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A40612
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Short memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax written by himself.
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Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; Fairfax, Brian, 1633-1711.
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1699
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THE Lord Fairfax's MEMORIALS SHORT MEMORIALS OF THOMAS Lord Fairfax Written by Himself LONDON Printed for Ri. Chiswell and are to be Sold at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. TO THE Right Honourable THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX MY LORD IT is with Your Lordship's leave that this short Manuscript of my Lord Fairfax Your Noble Predecessor is now Printed from the Original written in his own Hand and left in Your Study at Denton in Yorkshire for it was never intended by him to be Published but to remain for the Satisfaction of his own Relations But of late something has hapned which in the judgment of Your Lordship and many other Persons of Condition makes it necessary that these Papers should be sent to the Press which is now done without any Material Alterations from the Original but only by placing them in the natural order of Time Tho' no Copy was ever taken by Your Lordship's Consent yet I know not how some imperfect Ones are got into other Hands And this being an Age wherein every Man presumes to Print what he pleases of his own or other Mens we are plainly told That my Lord Fairfax's Memorials are ready to be Published and by the very same Person who has lately set forth some Memoirs wherein his Lordship is scarce ever nam'd but with Reproach not to be excused by what the Editor himself confesses That the Author was much out of humour when he writ the Book My Lord Fairfax's True Character is better known to many Wise and Good Men than to be blemished by such envious Detractions Nor can his Reputation thereby suffer with any who were acquainted with his Person and the true Intentions of his Actions and knew him in the latter part of his Life His great Misfortune and so he accounted it was to be engaged in the Unhappy Wars whereof he desired no other Memorial than the Act of Oblivion which few that ever needed better deserved It cannot be denied but as a Soldier his Life would furnish as Noble a Memoir as the Age has produced from the time that he began with a Troop of Horse and a few undisciplined Forces in the North to his being General of a Victorious Army in the South which he Governed not as a Cypher but with great Prudence and Conduct in Councils of War as well as animated by his Personal Courage in the Field as long as they had any Enemy to oppose them But after that they broke into Factions and were over-run with Enthusiasm and became Vngovernable by their General when they chose their own Agitators and were managed by Men of the deepest Dissimulation and Hypocrisie by whose fair but treacherous Promises some Greater than Himself were deceived to their own Ruin That most Tragical and Deplorable part of the Civil War the Death of the King he utterly from his Soul abhorred and lamented to his dying day and never mentioned it but with Tears in his Eyes The retired part of his Life gave him greater Satisfaction than all his former Victories when he lived quietly at his own House at Nun-Appleton in Yorkshire always earnestly wishing and praying for the Restitution of the Royal Family and fully resolved to lay hold on the first good Opportunity to contribute his part towards it which made him always lookt upon with a jealous eye by the Usurpers of that time As soon as he was invited by General Monk to assist him against Lambert's Army he cheerfully embraced the Occasion and appeared at the Head of a brave Body of Gentlemen of Yorkshire and upon the Reputation and Authority of his Name the Irish Brigade of Twelve Thousand Horse forsook Lambert's Army and joyned with him the Consequence was the immediate breaking of all Lambert's Forces which gave General Monk an easy March into England This was always acknowledged not only by General Monk but by the King himself as a signal Testimony of his Zeal to make amends for what was past and of the very considerable Assistance he gave towards the restoring the Royal Family After he had waited on his Majesty in Holland as one of the Commissioners sent to invite him home and had seen the King establish'd on his Throne he retired again into his own Country where he died in Peace in the 60th Year of his Age Anno 1671. leaving behind him his only Daughter the Lady Mary Dutchess of Buckingham I shall now say no more of him but That so long as Unfeigned Piety towards God Invincible Courage joyned with wonderful Modesty and exceeding Good Nature Justice and Charity to all men in his private Life and an Ingenuous Acknowledgment of his Publick Error with hearty Endeavours to make Reparation as soon as he was convinced of it shall be esteemed in the World So long shall the Name of my Lord Fairfax be honoured by good Men and be had in perpetual Remembrance Your Lordship had the good fortune to be born after the Storms and Tempests of that Age But you have had the Honour to appear eminently in defence of our Religion and Civil Rights in this last happy Revolution as your Noble Predecessor did at the Restoration My LORD Apr. 22. 1699. I am Your most affectionate Uncle and humble Servant Brian Fairfax A short MEMORIAL of the Northern Actions in which I was engag'd during the War there from the Year 1642 to the Year 1644. IN Gratitude to God for his many Mercies and Deliverances and not to deprive my self of the Comfort of their Remembrance I shall set down as they come into my Mind those things wherein I have found the wonderful Assistance of God to me in the Time of the War in the North though not in that methodical and polish'd Manner as might have been done being intended only for my own Satisfaction and help of my Memory My Father was call'd forth by the Importunity of his Country to join with them in their own Defence which was confirm'd by a Commission from the Parliament The first Action we had was at Bradford We were about three hundred Men the Enemy seven or eight hundred and two Pieces of Ordnance They assaulted us We drew out close to the Town to receive them They had the Advantage of the Ground the Town being encompassed with Hills which exposed us more to their Cannon from which we receiv'd some Hurt but our Men defended those Passages by which they were to descend so well that they got no ground of us and now the day being spent they drew off and retired to Leeds A few days after Captain Hotham with three Troops of Horse and some Dragoons came to us Then We march'd to Leeds but the Enemy having Notice of it quitted the Town and in haste fled to York We advanc'd to Tadcaster eight Miles from York that we might have more room and be less burthensome to Our Friends and being increased to one thousand Men it was thought fit that we should keep the Pass at
For he had found it so That when he pleas'd to Conquer he was able And left the Spoil and Plunder to the Rabble He might have been a King But that he understood How much it is a meaner thing To be unjustly Great than honourably Good This from the World did admiration draw And from his Friends both love and awe Remembring what he did in Fight before Nay has Foes lov'd him too As they were bound to do Because he was resolv'd to Fight no more So blest of all he di'd but far more blest were we If we were sure to live till we could see A Man as Great in War as Just in Peace as He. Bradford Tadcaster Wetherby * One of them had a Pension for his Life till 1670. Tadcaster Leeds Sherburn Col. Prideaux escap'd * Seacroft Moore VVakefield Adderton-Moor Bradford Selby * Duck. of Buck. Winsby or Horncastle * Charles Fairfax In Rent c. There is lately Publish'd PROPOSALS for the Subscriptions to a Book now Ready for the Press Entituled The Fourth and Last Part of Mr. RUSHWORTH's Historical Collections Containing the Principal Matters which happen'd from the Beginning of the Year 1645. where the Third Part ended to the Death of King Charles the First 1648. Impartially Related Setting forth only Matter of Fact in Order of Time without Observation or Reflection Fitted for the Press in his Life-time To which will be added Exact Alphabetical Tables WHEREAS many Gentlemen are already provided with all the Parts of Mr. Rushworth's Collections which are yet Printed viz. The FIRST PART in One Volume which Began with the 16th Year of King James the First Anno 1618. and Ended the Fifth Year of King Charles the First Anno 1629. The SECOND PART in Two Volumes Beginning Anno 1629. and Ending Anno 1640. The THIRD PART in Two Volumes Beginning at the Meeting of the Parliament November 3. 1640. and Ending 1644. And being Desirous of Compleating their Sets of that Laborious and Exact Collection The UNDERTAKERS of this Fourth and Last Part having Purchased the Copy at a very Considerable Rate do Propose to Print it by Subscriptions upon the Terms following I. It shall be Printed in Two Volumes after the same Manner with those already Published and will Contain about Five Hundred Sheets Which at the usual Rate in Common Sale could not be allow'd for less than Forty Shillings Unbound of the Small Paper and Four Pounds of the Large Paper Five and Twenty only will be Printed on Large Paper for Accommodation of such Gentlemen as have the Former Volumes of the same Paper II. That every Gentleman upon Subscribing shall Pay down in Part Twenty Shillings for One Book of the Small Paper and Thirty Shillings for One of the Large Paper and at Delivery of a Perfect Book in Quires Fifteen Shillings more for the Small and Thirty Shillings more for the Large Paper III. That whoever Subscribes for Six Books of the Small Paper shall have a Seventh Gratis Which reduceth the Price to Thirty Shillings Note No advantage can be allow'd on the Large Paper Books IV. That no more Books will be Printed than what shall be Subscribed for And if any Books shall happen to be left on our hands by any Subscribers they shall not be sold for less than Forty Shillings Unbound V. Subscriptions will be taken till the 29th of June next being the Last Day of Midsummer-Term and the Book shall be finished in Michaelmas-Term following And whereas there were Printed of the FIRST PART above Three Thousand of the SECOND PART Two Thousand which are all Sold of and of the THIRD PART near Fifteen Hundred of which some are yet unsold Divers Gentlemen suspending to buy the THIRD PART till the WHOLE should be finished so that there are abroad several Sets Imperfect Now for the Encouragement of SUBSCRIBERS to this Fourth Part and the Accommodation of such Gentlemen who are not yet furnished with the Third The Undertakers do Propose to all SUCH and no others The Third Part at Thirty Shillings in Quires of the Small Paper and Three Pounds of the Large Paper These Papers of Proposals are to be had of the UNDERTAKERS Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard AND Thomas Cockerill in Amen-Corner at the End of Pater-Noster-Row And of most Booksellers in London and the Country BOOKS Printed for Ric. Chiswell WHarton's Anglia Sacra In 2 Volumes Folio Dr. Cave's Lives of the Primive Fathers In 2 Vol. Folio Dr. John Lightfoot's Works In 2 Vol. Folio Dr. Pet. Allix's Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont and Albigences In 2 Parts Quarto Bishop Burnet's Collection of Tracts relating both to Church and State from 1678 to 1694. In 3 Vol. Quarto Dr. Wake 's Eleven Treatises against Popery In 2 Vol. Quarto Dr. Tennison now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Account of the Conference with Pulton the Jesuit Quarto His Nine Sermons upon Several Occasions Quarto A Discourse of the Unreasonableness of Separation on account of the Oaths By Bishop Stilling fleet Quarto A Vindication of the said Discourse By Dr. Williams Quarto A Vindication of His Majesty's Authority to fill the Sees of the Deprived Bishops By Bishop Stilling fleet Quarto Dr. William's Discourse of the Lawfulness of Worshipping God by the Common-Prayer Quarto His Representation of the absurd and mischievous Principles of the Muggletonians Quarto The Secret Consults Negotiations and Intriegues of the Romish Party in Ireland from 1660 to 1689. Quarto An Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland In Two Parts With Copper Sculpturs By Mr. Story now Dean of Down and Connor present in the same The New Cambridge Dictionary In Five Alphabets Quarto England's Wants Or some Proposals to the Parliament probably beneficial to England Quarto Dr. Allix's Reflections on the Holy Scripture Octavo Cole 's English and Latin Dictionary Octavo The Jesuits Memorial for the intended Reformation of England under a Popish Prince Octavo Found in King James's Closet The History of the Troubles and Trial of Archbishop Laud wrote by himself Published by Henry Wharton Folio Remarks on Mr. Hill's Vindication of the Primitive Fathers against Bishop Burnet Animadversions on Mr. Hill's Vindication of the Primitive Fathers against Bishop Burnet Dr. William's Vindication of Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons against the Socinians and of the Bishop of Worcester's Sermon of the Mysteries of the Christian Religion To which is annexed a Letter from the Bishop of Salisbury to the Author in Vindication of his Discourse of the Divinity of our Saviour Quarto Books written by Symon Patrick D. D. now Lord Bishop of Ely The Parable of the Pilgrim written to a Friend The Sixth Edition Quarto 1681. Mensa Mystica Or a Discourse concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper In which the Ends of the Institution are so manifest our Addresses to it so directed our Behaviour there and afterward so composed that we may not lose the Profits