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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

the good of the Common weale Then the people take a solemne oath Quod dictum ipsorum inviolabiliter observarent that they would stand to their Decree which to this day by our Lawyers is called Dictum de Kenelwor●h a severe yet a good and wholesome course without effusion of blood to punish Rebellious Subjects The Decree as followeth Dictum de Kenelworth In nomine sanctae individuae Trinitatis Amen Ad honorem gloriam Omnipotentis Dei Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti c. Et ad honorem bonum prosperum pacificum statum Christian ssimi Principis Domini Henrici Regis Angliae Illustris totius Angliae Ecclesiae Nos Willihelmus c. In English thus In the name of the holy and individuall Trinity Amen For the honour and glory of Almighty God the Father Son and Holy Ghost c. And for the honour prosperity and peace of the most Christian Prince our Soveraign Lord Henry the most renowned King of England and of the whole Church of England We William Exon William Bath and Wells Henry Worcester and T. St. Davids Bishops Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester Humphry Earl of Hereford Philip Basset John Bailof Robert Wallop Alan de la Souch Roger de Somerie and Warren de Basingborn providing for the welfare of the Land c. have thought fit to order as followeth 1. That the Rebels be not wholly deprived of their estates but shall have liberty to redeem their Lands by fines in manner following 1. That those that were in the fight at Chesterfield against our Soveraign Lord the King Item All those that by force of Armes impiously kept Northampton against the King Item Those that gave the King battell at Lewis Item Those that were taken prisoners at Kenelworth Item Those that came to pillage Winchester or were elsewhere against the King whom the King hath not pardoned Item Those that gave the King battel at Evesham Item All those that freely and voluntarily and without any compulsion have contributed to the War against the King or Prince Item The Officers and Servants of the Earl of Leicester that pillaged their neighbours or were the cause of any murders firings or other enormities that all these be fined five years revenues of all their Estates respectively and that if they pay down their Fines presently they may enjoy their Lands presently but if the Land must be sold for the payment of the Fine he on whom the King bestowed it shall have the refusall if he will give as much as any other And if the originall owner will pay down the whole Fine he shall have the whole Land and likewise if he will pay the moity or third part he shall have the moity or thirds of the Land And if at the end and terme appointed the owner doth not pay for the other moity it shall be clearly theirs on whom the King was pleased to bestow it And as soon as any one hath paid down his whole Fine such shall have liberty to let or set or sell his land within the prefixed time Those that have Woods and would willingly make sale of them for the payment of their Fines He on whom the King bestowed and the originall owner shall have each one his Bailiff to see it sold and those two Bailiffs shall as fast as the money is made pay it to whom the Fine was given by our Soveraign Lord the King this payment must be made within three years at the farthest All Officers and Reformadoes that were known to be common plunderers and made it their businesse to plunder if such have no Land but onely Goods they shall be fined one moity of all their Goods and shall find sufficient sureties that they shall keep the peace of our Soveraign Lord the King for the time to come They that have nothing shall be sworn upon the holy Gospel and find sufficient sureties that they will keep the Kings peace for the time forward and shall make such satisfaction and do such penance as the holy Church shall censure excepting onely banished persons who are wholly left to the will and pleasure of the King 2. Moreover as for Wards or young Hei●s that were in actuall Rebellion against the King during their minority their Guardians shall pay their Fines and the said Wards when they come to age shall pay back the same to their Guardians within two or three years so that the Gardians shall have the Wardship and their marriages without disparagement even till they be come to full age and all Wards shall pay their Fines after the same manner as those of full age Onely the Kings own Wards shall be in the hands of those to whom the King shall give them until they come to years and then they shall pay down their Fines according to the same manner as those of full years Provided alwais than there be no wast made by the Guardians upon their estates If there be then the Guardians to be punished according to Law 3. If any that were for the King before and since the battel at Lewes be now fined for not assisting the Prince when he was raising forces to rescue his Father we leave him to the King to be censured or pardoned as he shall think fit 4. That there be no sale or waste made of any Woods by those on whom they were bestowed unlesse the Fine be not pai'd within the time limited Onely it is allowed that they shall cut so much wood as is necessary to keep the houses in reparations and if they shall exceed this allowance to be severally punished 5. If any be thought to be dangerous persons and that they are like to move sedition and to revive the Wars let the King secure their persons as he shall think fit either by sending them into forreine parts for a time or what other way shall be thought expedient provided alwaies that if they be thereby hindred from paying their Fines they shall not forfet their estates 6. That if any will not submit to this Ordinance he be left to be censured at the Kings-bench-bar before the feast of St. Hillary next coming All those that live in forreine parts shall find sureties according to the Laws and Customs of those States to live peaceably otherwise that they shall not be received in a peaceable manner 7. Whereas the King's Majesty is ingaged to many that served him in his Wars and faithfully stuck to him who he hath not yet sufficiently rewarded and some have been rewarded above their deserts we desire that the King take speciall care that out of Delinquents estates they may be all rewarded to the full lest otherwise a new War should be occasioned 8. That the Kings Majesty be graciously pleased to make choice of twelve able Men that may be authorized to see this punctually and faithfully performed and that the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors take care that it be all firmly observed and