard Resolves of Parliament against Meeting of the Army-Officers Richard thrown aside and in dangerâ of Arrests and dares not appear The Names of the Rump-Parliament-Members Rumps Declaration Secluded Members offer to sit with the Rump The Rump Exclude the former secluded Members Qualifications of the 9 of May A Council of State chosen The Term discontinued Note Richard was to have 20000 l. in all per annum and his Mother 8000 l. more Benches supplied Armies Address The derivation of Rump Addresses from Forrain Princes Henry Cromwel ordered to surrender the Government of Ireland An Act of Indemnity published A Skirmish at Enfield chace Royalists Priests and Iesuits banished A new Cavalier-Plot generally laid and discovered by indiscretion and Treachery c. Tunbridg and Red-hill Risings suppressed Massey likewise in Gloucester-shire Sir George Booth 's rising in Cheshire Aug. Lambert senâ to reduce Sir Geo Booth Several Noblemen Prisonerâ Sir George Booth defeated Aug. 19 Sir George Booth taken at Newport-pagnel The King about St. Malos and Coast of Britany At St. Jean de Luz The Rumps Plenipotentaries into the Sound The Act for Lilburn 's Banishment repealed James Naylor released The General 's policy in securing the Scotch Nobility Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper questioned by the Rump Chester Corporation and Charter taken away Army-Representation debated Published by Lambert before answered Rump Resolute and void the Commissions of Lambert c. The Speaker stopt and a Fray expected Lambert prevailed against the Rump Army new moduled City invite Parl. and Army to a Dinner on thanks-giving day Oct. 6. The Committee of Safety The Army Declaration upon this change Bradshaw the President dieth Novemb. Aturney Gen-Prideaux dieth G. Monke declares his unsatisfiedness with the Army proceedings the the manner how Oct. 18. Secures Anabaptist Officers The Gen. sends Letters And maintains correspondence c Lambert offered Terms from the King by the Lord Hatton Anabaptist like Presbytery hath its turn Sir William Wild chose Recorder of London Doctor Clargis sent to the Gen. in Scotland Novemb. Moncks Commiâsioners agree to no purpose Novemb General Monke calls a Scotch Convention and obtains his demands The Earl of Glencarn Chair-man to that Convention Portsmouth seized by Hazelrig December 4. Tumults in London about a Free-Parliament Decemb. throughout Hewson Marcheth with Terrour into London Lambert would Fight A Free-Parliament noised as the only expedient Major General Brown in a new Design Wallingford-House broke up and Army submit Lord Fairfax Arms against Lambert Lambert deserted The Rump reseated Dec. 26. The City sent their Sword-bearer to the Gen. Hazelrig thanked c. General Monk signifies his intentions of coming to London Robinson and Scot sent to meet him The King returns in State and with great Reception to Brussels Abjuration of the King intended by the Rump Lady Monck arâives at White-hall The brief relation of the turn and chaâge by Gen. Monck in iâs series and compendious view Gen. Monck at London Gates and Portcullices pulled down Feb. 9. The General rendezvoused in Finsbury-fields and declares for a free Parliament and City Feb. 9. Bonfires and Rumps roasted that night Secluded Members restored Feb. 21. Sir Charles Coot wonderfully reduceth Ireland Rich his Regiment mutiny The City Feast the General Made Gen. at Sea with Montague Presbytery tendring an Establishment The Engagement annulled Writs for a Free-Parliament The Long-Parliament Dissolved Marc. 23. Agitating forbid
Elections for the Free-Parliament St. John stickles in the Council of State for Propositions and Terms with the King A Convention in Ireland A Letter sent to the Rump by the King Lambert escapes from the the Tower April 11. Defeated and taken Apr. 22. Lambert proposeth the restoring of Rich. Protector Lambert dismayed and taken Apr. 22. A Free-Parliament April 22. The Restitution of the King and Kingdom The renowned General the happy instrument of the Restitution The Duke of Ormond the next The King the great Agent All the Loyal Nobility and Gentry And of some formerly engaged against it The King departs to Breda from Brussels Complemented upon his departure Dispatches the L. Mordaunt and Sir John Greenvil from Breda His Majesty's Letter and Declaration was brought Contents of the Declaration Received most hoâourably by the Parliament Parliament resolves thereupon Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel The City of London express the like The Army the same The Fleet also and Dunkirk The Rump's Arms defaced Parliament Resolves towards the King's Restitution Commissioners arrived at the Hague The King prepares to dâpart King Charles the Second Solemnly Proclaimed The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King Sir Samuel Moreland and Sir George Downing Duke of York aboard the Fleet. The King departs for England The Speech of the States thereupon The King departs and embarques The King Embarques for England May 23. Lands at Dover May 25. The General meets him at his arrival The King rides to Canterbury The King rides to Canterbury To Rochester at Col. Gibbons To Dartford receives the Declaration of the Army The manner of His Majesties entrance into London The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King The joy of the City Affairs ãâã home And in Ireland The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords The King comes to the Parliament and passeth several Acts. A Proclamation for the King's Iudges to render themselves Other persons excepted out of the Act of Oblivion Hutchinson and Lassels crave Pardon Parliament lay hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle Several Dignities and Offices conferred Fee-farm rents resigned Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Albans Embassador into France Prince de Ligne Count de Soissons Embassador hither Act oâ Oblivion passed Duke of Gloucester dies Sept. 13. Princess of Orange arrives Sept. Episcopacy re-established The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal Oct. 9. Harrison Waller Heveningham with Adrian Scroop c. Harrison tried Oct. 11. Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment The Sentence Col. Adrian Scroop Carew tryed Scot tryed Octob. 12. Gregory Clement Colonel Iones Cook October â3 Peters Octob. 13. Daniâl Axtel Colonel Hacker William Hewlet Daniel Harvey Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millington Alderman Tichburn Owen Roe Robert Lilburn Mr. Smith Downs Potter Garland c. Vincent Potter August Garland Simon Meyn James and Peter Temple Tho. Wayt. Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Executed Carew Executed John Cook Hugh Peters Executed Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Adrian Scroop and John Jones Executed Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel Executed Toâ dye impinitent as to the Fact * Cook the Solicitor Hugh Peters 's stupidity Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited Queen Mother arrives in England The Parliament re-assemble Argyle committed Princess of Aurange dies Decemb 24. Parliament Dissolved Princess of Aurange her Funeral Decemb. 26. Sejanus ducitur unco spectandus gaudent omnes quae labra quis illis vultus erat Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw dig'd up and hang'd c. Venner 's Insurrection There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Prichard the Cow-keeper and another of them Sir Arthur Hazelrig dies Mr. Crofton committed The Kingâs passage through London to his Coronation The Oath of the Knights of the Bath Creation of Earls and Barons at the same time The Kings procession to the Abbey The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi * James Butler Duke of Ormond was Created Earl of Brecnock Baron Butler of Lawthy A new Parliament May 8. Portugal Match mentioned by the King to the Parliament The Queen of Bohemia returns into England The Marquess of Montross enterred in State May 11. Arguile beheaded May aâ and Guthrey and Giffân Hang'd June 1 Plots and Designes laid by the Fanaticks Sir Charles Lucas re-interred with Solemnity Jun. 7. Several Laws confirmed and made c. Mr. Pryn questioned c. Mr. Pryn questioned by the House Acts against Bishops repealed Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop sentenced Parliament adjourned July 30 to Nov. 02. The King is entertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch The Lords Spiritual restored Regicides before the House of Lords November John James Hanged and Quartered Novemb. 27. Sir Charles Coot died December A Council of the Principality of Wales re-established at Ludlow Episcopacy established in Scotland The King reflects on the ruine of St. Pauls London Fatality among the Clergy Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier Queen of Bohemia dies Feb. 13. A Storm Feb. 18. An unfortunate Accident happened to the Lord Buckhurst and others Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal The General honoured c. Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Holland sent over to the Tower Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2. Col. Okey 's body giâen to his Friends Acts of Parliament passed An account of the Marriage of the King c. The Queen reReimbarques April 13. The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arrival with the Duke oâ Osmond c. Queen Arrives May 13. The King stays to give his consent to Bills Preparing The Nature of several private Bills King at Portsmouth Queen at Hampton-Court Lord Lorn pardoned by the King Tangiers condition Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert Condemned Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1â A Proclamation for Twenty miles againt Rump Officers Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration Forces sent under the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal Duke of Ormond arrived in Ireland Gloucester Walls c. Demolished Dunkirk returned to the French King October Dr. John Berkerhead Knighted A Plot discovered Philips Tongue Gibs and Stubs Executed December 22. Embassadors with Presents from Russia Mr. Calamy Committed Lord Warreston in the Tower Declaration of the King and Resolutions of the Parliament Parliament begins esuits banish Campeach takââ Irish Plot. Earl of âotâes Commissioner in Scotland Bills passed by Commission Mr. Rycaut comes from Constantinople Jersey a new ãâã Northern Plot discovered Plotters âri'd Executed Turner tryed and hanged A Printer tried and executed Others Pillori'd and Fined A remarkable proviâence A barbarous murther committed by a Portugueze Servant upon his Master The Lord Holles Embassador to the French King June Iudge Mallet by reason of his age dispenced with and Sir John Keeling sworn in his place Dr. Bramhal departs this life Gayland assaults Tangier Reâreats with ãâã Makes another Attack but is forc'd to
Address ãâã suppressing ãâã Insolencies Declaration of War against Denmark City Building begins Prodigious Storms in Lincoln-shire Prodigious Storm in Lincoln-shire A day of Thanksgiving for the ceasing of the Plague Ryot at Dumfreeze in Scotland The Lord Willoughby sets forth a Fleet from the Barbadoes A Hurricane His Lordship lost Scotch Convention meets At Surinam better success The French King affronted by the Turk An Embassador sent for reparation He is reviled Beaten and ââprisoned Swedes offer a Mediation Accepted Breda the Place of Treaty A Valiant Act of Capt. Dawes The English Embassadors enter Breda The Dutch Attempts upon the Coast. Burnt-Island attempted And Sheerness They seize the Royal Charles Royal Oak burnt Two Dutch Men of War burnt Commissioner Pett committed The Dutch come up into the River of Thames Dutch land neer Harwich Encounter'd by the Train'd-Bands They come up to Hull Haven are encounter'd by several ships that lay there Dutch attempt to land neer Wenbury in Devonshire Neer Cawland in Cornwal Sir Jonathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham sent aboard the Dutch Admiral Their Entertainment A Present sent De Ruyter Foy Harbour Attempted Plenipotentiaries meet and Tâeat at Breda Peace Concluded Commissioners to take an Account of Publick Money The Office of Lord High Treasurer in the Hand of Commissioners Parliament met Parl. Adjourn'd Commissioners appointed to hear the complaints of Seamen Mr. Cowley 's death Dutch beaten by Sir John Harmon in the West-Indies Three Dutch Men of War and a Prize taken Proclamation against Papists Woodmongers Charter demanded His Majesty lays the first Stone of the Royal Exchange The Duke of York the second Earl of Sandwich sent to Portugal January 22. February Proclamation to hinder the roving of private Men of War February Count de Dona the Swedish Embassador dies in England Maritime League concluded with the Dutch by Sir Wil. Temple Charles the second launched March 3. 1666 7. Proclamation against Papists Prentices make a Tumult May 1668. His Majesty goes to the House signes several Bills and adjourns the Parliament Lord Vaughan Chief-Iustice Iune 1668. Bridge Town burnt August 1668. Sir William Godolphin Knighted and made Resident-Embassador in Spain Sept. 1668. Duke of Munmoâth made Captain of the Horse-Guards Venetian Embassador has Audience Sir John Trevor made Secretary Dr. Wilkins Bishop of Chester Sir Thomas Allen made Peace with Argier Decem. 1668. Parliament Prorogu'd Ian. 166â Dutchess of York brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Edward Sprague sent into Flanders The Duke of Tuscany arrives in England The Prince of Portugal made Râgânt Earl of Carlisle sent into Sweden King of Sweden presented with the Garter Earl of Winchelsey returns Theater at Oxford fânished Meetings suppressed Dr. Fell Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Queen-Mother of England dies The Moors attempt Tangier but beaten off Lord Roberts Lord-Deputy of Ireland Royal Exchange fââish'd Pâââ Assembles Parl. attended the King in the Banqueting-House Parl. Prorogu'd till February Parl. in Scotland Sir Thomas Allen before Argier Mr. Henry Howard sent Embassador to Taffalette Duke of Albemarle dies His Dutchess dies Jan. 1669. Parliament meet The King signes several Acts and adjourns the House Dutchess of Orleans arrives in England Dies July 1670. Parliament in Scotland Act for the Treaty of Union passed there Argier men of War destroy'd Cap. Peirce shot to Death Parl. meet Peace between Spain and England ratifi'd Prince of Orange comes into England Sir Thomas Allen returns from the Streights Sir Edward Sprague Commands in his room D. of Ormond violently assaulted in the Night The King passes some Acts. Popish Priests Banish'd The Dutchess of York dyes Parl. Prorogu'd And an Address about English Manufactures Earl of Manchester dies The Crown attempted King of Sweden and Duke of Saxony by Proxies Install'd Knights of the Garter Sir Edward Sprague meets the Argerines and destroys them The King takes a Progress The Moors attack Tangier and are beaten off Parl. Prorogu'd Embassadors sent abroad Ian. 1671 2. Stop upon the Exchequer Sir George Downing presses for answer to the King's demands Sir George Downing committed Nonconformists indulg'd Sir Robert Holmes attacks the Dutch Fleet neer the Isle of Wight War declar'd against the Dutch Mar. 1661 2. War proclaim'd against Holland Sir Edward Sprague comes home The French King continues and increases Impositions on Dutch Goods notwithstanding their threats French Warlike preparations breeds jealousies Cologne fortifies The Dutch fortifie Maestricht Newburg fortifies Dusseldorp and Montery raises men in Flanders Brunswick Besieged They surrender The Escurial burnt The Dutch endeavour to get Assistants The Prince of Orange made their Captain-General The Emperor offers to Mediate Dutch Embassador slighted at Paris Convoys taken care of for the Merchants Several Lords call'd to the Privy Council King of France begins his March Turrenne blocks up Maestricht Fight between the English and Dutch Several Townes taken from the Hollanders Hollanders confus'd at the success of the French The King of Englands Declaration inviting the Dutch Subjects into England Dutch more and more distressed The People Mutiny Prince of Orange declar'd Stadtholder The Condition of the Dutch The Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington sent into Holland Duke of Buckingham and Earl of Arlington return English misâ the Dutch East-Indie Fleet. Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy of Ireland The fall of De Wit and Van Putten The Confederates divert the French Magistrates chang'd in Holland Parl. adjourn'd The Duke of York returns from the Fleet and Action ceases Turenne 's Declaration Sir Edward Sprague spoyles the Dutch Fishing Prince of Orange succeeds ill Earl of Shaftsbury Lord-Chancellor Lord Clifford Lord-Treasurer Stop upon the Exchequer continued Duke of Richmond dies Parl. meet Sir Job Charleton made Speaker 18 Moneths Assessment given to the King The Parl. make an Address to to the King Parl. Adjourn'd James Piercy pretends to the Earldom of Northumberland The Island Tabago taken by the English Dutch at Sea May 26. May 28. June 4. July 17. July 20. August 10. Peace with the Dutch Proclamation against Papists April The Lord Lockhart Mediates a Peace between France and Spain Proclamation against scandalous News Sir Lyonel Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson return to London Duke of Monmouth chose Chancellor of Cambridge Earl of Arlington Lord-Chamberlain Sir Joseph Williamson Principal Secretary Earls of Ossory and Arlington âent into Holland A Marine Treaty between the King and the Uâited Provinces Dr. Crew made Bishop of Durham Dr. Compton Bishop of Oxford The Dutchess brought to bed of a Daughter Sir Francis North Lord Chief-Iustice of the Common-Pleas Parl. meets Prince of Newburgh arrives in England Barbadoes Conspiracy Indians Rebel in New-England Northampton fâred River by Salisbury began to be made Navigable Parl. meets Proclamation against St. Germain the Iâsuite Hurricane at Bardoes Jamaica fâourishes
to that Tribunal he could find no Sanctuary being threatned instantly with death Upon report of this outrage the Earls of Traquair and Wigton came with their followers to his relief where with much ado they got entrance but found themselves in no better case than the Bishop the peoples rage being thereby the more increased The Lords and the Bishop being thus beset sent privately to the Lord Provost and Bailiffs of Edinburgh for relief who sent them word that they themselves were in the same condition if not worse if the Lords attempted not to appease the people who had forced them in their Council-House for fear of their lives to subscribe a Paper then instantly presented them which contained three particulars First that they should joyn with them in opposition to the Service-book and in petitioning to the King Secondly that by their Authority they should restore Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Rolloch two lately silenced Ministers Thirdly that they should restore one Mr. Henderson a silenced Reader which three persons were notable Ringleaders of the faction three most important grounds for so fearful a Commotion Thereupon the Lords resolved to go and confer with the Magistrates and either by their authority or perswasion to reduce the people to obedience and reason but all in vain for at their return re infecta to the Council-Table again they were set upon the Earl of Traquair being troden down losing his white Staff the Ensign of his Office of Treasurer with his Hat and Cloak and so with much ado got back again to the Council who seeing the impendent danger from the fury of the people were forced to apply themselves to some Noblemen who were of the faction by whose influence upon and respects from the people they with the aforesaid Bishops were conveyed to their respective dwellings but the Provost was pursued with threats rayling and danger unto the yard of his own house This Mornings storm being blown over another Proclamation was made against further unlawful Assemblies and meeting in the streets of that City under the most severe pains the Laws in those Cases had provided but so little regard was thereunto given that the next day they demanded of the Lords what they had demanded of their Magistrates and to that purpose two Petitions as well from the Rabble as also now from greater hands the chief Citizens Gentry and Nobility were presently tendred to the Lord Chancellour of that Kingdom which imported the whole substance of the present Commotion the English Service-book still bearing the burthen Withal in this last petition making their greivances swell adding their dislike of the book of Canons to their former distast of the Service-book so one demand ushered in another till they had nothing to ask but what they resolved to take the parallel of our troubles These petitions were afterwards sent up to the King who by a Proclamation resented the injuries and affronts done his Royal Authority by those attemps upon his chief Ministers and also declared his firm intentions to maintain the Protestant Religion commanding also all persons to forbear further meetings and petitions of this nature upon pain of treason But this Proclamation was encountred with a Protestation made by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey two great Covenanters who avowed therein the whole action with a resolution added to adhere to them to the last requiring also some of the Bishops to be removed from his Majesties Councel and such other more unreasonable expostulations which yet came short still of those that they made afterwards their number and power still increasing their peremptory and haughty designes upon the Government Soon after this sedition began to arm it self and assume another name they of the faction took the authority of the Kingdom to themselves erected four Tables as they called them of the four ranks of Noblemen Gentry Burgesses and Ministers out of all which was formed one general Table that was supreme This Table after some consultation and reports from the other resolved upon a Covenant to be taken throughout the Kingdom which for substance was the same with that Solemn League afterwards taken in England onely Bishops in express terms were not therein then abjured but implicitely no doubt included and more plainly their sitting in civil Judicatories The King was most highly incensed against this Usurpation of his Royal Authority especially at the obtruding this Covenant wherewith the greatest part of the Nation were already infected and others through compulsion and force scared into a compliance with it though with a great deal of stir and reluctancy Wherefore to obviate the imminent danger it threatned the King dispatcht away the Marquess of Hamilton as his Commissioner to that Kingdom to apply some present remedy to the distemper he being a person of great honour and influence on that Nation Before his arrival of which the Covenanters had timely notice they made the more hast to engage the people against any accommodation Nor did they with the usual respect entertain the Commissioner but after some few days stay after some overtures by him made on the Kings part towards them and his demands of them particularly their deserting and relinquishing their Covenant he received a slighting answer that they would descend to no particulars of their part till a general Assembly should be called But as for the Covenant they would sooner part with their lives than abate a syllable of it and resolved never to hear more against it And thereupon new guards were by them clapt upon Edinburgh Castle the Watches of the City multiplied and the Ministers began to convert all their Sermons into Libels warning the people to take heed of Crafty Compositions when they were resolved against any These difficulties caused the Commissioner to repair to London having first received order to publish the Kings Declaration against the supposed Popery and removed also the Term for the further satisfying of the City of Edinburgh back thither again which indeed was for a while magnified by the Citizens as an Act of favour but presently was undervalued as a trick to cajole them so instructed by those who grudged the King any esteem or love in the minds of his people The Kings Declaration bearing Date Iune 20. 1638. was soon after published which contained his dispensation of the Service-book and Canons with a promise of calling a general Assembly and Parliament with all convenient Expedition requiring his subjects to contain themselves in their duty and not further to hearken to any Rebellious suggestions As soon as the Herauld had proclaimed it the Covenanters were ready upon a Scaffold there erected with a Protestation against it having before possest the People that if this Declaration were hearkened unto it would bring undoubted ruine to their Religion Laws and Liberties which they publiquely read importing some new additions to their former demands and cavils at the
in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is sole Iudge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided This was signed by all the Judges but Justice Hutton and Justice Crook whose Arguments were against it for Mr. Hambden who was sued for not paying the Twenty Shillings Taxed upon him for Shipmoney DEcember 27th 1640. Resolved by the Commons that the Charge impos'd upon the subjects for the providing and furnishing of Ships and the Aââesments for that purpose commonly called Shipmoney are against the Laws of the Realm the Subjects right of property and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right Resolved That the Extrajudicial opinions of the Iudges published in the Star-chamber and inrolled in the Courts of Westminster are in whole and in every part of them against the Laws of the Realm the Liberty of the Subject c. This was also so resolved by the Lords and by the Parliament ordered That a Vacat be brought into the Parliament-house of all those Records concerning Ship-money Which was accordingly done February 27. the same Year the 16 of the King Die Veneris 26 die Februarii 1640. UPon the report of the right honourable the Lords Committees appointed to consider of the way of vacating of the Iudgment in the Exchequer concerning Shipmoney It was ordered by the Lords spiritual and temporal in the High Court of Parliament assembled that the Lord Keeper or the Master of the Rolls the two Lord chief Iustices and the Lord chief Baron and likewise the chief Clerk of the Star-chamber shall bring into the Vpper House of Parliament the Record in the Exchequer of the Iudgment in Mr. Hambdens case concerning Shipmoney and also the several Rolls in each several Court of the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas Exchequer Star-chamber and Chancery wherein the Iudges extrajudicial Opinions in the Cases made touching Shipmoney be entred and that a Vacat shall be made in the Vpper House of Parliament of the said several Records And likewise the Iudgment of Parliament touching the illegality of the said Iudgments in the Exchequer and the proceedings thereupon and touching the illegality of the extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges in the said several Courts concerning Shipmoney be annexed and apostiled unto the same And that a Copy of the Iudgment of Parliament concerning the illegality of the said Iudgment in the Exchequer and the said extrajudicial Opinions of the said Iudges concerning Shipmoney be delivered to the several Iudges of the Assize And that they be required to publish the same at the Assizes in each several County within their Circuits and to take care that the same be Entred and Enrolled by the several Clerks of Assizes And if any entry be made by any Custos Rotulorum or Clerk of Assize of the said Iudgment in the Exchequer or of the said Extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges That several Vacats be made thereof per judicium in Paliamento by judgment in Parliament And that an Act of Parliament be prepared against the said Iudgment and extrajudicial Opinions in the proceedings touching Shipmoney Vacatur istud Recordum Judicium inde habitum per considerationem judicium Dominor spiritual temporal in Parliam irrotulamentum eorum Cancellatur The two Iustices Arguments also against it were likewise Printed and published They likewise ordered a Committee to draw up a Charge against the Archbishop of Canterbury which was done and delivered to the Lords by Mr. Hollis which was seconded with another from the Scots Commissioners upon which he was committed to the black Rod and ten weeks after voted guilty of High treason and sent to the Tower The Parliament having thus removed these men and growing every day more and more upon the affections of the people they began to hammer upon the Bill for Triennial Paliaments which soon after passed both Houses and to the universal content of the Kingdom was signed by his Majesty for which the Parliament by the Lord Littleton Keeper of the great Seal gave him their most humble and hearty thanks Some former Overtures and Propositions had been made by the Dutch Ambassadors of a Marriage between the Princess Mary the Kings eldest Daughter and William Prince of Aurange which upon the arrival of the said Prince was afterwards accomplished being well approved of by both Houses by the lower whereof a Vote passed against Bishops temporal jurisdiction which was afterwards framed into an Act passed the Lords and was confirmed by the King who in all things saving his Honour and Conscience complyed with the desires of this Parliament Now came the Earl of Straffords Tryal which after various debates about the Place was appointed in Westminster-Hall the King Queen and Prince had a place built for them the Nobility had seats at the upper end of the Court the Commons in a Committee sate below several of whom as Mr. Pym Mr. St. Iohn and others managed his Accusation the Earl of Arundel was Lord High Steward and the Earl of Lindsey Lord High Constable The Charge or Impeachment consisted of Twenty eight Articles all which he so learnedly and warily answered defending himself with such sinewy Eloquence and warded the points of his accusation so dexterously that the Lords could not find the guilt which the Commons so highly exclaimed against as the greatest treason imaginable Among other witnesses Sir David Fowles and Sir William Pennyman appeared against the Earl the first of whom the Earl declared was his enemy and the latter a Member of the House of whom it was observed that having testifyed against the Earl he could not abstain from weeping Anno Dom. 1641. THe Commons seeing they could not condemn him by this proceeding they betook themselves to another by Bill of Attainder which conceding the matter of Fact sufficiently proved against him at his Tryal and by the Testimony also of the Parliament of Ireland who had prosecuted him there for the said offences condemned him as guilty of high treason This Bill stuck for a while with the Lords till the Tumults coming down and stopping their Coaches and menacing to post up the names of those who favoured him under the name of Straffordians with an impetuous cry of Iustice frighted many of the Peers to assent to the Bill which yet passed but by the plurality of seven voices against him No sooner was it past there but the Commons presented it to the King for him to sign who very much declined it but being over-perswaded by the dangers that were represented as inevitable consequents of his refusal and being also desired by the said Noble Earl himself to give the Parliament content though through the mediation of his own blood His Majesty after advice with the Bishops did pass that fatal Bill which proved the Ax against his own life I cannot pass the Tragedy of
Parliaments accounts for the vast sums received and in other things where the Kingdom hath been abused That after Delinquents have passed their Compositions an Act of Oblivion may be passed Then they proceed to a Charge against ELEVEN Members which being read to them they stood up and made defence Their names were as followeth Denzil Hollis Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir Iohn Clotworthy Sir William Walter Sir Iohn Maynard Colonel Massey Mr. Glyn Colonel Long Colonel Edward Harley Anthony Nichols Esquire all of them active men for Presbytery and obnoxious to their future undertakings and therefore by all means to be removed This was sent up by Colonel Scroop Okey Hewson and Pride Lieutenant-Colonel Goff Major Desborough Colonel Berry Clark Carter Rolph Saxby to which Charge a Paper was added wherein they set forth That in pursuance of these Representations they have the heads of the Charge ready and shall appoint fit persons on their and the Kingdoms behalf to make it good That if the Parliament shall admit this Charge that the persons impeached may be forthwith suspended from fitting in the House having appeared notoriously to the prejudice and provocation of the Army That another Months pay be sent down That if those who deserted the Army and have engaged for Ireland have received more that the Army be equally paid and that such have no more pay till the Army are paid their Arrears That because of secret practices and designes to raise new Forces and to bring back to London those ordered for Ireland That no Forces be raised or invited back or other Forrein preparations to interrupt the Liberty and Peace of the Kingdom That all this be speedily performed the condition of the Army the Kingdom and the King mark the order so requiring This concerning no raising of Forces c. was agreed to but to the suspension of the Eleven Members the Parliament demur and answer That by law no judgment can be given to suspend those Members before the particulars of their Charge be produced and proofs made Nor have those Members said or done any thing for which the House can suspend them Nevertheless not to enrage them the Members forbore of themselves whereupon the Army drew off to Berkamstead twenty seven miles distant and so to Vxbridge having marched the King from Royston to Hatfield and so to Causam neer Reading To this Answer of the Parliament the Army returned That by the Laws and the precedent case of the Earl of Strafford and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury observe how that blood is thrown or flyes in âhe faces of the Parliament and the Lord keeper Finch who upon Papers of accusation were suspended sitting they might not be permitted likewise but are contented as yet because they of themselves have forborn the House From Vxbridge the Army marched to Wickham in complyance with the desires of the Parliament See here the Villanous Artifices of this Independent faction to so neer an imitation of Machiavel that they were neither discoverable nor resistible cheating and overpowring the King the Parliament the City nay the whole Kingdom at once for while all men stood at gaze what would be the event they had so obliged opportunity by their diligent attendance on her that they were already in fruition of it for remarkable is that speech of Cromwel who upon notice given him that Ioyce had the Kings person in his possession replyed Then I have the Parliament in my pocket making sure of his full attainment of all his ambitious purposes by this auspicious entrance and beginning of them For he dared now to shew his teeth and manifest that quarrel with the Presbyterians which had festred inwardly so long and by widening the rupture give vent to that filthy matter enclosed betwixt them All which cannot better be laid open than the excellent Pen of the King hath done it in this ensuing Meditation thereupon WHat part God will have me now to act or suffer in this new and strange Scene of affairs I am not much sollicitous some little practice will serve that man who onely seeks to present a part of honesty and honour This surprize of me tells the World That a KING cannot be so low but he is considerable adding weight to that Party where he appears This motion like others of the times seems excentrick and irregular yet not well to be resisted or quieted Better swim down such a stream than in vain to strive against it These are but the struglings of those Twins which lately one womb enclosed the younger striving to prevail against the elder what the Presbyterians have hunted after the Independents now seek to catch for themselves So impossible is it for Lines to be drawn from the Center and not to divide from each other so much the wider by how much they go farther from the point of union That the builders of Babel should from division fall to confusion is no wonder but for those that pretend to build Jerusalem to divide their tongues and hands is but an ill omen and sounds too like the fury of those Zealots whose intestine bitterness and divisions were the greatest occasion of the last fatal destruction of that City Well may I change my Keepers and Prison but not my captive condition onely with this hope of bettering that those who are so much professed Patrons for the Peoples Liberties cannot be utterly against the Liberty of their King what they demand for their own Consciences they cannot in reason deny to mine In this they seem more ingenuous than the Presbyterian Rigour who sometimes complaining of exacting their Conformity to Laws are become the greatest Exactors of other mens submission to their novel Injunctions before they are stamped with the Authority of Laws which they cannot well have without my consent 'T is a great Argument that the Independents think themselves manumitted from their Rivals service in that they carry on a business of such consequence as the assuming my person into the Armies custody without any Commission but that of their own will and power Such as will thus adventure on a King must not be thought over-modest or timorous to carry on any designe they have a mind to Their next motion menaces and scares both the two Houses and the City which soon after acting over again that former part of tumultuary motions never questioned punished or repented must now suffer for both and see their former sin in the glass of the present terrours and distractions No man is so blinde as not to see herein the hand of Divine Iustice they that by Tumults first occasioned the raising of Armies must now be chastened by their own Army for new Tumults So hardly can men be content with one sin but add sin to sin till the latter punish the former Such as were content to see me and many Members of both Houses driven away by the first unsuppressed Tumults are now forced to flie to an
Souldiers and double Files clean through Westminster-hall up to the stairs of the House of Common and so through the Court of Requests to the Lords House the Souldiers looking scornfully upon many of these Members as they were instructed to know them that had sate in the absence of the Speakers and seated the Speakers respectively in their Chairs and was by them in return placed in a Chair of State where they gave him special thanks for his service to the Parliament and likewise appointed to signalize his desert a solemn day of Thanksgiving for the re-settlement of the Parliament their usual prophane and impious practice of mocking God to which they now added the abuse of the Creature at a Dinner provided for the Parliament and chief Officers of the Army by the City at whose costs they sârâeited while the Poor thereof starved through want of Trade which decayed sensibly in a short time no Bullion likewise being afterwards brought to the Mint Sir Thomas Fairfax was now likewise constituted Generalissimo so sudden their favour and so great their confidence of all the Forces and Forts in England to dispose of them at his pleasure and Constable of the Tower of London The Common Souldiers were likewise ordered a Months gratuity and the General remitted to his own discretion for what Guards he should please to set upon both Houses in such a servile fear were those Members that sate in the absence of the Speakers that they durst not dissent from any thing propounded by the contrary Faction The effect of this was that the Independents displaced immediately all Governours though placed by Ordinance of Parliament and put in men of their own party which they could not so currantly do before and by vertue of the same the Militia's of London Westminster and Southwark from whence was their sole danger which were all united before were now divided to make them the weaker the Lines of Communication dismantled that the Parliament and City mightly open to any sudden invasion that so they might have a perpetual and easie awe upon their Counsels and actions The Eleven Impeached Members before mentioned who had superseded themselves and were newly re-admitted the Army not being able to produce their Charge upon pretence of more weighty affairs now altogether withdrew and had Passes though some staid in London some for beyond Sea and other for their homes in the way whither one of them Mr. Nichols was seized on and basely abused by Cromwel another Sir Philip Stapleton one who had done them very good service passed over to Calice where falling sick as suspected of the Plauge he was turned out of the Town and perished in the way near to Graveling whose end was inhumanely commented on by our Mamaluke like Saints who inscribed it to the Divine Vengeance Having thus Levelled all things before them they proceed to an abrogation of all those Votes Orders and Ordinances that had passed in the absence of the said Speakers This was first carried in the Lords House without any trouble the Peers that sate there that time absenting themselves so that there was not more than seven Lords to make up their House By these an Ordinance was sent to the Commons for their concurrence to make all Acts Orders and Ordinances passed from the 26 of Iuly to the sixth of August following when the Members did return Void and Null ab initio This was five or six days severally and fully debated and as often put to the question and carried in the Negative yet the Lords still renewed the same Message to them being prompted and instigated by the Army rejecting their Votes nor would acquiesce but put them to Vote again contrary to the priviledge of the House of Commons nor could it pass for all the threats of the Sollicitour-General Saint Iohn one mancipated to the Faction nor the fury of Hazelrigg when he used these words Some Heads must fly off and he feared the Parliament of England would not save the Kingdom of England but that they must look another way for safety To which sence spoke Sir Henry Vane junior Thomas Scot Cornelius Holland Prideaux Gourdon Sir Iohn Evelin junior and Henry Mildway all Regicides and Contrivers of it until the Speaker perceiving some plain apparent enforcements must be used pulled a Letter out of his pocket from the General and General Council of the Army for that was now their stileâ pretending he then received it which soon terrified the Members either by withdrawing themselves or sitting mute as if they had been Planet-struck into a compliance so that the next morning August the 20. in a thin House the Ordinance passed the procuring thereof being palpably and notoriously forced and Arbitrary This Letter to the Speaker was received by him over-night as was conceived with directions to conceal it if the Question had passed in the Affirmative But that not fadging it was was produced in the nick accompanied with a Remonstrance full of villanous language against those that continued sitting while the two Speakers were with the Army calling them pretended Members and taxing them in General with Treason Treachery and Breach of Trust declaring that if they shall presume to come there before they have cleared themselves that they did not give their assents to such and such Votes they should sit at their Peril and he would take them as Prisoners of War and try them at a Council of War Having thus invalidated or annihilated those Laws the Law-makers could not think to escape untouched Iudgement began with the House of Lords whose degenerate remnant upon an Impeachment carried up by Sir Iohn Evelin the younger of High Treason in the name of the Commons of England for their levying War against the King Parliament and Kingdom committed the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Willoughby of Parham Hunsdon and Maynard to the Black Rod. Then divers of the House of Commons were suspended as Mr. Boynton others committed to the Tower as Recorder Glyn and Sir Iohn Maynard but the wrath of the Army âell principally on the Citizens the chief of whom were viz. the Lod Mayor Sir Iohn Gayre Alderman Adams Alderman Langham Alderman Bunch and Sheriff Culham with others these without any more ado than an Impeachment preferred against them by Miles Corbet one of the Regicides and Chair-man to the Close-Committee of Examinations to the House of Lords were never being called to any Bar sent Prisoners to the Tower of London where they lay a long time and could never obtain a Trial but at last sued out a precious and precarious liberty so that by this means the Spirit of Presbytery was quite daunted and the Independent Faction absolutely ruled the roast and were paramount Poyntz and Massey fled over to Holland and so escaped Having concluded this Contrast or Feud betwixt them we will see with what aspect they regard their Soveraign upon whom
Petitioned against it but in vain the Sectaries had packt a new Common-council by Authority from the Juncto who constituted aây 40 of them a Court and supreme to the Mayor whose first work was the framing a Petition for Justice against the King and other Capital Offenders which was afterwards delivered by Titchburn and had the thanks of the Mock-Parliament for their pains who now entred a Protestation against that satisfactory Vote of the 5th of December aforesaid and pursue the Dictates and Directions of the Army A little while before this Colonel Rainsborough was slain at Doncaster by a party of Royalists that âallied out of Pomfract then besieged by Sir Edward Rhodes and the County-Forces as he was in his Inn and his Souldiers about him under a pretence of delivering him a Letter from Crowel They would have only taken him prisoner and carried him through his own Leaguer into their Castle but he refusing they pistoled him in his Chamber and departed untoucht A strange yet brave Adventure Scarbrough-Castle now likewise yielded to the Parliament whom we will leave and see the Armies like violence and outrages upon the King Colonel Ewres was appointed by the Parliament to this Service who assisted by Colonel Cobbet on the first of Decemb. according to Command received from Hammond the person of the King and hurried him out of that Isle away prisoner to Hurst-Castle within the term of those 20 days after the Treaty in which he was to remain according to the Houses Declaration in Honour Safety and Freedom This Castle stands a mile and a half in the Sea upon a Breach full of mud and stinking oaze upon low Tides having no fresh water within two or three miles of it so cold foggy and noysome that the Guards cannot endure it without shifting Quarters Here they frayed the King a while till Harrison was on his way to receive him who brought him to Winchester where the Mayor and Inhabitants caused the Bells to ring and at the Towns-end as was due and usual in the middle of the mire presented his Majesty with the Keys of the City and the Mace but in the very Ceremony were tumbled in the same mire by the Horse at the Command of Harrison The next day the King came to Farnham and so to Windsor where he kept his sorrowful and last Christmass being pent up in a corner of the Castle no man besides his Guards to come to him and all respect and reverence to his Person forborn while by Order of the Juncto he was sent for up to his Palace of St. Iames's Harrison impudently riding covered in the same Coach with him and his Myrmidons wounding any that shewed their Loyal Compassion and lamented this miserable condition of their beloved Sovereign In which we must leave him and return to our Grandees These offals of a Parliament having by an Ordinance taken away the Oaths of Supremacie and Allegeance usually administred to Freemen c. thereby to free themselves from those ties of Duty upon them and to make way for their ensuing Trayterous designe in order whereunto the Council of War had forbid any Ceremony or State to be used to the King and his Attendants lessened now proceeded roundly to their Army Journey-work for on the 28 of December Thomas Scot brought in the Ordinance for Trial of the King it was read and recommitted three several times and the Commissioners names of all sorts to engage the whole Body of the Kingdom in this Treason inserted and to give it a Foundation these Votes passed That the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament dâ Declare and Adjudge that by the Fundamental Laws of the Realm it is Treason in the King of England for the time to come to Levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom of England With this Declaratory Vote the said Ordinance was carried up to the Lords by the Lord Gray of Grooby Ianuary 2. 1648. The Lords being 16 in number met that day and received it promising to send an Answer by Messengers of their own The first Question started by some Lords who had rather had a thinner House was Whether it should be presently debated which was affirmed The first Debate was upon the Declaratory Vote to which the Earl of Manchester said That the Parliament of England by the Fundamental Laws consisted of three Estates King Lords and Commons whereof the King is the first and chiefest He Calls and Dissolves Parliaments and without him there can be no Parliament and therefore it 's absurd to say the King can be a Traytor against the Parliament Then the Earl of Northumberland added That the greatest part at least twenty to one of the people of England were not yet satisfied whether the King Levied War first against the Houses or the Houses against him And if the King did Levy War first against the Houses there is no Law to make it Treason in him And for them to declare Treason by an Ordinance when the matter of Fact is not proved nor any Law extant to judge it by is very unreasonable The Earls of Pembroke and Denbigh said they would be torn in pieces before they would assent with the Commons so the Lords cast off the Debate and cast out the Ordinance and adjourned for seven days This netled the Commons who thereupon resolved to rid their hands of King Lords and their Fellow-Commons together by a leading Vote That all Members of Committees should proceed and act in any Ordinance wherein the Lords were joyned though the Peers should not Sit nor concur with them And added thereunto three other Democratical Resolves Ian. 4. 1648. 1. That the People are under God the Original of all just Power 2. That the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled chosen by and Representing the People have the Supreme Power of the Nation 3. That whatsoever is enacted or declared for Law by the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament hath the force of Law Which passed without one Negative Voice which shewed at whose beck they were And thus first they hatcht this Monster called An Act for the Trial of the King c. which is here transcribed transferring the names of the Commissioners to their ensuing Character An Act of Parliament of the House of Commons for Trial of Charles Stuart King of England WHereas it is notorious that Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with the many Encroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedom hath had a wicked designe to subvert the Antient and Fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Nation and in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government and that besides all other evil ways to bring his designe to pass he hath prosecuted it with Fire and Sword levied and maintained a Civil War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby this Country hath been miserably
wasted the Publique Treasure exhiââted Trade decreased thousands of people murthered and infinite other mischiefs committed for all which high offences the said Charles Stuart might long since have been brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the distempers of the Kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him but fâund by sad experience that such their remisness served only to encourage him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practices and in raising new Comââtions Rebellions and Practises For prevention of the like and greater inconveniences and to the end no Chief Officer or Magistrate may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the enslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity Be it Enacted and Ordained by the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained that Thomas Lord Fairfax c. the other persons that actually did Siâ and Sentence are hereafter subjoyned shall be and are appointed Commissioners and Iudges for the Hearing Trying and Iudging of the said Charles Stuart And the said Commissioners or any twenty of them shall be and are hereby Authorized and Constituted an High Court of Iustice to meet at such convenient time and places as by the said Commissioners or the major part or twenty or more of them under their Hands and Seals shall be appointed and notified by publique Proclamation in the great Hall or Palace-yard of Westminster and to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as the said High Court or the major part thereof meeting shall hold fit and to take order for the Charging of Him the said Charles Stuart with the Crimes above-mentioned and for receiving his personal Answer thereunto and for examination of Witnesses upon Oath if need be concerning the same and thereupon or in default of such answer to proceed to final Sentence according to Iustice and the merit of the Cause to be executed speedily and impartially And the said Court is hereby Authorized and required to chuse and appoint all such Officers and Attendants and other Circumstances as they or the Major part of them shall in any sort judge necessary or useful for the ordering and good managing of the Premises And Thomas Lord Fairfax the General with all Officers of Iustice and other well-affected persons are hereby Authorized and Required to be aiding and assisting to the said Commissioners in the due execution of the Trust hereby committed to them Provided that this Ordinance and the Authority hereby granted do continue for the space of one Month from the Date of the making hereof and no longer This Act was followed by a Proclamation Ianuary 9. made by Serjeant Dendy by sound of Drums and Trumpets and Guards of Horse and Foot in Westminster-Hall whereby notice was given that the Commissioners of the pretended High Court of Justice were to sit down on the morrow and that all those that had any thing to say against Charles Stuart King of England might be heard The like was done in Cheap-side and the old Exchange The Actors or Tragical Persons in this Ordinance were stumbled at several illegalities and irregularities thereof which in a presumptuous confidence as drunken men passing over a dangerous Bridge then yet slighted But when it was perfected and the consummatory part of the Seal to be affixed and the whole result to be warranted thereby they were at a stand as knowing the Kings Seal could not be made use of against him while the Army-Familiars inspired them that the King and his Seal was alike unnecessary and that they must now according to their advice act by themselves and their own Authority which direction they followed and gave order for a new Seal to their ensuing Acts as hereafter We have omitted the Cypher-Names specified in the said pretended Act because cause many of them upon reluctancie of Conscience or more happy perswasions of Friends did not undertake the Impiety as also because we would not defame the Names of those Lords and Peers of the Kingdom and the Judges whose Function instructed them to the contrary that were invited and listed onâe by the same Treasonable Combination to be partakers in that Guilt but those that appeared and prosecuted their Power and are worthy of their brand are with their due Character here subjoyned The Kings Iudges marked with â are those that were Executed â Oliver Cromwel an English Monster a shame to the British Chronicle a name of ruine and mischief a Native of Huntingdon-shire who needs no other Character than this Chronicle being the Troubler of our Israel whose ruines were his Grave yet hath found another under Tyburn Ian. 30. â Henry Ireton Commissary-General of Horse Cromwel's Second espoused his Daughter as well as his Designes so like Father-in-law like Son-out-law and renterised in the same manner and at the same time 1660. â Iohn Bradshaw President Cum nemini obtrudi potest itur ad Hunc there was no such Villain to be found among the Long-Robâ who drowned all his wickedness and false practises not to be compared under this most flagitious and scelerate parricide of the King A Cheshire-man born but hateful to his Country more abominable to his Name most odious to his Nation whose hopeful recovery by the first endeavours of his own County under Sir George Booth in 1659. he so pined at that taking a just desperation he died Two Terms before the Perpetration of the Kings Murther he had took the Oath of Allegeance as a Serjeant at Law being called to that Dignity from the scolding and railing of Guild-hall London to convitiate and reproach his most peaceable Sovereign He grew conscious as to the safety of his Body of his Fact when he shewed his aversness to Oliver the very name of a Single Person frighting him but so cauterized as to the salvation of his Soul that he departed in a most damnable obstinacie and maintenance of his Fact presuming there was no High Court of Iustice in Heaven or else that he was judged already The price of this Villany was the Presidencie of their Council of State the Lord Cottington's Estate and the Dutchy of Lancaster with some Advance-Money like Iudas for his undertaking It is observed he died in his Bed advantageously Commented on by the Imps and Abettors of his villany by others at least taken as a note of admiration leaving his Name and Memory to be tortured for ever The good Providence of God removing this wretch and the most implacable Enemies of our Sovereign by the same easie hand which might otherwise have been died in blood with which it restored Him to his Kingdoms and his people to their Laws Liberty and Religion he was likewise digged out of Westminster-Abby and thrown under
having been a traveller and no doubt Jesuitically affected as he made more visibly manifest in the practise of their Doctrine of Regicide â William Cawley a Brewer of Chichester and returned for a recruit of the Long-Parliament could not for Trade-sake but concur with his Brethren Oliver Cromwel and Thomas Scot. â Nicholas Love Doctor Love's Son of Winchester Chamber-fellow with the Speaker Lenthall made one of the six Clerks of Chancery in Master Penrudducks place a violent Enemy against the King and his Friends from the very beginning of our Troubles and an Army-partaker in this horrible Act. â Iohn Dixwell a recruit of the Long-Parliament for Dover Colonel and Governour of Dover-Castle one so far obliged to them for their promotion of him that he could do no less for them than assist them in this grand Conspiracy against the King â Daniel Blagrave a recruit also for Reading in Bark-shire of a small but competent Fortune there to have kept him guiltless of this great offence â Daniel Broughton a Clerk bred up among Committees in the War and preferred therefore at last to be chief Scribe to this Pharisaical murderous crue of the High Court of Justice â Edward Dendy Serjeant at Arms to the said Court who had outed his Father from the employment of the Mace before no wonder such a Rebel to his Father should prove a parricide to his Prince These following being of the Kings Iudges but recanting were pardoned or otherwise mulcted and punished Col. Iohn Hutchison who both Sentenced and Signed to his Majesties Execution by a timely repentance which he publikely testified by tears obtained his pardon being onely discharged the House of Commons and all future Trusts and fined a years profit of his Estate to the King Col. Francis Lassels a York-shire man who sate once but neither Sentenced nor Signed was mulcted accordingly as Colonel Hutchison having alike given proof his sorrow and detestation of that monstrous Fact William Lord Munson Iames Challoner Esq. deceased in the Tower Sir Hen. Mildmay Robert Wallop Esq. Sir Iames Harrington and Iohn Phelps another of the Clerks for sitting in the said pretended High Court of Iustice were by Act of Parliament deprived of their Estates and ordered to be drawn to Tiburn in Sledges with Ropes about their Necks as Traytors are used and so back again to the Tower there to be imprisoned during their natural Lives This is the perfect Catalogue and Character of these unfortunate men who in obedience to the said pretended Act or rather out of dread of Cromwel and his Red-coats though some others named in the said Act wisely withdrew themselves met according to appointment in Westminster-hall having adjourned thither from the Painted-Chamber where they had chosen Serjeant Bradshaw for their Bold President and had made Proclamation at the Palace-gate and in London for the Witnesses whom they had raked out of the refuse and most perdite sort of the People to be ready there with their evidence which Witnesses were numbered to near 40. So much for the preparation come we now to the perpetration The High Court of Iustice. On Saturday being the twentieth day of Ianuary 1648. Bradshaw President of the High Court of Iustice with about seventy of the Members of the said Court having Colonel Fox and sixteen Fellows with Partizans and a Sword born by Colonel Humphrey and a Mace by Serjeant Dendy with their and other Officers of the said Court marching before them came to the place ordered to be prepared for their sitting at the West-end of the great Hall in Westminster where the President in a Crimson-Velvet Chair fixed in the midst of the Court placed himself having a Desk with a Crimson-Velvet Cushion before him The rest of the Members placing themselves on each side of him upon the several seats or benches prepared and hung with Scarlet for that purpose and the Partizans dividing themselves on each side of the Court before them The Court being thus set and Silence made the Great Gate of the said Hall was set open to the end that all persons without exception desirous to see or hear might come into it upon which the Hall was presently filled and Silence again ordered This done Colonel Thomlinson who had the charge of the King as a Prisoner was commanded to bring him to the Court who within a quarter of an hours space brought him attended with about twenty Officers with Partizans marching before him there being Colonel Hacker and other Guard-men to whose care and custody he was then committed marching in his Rear Being thus brought up within the face of the Court the Serjeant at Arms with his Mace received and conducted him streight to the Bar where a Crimson-Velvet Chair was set for the King After a stern looking upon the Court and the people in the Galleries on each side of him he placed himself not at all moving his Hat or otherwise shewing the least respect to the Court but presently rose up again and turned about looking downwards upon the Guards placed on the left side and on the multitude of Spectators on the right side of the said great Hall After Silence made among the people the Act of Parliament for the Trying of Charles Stuart King of England was read over by the Clerk of the Court who sate on one side of the Table covered with a rich Turkey-carpet and placed at the feet of the said President upon which Table was also laid the Sword and Mace After reading the said Act the several names of the Commissioners were called over every one who was present rising up and answering to his call The King having again placed himself in his Chair with his face towards the Court Silence being again ordered the President stood up and said President Charles Stuart King of England The Commons of England Assembled in Parliament being deeply sensible of the Calamities that have been brought upon this Nation which is fixed upon you as the principal Author of it have resolved to make inquisition for Blood and according to that debt and duty they owe to Iustice to God the Kingdom and themselves and according to the Fundamental Power that rests in themselves They have resolved to bring you to Tryal and Iudgement and for that purpose have constituted this High Court of Justice before which you are brought This said Cook Sollicitor-General of the Commonwealth standing within a Bar on the right hand of the King offered to speak but the King having a staff in his hand held it up and laid it upon the said Cooks shoulder two or three times bidding him hold Nevertheless the President ordering him to go on he said Cook My Lord I am commanded to charge Charles Stuart King of England in the name of the Commons of England with Treason and high Misdemeanors I desire the said Charge may be read The said Charge
of Beaten Gold and Cromwel with 300 pounds worth of Plate and 200 pieces of Gold and great rejoycing there was and smiling too at this the Cities kindness whose Proclaiming of the Act for abolishing the Kingly power having touched before I think I am not obliged to the worth or worshipfulness of the matter to say any thing more of it here in its place but in lieu thereof will pleasure the Reader with a contra-aspect in this Archive and Premier Record of Englands being a Free-State Created by these Hogen Mogen words Be it Enacted and Declared by this present Parliament and by the Authority thereof that the People of England and all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby Constituted Made and Declared a Commonwealth and Free-State and shall so be Governed by the Supreme Authority the Representatives of the people in Parliament and by such as they shall constitute as Officers for the good of the people and that without any King Single Person or House of Lords And for the Honour and Grace of this Free-State a new Mace was now made and brought to be Consecrated in the House wrought with Flowers instead of the Cross and on the bottome and the top the Arms of England and Ireland which was so well liked that they ordered all the Maces in England should be made after that pattern But that which they did most like a Free-State was giving and bounteously bestowing Estates upon one another for besides smaller Rents and lesser Sums kindly squandered and reciprocated among the Journey-men by themselves no less than 4000 a year was given to Fairfax out of the Duke of Bukingham's Revenues the Lord Cottington's Estate to Bradshaw and so to other their deserving Favorites And to requite the City for their civility of the late Treatment and to engage them at a pinch New-park with all the Deer therein was liberally conferred upon them to hold it in Common Soccage from any body a very excellent Tenure and Title Great givers must be great receivers and therefore besides their former Act of selling the Kings Houshold-goods which was pretended to satisfie his Debts but such Creditors as ventured upon them found them dear pennyworths not onely in conclusion but for the present being rated and prized so unreasonably that 100 l. in goods would not yield above ten in money There came out an Act for the sale of Deans and Chapters Lands the product whereof though encumbred with Debentures amounted to a clear account of incredible sums and another for the sale of the Mannors Houses Lands and Forrests of the King Queen or Prince but White-hall for that it was the residence of my Lords the Committee of Estates Saint Iames's and Windsor-Castle were by them excepted and Cromwel for a pleasant retreat for his future greatness saved Hampton-Court and Greenwich and the French-Church having obtained the use of the Chappel of Somerset-house rescued that likewise from sale because the Purchasers could not build upon the ground with any conveniencie if that were not demolished But the grand money-making Act the very Mint of their Commonwealth was an Act of the 7th of April for 90000 l. a Month which rose higher afterwards though in the middle of the War it was never more than 56000 and there were three Armies in pay but it seems the good Husbands had accounted and then published it that the Monthly charge was 160000 pound and that the standing force amounted to 40000 men in England and Ireland About this time several Inland Castles were demolished as Winchester Lancaster Belvoir Nottingham c. and some reparations made to the several Proprietors It will be requisite now to enquire what and how the King doth since we left him at the Hague while his Rebels rant it away in such ample manner and carry all before them 'T is true he wanted not a Kingdom being lookt upon by the people of those Vnited Provinces with the same respect as if he were their Soveraign nor did they âail of giving manifest demonstration thereof His Fathers Death was with all State Condoled and his ascent to the Throne Gratulated and that moreover both by the Swedish and Danish Embassadors then resident at that Court especially the Prince of Aurange by his respects and observance obliged all persons to the reverence of his Person as if no such misfortunes had befallen him nor could any thing but a vertuous tempered minde amidst such caresses and Honours been sensible of so sudden so dis-regarded and discountenanced adversity To better also his condition as to his Kingdoms came forth several defences of his Authority in several Treatises especially that of Salmasius called The Royal Defence which one Milton since stricken with blindness cavilled at who wrote also against that imcomparable Book and Remains of King Charles the Martyr about this time produced to light though endeavoured by all means to be supprest called Eikon Basilike in an impudent and Blasphemous Libel called Iconoclastes since deservedly burnt by the Common Executionâr doth justly challenge to be here Registred Thus He triumpht by the Pen and great were the expectations of his like success by the Sword Scotland being wholely his and Ireland vâry neer reduced to the same obedience the affairs of both which Kingdoms calling him away He resolved to depart from this His long-continued abode and after mature consultations with the Princes His Allyes and His neerer Relations His disconsolate Mother then in France to determine to which Realm He should first betake Him but before His departure fell out this remarkable passage at His Court at the Hague One Doctor Dorislaus a Dutch-man and School-Master that fled his Country and here became a Civilian then pertainer to the University of Oxford and a Professor there but disappointed of his ambitious expectations in the beginning of the War became the Parliaments Judge-Advocate in their Army and at the expiration thereof by his acquaintance with Sir Henry Mildmay a great Enemy to though raised by the King at whose House in Essex he ordinarily played at Cards on Sundays was promoted to the Employment of drawing up that Charge against the King and the rather for that no Englishman durst finde or make a way to that illegal and unprecedented business After that perpetration he was thought the onely fit man to be sent over as an Envoy to his Country-men to prosecute the designs of that Fact which would look the handsomer to them by this their Subjects hand in it though he durst not have appâard there but in the quality of a Forrain Minister He arrived there in May and the first night as he was at Supper there one Colonel Whitford a Scotch-man then attending the Kings Court with some twelve other Royalists regretting and disdaining the affront done to the King by the impudent boldness of this Fâllows address in the Face of His Majesty entred his Lodging
Enemy was now retired into his Garrisons that the weather was bitter and unfit for action the Winter being now come on or if it were not so that he had neither Meat nor Money wherewith to keep his men any longer together having since the Revolt of Munster which deprived him of the greatest share of his Contributions and Provisions been a long time already forced to live upon the spoil of the rest of the Country he concluded upon dispersing his Army into Quarters also which because the Principal Towns refused to admit them in he was fain to scatter over all the Kingdom The greatest part of the Vlster-Forces were sent into their own Province there to chuse a new General according as their conditions allowed them for Owen O Neal was dead and Luke Taafe with his men were sent back into Connaght to the Lord of Clanrickard The Lord Inchiqueen with the remainder of such as belonged unto him went over into the County of Clare the Lord Dillon with his into Meath and towards Athlone all the rest were scattered several ways onely Major-General Hugh O Neal was admitted with about 1600 Vlster-men into Clonmell as Governour and Kilkenny received also a competent Garrison to secure them against so ill Neighbours as both Rosse and Carrick were Here you may behold a summary of what past in the field since the Army first set forth until their going to their Winter-quarters in all which time how ill soever the success hath been nothing can with any colour of reason be laid to the Lord-Lieutenants charge except the not punishing those many Failings Treacheries and Disorders that were committed during this Summers Expedition Yet as to the disobedience and neglects in the Siege of Dublin I gave you Reasons why that was past over before and those that were committed since were for the most part by men of that condition and interest that it was neither safe nor fit all things considered to call them to an account As for Treacheries most of the Authors of them took care to secure themselves and in time get out of reach onely Crosby that betrayed Kingsale after he was designed to dye by the Lord-Lieutenant upon the Lord Inchiqueens coming to Town was I know not for what considerations reprieved and saved The want of money to pay the Souldiers and the exigences they were for the most part in after the mischance at Dublin did so much Authorize their disorders in the Country that if they had not been past by and connived at there had been no means of keeping them together So that I have many reasons to believe that notwithstanding the defeat at Dublin and success upon Drogheda Cromwel with all his great Army his Fleet and store of Money had been lost and sunk to nothing if the Castles of Wexford and Carrick had not been so foully given up nay and after that too if those Towns and Forces in Munster had not so treacherously Revolted Thus did the knavery and malice of a few steal away the Hearts of the generality of that undiscerning simple people from the Lord-Lieutenant few of them being able to judge at all of the Prudence and Integrity of his Conduct or to consider that the Army that was in the Field the foregoing Summer would have required four times the Contribution that was raised without leaving any surplus either to be hoarded up or sent beyond Seas From which his Excellency was so far that on the other side he frequently offered to engage at a very low rate all that remained Unmorgaged of his Princely Estate for the support of the Army The Surrender of Dublin truly had been made unto the people of Ireland by the arts of those that were at that time in Government amongst them a most odious thing though those very persons knew well enough it was themselves and not the Lord-Lieutenant that was in the fault by twice foully violating their Publike Faith with him First in breaking a Peace made and solemnly published both at Dublin and Kilkenny the Respective seats of the Kings Lieutenant and the Council of the Confederates and in seconding that Act after having imprisoned the Lord Muskery Sir Robert Talbott Sir Lucas Dillon Master Brown Master Belings and the rest of their Supreme Council that had made the Peace and still stood honestly to what they had done with bringing their Armies before Dublin where having caused the burning and destruction of those quarters the Town it self must have been lost unto them it upon overture of a Treaty with the Parliament they had not sent Men and Supplies to rescue it And next in the breach of that solemn Engagement made between them and the Marquess of Clanrickard as soon as upon belief of their resolution to return unto their Duty the Treaty was broke off and the Forces of the Parliament sent home again Could it be expected that after two such acts as these any wise man would trust or treat with the Irish any more whilst the Government was still in the same mens hands who after all this wrought the whole Assembly to declare they would never have any Protestant Governour more and namely not the Lord-Lieutenant and who were not ashamed at the same time both to annul the Peace and yet acknowledge that the forementioned Gentlemen that had been makers of it and suffered in justification of it had neither exceeded their instructions nor done any thing misbecoming honest men His Excellency was now at Kilkenny where having in vain endeavoured to qualifie the universal discontents and observing how fast notwithstanding the admonitory Declaration of all the Bishops from Clonmacnosse to the contrary the people being alienated with the ravaging and disorder of their own Armies and allured with the successes and smooth invitations of Cromwel run headlong in to him for Protection and under Contribution as also how great numbers of the Irish Souldiers some frighted with the Plague which now began to spread into the other Provinces of the Kingdom and others for want of livelihood as having neither meat nor pay flockt in unto the Enemy He went into Connaght to confer about carrying on of the publike business and the remedy of those disorders with the Marquess of Clanrickard at his Castle of Portumna about the end of Christmas who being a person of that eminent Merit towards our King and Nation and deserving so much Honour from all honest men I must I believe do a thing very displeasing to you not to give you a due Character of him here Upon his coming to Portumna the Lord-Lieutenant meets with Sir George Monro who was posted thither out of the North to make some Proposals in order to the reduction of Vlster to his Excellency and the Lord Clanrickard who had the Summer before assisted him towards his Vlster Expedition with a Regiment of Foot 100 Horse and 1000 pounds in money out of the Province of Counaght and in case
Tyburn at two Sessions A new Council of State was as their annual change required now constituted Basil Earl of Denbigh being first named in the Act by which it was appointed by whom Mr. Anthony Ascham and Mr. Charles Vane were sent Agents to the respective Kings of Spain and Portugal in the Fleet with General Blake Care was likewise taken for another Fleet to be presently equipped which should consist of 30 great Men of War and several Frigats of great Force were now upon the Stocks and preparation made for others the Names of most of the former Navy being changed taking their new Names from the several places of the Parliaments Successes and Victories others relating to the Dignities of the Government as the President and the Faithful Speaker now newly lanched so that the Dutch began to look about them Several Complaints were now made to them from some that had suffered for their disloyalty in the Isle of Barbadoes as also from other of the Loyal American Dominions except New England that yet kept in Statu quo whereupon the State decreed to send a Fleet thither to reduce that place it being now Governed by the Lord Willoughby of Parham sent thither by the King from Holland whither his Lordship had withdrawn from the violence of the Army being one of those Peers whom they questioned for Treason in 1647. And Act came now out likewise Commanding all Royallists to depart London and twenty miles beyond it with an injunction not to stir five miles from their own habitation and to give notice to the next Officer of their arrival there and to make through work with them the Parliament was now in Debate of exposing several of their Estates to sale and such in the first place who were then beyond Sea and to raise these unhappy forfeitures to their greater advantage ordering that no Estate not Compounded for in the Delinquents life-time should be now Compounded for by his Heirs but should accrue entire to the State Against several Branches of this and other harsh usage particularly of that restraint and confinement within five miles of their dwelling the kinder Army interposed their desires as not consistent with their former Proposals but they well knew they were not to ask and must be disobeyed in that particular yea even in this most reasonable request of Liberty to those who had the benefit of Articles and had Compounded Another High Court of Iustice was now a forming which though the Act that Constituted it bore date the 5 of April in the year ensuing yet we mention it here because Montrosses Expedition and final defeat do challenge an entire space of time to register them Of this Court Keble one of the Commissioners of the Seal was now made President Bradshaw being too high to do that Journey-work any longer being President of the Councel of State it was erected in revenge of Ascham's and Doristaus's death as a Vote and Declaration of the States angrily expressed An Act passed likewise for the better managing of Estates under Sequestration which trust was committed to Samuel Moyer Iames Russel Edmund Winstow Iosias Barners William Mullins Arthur Squib and Rowland Moor names so terrible and Haberdashers-Hall their Court or Judicature so hated and infamed for the violences done by these persons there that they are not to be passed without a mark to Posterity They likewise Enacted the outing of all Officers who should not nor had taken the Engagement another Act against Mariners serving of Forrein Princes which still carried an ill aspect towards the Dutch another according to their tenour of professed Sanctity against Fornication which was passed in April but was not to take place till the 24 of Iune ensuing the first Reading thereupon was Harry Martin's who said it was made to catch Fools for that there was a Clause in it That no person should be convicted without the joynt-testimony of two witnesses yet an Old Man and an Old Woman of above 80 years old apiece suffered afterwards for it and for the open guilt whereof they had turned out Gregory Clement one of their Members though others lewd enough kept their Seats and finally one for the levying of 90000 lib. per mensem for the three first and 60000 l. for the three last months by which they hoped to ingratiate with the people now heavily complaining of the pressures and the ruine of their Trade And so we conclude this first year of the Government of our Novel Free States Anno Dom. 1650. WE begin the Year with the end of one of the Noblest Gallantest Persons that Age saw amongst all the Wars and Broils in Christendom A Captain whose unexampled Atchievements have fam'd a History and were its Volume ten times bigger it would yet be disproportionate to the due praises of this matchless Heroe Enter and Exit the glorious Marquess of Montross whose most lamentable Fare and Catastrophe we will here sum up in this no way competent compendious Narrative After his departure out of Scotland as you have read he betook himself to the Court of France where he was proffered the Captainship of the Scots Guards to that King a place of great Honour and Revenue but being delayed by Cardinal Mazarine who affected not that Nation and his spirit aiming at his own Princes Service he betook himself to the King then at the Hague where he endeavoured after the Murther of King Charles the first a like new Commission for Scotland but being thwarted therein by Duke Hamilton then residing there likewise and his confident Friends the Earls of Lauderdale and Calendar who was aemulous of his former glories in the Government and late War of that Kingdom he betook himself to the Emperor at Vienna where he was presently proffered the Command of an Army of 10000 men and to be independent of any other General but the Peace being concluded betwixt the Swede and the Emperour he departed upon pursuit of his adventure into Scotland having obtained a Commission from the King and in order to that Expedition was furnished with four ships from the Duke of Holstein some supplies from the King of Denmark and 1500 Arms from the Queen of Sweden and some Horse promised under General King from thence and a little neat Frigat âor his own conveyance some monies also were disburst to him which were transmitted to Amsterdam for other the like occasions and necessaries and there falsly and basely squandred away by one Colonel Ogilby an old friend and now entrusted by the Marquess in that affair unfortunately and unhappily enough a limb of the Designe being thus broken With these the Marquess as is supposed fearing lest he should have an express command to desist from his purpose because the Treaty betwixt the Prince and the Scotish Commissioners was now very neer a conclusion did precipitate himself and those that were with him into a most inevitable ruine Now all those great
such papers found with him whereupon he was brought before a Court-Martial and there Sentenced to be Hanged which was accordingly Executed on the 13 day of Iuly against the Old-Exchange in Cornhill where he Triumpht in his suffering See we next a piece of their Justice upon an inanimate Statue the old Kings Effigies in the Old-Exchange and the same with his Fathers at the West-end of Saint Pauls the first they had ridiculously in imitation of their more scelerate cruelty decollated but ashamed of that impotent Revenge had now ordered to be taken out of its Nich altogether and under the Basis thereof these words were decreed to be inscribed Exit Tyrannus Regum ultimus Anno Libertatis Angliae restitutae primo Annoque Domini 1648. Which stood a long while a Testimony of their Guilt and a memorial to Strangers of their impudent and bold-fac'd Treason which gave not onely Truth but even Time it self the lye For never was there such a thing as the first year of the Peoples Liberty under their Anarchical Usurpation The other Statue of the King at its fall from the Gallery at St. Pauls aforesaid light upon its Feet which was taken as a good and sure Omen and Presage that His Majesties glorious Memory Fame and Posterity should recover and dure magure all the designes and present prosperous successes of His and their Enemies Myn Heer Ioachim was Resident here about the same time from the Estates-General whom the Parliament because the said Estates had refused to give Audience to Mr. Strickland their Agent had sent home having limited his stay here to a prefixed time but at his departure gratified him with the free transport of some able Horses expressing likewise their desire of Amity at the same time they were somenting a Rebellion in France by offering aid to the City of Burdeaux then in Arms against their Soveraign hoping to make all the world follow their humour and that as their Libellers said the Government thereof might return to that Form and Constitution it obtained most universally before the Ambition and Tyranny of Single Persons within 1600 years last past had invaded and overthrown it the great motive and argument used to the Dutch for a neerer and strict alliance with that Plebeian Authority and Free-State The Duke of York had for a good while after the Kings departure continued at Iersey in which time Sir Richard Lane Lord-Keeper of the Seal died there until the latter end of August whereabouts he arrived at the Louvre in Paris bringing with him a considerable sum of Money the value of such Prizes as his Iersey-Frigats had brought in intending speedily to go thence into Holland which journey he pursued In London on the 22 of the same month Eusebius Andrews a former Royallist and Secretary to the Lord Capel being trepan'd a word newly heard in England being a Denomination of a leud sort of people that prostituted Strumpets under pretence of their being their Wives and having deprehended persons of Estates by a signe given in the Fact prosecuted them at Law to the recovery of great damages by one Bernards formerly his Major and engaged in a kind of Plot against the Parliament who having made a most accurate legal Plea against the lawfulness and Authority of the High Court of Iustice and notably defended himself was notwithstandnig Sentenced as a Traytor and had the favour onely of altering the manner of his Execution which was by the Axe on Tower-hill where he died like other Martyrs before him full of joy and blessed hope Sir Iohn Gell who had been one of their prime Champions in the beginning of the War was now in recompence of his service principally aimed at and endeavoured to have been wrought into the same Confederacy by the innocent sollicitation of Colonel Andrews and the partaking of his Man Captain Benson therein who was to that purpose onely concerned in this Plot of their own contrivance being both an old Reformade and so obnoxious to them for Arrears and inveterated discontent and a Presbyterian of which Party Sir Iohn was thought the onely Chieftain but he wisely and prudently declining all such matters save a professing himself the Kings Servant when opportunity should serve though the High Court of Iustice did what they could to bring him within the danger of their new Act of new Treason after several hearings at their Bar he was found onely guilty of Misprision of Treason for Concealing of it and to lose his Estate and suffer perpetual Imprisonment but Benson and Astly were Condemned and Benson October 7 Executed at Tyburn where he Loyally and Christianly taxing their treacherous cruelty and ingratitude finished his Course In Ireland the resolute Garrison of Tecroghan Governed by the Lady Fitzgarret with the same prudence and magnanimity as Latham-House was by the Countess of Derby in England having endured a very hard and long Siege rendred at last to the Parliaments Forces on the 26 of Iune and that as ennobled place for brave defence the Garrison of Duncannon where the famous Colonel Wogans Royalists resided together with Waterford surrendred on the 20 of August ensuing upon very good terms considering how the Plague and the Enemy had so destructively annoyed them and the Lord Preston the Governour Sailed into France Caterlogh and Charlemont two more important places followed the same Fortune and gave the Parliament such hopeful assurance of a sudden plenary Conquest that they were thinking of transporting some of their Foot thence into the West of Scotland where Sultan Cromwel was now practising hoping to gain Colonel Ker and Straughan a kinde of Puritan-Presbyterians of the last Edition over to their Party All in a Zealous way for the Gospel put up in Bags here at London for their new gude Brethren of the Rebellious Kirk of which fine juggle more anon Several jealousies animosities and discontents were now reigning among the Scots more supremely than the Kings Authority the Kings friends wholly discountenanced and laid by even Presbyterians themselves no way understanding one another some willing to give the King His Rights without more stipulation and Engagements others of them thinking they could not sufficiently debase His Authority and that it should wholly depend on the Kirk and to that purpose several irreverend Postulata were put to him beyond the Tenour of the Treaty at Breda and in fine that party prevailed so as that the Army then on foot was in effect but very little for the Kings Interest and Service but was wholly at the disposal of the rigid Covenanters This was not unknown to Cromwel who thereupon never ceased Scribling and Divulging of the English Armies good intentions to the people of Scotland With whom they have no Quarrel but against a Malignant powerful Faction who had brought in the King to the disturbance of the Publike National Peace and Frendship betwixt the two People and that he was willing by Conference to give
discourses were concerning his Death as either partie wished for he was brought very low but being recovered to some degree of Health by these Gentlemen it was presently sounded like a Proclamation and I have therefore thought fit to transcribe a piece of the Letter that the World may see what queer Hypocrites his Attendants like himself and his times were by the pious Nonsense and most Blasphemous Flattery of this Apocryphal Epistle If I knew the Secretary or Inditer I would Chronicle him for his Pen. Truly Sir His Life and Health are exceeding precious and I account it every day a greater mercy than other that we have his Life observing that every dispensation of God draws him nearer to himself and makes him more Heavenly and Holy and by consequence more useful for his Generation in the management of that power God hath Committed to him c. The Parliament of Scotland after long debate had Passed an Act of Olivion for all things done thitherto inviting thereby all Parties to joyn in carrying on the Service of King and Kingdom and a new Engagement with the Sacrament was taken by the Kings Army to adhere to him whereupon all Faction and Division seemed to be laid aside the Royalists and Kirk-men good Friends and the Earl of Calendar made Commander in chief of the new Levies and this newly made Peace and Friendship was no more than just necessary for the Wolf was at the Door and ready to seize In the interim it was thought expedient for some of their Horse to march to Dumfrize in the West of Scotland now deserted by the Enemy and to make more considerable Levies On the 7 of May Mr. Love Mr. Ienkins Mr. Drake and other Presbyterians had been seized by order of the Council of State in order to their Tryal before the High Court of Iustice as yet standing by Adjournments and having three times convened before them old and resolute Sir Iohn Stawel who so gravelled them that at the third Hearing they were forced to desist from the pursuit of his Blood and making report thereof to the Parliament they Voted the sale of his Estate giving him sad cause to complain with Iob With the Skin of my Teeth am I escaped making an exception to that general Rule Vestigia cerno omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum He first escaping Condemnation at that Tribunal Now the aforesaid Ministers with some Laicks Engaged in the said practise for the King were brought thither and Mr. Love first and principally charged with High Treason against the State for holding correspondence with the King and his Party and supplying them with Money contrary to an Act of Parliament in that case provided After several appearances in all which Mr. Love very undauntedly disputed the Court one Mr. Iackson a Minister denying to give in Evidence against him was fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet which made him more passionate and confident but the accusation being at last proved against him he desired Lawyers to assist him and had them assigned but they not having taken the Engagement would not be admitted to Plead Mr. Hales onely excepted In sum his main defence appearing to be equivocal in that he averr'd he did not personally correspond neither Write nor receive Letters nor send any or receive any Money to that use himself and to consist also of an allegation of his merits mixt with invectives against the Court and its Authority which he aided with Scripture-proof in an Oration of two hours on the 15 of Iune On the 5 of Iuly they proceeded to Sentence which was that he should be Beheaded the time appointed the 15 day of the same Month which by several Petitions of his Wife and others was respited to the 15 of August And in the mean time on the 18 of the same Month Mr. Potter an Apothecary in Black-friers and one Mr. Gibbons were tryed before the same Court Potter confessed and craved their mercy Gibbons pleaded matter of Law but on the 25 of Iuly they were both Sentenced as Mr. Love who not coming up to the Parliaments expectation of discovery and more humble submission and acknowledgement of their Authority and the King advanced into England had his Reprieve cassated by the Parliament who referring him to the High Court of Iustice they ordered his Execution with Gibbons on the 22 of August which was done on Tower-hill accordingly Mr. Love resolutely enough and I am loath to prejudice his Memory for his designe was good proof of his Loyalty Gibbons bewrayed something of pusillanimity as being a Taylor and after a kind of Sollicitor to Mr. Hollis for whose relation more than his own guilt he was thought fit to suffer for when the Blow was just a coming upon his Neck he turned his Eyes and Face towards the Executioner in hopes or desire at least of some Reprieve but present Death freed him with other troubles and sollicitudes of Life from that sudden anxiety And so we have done with our High Court of Iustice for this Session This High Court of Iustice was so much their darling that the antient Judicatures had little or no respect especially they could not endure any of those Courts that more immediately related to the King and as they had changed the name of his Bench to the Vpper-Bench so now that there might remain no footsteps of a Court or the Majesty of a Prince they abolished the Marshals-Court at Southwarke which was a kinde of a peculiar Kings-Bench for the Verge that is 12 miles circuit every way round the Kings Residence and Palace that there might be no annoyance nor disorder committed neer his Person It was resolved therefore Iuly the 8 that the Court of the Knight-Marshal held in Southwarke should be from and after the first of August next absolutely dissolved and taken away and no further Suit Action or Proceeding to be had thereupon About this time they passed another Act which as that struck at the Root of the Royalty of England so this lopt the Branches that clave to it viz. An Act for the sale of Delinquents Lands such as had with the utmost of their Lives and Fortunes served the late King in our unnatural Wars It will be needless and too bulky to name them particularly we will mention onely some of the principal the Duke of Buckingham the Marquesses of Newcastle Worcester Winchester the Earls of Cleveland Norwich Scarsdale the Lords Hapton Wilmot Langdale Gerard Cottington Iermin Percy Culpeper Hide and lastly the Lord Craven whose Princely Estate was enough to help them to a quarrel against him which they managed by a perjured Fellow one Faulkner into a suspition of Treason he deposing that the said Lord Craven had delivered a Petition to the King at Breda from him and other Cavalier-Officers wherein the Parliament were termed Bloody and Barbarous Rebels and Traytors This wretched subornation was laid
they might not seem what they were most sure of from the people to be wanting to themselves in this perplext and unconsulted occurrence The King departed from Sterling the last of Iuly and came into England by the way of Carlisle and upon His first footing there was Proclaimed rightful King of Great Britain and did thereupon publish his Declaration wherein He offered His free Grace and Pardon to be confirmed by an Act thereafter to all His Subjects of England of whatever Nature or Crime their Offences were excepting Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook the more immediate Murtherers of His Father and therewith prosecuted His march being Proclaimed in the same manner through all the Towns He passed The English that accompanied Him of Note were the Duke of Buckingham Earl of Cleaveland Lord Wentworth Lord Wilmot Colonel Wogan I finde him in all Services Colonel Matthew Bointon Major-General Massey and Colonel Graves Titus and Major Ashurst The King marched directly North-west to Lancashire whither Harrison with some of Lamberts men had got before Him intending to stop His further passage at Warrington to which service they had obliged and animated the new-raised Cheshire-Foot amounting to neer 3000 but both they and Harrison received a notable defeat at that place by the conduct of Colonel Massey who set them a forerunning with a greater speed than they had made hitherto to overtake the King to whom in this County came the Earl of Derby who landed at Wye-water from the Isle of Man though not with the same instantaneous or indeed any success which his great Ancestor the noble Stanly brought to His Majesties Royal Progenitor King Henry the seventh upon his like dispute for the regaining of the Crown With the Earl of Derby the King left some Forces of English under his Major-General Sir Thomas Tildesly to strengthen what Forces he brought with him and to countenance those Levies he was to make in that County where he was very well beloved both for his own and his Ancestors worth and most liberal Hospitality Massey was left here behind but presently recalled From Warrington the King passed with quick marches through part of Cheshire to Newport in Shropshire whence He sent His Invitations and Summons to Colonel Mackworth Governour of Shrewsbury and Sir Thomas Middleton Mackworth confidently refused directing his answer to the Commander in chief of the Scotch Forces not owning the King for so much as their Soveraign On the 22 of August the Van of the Kings Army entred Worcester some resistance being attempted to be made by some new-raised Forces under one Colonel Iames and by the influence of Baron Wilde but the Towns-men saved them the labour of driving them out and most joyfully welcomed these weary guests and such too as in 1645. had been extremely oppressive and intolerably burdensome at the Siege of Hereford but their gladness at the Kings presence and hope of his Restitution obliterated all other considerations and remembrances whatsoever The Mayor and his Brethren at the Kings Intrado did him the customary but most chearful Obeysances tendring Him the Keys and the Mace upon their Knees and bidding Him and His Forces welcome to this His Majesties Antient and Loyal City where the same day with great solemnity He was anew Proclaimed and the tired Souldiers most abundantly provided for being in all Scotch and English some 13000 who had marched 300 miles outright in 3 weeks In the mean time the Parliament had amassed a numerous Militia in all the Counties of England and had mustred the London-Regiments in Morefields with a full yet not quarter appearance of such as would fight for them against their Prince as they witnessed by that dumb silence which was obstinately kept upon the Reading of their Proclamation against the King and burning his Declaration at the head of every Regiment who were designed onely for the service and security of the City The Country-Troops in the mean time advanced and glad were the Members that the King stayed for them for nothing was more dreaded than His continued march to London which place would have soon ridded their fears upon an approach of the Kings Army but 30 miles further from Worcester but to prevent that as Essex did before at the beginning of the War whose first efforts took this way Cromwel by long marches through Newcastle Rippon Ferrybrigs Doncaster Mansfield and Coventry had interposed himself and joyned with his Army at Keynton where a General Council of all his Officers was held and a speedy advance to Worcester resolved on Lieutenant-General Fleetwood being dispatcht to bring up his Forces then on their way at Banbury the gross of all the Forces amounting to above 40000 effective Militia and all The King had Summoned in all the Country to his assistance and Rendezvouzed on the 26 of August upon Pitzfodder-Heath neer that City and went on with the Fortifications and rearing the Mount Of the chief of those that came in was the Lord Talbot after Earl of Shrewsbury and Colonel Howard Colonel Sir Edward Broughton and Captain Benbow and some adventurers from London who were forced to pass through the Parliaments Army nor could it be expected any could appear when such powerful Militia's were up every where so that all the new accessional strength the King received was no way considerable save for the Gallantry and Noble Loyalty of such as in these disadvantages owned His Majesties Cause and Fortunes Yet there was a Noble Person and some few of his partakers whom froward unkinde Fate had banded from one ruine to a worse and had added to that number of English at Worcester This was the truly Honourable Earl of Derby that was left behinde in Lancashire to raise that County whose Levies with that Force left him did not amount to above 1200 men though a little more time had rendred him formidable with those he was marching upon a designe to fall upon Cromwel's own Regiment quartering upon their march in Lancaster when in the nick comes Colonel Lilburn with 10 Troops of Horse sent by the General from York upon this very Service having with him two Regiments of the Cheshire-Foot and other additions of Horse The Earl was now in the midst of both these Parties and therefore resolved to fight with Lilburn finding his men couragious and desirous to engage though most Horse and in Lanes and accordingly charged them so furiously that he totally routed their first Troops and made an impression into their Body so far that they began to run while other fresh Reserves coming in they were forced to face about being annoyed with the Musquets yet did they renew the charge again and had they had but another Reserve they had in all probability won the day for it was upon a second Turn when another supply resisted the torrent of their Valour which left undeniable proofs of it self in the death of most of the Commanders of their Wounds in and
1644. which was the reason it was late ere he suffered and beyond his appointed time by three hours piously spent by him He most Christianly and worthy of all Memory gave up his Soul to his Redeemer being a little troubled at his longer detainer in this Vale of misery by the Executioner's missing the Signe And this sad occasion will direct us to a further account of those English Royalists who were taken in and after the same defeat among whom were besides others mentioned the Lord Grandison Sir Iohn Packington Colonel Blague the late Governour of Wallingford Colonel Broughton after Sir Edward and Colonel Massey who having escaped the fate of that day at Worcester and being tired with Riding having wounds yet green threw himself at last upon the Countess of Stamford engaging his parole for his true Imprisonment in her House till he was cured when he was removed likewise to the Tower and by a disguise shortly after made an escape The often-to-be-with-Honour-mentioned Colonel Wogan came off and got away untouched and recovered the Highlands with an indesistible courage of prosecuting the Kings quarrel even where Nature had fixt her non ultra while Iames Hinde the famous High-way-man some time before in England for Robbing of the Parliament-party adventuring Southward was betrayed in Fleet-street at his lodging and being from Newgate carried to the next Assizes of Abington and Worcester was at the last place when none would come in to swear against him either to Felony or Treason in the late Invasion as 't was called by the King betrayed by a Minister of their sending whose name I cannot get and by his Evidence Convicted and Hanged Drawn and Quartered in that City An Act for sale of Delinquents Lands had passed some time before now their Trustees with Boon Courage resolved to proceed the danger of voiding their Trusts and the Authority conferred on them being now past and some more Grist being like to come into their Mill by new Forfeitures wherefore they appointed the 8 day of September for their sitting down in pursuance of those powers granted by the said Act of Sale and chose Drury-house the Mansion of the Lord Craven for the place of their Sitting where they made several conveniencies for their Registers Accountants Cashiers and Clerks like to any other legal Office and there with other Estates exposed that Lord 's to common sale The Members had appointed the second of October for the Thanksgiving-day for this Worcester-Victory but because they would have it Celebrated with the greater solemnization by notice thereof throughout the three Kingdoms together they adjourned it till the 24 of the same Month in the Evening whereof General Popham one of their Admirals at Sea deceased on the 19 of August before attended by Cromwel and most of the Members was Interred in Westminster-Abbey This day was without any more scruple punctually observed the Presbyterians who were in the best Livings generally and indeed no body else scarce in any not offering to mutter against the Command of these their not-to-be-contended-with Lords and Superiors The Scotch affairs were now the consultation of the Parliament for having reduced that Kingdom to neer a plenary Conquest no English Forces or scarce a single man having passed so far as their Army was now Quartered and in Garrison the Civil Government was very fit to be considered of and how it should be managed In the beginning of the raign of King Iames much pains and endeavours were used by Him about the draught and accomplishment of an Union between both Kingdoms which might be so comprehensive as to be equally advantagious to both people and the Lord Bacon writ an Elaborate discourse and project of it but all came to nothing so many Scotch proud and surly difficulties were thereupon raised but now one Weeks work finished that mighty matter in a short Vote and Resolution That England and Scotland shall be Incorporated into one Commonwealth and Commissioners were named to go into that Kingdom viz. Oliver Saint Iohn Sir Henry Vane Alderman Titchburn Major Salway Major-General Dean Colonel Fenwick and General Monke before whose arrival onely Major-General Lambert and Dean were upon perambulation of the limits already gained and receiving submissions and granting terms several of the Scotch Nobility whose Ancestors thought the English Union a diminution of their Greatness and disdainfully rejected all tendencies thereunto came quietly in having made a bluster of doing something in the Highlands such were the Marquess of Huntly who to be repaired of some injuries done him by Arguile though his neer Kinsman thought good to prevent him by a timely acquiescence upon pact of having right done him in the said controversie the Lord Balcarris the Earls of Weems Angus and Calendar and Arguile himself was now in Treaty but to shew himself more considerable held it on foot almost half a year guarding his Castles the County and Levying Assessments like a Prince upon the Country The late Marquess of Montross his Children and Family were honourably taken into protection by General Monke Nor were the Royal Party half so averse and intractable to the English Usurpation for they had as they well hoped shaken off the insupportable Tyranny of the Presbytery and could hardly suffer more by any power whatsoever which might in time veer about unto its lawful Scepter as the Kirkmen and that brood who having lost their Arbitrary and most Tyrannical sway over the Consciences Estates and Lives of men raged at this Change the rather for having fooled and bewitched themselves into an opinion that they should be able by the Keys of the Kirk which they doubted not to re-establish in that Kingdom to oversway the Sword of the Sectary and to bring him to conform there being such a proximity in many of their Principles assigning to themselves that time-serving Complement of Oliver's The good people of the Nation of Scotland that were to be preserved in their Rights Civil and Spiritual and accordingly the Grandees of the Western Remonstrants took upon them to indict an Assembly and there they damned all which had been done by the late Parliament and Assembly and published a Fast with the grounds wherefore they were to humble themselves which being ridiculous Crambs of miscarriages about the King are purposely omitted and proceeded afterwards to that boldness as to expostulate and refuse in Print the Tender of Union for several Reasons which we shall hint in its proper place In Ireland while the Deputy Ireton lay before Limerick which Siege had continued most part of the Summer the Irish played pranks offering at a redemption of their losses but were too far spent for though Colonel Venables Hewson and Reynolds were out in parties to attend their motion Sir Walter Dungan Stormed Ross-Town and Castle-Iordan and had carried the Castle of Ross but for want of Provision which made him in hast to retreat into his Fastnesses where the Marquess
In this condition some 100 of the most faithful and cordial of the party Hungry Sleepy and Weary having staid no where reached Southmolton in Devonshire hoping at worst to get away by Sea but that night on the 15 of March their Quarters were beaten up by Captain Crook about ten a clock and some Houses forced but Colonel Penruddock maintained his quarters till he had Quarter promised and Articled which Crook afterwards unworthily and basely denied There were taken with him Colonel Iones a Kinsman of Cromwel's and Colonel Grove an old Royalist and some 60 other Prisoners and 120 Horse Sir Ioseph Wagstaff Mr. Robert Mason Esquire Clark and Mr. Thomas Mompesson escaped beyond Sea and so this unhappy effort was suppressed There were some shadows of the like at Rufford-Abbey in Nottinghamshire at Hessen-moor in York-shire neer Wrexham in Montgomery in Northumberland for which some were Executed and a like rumour of a designe upon Shrewsbury Sir Henry Slingsby in Custody and Sir Richard Maleverer and Mr. Hutton taken who fled for it and were retaken at Chester from whence they made a final escape and Sir Thomas Harris and the Lord Newport secured therâupon but all vanished and came to nothing and those mighty and pregnant hopes of the King's Restitution now in every mans Mouth and Wish proved frustraneous hac vice and Oliver very prajeant that he could thus over-reach the King in his own Designes This Treason came to be discovered to the King in this manner Some Gentlemen that were seized upon their coming home having visited his Majesty at Colen who was pleased upon their parting to go to the Stairs head with them and expressed some good apprecations of a designe which at their Examination were verbatim interrogated if they were not spoken at such a time Advice hereof was given to the King who remembring none but Colonel Tukâ and this Manning who light the Candle to be present at the parting the same time declared the whole matter to the Colonel who surprized with the news having protested his Innocency by the Kings command went directly to Manning's Chamber and not staying the opening of the Door forced it and found him a chawing of Papers and a Packet by him newly come from Thurloe but so agast that he knew not what to say His Father had been slain a Colonel in the Kings Service as is afore related he himself had been the Earl of Pembroke's Secretary and for these considerations admitted into this Trust which he so basely abused At the instance of the whole Court the King was prevailed upon to let him be shot in one of the Castles of the Duke of Newburgh to terrifie all other faithless and disloyal Servants and to satisfie for some of that Blood Cromwel had spilt upon the score of his Perâidy where he wretchedly and most abjectly died Cromwel had drawn 4000 Foot out of Ireland under Colonel Axtel and Sadler and 600 Horse were marching out of Scotland two Troops whereof came from Ireland by that short cut of Sea to Ayre but upon the quelling of this Western-rising they all were remanded In February happened another terrible Fire in Fleet-street neer the Horn-Tavern which begun in a Grocers house and consumed eleven more the like happened at Aberfoyle in Scotland but far greater for quantity Major Wildman a great Leveller was taken neer Marleborough inditing Declarations against the Protector and was committed to Chepstow and the Lord Gray of Grooby was brought Prisoner to Leicester but upon application made to Oliver not long after released Lockhart one of the Scotch Judges Married Oliver's Niece about this time and grew famous thereby in the process of the Rebellion The regulation of Chancery and Hackney-Coaches took force now Another horrible Fire in Thredneedle-street to the loss of 200000 l. and upwards One Harris that was Hanged afterwards in 1661. for Counterfeiting the Lord Chancellor Hide 's Hand and breaking of a house therewith by armed Souldiers and was one of those that carried a Javelin at the Kings Martyrdome about this time Cheated one Manton and other Merchants with a counterfeit License as from Cromwel for Importing some Oyls and Whalebone from Holland which were forbidden by the Act and got neer 1000 l. of them Commissary-General Reynolds was made a kinde of Major-General of North-Wales which Module obtained all over England soon after but this was the proto-type The insensible and uâregarded growth of all Heresie and Errour in this licentious Toleration which invaded the Church among many other most pernicious Tenets besides c. made the Socinian to pass unobserved in this Chronicle since it would have been an Augean labour to cleanse the Current of time from that Sink and Colluvious Filth of those Monstrous Opinions Upon this score the Racovian-Catechism its divulgation and the suppression of it by the Ececutioner's Hands in the Fire came to be omitted in the year preceding As likewise Biddle the famous Seducer and Teacher of those Blasphemous Principles who was by this Dumb Parliament as Oliver called it committed to the Gate-house and thence sent to a remote Prison and his Books Burnt in the same manner besides the Englishing of the Alchoran and the three Grand Impostors damned for shame mist his due observation which therefore are here added in the close of this year Anno Dom. 1655. THe Cabal of Cardinal Mazarine and Cromwel's designe was now visible in the West-Indies and that formidable and amusing Expedition displayed to those parts of the World The rich Conceits the Usurper cherished from thence appeared in those frequent divertisements he gave himself beyond his usual reservedness and from that more than ordinary Pomp and State he arrogated to himself like another Grand Seignior nothing but Golden Smiles to be seen in his Court where the solemn Cringe and the parasitical Glaver were as much now studied to humour this Greatness as matriculating and introducing Piety and austere Hypocrisie And never was such a strange mixture in the Arts of any Courtier as these Times beheld much like the mysteries of the as strangely framed and tempered Government With much impatience did all men indeed await the issue of this grand Affair and to be certain the Hours could not be less tedious to them to whom belonged the approaching Golden Age but Parturiunt montes The following abstract will admonish the great ones that Fortune is not to be over-tempted and that without the Concurrence of good Deliberation Conduct and Valour she is not always obliged to her Favourites But to proceed during the abode of the Fleet at Barbadoes the Generals Colonels and inferiour Officers were not negligent in their several stations General Pen caused the Carpenters of each ship to set up those Shallops which were brought over in quarters out of England and ordered the Coopers to trim and fit Water-Casks Besides he sent two Frigats to St. Christophers and Mevis for raising
laid upon him was too great for him to bear without His assistance that the English were the best people in the World and required therefore all tenderness and consideration of their Liberties c. The next day a Committee was appointed to attend him and receive his Answer which being insignificant but that the Protector desired satisfaction they upon report thereof resolved to adhere to their Petition and appointed a Committee of above half the House to attend him to receive from him his doubts and scruples touching any of the particulars contained in the c. and to offer Reasons for his satisfaction for the maintenance of the Resolution of the House and wherein they cannot satisfie to report The chief of this Committee were Whitlock Lord Chief-Justice Glyn Lord Broghall Lenthall Lisle Philip Iones Fines Strickland Thurloe Sir Richard Onslâw Sir Charles Woolsley c. These wanted not arguments from the Law from the Safety and Honour of the people to have a King under which Government it had flourished so many hundred years and from the safety and honour of his own person to all which they were answered from a mixt result of ambition and anger till the deliberated certainty of the latter had crusht the Airy conceit of the other The danger and his scruples consisted in these Objections First That the Title of King is a name of Office which any name that may imply the Supreme Magistrate hath the same signification and therefore no necessity of change Answer that the Name of a King is onely adequate to and comprehensive of the Office of the Supreme Magistrate It is a Rule that the Kings of England cannot alter the Laws by reason of their Name and that there is no obligation upon any other That the very Title was declared necessary in 9 Edw. 4. in the controversie betwixt him and Hen. 7. every action done by the King in possession was valid for it was his Jurisdiction Royal so in Hen. 7. the same of a King de Facto That there is a prius a former and primum a first the Name King had beginning with our Laws that for Protector there must be a new Law introductive of such a Title The other Objections of danger namely The difficulty in altering the same Government to a Commonwealth and the refusal of some Iudges and actings of others upon that ground that another Parliament might change those Resolutions the dislike of the good people and the bent of the Army that Providence had laid aside this Title of the King after seven years War and many of the chief of those instruments dissatisfied of which presently were answered with his own Logick of Providence which would was bound they would have said to wait upon these beloved and glorious necessities and that as to Dissatisfied Persons there never was any the most just and happy Government free from them But because the most material part and effect of our Civil-War came to Entitle it self to this grand Event it will be very just and equal to shew it in its full proportion and in its genuine sense from the Mouths of the then Lord Whitlock and Cromwel himself I omit to acquaint the Reader at large with the Protector 's Jealousie that they would fortifie his Title and dis-enable his Revenue for he demanded no less security to his Greatness than 190000 l. a year and the charge of the Spanish War besides The Lord Whitlock's Speech the 26 of April SIR I Have very little to trouble your Highness with so much hath been already spoken and so well that it will be hard for me or any other to undertake to adde to it onely the duty of my Employment and something due to your Highness occasions me to speak a few words to acknowledge with very humble thanks the Honour and Right which you have done this Committee by the clear and free Discourses and Conferences which they have had with your Highness and for your frequent Expressions and Testimonies of affection and respect to the Parliament whose sense in this I may presume to speak that never any persons met their Supreme Magistrate with more Love Duty and Honour than the Parliament have met your Highness with in their present Addresses which argument of love deserves the esteem and force which I doubt not but your Highness will put upon it I am fearful to be too tedious at any time especially at so late an hour and therefore shall speak but short to some things which I remember not to have been mentioned Your Highness was pleased at the last meeting to say that the Original Institution of the Title King was by common consent and that the same common consent might institute any other Title and make it as effectual as that of King This must be acknowledged but withal you may be pleased to observe that the Title of King is not onely by an Original common consent but that consent also approved and confirmed and the Law fitted thereunto and that fitted to the Laws by the experience and industry of many ages and many hundreds of years together whereas any other Title will be onely by present common consent without that experience and approbation for that experience which your Highness mentioned to have been of other Titles and the due administration of Iustice under them this experience is far short of the other and for the course of Iustice we have cause to thank that care which plac'd so good Iudges and Officers over us yet give me leave to say that in private Causes between party and party and in publick matters in nominal causes it was not easie to finde justice to be done by some Iurors and many questions have risen upon the occasion of those new Titles concerning that tender point of good mens satisfaction I think it requires a very great regard from us and I doubt not but those good People will be fully satisfied if they consider the Covenants Promises and Precepts which in the Scriptures are annex'd to the Name of King and although some have alledged that they belong to any chief Magistrate as well as to King yet no man did ever read the Original word translated otherwise than King neither do I finde the present Title once mentioned in the Holy Text. If the present Authority be a lawful Authority which I hope none of us will deny surely those good men who are so well-principled in Godliness will not forget that precept of submission to Authority and to be satisfied with that which Lawful Authority shall ordain Their Rights and Liberties are the same with ours and the Parliament cannot advise any thing for the preservation of the Peoples Rights but these good men are included which I hope will be no dissatisfaction to them In all the changes which we have seen there hath been a dissatisfaction to some yet still the Blessing of God hath gone along through all these Changes with those who carried on
who have laid so infinite obligations on me I wish also I had done it sooner for your sake for saving time and trouble and indeed for the Committees sake to whom I must acknowledge publickly I have been unseasonably troublesome I say I could have wished I had given it sooner but truely this is my Answer that although I think the Government doth consist of very excellent parts in all but in that one thing the Title as to me I should not be an honest man if I should not tell you that I cannot accept of the Government nor undertake the trouble and charge of it which I have a litle more experimented than every man as to what troubles and difficulties do befal men under such Trusts and in such undertakings I say I am perswaded to return this Answer to you That I cannot undertake this Government with the Title of a King and that is mine Answer to this great and weighty business A rumour was spread during this juncture which is too pertinent to be omitted that the King was sickly and languishing and of a melancholy lost spirit That his Brothers were Papists and professed ones which with the Act of annulling c. plainly shewed Cromwel's first Ambitious intentions but the truth was he had consulted the Oracle of the Army whom he had first Disciplin'd with Mutiny against the Civil Authority or any coercive Jurisdiction whatsoever and was therefore the best acquainted with their constitution and they were at such a pitch lately Sultâning of it in the powers of their Major-Generals that it was impossible or improbable to bring them to the Yoak of the Laws which he must by this Title undergo himself and Lambert was so stiff hereupon perceiving how Cromwel prevaricated from the Contract between them of his succeeding to this Lawless Protectorship after as to brave him with the Army-Interest to brandish the same Sword and to dispute the business in publick A whispering there was that his Lady was more familiar with Cromwel than suted with her Relation and that she discovered his secrets as well as her own insomuch that it became a Court-jest that Oliver's Instrument was found in my Lady Lamberts Petticoat but he was open enough of himself and of too pregnant and forward a Spirit to conceal his disgust It was time therefore as the Protector had served Major-General Harrison before to deal with Lambert and to dismiss him from Council and all Command but for fear of displeasing the Army not securing him which kinde of usage in the throwing off an old but disgusted Friend was credited into a by-word of Lambertizing Thus Oliver chose the better part betaking himself to the Interest of the Army in this Title of their own making and forming confiding more in the Arms and Embraces of the Souldiery than in the Legs and Complements of the Parliament and that a Cripple also In the midst of this Regal Scene appeared other Actors the Fifth-Monarchy-men were contriving an Insurrection and had had several Meetings in a house at Shoreditch where they were all along betrayed and seized and at last some Arms and Ammunition taken with them with a Standard of a Lyon Couchant of the Tribe of Iudah with this Motto Who shall rouse him up The fellows taken were Thomas Venner with their Scribe as they named their Secretary Gray Gowlet Hopkins and Ashton with others these named owe another more desperate and Trayterous account to this Chronicle About them was found a Declaration in Print with this Title The Principle of the Remnant c. A Miracle seconded this Millenary Phantasie one Machlin a Scotch Minister but Beneficed in Northumberland aged one hundred and sixteen years was restored by a wonderful reviviscency beyond all Poetical Fiction to his Teeth Hair and Eye-sight so that he was as able in his Body as he was at the age of fifty Several conjectures were made and applied to the Government of our Kings and the issue credited them Nor was the right of the King at any time so hopeful as now not onely from these unpracticable Counsels at home against his Crown and unextinguishable Authority but also from those Aids and Forces he had abroad and the assurance of a plenary conjuncture with the Spaniard to this purpose The Marquess of Ormond the Lord Wilmot the Lords Gerrard and Wentworth the Lord Taaf and General Middleton had their several Regiments Quartered up and down the Sea-Coasts and the Dukes of York and Gloucester had Commands likewise in Flanders To oppose this growing strength and to re-inforce the French who had been worsted last Summer at Valenchienne and lost other places Cromwel sent over 6000 men under the Command of Colonel Iohn Reynolds the Commissary-General in Ireland having trained and drilled most of them as Recruits to Colonel Berkstead's Regiment of the Tower and the like service and then drew them out for this Forrain expedition They Rendezvouzed at Black-Heath where Hugh Peters gave them a Sermon for encouragement and were shipped with a Months pay in hand at Dover by the care of Major-General Kelsey and landed at St. Iohns Bay within seven miles of Bulloyn whither Reynolds and their Major-General Morgan followed them towards the end of May they had new Red-coats given them for the terrible Name thereof Of all the desperate attempts that ever were made in the World against an Enemy by Sea this of Noble Blake's is not inferiour to any He lying upon the Spanish Coast had intelligence given him that the West-India-Fleet were arrived at the Canary-Islands and put into the Bay of Sancta Cruz on the Island of Teneriff Upon this the Fleet weighed Anchor on the 13 of April 1657. and by the 20 of the same Month were fair in the Offing of Sancta Cruz where they discovered how bravely the Spanish ships sixteen in number were barricado'd in this Bay where they lay in a manner Semi-circular Neer to the Mouth of this Haven stands a Castle sufficiently furnished with great Ordnance which threatned destruction to any that durst enter without its leave into the Harbour besides this there stood seven Forts more round about the Bay with six four and three great Guns apiece and united together by a Line of Communication from one Fort to another which was manned with Musqueteers To make all safe Don Diego Diagues General of the Spanish Fleet was not idle in making Provision for the best defence of his Armado he caused all the smaller ships to be mored close along the shore and the six Great Galleons stood farther out at Anchor with their Broad-sides towards the Sea It happened at this time there was a Dutch Merchants ship in the Bay the Master whereof seeing the English ready to enter and that a Combat would presently be commenced it made him fear that among all the Blows that would be given he could not avoid some knocks therefore to save himself he went to Don Diego and desired
Crimson-Velvet and adorned with White Red and Yellow plumes of Feathers being led by the Master of the Horse The Rear of this brave Show was brought up by the Protector 's Guard of Halberdiers the Warders of the Tower and a Troop of Horse The Effigies in this manner being brought to the West-gate of the Abbey-Church of Westminster it was taken from the Chariot by ten Gentlemen who carried it to the East-end of the Church and there placed the Picture in a most magnificent Structure built in the same form as one before had been on the like occasion for King Iames but much more stately There had been a Convention or Synod of the Independent Ministers resolved upon and called by Oliver in his Life-time to make out a Declaration and Confession of their Faith and to make a kinde of Canon or System of their Tenets and Doctrine he of all Religions most favouring this for by their means he began and carried on his Designes Sometimes he would offer to make an Agreement and reconcile and unite the Presbyters and them but when any such thing came in agitation he would be sure to divide them further than ever This Synod or Assembly met now at the Savoy and Prince Richard had the honour to have his Reign ennobled with a discovery of what Independency was and its consistency which the World never heard of before nor was it the wiser or better satisfied now it was fully informed There was another as notable a passage and as memorable Richard still followed his old Game of Hawking and being one day with his Horse-guard engaged in a flight the eagerness of the sport carried him out of their sight and his Horse Floundring or Leaping short threw him into a Ditch where by the help of a Country-man he was taken out and preserved he had carried himself very quietly thitherto to all about him this disaster and accident made him angry and to charge them roughly with this neglect telling them he expected more service and respect and would have it from them He began also to be weary of his Old Cavalier-Friends and to require their absence from his Court where now the Army beginning to swerve from their loving Addresses the Republicans and Lambert secretly tampering with them and undermining their Fidelity and Zeal to Oliver's house as it was timely enough discovered a resolution was taken to call a Parliament to meet the 27 of Ianuary next and by pretence of restoring the people to their antient way of Elections but really that the Court might command the more Votes the Burroughs had Writs also seât to them and the Elections were all made in the ancient way onely thirty Members were called by Writs from Scotland and as many from Ireland according to the late Combination of the three Nations into one Common-wealth This new kinde of Parliament being met at the time and place appointed having heard a Sermon of course at Westminster Abbey the young Protector also in State coming to the other House and making a Speech which was seconded by Fiennes who began with a gross ridiculous flattery though designed What can a man say after the King a quotation borrowed from the Proverbs God had so well ordered the Elections notwithstanding the practices of men that their English spirit quickly appeared both against Impositions from Court and Army And though their Counsels were at first interrupted with an Act of Recognition of the Protector prepared and brought in by the Court which took up the first fortnight of their time upon the very point of Recognition yet they were at length extricated from that difficulty by the Expedient of an honest Gentleman in passing these Votes on Munday the 14 of February 1658. without any division or Negative Resolved That it be part of this Bill to Recognize and declare his Highness Richard Lord Protector and Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging And 2. That before this Bill be committed the House do declare such additional clauses to be part of this Bill as may bound the power of the Chief Magistrate and fully secure the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and the Liberties and Rights of the people And that neither this nor any other previous Vote that is or shall be passed in order to this Bill shall be of force or binding to the people until the whole Bill passed Their next work was to appoint a Committee for inspection into the Accounts and Revenue of the Commonwealth which had been lamentably squandered and wasted ever since 1648. and twelve Members versed in matters of account whereof Mr. Scowen was in the Chair were selected for this work and fully impowered for the work they had in hand in order to the retrenching and lessening the charge of the Commonwealth On Saturday the 19 of February they proceeded in the Act of Recognition and resolved That it shall be part of this Bill to declare the Parliament to consist of two Houses And had afterwards several days debate by order concerning the bounding of the Chief Magistrate's power and the Bounds and powers of another House in relation to the former Votes but could come to no resolution thereupon the Court-party stickling hard for the Powers given them by the Petition and Advice and the honest Patriots of the House whose weighty Reasons then convinced the Commonwealth-party to go along with them denying it to be a Law being obtained by force and Exclusion of above a hundred Members in the year 1656. by which force also the Purse was taken from the Commons by setling a Revenue of 1300000 l. a year in perpetuity of the Command of the Single person and the ruling Members of the other House being most of them Officers of the Army and Courtiers which being allowed for Law the people would have been absolute Slaves to their power the Purse being stolen from the Commons as aforesaid Whilest the Temper of the House was thus tried and they appeared sufficiently to be English men divers of the Members of Scotland and Ireland joyning with them in the same resolutions By the joynt advice of the Court and Army-party the question of Transacting with the persons sitting in the Other House as an House of Parliament was set before them upon pretended grounds of Law and Necessity and by Arguments of Force and Interposition from the Army and of impossibility to proceed in any thing without the said Other House This attempt was as stoutly opposed for fourteen days by the moderate honest Patriots of the House as the former the undoubted right of the antient Peers asserted and all the said grounds and Arguments confuted except that of Force which was not to take place with any thing like a Free-Parliament of English-men But in the close of the fourteen days debate wherein much of the Honesty Ingenuity and Courage of the English Nation did appear seeing all
Loyalty the Bonfires continuing till day-break fed by a constant supply of Wood and maintained with an equal excess of gladness and fewel Thus far this memorable and miraculous Affair hath carried me not willing to break off the gladsome speculation and review of his glory and happy Influences I must now a little retrospect to what passed at home in the Parliament and Kingdome Several Acts were in agitation one for removing and preventing all questions and disputes concerning the Sitting and Assembling of this present Parliament as also that of Oblivion and Indempnity and another for Sales and Purchases and in the mean while it was ordered by the Lords That a stop be put to the demolishing defacing or committing wast in any Houses or Lands belonging to his Majesty and that no Wood nor Timber should be felled and the like done in the Lands belonging to the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Craven and Sir Iohn Stawel The Commons ordered Ten thousand pounds to be sent as a present to the Duke of York also that the Scotch Colours taken at Preston Dunbar and Worcester and hung up in Westminster-hall should be taken down which was accordingly executed and the Kings Arms placed in the Courts of Judicature Col. Harrison one of the Kings most malicious Judges was apprehended in Staffordshire and brought up to London and by his Excellencies Order Committed to the Tower while Whitehall was then a preparing for his Majesty The House of Commons taking into consideration the business of the Piedmont-Collection-money declared their detestation and abhorrence of the diversion of the said Money from the charitable uses to which pretendedly it was designed The King was Proclaimed with great joy throughout the Nation while divers of the Kings Judges out of consciousness of their guilt escaped beyond Sea In Ireland also the King was by the Convention there Assembled Proclaimed with the usual Ceremonies Several of the eminentest of that Nation were also ordered to be sent to his Majesty in the name of that Kingdome with a present of Four thousand pound to the Duke of York so sympathetically did the Irish Harp move with the same touches on the English The most Illustrious Princes the Dukes of York and Gloucester went to the House of Lords and there took their places whither the next day came the King himself by Water in the Brigandine which brought him aboard the Charles from Holland the Yeomen of the Guard making a lane the Heralds at Arms in their rich Coats the Maces and the Lord General Bare-headed before him being seated the Commons were called to whom the King in a Speech pressed very much the Act of Oblivion and Signed some Bills viz. One for Confirmation of the Parliament Another for the Tax of Seventy thousand pounds per Mensem for three Moneths from the 24 of Iune A third for continuance of Process and Judicial Proceedings and then returned to Whitehall where he chose the Lords of his Privy Council among whom were several of the Long Parliament His Majesty also graciously and judiciously provided for the Benches and Courts of Judicature for the Chancery the Lord Chancellour Hide for the Rolls the Lord Culpepper who soon after dyed and the place was by the Kings favour bestowed on Sir Harbottle Grimstone for the Kings Bench Sir Robert Foster Justice Mallet and Sir Thomas Twisden in the Common-Pleas Justice Atkins and in the Exchequer Sir Orlando Bridgeman Sir Ieoffry Palmer Attorney and Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor-General Mr. Iohn Heath son of Sir Robert Atturney to the Dutchy But of this a fuller account Several Persons guilty of the Murther of King Charles the First making their escapes beyond Sea a Proclamation drawn up by the Parliament was published by his Majesty summoning the persons therein named who sate gave Judgment and Assisted in that horrid and detestable Fact to render themselves within Fourteen days after the Publication of that His Majesties Royal Proclamation to the Speaker or Speakers of the Parliament or to the Lord Mayor of London or to the respective Sheriffs of the Counties of England and Wales and that no person should presume to conceal or harbour them under misprision of Treason whereupon divers came in and submitted and were secured in the Tower Several Addresses were made to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of all the Counties congratulating his Majesties Restitution to his Throne and Kingdoms and testifying their exceeding joy and willingness to maintain his Majesties Royal Person and Authority Divers eminent persons for their service and affection to his Majesty were honoured with Knighthood The House of Commons ordered that others besides the Actual Judges of the King should be excepted out of the Act of Oblivion which was now very far proceeded in as namely Andrew Broughton Phelps Iohn Cook Hugh Peters and Edward Denby This so affrighted others who had a hand in that execrable business that Colonel Iohn Hutchinson a Member in this Parliament and Colonel Francis Lassells Petitioned the House confessing their guilt and withal the Artifices that were used to draw them in and by this submission obtained Pardon upon some forfeitures Hugh Peters was taken about this time in Southwarke at first he denyed his Name but being brought before Sir Iohn Robinson then made Lieutenant of the Tower he was known and acknowledged himself and was there secured The Parliament thought not themselves nor the people of England freed from that guilt and punishment which our unhappy times had contracted unless they laid hold on his Majesties Grace mentioned in his Declaration from Breda and therefore Resolved That the House doth declare that they do in the Name of themselves and all the Commons of England lay hold on his Majesties gracious Pardon mentioned in his Declaration with reference to the excepting of such as shall be excepted in an Act of Pardon and accordingly a Declaration was made and presented to the King by Master Denzill Hellis His Majesty was graciously pleased to signifie his readiness and willingness to comply with that his Royal Word and gave direction for a Proclamation to that purpose In the mean while several of the eminentest in Offices under the Usurpation to make sure of this Grace offered from Breda got their particular Pardons exemplified under the Great Seal of England as they were well advised by the notoriety of their Guilt and their distrustful Consciences to secure and discharge which trouble the King was more than ordinary pressing for a speedy Passing of the Act of Oblivion as on the other side his Sentiments of those services to his Restitution gave him the immediate resolutions of dignifying those Illustrious Personages who most instrumentally and principally did accomplish it And therefore on the 12 of Iuly he honoured the most noble General Monck with the Titles of Duke of Albemarle which Dutchy formerly was appropriate to the Blood Royal and was extinct in the Reign of Henry the
the least of his present Majesties Felicities in his Restitution that he should parentate in this solemn manner to His most vilely and rebelliously abused Father That his justice might appear equally as resplendent as his clemency to the lesser guilt of his undutiful people in not suffering his innate goodness to be wrought upon so far that this unexampled parricide should pass with an unexampled impunity since the Parliament in detestation and to wipe away the stain of that perpetration had given up these persons following as Sacrifices to the Law and the Honour of their Country On the Ninth of October The Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer met at Hicks's Hall of whom were several of the chief Nobility the Lord Mayor and the Judges Sir Orlando Bridgman Lord chief Baron sitting in chief the Counsel were Sir Ieffery Palmer the King's Attourney Sir Heneage Finch Solicitor-General Sir Edward Turnor the Duke of York's Attorney and Serjeant Keeling Windham c. The Grand Jury being Sworn Sir William Darcy Baronet their Foreman Sir Orlando gave them the Charge declaring the purport of their Commission to Try those excepted persons out of the Act for their Treason in Murthering the late King of blessed memory upon the Statute 25 Edw. 3 d. by which it was made Treason to compass and imagine the death of the King which he largely learnedly and eloquently opened the Statute being but declarative of the Common Law Which ended Thomas Lee of the Middle Temple Gentleman was called to give the names of the Witnesses forty two in number the chief of whom was Sir William Clerk the Duke of Albemarle's Secretary who took the Proceedings of the High Court in short-hand Mr. Masterson Minister at St. Clements Danes then of that Party Col. Hunâks Griffith Bodurdo Esq Stephen Kirk Col. Matthew Tomlinson Iohn Rushworth Esq Sir Purbeck Temple William Iessop Esq Mr. Coitmore and Anthony Mildmay Brother to Sir Henry one of those Criminals Next day the 10 of October the Court by Adjournment sate in Justice-Hall in the Sessions-house in the Old-bayly and the Prisoners having been brought the same day from the Tower to the Gaol of Newgate the Keeper was commanded to bring down Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham and Colonel Harrison and set them to the Bar where they were commanded to hold up their hands but Harrison desiring to be heard first answered I am here he at last held up his hand then the Indictment was read in these words That he together with others not having the fear of God before their eyes and being instigated of the Devil did maliciously treasonably and feloniously contrary to his due Allegiance and bounden Duty sit upon and condemn our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First of ever-blessed Memory and also did upon the Thirtieth day of January 1648 signe and seal a Warrant for the Execution of his Sacred Majesty where also c. To which Waller after some debate pleaded guilty Heveningham and Harrison Not guilty Then Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millingham Robert Tichburn Owen Roe and Robert Lilburn after the said Indictment read were bid to plead who did except Henry Marten who said he was not excepted out of the Act of Indemnity the person there being Henry Martin not Marten but the Court answered A misname would not be pleadable Mr. Sollicitor citing a Case in the difference of names betwixt Bagster and Baxter All of them insisted for Counsel Then Adrian Scroop Iohn Carew Iohn Iones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement and Iohn Cook were likewise set to the Bar where seeing the Court insist upon a present Plea as the rule of the Law or else Judgement pleaded to the Indictment Not guilty Carew making this salvo Saving to our Lord Iesus Christ his Right to the Government of these Nations Next Edmund Harvey Henry Smith Iohn Downs Vincent Potter and Augustine Garland and after them George Fleetwood Simon Meyn Iames Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wait Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel who all but the last presently pleaded and would be tried by God and their Country Peters would be tried at first by the Law of God having pleaded Not guilty no not for a thousand worlds but the people laught him out of it Axtel not till informed of the danger of a mute and that no man can justifie Treason if the matter which he had to say be justifiable it is not Treason if Treason it is not justifiable and therefore he must go to the ordinary way of guilty or not guilty Harrison was the next day set to the Bar with Scroop and âour more but they severally challenging the Judges the Court ordered to try them singly and proceeded with Harrison who excepted his full number thirty five of the Jury and the other twelve being sworn Mr. Sollicitor-General much Rhetorically laid forth the nature and atrocity of the Fact That the very thoughts of such attempts were in all Ages and among all people counted an unpardonable Treason as the story of the two Eunuchs against Ahasuerus Voluerunt insurgere they only had a Will to rise up against him and the testimony of Tacitus qui deliberant desciverant who consult of this Fact are Rebels already That it is not the sole interest of one Royal Person concerned in this parricide but all of the Nation That Sir Edward Cooke hath a Notion that to the perfection of this Law of the 25 Edw. 3. a time to be limited to the accuser was requisite but how great a mistake that was would appear by this That this Treason had so long out-faced the Law and the Justice of the Kingdom that if there had been a time of limitation there would have been no time nor place left to punishment and so the guilt would have stuck upon the Kingdom and this wickedness grown up into an impunity That the scope of the Indictment was for the compassing of the King's death the rest as usurping power over the King's person the Assembling Sitting and Judging are but as so many overt Acts to prove the intentions of the heart all which are not necessary to be proved against every particular person That every other overt Act besides what is laid in the Indictment as incouraging of the Souldiers to cry Justice and Execution or preaching up the Work as godly may be given in evidence against the guilty persons whose Crime was of that unmeasurable impiety that it could neither be heightned by any aggravation or lessened by any excuse Then he traced the steps and gradations to this Villany from the Treaty in 1648 and shewed the wicked Circumstances and Formalities thereof particularly he declared this person of those living twenty six being already deceased and six or seven reserved to other penalties and a sorrowful repentance and twenty nine more before their Lordships to be the onely chief Leader Captain and Conductour in this horrible Treason and hinted at his sawcy demeanour to the King in his bringing
him to his Tryal his irreverend speeches and carriages then towards the King at his malicious designe of blacking him to the people Sir Edward Turner used the like harangue and then the Witnesses were sworn and after evidence given Mr. Windham closed it with this Speech That the Indictment was for compassing the King's death there lay the Treason for there is not one word in that Statute of killing the King insomuch that if after that sitting upon the King they had acquitted him yet would it have been Treason still that this imagination of Harrison's was plainly proved and the more confirmed by his mention of blacking the King that he had confessed he sat and signed and therefore there was no difficulty in the Verdict This saying of his of blacking the King was proved by one Mr. Nutly who having got admittance into the Committee that drew up the Charge against the King over-heard him say those words upon a dispute of contracting the said Charge which Harrison rejected for this Reason as knowing calumniare fortiter aliquid haerebit of a multitude of imputations some of them would stick It will be a trouble cumberance and labour to the Reader to particularize any more Speeches of the King's Counsel or their shewing the Record of the Warrant for Execution c. to every one of the Prisoners or the Courts denying the Prisoners Counsel because it is very neer the same throughout and therefore there is here subjoyned only a breviate of each persons defence referring the more unsatisfied and curious to the Original and entire Copy of them Harrison began his by a strange argumentation from the notoriety of the Fact that it was not done in a corner that he believed God was with his servants in those days however it seemed good to him to suffer this turn to come upon them that he had desired to know the minde of God in it but he had received no conviction of the evil of it but rather assurance professed the harmlesness of his Nature to Man Woman and Childe that he followed not his own judgement but his Conscience to the Lord that he had suffered imprisonment because he would not turn aside from the Cause to Oliver and refused his temptation of sitting at his right hand That what he had done in this matter was by authority of Parliament and that this nor any other inferiour Court hath any Cognizance or Jurisdiction on that and therefore they could not question him that acted in obedience to that Authority and that he did act in the fear of God Hereat the Court and Auditory were agast and cried Away with him for he made God the Author of his wickedness and as to the pretended Authority and his Actions he warranted thereby It was answered that if the Lords and Commons in full Houses had then taken upon them such Authority it had yet been Treason For the Lords and Commons do not nor never did constitute a Parliament without the King but that there was not an eighth part of the House of Commons that contrived and ordered this Treason And to this purpose spoke Mr. Annesly now Earl of Anglesey and Mr. now Lord Hollis ripping up the violence and insolence of this Prisoner and his Associates in forcing the House of Commons and secluding them and other Members thereof in December 1648. That this discourse was to infect the people and Sir Edward Turner added that he had the Plague all over him and the whole Court unanimously and severally rejected that treasonable Tenet of an Authority in both or either Houses without the King and over-ruled that Plea To which Harrison was instant for Counsel to assist him After some interlocurions he began a discourse of the War the Kings setting up his Standard against the people and that God is no respecter of persons and shedding of innocent blood and being interrupted there avouching the same Authority again he profest his abhorrence of blacking the King aequivocated with his bringing the King to his Tryal from Hurst-castle for he was commanded to do it from the General At last he urged his impreparation for his Tryal being six months a close Prisoner but that he had some Acts of the Parliament ready to produce to his justification and here he concluded And Judgement being demanded the Jury gave in their Verdict which they did without stirring from the place and Sentence was past upon him in these words You are to be led back to the place from whence you came and from thence to be drawn on a Hurdle to the place of Execution and there you shall be hanged by the Neck and being alive shall be cut down your privy Members to be cut off your Entrails to be taken out of your Body and you living the same to be burnt before your eyes and your Head to be cut off your Body to be divided into four parts and your Head and Quarters to be disposed at the pleasure of the Kings Majesty And so he was returned to Newgate in order to Execution Colonel Adrian Scroop was next set to the Bar and after some challenge of the Jury which as Harrison did before and all the rest after was to pick out the meanest of them afraid of the Gentry over whom they had tyrannously and insolently Lorded and convicted by the same evidence of sitting in the High Court and subscribing the Warrant c. As also by the testimony of Sir Richard Brown the Lord Mayor Elect for the next year who witnessed that since the Return of the King in some accidental conference he seemed to allow and approve of the Fact by saying Many people did not think it such a heynous matter or that some be of one minde and some of another which he denied now to have expresly said but bewailed the misfortune of that Encounter with Sir Richard for whereas before he was not excepted out of the Act of Indemnity the very last day it passed he was by that means even then excepted He justified that Authority and the Fact committed by that Authority but not the person protested he had no malice against the King and that it was an errour of Judgement not of his Will that he took the Parliament's Authority for valid but over-ruled by a precedent Tryal acquainted the Jury that he lay under a great prejudice by the Fact and desired them to consider his Case as they would their own and hinted at the benefit of the Proclamation he was found likewise guilty and sentenced Iohn Carew was next set to the Bar who rambled into the discourse of Harrison talkt of the Fear of God and the Authority of the Parliament by which he acted that he declined it at first but being put in the Act for Tryal could not disobey the Lord nor the Parliament acknowledged his sitting and signing but not his guilt therein but highly vindicated the Parliament and their Power to the Jury but was sentenced as the rest
of Peterborough designed for that Command should arrive And for the Queens own Transportation the Royal Charles which brought the King from Holland was sent with this Fleet. In the mean while the Queen of Bohemia the King's Aunt died February 13. aged 66 years having been out of England 49 years and survived all the misfortunes of her Family which almost from the time of her Marriage in 1612. on St. Valentines day on the eve of which she now died had fallen very thick and chiefly and solely upon it She now came to her rest among her Royal Ancestors and Relations whose Glories and Honours she left more flourishing and greater than ever Her Decease was followed with a most violent and Tempestuous Winde February the 18th by which several persons were killed and much damage done in all parts of the three Kingdoms and in Forrain Countries which might give notice that all those Troubles and Calamities this Princess had suffered and by which most parts of Europe were Tempested were quite blown over and she gone to her last Repose A very unfortunate accident happened the same Month The Lord Buckhurst but now mentioned his Brother Mr. Edward Sackvile Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Son and Heir to the Lord Bellasis Mr. Bellasis Brother to the Lord Faulconbridge and Mr. Wentworth Son to Sir George accompanying an acquaintance out of Town upon their Return being informed there were High-way men and Thieves in the Road meeting a Tanner and suspecting him for one of them after some resistance made by him killed him for this mischance they were Arraigned at the Kings Bench Bar but by the Iury quitted it not being probable that Persons of their Estates and Quality would set upon a single Person to do him injury but it might happen meerly by a mistake and good intent of freeing the Road. The Parliament had under their consideration the bringing of Lambert and Vane to their Tryal being excepted out of the Act of Oblivion as main Authors and Contrivers of those Troubles in the Rebellion and therefore desired His Majesty that he would be pleased to send for them from their remote Prisons they were in that they might be brought to Tryal that such bold Treasons might not pass with impunity On the other hand that they might testifie their acknowledgments to the Duke of Albemarle of his great merit and services in the Redemption of his Country they by Act now resolved to settle some Mannors and Lands upon him and confirmed the Kings Grants and Patents or what should afterwards by Grants or Patents be conferred on him The Duke of Ormond was likewise presented with the sum of Thirty thousand pounds in Bills of Exchange as a gratuity from the Parliament of Ireland in respect of the Services he had done that Kingdome in the same capacity before where also the Bill of settlement of Lands was the sole Affair in Debate the difficulty about Claims of the English and Irish intricating and perplexing the Bill so that the Dukes presence was very much desired as by whose prudence understanding and competent knowledge together with his equal relation to both Parties that tedious Work could only be accommodated which brings with it the conclusion of the year 1661 the 14 th year of the King Anno Domini 1662. THE beginning of this and the end of the last year was remarkable with a very notable Providence which for the more compact account of it is totally referred hither It hapned that among other the Fugitives for the parricidial Conspiracy in the Death of the King Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Col. Barkstead which had traversed most parts of Low and some of High Germany where they had for a while resided at the City of Hanow under borrowed names about the beginning of March were returned to Delf in Holland having appointed their Wives to meet them there to understand their Affairs in England but these their Letters being intercepted and opened by the vigilance of Sir George Downing His Majesties Resident at the Hagâe they were all three taken together at Barkstead's and Okey's Lodging just as Corbet after Supper was going home by the Thief-takers and the Marshal of that Town Okey offered a resolute Escape Barkstead denyed himself and desired he might fetch his Cloak in the next Room Corbet as he said having taken Physick that day fell a Purging upwards and downwards in a very strange manner Sir George himself was present at the seizure and had them that Night secured in the common and ordinary Prison and thence conveyed them by the States order on Board the Blackmore Frigot then accidentally at Helveât-Sluce having only brought over Mr. Armorer sent from the King to the Lords upon special occasions About the end of March they came to Gravesend where Sir Iohn Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower by Warrant from his Majesty with a Guard carried them to the Tower whence on the 16th of April they were brought to the Kings Bench Bar and there demanded what they could say for themselves why they should not die according to Law the Act of Attainder being read to them To which they alledged they were not the same persons mentioned therein whereupon Witnesses being ready were called and a Jury impannelled who gave verdict that they were the same persons and so the Lord Chief Justice Foster proceeded to Sentence which was the same with the former complices and sufferers for that Fact and was Executed on Saturday April the 19 at Tyburn where they with better ends than any of the rest acknowledged their resolved acquiescence under the Kings Government as of God and exhorted others to do so especially Colonel Okey a person that for his valour and other good qualities was pitied by all men for his being so blinded and ensnared in this Crime to his destruction They all pretended no malice to his late Majesty and their mistake of the Parliaments Authority for good and sufficient They were all three Hanged Bowelled and Quartered but his Majesty was graciously pleased out of regard to Colonel Okey's Christian and dutiful carriage to return his Quarters to his Friends to be interred which was done in the Chappel of the Tower by the Rites appointed in the Common-Prayer to prevent the unruly concourse of the Fanaticks who assembled in multitudes to accompany his Corps insomuch that the Sheriffs were forced to disperse them Barkstead's and Corbet's quarters were set upon the Gates the Head of the former upon a Pole on Traytors Gate in the Tower and Corbet's on London-Bridge For this kindeness and civility of the Dutch States the King ordered his Resident to thank them in his Name from which parts several of the Fanaticks that fled thither upon the Kings Restitution about this time travelled into Germany an invitation being published from one of the Princes there for all Nations to come and inhabit with full priviledges and immunities certain waste places of his
Dominions and an invitation was sent hither from them to others of the same principles to follow them Her Majesty Queen Catharina was now expected to be at Sea and therefore his Majesty came to the Parliament and acquainted them with the same and desired that as a Complement to her they would cause the Highways and Streets of London to be fitted and cleansed against her reception and to make what hast with convenience they could with the dispatch of those Bills under their consideration And soon after to remedy the perversness and obstinacy of the Quakers against taking the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy and their meeting and Conventicling publickly together to the pestring of the prisons whither they were Committed and their Enthusiast tricks one Thomas formerly a Lieutenant of that party poysoning himself and one Powel a Widdow poysoning of her Son-in-law and another person a Bill was passed against them with the said Bill for High-ways now ready for the King's assent which he gave by his Commission to the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Duke of Albemarle and Earl of Manchester By this Act several inconvenient passages in London are to be enlarged and Houses that jutted into the street and obstructed the ways were to be pulled down as the upper end of Ludgate-hill on the South-side of the street and elsewhere Having but onely mentioned the Kings Declaration of his Marriage for his choice whereof both the Lords and Commons returned him their thanks it will not be impertinent in this place to give a larger and fuller account thereof This Royal Bride Heaven had more especially prepared and predisposed out of the Royal Family of the Kings of Portugal which having suffered an Ecclipse by the powerful interposition of the Spanish Monarchy for the space of neer an hundred years was now revisited in its Splendor in the assumption of Iohn Duke of Braganza the fourth of that Name King of Portugal by almost as miraculous a Turn as that of our Captivity by the Kings Restitution So Providence was pleased to adapt and fit both these Princes Conditions and Estates to this happy juncture of them in this Royal and happy Estate This was designed by King Iohn in the beginning of our Troubles and of his Reign and was one of the first Acts of State he did with us managed here by Don Antonio de Souza his Embassadour hither who was very instrumental in transacting His late Majesties Affairs of Forraign Concernments receiving and returning his Dispatches One Ingredient no doubt in point of Civility and Honour among those other of Affection and Interest that make up this Princely Match These were something as also his Majesties reflection on his Personal picque with the Spaniard who had very much disobliged him in the time of the Usurpation by courting and owning his Rebels to satisfie himself of some pretended injuries done him by his Grandfather and Father by loss of his Spanish Fleet in the Downs which the King had a most inviting opportunity here to remember Upon the return of the Conde de Mello as aforesaid with the Articles of Treaty and Marriage to Lisbon they were presently noysed about the City and more loudly reported from all the Cannon in the River both Portuges and Forraigners by which means without further Proclamation it was publick about the Town who like over-joyed People betook themselves to the presentest yet most solemn de monstrations thereof by Bonfires and Entertainments c. the Streets resounding with Healths al Re del Grand Brettanna which continued that Night and the next Day Not long after by an Express from England from the King to her she was Complemented with the Stile of Queen of Great Britain which put that Court into a new Splendor both to her Retinue and Attendance and all Honours and Duties done her as if she were actually Crowned It will not be much material to insist on all the other particulars viz. those several Messages sent and returned betwixt those two Royal Lovers together with the intercourse betwixt the Two Crowns in point of Alliance and Security nor the numerous resort of the English every day to Worship this Sun of the East and pay their Early Devotions to her It will be more unnecessary to relate those Romances and Fictions made by the Phanatick Crew at Home that there were a Fleet of Spaniards and Hollanders that lay ready in her way to intercept her Passage into England We will only mention the happy Arrival of that Fleet and the Royal Charles from England with Sir Richard Faâshaw sent to salute the Queen for his Majesty who now impatiently expected her Arrival as did the whole Nation together with him Just at the same time the Earl of Sandwich now the second time visited the Queen being appointed to attend her departure and to convey her into England the King her Brother and Mother with his Nobles and the whole Court in a solemn Procession and Cavalcade from his Palace where the English Gallantry there present assisted accompanied her till she Arrived at the River-side the Golden Tagus where she entred a Stately Brigandine and the Naval Triumphs commenced their Glory For as soon as the King and Queen were reimbarqued for Lisbon and returned with the discharge of all the Cannon the Fleet immediately with a fair wind and leading Gale began their course being as they past the River saluted by all the Block-Houses Forts and Castles with the imitation of their Thunder That Night and part of the next day the Wind and Weather was very propitious but then coming clear about and contrary it so retarded the Voyage that in a Fortnights time they hardly got into the middle of the Bay of Biscay where the Queens Majesty dispatcht away Mr. Montague Sir Tho. Sands and Sir Ioseph Douglas on the 29 of April at Seven at Night to give an account to the King of Her Condition which the untowardliness and averseness of the Wind had much altered by protracting her longing desires of meeting the King and also incommodating her by the tossing and topping of the Sea so that she lay sick for the most part of the Voyage until about Fifth of May with indefatigable working and skill the whole Fleet reached the Islands of Scilly the furthermost Western Dominions of England Her Arrival had been every day expected a fortnight before which caused the King to send down his only Brother the Duke of York Lord High Admiral to attend on her upon the Coast and to Complement her in his Name whereupon his Highness hasted to Portsmouth and on the Eleventh of May attended by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Suffolk and Chesterfield the Lord Berckley and other Persons of Quality went aboard the stately Yacht with which the City of Amsterdam presented the King to Coast about the Isle of Wight to meet her Majesty On the same day Sir Ioseph Douglas making towards Portsmouth with an Express from her Majesty to
the King was met by his Highness the Duke of York five Leagues off the Isle of Wight who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday morning about ten a Clock they discovered the Royal Iames but there was so great a Calm that they could not reach the Royal Charles till six at Evening No sooner had the General espied his Highness Yacht but he went out in his Barge to meet him the Royal Banner being all the while vayl'd till he was aboard When his Highness came into the Ship the Souldiers gave three several shouts and all the great Guns in the Royal Charles which from that time to the Queens Entrance had been silent proclaimed his Welcome after which several Ships of the Fleet paid him their Salutes Being conducted to her Majesties Cabbin he was placed in a Chair on her right hand where after several expressions of Joy for her Majesties happy Arrival on the Coast of England and having presented his Majesties high respects to and as exceeding Affection for Her his Royal Highness took his leave to retire himself to his Yacht for that Night and the next morning Sir Ioseph Douglas was again dispatched to the King in the illustrious Company of the said Duke of Ormond and Earls but was forced to Tide it thence and sometimes lay at Anchor and could not reach Portsmouth till the Evening Thirteenth of May from whence Sir Ioseph took Post leaving the Duke of Ormond to make preparation for the Reception of her Majesty That Night the Royal Fleet with the Princely Bride came to St. Helens point the Eastermost Promontory of the Isle of Wight almost opposite to Portsmouth from whence had it not been too bold an adventure to hazard her Majesty in that narrow Streight of Sea and in a Night-Tide they might have reached Portsmouth the next morning but making use of the Day-tide which served about Ten of the Clock on Wednesday the Fourteenth of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon where She was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour the Nobility and Gentry and Multitudes of Londoners in most rich Apparel and in great numbers waiting on the Shore for her Landing and the Major and Aldermen and the Principal Persons of that Corporation being in their Gowns and with a Present and Speech ready to entertain Her the Cannon and small shot both from round that Town and the whole Fleet Ecchoing to one another the loud Proclamations of their Joy The King having received the express of his Queens Landing prepared to be gone forthwith to Salute her upon her Arrival but his great Affairs of State and Bills to be ratified by him into Acts of Parliament which were not quite ready for his Royal Assent delayed him at Whitehall till Monday-night the 19 th of May having sent before him the Bishop of London who departed the Seventeenth in order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage aforesaid Which Bills being numerous and very important when passed into Acts set us right where we were the same time Twenty years designing and enacting Remedies against those Mischiefs which prevailed against the happy Estate of the Kingdome before such as their Act passed in the former Session against Armed or Army-like Multitudes and number of Petitioners which are not to exceed seven or eight and have as far as humane Wisdome can provided against the like dangers of our late Confusions There passed likewise many several private Bills for selling of Lands and alienating them for payment of Debts which gave his Majesty occasion to take notice of the depravity and corruption of manners in the late times and to declare that his goodness in passing them now should not be brought into precedent for the future and he himself would become an example of frugality and would provide sumptuary Laws against the Excess and Vanity of the Age whose looseness and superfluity did so sadly affect him But to return His Majesty having Signed all the Acts which are now so many wholesome and good Laws as no Age of our Fore-fathers can boast of to adorn and Honour his Queens Arrival posted away at Nine a Clock that Night with his ordinary Guards in the Earl of Northumberland's Coach Prince Rupert with him only to Kingston where he came soon after Ten and at the end of that Town entered into the Earl of Chesterfield's there set ready for him and the Duke of York's Guards to attend him and came before Twelve at Night to Guilford being Twenty five miles where he Lodged that Night and next morning Posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where he arrived about Noon and because of the Queens indisposedness which yet held her in her Chamber the King satisfied himself by giving her a Visit privately that day and then withdrew to his own appartments Yet it pleased God to restore her Majesty to such a degree of Health that she was able to Consummate the Marriage Sacred Rites which were performed in that Town in private after which the Nuptials were concluded there by his Majesties Bedding his Queen that night During the rest of the stay Visits were given to the Grandees of Portugal who came over with the Queen by all the English Lords and Ladies and by them again returned until the removal of the Court next week to Winchester thence to Farnham to Windsor-Castle and so to Hampton-Court where their Majesties took up the most part of this Summer 1662. as well for the Salubrity as Majesty of it being one of the most Magnificent Structures of all the Royal Palaces Here the Queen received the Addresses of all the Nobility and Submissions of the several Deputies for the Cities of England more particularly from the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London who by Sir William Wylde their Recorder who pronounced a Spanish Oration presented her with a Purse of Gold Iune 2. On the Twenty third of August she was in great Triumph brought by Water from Hampton-Court to finish her Voyage to Whitehall all the Companies in their Barges nobly set out attending the Lord Mayor at this Solemnity and several Pageants were placed upon the River and Speeches designed All which made a very noble sight illustrated by the rich and glorious setting out of the King's Barge About seven at night their Majesties arrived to that Palace as somewhat before the Queen-Mother being fetch'd and attended by the Earl of Saint Albans arrived at Greenwich where for a while after she resided till her setling at Somerset-House as the abode of her remaining Widdowhood The Parliament of Ireland had likewise agreed upon an Act for raising One hundred and twenty thousand pound in two years by Subsidies In Scotland six Bishops were Consecrated in the Abbey-Church of Holy-Rood-House at Edenburgh with great satisfaction and solemnity where also the King had gratiously Pardoned Lorn the Marquess of Arguile's Son his Life which he had forfeited by judgment
over the Severn Trent and Tine and Baston in Lincolnshire for a Sea-port to receive Succours out of Holland and other Foreign parts All the Gentry were to be secured and persons were dispatch'd abroad for assistance York they aim'd at but of Hull they absolutely despair'd as Walters affirmed who to give him his due dealt most sincerely Their pretences were to have been the opposal of Excise Subsidies c. to re-establish a Gospel-Magistracie and Ministry to restore the Long Parliament and lastly to curb the Gentry Clergy and Lawyers Fifteen of the seventeen first arraigned were found guilty the chiefest of whom was one Captain Oates Afterwards several others were arraigned who farther confessed how the Designe had been carried on by a private Committee at London That Lambert or Ludlow was propos'd for to have headed them That the Rising was to have begun in Ireland to have followed in England and then in Scotland Of these Cotton Denham and Atkins were the chief who all behaved themselves with a notorious insolence Cotton protesting that he valued his life no more than the Judge did his Handkerchief There was also among them one Corney a Preaching Anabaptist Most of them being convicted and condemned were afterwards executed some at York some at Leeds and others in other places Immediately after this Iames Turner a person for nothing more known than for the confidence of his behaviour came upon the Stage to plead for himself who had been a Sollicitor for others before he was Indicted for Felony and Burglary as one that had robb'd his own most intimate friend Mr. Samuel Tryon breaking into his house and binding him in his bed and then rifling away what he pleased in the house the matter of fact was so ill defended by a tedious Speech of his own that he was condemned and shortly after executed in Leaden-hall-street near Lime-street-end But to go on where this necessary digression interrupted me and to shew how the links of their treasonable Combination hung together at London shortly after was tried a Printer for having had a hand in Printing one of the most execrable Libels that was ever brought to light being a designe all at once upon the Life Honor Authority and Royal Family of the King wherein there was a general Call to a Rising in these very words If there be any City Town or County in the three Nations that will begin this Righteous and Glorious Work referring to the word Revolt they may be assured c. It was also ordered to have met the day appointed for the general Rising He was found Guilty of having advisedly and malitiously Printed the said Libel and was thereupon adjudged to be drawn hanged and quartered After him a Printer a Bookseller and a Book-binder were tri'd for a Misdemeanor found Guilty and fin'd the one a hundred Mark the other two forty Mark apiece all of them to stand in the Pillory and be return'd to Prison till the next Sessions and then to confess their faults in such manner as the Court should direct and to put in Security 400 lib. for themselves and 200 lib. for their Surety never to Print sell or publish any Book but such as should be by Law appointed The prementioned condemn'd Printer was executed accordingly The three others stood in the Pillory in Smithfield and before the Royal-Exchange their Offence being expressed in these words For selling and uttering malitious scandalous and seditioâs Books against the King the State and Peace of the Kingdom Nor must we omit the particular Acts of Providence as well as those which are universal A Story very observable in the preservation of divers Persons of Quality in a house in Holborne who being there met to a considerable number a Link-boy passing under the wall of the House observ'd the House failing who thereupon immediately ran in and bid the Company be gone for the House was falling upon their heads And so returning at the same instant and the Company following him as fast as they could they were no sooner out and clear of the door but the house fell indeed to the ground without any harm to the Company This Month an Antient Gentleman a Portugueze lodging in Hart-street in Covent-Garden having been abroad at his Devotions sent his Servant out to provide him some Fish for his Dinner which being dress'd and serv'd up a little while after the people of the house heard the report of a Pistol but took no farther notice of it A while after that the Gentlemans Servant a Portugueze likewise called Peter Caesar came down and sate to Dinner with the people of the house where he staid most part of the afternoon and then went abroad and came in again Toward the evening he went forth another time and caused a Porter to bring home a large Chest which being carried up stairs the Boy drew it into his Masters Chamber and a good while after called the Porter to help him down with it which he did accordingly But the Chest proving too heavy for the Porter and the Youth another Porter was call'd and so they carried it away to the water-side where it was put into a Boat and the Boy bidding the Water-man cross the water pretending he was to receive mony for the Goods in the Chest from a person that was to meet him there staid a while but no body coming at length in a rage to see himself disappointed caus'd the fellow to row him back again and by the way slipp'd the Chest into the Thames and left it as in a fury to see himself sent of an Errand to so little purpose After this the Boy returned to his Masters Lodging but some blood being discovered upon the stairs the fellow was apprehended next morning the Chest being taken up and opened there was found the body of his Master shot through the head That which moved him to this horrid Villany was a sum of mony between 3 and 400 hundred pound which his Master wore about him in a List. He was afterwards condemn'd and executed at Tyburn Upon the Nineteenth of March the Lord Holles Embassador from his Majesty to the French King received his Audience at Chasteauneuf with great Justice to the Royal Dignity of his Master and with honourable respect to himself The sum of what his Excellencie delivered which was in English tending principally to signifie his Royal Masters Intentions to preserve an Amity and fair Correspondence with that King upon confidence of the like from his Christian Majesty To which the French King's Reply was briefly That his Excellencie might assure his Master the King of Great Britain of as much from himself concluding with some expressions of particular respects to the Person of the English Embassador And it was observable that none of the Princes of the Blood who had got the precedencie of several Embassadors of late years were there to dispute it with Ours This Month the King
renowned Admiral the Duke of York who some days before went early in the morning to his Charge attended with divers Eminent and Honourable Voluntiers It was a Navy for number of Ships and choice of men such an one as the Nation never set to Sea one more formidable nor more glorious This did not a little terrifie the Dutch besides that some Weeks before they had been put to a great disorder upon the appearance of some part of the English Fleet under the Earl of Sandwich which though at a distance and without any rational appearance of danger set them into such a confusion that it fell little short of a general Consâerâation Nor were they yet able to come forth though making all the haste they could Nor had they done any thing considerable all the Winter before only sent Bankert to Sea which to what intent soever it was contriv'd the Designe prov'd ineffectual For attempting to go about by the North he met with nothing but the boistrousness of a tempestuous Sea making a quick return home and leaving behind him four of his best Ships unmercifully shatter'd in the storms And thus while the English are their Enemies at Sea they will make use of none of the English friendship by Land And to that purpose they order a Cassation of the English and Scotch Regiments only that the Officers might be admitted again taking an Oath to be faithful to the Lords States General and to the States of the respective Provinces whom they serv'd But the English were so Loyal as to throw up their Commissions disdaining to serve upon such monstrous Terms the profest Enemies of their Prince and Country Forein Affairs 1664. That which was most remarkable this Year in Forein parts besides what we have already related as they fell in time that is to say the two great Victories obtain'd against the Turk by the Emperor was the Cessation of War that ensued thereupon of great Concernment not only to those Empires but to all Christendom a solemn Peace not long after ensuing The City of Constantinople was so fatal to the Grand Seignior then reigning that he resolv'd to make this Year to be not a little fatal to it by withdrawing his Court and presence from thence and that with so much indignation against the Place that he vow'd he would rather set fire to it with his own hands than return to it again whereupon he retired to Adrianople a place seated fit for his Sports of Hawking and Hunting Divertisements that made him seek Peace rather than War But the joy of this Cessation was not a little disturb'd by the death of Count Serini who being upon the chase of a Boar and seeing the Beast likely to escape quitted his Company and follow'd him single till coming near him he fired his Pistol at him The Boar finding himself wounded furiously rush'd upon the Count and then with four deadly wounds the first in the neck the next in the head the third in his belly and the fourth in his foot tore him up and dispatch'd him The French this Year had a mind to get some footing in Barbary and to that end got possession of a small Sea-port Town or Fort call'd by the name of Gigery The Moors to expel them thence came down with great Forces and in assailing and defending great Numbers were slain on both sides The Moors in one Assault they made upon it this year lost six hundred men the Duke of Beaufort being wounded on the French side In which posture we shall leave them for this Year Only it is not to be forgotten that the Great Turk in revenge of the Battle of Leweniz and the surprize of Gigery caus'd all the French which he found in his Dominions to be put to death But the Portugals with better success under the Conduct of their General Pedro Iaques de Megalharma gave battle to the Spaniards under the Duke of Ossuna whom they utterly overthrew with the loss of 500 men slain upon the place 300 Prisoners and all their Baggage and Provision which became a Booty to the Conquerour In Avignon happen'd a very great disturbance insomuch that above twenty thousand Burgers gather'd themselves together against the Vice-Legat having first fallen upon the Garrison some of whom they threw over the Walls and put the rest to flight This Commotion was rais'd upon a pretence that the Vice-Legat went about to impose something upon them against the Liberty of the Inhabitants But ot length by mediation of their Archbishop they were brought to terms of accommodation upon condition that the Italian Garrison should depart the Town and Country and the Italian Provost with his Officers be banisht for ever out of their Territories The Pope took very ill the proceedings of the Vice-Legat But for better security Monsieur de Merceur was appointed to do his best in conjunction with the Forces of the Neighbourhood either by fair means or by foul to bring them to reason At length a composure was made between the Pope and the King of France and Avignon was restor'd into the possession of the Romish See upon Conditions which will be hereafter mentioned In August came news from Losanna that certain Irish-men having Intelligence that a knot of the Murtherers of the late King were gotten together in that place and there entertain'd and protected by the Magistracie of the Town enter'd into a Consultation how they might seize and carry some of those Regicides off and deliver them up to the Justice of that Government which they had so hainously betrai'd The Persons nam'd to be of the Gang were Goff Ludlow Lisle Whally and Fare whereupon in the disguize of Lacqueys they attempted them as they were going to Church under the very Guards of the Town and accompani'd with the Magistrates Bayliffs and Burgomasters of the place But finding it impossible to bring any of them off alive they fell in particular upon Lisle as one whom they knew to have been the Condemner of several of the Kings best and most Loyal Subjects whom they shot dead upon the spot After the act was done they were forc'd to encounter the Guards and several other people who engag'd themselves on the behalf of the Rebels wherein they acquitted themselves to a Miracle wounding divers and having broke through them they cri'd with a loud voice Vive le Roy d'Angleterre and so âode quite away Anno Dom. 1665. THe Duke of York was now aboard the English Fleet well man'd and in brave order and furnish'd with all things necessary and answerable to the indefatigable care and diligence of so great a Monarch and the free expences of his large Dominions The Dutch neither ready nor likely to come forth as in the event it prov'd so that among them there was nothing memorable but the bustle of Council and hurry of unfinish'd preparations The first Alarm they had was from the French
among actions of lesser note at Sea the courage of Captain Howard deserves remembrance who now commanding one of the King's ships render'd himself as signally faithful to his Sovereign as to his Owners who having certain Victuallers and other Merchant-men under his Convoy as he passed by the Bay of Cadiz five Dutch Men of War then under sail before the Bay having notice thereof being Vessels of 43 40 and 36 Guns apiece had immediately fetch'd up the Merchant-men but the Captain so behav'd himself with his Merlin a Frigat of 12 Guns only that the whole English Fleet had time to escape into the Bay of Tangier and by and by perceiving the headmost of the Dutch ships of 45 Guns who had done him most mischief to be making after the Fleet to their inevitable Ruine he frankly ran himself aboard the Dutch-man where he fought above an hour board and board till being himself dangerously wounded and all his Men dead or desperately wounded save eight he was at length compell'd to yield and carried into Cadiz But to return neerer home to the Grand Affairs betwixt England and Holland we finde the Netherlanders in no small perplexity They had now recalled their Embassador Van Gotch out of England who took his leave of the King at Oxford by him the King sends a Letter to the States wherein though he could not but charge them as the Authors of the War yet he signified to them his readiness to come to any fair terms of Accommodation nor could this Letter be so stifled by the contrary Faction but that the People got a view of it by which when they saw the disposition of the King of England they were not a little enrag'd at the Province of Holland who had so much endeavour'd to keep them in ignorance and made them more pliant to yield to those Alterations that not long after followed Munster so bestirs himself all the Winter that he allows no time for rest but upon Thaws and milde Weather so that he defeated several considerable parties of the Dutch and advanced not a little way into their Country of Friezland burning and spoiling some and taking other of their Towns whilst Prince Maurice with 18000 men is forc'd to look on without being able to attempt any thing of moment Their chief Assistants were the King of France and Dukes of Lunenburg As for the first he sent them a Supply of men but they brought along with them so much Rudeness and such Diseases into the Country that the Dutch were soon weary of their company for they were forc'd to quarter ' am in the Brandenburgher's Country which did them no good The thâeats of Waldeck and the conjunction of the Confederate-Forces did them as little kindness only it caus'd the Bishop to retire with his main Body out of Friezland leaving a sufficient strength in Garrisons for he had destroyed already 900 Horse in one place 200 Foot in another he had defeated two Troops of their Horse and 500 Foot in another place and 400 Foot that had repossessed themselves of Vriesveen forcing them to render themselves and had now Garrisoned his Foot in his new Conquests and withdrawn his Horse into his own Country The Dukes of Lunenburg grew cold in their assistance and sent to excuse themselves to the King of England for what they had done as being ignorant of the Grounds and Causes of the Bishop's taking Arms. The Brandenburgher offer'd a Mediation with the Bishop but with much delay Their main hopes was in the King of France who believing the Ballance of Affairs not even enough yet and 't is thought rather acting as he did out of an affectation of Sovereignty in the Mediterranean-Sea not only continues their friend but declares War against England acquainting the Queen-Mother of England that though he could no longer keep off a Declaration of War against his Majesty of Great Britain yet that he should always preserve the same esteem and value for his Majesty's Person hoping his Majesty would continue the same kindness and affection for him Accordingly upon the 27 th of Ianuary the French King's Declaration of War was publickly proclaim'd upon pretence of Succouring the States General in consequence of the Treaty 1662. But the Lord Hollis the King of England's Embassador in France having remonstrated the great injustice of that Declaration which subjected all English-men in their Estates and Persons to the last acts of Hostility contrary to the Treaties between the two Crowns allowing each party three Moneths time for the withdrawing their Estates and Persons after a Rupture The King of France thereupon issu'd out a second Proclamation giving the English the said Liberty of three Moneths to Transport themselves and Goods However in return of the first Declaration the King of England soon after that is to say in February publish'd also his Declaration of War against the French Importing that whereas the French King pretending an Alliance Defensive with the States General had proclaim'd a War against his Subjects That he was resolv'd to prosecute the War which the French King had so unjustly undertaken against him with his utmost Force by Sea and Land It was then admirable to see with what a harmony and chearfulness the Maritime Counties offer'd their service to his Majesty upon their receiving his first Orders to put themselves into a posture of defence But he being tender of continuing them under the trouble of a needless Duty was pleased to direct their dismission and return home till further occasion In the mean time Sr. Christopher Mimms was Crusing about with a Squadron of stout Ships who hearing of a Squadron of the Dutch that were out at Sea near Ostend he made away for Discovery and at length had a view of them out of fight of Land about Newport being in all 16 Sail and 3 Flags Fain he would have been dealing with them but they not daring to abide the shock made all the Sail they could away and easily escap'd him being neer their own Burrows The Pestilence was now so well abated that the King return'd again to White-Hall where the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London attended Him and humbly welcom'd Him home to his Chief City after so long and melancholy an absence The Term also which to prevent the too early resort of People to London and Westminster had been Adjourn'd to Windsor was now again Adjourn'd from thence to Westminster But the Parliament who should have met the 20th of this month were again Prorogu'd till the 23 of April by a special Commission directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal About this time Sir Thomas Clifford the Kings Extraordinary Envoy to Sweden and Denmark return'd into England And the Earl of Sandwich was sent Ambassadour extraordinary into Spain where what good Services he did the following years will declare And to shew
own Lands for the Publick benefit and to remit the Duties arising from Hearth-money for seven Years to all that should Erect any New Buildings according to his Declaration And therefore Valentine Knight for presuming to Print certain Propositions for Re-building the City with considerable advantages to the Crown was Committed to Custody as being repugnant to the Gracious offers of the King After this Distraction in the City the Parliament met at Westminster according to the time limited at their last Prorogation to whom the King expressed his satisfaction to see them so happily met again making known to them the Progress and vast Expenses of the War and the urgent occasion of supply Whereupon the House resolv'd that the humble and hearty thanks of the House should be return'd to the King for his great Care in the Management of the War and that they would supply him proportionably to his Occasions and afterwards in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House to signifie the same to his Majesty in order whereunto they Voted a Supply of 1800000 l. In relation to which in Ianuary following they passed an Act for raising money by a Pole and otherwise toward the maintenance of the present War to which the King gave his Royal Assent in the House of Lords But that not being thought sufficient they so diligently ply'd their business that in February they passed another Act for granting the Sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and forty seven pounds thirteen shillings for the same reasons and upon the same occasion as the former And to shew their readiness to forward the Re-building of the City they passed another Act for Erecting a Court of Judicature to determine all differences touching Houses Burn'd or Demolish'd in the Fire which with an Act for the Relief of Prisoners was the chief business of this Session being upon the 8 th of February Prorogu'd till the 10 th of October following That Fire which had lay'd the City of London in Ashes now threatned the City of Westminster and the Kings Palace it self having by the misfortune of a Candle falling into the straw violently seiz'd upon the Horse-Guard in the Tilt-yard over against White-Hall burning down the North-West part of the Building but being so close under the King 's own Eye it was by the timely help which the King and the Duke of York caus'd to be apply'd in a very short time stop'd and wholly master'd About this time complaint was made by several Merchants of the ill dealings of the Inhabitants of the Canary-Islands in enhansing the Prizes of their Wines Banishing the English Consul and Factors out of the Island of Tenariff publickly declaring against the Loading or Unloading of the English Ships with other severe dealings with the Merchants of England Traâing thither Upon consideration whereof the King put forth a Proclamation Prohibiting the Importing of any Wines of the growth of the Canary-Islands and all Trade and Commerce with those Parts And at the same time another Proclamation came forth Prohibiting the Importation of any Manufactures Wines Merchandizes or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth of France or of any Lands Territories or Places belonging to the French King No less care was taken for suppressing the Insolencies of the Papists upon the humble Address of the Lords and Commons made to the King to that purpose And therefore all Popish Priests and Jesuits were by publick Proclamation likewise Commanded by a prefix'd time to depart the Kingdom And now the King to justifie his Breaking with Denmark Published a Deduction of all the Transactions of Affairs between Himself and the King of Denmark with his Declaration of War against the said King and the Motives that oblig'd him thereto wherein the King alledges that he had been unavoidably provok'd by the King of Denmark by many Aspersions Indignities and breach of Faith which that King had offered him making the Assault made by His Majesties Ships in the Port of Berghen the Ground of his late entring into a League Offensive and Defensive with the States of the Vnited Provinces whereas in truth his Majesty had the Freedom of that Port frankly offer'd him by the King of Denmark himself at a time when his Majesty thought nothing of it and that in order to the doing those very Acts of Hostility wherewith he was then reproach'd And for a good Omen of his Majesties Success in the beginning of November came News That the Vice-Admiral of Denmark was taken by some of His Majesties Frigats upon the Coast of Scotland Too long had the City now lain in Ashes when Sir George Moore a Proprietor in some Houses in Fleetstreet upon promise of conforming to the Model Form and Scantling set by the Committee appointed by the King for that purpose had liberty given him to begin that great Work which was soon after followed with that Expedition and Beauty that none could imagine but they who beheld it It was a Year of Wonders and this not the least which happen'd in the County of Lincoln where at a place call'd Welborn after a Prodigious Thunder with Hail-stones as big as Pigeons eggs there follow'd a Storm and Tempest with so great violence that it threw down most of the Houses to the ground broke down and tore up Trees by the Roots dispersing the Corn and Hay from thence going to the next Village call'd Willington it threw down some Houses which with the fall kill'd two Children thence proceeding to Nanby it fell so violently upon the Church that it dash'd the Spire in pieces tearing and rending the Church it self both in the Body and Timber-work so that it left little of the Wall standing with the body of the Steeple It was observed to run only in a Chaâel which had it held any considerable breadth could not but have Ruin'd a considerable part of the County But that which after so many severe Calamities reviv'd the Hearts of the City was the absolute ceasing of her devouring Enemy The Sickness in acknowledgment whereof the King order'd a publick day of Thanksgiving In Scotland there happen'd a Riot of no small consequence at Dumfreeze where some persons having gathered the people of the Neighbouring Parishes to the number of about two hundred arm'd with Clubs and Sythes took Sir Iames Turner out of his Bed carried him naked into the Market-place and had much ado to be restrain'd from cutting him in pieces for his severity as they pretended in exacting Fines upon Nonconformists Nor was this contemptible number long ere they increased to a considerable force in all 1600 men and were marching within four miles of Edenburgh when hearing that the whole Country was up in Arms against them they thought it more convenient to return but being set upon by Lieutenant-Colonel Dyel and Major-General Drummond neer Glencarn-Kirk they were totally defeated 500 slain upon the place and
100 taken Prisoners Several of the Rebels were afterwards Sentenced and Executed among the rest Corson that first began the Mutiny and Malkel their Minister a main Incendiary of the people so that in a short time all things were reduc'd to their former quietness In imitation of England the Barbadoes another England in the other part of the World would not suffer the same Enemies of both to lie undisturb'd To which purpose the Lord Willoughby Governour of the Caribby Islands having set forth from the Barbadoes a considerable Fleet well Man'd and Victuall'd set sail from thence upon some particular designe and in his way burnt two ships richly laden in the Harbour of Los Santos and took two other Prizes but as he was in pursuit of his further designe there arose a Hurricane so violent that their Cables giving way they were forc'd to abandon themselves to the rage of the Storm which continued with that extremity that they were wholly separated and dispersed and the Lord Willoughby himself absolutely lost In Ianuary the Convention of the Estates of Scotland met according to appointment where the Oath of Allegeance being administred and taken by the several Members they fell upon the publick concernments as securing the Kingdom from publick and Domestick Dangers and how to put the same into a posture of defence and for the raising so much Money as should be thought convenient to defray the charge and thereupon 6000 l. per Moneth was agreed on for the entertainment of such Forces as should be employ'd in his Majesties service But in the parts neer Surinam the English were more successful than at the Barbadoes where they having destroy'd and ruin'd a considerable Colony of the Dutch at Apecawaca resolved to attempt something likewise upon the French and particularly to attack the Fort of Sinamary which they took together with fifty Prisoners and the Governour besides what were slain The English dismantled the Fort and carried away all the Guns and Ammunition Captain Reade also passing up the Canessa toward the Berbices a very populous Creek inhabited by the Enemy he landed at Carenteen and marching twenty miles by Land took the Fort of the Arawaces taking Men Women and Children Captives and much Booty with little or no loss But though it were how December some English Vessels were still abroad And among the rest Captain Robinson who lighting upon three Dutch Men of War neer the Texel destroy'd them all in requital of which curtesie the Dutch not long after took the Saint Patrick off of Portsmouth deserted by her own Fire-ship At the conclusion of the Year Captain Vtbert return'd from the Streights with the Squadron under his Command and seven Dutch Prizes Forein Affairs 1666. The King of France having receiv'd a very high Affront from the Great Turk in the person of his Embassador thought no way better than to send the same person again to require satisfaction for the repair of his Masters Honour But the Turk retaining in his minde the attempt upon Gigery and the Succours sent the Emperour would hearken to no Proposition that might add to the Honour of his solemn Entry so that he was forc'd at last to land as it were Incognito and privately attended to walk from the Ship to his House He went with much pomp to his Audience and at his Entry made several stops expecting the Visier would have risen to him but finding no more respect he sate down upon the Stool appointed for him and in his Masters Name whom he stil'd Emperour of France demanded more Honour to be done him But the Visier incens'd with the manner of his demanding it broke out into a passion which the French Embassador resenting rose from his seat and in going away thrâw the Capitulations with the Case over his Shoulder which hit the Visier on the Brest upon which the Visier commanded his Officers to apprehend and strike him which was accordingly performed and he hurried out of the Chamber where he had received several boxes of the Ear and blows upon the Brest and was carried Prisoner to the Bashaw's House where he was kept Prisoner in a base low Room under the Stairs and there detained four days till by the Intercession of the English Embassador he was deliver'd The King of France had sent a person of quality to be a Witness of the Great Turk'â submission but he became a fairer testimony of his Embassador's hard usage The Electors of Brandenburgh and Colen the Dukes of Newburgh and Brunswick laboured hard to finde out ways expedient for composing the Differences between the Bishop of Munster and the States of the Vnited Provinces and with them the Emperour and the Princes of the Dyet at Ratisbone so that at length the Bishop was over-perswaded to conclude a Peace which was accordingly sign'd toward the beginning of the Year though he had received 100000 Rix-dollars from the King of England for carrying on the War but it lasted not long for when the King of France became their Enemy he broke it again which was not long after At Musco great alterations had like to have fallen out in matters of Religion For a certain Fâyaâ in his Sermons endeavouring to make the people wiseâ than formerly they had been in that ignorant Country among other Doctrines that were new âhere instructed them That Images signified nothing and therefore were not to be worshipped That the Saints know nothing of our Prayers to them and consequently were not to be call'd upon Which wrought so powerfully upon the people that many hundreds of them began to reform their ancient practice and openly refused the use of Pictures But a great party of Souldiers being sent immediately to reduce them from their Heresie frighted the generality into a Recantation some 20 persisting in their new Faith were burnt and 30 more hanged to terrifie the rest This being the second attempt of this nature in that blinde paât of the World In Poland the difference between that King and Lubomirskie still continu'd But the generality of the Polish Nobility not only appeard to Mediate on his behalf but seeing no effect of their Mediation entred into a Confederacy with him against the King This brought the King to hearken to some terms of Agreement But while both sides were at work busie to contrive it the Royal Party endeavouring to put a more speedy end to those Affairs attempted to have surpris'd the Confederates at unawares but the Design was so timely discover'd that Lubomirskie by an Ambuscado of his best Troops cut off above Five Thousand of the Kings Souldiers in such a place where the King was forc'd to look on and behold the Slaughter of his men without being able to Assist them Whether upon this occasion or no is uncertain but a Peace immediately ensued between the King and the Confederates upon Condition of a General Act of Oblivion an Evacuation of Garrisons and the
going and returning Sir Iohn dismiss'd them with promise of a speedy answer and upon consultation with the Earl of Bath it was agreed that Sir Ionathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham should go aboard At their approach De Ruyter met them at the Boat-side and inviting them aboard saluted them with 13 Guns excusing what had past and promising for the future that no other acts of that nature should be committed while he continu'd on the Coast. De Wit Doleman the Count de Horne with above 20 Captains more attended the English at the Great Cabin where they offer'd a Present to De Ruyter for his own Table but refus'd any greater supply till Peace should be Proclaim'd Accordingly upon their return the Earl of Bath sent the Admiral a Present of fresh Provisions with a fat Buck and some Fruit which De Ruyter receiv'd with seven Guns as an acknowledgement Notwithstanding De Ruyter's Complement after he parted from Plymouth two of the Dutch Fleet came before the Harbour of Hoy and advancing near the Shoar ply'd with their Broad-sides certain Works that were newly rais'd at the entrie of the Harbour but after an hour and an half they were forc'd to retire with several Shots receiv'd in their Hulls and the loss of one of their Top-Masts and several men without any loss to the English After this they were only seen to hover about the Coasts but without any farther Attempts and Peace ensu'd For about the beginning of Iune the Embassadours of England France and Sweden the Plenipotentiaries of the States and Denmark repair'd to the Castle belonging to the Prince of Orange where there was great care taken to avoid all contests about Precedency A while after Mr. Coventry one of the Embassadors being sent over into England and having receiv'd the King's Answer and Resolution touching the Articles discuss'd and agree'd to by the Plenipotentiaries return'd for Breda so that upon the Twenty first of Iune the Articles were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries And upon the Fourteenth of August the Ratifications of the Peace were enterchang'd The Mediators first bringing in the Ratifications and other Instruments of the Dutch French and Danes into the English Embassadors Apartment receiv'd from them theirs in Exchange Which done the English Embassadors went into the Apartment of the Dutch and their Allies where they made and receiv'd the Compliments usual upon the Conclusion of so great an Affair The Peace was immediately Proclaim'd before the Doors of the several Plenipotentiaries in their respective Languages Afterwards upon the Twenty fourth of August it was publickly Proclaim'd in the City of London And as if this had not been enough it was afterwards confirm'd by an Additional Treaty made and concluded by Sir William Temple in Ianuary following Having thus pursu'd the Series of the Dutch War and Peace other intervening actions must not be omitted It was murmur'd that the Publick Treasure was wasted and miss-spent the King therefore to satisfie the People Issued out a Commission to several Members of both Houses to take an Accompt of such sums of Money as had been rais'd and assign'd to him during the present War being in all 2477500 l. granted at several times by several Acts with full Power to call to Accompt all Treasurers Pay-masters Receivers and all other Agents and Persons whatsoever And what had not been lately practis'd before by the King this Year the Feast of St. George was kept in his Palace of White-Hall The Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England being now lately Dead the King did not think fit to give the Place to any particular Person for the present but made the Duke of Albemarle the Lord Ashley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir William Coventry and Sir Iohn Duncomb by a Commission under the Great Seal his Commissioners for executing that Office The Parliament had met according to the Kings Proclamation in Iuly but were then Prorogu'd again till the Tenth of October at which time being again Assembled the King gave for one reason of his last Prorogation That it was to give himself time to do some things in the mean time which he hop'd would not be unwelcome to them which he had since done leaving his other Reasons to be deliver'd by the Lord Keeper who not only afterwards enlarg'd upon the King's Reasons for the said Prorogation but also recommended to them the Obstructions of Trade and the settlement of such a Ballance of Trade between England and Scotland that neither we should be prejudic'd by the Import of their Commodities here nor they put to seek new places of Vent abroad As to the Money rais'd for the War he told them what the King had done in reference to calling all Persons to Account and had committed the Examination thereof to themselves to follow their own Method adding withal that if any grievances had happen'd his Majesty would be as willing to have them Redress'd as they to have them Represented not doubting but that they would endeavour to Imprint the known Truth into his Subject hearts that there was no distinct Interest between the King and his People The Commons taking into Consideration the King's Speech resolv'd to return him their humble Thanks to which purpose having obtain'd the Concurrence of the Lords the Two Houses in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House where the Lord Keeper in the Name of the Two Houses made known to the King That they His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects having taken into their serious Consideration the Speech wherein he was pleas'd to let them know the reasons of their last Prorogation which was to give himself time to do some things which would not be unwelcome to them but be a Foundation of a greater Confidence for the Future between the King and them They found themselves in duty bound to give him thanks and particularly for that he had Disbanded the New-rais'd Forces that he had dismist the Papists from his Guards and other Military Imployments for his Care in quickning the Execution of the Act restraining the Importation of Canary That He had seen the Canary Patent Vacated And Lastly for his displacing the Lord Chancellor But the Parliament having Sate till the Middle of December pass'd several Acts among the rest An Act for taking an account of the several Sums of Money therein mention'd An Act for Banishing and Disenabling the Earl of Clarenden to which when the King had given his Consent by Commission they Adjourn'd till February And because it was a general Complaint among the Seamen and Souldiers who had been in Service that they were frequently constrain'd to give money or lose some part of their Wages to recover the rest the King therefore for the more effectual Redress of such abuses if any were appointed the Duke of York and several of the Lords of the Council to receive and hear all such Complaints as any Sea-man or Souldier should
Reside there as his Legate France may be thought to have no kindness for the Jesuits however the most Christian King could not be said to do amiss not to let 'um Triumph over their Superiors for Complaint being made that the Jesuits in the Diocess of Fambers had refus'd to give Obedience to the Bishop of that Diocess the King gave leave to the Bishop to proceed against them by Excommunication according to the Priviledges of the Gallicane Church whereupon the Bishop suspended them from all their Functions forbidding them to Preach Teach or Confess any person within the Territories of his Diocess The King of France being now Master of several Towns of Flanders late under the Jurisdiction of the Spaniards and having totally reduc'd the County of Burgundy under his Subjection of which in favour of the Prince of Conde he immediately granted two Reversions one to the Duke D' Enguien Son of the said Prince and the other to the Duke of Bourbon his Grand-Child thought it convenient to listen to the Mediation then proffer'd by several Princes of Europe chiefly by the King of England and the States of the Vnited Netherlands so that a Treaty was concluded upon and Aix la Chapelle appointed the Place for the Commissioners to meet in In the mean time while the Spaniards lay upon their Demurs a League was Concluded by the Mediation of the Earl of Sandwich the King of Englands Embassador at Lisbon between the two Crowns of Spain and Portugal a League of sincere and perpetual Peace containing a Release of Prisoners Nullity of Confiscations Freedom of Commerce and such other Usual Articles which were in Six Months after Publication to be Confirm'd and Ratifi'd by the King of Great Britain And now as if the General Design of Europe were Peace the Commissioners meet at Aix la Chapelle for the King of England Sir William Temple for the Dutch Mr. Beverning for the French Monsieur Colbert for the King of Spain the Baron of Bergeick who having some time before Sign'd Provisional Articles in order to a final Conclusion whereby a suspension of Arms was granted and the March of the French Army Countermanded at length fell seriously to their Work so that by the second of May the Articles of General Peace were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries of both Kings and afterwards Proclaim'd through all the Chief places of France Spain and Flanders to the general content of Europe and satisfaction of the Mediators But notwithstanding this fair Peace the Spaniards did not like the Neighbourhood of the French and therefore would have made an Exchange of some other Territories of theirs lying farther off for that oâ Frânche Comâe On the otherside the French not satisfi'd with what they had got Claim'd several Towns as dependencies upon their late Conquests as the Towns of Conde Newport and other places Hereupon to end these differences and to settle the bounds of the French Jurisdiction Commissioners are appointed to meet at Lille but they determine nothing upon which the French King makes a positive demand of all that he Challeng'd and the Spaniards Order the several Commanders to have a care of the Defence of their several Charges In which posture we leave 'um hatching new Discords for this Year Leaving these great Actors upon the Stage of the World we are coming to one who is making his Exit for the King of Poland at the beginning of the Year had signifiââ to the publick Dyet of that Kingdom his Resolution to make a Resignation many applications were made to him whether Real or out of Ceremony not here to be determin'd that he would please to change his purpose and some other delays happen'd as in a matter of so great importance so that the Ceremony was not perform'd till September at which time the King appearing in the publick Assembly and in a pathetick Speech insisting on his misfortune to meet with such bad times and desiring pardon for what had been done amiss during the time of his Raign departed out of the Assembly and in his own Coach leaving the Castle went to a private House he had in the City The Nobility would have attended him but he refus'd it But there were enough that ardently coveted what he had so calmly forsaken The Duke of Muscovy was urgent for his own Son The Emperour for the Prince of Lorrain And the French King for the Duke of Newburg a Creature of his own But the Pole refus'd all but more especially the French whose Embassador the Bishop of Bezieres they would not endure should stay in the Kingdom to have any finger in the Election Nor was any thing this Year concluded In Holland Monsieur Cariâius put a very hard Riddle to the States When they would be pleas'd to pay his Majesty the King of Denmark several sums of Money which he pretended to be due upon Promise particularly 400000 Rixdollars from the States of Holland and 14000 from those of Amsterdam This Question occasion'd many Debates and Conferences and was at length put to the Arbitration of the King of France Now for varieties sake and to shew there was some Justice at Rome I must not omit an Act of the Pope at this time raigning A Complaint being Exhibited to his Holiness by a person of Tivoli that whereas he had liv'd several years with his Mother with great content and satisfaction upon an Estate of 1500 Dollars per Annum His Mother falling sick was during her sickness so far prevail'd upon by a Jesuit her Confessor that she had by Will given away all the Estate to the Order not reserving any thing for the subsistance of him her Son The Pope extreamly dissatisfi'd with this Complaint sent for his own Confessor and in very severe Language commanded him to finde out the General and in his Name to require him to write to the Superior at Tivoli to restore the Petitioner his Land again Nor must we omit now we are at Rome the Canonization of an American Virgin named Rosa a Nun in a Covent of St. Dominick For every body in England does not understand what a glorious thing it is to be made a Saint The Church was hung with Tapistry and Inscriptions in honour of the New Saint on the Altar stood her Image and about it the Arms of the Pope the King of Spain the Kingdom of Peru and this Religious Dominican During the Te Deum one of the Cannons of St. Peters Church was fir'd a great number of Drums and Trumpets sounding and several Vollies of shot given by a Squadron of Germans drawn up neer the Church After which a solemn Mass was sung by six Quires of Musick In the Afternoon the Pope heard Vespers in the same Church present several Cardinals with the Embassadors and Ministers of Forrein Princes and the Evening spent in Lights and Fire-works The Venetians are busied for the defence of their Candia and by the Assistance of the French hold the Turk hard to it this
room But now to take the charge from-both the Lord Roberts arrives at Dublin Upon the news of this change the Lord Mayor and Aldermen the Provost of the Colledge the Dean of Christ-Church and most of the Clergy attended the Lord Ossory where the one acknowledged the many benefits which the City had received from the Government of his Father and himself the other the many benefits which the Church had enjoy'd as well by their good Examples as by the plentiful provision made them by the Clergy The reception of the new Lord-Deputy was intended to have been made with much State and Solemnity but he waving those publick Honours met the Lord-Deputy and the Council at the Council-Chamber the same Evening after his arrival where after he had taken the usual Oath the Lord-Deputy deliver'd him the Sword He was no fooner enter'd upon his Government but he issu'd out a Proclamation commanding all Governors and Officers to repair to their several Charges and Duties not admitting any dispânsation to the contrary London had long layn in Ashes and the Confluence of all the World had been as long confin'd within the narrow limits of a Colledge-Court but now again the Merchants to their great satisfaction and the lasting Merits of Sir William Turner then Lord Mayor whose indââaâigable paââ and zeal was Eminent in advancing and forwarding so great a Work met in the Royal Exchange a Fabrick equal to the Honour of the Undertakers and holding a true proportion with the rest of the Goodly Buildings of the Reviving City But now men began to listen after things a higher Nature seeing both Houses of Parliament again Assembled upon the 19th of October The King in a Speech acquainted them With his joy to see them at that time and the hopes he had of a happy meeting which he promis'd himself from the great experience he had of their Affection and Loyalty of which he did not doubt the Continuance briefly minding them of his Debts which though pressing he was unwilling to call for their Assistance till this time acquainâing them also that what they last gave was wholly apply'd to the Navy and to the Extraordinary Fleet for which it was intended desiring they would now take his Debts effectually into their Consideration Afterwards hinting to them a Proposal of great Importance concerning the Vniting of England and Scotland which because it requir'd some length he left that and some other things to the Lord Keeper to open more fully which was by him done and then both Houses Adjourn'd At the beginning of November both Houses in pursuance of a Vote which they had made attended the King in the Banqueting House where the Lord Chief Justice Vaughan supplying the Room of the Lord Keeper in the name of both Houses return'd their Humble Thanks to the King for his Care of the Publick in Issuing out his Proclamation for the suppressing of Conventicles Humbly desiring his Majesty to continue the same care for the future In Reply to which his Majesty return'd an Answer to the satisfaction of both Houses But now Christmas drawing near and having sate above a Month without effecting any thing of consequence the Lords sent the Usher of the Black-Rod to the House of Commons to tell them That by Vertue of the King's Commission they desird their Attendance who Attending accordingly with their Speaker the Commission was read and the Parliament Prorogu'd till the 24th of February next ensuing At the same time that the Parliament of England sate at Westminster the Parliament of Scotland sate at Edenburgh where the Earl of Lauderdale having taken the Chair of State as Lord Commissioner of Scotland the Earls Commission was first read and then the doubtful Elections of Members refer'd to Examination That done the Kings Letter to the Parliament was twice read seconded by a shorter from the Lord Chancellor perswading them to a concurrence with the King in his Design of Uniting the Two Kingdoms Then they proceeded to Elect the Lords of the Articles the Bishops choosing Eight Bishops and those Eight Eight of the Nobility and these Sixteen making choice of Eight Knights and as many Burgesses by whom all Affairs were to be prepar'd for the House During this Session they Publish'd an Act for the Naturalization of Strangers within the Kingdom of Scotland Declaring that all Strangers of the Protestant Religion that should think fit to bring their Estates into the said Kingdom or should come to set up new Works and Manufactures therein should be Naturaliz'd as Native-Born Subjects of that Kingdom to all intents and purposes The King farther Declaring That upon application by such Strangers made to him he would grant them the free and publick use of their Religion in their own Language and the Libertie of having Churches of their own However no persons were to have the benefit of the said Act till first by Petition to the Lords of the Privy-Council containing an exact designation of their Names and places of Birth and former residences and that tâey be of the Protâstant Religion They also made another Act asserting his Majesty's Supremacy over all persons and in all Causes Ecclesiastical By Sea little was this Year done only Sir Thomas Allen being again sent with a Squadron of Ships about the beginning of August came before Argier and sending in his Boat began to Treat they in Argier seem'd willing to make restitution of such Money as they had taken from an English ship bound for the East-Indies but not agreeing to some other demands the Treaty prov'd ineffectual thereupon he began actual Hostility seizing a Bark laden with Corn which rode in the Bay with eleven Moors and a Brigantine which he took in view of the Town From hence having done little or nothing else considerable he set sail for Tripoly the Bashaw of which place sent him an assurance of his readyness to prâserve Peace and a good Correspondence with the King of Great Britain And after a short crusing up and down in those Seas he return'd for Cadiz where this Year leaves him But being now so neer the English Territories at Tangier the King of England's Embassador Mr. Henry Howard must not be forgot who being sent by the King his Embassador Extraordinary to the Emperour of Morocco at that time Taffalette by vertue of his new Conquests was now arriv'd at Tangier but understanding the danger of hazarding his person among those Barbarians stay'd at that place expecting a sufficient strength to convoy and conduct him to his place of Audience In November he receiv'd his Safe-Conduct with an assurance from the Emperour that he should not fail of receiving all satisfaction in order to whatsoever he should desire for his security and that he had already caus'd Justice to be done to such as were found guilty of giving any affronts to his people And true it was that he caus'd all the English which were taken by the
Corn. After this followed the surrender of Treves to the Imperialists upon Articles of which one was That Crequy who had escaped thither from his Rout should be a Prisoner of War In September the Duke of Lorrain departed this life at Hermansteine neer Coblentz Farther off the King of Poland removed a very great Storm that threatned his Dominions by a very great overthrow of the Tartars wherein a great number of them were slain with the loss of their chief Standard which struck such a terrour into the Turks that with their Captain Ishmael Bassa they made a shameful Retreat out of the Polish Territories But the Low Countries had a worse Enemy to deal with for the Sea breaking into North-Holland the Inundation continued with that violence that many of the Cities of North-Holland had a great share of that Calamity The Harlemeer-Dyke was broken and all the Country round about lay under Water so that many of the Boors Houses were drown'd being covered with the Sea The same Fate befel South-Holland and it is said that had the Inundation continu'd 24 hours longer the whole Country would have run a hazard of being lost And thus you have an account in brief of all the most memorable Transactions since the greatest act of Providence that has been observed for many Ages The happy Restauration of his Majesty And we may aver that here is nothing but Truth if all the publick Intelligence of so many years have not fail'd This is then a Story in dead Colours it behoves them that will lay it in the lively Painting to take more pains than may be thought has here been taken and have greater helps than it was possible for us to have to make use of And therefore if there be any that with the Knowledge of a Privy-Councellor and the Eloquence of a Salust will undertake to cull out the most important Actions which are here reduc'd into order ready to his hand for some of these he must take or be silent and compile them into a judicious History we are ready to vail Bonnet in the mean time these few Sheets may pass for Common Satisfaction FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABingdon-Garrison Page 70 Aberdeen and St. Andrews yielded 302 Abjuration of the King by the Rump 436 Account of the Dutch War from 315 c. to 323. Their Intrigues with forrein Princes and at home 323. of the Revenue and Charge of the Kingdom under the Vsurpation of Oliver 415 Act against proclaiming of the King 225. For Assessment 235. For sale of Cavaliers Estates ibid. Executed 303. For Marriages 351. For Irish Adventurers and Allotments 352. Several confirmed 500. Against Bishops repealed 501. Pretended of annulling the Title of the King 383 Accidents 315 Addresses how begun 67. To Cromwel upon the dissolution of the Parliament 343. To Richard 410. To the Rump from forrain Princes 423. To the Rump by the Army 422. to the King from the Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom 452 Adjutators 127 forbid Adventurers for Ireland 352 Aix la Chappelle Treaty there 570 Alarm in London 403 Albans Earl 455 made Lord-Chamberlain 580 Allen Sir Thomas Lord Mayor of London 428 Allen Captain sent for the Streights 528. Allen Sir Thomas makes peace with Algiers 569. Lies before Algier 575. Algier Men of War destroyed by the English 578. Returns ibid. Albemarle's stay in London 539. General at Sea 550. One of the Commissioners of the Treasury 563. Dies 575. His Dutchess dies ibid Anabaptism the uppermost Religion 431 Andrews proclaims the Abolishing of Kingly Government and made Lord Mayor 231 Andrews Colonel beheaded 270 Anniversary Act of the King's Nativity 456 Anthony Sir Ashley-Cooper 427 Approbation of Ministers 359 Arches Triumphal 475 to 479 Ards Lord 240 Arguments for Cromwel's accepting the Kingship 386 to 390 Argyle a Privy Councellor sides with the Assembly 8. Policy and shifts 304. Marquiss seized 470. Beheaded 497 Arlington Earl sent into Holland 586. made Lord Chamberlain 599. Sent into France ibid. Armagh Arch-bishop dies 380 Armstrong Sir Thomas joyns with the Marquiss of Ormond 240 Army English very gallant and resolute 10. Parliament Army raised 36. New moduled 67. Quarrel with the Parliament about Irish Transportation and publickly declare their power over them 132. Purging the House ib. Pretend civilities to the King 132 to 136. Designe upon the City and claim the Militia 136. Declaration and insolence 140. Triumphantly through London 141. Delude the King Their Proposals 145 to 147. Suppress a Rising in London 170. Quarter in London Whitehal and the Mews 192. And force the Parliament ibid. Shipt for Ireland at Milford-Haven 237. English advance into Scotland 268. Face the Scots 272. Remonstrance to Richard 416. Their address to the Rump 422. Their representation to the Rump 428. New moulded by Lambert 429. Declaration upon outing the Rump ibid. Their Address joyfully receiving the King's Declaration 466. Disbanded 456 Array Commission 27 Articles of Scotch Cessation 15 Arundel Earl made General of the English 9 Arundel Castle taken by Sir William Waller 56 Ascham slain in Spain 236 Ashley Sir Bernard at Naseby 79. Mortally Wounded at Bristol 84 Ashley Sir Jacob defeated at Stow in the Wold 96. Deserts Newcastle 13 Ashby de la Zouch 97 Ashburnham Mr. John 99 Ashbâânham Mr. William 148 Aske Iudge 254 Assembly General indicted and meet by their own Authority packt and made up oâ Lay-Elders refuse the Bishops to sit buâ cite them to answer as Guilty dissolved within 7 days but continue nevertheless 8. Assembly of Divines 69. General in Scotland 325 Ashton Colonel Edward Quartered 404 Aston Sir Arthur Governour slain at Drogheda 244 Aubigny Lord 41. His Lady 47 Aurange Prince the Kings great Friend 235 dies and a new Prince born 276. Christned 282. Old Prince buried 284. His Interest in Holland 323 Avignon Sedition there 533. Peace composed 570 Axtel Guards the High Court of Iustice 205 Ayscue Sir George at Barbadoes 306. Returns to Plymouth 322. At Dover ibid. In danger Engageth De Ruyter at Plymouth and discharged 323. Prisoner 551 B Badajox Marquiss killed 383 Balmerino Lord his Treason 4 Baggot Kath. Ballishanon 241 242 251 Banbury 108 Barnstable 99 106 Barbadoes reduced 306. Wonder 526. Attempted by De Ruyter 537. Lord Willoughby wounded there 537. Sails from thence with a Fleet 557. Lost in a Hurricane ibid. The Bridge-town burnt there 568. Barbadoes Conspiracy 602. A Hurricane there 602 Barâbone denominates a Parliament 350. His Petition 437 Barons created 482 Baronets Catalogue 493 to 496 Bastwick Burton Pryn return from Banishment in great state 16 Bastwick Dr. of Physick Burton a Minister against Bishops c. 2 Basing-house Besieged by Waller in vain 62 Taken 91 BATTLES Edge-hill 40. Newberry first 50.51 Newberry second 65.66 Marston-moor 59. Tepper-moor Alderne Kilsith Philipshaugh in Scotland 73. Naseby 78 to 80. Lamport 82. Routon-heath 89. Colonel Jones defeated near Dublin 164. Defeats Lord Preston with a huge slaughter soon after at
Trim 164. Preston in Lancashire 178. Dunbar 273 Worcester 397 Beaufort encountered by Argier Pyratâs 546 Slain 576 Bânnet Sir Humphrey 404 Benson Captain Executed 270 Beaumont a Minister Murthered at Pontfraict 227 Berkenhead Sir John Knighted 512 Berkley Sir John 98. Berkley Sir John and Col. Walter Slingsby 258 Bernard's Treachery rewarded 395 Betteley John Quartered 404 Bishops 12. Accused of high Treason to the Tower ten of them 26. Their Charge ibid. Restored to their Honours 502 Biddle an Infamous seducer 369 Blake blocks up Prince Rupert at Lisbon 256 At Lisbon again 267. A wary Commander 366. At Porto-Ferina defeats the Pyrates 372. Sails for the Coast of Spain 381. His desperate attempt upon the Spaniard in Sancta Cruz Fight 391. Fires the Spanish Fleet there ibid. Dies returning into England 402. His Character and Funeral ibid. Blackburn vide Moris Blackness yielded 288 Blechingdon-house 74 Blood attempts the Crown 580 Bourdeaux French Embassador owns Cromwel 359 Boys Sir John 62 Boyle Dean his management of affair with Cromwel about Articles for the English 252 Booth Sir George riseth in Cheshire 424 Defeated and taken 425. Sent to the Tower and Examined by Vane and Haslerig 426. Obtains his liberty of the Rump uppon Bail 433 Bramhal Dr. dies 522 Bradshaw the bold President of the high Court of Iustice 106 to 217. Dies 430 Bradshaw Agent at Hamburg and Denmark 334 Brain sent General to Jamaica 381 Brandenburghers 547 Mortogh O Brian lays down last Armes in Ireland 356 Breda the place of Treaty 560. English Embassadors there ibid. Plenipotentiaries meet Peace concluded 563 Bristol intended to be surprized for the King 45 46. Taken by his Forces 47. By Fairfax 87 Bristol Earl honoured with the Garter 344 Bridgewater taken 82 Brickbat flung at the Protector 's Coach 358 Broughton Col. 296 Broughil Lord lands in Munster with Forces from England 246. Defeats David Roch and hangs the Bishop of Ross 252. Brown Major-General 57. Reconciled to the King at Holmby 128. In a new designe discovered 434 Brown Bushel beheaded 285 Brooks Lord killed 42 Brunt-Island taken 294 Brunswick besieged and surrendred 583 Buchanan's Book burnt in Scotland 526 Buckingham Duke 177. sent into Holland 584 Buckhurst Lord c. 505 Burleigh Capt. 163 Butler Col. Richard taken 242 C Cahiâ Castle weakly yielded 521 Calamy Minister Committed 514 Canons made against the Church of Rome and justifying this 12 Capel Lord Tryed and Sentenced 228. and Beheaded his noble deportment 229 Carlisle Earl sent into Sweden 572 Cavalcaâe and Procession from 474 to 486 Campeach taken 520 Canary prohibited 556 Candia besieged 559. Surrendred 577 Carlisle yielded to the Scots 106 Carnarvan slain 50 51 Casimire King of Poland dies in France 590 Carrick taken by Treachery 247. Attempted in vain to be recovered from Colonel Reynolds 248 Carteret Sir George Governour of Jersey 255 Castlehaven Earl for the King in Ireland and against the Nuntio's party 238 Casualties 315 Cavaliers to depart London 258. Conspire against Cromwel 366. Their Plot again discovered 401. They Plot against the Rump 423 Ceremonies in Religion one main cause of the War opposed and murmured at 2 3 Cessation granted by the Scots upon very difficult terms 15 Cessation agreed in Ireland 53 Chains of Gold and Medals given to the chief Sea-Officers 349 Chaloner Chute Speaker dies 416 Chancery regulated 368 Character of the Kings Iudges 196 to 203 Charles Prince in the Downs 175. At Goree in Holland 176 Charles the second Proclaimed King by dispersed papers 225 Chester Charter taken away 427 Chichister City 42 Chepstow-Castle taken by Sir Nicholas Kemish 171 St. Christophers and the Cariby Islands subdued 307 Christmass day Celebrated 398 City Alarm'd with a pretended Plot 403 City invite Parliament and Army to dinner 429. Send Sword-bearer to Gen. Monke 435. Their Gates and Portcullices pulled down 437 City and Companies feasts the General 438 Their joy upon the King's return 453 Lend the King Money 575 528 551 City Building begins 556 Citadels built in Scotland 313 Claypool's Lady dies buried 404 Dr. Clargis also Mr. Caryl Minister c. sent to Gen. Monke in Scotland 432 Clanrickard Marq. his services 249. Substituted Lord-Governour of Ireland 251. Defeated by Col. Axtel 277. Lays down his Arms 324 Clubmen 83 Clement Gregory 255 Clifford Lord made Lord Treasurer 588. Resignes his Staff 591 Clogher Bishop defeated 267 Clonmel yielded after a stout resistance 252 Colchester Siege 175 Cock-matches and Horse-races prohibited 359 Committee appointed for inspection of Charters 381. Committee of Safety 429. Like not themselves declare for another Parliament 433 Common-prayer abolished 69 Commonwealth altered by Cromwel 338 Composition 88 Compton Dr. made Bishop of Oxford 599 Commissioners in Scotland 166 Commission of the Great Seal altered 359 Commissioners for approbation of Ministers 359 Commissioners to treat with the King at the Isle of Wight 183 Commissioners to General Monke from the City 436 Commissioners to the King at Breda arrive at the Hague 447 Commissioners of the Treasury 563. To take account of publick Money ibid. To hear Seamens complaints 564 Cologne Treaty 594 Colmaer Battle 601 Colliers the Dutch designe 337 Confederate party of Irish Rebels 250 Confirmation of Acts 500 Constable Sir William dies and buried in Hen. 7th's Chappel 373 Contents of the Kings Declaration from Breda 445 Convocation in England grant 5th part of their Livings to Scotch War 12 Convention in Ireland 440 Conway Lord defeated 13 Coronation of the King 475 to 496 Cotterel Sir Charles sent to Brussels 532 Court erected for rebuilding the City 556 County-troops established 373 Councellors several Privy-Councillors made 584 Covenant first in Scotland what 7. Taken 45. Burnt by the Hangman 498 to 500 Council of State erected 226. New chosen 258 named by Cromwel 343. Supream power named by the Rump 421. A new one appointed 435 Courts of Iustice in Ireland 332 Courts âit in the interval of the Rupture by Lambert 343 Coot Sir Charles defeats the Irish 250 267 305. His Stratagem on Galloway in Ireland for a free Parliament 438. Died 503 Cooper a Minister Executed 278 Corke vide Youghal Cowley Abr. dies 564 Craven Lord his Case 291 365 offered again to the Parliament but deferred by the Protector 392 Crew Dr. Bishop of Durham 599 Crosses demolished 45 Cromwel Lieutenant-General at Marston-moor at Islip 59 74 112 His Conspiracy in seizing the King at Holmby 129. Complements and Courts the King 144. And then abuseth him 147. Awes the Votes of Non-addresses 162. His Politicks on People City and King 163. Collogues the City and Parliament for fear of the Scots 165. Marcheth into Scotland 178. Makes the Scots disband 179. Treacherously surprizeth the Levellers his subtile Clemency 234. Graduated at Oxford ibid. And presented and treated by the City of London 234. Made Lord-Governour of Ireland 237. Lands there ibid. Storms Tredagh his cruelty and policy there Winter-quarter at Youghal 254. Sent for by Letters leaves Ireland and Ireton in
Cock-matches prohibited 359 Horton Adjutant to Maj. Gen. Brown at Dennington 63 Hotham refuseth to admit the King into Hull but suffers the Duke of York and Prince Elector Palatine is proclaimed Traitor 33 34. Revolts from the Parliament and his son and he sent Prisoners to the Tower 56. Executed 68 House of Lords voted useless 226. Protest against it ibid. Howard Lord adviseth Richard Cromwel 417 Howard Lady to the Tower 423 Howard Capt. his valour 543 Howard Master sent Embassador to Taffalette 575 Hoyle Alderman Hangs himself 256 Hull Garrison 33. Hotham Governour of it ibid. The dispute of transferring that Magazine 32 33 Humble Petition and Advice 393 Hume-castle yielded 283 Humphries-Col to Jamaica 377 I Jamaica 370 Jamaicans assault the Dutch Plantations 548 James John Executed 502 Jealousies Fears and pretended Plots 26 27 30.31 Jenkins Iudge his writings 155 156. Designed for slaughter 229. Dies 524 Jersey a new Mace 520. Surrendered to Col. Haynes 306 Jesuits in France proceeded against 570. Exiled 373 Jews treat for admission with Cromwel 379 Jewish Prophet 548 559 Imposition on Seal-coal 359 Independants rise 66. Quarrel with the Presbyterians and cajolethem 67. undermine and defeat them 112 113 139. Synod at Savoy 413 Inchiqueen Lord defeats Lord Taaff 164. Declares for the King ibid. Ioyns with the Confederate Catholicks for the King under the Lord of Ormond made Lieutenant General of the Army 238. His overfight like to be surpriâed 245. Falsly suspected and accused by the Marquess of Antrim 263. Leaves Ireland 277 Indians rebel in New-England 601 Ingoldsby Col. offers aid to Richard 417. Suppresseth a Mutiny and Lambert Instrument of Cromwel's Protectorian Government and his Oath 354 Joachims Embassador from the Dutch 267. Sent home 270 St. Johnstons yielded 294 Jones draws out of Dublin to oppose the advance of the Marquiss of Ormond retreats 239. Raiseth the Siege before Dublin 211. Comes before Drogheda and retreats 243. Dies in the quality of Lieutenant-General 247 Ireland and Ulster Forces submit 344 Ireland its state and condition 238 Ireton's appearance and notice at Naseby-fight wounded 78. In the Cabal of the Army 84. Draws their Papers and Proposals 84 85. Parliament Votes 161. Intrigues between them 116 118 119. Dies of the Plague 305 Irish affairs an account of the Cessation and the Marq. of Ormond's Treaty with Rebels and Parliament the Articles thereof with the Rebels the Popes Nuntio there 122 123 124. Strength what after Cromwel's departure 253. Abused by Cromwel's fair carriage at first into horrible slavery at his departure 253. Defeated at Finagh 234. Their affairs 292 309 310. Seem to acquiess in Lambert's actions 431. Affairs 515 Judges Commissioned by the new State 224. New ones again 254. New placed by the Rump 422. Of the King and others exempted out of the Act of Oblivion 454. They that came in upon Proclamation respited from Execution 469. Brought to the House of Lords and remanded to Prison 502. Of the Law their Names 492 Justice High Court 203 to 217. Again erected 258 278. To try Col. Gerrard and Powel 360 K Kentish Insurrection 173. Suppressed ibid. Kent mastered and reduced by Rich and Berkstead 175 Keyling Sir John Lord Chief-Iustice 543 Ker Col. defeated 280 Killing no Murther a Book 395 King dispenceth with the Common prayer and Book of Canons in Scotland by a Declaration slighted and cavilled at as a device and opposed by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey with another Declaration 7 8 Arms against the Scots 9. At York and Barwick agrees upon a Pacification 10. Goeth to his Scotch Parliament 20. Departs thence with mutual satisfaction ibid. Received Magnificently at his return to the City ibid. Demands five Members 25. To Hampton-court to Dover to Greenwich Theobalds 27. To Royston New-market York ibid. Asserts his right in the Militia 30 31. His innocence of any designe of War c. ibid. Resolves for Ireland 32. Expostulates his affront at Hull from Beverley 34. Takes a guard of York-shire-Gentlemen ibid. His intentions of no War attested by the Lords ibid. Answers and refutes their Remonstrance 35. Forbids the Militia 36. Invites his Subjects to his assistance ibid. To Newark back to York to Nottingham sets up his Standard to Stafford-shire Leicester-shire confines of Wales and Shrewsbury and caresses the Gentry and Commonalty 37 38 39. Melts down his Plate at Shrewsbury and Mints it 38. Faceth Coventry to Southam 39. Stays and turns upon Essex his Speech 39 40. Takes Banbury to Oxford towards London at Brainford 41. Into the West after Essex Overtakes him at Lestithiel defeats him 58. in the associated Counties 88. Into Wales ibid. At Newark 90. At Oxford ibid. Escapes thence 99. To the Scots 100. Information of it and his Majesties Messages and the Parliaments Answers from 100 to 104. The King at Newcastle 114. disputes with Henderson 115. And betrayed by the Scots 121. His escape intended from the 122. Delivered to Commissioners 127. At Holmby 128. Carried away by Cornet Joyce 129. At Childersley with freedom of Chaplains 130. The designe of it 131 to 133. Deluded by the Army Proposals 132. At Hampton-court after many traverses 145. Pretendedly at Liberty and Honour 147. His nearness to London suspected by Cromwel 148. Frighted thence by Whaley and departs ibid. His Letters and Declarations there 148 to 151. In the Isle of Wight ibid. High Treason to conceal his Person ibid. His Message from the Isle of Wight 151 to 155. A blasphemous Hue and Cry against him ibid. Answers the Message with the Bills of Parliament His Declaration upon the Votes of Non-addresses 166 to 169. Kings Message and Answer to the Votes of a personal Treaty 181 182. Hath liberty of assistance and his Friends 183. Startled at the Remonstrance of the Army 187. Shews the unreasonableness of it ibid. His farewel to the Commissioners and Declaration concerning the Treaty 188 to 190. And his Letter of the result and advice to the Prince 190. Hurried from the Isle of Wight to Hurst-castle to Winchester to Windsor to St. James's 193. To the High Court of Iustice his defence and Reasons 203 to 215. Traiterously Sentenced ibid. Confers with his Children ibid. The Lady Elizabeth's relation of it 216. His Speech upon the Scaffold 218 to 219. Murthered 220. His Corps exposed to view ibid. Buried by the Duke of Richmond Marquiss of Hertford Durchester and Earl of Lindsey at Windsor 221. The Service-book denied at his Interment ibid. King Charles the second at Hague 235. Highly treated there and honoured 236. Departs for France by Rotterdam Dort Antwerp and Brussels treated by the Arch-Duke Leopold attended thence by Duke Lorrain to Compeign met there by the French King 237. At Jersey 257. At Breda ibid. Takes shipping at Terheyden for Scotland 268. Arrives there ibid. Withdrawing the Covenanting party 281. Crowned at Schoone ibid. Marched into England 294. Comes to Worcester 295. Summons the Country ibid. Flies by advice of the Earl of Derby to Whiteladies the
ãâ¦ã and Lambert fall out 428. Vote away Lambert's and eight more Field-commission Officers ib. Outed by Lambert 429. Reseated 43 ãâ¦ã ter company added to them 438. Arms defaced 446 Rupert Prince 40 44. And throughout the War Leaves Kingsale and puts to Sea with a Fleet 254. Blockt up at Lisbon 256 267. His Fleet dispersed and some taken 275. From Taulon to Sea 289. Seizeth Spanish ships why 293. In France â37 General at Sea 550. Divides ãâ¦ã yns again and fights 551 Russia Emperor 255. Embassadors Rycaut Paul returns from Constantinople 520 S. Sad condition of the Irish 333 Safety a Committee 429 Sales of the King 's Queen's Prince's Dââns and Chapters Lands and Houses 256. Of Kings Houses agreed on but avoyded by Cromwel âââ Salisbury River begun to be made ãâ¦ã âââ Sanzeime Battle 600 Salmasius his Royâl defence 236 Salters-Hall Commissioners for sale of prisoners Estates stopt 359 Sanderson Bishop dies 514 Saul Major Executed 278 Sandwich Earl keeps the Sea 528. Takes the Dutch East-Indie-fleet 541. He is sent Embassador into Spain 545. Arrives at Madrid 550. Sent to Portugal 569 Scalborough to the King by Brown Bushel 44. Yielded to the Parliament 193 Savoy and Genoa at odds 547 566 590. Saxony Duke installed Knight of the Garter by Proxey 580 Scilly Island rendred by Sir John Greenvile 288 289 Scot Robinson sent to meet Gen. Monk 435 Scotch troubles about English Liturgy and Book of Canons 3. Arm 1638. And desire the King of France's assistance 9. Cunningly agree upon a Pacification abuse the King who is betrayed by his Servants 10. War resumed proclaimed Rebels treated with soon after 15. Peace ratified in Parliament ibid. Favour the Parliaments cause 35. Enter England with an Army for the Covenant 56. At Hereford 87. Iuggle with and sell the King 120. Parliament dispute about the disposal of the King 115 Commissioners sence of the Parliaments Bills and Proposals Presbyters murther sâveral Scotch Gentlemen 164. Prepare a War under Hamilton 165 166. Enter England under Duke Hamilton 177. Defeated 178. Hamilton prisoner ibid. Scotland detests the Murther of the King and proclaims Charles the second at Edinburgh and expostulates with the Regicides at Westminster 232 Scots defeat a Royal party in the North of Scotland 333. Send Commissioners to the King 233. Defeated in Ulster in Ireland by Sir Charles Coot 247. They send Commissioners to the King 257. Their Names Except against Malignants their other terms 257. They endeavour to unite 274 Cavaliers admitted into Trust 282. Pass an Act of Oblivion 290. Encamped in Torwood 292. Noblemen taken at Elliot in Scotland and sent Prisoners to the Tower others of the Nobility submit 302. The reasons 304. Kirk reject the English Vnion 307. Deputies ordered to be chosen by the Commissioners 310. The affairs of the Kingdom ibid. Several Scots Earls and Noblemen taken after Worcester 298 New Great Seal 56. Great Seal broken 128 Sea-fight the first between us and the Dutch in the Downs an account of it 315 to 320 Second Sea-fight between Sir Geo Ayscue and De Ruyter at Plymouth 325 Third Sea-fight between Blake and De Wit in the North-Foreland 326 327. Fourth Sea-fight at Portland 335 Fifth Sea-fight at Leghorn betwixt Captain Appleton and Van Gallen 337 Sixth Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke Dean and Blake and Van Tromp behinde the Goodwyn-Sands 345 Seventh Sea-fight betwixt Gen. Monke and Tromp 346 to 349 Sea-men encouraged 534 Secluded Members restored and reseated Sieges and Skirmishes in Ireland 274 Selden John dies 366 Seneffe Battle 601 Serini beats the Turk 52. Is killed 533 Sexby Col. dies 398 Shaftsbury Earl Lord Chancellor 588 Dr. Sheldon Arch-bishop of Canterbury 523 Sheriffs discharged of expenses at Assizes 401 Ship-money voted illegal 17. The nature of it 16 17 Ships blown up neer London-bridge 361 Shrewsbury 38 39 71 Sickness in London 539. Abates 544 Skippon Major-General Articles for the Infantry at Lestithiel 58 Skirmishes Brill Ast-ferry 64 Slanning Sir Nicholas 46 Slingsby Sir Henry decoyed 304. Tryed and Beheaded 404 Smith Sir Jeremy keeps the Mediterranean Seas 544 Soissons Count Embassador hither 456 Sonds Freeman kills his Brother and is hanged 380 Southampton Earl 163 Spalding-Abby fell and killed 23 persons 380 Spaniard owns the English Commonwealth 278 Sprague Sir Edward sent into Flanders 569. Commands in the Streights 578. Destroys the Algerines 581. Returns 583. Spoyls the Dutch fishing 588 Stacy Edmond Executed 404 States of England pretended declare the maintenance of Laws 227. Are guilty of the Irish Rebellion with which they taxed the King 237. Erect a new Council of State 283. Proclaim the King Traitor and are in great fear and dispair at his entring England 294 Stamford Earl 42 Statues of the late King and King James pulled down and the Inscription writ under that at Old Exchange 269 Steel Recorder of London refuseth to be Knighted by Oliver 357. Made Lord-Chancellor of Ireland 366. Made Lord Chief-Baron of England 373 Stawel Sir John ordered for Tryal 229. At High Court of Iustice 279 Sterling-Castle taken 361 Sterry Oliver's Chaplain his Blasphemy 409 Strafford Earl Commander in chief against the Scots 13. Accused to the Parliament 15. To the Black-rod and Tower 16. Tryal 18. His willing resignation his attainder ibid. And deâth 19 St. Germain a Proclamation against him 602 St. John and Strickland Embassadors to the Dutch their business and departure 285 286 287. St. John 357. Stickles in the Council of State for terms with the King 440 Stratton Baron Lord Hopton dies 328 Straughan Col. 280 Stroker 540 Stuart Lord John killed 57. With Sir John Smith Col. Scot and Sandys and Colonel Manning ibid. Stuart Lord Bernard slain 89 Submission of the Irish 324 Sunderland Earl slain 51 Summons for persons of Integrity to take upon them the Government by Council of state 345 Sums of Money raised by the Parliament Supplies to Jamaica 377 Surrenders several 91. As Basing Tiverton Exeter Sheford 91 92 Surrenders in Ireland 270 Surinam 557 Surrey Petitioners assaulted 172 Sweden Queen supplies Montross 255. Complies with our States 358. Receives Whitlock ibid. Gives our Soveraign an interview 376 Sweden King invades Poland 373 Swedes stand firm for England 549. Besiege Bremen 559. Mediations excepted 560. Embassador dies in London 566. Makes peace with the Dutch 567. King presented with the Garter 572. Installed by Proxie 580. Ioyn with the French 597 Sydenham Major slain at Linlithgow 288 Syndercomb's Plot and death 384 385. T Tabaco taken by the English 591 Tables erected in Scotland 7 Tadcaster 42 Taffalette routed and slain 579. Moors beaten 581. Earl of Middleton Governour and makes peace with the Moors 594 Taaff Lord sent against Cromwel 246 Taaff Luke Major-General 248 Tangier 504. Iews expelled 525. Lord Bellasis Governour there 537. Moors beaten there 573 Tartar taken in Germany 526 Taylor the Kings Resident with the Emperour 329 Taxes a mark on them 331 Teviot Earl killed 527 Temple Sir William concludes â League
after the fight General Monk chiefly concâââ'd in the honour of this field The Highlanders sold for Slaves A union of parties endeavoured by the Scots The Parliament at Westminster appoint a Thanksgiving day Cromwel marcheth for Sterling Sep. 14. Liberty of Conscience Enacted in England The Sectaries raise an Army Col. Harrison made Maj. Gen. The Duke of Yoak at the Hague Prince Ruperts Fleet dispersed Nov. Princess Elizabeth dieth at Carisbroke Castle is buried in Newport Prince of Aurange died Octb. 27. Divisions among the Loyal parties in Ireland The Marq of Clanâickards Forces âeâeated by Col. Axtel Octob. 25. The Marq. of Ormoââ and Lord Inchiqueen resolved to depart out of Ireland Nov. An Embassador from Portugal to the new States Dec. The Spanish Embassador likewise acknowledg'd them a Free-State Decem. An Insurrection in Norfolk Suppressed A High Court of Justice Erected at Norwich Mr. Cooper a Minister Maj. Saul and others Executed A memorable accident at Oxford Several Acts of Parliament Passed The Progress of Cromwel in Scotland The Trayterous Western Remonstrance of some Scots Ker defeated and taken Prisoner Edenburgh Castle yielded Dec. 24. The Articles for the Rendition of Edenburgh-Castle Col. Fenwick madâ Goveânour ãâã and of Leith for the Parliament The Scots boldly sollicitous with the King His Majesty withdraws to Gen. Middleton The manner of His Coronation January 1. The Lord-Chancellors Speech to the King His Majesties Answer He is accompanied by the Nobility to the Kirk of Scoone Mr. Robert Douglass preacheth before the King Prince of Aurange Christned Several of the King Friends preferred and intrusted Fife Castle attempted by the English Hume Castle taken Feb. 4 by Col. Fenwick for the Parliament The Governours Answer to the Summons Timtallon Castle yielded by Sir James Seaton to the Parliament of England General Ruthen Earl of Brentford and Forth deceaseth David Lesley General for the Scots A new Council of State March John Fry one of the Kings Iudges writts a Book against the Trinity he is Voted to leave the House and his Book to be burned A Dutch Envoy complains to the King of Sir Jo. Greenvile Governour of the Isle of Scilly and others The Prince of Aurange buried Feb. 21. Tho. Cook of Grays-Inne Esq. committed to the Tower Maj. General Harrison ordered to march into Lancashire Cornet Castle delivered by Col. Burgess to M. Harrison for the Parliament The Irish defeated at Finagh March 13. Sir Henry Hide Beheaded June 4 in London Câpt Brown Bushel Executed Mar. 29. The Lord Saint John and Strickland Embassadors to Holland They desire a firm League The States General shew no forwardness to this new friendship The Embassadors affronted by Prince Edward son to the Queen of Bohemia They complain to the States and have a Guard appointed them They depart for England June 20. Saint John 's Speech at his departure The Law and its Proceedings turned into English Apr. A new Welch Insurrection started Blackness Castle delivered to Cromwel The Loyal Nobility in Scotland restored to their Seats in Parliament The Kirk convâââd at Glascow E. of Eglington surprized in his designe of raising Forces for the King Cromwel burneth the Lady Kilsithes house Maj. Sydenham slain and his party defeated Apr. 15 by the Lord Montgomery and Lord Cranston The Reduction of Scilly Island in May. St Maries Island surrendred June 2 by Sir John Greenvile to Gen. Blake and Sir Geo Ayscue Pr. Rupert and Pr. Maurice at Sea from Toulon An Agent from the D. of Florence to the Parliament of England Lord Howard committed to the Tower for Bribery Cromwel sick May. Part of a Letter from one of Cromwels Creatures An Act of Oblivion in Scotland The Royalists aâd Kirk-men good friends Earl of Calender Commander in chief of their new Levies The Presbyterian Ministers seized by the Council of State in order to their Tryal May. Mr. Love charged with High Treason Mr. Jackson fined 500 l. and committed to the Fleet for refusing to give Evidence against Mr. Love Mr. Love Sentenced July 5. Mr. Potter and Mr. Gibbons Sentenced July 25. Mr. Love and Mr. Gibbons Executed on Tower-hill An Act for abolishing the Marshals-Court in Southwark Another for the sale of Delinquents Lands Faulkner a perjured witness against the Lord Craven The Estates of the Royalists put to sale The Honours of the Royalists given by the King since Jan. 1641. abolished The Irish affairs June Lord Broghall defeats the Lord Muskerry Sir Charles Coot succesfull The Irish Council and Commanders in great straights Scots Leaguer in Tor-wood Cromwel stormeth Calendar house the defendants put to the Sword Newark house and two others taken Pr. Rupert takes a rich Spanish ship A fight in Fife between Sir John Brown and Maj. Gea Lambert July 20. The Scots worsted Sir John Brown taken and a while after dies Inchigarvey Castle and Brunt-Island delivered to the English St. Johnstons delivered to Cromwel The King marches for England July 21. The Parl. settle the Militia Royalists forbid to depart their Houses Correspondence with the King or his Party forbid The King at Carlisle Proclaimed there King of Great Britain He publisheth his Declaration Offereth an Act of Pardon to all but Cromwel Bradshaw and Cook Warrington fight Lambert and Harrison defeated by Massey The Earl of Derby joyus with the King in Lancashire The King summons Shrewsbury in vain The King comes to Worcester Aug. 22. The Parl. raise the Militia and London Regiments The King Summons the Country Wigon fight August 25. Lilburn defeats the Earl of Derby Slain on the Kings side Lord Widdrington Ma. Gen. Sir Tho. Tildesly Col. Mat. Boynton Sir Francis Gamul c. The Earl lâsing his George and Garter escapes Cromwel surrounds Worcester Au. 13. and possesseth Upton Bridge Worcester Fight The King defeated at Worcester Sep. 3. Worcester miserably plundered A Traytor hanged and his Widow bountifully rewarded Slain of the Kings side Duke Hamilton The Kings Standard his Coach and Horses and Collar of SS taken The King deliberates whither to fly The Lords leave him at Whiteladies The King in the wood Thursday morning Sep. 4. The King at Madely To Boscobel Col. Carlos directs the King to the Oak At Mosely with Mr. Whitgrave To Bently with Mrs. Jane Lane for Bristol The King met by the Lord Wilmot The dangerous Expression of a Farrier The King by Evesham At Cirencester to Mr. Nortons at Leigh The King and Lord Wilmot in danger of discovery at Chayermouth Adventures of the King At Heal at Mrs. Hides By Portsmouth to Brighthemstead Tetershal discovers the King Tetershal resolves to proceed in his voyage with the King King Embarques A notable passage Arrives at Rohan to Paris Most of the Scots taken Prisoners Cromwel and his Prisoners to London Sep. 12. The Prisoners sold. The Colours taken hanged up in Westminster hall Sterling castle surrendred Aug. 14 to Gen. Monke for the Parl. Dundee stormed Sep. 1 and taken by Gen. Monke the defendants put to
Pardon to take away all suspition from the five Members Several Petitions were presented to the Parliament from the Countries about the foresaid matters and one from the Buckinghamshire-men to the King himself in vindication of their Countryman Mr. Hambden To this Petition the King demur'd intent onely on the Irish business whose miseries pierced him to the quick being neither able effectually to relieve them the Rebels being Masters of the chiefest places there nor to put any thing here in a way oâ forwardness thereto through the cross proceedings and difficulties of his affairs here The King was departed from Hampton-Court in company with the Queen and his Daughter the Princess of Aurange to Dover to see them shipped for Holland Whither the Queen conveyed away most of the Crown-Jewels which she pledged for money and Arms for the King her Husband and for which she was afterwards voted a Traytor the Parliament being doing it at her departure Now he returned straight to Greenwich from thence having the Prince in his company to Theobalds Still the difference widened more and more according as he removed from London to which he was importunately desired to return by both Houses by the Members thereof who continued sitting though the Grandees of the Faction were well contented with what distance he kept from them as rendring their pretended Jealousies and Fears more and more credible to the deluded people From Theobalds the misunderstanding still increasing betwixt the King and two Houses he removed North-ward first to Royston thence to Newmarket and in conclusion to York having received and answered several Messages from the Parliament by the way The principal difference between the King and them was the Militia this was disputed betwixt them the King claiming it as an unseparable right of the Crown and the Houses urging the management of it for present satisfaction and safety and had thereupon nominated Officers which designation the King disallowed And now the rupture was visible I have thought fit therefore to insert both the Commission of Array and the Ordinance of the Militia they seeming to be as the Challenge to the War ensuing though they both are here inserted out of order of time CHarles by the grace of God King of England Scotland c. to our most dear Cozens Henry Earl of Huntingdon and William Earl of Devonshire and also to our beloved and trusty Henry Hastings Esquire Son of the said Earl of Huntingdon Henry Barkley George Villiers Thomas Burton Baronets Henry Shipwith c. Knights Henry Hasting of Humberton c. Esquires and the Sheriff of our County of L. for the time being greeting Know ye that we willing to take care and provide for the safety and defence of Our Self and Kingdome and our Lieges thereof according as our duty is and by Gods good favour resolving to resist the malice of our enemies if they sâall presume to invade this our Realm of England Have appointed you or any three or more of you to array and trayn all and every person and persons in arms bowmen c. dwelling within your said County within liberties and with out and that you cause to be Armed all such as are able of body and sit to bear them who have of their own wherewith to arm themselves viz. every one according to his estate or condition to rate and proportion accordâng to your advice and discretion or of any three of you and to distrain all those who have Lands and Possessions and through debility of body are unable for service causing them to find according to the quality of their Lands and Goods what Arms conveniently and reasonably saving their condition they can bear and to provide men at Arms armed but with Bows and Arrows so that they who shall stay and continue at their own home in their County for the defence of this our Kingdome against our enemies shall receive no wages nor expences for this their stay at home aforesaid and that you likewise dispose and cause to be disposed the said men so Armed and Arrayed into Regiments Troops and Companies or other Division as you shall see convenient And we have assigned you or any three or more of you whereof you the said Earl of Huntingdon and in your absence you the said Earl of Devonshire or you Henry Hastings son of the said Earl of Huntingdon to be one of the said men at Arms and Bowmen so arrayed and trained as well to the Sea-Coasts as to any other places where and as often and as need shall râquire to expel overcome and destroy our said enemies from time to time in any eminent peril to command and lead And we have likewise Commissionated you or any three or more of you to cause Muster or Musters of the said men so armed and arrayed to be made and to supervise them as oft as occasion shall require And also to proclaim ordain and diligently examine and see that all and every such men at Arms armed men and Bowmen in such Musters be armed with their own and not others weapons upon penalty of loosing them those onely excepted who are to be armed at the charge of others And to arrest take and in our Prisons to put all and every of those who in this behalf you shall find enemies or Rebels and to continue them in such Prisons until they shall be thence delivered by Law And therefore as straightly as we can upon your Faith and Allegiance which you owe us we enjoyn and command you that forthwith upon the sight of these presents that in the best and safest manner you can you arm and array your selves and that before you at certain days and places which you shall judge most convenient and expedient and of least hindrance to our people you cause all men dwelling in your County by whom the Array and Arming may be best effected and compleated to be called and come together there and then to be arrayed and armed and them so arrayed and armed to keep in the same array And furthermore that you cause Beacons to be set up in the usual places by which the several Counties may in fit time be fore-armed against the coming of our Enemies And the same men so arrayed and armed in imminent danger in the defence of the Kingdom and Country aforesaid from time to time as well to the Sea-side or to other places where need shall require you cause to be led and conducted or some of you of whom you the aforesaid Henry Earl of Huntingdon or in your absence you the aforesaid William Earl of Devonshire or you the aforesaid Henry Hastings Son of the said Earl of Huntingdon we will to be one do cause to be conducted as aforesaid so that through default of defence array or conduct of the aforesaid Souldiers or through your negligence no hurt or damage be done to the aforesaid Country as far as to your power it can be letted And we streightly
attend the Motion of the Netherlanders the Dutch Bourdeaux-Fleet laden with Wine Brandy and other Commodities fell all or the greatest part into our hands which together with many other Prizes at other times this Year taken made up the number of above a Hundred thirty five with great Caution condemnâd in the Admiralty of London Nine Dutch Ships were brought into Dover at one time laden with Canary Salt Oyl Brandy Spice and other good Merchandizes Certain it was that the Hollander received a very great Foyl in the Opinion of the People by that Action of withdrawing his Fleet the Vulgar being supported till then with an expectation of some mighty Actions to Answer their Prodigious Boasting This was all the Action of the English and Dutch Fleets at home For his Highness the Duke of York finding that the Netherlanders had laid up their Ships and that there was now no need of keeping so great a Navy abroad with all his Train upon the seventh of December arrived at White-Hall leaving a considerable number of stout Vessels under the Conduct of the Earl of Sandwich having before his departure by a Speech which he made them inspired the Seamen with an admirable resolution and chearfulness to obey the Commands of their Admiral in whatever Enterprise he should have further Order to Prosecute This year were Launch'd the Royal Catherine and the Royal Oak And that noble Ship the London being by an Accident blown up the City made their humble Addresses to His Majesty that they might have leave to make a Contribution among themselves for the building another Ship of equal Goodness The King graciously accepted their kind offer and to shew his greater Acceptance enjoyned them to add the Title of Loyal to the Name of London As yet there was no publique Declaration of War on either side Only the King seemed to Treat with his Arms in his hands And therefore Sir George Downing still prest in the heat of all this Preparation and Action according to his Instructions for Satisfaction of Damages The King had also made an Embargo upon the Dutch here in England which was carried so privately that Sir George Downing had Intelligence of it a full Week before the States knew any thing thereof By which means he gave timely Notice to fifteen or sixteen Sail of the English to Ship away insomuch that there remain'd nothing for the other to Seize but two inconsiderable Vessels and a Colchester Oysterboat About the List of Damages there were several Conferences with Sr. George Downing which prov'd all to little or no Effect But that which pinch'd them most was the Regulation propounded by Sir George for the Government of Trade for the future being very sensible that the English did make themselves much more Popular among the Natives where they settled than the Netherlanders had the fortune to do At length in Justification of their Proceedings they put forth a Scandalous Libel intituled An Extract out of the Memorials of the States General of the Vnited Provinces upon the Memorial of Sir George Downing Envoyè c. wherein they cast many Invective Aspersions upon His Majesty and put Sir George to the necessity of a Printed Vindication The reason of this delay was to feel the pulses of their Neighbours and to try what Assistance they could get from them especially France whither they had posted away Monsieur Benninghen as was said before but his Negotiation did no way answer their expectations Besides that the Minister of the Crown of Sweden charg'd them in a large Memorial with a direct breach of Articles neither would Denmark Meddle with their Cause The Bishop of Munster threatned 'um for the Eyler Fort The Emperour sollicited 'um to do Reason to Malta And Spain Visibly rejoyc'd for their misfortune before Calice Which at the latter end of Sixty four after all their Embassies and Negotiations was their Condition with Forraign Princes They were angry with His Majesty of England for making a Peace with Argier without their Assent whenas they had given order to De Ruyter who Commanded the Squadron which was sent to the Assistance of the English to leave that Enterprize having designed him to destroy the English Factories in Guiny to which purpose De Ruyter set Sayl from Gibralter about the latter end of September with Thirteen Ships and Arriving in Guiny made seizure of all that he found within his reach at Cape Verd and the Island of Gâgee where the Governour with his men finding himself deserted made Conditions to be Transported to Gambia But this was in part retaliated by the News which came from Captain Allen who with the Ships under his Command discovering about thirty Dutch-men which prov'd to be the Smyrna-Fleet with their Convey made up to them and upon their refusing to strike Sayl gave them a Salute which they answered After some Dispute the Dutch made for the Bay of Cadiz having lost four of their Richest Merchant-men and one taken and divers of the rest very much shatter'd one of the Captains of their Men of War was kill'd This Action was the more considerable in regard that the Sea was so high that Captain Allen could not bear out his lower Tire About the seventh of Iune Sir Thomas Modeford arriv'd at Iamaica with four hundred Passengers whither he was followed soon after with Three hundred more where they found themselves very well pleased with the Country and very much encourag'd to settle themselves the Governour endeavouring with all diligence to settle a fair Correspondence with his Neighbours both in Sancto Domingo and Cartagena to which purpose he call'd in all Private Men of War belonging to the Island On the 24th of November the Parliament met again at which time the King in a Speech signified to them how unkindly he had been treated by his Neighbours yet that he had upon the Stock of his own Credit set forth a Navy that would not decline meeting with all the Naval Power of the Enemy that he had borrowed very liberally out of his own Stores and of the City of London so that to discharge the one and replenish the other would require little less than Eight hundred thousand pounds That he expected from them all necessary Expedition in their Resolutions and that their Supply might be Real and Substantial This was Answered by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker with all Expressions of Loyalty and Affection to the King setting forth the deep sence which the Parliament had of the Injuries of the Dutch of His Majesties Expences and the necessity of his Warlike Preparations Assuring Him of their Constancie and readiness to yield him all obedience both with their Bodies and Purses To make their words good they first past a Vote for a Supply of Four and twenty hundred seventy seven thousand and five hundred pounds a great heart-breaking at that time and that which shew'd the King would want no
men of Saây since the Truce made with him to be restor'd to their Liberty But the further issue of this Embassie is to be expected in the following Year And for this delay the Emperour excus'd himself for not engaging so great a person in a Country where he had not power to protect him Returning home we meet with no small loss in the Decease of the Duke of Albemarle after a long indisposition of Health in the sixty second year of his Age. His Garter being brought to the King was by his immediate command carried back to the Earl of Turrington then by his Father's death Duke of Albemarle with a further declaration that he should immediately also succeed in the place of Gentleman of his Bed-chamber and Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Devon and farther the King was pleas'd to send him word that as the last mark of Gratitude to the memory of the Deceased he would himself take care for the Funeral which not long after was perform'd with great Solemnity at the King 's particular charge Nor did the Dutchess his Wife stay long behinde him dying toward the latter end of the Moneth but was more privately buried in the Chappel of Henry the seventh The Republick of Venice had âent a very honourable Embassie into England in requital of which the Lord Falconbridge by the King's order departed in the same employment to the Venetian State being commanded in his way to visit some other Princes and States of Italy Nor must we omit the kindness of the Grand Duke of Tuscany who besides his civil entertainment of the Earl of Northumbârland in acknowledgement of the courteous entertainment which he had received in England built and gave to the King of England two very stout Gallies for a guard of the Coast about Tangier being of great importance to the service of his Majesty The Parliament according to the term appointed in their last Prorogation was now assembled to whom the King as he was wont to do made a short Speech which was enlarged upon by another from the Lord-âeeper The King therein recommended three things more especially to them the one was Unity among themselves the Union of England and Scotland and the Supply of his present and urgent Necessities As to the differences among themselves they were as soon as sate buried in oblivion and all matter of prejudice threatned thereby as suddenly vanish'd For they were no sooner sate but according to his Majesty's Recommendation both Houses came to a full agreement in the matter in debate between 'um greatly to the encouragement of all that regarded the good of the Nation as by the effect of their unanimous consultations soon after appeared Forein Affairs 1669. The Treaty at Aix la Chapelle one would have thought should have brought a general repose to Europe but jealousies of State had interrupted the quiet that should have attended upon it The King of France's new demands of appendencies to his Conquests in Flanders startled the Spaniards whereby Contributions were exacted by the French from places under the Spanish Jurisdiction as they took it for granted Nor did the States of Holland care at all for their Neighbourhood This made the Constable of Castile then Governour of the Spanish Netherlands in the place of Castel-Rodrigro send his Complaints to the French King who appointed Commissioners to sit at Lille for the composure of all these differences These Complaints the King of France eludes by renouncing his pretensions in one place and claiming in another quitting Charleroy and claiming Ipre quitting Conde and claiming Oudenard in which contests the Commissioners at Lille having spent many Moneths in vain were at length forc'd to break off without doing any thing On the other side Pompone the French Embassador endeavours all that might be to assure the States of Holland of the great inclinations of the King his Master to entertain all Friendship and good Correspondency with them telling them that he doubted not but the cares which he had for the glory of Christendom would in time sufficiently convince 'um of the vanity of those fears which some did endeavour to sow amongst ' um Nevertheless the States prepar'd for the security of their Frontiers and gave particular order to fortifie several Towns of Overyssel and upon the Borders of Westphalia In this juncture of time came news that the King of France had laid double Impositions upon the Manufactures of Holland in recompence of which kindness the Dutch lay an Imposition upon French Wine and Brandy proceeding at length to do the same upon all French Wares and forbid absolutely the Importation of Brandy and all other Distill'd Waters into Holland and upon this fuel those silent Animosities fed which afterwards brake out into greater Flames But between the States and Portugal there began to be a better understanding a new League being made betwixt them with condition that Cochin and Conomer in the East-Indies should remain to the Dutch and that four Millions of Money due to the States should be paid according to the Agreement made between them The Venetians in Candy had held out a long while against the main force of the Turk being assisted by many Princes of Europe especially the French first under the Command of Beaufort but with ill success he being slain in a Salley after him under the Conduct of the Duke of Navailles who after many Salleys and attempts finding little good to be done with what Souldiers he had left deserts the Garrison and returns for France though not without some disgrace to his person for the King of France hearing of his being landed commanded him to retire to his own possessions forbidding him to see his Face The Venetian seeing no hopes of keeping the Town any longer surrender'd it upon Articles and at length concluded a Peace inviolable for the advantage of Trade and mutual quiet of both Subjects King Casimire of Poland having resign'd and being now retired into France after many debates and much contention one Wisnowiskie a Native and one of the chief Nobility was the Elected King being Crown'd in September and soon after Married to Eleanor Sister to the Emperour of Germany This Year Clement the ninth of the House of Rospigliosi died at Rome having promoted six new Cardinals a little before his death A great Stickler against the Turks his Gallies under the Command of his Kinsman Don Vincenzo Rospigliosi being very serviceable to the Venetian After his Decease Cardinal Rospigliosi by vertue of a Brief acted as Pope till the new Election His death was followed by the death of the King of Denmark to whom succeeded his Son Christian the fifth The King of France at length signifies his willingness to refer the differences between himself and the Crown of Spain to the Arbitration of the Kings of England and Sweden But all this hinder'd not the conclusion of the Triple Alliance which was in the latter end of March in all points