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A40752	A Further narrative of the passages of these times in the Common-wealth of England an act for renouncing and disanulling the pretended title of Charls Stuart, and for the taking away of the Court of Wards and Liveries, the judgment ... against James Naylor the Quaker : with the triall of Miles Sundercombe ...		1658 (1658)	Wing F2560A; ESTC R38753	41,953	62

body of the Lievtenant to bury it to which the Lievtenant answered she might have it to bury within or out of the Tower after the Coroner and his Jury had enquired of his death according to the custome of the place whereupon the Coroner summoned a Jury to view the body and to give in their verdict concerning the manner and cause of his death accordingly and the Doctors and Chirurgions having viewed the dead body together with the said Jury found blacknesse and setling of blood about his shoulders which they judged to come from the violence of the Fever and the inflamation of those parts which great distemper the said Jury was by them fully satisfied in as also of his former condition and also having examined severall other persons upon oath besides them as his Keeper his Nurse and his Uncle who was often with him in his sicknesse his Apothecaries and a Souldier that guarded him the night he dyed his wife being present before them also who was constantly attending upon him in his imprisonement except when she lay in and then were none with him but Nurses of her own appointment They upon clear and full Information gave up their verdict on Thursday the 14 day of this instant January 1657. as followeth in haec verba We find that upon the last day of December in the year of our Lord 1657. Edward Sexby late of the Parish of Peter in bonds in the County of Middlesex Esq at the Tower of London in the Parish and County aforesaid fell sick of a certain disease called a Violent Feaver and lived languishing from the said last day of December untill the 13th day of January in the year aforesaid at the Tower of London aforesaid in the parish and County aforesaid of the Fever aforesaid dyed And so we find that the said Edward Sexby dyed by Gods visitation in manner and form aforesaid and by no other wayes or means In witnesse whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 14. day of January 1657. It also appeared to the said Jury upon oath that the Lievtenant had ordered that the said Colonel Edward Sexby in his severall sicknesses should have what Doctors Chirurgions Apothecaries Nurses he pleased as aforesaid and all those that had to doe with him concerning food Physick or necessary attendance were alwayes of his own choice and by the Order of him his wife and friends and that he was very well accomodated in his chamber with what necessaries were requisite for him and when the Jury had given up their verdict as aforesaid the Lievtenant of the Tower sent away a Warder and a Lievtenant to Mris Sexby being then at her Mothers who lived in White-Fryers to acquaint her and her said Mother that the Jury had done their office and to know her further desire as to his buriall and whether she desired his body or no which then she might have if she pleased who returned answer that they had sent their maid with forty shillings to his Keeper for his Buriall in the Tower seeing he was Prisoner there whereupon he was put into a coffin and a grave made for him in the usuall burying place near the Tower chappel and the Bell having been rang for some space of time and those that repaired to the Warders where he was to accompany him to his grave being met together which were divers of the Warders Officers and Souldiers of the said Tower the Corps was in a seemly way carried to the said grave and intered upon the 15 of this instant January about 12 of the Clock of the same day in the Tower aforesaid A Day of Publick thanksgiving on Wednesday the Third of June next For the Great successe God hath been pleased to give the Navy of this Common wealth under the Command of Generall Blake against the Spaniard Together with a Narrative of the same Successe as it was Communicated in a Letter from the said Generall A Narrative Of the Action at Sancta Cruz. AFter taking in the Supply of Victuals that was brought us the latter end of March we spent two or three dayes before the Town of Cadiz and finding the Enemy there in no great forwardnesse to come forth with a Fleet as was expected The Generall on the 13th of April One thousand six hundred fifty seven called the Commanders together and communicated his thoughts ●o goe for Sancta Cruz on the Island of Tene●iffe laying before them the reasons that induced him to it which they all approved of and a favorable Gale-just at the time presented to carry us thither On the Eighteenth following in the evening we discovered Land supposed to be Point Negro but being thick and hazy could not certainly make it till Noon the next day whereby the Enemy had longer notice of our being on the Coast then we designed he should before we came to Action On Monday the twentieth of Aprill one thousand six hundred fifty seven we were by break of day fair in the Offin of Sancta cruz and as soon as 't was light perceived by a signall from one of our Frigots a Head that the West India Fleet were in the Bay Whereupon after a short conference how to order the attempt and earnest seeking to the Lord for his presence we fell in amongst them and by eight of the Clock were all at Anchor some under the Castle and Forts and others by the ships sides as we could birth our selves to keep clear one of another and best annoy the Enemy They had there five or six Galleons whereof were Admiral Vice-Admiral and Rere-Admirall with their Standart and Flags aloft and other considerable ships making up the number of sixteen some having Goods brought from the Indies still on board them others had taken in Goods and Provisions to carry back again Most of them were furnished with brasse Ordinance and as we have been informed since had their full companies of Seamen and Souldiers kept continually on board them from their first coming thither which was about the beginning of February last their Generall himselfe in all the time lying but one night out of his Ship they were moared close along the Shore which lies in the manner of a Semicircle commanded as far as the Ships rid by the Castle and surrounded besides with six or seven Forts with almost a continued line for musqueteers and great shot as the Ground between admitted And we were forced to come so near to doe our worke that many of the men we have slain and wounded were shot by the Musqueteers from the shore Notwithstanding it pleased God that in four hours time their men were beaten out and all the Ships put a shore except the Admiral and Vice-Admirall who made the most considerable resistance About two of the Clock the Vice Admirall was set on fire and the Admirall by some happy shot or other accident suddainly blown up having as we perceived just before many men on board her by the evening all the

said He met them there in that Capacity by the Advice and Petition of this present Parliament after so much Expence of Blood and Treasure to search and try what Blessings God hath in store for these Nations That he could not but with gladnesse of heart remember and acknowledge the labor and industry that is past which hath been spent upon a Businesse worthy of the best men and the best Christians That it was not unknown unto them all what difficulties we have past through and at what we are now arived and that he hoped it might be said we have arived at what we aimed at if not at that which is much beyond our expectations That the state of this cause and the quarrel at first was the maintaining of the Liberty of these Nations our Civill liberties as men and our Spiritual liberties as Christians That it was well known the first Declaration after the Beginning of the late Warr that spake to the life was a sense held forth by the Parliament that for sometime before Designes had been laid to Innovate upon the Civil Rights of the Nations to Innovate in matter of Religion and those persons who a man would have thought should have had the least hand in medling with civill things did justifie all irregular Transastions in Pulpits Presses and otherwise which they thought would be a means to shelter them while they innovated upon us in matters of Religion also and proceeded so to Innovate as to eat out the Core and power the heart and life of all Religion by bringing on us a company of poysonous Popish Ceremonies and imposing them upon those that were call'd and accounted the Puritans of the Nation and professors of Religion among us driving them to seek their bread in a howling Wildernesse they were forced to fly into Holland New-England almost any whither to find liberty for their Consciences That if this thing hath been the state and sum of our Quarrel and of the late ten years Wars and the good hand of God hath brought this Eusinesse thus home unto us as it is stated in the Petition and Advice then that He and they have all cause to blesse God and the Nations have cause to blesse him And if the enjoyment of our present peace and other mens Mercies may be witnesses for God we feel and we see them every Day That the greatest Demonstration of his Favor and love appears to us in this that he hath given us peace and the blessings of Peace to wit the enjoyment of our Liberties civill and Spirituall That when we were plunged in the midst of our Troubles it could not before-thought that ever the people of God should have had liberty to worship God without fear of Enemies yet this is the Portion which God hath given us and he hoped we shall for ever heartily acknowledge it it being our glory that we have a free possession of the Gospel That notwithstanding this we are not without the murmurings of many people who turn all this Grace and Goodnesse into Wormwood who indeed are disappointed by the Works of God and those men are of severall ranks and conditions great ones lesser ones men of all sorts men that are of the Episcopall Spirit who gave themselves a fatall blow in this place when they would needs make a Protestation That no Laws were good which were made by this House and the House of Commons in their absence and so without injury to themselves they cut off themselves That we have now a Godly Ministry a knowing Ministry such a one as without Vanity be it spoken the World hath not the like Men knowing the things of God and able to search into the things of God by that only which can fathome those things in some measure to wit by the Spirit of God That the reason why men slip in this age is because they understand not the Works of God and consider not the operation of his hands They consider not that God resisted and brake in pieces the powers that were that men might fear him might have liberty to do and enjoy all that he had been now speaking of Thence it is that men slip and engage themselves against God and for that very cause as it is in the 28 Psalm He shall break them down and not build them up That if we would know upon what foundation we stand we should own our foundation from God he hath set us where we are he hath placed us in the enjoyment of our Civil and of our Spirituall Liberties That upon this foundation of a cause and Quarrel thus attained and wherein we are thus estated he told the Parliament he should be glad to lay his bones with theirs and would have done it with all heartinesse and cheerfulnesse in the meanest capacity that he ever yet was in to serve the Parliament His Highnesse concluded That he had been speaking of but what they had done and that if God should be pleased to make this Meeting happy upon this account They would be called the blessed of the Lord the Generations to come will blesse them c. That having some infirmities upon him he had not liberty to speak at large but had desired an honorable person present to discourse a little more particularly what might be more proper for this occasion and this meeting Which particulars were afterwards delivered in a Grave and Eloquent Speech at large by the Lord Fiennes one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal Thurs Feb. 4. 1657. The House of Commons this Morning resumed the Debate touching the Appellation of the other House viz. the House of Lords betwixt ten and eleven his Highnesse came to the House of Lords and Commanded the Usher of the Blake Rod to acquaint the House of Commons that his Highnesse was come to the Lords House and there expected them the Usher of the Blake Rod being called into the House of Commons signified the same accordingly whereupon the Speaker and the whole House coming into the Lords House and standing without the Bar his Highnesse standing under the cloth of Estate made a Speech to them wherein he declared severall urgent and weighty reasons making it necessary for him in order to the Publick peace and safety so passed to an immediate dissolution of this Parliament and accordingly his Highnesse dissolved the Parliament Articles of Peace treated on by the Commissioners of the two Northern Kings of Sweden and Denmark proposed and resolved on Feb. 27. S. N. PIETATE ET CONSTANTIA XIII All the states Noble and Ignoble spirituall or Clergy and secular men are to enjoy fully their priviledges in such places which by way of satisfaction are made over whether they be in Denmark or Norway and the Crown of Sweden is rather to enlarge their priviledges then to infringe or diminish them Item they are to enioy without molestation and hindrance all such Goods which they either purchased lawfully or are fallen to them by