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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34438	Stratologia, or, The history of the English civil vvarrs in English verse : containing a brief account of all fights, most skirmishes, stratagems and sieges in England, from the very first originall of our late warres, till the martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by an eye-witnesse of many of them, A.C.	Cooper, Andrew, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6049; ESTC R20852	74,138	195

ΣΤΡΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ OR THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS In English Verse Containing a brief Account of all Fights most Skirmishes Stratagems and Sieges in ENGLAND From the very first Originall of our late Warres till the Martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed Memory By an Eye-Witnesse of many of them A. C. Alta sedent Civiles vulnera Dextrae LONDON Printed for Joseph Cranford at the Castle and Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660 TO THE Right Honourable AND Truly Noble CONYERS DARCY Lord Darcy Meynell and Conyers THrice noble Sir pardon this bold addresse In that my soaring Muse pitch'd on no lesse A Patronage than your Renouned Name Imboldned hereto was I ' cause your Fame Recorded is amongst those Hero's who The Royall Cause maintain'd against a Foe Under pretences specious that Rebell'd VVhen yet a Boy your Colours I beheld And Regiment so gallant by you rais'd Even by my Infant-Muse your worth was prais'd An Actor on this Bloody Scene you were And an eye-witnesse of most Fields fought here That blood you lost your valour may declare Your judgement this that no pretence though fair Your intellect could blind your Faithfulness In that you fought till that of Souldiers lesse Under your tattered Colours did appear Then Cinquefoils in your honours Colours were Wounds you receiv'd and much of blood did lose VVhilst on the field your life you did expose To do your Soveraign service Sure that blood Expended in a cause Royally good Your Honour is your wounds then chains of gold Are Ornaments more glorious to behold Your sufferings since the VVarres who hath not known You paid both for your Souldiers and your own Loyalty nor would your brave mind submit To composition till much mov'd to it By your most vertuous Lady's prayers and tears Your name the last in that black Roll appears Except the martyr'd Slingby's none there are Of all your Honour'd House engag'd in VVarre Against your King these things induc'd my Muse You as the fittest person Sir to chuse To patronize these her first rude Essayes Let not oblivion cancel the due praise It 's the Debenters we are like to have Of all those Sons of Mars and Souldiers brave That for their Soveraign fought and suffer'd too In this they live whilst this doth live by you Your Honours most humble and most devoted in all service AN. COOPER THE EPISTLE TO THE READER EXpect not Reader this Book should impart The Flourishes of Rhethorick or of Art Such polite Strains do not indeed become The Camp nor suit the Trumpet or the Drum The more refined Muses have with Mars No intercourse Society commerce Blunt Language doth in truth the best declare The dreadful fury of our Civil Warre Rage blood and death each Page herein they show Of Cities Castles Towns the overthrow Rapine and plunder all those sad effects Wherewith a Civil Warre a Land infects ☞ When first for Oxford fully there intent To study learned Sciences I went Instead of Logicke Physicke School-converse I did attend the armed Troops of Mars Instead of Books I Sword Horse Pistols bought And on the Field I for Degrees then fought My years had not amounted full eighteen Till I on Field wounded three times had been Three times in sieges close had been immur'd Three times imprisonments restraint indur'd In those sad times these Verses rude were writ For Poesie a season most unfit Yet is my subject high the Hystory true Presented in this Book unto thy view Well-nigh each Skirmish Stratagem Siege fight In these late Warres we here present to sight And if thou shalt accept these first Essayes Shortly perchance we may in smoother Layes The second part of our sad Annals sing Till the blest Restauration of our King Who like the Sun after a dismal night Of sad oppression did restore both light And glory to these Nations ruinous Whose Rising and illustrious shine on us Lighted these Lines out from Oblivion's Cell To which they were condemn'd the world to tell That though the Royal Party was Captiv'd The best of Kings of his blest life depriv'd Yet Oceans of Loyall blood was shed Before bold Traytors this accomplished But strange that we were beat lest it be thought Vpon great disadvantages we fought The Parliament the Navy had procur'd With them to side all Armouries secur'd And Magazines usurped the Kings Lands Customes Revenues Rents into their hands With Arms and Coyn their men they could recruit When ours of both indeed were destitute But I transgresse the bounds of my intent And thee from reading these our Warres prevent A. C. THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS BOOK I. The Contents See first a good then a bad Parliament The fatal causes of our discontent The two Scotch expeditions causes why Ireland 's Rebellion Strafford's Tragedy London tumultuous The Kings brave intents Ireland for to releive Hotham prevents By Hulls denyall which the King to take Forces combines Meldrum on them doth make Two Sallies bold Some Royalists are slain The King for York from Hull retreats again A noble Persons councell some releife Contributes to the King opprest with grief SEE where our English three Estates do sit In Parliament a Councel onely fit Our Nation to secure from bold abuse To legal forme injustice to reduce To deleate bad just laws to procreate Publick assignes to guide and regulate To act what may conduce to the renown Both of the State Religion and the Crown Englands Epitomie representation My Muse invites excites to admiration Thy noble Senate Rome my wonder was Till this high Court their lustre did surpasse As fair as Cynthia that pale Queene of night Out-shined is by Phoebus glorious light If admiration did thy thoughts transport From Rome's Terrestrial to Heavens glorious Court Much more Fulgentius might thy ravish'd minde From this to Heaven 's a quick transition finde ☞ But what malignity vitious excesse Is this a Parliament cannot redresse The body politick symptomes presents That all these State-Physitians discontents A dolorous Corasive we must indure These sad distempered Nations to recure Whilst head and members do indeed agree A Parliament's a Soveraigne remedy To cure distempers but if these discent Each seemes to move out of their element And such a motion must in the conclusion Being irregular induce confusion The hands of food the belly did deprive As in the fable but how long survive Those most ingrateful members by and by They with the dying belly also dye Our Army 's sad miscarriages must bee At Cades Rochel and the Isle of Rhes All charg'd upon the King when as the State Themselves made those designes unfortunate By not allowing to his Majesty Such supplements of Coin and Souldiery To mannage those most excellent designes Unto some purpose when the State declines The King to second who can then expect That brave attempts should have a wish'd effect Ship-monys Poles Taxes Monopolies Illegal Pressures frequent subsidies They charge the King to have without consent Impos'd on us out of