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cause_n	good_a	great_a	heart_n	2,561	5	4.5771	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78527	The late warre parallel'd. Or, A brief relation of the five years civil warres of Henry the Third, King of England, with the event and issue of that unnatural warre, and by what course the kingdom was then setled again. / Extracted out of the most authentick historians and records, by Edward Chamberlain Gentleman, in the time of the late civil wars in England.	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1843; Thomason E1026_3; ESTC R210378	19,221	24

speak evil against the Lord 's Anointed not as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance but as the despisers of Dignities gave them their lessons These Incendiaries by their sheeps cloathing a fair conversation drew the people every where to side with them against the King and against those that wisht the King his former power Which the King perceiving and how the multitude grew every day more and more tumultuous for all things were now carried by tumults was advised by his Privy Councel As in 1641. and 1642. to withdraw himself lest His person might be endangered from the Parliament then held at Westminster to His Castle at Windsor After some comestation at this distance it was agreed upon by the King and his adherents and the five Members and their adherents that the difference should be referred to the French Kings arbitrament * Rishanger The King of France upon the day of hearing gave sentence that the said Ordinance whereby the K●ng was deprived of his regal power should be made Null The five Members and their complices seeing this notwithstanding they had bound themselves by Oath to stand to his award flew oft and resolving to have their own wills drew into Arms made choice of the Earle of Leicester for their General and for their own private interest pretending the publick good drew the greatest part of the Kingdom after them * Cotton so easie it is to draw the sickle multitude to the wrong side crying every where at first Liberty and Religion though towards the end of the War not a word of either Hollinsh By their fair pretences they gained so far upon the Londoners that they generally enter into a Covenant to assist the Earle For which purpose besides a new Maior or Bailiff they chose two Commanders Thomas Pywelsden and Stephen Buckirell at whose command by the tolling of St. Pauls great Bell they were to be in Arms upon any occasion Their first exploit was a march to Isleworth in a tumultuous manner where they plundered and fired the Kings brother's Mannour-house The Earls Army by this time on their march plundered all that were dis-affected to their cause and proceedings and imprisoned them * Rishanger Especially those that stood any way affected to the Queen for they all but most of all the Londoners were most maliciously bent against her For disswading the King to stand to the foresaid Ordinance of Parliament in so much that as she was passing the Thames near the Bridge a rude rabble of the Citie got together on the Bridge and with confused yellings cried Drown the Witch c. and by throwing dirt and stones at her drave her back which impious affront was punctually remembred in the first fight as you shall hear anon * Rishanger Besides this main Army under the Earle of Le●cester they had another Army under the command of the Lord Ferrers of whom descended the late Lord of Essex who behaved himself insolently towards the King in destroying his Parks as he marcht c. which in the conclusion cost him dear yet to delude the people the main A●●y bore before then the Kings Arms And to shew they were for the King when they had displaced the old Governours of the Kings Castles and Forts and placed in such as they could confide in they gave them an Oath to be true to the King and to keep those holds to the use and benefit of the King and State yet when the King demanded entrance at * Dover Chron. Dunstan one of his Forts wherein they had placed a Governour he was kept out * As at Hall At Sea the Barons of the Cinque-ports seized the Kings Ships took great Prizes but they that sate at Stern upon Land shared in those Prizes as the fame then went By this time the King began to rouze himself and finding nothing now left him but a good Cause and the hearts of his wiset Subjects yet by that and these and the assistance of his brother Richard King of the Romans in a short space he had raised a considerable Army A King can never be so down but he will rise again With these he march't like a snow ball encreas'd by motion plundered the Rebels Lands as he went to Northampon which was fortified against him by some of the chiefest of the Rebels yet by a furious assault he soon gained it Thence continuing his march into Sussex near Lewes he received a Message from the Earle the tenour whereof was That as for his Majesty they intended no harm against him but onely desired that he would remove his evil Counsellors that did advise his Majesty against them against the honour of the King and welfare of the Kingdom The King in his Answer charges them with Rebellion and disloyalty and commands them to lay down their Arms and to return to their obedience that they might be received to mercy but the Earle rejecting the offer * Cambdens observation in the case of Robert Earle of Essex when Subjects have once broken their fealty and trust to their Soveraign they never dare trust their Soveraign again resolves to give the King battel Near Lewes both Armies meet One Wing of the Earl's Army was made up of Lond●● Troops which the Prince being then General of the Kings horse observing Equites hac hac seditionum scelerumque omnium capita sunt nunc nunc fortiter adjicite tela and remembring not without indignation the abuse offered by the Londo●ers to the Queen his Mother he clapt spurs to his horse and an his Cavalry after him crying Here here my brave Cavaliers are the main contrivers of all rebellions and mischief Now now f●● ever charge home and so fell on with that fury that they presently fly the Prince in an eager and hot pursuit does great ●●ecution upon them for four miles But this prosperous beginning of the fight on ●●e King's side was the utter overthrow of the King's Forces for when the Earle perceived that the Prince a young fiery spirit with all the Kings horse was gone so far in pursuit of the Londoners * Prince Robert at Edgewill he fell violently on the Kings foot soon routed them took the King his horse being slain under him prisoner The Prince at length retreating when he saw all lost surrendered himself There were taken in this fight besides those royal prisoners the King the Prince the Kings brother and his eldest Son above twenty Noblemen that were for the King and slain about * Southwell Rishanger 3400. The Earle having thus gotten a compleat victory forthwith endeavours to seize all the Militia and power of the Kingdom for which end he carries the King about with him to countenance his actions but the rest of the royal Prisoners he disposes in several Garrisons And now the Earle believes all his own and the people dream of nothing put Peace but alas the War was not