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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95900	A summarie, or short survey of the annalls and most remarkable records of King Charles his reigne, from the first yeare thereof to this present, 1646. VVherein wee may plainly see how the Popish, Jesuiticall and prelaticall malignant party have indevoured the ruine of this church and kingdom, but was by Gods mercy most miraculously prevented. / Collected by John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing V330; Thomason 669.f.10[101]; ESTC R210649	13,838	8

King after much losse of men and money enforced to leave and forsake it 65. The most noble and right honourable Earle of Essex was ordained Lord Generall over all the Parliaments Forces for the preservation of the kingdom which he famously and faithfully managed and marshalled as especially Edge-hill and Newbery and other places can abundantly witnesse 66. A plot to have blown up all the Lord Generalls Magazine of powder and another at Beverley in Yorkeshire to have slain Sir John Hotham both intended by one David Alexander and hired thereunto by the Kings party but both by Gods providence timely prevented 67. Commissions granted to popish Recusants to levy men and armes against the Parliament but the Parlia published a Declaration or Protestation to the whole world against the Kings dealings and most unjust proceedings therein 68. The King received the most bloody Irish rebels petition and permitted their persons with great favour and allowance about him calling and counting them his good Catholick Subjects but utterly rejecting the Parliaments petition exhibited by the Lord Generall desiring peace and reconciliation with him 69. A Treaty of peace was really intended by the Parliament but meerly pretended and fraudulently for a while transacted by the Royalists in which interim that most bloody bickering at Brainford was most treacherously committed by the Kings party and a most wicked piece of villany carryed on therein but though with much losse on both sides but especially on theirs by Gods great mercy the mischiefe prevented and the City of London mightily preserved 70. A dangerous plot against the kingdom in new High-Sheriffes to be listed by the King for his better collecting of the 400000 li. Subsidies intended to have been confirmed to the King in a former Parliament but that plot crost by the Parliaments providence and an Ordinance of Parliament set on foot for the successefull Association of Counties for mutuall defence one of another against regall injurious taxations and oppressions on them 71. A wicked design of the Royalists at Oxford and elsewhere to proceed against the Parliaments prisoners as traytors and so to put them to death by which Doctor Bastwick and Captain Lilburn were to have been tryed for their lives but prevented by an Ordinance of Parliament for execution of a Lex Talionis and so of executing the Royall prisoners among us Anno 1643. 72. A notable plot against the City of London immediately upon the Cities preferring a petition to the King by the hands of two trusty Aldermen and foure Commoners of the said City in reply to which petition the King sending as his messenger one Captain Hern to the City and the whole body of the City assembling at a Common-Hall as they terme it in their Guild-Hall this Hern desires Faire-play above-board of them But the businesse being found to be a notable designe of the malignant-malignant-Citizens against the Parliament and the then Lord Mayor of London and the Government of their City the honest and farre major party cry out in the hearing of Hern they would live and dye with the Parliament and so sent Hern away with a flea in his eare 73. Another plot immediately after contrived by the King and his agents at Oxford by a Letter sent by his Majesty to all the Freemen Journey-men and Apprentices of the said City to assemble at their severall Halls and there the Masters and Wardens of all Companies to read the Kings Letter to them and to perswade them to yeeld to all the Kings commands against the Parliament and City but this letter was nipt and crost also in the neck and nick of it and voted by the Parliament to be evill and scandalous 74. A plot also to betray Bristol into the Royallists hands by one Yeomous and Bowcher and divers other their associates but by Gods mercy the plot being timely discovered and the danger avoyded those two principall conspirators were by Martiall Law condemned and hanged and so the plot utterly frustrated 75. Cheapeside crosse Chaering-crosse and all other crosses in and about London utterly demolished and pulled down and that abominable and blasphemous book of tolerating sports and pastimes on the Lords daies voted to be burnt and shortly after accordingly burnt together with many crucifixes and popish trinckets and trumperies in the very same place where Cheapeside-crosse stood 76. M. Prynne sent by the Parliament to the Towre of London to search the Arch prelate of Canterburies chamber and Study there where he was prisoner who accordingly searching his Study and his pockets of his wearing cloathes a just requitall of his dealing with Mr. Pryn●e and others found the originall Scotch Service-book with the Arch Bishops owne hand-writings in it the cause of all the Scots warres and his Diary Devotions and discoveries under his owne hands of matters of high concernment 77. The City of London to have been betrayed into the hands of the Royalists under a pretence of a petition for peace plotted by Mr. Waller a member of the H●●se of Commons M. Tompkins Mr. Challenor and others and this wicked plot termed by King Charles in his letter to the Queen one of his Fine Designes But God manifested them to be wicked and accursed Designes and Waller one of the prime complotters was by the sentence of the Parliament fined 10000 li. in his estate and sent out of the kingdom into perpetuall banishment and Tompkins and Challenor hanged in London 78. The breaking out of Sir John Hothams rotten-heart and infidelity to the Parliament in his intended and attempted plot for the betraying of that mighty strong Town of Hull into the Queens hands which treachery was plotted and contrived between Sir John the father Captain Hotham his son and Sir Edward Roades and began to be suspected by Sir John Hothams deserting of the most noble Lord Fairfax by an intercepeed letter of the Queens to the King and divers other sumptomes of it but especially by Captain Moyers letter to Mr. Ripley and Mr. Ripley's faithfull acquainting the Mayor of Hull therewith and their first seizing on the Block-houses Castles and Commanders of them and at length their apprehending of the persons of Sir John Hotham and Captain Hotham his Son was also apprehended and both of them beheaded at the Tower of London 79. A desperate plot for the betraying of the City or Town of Lincolne by the two Purfries two Captains of Hull who let in 60 Cavaliers by night in disguised habits and who issuing out about 12 of the clock that night to act their design where a plain fellow of the Town discharging a piece of Canon upon them slew 10 of them at one shot the rest slain and taken by the centinels and Souldiers of the town and so by Gods mercy the City preserved 80. The Queen wrote a dangerous letter to the King to come with all his forces to surprize London but by Gods over-powring wisedome and good providence the King refusing that counsell resolved to take Gloucester first

which he siercely assaulted but was as bravely repulsed and by Gods blessing on Major Generall Massies fidelity magnanimity of spirit timely aide comming to relieve the town it was admirably freed and by the Lord Generalls Army and the City of Londons Regiments delivered 81. A desperate rebellion raised by the Kentish malignants but by Gods mercy timely suppressed about Tunbridge by the valour of Colonell Brown the wel-affected Gentry of the County of Kent 82. A Ship bound from Denmark to the King of about 300 tun richly laden with armes and ammunition another Ship bound from Newcastle to Holland laden with Sea-coale but in the midst thereof was found between 3 4000 li hid in the coales sent to buy arms for the King and a third great ship called the Fellowship of at least 400 tun carrying 24 pieces of Ordnance all these 3 ships taken by the Parlia ships made prize of 83. The comming in of our brethren of Scotl. with an army of at least 20000 horse and foot invited thereunto by the Parl in the bitter depth of winter when they marched up to the middle in snow and were forced to bring their Artillery over the ice of the frozen river of Tyne and the Citizens of London lent the Parliament a 100000 li. for the Scots first pay ro encourage their advance to help us against the Kings forces 84. A desperate plot of the Rovalists to starve up the City of London by breaking into Surrey Sussex Kent the other associated Counties but disappointed by the Parl Victories at Au●ton Alsford fought by Sir Will Waller with the help of the City of Londons regiments and the Royalists plots to hinder our brethren of Scotl comming in to our help by letters and Embassadors sent from France and messengers from King Charles to inveagle them to keep from us but all in vain by Gods good providence and mercy to us 85. The King granted a cessation of arms with the bloody rebels of Ireland and afterward justified it by a Declaration of his printed and published at Oxford but it was remarkably observed that he never prospered in any of his great designs after it 86. A Solemn League and Covenant taken by the Lords and Commons in Parl by the City of London and all parts of the kingdom in the Parliaments power for a pure reformation of Religion and Church-Government and a mutuall defence betwixt us and our brethren of Scotland 87. A notable plot by the Royalists to have Nottingham town Castle betrayed unto them the Officers therein being proffered above 10000 li. to c●nsent to it but prevented by Gods mercy in the fidelity of Colonell Hutchinson who was then the Governour thereof 88. A Generall plot against the Protestant Religion over all Christendom and the Danes and Hollanders also contribute to helpe King Charles therein but God wrought a mighty overture therein by the sudden breaking out of the Danes plot against the Swedes and their over-running almost all Denmark thereupon 89. A desperate plot against the City of London under a pretence of petitioning for peace acted by Sir Basil Brook Colonell Read and one Mr. Riley Vilet 2 Citizens of London others but by Gods providence discovered and prevented 1645. 90. Two desperate plots for the betraying of Ailsbury into the Royalists hands and another against Southampton but all three by Gods mercy timely discovered also and prevented 91. One Mr. Edward Stanford a Papist plotted with Captain Backhouse a Capt. of Horse under Colonell Massie for the betraying of the City of Gloucester into the Enemies hands and proffered 5000 li. for a reward thereof 200 li. whereof was paid in hand to the said Captain but by Gods providence the plot frustrated and Gloucester safely preserved 92. Englands great wonder to Gods glory there being about May 30. 1644. six brave armies in the kingdome on the Parliaments side and other forces for defence of the City of London besides 93. A plot to have betrayed our whole Army in Cornwall in the VVest but by Gods blessing most of the Souldiers lives were preserved though with the losse of our Artillery 94. Sir Alexander Carew Sir John Hot●am Captain Hotham and the Arch-prelate of Canterbury beheaded on Tower-Hill for treason against the Parliament 95. A peace onely pretended by the royalists at Uxbridge and a treacherous petition framed by the malignants of Buckingham shire wherein one Sir John Lawrence of that County was a great stickler but the mischief of both was frustrated 96. A desperate assault on Melcomb-Regis to have betrayed it into the royalists hands wherein divers of the malignant Townsmen had a principall hand and Colonell Goring and Sir Lewis Dives were agents therein but by Gods blessing the plot was frustrated the Town and Forts recovered and two ships with rich prize from Rhoan in France were seized on to make amends for their trouble 1645. 97. Divers Earles and Lords disaffecting the Kings courses forsook Oxford and came in and submitted themselves to the Parliament 98. The King in great distresse after our famous Victory at Nazeby is forced to fly up and down from Leicester not knowing where to stay in safety 99. A desperate plot in the West against the Parliament by the Clubmen but by Gods providence turned to the Enemies greatest hurt in the issue 100. A devillish sudden plot upon Scotland which was almost over run by traiterous Montrosse but as suddenly recovered again by Gods blessing on Generall David Lesley and Montrosse discomfitted and beaten away into the mountaines 1646. 101. A Discovery of grosse impiety in the King and his Oxonians the King pretending a desired personall treaty with the Parliament for a wel-grounded peace and yet at that time granted a Commission to the Earle of Glamorgan to the ruine of all the protestants in Ireland and so consequently of us in England also 102. The King before his departure out of Oxford sends a Commission or Letter to the Marquis of Ormond to make an absolute peace with those bloody rebels granting them full profession of their Romish religion by his voluntary authority to the shame of himself and his religion notwithstanding which Commission or Letter the King sent a letter to the Parliament another to the City of London protesting in them that nothing in the world was more desired by him than that in religion and peace with all the comfortable fruits of both they might thenceforth live under him in all godlinesse and honesty that foresaid Commission or Letter being discovered to the Parliament after the sending of those Letters and thereby the notorious unfaithfulnesse of the King manifested to us 102. The King after that disloyall peace with the bloody Irish was now at last inforced out of absolute necessity to get out of Oxford in a most disgracefull disguise as a Servingman to Ashburnham and by this ignoble escape to put himself into the hands of our loyall brethren of Scotland for