Rochesters consecrated 1637. A. Dr. Henry King Lord-Bishop of Chichester was consecrated 1641. Dr. Humphry Heuchman Lord-Bishop of Salisbury was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. George Morley Lord-Bishop of Worcester was consecrated October 28. 1660. since possessed by Dr. Gauden after by Dr. Earles late Dean of Westminster Dr. Robert Sauderson Lord-Bishop of Lincoln was consecrated October 28. 1660. since deceased and Dr. Laney Translated thither Dr. George Griffith Lord-Bishop of St. Asaph was consecrated October 28. 1660. Dr. William Lucy Lord-Bishop of St. Davids was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord-Bishop of Peterborough was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord-Bishop of Landaff was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Richard Sterne Lord-Bishop of Carlisle was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. Dr. Brian Walton Lord-Bishop of Chester was consecrated December 2. 1660. Y. This See was possess'd by Dr. Fern who dying also Dr. George Hall was Lord-Bishop thereof Dr. Iohn Gauden who dying Dr. Seth Ward is since Lord-Bishop thereof Lord-Bishop of Exeter was consecrated December 2. 1660. Dr. Gilbert Ironside Lord-Bishop of Bristol was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord-Bishop of Norwich was consecrated Ianuary 14. 1660. Dr. William Nicholson Lord-Bishop of Gloucester was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. Dr. Nicholas Monke Lord-Bishop of Hereford was consecrated Ianuary 13. 1660. who dying Dr. Herbert Crofts was consecrated in his place 1661. Dr. Iohn Hacket Lord-Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. Notes the ancient Bishops Y. The Diocesses in the Province of York All the rest are in the Province of Canterbury The Names of the Iudges EDward Earl of Clarendon Lord High-Chancellor of England Sir Robert Foster Knight Chief-Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas Matthew Hale Chief-Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Mallet Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Thomas Twisden Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight Justices of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Hide Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Terril Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Samuel Brown Knight Justices of the Common-Pleas Sir Edward Atkins Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Christopher Turner Knight Barons of the Exchequer Sir Ieoffrey Palmer Knight Attorney-General Sir Iohn Glynne Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir Iohn Maynard Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law Sir William Wilde Knight The Kings Serjeants at Law The two Principal Secretaries of State persons eminent for their faithful and industrious Loyalty Sir Edward Nicholas of the same place to his late Majesty and Sir William Mâ—rice the onely Confident the Renowned General the Duke of Albemarle used in those blessed Counsels toward the Restitution of the King and Kingdom The Names of the BARONETS made by Letters Patents since his Majesties most happy Restauration Anno 1660. With the times of their several Creations Anno Duodecimo Caroli Regis Secundi SIR Orlando Bridgeman Knight was created Baronet Iune the 7th in the Twelfth Year of the Raign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second in the year of our Lord 1660. Sir Ieoffery Palmer Kt. created Baronet Iune the 7. Sir Heneage Finch in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Iohn Langham in Com. Northampton Kt. created Baronet Iune 7. Sir Robert Abdy in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 9. Thomas Draper in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Humphrey Winch in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Ionathan Rease Esq. created Baronet Iune 9. Henry Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Hugh Speke in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 12. Nicholas Gould of the City of London created Baronet Iune 13. Sir Thomas Adams of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 13. Richard Atkins in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iune 13. Thomas Allen of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 14. Henry North in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 15. Sir William Wiseman in Com. Essex Kt. created Baronet Iune 15. Thomas Cullum in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 18. Thomas Davy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. George Grubbum How in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Iohn Cutts in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. William Humble of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Iune 20. Solomon Swale in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 21. Gervas Ews in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Robert Cordel in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Sir Iohn Robinson of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iune 22. Iohn Abdy in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iune 22. Henry Stapleton in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 23. Iacob Ashly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir Robert Hilliard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iune 25. Sir William Bowyer in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet Iune 25. Iohn Shuckbrugh in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Iune 26. William Wray in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Francis Hollis in Com. Dorset Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Nicholas Steward in Com. Southampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. George Warberton in Com. Pal. of Chester Esq. created Baronet Iune 27. Oliver St. Iohn in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iune 28. Sir Ralph Delaval in Com. Northumberland Kt. created Baronet Iune 29. Andrew Henley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Thomas Ellis in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Iune 30. Sir Iohn Covert in Com. Sussex Kt. created Baronet Iuly 2. Maurice Berkley in Com. Somerset Esq. created Baronet Iuly 2. Peter Harr of the City of London created Baronet Iuly 2. Henry Hudson in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Herbert in Com. Monmouth Esq. created Baronet Iuly 3. Thomas Middleton in Com. Denbigh created Baronet Iuly 4. Verney Noel in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Iuly 6. George Ruswel in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Iuly 7. Robert Austen in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 10. Robert Hales in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 12. Iohn Clarke in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. William Thomas in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 13. Sir William Boothby in Com. Derby Kt. created Baronet Iuly 13. Wolstan Dixey in Com. Leicester created Baronet Iuly 14. Iohn Bright in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Iohn Warner in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 16. Sir Iohn Harbey in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 17. Sir Samuel Moreland in Com. Berks Kt. created Baronet Iuly 18. Sir Thomas Hewet in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet Iuly 19. Edward Honywood in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Basil Dixwel in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Iuly 19. Sir Richard Brown of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Iuly 20. Marmaduke Gresham in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Iuly 20. Henry Kernor in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Iuly 23. Sir Iohn Aubrey in Com. Glamorgan
who Lorded it at a brave rate gallantly waived and declined any advantage but what was Military in the Articles and Sailed after the Prince into Scilly About this time a resolute Attempt was made upon Abingdon where Major-General Brown was Governour as before then absent in London by a strong party under the command of Sir Stephen Hawkins from Oxford The Foot had gained the Works and had entred the Town as far as the Market-place but some resistance being there made and the Horse-guard taking the Alarm by the appearance of Major Blundel who desperately charged they were by Force driven out again no Horse but onely three Gentlemen of Christ-Church Oxon clambering over to assist them the Pioneers and their instruments being so far behind in the Rear that they could not timely advance to make a breach for the Cavalry to enter and so that noble design not without suspition of treachery was frustrated Ashby de-la-zouch the maiden-Garrison that was never before Besieged during the War was now rendred by the Lord Loughborough whose Government it was upon honourable terms to the Parliament And so we have finished this unfortunate year which with its period and revolution may be said to have concluded the Government Monarchy being beaten out of the field and out of doors together the Enemies thereof having nothing more of hazard to do but to encounter its Authority at the Bar with Pleas not in Battalia with push of pike and so the main of the Interregnum between that and the Kings death was spent in contrivances designs and new models of I know not what whereof after the reduction of some other places in the beginning of the year 1646 which languished in a Consumption till May the Critical month for that disease there will be unwelcome occasion for this Chronicle next to discourse Anno Dom. 1646. DEnnington-Castle leads the dance and though it had withstood the many Sieges and attempts made by the enemy could not now resist its Fate nor the easie Summons of a Brigade of the Victor-Army but despairing of Relief and so of honourable Terms if they should stand to their usual extremity submitted But out of revenge for the slaughter and disappointment the Parliament had suffered under its walls by the resolution of the Governour he upon his return to his own house according to Articles was notwithstanding contrary thereunto sued and impleaded for several demolitions by firing of the out-houses for the strength and security of the Castle and by the neighbours for damages And to palliate this breach the better they made an Ordinance being cock-sure of a plenary Conquest That all Articles of Surrenders should insert the damages by wilful firing which as it was most unjust so was it as uncivil and base and befitting none but tumultuary head-strong and undisciplined enemies And for the fuller satisfaction of their spleen and adust choler against this Fortress they themselves not thinking of any reckoning laid the goodly Fabrick in ashes made yet more notable by its loyal ruines than it could have been if standing Then followed the Rendition of Ruthen-Castle in Wales to Colonel Mitton whither some of the residue of the divided Forces under Sir William Vaugban had betaken themselves upon less equal Conditions than the main Army offered to any place whatsoever Then was Corf-Castle in Dorsetshire taken without any offer of Terms by violence and policy mixt together and to make those Surrenders a Pair-royal Exeter was added whither Fairfax was come and on the 31 of March drew all his Army round the City within Musquet-shot having made Bridges over the River and then sent in another Summons which resolved into a Treaty Sir Iohn Berkley the Governour sent out the names of his Commissioners to treat which at first were ten but Fairfax for expedition desiring a less number eight were consented to and six of his viz. for Exeter Sir Henry Barkley Sir George Cary Colonel Ashburnham Colonel Godolphin Captain Fitz-Gerald Mr. Iohn Weare Mr. Robert Walker and Mr. Thomas Knight For the Parliaments Army Colonel Hammond Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance Colonel Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Edward Harley now a Confident shortly after a Reprobate of the Army Colonel Lambert Commissary-General Stane and Major Watson Scoutmaster-General By whom after five days debate it was agreed as followeth That the City should be rendred to General Fairfax on Monday the 13th of April with all the Stores c. The Princess Henrietta to depart any where with her Governess in England and Wales until His Majesty should give order for her disposal The Cathedral nor Churches to be defaced That the Garrison shall march out according to the most honourable custom of War and to have free quarter all the way and not to be compelled to march above ten miles a day and with their Arms to the places agreed upon for their laying them down The Composition of persons of quality shall not exceed two years purchase That all persons comprised within these Articles shall quietly and and peaceably enjoy all their goods debts and moveables during the space of four moneths next ensuing And be free-from all Oaths Covenants and Protestations and have liberty within the said time of four moneths in case they shall not make their Composition with the Parliament and shall be resolved to go beyond Sea for which they shall have Passes to dispose of their said goods debts and moveables allowed by these Articles These were the chief Articles though there were a great many more very honourable all of them as it was the humour or else policy of the Army to grant them and served as the original Draught for other places In these Articles Sir Iohn Stawel was included who for his constant avowance of those Immunities in these Articles from Oaths c. was most dishonourably and savagely used insomuch that the Faith of the Army with their disloyal and perfidious actions towards the King appeared at the same time alike villanous and tyrannical After the Articles were signed which was the ninth the General would not lose so much time as to stay till Munday the thirteenth the time of their Rendition but though the weather was unseasonable marched away to Tiverton and so to form a Siege at Barnstable which concluded upon the same Terms with Exeter and then Dunstar-Castle who embraced the same Conditions of which anon The West being cleared Pendennis-Castle onely excepted General Fairfax on the 18th of April began his march towards Oxford it being then rumoured that the King in the perplexity of his affairs would escape thence but whither it could not be so much as conjectured In his way thither saith one of their own Historians so many Complaints were made to him of outrages and barbarisms done in contravention of the Articles both of Cornwal and Exeter by the Committee-Troops forsooth that if they were particularly related would make such a
by the illegal convention of the general Assembly of the Kirk By his Forces thereabouts the Earl of Eglington with his second Son and some other persons of Note were surprized in their designe of raising Forces for the King at Dunbarton His Majesty still continuing at Sterling London the Chancellor being now outed of his Presidentship Mr. Gutbery and Bennet and other Kirk-blades Committed for their refractoriness to the Kings Authority which yet they would not own but as subordinate to the General Assembly But for the prevention of such future sidings and divisions those men had caused a Committee by Parliament was now empowred to manage the War and substitute Officers without any more impertinent reverences to the Presbytery the King being also declared Generalissimo Cromwel after some debates and publike disputes with the Ministers viz. Gillespy Rutherford c. of Glascow aforesaid concerning the lawfulness of his Invasion which he performed as he said in much weakness of both Argument and Body seeing there was no drawing the Scot out that way to fight which way they intended for an undisturbed march marched back to Edenburgh by the beginning of May and in his way burned the Lady Kilsithes House for holding intelligence with the King having notice of the arrival of his Boats at Leith for the Transportation of his Army into Fife which was the last remedy the failure of Victuals in the Scotch Camp which therefore they should be forced to abandon and march proving a meer delusion In the mean while on the 15 of April in a mist the Lord Montgomery Son to the Earl of Eglington and Lord Cranston with 500 Horse and Dragoons marched from Sterling and resolutely charged into Lithgow a Garrison the English had fortified upon their first march to Sterling to the Market-place whence having taken what Prisoners they could in hast meet with they retreated and being pursued by Major Sydenham of Sir Arthur Haslerig's Regiment the Governour in place of Colonel Sanderson lately deceased they faced about and routed him killing most of his Followers to the number of some 60 himself being wounded mortally in the Groyn whereof not long after he died that Government being twice vacated already The Lord Register Warriston now had a Pass from Sterling to come to Edenburgh about the Records and the ships loading that was staid after Cromwels Pass and permission by Articles and prosecuted the business so to effect that the said Goods Papers and lading got before him to Sterling May 31. whither he had no more mind after Cromwel and he had conferred to return The Dutch had now sent Van Trump their Admiral with 12 sail of Men of War to Scilly Island to demand satisfaction for 20 ships which Sir Iohn Greenvile the Governour had seized and had further instructions to Treat with the said Governour which besides the aim this State had to integrate all the Antient Dominions of England under a new Commonwealth did very much enjealous them that that important place might be put into Dutch hands thereupon a Fleet was presently manned for the Reduction of that place and Sir George Ayscue who was then preparing for a Voyage to Barbadoes in the Rainbow and two other Men of War upon the same account was ordered to attend General Blake in that Service who Imbarqued in the Phoenix-Frigat and on the 18 of May with great resolution he landed some of his Forces in the Islands of Tresco and Brier which were as stoutly defended by the Noble Colonel Wogan who in his Voyage from Ireland had taken up Arms here for the King again and made a very great slaughter of the first Invaders but footing being gained by fresh Boats succeeding the other he past over to the Isle of St. Maries both more naturally and Artificially Fortified and of very difficult access Some few attempts were nevertheless made but rather to shew there was an Enemy there who would fain be admitted and who otherwise might prove very troublesome to their Trade and to that effect a Summons or invitation was sent unto the Governour who having as it was believed the Kings leave for what he should do therein and knowing with England it would return and without would be of little use to the Crown after some Messages accepted of a Treaty which after caresses and civilities on both sides concluded in a Rendition of the Isle on the second of Iune upon very Honourable Terms The Governour Sir Iohn the son of Noble Sir Bevil Greenvile after Earl of Bath a person always much in the Kings Favour receiving a considerable sum of Money and Indemnity for his Estate and person freed from all manner of Arrests and molestations whatsoever the Officers and Souldiers to go whither they would of whom Sir Fulk Hunks with Doctor Lesley the Bishop of Down sailed for Ireland Colonel Wogan for Scotland to pursue the quarrel there also In all there went out 9 Colonels 4 Lieutenant-Colonels 10 Serjeant-Majors 60 Captains saith the Catalogue 40 Lieutenants and other under-Officers of a proportionable number which over Sir George Ayscue proceeded in his Voyage Prince Rupert was now at Sea from Toulon with five Men of War and two Fire-ships sailing the Mediterranean-sea in Company with his Brother Prince Maurice and much discourse there was of the Duke of Lorrain's shipping and Transporting some Forces for Ireland by an Agreement made with the Irish and promoted at the French Court whither the Duke of York was now expected and Sir Edward Hide arrived out of Spain and several Provinces and Cities were by report assigned him for his security but the whole story proved meer Castles in the Air for it 's supposed the Duke was unwilling to come where his plundering Troops should finde Blows instead of Booty and he had his own Country and Dominions to regain first An Agent likewise came now to the Parliament of England and owned them as such from the great Duke of Florence May the 21. The Lord Howard of Escrick a Peer who had got himself returned a Burgess for Carlisle was about this time convicted of Bribery dismissed the House and committed to the Tower Cromwel being at Edenburgh having notice how the King lay encamped at Sterling Lesley's Foot quartering on the South-side and Middleton's on the North-side of the Park encompassed with a Stone-wall and that abundance of Provision was brought in daily supposing they would march drew all his Forces out of the West with as much care and conduct as could be and Encamped likewise in the Fields by Edenburgh in a readiness for them whether to march or fight But in the mean time he was taken very ill of his Ague so that Doctor Wright and Doctor Bates an eminent Physitian and a concealed Royalist as appears by a polite Piece of his written some time before entituled Elenehus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia were sent down to attend his Cure and many blithe and anxious
Col. Read's and Col. Fairfax's Regiments were at his service On the Twenty first he marched to Lithgow with some Horse and Foot intending for Ayre but understanding that his own Lieutenant-Col Holms was got there before him who was an Anabaptist being loth to receive any opposition in the beginning of his Enterprise he returned and under his own Hand and Seal constituted and commissioned several Officers in the room of those he had secured and forthwith sent away for Fairfax's Read's and Cobbet's Regiments to March and joyn with him leaving Captain Winter with Two hundred men to keep the Citadel of Saint Iohnstons which like number and no more he left in the other Three upon his departure for England and Rendezvouz'd his other Forces the last of October and dispatcht away Letters to the Speaker Fleetwood Lambert as also to Hull where Overton was now Governour by the Pearl-Frigot and lastly a Letter to the gathered Churches for he was to fight with these Hypocrites at their own Weapons Colonel Pearson one of General Monkes Officers in Scotland was by order hence sent down as to his Charge there but secretly to corrupt and incline the Army to Lambert but arriving at Newcastle and understanding by several transfuges from Scotland of the Anabaptist Perswasion what course G. Monke had taken he staid there his Field-Officers being in custody already except Lieutenant-Col Keyn newly released during his stay here Letters were by his means intercepted as they were carrying to Exeter and Devonshire sowed up in a mans Doublet without any direction but Signed with his own Hand and Written by Master after Sir William Clark wherein he gave his Friends notice to stand upon their Guard and that as soon as the Army was drawn from London the City would declare with him as he expected likewise they would c. Pearson at the sending up of these Letters a Treaty being then mentioned betwixt both parties and to which end the discarded Officers as Whally and Goffe Mr. Caryl and Mr. Barker Independent Ministers went in the way of Brotherly-love to move and perswade him gave this Comment of them as one well acquainted with his General That what ever he pretended he scorned all their messages and overtures meerly winning time by them and that nothing but force could reduce him Col. after Major General Morgan upon the same pretences with Col. Whally c. went out of Yorkshire to Scotland and joyned with the General as he had received an invitation from him by a private Messenger and did mainly assist in this ground-work to the conclusion and perfection thereof In the mean while it was resolved by the Officers here for fear of the worst and to be ready against all accidents if no good could be done by this fair way of Message to send down Lambert with most of the Army Northwards and there in that posture to expect the issue and he very willingly it being his own advice undertook it having refused and declined those tenders and offers which particularly my Lord Hatton made to him in the name of the King If he would now at last mind his own good and the Kingdoms in returning to his Allegiance and convert his designs for himself to the service of his Soveraign in his Restitution the said Lord further assuring him that if he did it not it would be presently done without him beyond his power of remedying it and that therefore he should not let slip such an opportunity of raising himself and his posterity But he replying upon the Army-Interest which if it could have been cemented with money would have caused a hazardous opposition to any other and the Anabaptist-party now very numerous and at this time uppermost for that had its turn too as well as Presbytery and Independency but swayed not so long all the other Sects centring here for now was the time of the fulness and visible power of Sion as it was counted by these People resolved to proceed on this Expedition and if fortune favoured him there he feared no other Enemy to his ambition On the Third of November a very ominous day as it was observed by reason the Long-Parliament sate down that day in One thousand six hundred and forty he departed from London by Ware-road and hastned to New-castle just as Col. Barrow was returned from Ireland with the supposed acquiescence of that Kingdome in this change Tomlinson Iohn Iones and Corbet who were then the Governours and Commissioners declaring as much but Sir Charles Coot Sir Hardress Waller upon different grounds and his party combined against it There was a project to get the City to write to General Monke for a good Understanding where Master now Sir William Wild very opportunely for the Times he being a most knowing and upright Gentleman was chosen Recorder in place of young Master Green deceased General Monke removed the Officers he had secured in Timptallon-Castle to the Basse-Island out of all way of Communication and sent Major Knight of his own Regiment of Horse with five Troops as far as Morpeth in Northumberland and upon notice of the readiness of Lambert drew out more Southwards for a Bravado to let them see how resolved and prepared their General was and departed In the same instant Col. Talbot and Mr. Thomas Clargis his Excellencies Brother-in-law were sent with another Complement from hence to ingratiate with the General and now he is pleased though he had refused Goff and Whally Regicides and Caryl their Priest whose person he yet outwardly liked to accept of a Treaty and Col. Wilks Lieutenant-Col Clobery and Major Knight were appointed his Commissiomers to go for London to Treat with Three more and in the mean while his Forces should not stir further Southwards These upon their journey Lambert met with and hoping their Errand would end in an acquiescence as they promised did acquisce himself and await the Issue which upon the arrival of them at London came to a speedy result though Three Kingdoms were the subject of this Treaty betwixt Six unlearned men and like a happy Revelation was cryed about the Streets the next morning the Heads were these Novemb. 16. They were proposed the Seventeenth concluded viz. The Family of the King utterly to be excluded a Free-State Setled the Ministry and Vniversities encouraged the Generals Officers imprisoned to be released and a general Indemnity of the Parliament-party and the Armies to retire presently into Quarters and Three Army-Officers of each Kingdome and a general Council of them with ten Sea-Offâ—cers and I know not what Embryo to meet on the Sixth of December at Whitehall and to conclude as Vane had codled it about which time Captain Robinsons's and Captain Deans's Troops deserted him Robinson bringing his Troop away with him his Brother being then Clerk of the Committee of Safety and allied by Marriage of a Daughter to Sir Nicholas Crispe But the General was intent upon another more
of Fact will sufficiently shew this Transaction of the General with the several Counties and the Commissioners of the Rump Scot and Robinson appointed to wait on him meerly to sift out and discover his intentions I will give the Reader a bare Journal of the Affairs as they passed But before I proceed the Reader is to take notice That our Soveraign having been highly treated at his return from St. Iean de Luz at Paris by the Duke of Orleans and regarded now as the Monarch of great Britain such assured confidence there was of his Restitution passed in great State publiquely to Brussels where His return was no less magnificently welcomed and there abode till the dissolution of this Parliament the Rump which now as their last Engine and dying Efforts are most vigorous against Monarchy and its fortress of Loyalty had under their consideration an Act for Renuntiation and Abjuration of the Title and Right of the King and the whole Line of King Iames. Oliver had proceeded to the disanulling it this to the damning of the Nation who had sworn to maintain it But rather than sink as they plainly saw the King would at last be too hard for them by the late Commotions and Insurrections in his behalf therefore they bethought themselves of this Italian revenge to ruine the Bodies and Souls together of their Enemies this was afterwards prosecuted while the General was among them and a Petition delivered by Barebones and other Good-Old-Cause-men and Fanaticks and they most abominably thanked for this their love and care of the Common-wealth At the same time Sir Iohn Roll and other Devonshire Gentlemen listed and engaged all that Country upon the account of a Free-Parliament according to the Cabal betwixt the General and him Mr. Morrice now Secretary and others And this strength the General relyed on upon all events as his own Country-men and doubtless this resolution of that County was of very great influence in the ensuing Affairs Scot and Robinson were sent to cajole the General with another Letter of thanks to him as also another was sent to Major-General Morgan Col. Sydenham a Member of the Committee of Safety and of Oliver Cromwels's Council discharged the House A tumult at Exeter about a Free-Parliament Commissioners and Judges appointed for the several Courts Alderman Fouk Vincent and Colonel Bromfield ordered by the City to meet and congratulate the General The General at Nottingham came our a Declaration of the Parliament against Kingship but not a word of Dâ—ssolving themselves or filling up the House Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher for tendring a Declaration of the County of Berk-shire for a Free-Parliament were committed to the Tower which fored a Vote for Qualifications c. The Lady Monck arrived at White-hall the Minerva and great Patroness of this grand design General Monck arrived at Leicester and was met there by Scot and Robinson who sent the Parliament a copy of his Letter to the Devonshire Gentlemen great seeming kindness past between them An Act passed the House being a Bill of Assessment of One hundred thousand pounds a Moneth for six Moneths throughout England Scotland and Ireland they had made it at first for Twelve but it passed at last for Six At Harborough the General was met with the London-Commissioners to whom he speaks fair the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire and the Major of the Town congratulate him The Lord Falkland came thither also with the Oxfordshire Address for a Free-Parliament attended by the Gentry of that County and had a fair reception at Stony Stratford the Gentlemen of Bucks the like at Dunstable and at St. Albans he received more of the same nature from the County of Norfolk by the hands of the Lord Richardson and Sir Horatio Townsend and other places to which he answered ambiguously and fairly giving them all civil and most obliging Reception even to the Apprentices of London who came thither with a Petition of the same nature the General parting with the expressions of his care and endeavour for their and the Cities good and was uncovered all the while Thence he desired the Parliament that the Army in Town for fear of Infection be distributed into the Country to make room for his own Forces about which Tumults arose in the Guards at St. Pauls and more pertinaciously at Somerset-house which caused the General being invited also by the Rump to make extraordinary hast thither Several Reports made to the House concerning Qualifications and Elections On the second of February he Rendezvouzed that morning at Finchly-heath where he drew up his Army having marched from Barnet and by St. Iohns-street and Holborn down Chancery-lane came with his Army into the Strand where at Somerset-house he was met by the Speaker They saluted each other with the Title of Lord-General The General afterwards waited on him to his Coach and then to refresh but he refused White-hall for his Quarters Next day after he was conducted to his audience at the House where he had a Speech made to him by the Speaker being a thankful Commemoration of his services to which he modestly replied refusing to sit in the Chair placed for him by their order declining all the praises given him as he never intended any service for them but desiring them to be very tender of the Gentry of this Kingdom which would prove their Interest and of Oaths and Engagements c. so was with great respects reconducted and attended to his Lodging where he continued in good intelligence with them till their politick Revenge put him upon this Adventure to make a Feud between him and the City for the City refusing to pay the money assessed upon them by the late Act of 100000 l. per mensem the Rump order the Gates and Portcullices to be pulled down by the General and several Citizens to be apprehended viz. Sir William Vincent Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir Laurence Bromfield Sir Richard Ford Major Cox Mr. Penning Lieutenant-colonel Iackson Mr. Spencer Major Chamberlain and Mr. Brown a Grocer in Wood-street and sent to the Tower which the General performed They likewise ordered the discontinuance of the Common Council for that year and proceeded to nominate another and to settle a new Militia The Gates were accordingly pulled down the thumps of the Hammers even piercing the hearts of the Citizens Such an affront and revenge never any of our Princes in his greatest rage did to this place where likewise the Army was perforce Quartered But after the pulling down of the Gates the General sent a Letter to the Parliament acquainting them how grievous and distastful the action was to his nature intimating also the great Merit of the City towards them throughout the War and on Friday after several Conferences managed before him by some of the secluded Members and City and others of the Rump He pretending his desire of satisfaction for their Exclusion of the evidence of danger of their readmission
with matters of Religion the Militia Qualifications and Writs for Elections and in the interim endeavours were used more especially at Hull by Major Gen. Overton to debauch part of the Army at York and the same tricks also at Chester with the Irish Brigades but were Defeated and came to nothing Therefore Col. Lambert refusing to put in security of Twenty thousand pounds was now at last Committed to the Tower to prevent any future danger from the unsatisfied part of the Souldiery About this time died Carolus Gustavus King of Sweden The Engagement made by the remnant of the Parliament Viz. I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful c. was now ordered to be expunged out of the Journal-book of the House of Commons which made the Phanaticks begin to fear their unjust Possessions Hull was now delivered to Col. Fairfax according to the Generals Order The Inscription under the Statue of King Charles the first in the Exchange London Exit Tyrannus was expunged and blotted out by a private hand According to the Parliament resolves to Dissolve themselves and being pressed by the General whose well-governed impatience of the Kings return permitted not the least delay in that dangerous place Writs were ordered to be issued out for the Election of Members in the ensuing Parliament in the name of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament and the Bill of their Dissolution being read and passed leaving a power in the Council of State in the interval of Parliament to govern the Nations they broke up and so this long-lasting Parliament which hath done and suffered so many strange things came with fair expectations to a peaceable conclusion but shall never want the Elegies and the doleful complaints of the three Kingdoms The Parliament being thus Dissolved the first thing the Council of State acted was the emitting of a Proclamation forbidding all Persons whatsoever to make applications to any of the Officers and Souldiers in the Army in the way of Agitating declaring that pernitious course was the ruine of the King and Kingdome in the years 1647 and 48. This actuated with a diligent eye upon some suspected persons and securing of others happily retained the Army in their duty and obedience to the bringing about his Majesties Restitution which was every day more visible The Council of State were hammering a Proclamation requiring such qualifications as were intended by Parliament for the Election of Members to be strictly observed whereby Cavaliers were to be excluded but there were enow Royallists besides to do that great and happy work which was soon after accomplisht and yet in the mean while made Addresses to the King some Letters passing from them to him being unhappily delayed by the death of Mr. Annesley Brother to the now Earl of Anglesey who was drowned as he was taking Boat to proceed in his Voyage for the delivery of them to the King Mr. Barebone and Mr. Scot signed an Engagement wherein they promised to live peaceably but divers others of that Faction for agitating and other misdemeanors were secured and committed to prison the Elections in the interim went hopefully on and the Militia was every where well established A Letter was sent by the Council to the Bassa of Algier for releasing the Lord Inchequeen and his Son who were lately taken by a Turkish Pirate neer the Port of Lisbon and carried to Algier Colonel Massey appeared in Gloucestershire with an intention to stand for an Election there he was ordered to appear before the Council which he did and was afterwards unanimously chosen one of the Burgesses for that City as Major-General Brown who sate with the secluded Members before with the Recorder Sir William Wilde and Sir Iohn Robinson with whom the General constantly conversed in the suspence of his declaring himself but was riddled to the Royallists by the Company he kept were Elected for London both these eminent Captains were very active and instrumental in the King's Restauration The City of London emitted a Declaration wherein they clear themselves of the Guilt of the King's Death and the Crimes of the Usurpation their Counsels being under a force of a desperate Juncto put upon them and as a signet of the Revolution ensuing suffered the same Tumults to the Restitution which it had fomented and cherished in the beginning of the Wars to the ruine and overthrow of the Kingdoms Anno Dom. 1660. WE begin this mirabilis Annus the wonderful year of 1660 which by the old Philosophical Axiome of twenty years revolution was to return all things in statu quo to wit the same condition with an occurrence of no seeming tendencie or aspect to the product thereof viz. The Proclamation from the Council of State against Election of any to this Parliament that had served his Majesty in the late Wars which proceeded from the unreconciled Results of those secluded Members who yet retained some grudge of their first Quarrel and would fain do away the imputation of their unjust Arming themselves and the people against their Soveraign by a Vote passed this last sitting wherein they again declared That the late King began the War with the two Houses and this was now for a subsequent confirmation of that fallacious Maxime of the Rebellion Mr. Saint Iohn that was of this Council of State now opened and discovered himself in the solution of his former actions by his suspicions and fears of the approaching Revolution He stickled first for the Qualifications which the Parliament through the General 's designed importunity had left unestablished and undetermined and that being thus decreed though the Gentry found means to Elude this Paper-scare-crow foreseeing the necessity and absolute combination of all things to the King's Return he laboured to clog that also with limitations and conditions but to less purpose than he had straightned this Free Convention ensuing which was very unlike to prove so if such designes had taken effect For to the Honour and everlasting entire Felicity of this unparallelled Rovolution and the noble General 's Loyal and most generous and obliging Prudence beyond all Parliamentory Engagements and Terms whatsoever his Majesties Rights and undoubted Prerogative were left and returned to him most free and inviolate A Convention was held in Ireland in nature of a Parliament till such time as one might be conveniently and rightly called for to provide for the Peace and Safety of that Kingdom from whence the L. Shannon Sir Iohn Clothworthy and Major Aston were sent as Commissioners to the Council During the Election of Members it was wonderful to see the general chearfulness that possessed the minds and looks of all men and the no less stupid consternation of the Phanatick party which term they likewise obtained from a Letter of the General 's from Scotland a little while before so that it was plainly seen God had disarmed their spirits of that violence that had
which this Kingdom hath been involved since the violent attempts to dissolve the Established Government the best way to make up those breaches is by all means to obtain the Restoration of the King to his people and that in order thereunto a Letter from both Houses drawn up by a Committee shall be sent to the King giving him thanks for his gracious Offers and professing their duty and loyalty to him and that Sir Iohn Greenvil have the thanks of the House and 500 l. bestowed on him by the Commons to buy him a Jewel as a Testimony of the respects of the House to him and a badge of Honour which they thought fit to place upon him all which was with great solemnity punctuality performed Moreover to testifie their hearty obedience to his Majesty they ordered the sum of 50000 l. as a Present for him which was instantly borrowed with 50000 l. more of the City of London who having desired leave of the Parliament returned a like dutiful Answer with a Present also to his Majesty and his two Brothers having honourably received the Lord Viscount Mordant and the said Sir Iohn Greenvil who brought them his Majesty's Letters who also acknowledged their Quality and good Offices by 300 l. given them to buy them Rings Nor were the Souldiery wanting to this concourse and stream of general Affection and Loyalty to his Majesty for upon communication of his Majesty's Letters and Declaration they quickly drew up an Address to the General wherein they shewed their willing and ready submission as formerly in all Transactions to him their General so in this their perfect Duty to the King To whom they doubted not to evince that his Excellencie and the Army under his Command and those engaged in the Parliaments Cause had complied with the Obligations for which they were raised The Preservation of the Protestant Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty and Proprieties of the Subject and the Fundamental Laws of the Land This was seconded by the Navy under the General Montague now Earl of Sandwich to whom and the Fleet under him the King had sent the like Letters and Declaration the Sea ringing with the peals of Ordnance upon the communication of the said Papers and lastly the Governour Colonel Harlow and Garrison of Dunkirk did the same by an Address to his Excellencie A Committee was appointed to consider the manner of his Majesties Return and to prepare all things necessary for his Reception they likewise ordered his Majesty's Arms to be set up in all Churches and the Commonwealths to be taken down and that all Proceedings be in the Kings Majesties name and that the present Great Seal be made use of till further order that there might be no hindrance or stop in the proceeding of Justice Easter-Term was likewise prorogued that no business might interfere with this grand and expected Affair of the Settlement of the Kingdom All Officers as Sheriffs Justices that were in commission the 25 of April to continue and exercise the respective Offices in the King's Name It was Resolved further That the King's Majesty be desired to make a speedy return to his Parliament and to the exercise of his Kingly-Office and that in order thereunto several Commissioners from both Houses be sent to the King at Breda with their Letters to his Majesty Doctor Clargys now Sir Thomas the General 's Brother having been before sent with his to the King and to acquaint him with the said Desires and Votes of the Houses To these Commissioners others were added from the City of London the Names of them all are as followeth For the House of Lords Earl of Oxford Earl of Warwick staid at London sick of the Gout Earl of Middlesex Lord Viscount Hereford Lord Berckley Lord Brook For the House of Commons The Lord Fairfax Lord Bruce Lord Falkland Lord Castleton Lord Herbert Lord Mandevil Sir Horatio now Lord Townsend Sir Anthony now Lord Ashly Cooper Sir George Booth now Lord De la mere Denzill now Lord Hollis Sir Henry Holland Sir Iohn Cholmley For the City of London Sir Iames Bunce Baronet Alderman Langham Alderman Reynardson Alderman Sir Richard Browne Sir Nicholas Crisp Alderman Tompson Alderman Frederick Alderman Adams Sir William Wilde Recorder Sir Iohn Robinson Alderman Sir Anthony Bateman Sir William Wale Sir Theophilus Biddulph Sir Richard Ford Sir William Vincent Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir William Bateman Sir Iohn Lewis Master Chamberlain and Sir Laurence Bromfield all of them not Knighted before Knighted by the King at the Hague upon their arrival the King being removed thither from Breda as nearer and more convenient for his shipping the disposal whereof and of the whole Fleet was remitted to his Majesty's pleasure the General Montague having received Orders to obey his Majesty's Commands and Directions therein The Instructions being delivered to the Commissioners they set Sail in several Frigots appointed to attend them and with some foul Weather Landed in Holland where they were graciously and favourably received by his Majesty at the Hague I may not omit that the reception of Sir Thomas Clergys from the General was as an Embassador from a Prince the Lord Gerard with many Coaches being sent to conduct him to Audience where Mr. Hollis into whose hands the Letters were intrusted for the delivery spoke for the House of Commons the Earl of Oxford for the Lords and Sir William Wilde for the City Those that were there at their Audience agreed in Opinion that never person spoke with more affection or in better terms than Master Hollis He insisted chiefly upon the Miseries the Kingdoms had groaned under by the tyranny of the pretended Parliament and Cromwel which should now be exchanged into their repose quiet and lawful liberty beseeching his Majesty in the name of his people to return and resume the Scepter c. and assured him he should be infinitely welcome without any terms a thing so much stomacked by the Phanaticks but most just and honourable After several Treatments given the King by the Dutch which he shortned as much as he could and other Complements by Forraign Ministers to whom he gave publick Audience the Portugal only excepted and Spaniard having notice of the Fleets arrival which consisted of near Forty Sail of great Men of War he prepared to depart At this time came also to his hands the Proclamation made in London as a little before returned Sir Iohn Greenvil with the happy news of his peoples love and entire affection The Proclamation followeth being very fit to be recorded that which we mentioned in the second Part being but an earnest of this ALthough it can no way be doubted but that his Maiesties Right and Title to these Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way compleat by the Death of his most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony or Solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since
Fourth the Demeasnes and Jurisdiction whereof lay in the Dutchy of Normandy in France under the English Soveraginty and Earl of Torrington in his own native County of Devon and Baron of Potheridge his own Patrimony Beauchamp and Teyes by which he hath right of Peerage in the three Kingdoms whose equal Felicity and Honour he advanced and raised before himself and now most deservingly shared with them by his Investiture in these Dignities which were compleated Iuly the 13 by his taking his place in the House of Lords attended by the House of Commons and introduced by the Duke of Buckingham In the same month General Montague was created Earl of Sandwich Viscount Hinchingbrooke his famous Mannor in Huntingtonshire and Baron of St. Neots in the same County and on the 16 of Iuly took likewise his place in the House of Peers where they both shine with that degree of splendor by which the Duke reduced and the Earl dawned at the day of Englands Glory and Liberty The Duke of Ormond was likewise made Earl of Brecknock and took his place among the Peers of England he was also made Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold as the Earl of Lindsey was made Lord High-Chamberlain the Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and the Earl of Southampton Lord High-Treasurer of England Sir Frederick Cornwallis was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold by an old Grant and Sir Iohn Berkley Comptroller and other Royalists were made Officers therein Several presents were made to the King from the several Cities and Boroughs of the Kingdom in Gold and Plate and resignation of Fee-farm-rents purchased from the Usurpers among the rest the City of London with a Complement of their good Stewardship by the mouth of their Recorder Sir William Wilde rendred their like Grant of New Parke in Surrey All the Rents accruing at Michaelmas-day were now secured from the late Purchasers of Kings Queens Bishops Dean and Chapters lands for the use of the right and unquestionable Proprietors to the defeating the miserable and unjust covetousness of such undue and unwarrantable penniworths A splendid Embassy came this Month of August from Denmark to congratulate his Majesties most happy Restitution as a little before the Lord Iermyn newly made Earl of Saint Albans the Title last failing in the renowned Marquess of Clanrickard Vlick de Burgh who had so eminently asserted his Majesties Rights in Ireland and after the reduction thereof came into England and died in London in some distress far unfitting his nobleness of minde as well as former most honourable Estate a while before the Kings Return was sent to France in the quality of Lord Embassador Extraordinary to that Crown Soon after the Prince de Ligne with a right Princely Train and retinue becoming the grandeur of the Affair he was sent to Congratulate from his Majesty of Spain betwixt whom and this Kingdom a Peace after a six years War was lately Proclaimed was with great state received and had solemn Audience by the King and departed and was succeeded by the Baron of Battevile to be Resident and Embassador in Ordinary at this Court. From the French King soon after came another Illustrious and grand Personage upon the same account by name the Count of Soissons who had married the Cardinal's Neece and entred and was entertained here with all sumptuous and extraordinary Magnificence In sum there was no Prince nor State in Europe who sent not or were not a sending their Embassador upon this wonderful occasion The Parliament after many debates and disputes alterations and insertions at last finished the Act of Oblivion which was extraordinary comprehensive and indulgent to the regret of many injured Royalists who found no better perswasive to their acquiescence in it but their unalterable duty to the King whose special Act this was Out of this were only excepted the Regicides and Murderers of their late Soveraign as to Life and Estate besides Colonel Lambert and Sir Henry Vane and Twenty others reserved to such Forfeitures as should by Parliament be declared the principal of these were Sir Arthur Haselrig Oliver Saint Iohn William Lenthal the Speaker Mr. Ny the Independent Minister Burton of Yarmouth and some Sequestrators Officers and Major-Generals of the Army amongst whom was Desborough Pine Butler Ireton c. They passed likewise an Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29 of May the day of his Majesties Birth and Restauration a day indeed memorable and the most auspicious in our English Kalendar and worthy of a Parliaments Canonization Both which his Majesty gave his Royal Assent to as at the Adjournment to another for Disbanding of the Army and paying off the Navy which once looked upon us with the same feared perpetual danger as the Mamalukes or Ianizaries but by this happy conjuncture of his Majesties Fortune with his Wisdom and Goodness yielded after many Modules to its last Dissolution Great sums by Pole-money and other Assessments were imposed and speedily and cheerfully levied and paid to finish this desired work which had before wasted so many Millions of Treasure Mr. Scowen Mr. Pryn Col. King and Sir Charles Doyley were appointed Commissioners to disband them to which the Souldiery very willingly and with thanks to the King submitted the King giving them a Weeks pay as a Donative and Largess The Parliament adjourned till the 6 of November These Felicities of the King we have hitherto insisted on as the course of all worldly things is guided were abated and allayed by the immature and most lamented Death of the right Excellent Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester his Majesties youngest Brother a Prince of very extraordinary hopes Silence will best become our lamentation for his vertues and our loss of them transcend expression He died of the Small-pox Aged Twenty years and two months after much Blood-letting and was Interred with a private Funeral in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Orange who came to joy and felicitate her Brothers in their happy Restitution With the King and Monarchy the Ecclesiastical Regiment by Bishops recovered it self by his Majesties Piety and Prudence that Aphorism being most sadly verified No Bishop No King and therefore on the 20 of September Dr. Iuxon Bishop of London that antient and excellent Prelate was by the King translated from that See to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury which was performed with great Solemnity and not long after several new Bishops persons the most eminent and valiant assertors of the Church and Laws of England were Consecrated in the Abby at Westminster and all the Diocesses filled of which together presently in an ensuing Catalogue Divine Vengeance had with a slow foot traced the murtherers of our Martyr'd Soveraign and through several Mazes at last overtook them the iron hand of Justice delivering them to the punishment due to that grand impiety nor was it
at Corn-hil-Conduit on the top of which stood eight Nymphs clad in White each having an Escutcheon in one Hand and a Pendent and Banner in the other On the Tower of the said Conduit a Noise of Seven Trumpets NEar the Exchange in Corn-hill was erected the second Arch which was Naval On the East-side were two Stages Erected on each side of the Street one In that on the South-side was a Person representing the River Thames In the other Stage on the North-side which was made like the upper Deck of a Ship were three Seamen whereof one habited like a Boat-swain A Shield or Table in the Front of the Arch o're this Inscription NEPTUNO BRITANNICO CAROLO II. CUJUS ARBITRIO MARE VEL LIBERUM VEL CLAUSUM The first Painting on the North-side over the City-Arms represented NEPTVNE with his Trident advanced the Inscription NEPTUNO REDUCI On the South-side opposite MARS with his Spear inverted his Sheild charged with a Gorgon by his Knees the Motto MARTI PACIFERO Over the Arch the Marriage of Thame and Isis. The Painting on the North-side over Neptune did Represent the Exchange the Motto GENERALIS LAPSI SARCIRE RUINAS The uppermost great Table in the fore-ground represented King Charles the First with the Prince now Charles the Second in his Hand viewing the Soveraign of the Sea the Prince leaning on a Cannon the Inscription O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat Aequor Et conjurati veniunt ad Classica Venti For thee O Iove's delight the Seas engage And muster'd Winds drawn up in Battle Rage At the Stocks the Entertainment was a Body of Military Musick placed on a Balcony consisting of six Trumpets and three Drums the Fountain there being after the Thâ—scan Order venting Wine and Water In like manner on the top of the great Conduit at the Entrance of Cheapside there was another Fountain out of which issued both Wine and Water as in a Representation of Temperance and on the several Towers of that Conduit were eight Figures habited like Nymphs with Escutcheons in one hand and Pendants or Banners in the other and between each of them Wind-Musick the number eight On the Standard also in Cheap-side there was a Band of Waits placed consisting of six Persons THe third Triumphal Arch stood near Wood-street-end not far from the place where the Cross sometimes stood It Represented an Artificial Building of two Stories one after the Corinthian way of Architecture the other after the Composite Representing the Temple of Concord with this Inscription on a Shield AEDEM CONCORDIAE IN HONOREM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS CUJUS ADVENTU BRITANNIA TERRA MARIQUE PACATA ET PRISCIS LEGIBUS REFORMATA EST AMPLIOREM RESPLENDIDIOREM RESTITUIT SPQL. In the Spandrils of the Arch there were two Figures in Female Habits leaning One representing PEACE the other TRVTH That of Peace had her Shield charged with an Helmet and Bees Issuing forth and going into it the Word PAX BELLO POTIOR Truth on the other side in a thin Habit on her Shield Time bringing Truth out of a Cave the Word TANDEM EMERSIT Over the great Painting upon the Arch of the Cupula was represented a large GERYON with three Heads Crowned in his three right-hands a Lance a Sword and a Scepter in his three left-hands the three Escutcheons of England Scotland and Ireland before him the Kings Arms with three Imperial Crowns beneath in great Letters CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS Here the City Recorder Sir William Wild made a Speech and presented the King with a Purse of Gold On the little Conduit at the lower End of Cheap-side were placed four Figures or Nymphs each of them having an Escutcheon in one hand and a Pendant in the other In a Balcony erected at the Entrance of Pater-noster Row were placed his Majesties Drums and Fiâ—e the number of persons Eight Between that and Ludgaâ—e there were two other Balconies erected In one was placed a Band of six Waits in the other six Drums On the top of Ludgate six Trumpets At Fleet-Bridge a Band of six Waits On Fleet-Conduit were six Figures or Nymphs clad in White each with an Escutcheon in one hand and a Pendant in the other as also a Band of six Waits And on the Lanthorn of the Conduit was the Figure of Temperance mixing Water and Wine IN Fleet-street near White-Friers stood the fourth Triumphant Arch representing the Garden of PLENTY it was of two Stories the one of the Dorick Order the other of the Ionick Their Capitals had not their Just Measure but inclined to the Modern Architecture Upon the great Shield over the Arch in large Capitals this Inscription UBERTATI AUG EXTINCTO BELLI CIVILIS INCENDIO CLUSOQ JANI TEMPLO ARAM CELSIS CONSTRUXIT S. P. Q. L. Over the Postern on the South-side of the Entrance was BACCHUS in a Chariot drawn by Leopards his Mantle a Panther's skin his Crown of Grapes a Thyrsis with Ivy in his left hand a Cup in his right underneath LIBER PATER The Painting over this represented Silenus on his Ass Satyrs dancing round about in Drunken and Antick Postures the Prospect a Vineyard On the North-side opposite Ceres drawn in a Chariot by winged Dragons and Crowned with ears of Corn in her left hand Poppy in her right a Blazing Torch The Painting over her was a description of Harvest with CERES AUG His Majesty having passed the Four Triumphant Arches was at Temple-Bar Entertained with the View of a delightful Boscage full of several Beasts both tame and savage as also several living Figures and Musick of eight Waits But this being the Limit of the Cities Liberty must be so likewise of the Description Thus much for the City now for the Court which in order challenged the first place but 't was best to deal with the biggest first and those Colossus in London were indeed Gigantick and stupendious greatness Come we now to the Knights of the Bath made at this Coronation who appearing at the Court of Requests in Westminster were called over by the Lords Commissioners appointed for that purpose viz. The Dâ—ke of Ormond Steward of the Kings Houshold the Earls of Northumberland Suffolk Lindsey Manchester Their Names were as follows Sir Fiennes Lord Clinton Heir apparent to the Earl of Lincoln Sir Egerton Lord Brackley Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater Sir Philip Herbert second son to the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Sir William Egerton second son to the Earl of Bridgwater Sir Vere Fane second son to the Earl of Westmorland Sir Charles Berkley eldest son to the Lord Berkley Sir Henry Bellasis eldest son to the Lord Bellasis Sir Henry Hide now Viscount Cornbury eldest son to Edward Earl of Clarendon Sir Rowland Bellasis brother to the Lord Viscount Faulconberg Sir Henry Capel brother to the Earl of Essex Sir Iohn Vaughan second son to Richard Earl of Carbery Sir Charles Stanley Grandchild to Iames late Earl of Derby Sir Francis and Sir Henry Fane Grand-children to
the King was met by his Highness the Duke of York five Leagues off the Isle of Wight who commanded him back with him to the Fleet. On Sunday morning about ten a Clock they discovered the Royal Iames but there was so great a Calm that they could not reach the Royal Charles till six at Evening No sooner had the General espied his Highness Yacht but he went out in his Barge to meet him the Royal Banner being all the while vayl'd till he was aboard When his Highness came into the Ship the Souldiers gave three several shouts and all the great Guns in the Royal Charles which from that time to the Queens Entrance had been silent proclaimed his Welcome after which several Ships of the Fleet paid him their Salutes Being conducted to her Majesties Cabbin he was placed in a Chair on her right hand where after several expressions of Joy for her Majesties happy Arrival on the Coast of England and having presented his Majesties high respects to and as exceeding Affection for Her his Royal Highness took his leave to retire himself to his Yacht for that Night and the next morning Sir Ioseph Douglas was again dispatched to the King in the illustrious Company of the said Duke of Ormond and Earls but was forced to Tide it thence and sometimes lay at Anchor and could not reach Portsmouth till the Evening Thirteenth of May from whence Sir Ioseph took Post leaving the Duke of Ormond to make preparation for the Reception of her Majesty That Night the Royal Fleet with the Princely Bride came to St. Helens point the Eastermost Promontory of the Isle of Wight almost opposite to Portsmouth from whence had it not been too bold an adventure to hazard her Majesty in that narrow Streight of Sea and in a Night-Tide they might have reached Portsmouth the next morning but making use of the Day-tide which served about Ten of the Clock on Wednesday the Fourteenth of May the Queen landed at Portsmouth about Four of the Clock in the Afternoon where She was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour the Nobility and Gentry and Multitudes of Londoners in most rich Apparel and in great numbers waiting on the Shore for her Landing and the Major and Aldermen and the Principal Persons of that Corporation being in their Gowns and with a Present and Speech ready to entertain Her the Cannon and small shot both from round that Town and the whole Fleet Ecchoing to one another the loud Proclamations of their Joy The King having received the express of his Queens Landing prepared to be gone forthwith to Salute her upon her Arrival but his great Affairs of State and Bills to be ratified by him into Acts of Parliament which were not quite ready for his Royal Assent delayed him at Whitehall till Monday-night the 19 th of May having sent before him the Bishop of London who departed the Seventeenth in order to the Solemnizing of the Marriage aforesaid Which Bills being numerous and very important when passed into Acts set us right where we were the same time Twenty years designing and enacting Remedies against those Mischiefs which prevailed against the happy Estate of the Kingdome before such as their Act passed in the former Session against Armed or Army-like Multitudes and number of Petitioners which are not to exceed seven or eight and have as far as humane Wisdome can provided against the like dangers of our late Confusions There passed likewise many several private Bills for selling of Lands and alienating them for payment of Debts which gave his Majesty occasion to take notice of the depravity and corruption of manners in the late times and to declare that his goodness in passing them now should not be brought into precedent for the future and he himself would become an example of frugality and would provide sumptuary Laws against the Excess and Vanity of the Age whose looseness and superfluity did so sadly affect him But to return His Majesty having Signed all the Acts which are now so many wholesome and good Laws as no Age of our Fore-fathers can boast of to adorn and Honour his Queens Arrival posted away at Nine a Clock that Night with his ordinary Guards in the Earl of Northumberland's Coach Prince Rupert with him only to Kingston where he came soon after Ten and at the end of that Town entered into the Earl of Chesterfield's there set ready for him and the Duke of York's Guards to attend him and came before Twelve at Night to Guilford being Twenty five miles where he Lodged that Night and next morning Posted with the same speed to Portsmouth where he arrived about Noon and because of the Queens indisposedness which yet held her in her Chamber the King satisfied himself by giving her a Visit privately that day and then withdrew to his own appartments Yet it pleased God to restore her Majesty to such a degree of Health that she was able to Consummate the Marriage Sacred Rites which were performed in that Town in private after which the Nuptials were concluded there by his Majesties Bedding his Queen that night During the rest of the stay Visits were given to the Grandees of Portugal who came over with the Queen by all the English Lords and Ladies and by them again returned until the removal of the Court next week to Winchester thence to Farnham to Windsor-Castle and so to Hampton-Court where their Majesties took up the most part of this Summer 1662. as well for the Salubrity as Majesty of it being one of the most Magnificent Structures of all the Royal Palaces Here the Queen received the Addresses of all the Nobility and Submissions of the several Deputies for the Cities of England more particularly from the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London who by Sir William Wylde their Recorder who pronounced a Spanish Oration presented her with a Purse of Gold Iune 2. On the Twenty third of August she was in great Triumph brought by Water from Hampton-Court to finish her Voyage to Whitehall all the Companies in their Barges nobly set out attending the Lord Mayor at this Solemnity and several Pageants were placed upon the River and Speeches designed All which made a very noble sight illustrated by the rich and glorious setting out of the King's Barge About seven at night their Majesties arrived to that Palace as somewhat before the Queen-Mother being fetch'd and attended by the Earl of Saint Albans arrived at Greenwich where for a while after she resided till her setling at Somerset-House as the abode of her remaining Widdowhood The Parliament of Ireland had likewise agreed upon an Act for raising One hundred and twenty thousand pound in two years by Subsidies In Scotland six Bishops were Consecrated in the Abbey-Church of Holy-Rood-House at Edenburgh with great satisfaction and solemnity where also the King had gratiously Pardoned Lorn the Marquess of Arguile's Son his Life which he had forfeited by judgment
those parts But though De Ruyter carry'd the Flag he did not Command in Chief but under the Triumvirate of De Witt Huygens and Boreel who according to a new Model had now the Superintendencie over the Naval Affairs And now the Bishop of Munster's Drums sound in their Ears almost as terrible as the English Cannon besides that his Army began to grow very numerous This made the States order a Flying-Army to the Frontiers though with small satisfaction to the Inhabitants who daily fled to the Fortifi'd Towns for their Security In the mean while the English Fleet lay in Three Squadrons from Brookness to Hitland and so to Norway which made the Dutch very earnest to put to Sea but one while the Water another time the Wind would not permit it The Earl of Sandwich being thus abroad upon Notice of 50 Hollanders being sheltred in Berghen sent a Squadron of 22 Men of War under the Command of Sir Thomas Tyddeman with Orders to Sail directly for Berghen and there to Attacque and Fire the Hollanders which Enterprize had prov'd very fatal to the Dutch had not the Wind and the Dane himself very much befriended the Dutch and given them liberty to Plant their Guns ashore against the English However they receiv'd very great Loss in the disabling many of the most considerable Ships then in the Harbour But soon after the Earl of Sandwich himself met with a Convoy of the Dutch with several Merchants and some East-India Men in his Company where though the storminess of the Weather did much favour the Dutch yet he took above 8 good Men of War two of their best East-India Ships and 20 Sail of their Merchant-Men Some few daies after some of his Majesties Fleet encountring with 18 sail of Hollanders took the greatest part of them whereof four Dutch Men of War with above a thousand Prisoners Upon the 10 th of October the Parliament met at Christ-Church in Oxford the Schools being fitted for their reception where his Majesty delivered himself to this effect That they might confidently believe that had it not been absolutely necessary to consult with them he would not have called them together when the Contagion had spread it self over so many parts of the Kingdom That he had entred upon the Dutch War by their advice and encouragement and that therefore he desir'd they might receive information of the Conduct and Effects of it to the end be might have the continuance of their chearful supply That it prov'd more chargeable than he could imagine it would have been That the addition which the Dutch made to their Fleets made it unavoidably necessary for him to make a proportional preparation That as the Dutch endeavour'd by false suggestions to make themselves friends so he had not been wanting to encourage those Princes that had been wrong'd by the Dutch to recover their own by force to which end he had assisted the Bishop of Munster with a considerable sum of Money That these were the Reasons that his Supply was upon the matter neer spent However That he made not War for Wars sake but was ready to receive all fair Propositions but that the Dutch were no less Insolent than ever though they had no advantage that he knew of Upon this the Lord-Chancellor Hide enlarged observing from point to point the whole process of Affairs from the time of his Majesties Restauration to this instant That notwithstanding the affronts upon the Royal Family in Holland during the Usurpation His Majesty was pleased to Embark himself in one of their Ports though prest by the two Neighbour-Kings to have taken his passage through their Territories That being returned the King was forc'd to support himself upon Credit till the Armies were disbanded and the Fleet paid off which Debt was heightned by the supplies of his Majesties Stores so exhausted at that time that there was not Arms for 5000 men not Provisions for the setting out ten new ships That his Majesty replenish'd his Stores reduc'd the expence of his Navy providing only a necessary Guard for the Narrow Sâ—as and a Fleet against the Pyrates which had brought them to submission Then he repeated the several Insolencies and unkindenesses committed by the Dutch The King's application to the Parliament The Parliaments humble desires of Redress The States preparations for War And the whole Series of the War and its Success until that time Then reflecting upon the greatness and necessity of the King's disbursments he concluded In answer whereof the House of Commons returned their Thanks to his Majesty for his care and Conduct for the preservation of his People and Honour of the Nation declaring withal that they would assist him with their Lives and Fortunes They returned him also Thanks for his care of his Brother the Duke of York Then they gave the King an additional Supply of 1250000 l. by Monethly Assesment They gave him also a Present of a Moneths Tax to come in the Rear after the expiration of the Monethly Aid which they desired his Majesty would bestow upon his Royal Highness They also passed a Bill of Attainder of certain English Fugitives who had joyned with the Dutch Also a Bill for suppression of Nonconformists which with some other Bills being signed by his Majesty they were Prorogu'd till the 20 th of February following at Westminster On the last of their Sessions the House of Commons considering that they sate in the Convocation-House and remembring the Fidelity and Loyalty of the University Voted that the Thanks of the House should be given to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars for their eminent Loyalty to his Majesty and his Father of blessed Memory during the Rebellion particularly for refusing to be visited by the Usurped powers and to subscribe the Solemn League and Covenant and for these Excellent Reasons they publish'd to the World to justifie his Majesties Cause Mr. L. Hide Sir Heneage Finch Sir Iohn Birkenhead and Colonel Strangways were ordered to present these their Thanks to the University which was accordingly done in a full Convocation within the same Walls where the Vote past After this Sir Heneage Finch and Colonel Strangways were made Doctors of Laws by Dr. Ienkins Principal of Iesus Colledge Mr. Hide and Sir Iohn Berkenhead having received their respective Degrees before Soon after the Duke of Ormond Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was remanded back into that Kingdom where in a short time he arrived at Dublin and was received into the City with great splendor and Magnificence This Moneth the several Courts of Justice sate in the Schools at Oxford being Michaelmas-Term where Sir Iohn Keeling was made Lord Chief-Jusâ—ice of the King's-Bench and Sir William Morton one of the Judges of the same Court in the place of Sir Wadham Windham deceased The next Term being Hillary was from thence adjourn'd to Windsor and from thence to Westminster where they sate February the ninth But
going and returning Sir Iohn dismiss'd them with promise of a speedy answer and upon consultation with the Earl of Bath it was agreed that Sir Ionathan Trelawney Major Sparks and Mr. Windham should go aboard At their approach De Ruyter met them at the Boat-side and inviting them aboard saluted them with 13 Guns excusing what had past and promising for the future that no other acts of that nature should be committed while he continu'd on the Coast. De Wit Doleman the Count de Horne with above 20 Captains more attended the English at the Great Cabin where they offer'd a Present to De Ruyter for his own Table but refus'd any greater supply till Peace should be Proclaim'd Accordingly upon their return the Earl of Bath sent the Admiral a Present of fresh Provisions with a fat Buck and some Fruit which De Ruyter receiv'd with seven Guns as an acknowledgement Notwithstanding De Ruyter's Complement after he parted from Plymouth two of the Dutch Fleet came before the Harbour of Hoy and advancing near the Shoar ply'd with their Broad-sides certain Works that were newly rais'd at the entrie of the Harbour but after an hour and an half they were forc'd to retire with several Shots receiv'd in their Hulls and the loss of one of their Top-Masts and several men without any loss to the English After this they were only seen to hover about the Coasts but without any farther Attempts and Peace ensu'd For about the beginning of Iune the Embassadours of England France and Sweden the Plenipotentiaries of the States and Denmark repair'd to the Castle belonging to the Prince of Orange where there was great care taken to avoid all contests about Precedency A while after Mr. Coventry one of the Embassadors being sent over into England and having receiv'd the King's Answer and Resolution touching the Articles discuss'd and agree'd to by the Plenipotentiaries return'd for Breda so that upon the Twenty first of Iune the Articles were sign'd by the Plenipotentiaries And upon the Fourteenth of August the Ratifications of the Peace were enterchang'd The Mediators first bringing in the Ratifications and other Instruments of the Dutch French and Danes into the English Embassadors Apartment receiv'd from them theirs in Exchange Which done the English Embassadors went into the Apartment of the Dutch and their Allies where they made and receiv'd the Compliments usual upon the Conclusion of so great an Affair The Peace was immediately Proclaim'd before the Doors of the several Plenipotentiaries in their respective Languages Afterwards upon the Twenty fourth of August it was publickly Proclaim'd in the City of London And as if this had not been enough it was afterwards confirm'd by an Additional Treaty made and concluded by Sir William Temple in Ianuary following Having thus pursu'd the Series of the Dutch War and Peace other intervening actions must not be omitted It was murmur'd that the Publick Treasure was wasted and miss-spent the King therefore to satisfie the People Issued out a Commission to several Members of both Houses to take an Accompt of such sums of Money as had been rais'd and assign'd to him during the present War being in all 2477500 l. granted at several times by several Acts with full Power to call to Accompt all Treasurers Pay-masters Receivers and all other Agents and Persons whatsoever And what had not been lately practis'd before by the King this Year the Feast of St. George was kept in his Palace of White-Hall The Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England being now lately Dead the King did not think fit to give the Place to any particular Person for the present but made the Duke of Albemarle the Lord Ashley Sir Thomas Clifford Sir William Coventry and Sir Iohn Duncomb by a Commission under the Great Seal his Commissioners for executing that Office The Parliament had met according to the Kings Proclamation in Iuly but were then Prorogu'd again till the Tenth of October at which time being again Assembled the King gave for one reason of his last Prorogation That it was to give himself time to do some things in the mean time which he hop'd would not be unwelcome to them which he had since done leaving his other Reasons to be deliver'd by the Lord Keeper who not only afterwards enlarg'd upon the King's Reasons for the said Prorogation but also recommended to them the Obstructions of Trade and the settlement of such a Ballance of Trade between England and Scotland that neither we should be prejudic'd by the Import of their Commodities here nor they put to seek new places of Vent abroad As to the Money rais'd for the War he told them what the King had done in reference to calling all Persons to Account and had committed the Examination thereof to themselves to follow their own Method adding withal that if any grievances had happen'd his Majesty would be as willing to have them Redress'd as they to have them Represented not doubting but that they would endeavour to Imprint the known Truth into his Subject hearts that there was no distinct Interest between the King and his People The Commons taking into Consideration the King's Speech resolv'd to return him their humble Thanks to which purpose having obtain'd the Concurrence of the Lords the Two Houses in a Body attended the King in the Banqueting-House where the Lord Keeper in the Name of the Two Houses made known to the King That they His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects having taken into their serious Consideration the Speech wherein he was pleas'd to let them know the reasons of their last Prorogation which was to give himself time to do some things which would not be unwelcome to them but be a Foundation of a greater Confidence for the Future between the King and them They found themselves in duty bound to give him thanks and particularly for that he had Disbanded the New-rais'd Forces that he had dismist the Papists from his Guards and other Military Imployments for his Care in quickning the Execution of the Act restraining the Importation of Canary That He had seen the Canary Patent Vacated And Lastly for his displacing the Lord Chancellor But the Parliament having Sate till the Middle of December pass'd several Acts among the rest An Act for taking an account of the several Sums of Money therein mention'd An Act for Banishing and Disenabling the Earl of Clarenden to which when the King had given his Consent by Commission they Adjourn'd till February And because it was a general Complaint among the Seamen and Souldiers who had been in Service that they were frequently constrain'd to give money or lose some part of their Wages to recover the rest the King therefore for the more effectual Redress of such abuses if any were appointed the Duke of York and several of the Lords of the Council to receive and hear all such Complaints as any Sea-man or Souldier should
Sir William Brereton now commanded in chief as Major-General of those Counties who civilly courted the Lord Byron the Governour to a Surrender laying before him the impossibility of any Army of Forces that could be advanced that way for that the King was beset in all his Garrisons either by close or open Sieges which at last the Noble Lord hearkned unto and upon very honourable Conditions Surrendred it by Articles the 3 of February And thence Sir William went to besiege Litchfield-close which not long after he gayned by the same way of Treaty as will appear in its due place Several other places of lesser concernment without much parley surrendred likewise suspected of bribery or such-like practises which were finely palliated by the necessity that compelled the greater to their rendition The House now upon discharging the Wardship of the heirs male of Sir Christopher Wray a Member of the said House take an occasion to Vote down the Court of Wards and Liveries All the Kings strength in the field except that Army that was pen'd up in Cornwal was now collected under the Command of the Lord Ashley who was marching to joyn his Infantry with the Kings remains of his Cavalry about Farringdon whereabouts Colonel Rainsborough and Fleetwood kept their Post having an eye upon that design of conjunction and Colonel Morgan and Sir William Brereton pursued him in the Rear from Hereford and Worcestershire At Stow in the Would they overtook and set upon him wearied in his Quarters but his men were yet not willing to resigne their swords till after a fair dispute they were over-powred 1500 taken Prisoners with himself and all his Baggage and Ammunition This was the last battel that was fought hac vice for the King in England and which put a period to any further attempts in the field the Royalists being forced to take up in their strong Holds or submit to the Parliament and endeavour a Composition which was the main work but too hastily entred upon as their own sad experience soon informed them And just before this the 14 of March the Lord Hopton accepted of Terms for the disbanding of his Army which was in this manner After this worsting at Torrington and marching back into Cornwal General Fairfax followed him within two days to Launceston where Colonel Basset with 500 men at first made opposition but was compelled to abandon it as likewise Saltash was quitted and Mount Edgecomb offered a Treaty and not far from thence Sir Iames Smith with a strong party fell upon some of the Van of their Army with good success but having notice of Cromwels approach timely withdrew and gave them liberty to possess Bodmin while the Lord Hopton made his head-Quarters at Truro from whence the Prince embarqued and set Sail for the Island of Scilly with the Lord Culpeper and others which occasioned General Fairfax to complement the Lord Hopton to a disbanding as reckoning them by the Princes forsaking them as good as lost Among other terms offered him this to his particular self as being honour from the mouth of an enemy is requisite to be inserted Lastly for your self besides what is imployed to you in common with others you may be assured of such Meditation to the Parliament on your behalf both from my self and others as for one whom for personal worth and many vertues but especially for your care of and moderation towards the Country we honour and esteem above any other of your party whose error supposing you more swayed with principles of Honour and Conscience we most pity and whose happiness so far as is consistant with the publique welfare we should delight in more than in your least suffering In the mean while the Army advanced and neer St. Columbe beat up the Quarters of the Princes Regiment who made a gallant Charge through the enemy and broke their first divisions but fresh supplies coming they drew off in order leaving behind them Major-General Pert a gallant person mortally wounded a Prisoner but so rebated the edge of the enemies courage that they halted a while and part of the Army drew back to Bodmin more resolved for Treaty than Conquest To which place came the Lord Hopton's answer wherein he pretended his understanding of a likelyhood of agreement between the King his Master and the Parliament which he said without any other Treaty would conclude him and desired to be referred thereto but Fairfax urging this Overture to his advantage would allow of no such delays but his Terms he offered being honourable was all he could grant acquainting his Lordship that there was no such probability of Accommodation and indeed his Lordship was greatly mistaken for there was never any such intention before nor after and delays were dangerous in respect of assistance both from the French and Irish which had been promised to be landed for the Kings service in that County Hereupon the Army also advancing a Treaty was concluded on at Tresilian-bridge and a Cessation agreed to and the General thereupon though with much reluctancy of the Lord Hopton made Truro his Head-quarters so that now the Kings Forces had but six miles in bredth being as it were pounded up as Essex before The conclusion of the Treaty was followed by the rendition of St. Mawes Castle The number of the disbanded was nine Brigades the French consisting of three Regiments the Lord Wentworth's of four Sir Iames Smith's of three the Lord Cleveland's of four Major-General Web's of three the Lord Hopton's commanded by Colonel Bevil the Lord Goring's of five and the Princes Regiment consisting of seven hundred and Sir Richard Greenvil's Reformadoes The Conditions were That they should march away with Horse and Arms in number according to their respective qualities more or less as they should chuse to go abroad to Foreign Service or with Passes to go home each Colonel with eight or six horses six or two pair of Pistols and so other inferior Officers respectively the common Troopers to have twenty shillings a man for their Horses which upon ratifying the Agreement being noised many of the Royalists sold their horses before-hand and got spittle-Jades in their stead which upon their disbanding were turned upon their hand The Lord Hopton was allowed fourty Horse and Arms for himself and twelve men the Lord Wentworth twenty five Horse and Arms for himself and eight men These were the most material and in six days performed All the French were presently shipped for their Country by provision made by the General at Plymouth whither he went accompanied by Lieutenant-General Cromwel being welcomed by the discharge of 300 Pieces of Ordnance while the Army retreated back into Devon-shire to make an end of the Siege of Exceter where Sir Hardress Waller had continued during this Cornish Expedition and the Lords Hopton and Wentworth not deigning the Jurisdiction or indeed any favour from their fellow-subjects at Westminster
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surrounded by Waller Round-way Down fight Lord Hopton reâ—â—â—ed by Pr. Maurice Earl of Carnarvan Lord Wilmot and Lord Biron They roâ—t Waller and Hazlerig who fled to Bristol thence to Farnham and so to London The King and Queen at Oxford The young E. of Lindsey at Oxford Bristol delivered to Prince Rupert Dorchester Portland Weymouth and Melcomb submit Bidiford Appleford and Barnstable surrendred Exeter delivered to Prince Maurice Sir John Berkly Governour thereof Adderton-Heath fight Fairfax routed Bradford taken Hallifax quitted Sir H. Cholmley takes Beverley Lady Aubigney brings a Commission of Array to London The designe discovered Mr. Edward Waller fined 10000 pounds Some Lords others suspected Tompkins Chaloner executed Iudge Berkley fined voted incapable of any publike trust and a Prisoner during pleasure The King resolves to gain Glocester The Kings Gratious Summons to the said City Their equivocal Answer Col. Massey the Governour fired the Suburbs and forceth Prince Rupert to retreat The King undermines Glocester The Parliament raise the Trained Bands Waller constituted Major-Gen of Kent Essex Surrey and Hamp-shire Essex Renâ—â—vouzed on Hounsloe-heath lodged at Colebrook P. Rupert with a party of Horse iâ—deavours to impede his march Tâ—e fight in Stow of the Would Gen. Essex at Presbury-hills the siege of Glocester deserted Gen. Essex at Cheltenham Solemn thanks for the dâ—livery of Glocester bâ—th there and at London The King neer Wilt-shire Essex reâ—â—â—ves Tewskbury Glocester 〈…〉 Sir N. Crisp and Col. Spencer and takes Cyreâ—cester Auborn-chase fâ—â—t The Parliamentarians worsâ—ed Marq. De Vieu ville slain Essex marcheth from Hungerford to Newberry Newberry fight Col. Barcley and Col. Holborn charge P. Rupert E. of Carnarvan slain Prince Rupert worsted The Kings Infantry led by Lord Ruthen Earl of Brentford Major-General Skippon principal Commander of the Foot under Essex Both Armies divided by the night Col. Tucker on the Parl. side slain On the K. side the E. of Sunderland and Lord Viscount Faulkland Essex at â—eading 〈…〉 A dâ—â—l between Sir Nicholas Crispe and Sir James Enyon Sir James Enyon kill'd Sir Nicholas Crispe â—ryeâ— by a Council of War and acquitted He kisseth the Kingshand and is pardoned Doctor Featley committed to prison for opposing the Covenant He is received at London in Triumph The King at Oxford The K. committeth Ma. Hamilton to Pendennis Castle A Cessation for a year in Ireland Col. Monk surprized at Nantwich and imprisoned in the Tower of London Mar. of Newcastle sends Forces to the Queen divers places submit to them Hallifax quitted by Fairfax Manchester sent against the Royalists Lyn yeilds to him He Marcheth to assist the L. Willoughby of Parham L. Willohgby surprizeth the Earl of Kingston Col. Cavendish slain Horn-castle fight The E. of Newcastle â—orsted Sir Ingram Hopton and Sir George Bowls slain Manchester besiegeth Lincoln Lincoln City and Minster stormed and taken Sir Iohn Meldrum possesseth Gainsborough Ld. Willoughby possesseth Bullingbrook Castle The King sends Sir Lewis Dives into the Associated Counties He takes Sir Iohn Norris Affrights Hartford-shire and Bedfordshire and returns Sir Lewis Dives Sir Rob. Heath Iustice Forster Sir John Banks and Serjeant Glanvile voted Traytors The Kentish Insurrection in behalf of the K. Lord Hopton marcheth into Kent Essex and Waller recruited Col. Fiennes condemned for Cowardize Essex possesseth it Newport-pagnal abandoned Walter apprinted to attend Hopton Isle of Jersey delivered to Sir John Pennington The French Ambassador splendidly received at Oxford Sir John Hothams revolt and seizure He and his Son sent Prisoners to the Tower Mr. Pym dyes A new great Seal The King declares it treason sends a Messenger to adjourn the Term He is condemned for a spy and hanged The Parliament at Oxford The Scots enter England Divers places surrendred on both sides Prince Rupert relieves Newark and overcomes Sir John Meldrum Brandon or Cheriton-down fight between Sir Wil. Waller and the Lord Hopton March 29. The Kings party worsted Lord Hopton draws off to Winchester from thence to Oxford John L. Stuart Sir John Smith Col. Sandys Col. Scot and Col. Manning slain The Dutch Ambassador at Oxford Sir Charles Blunt slain Essex and Waller joyn Queen goes to Exeter Abbington plundered and Garrison'd Col. Brown Governor thereof The K. marcheth to Worcester The Parl. divide their Forces Waller sent a King-catching and Essex into the West Prince Rupert sent to York Corpredy fight Waller sets upon the K. is gallantry received by the Earls of Cleaveland Northampton and put to flight The Princess Henrietta born at Exeter the Queen goes to France The E. of Essex defeated at Lestithiel Marq. of Newcastle Besieged in York by the E. of Manchester Lord Fairfax and Lesly Prince Rupert raiseth the Siege of Latham house takes divers places The Siege of York raâ—â—d Marston-Moor fight Prince Rupert commands the Main Battel Marq. of Newcastle one Wing General Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Major-General Porter several parties The Parliaments Horse Scotch Cavalry routed The Victory dubious in other parts where the E. of Manchesters Horse engaged Cromwel his Lieut. Gen. a most indefatigable Souldier Sir Tho. Barker Sir John Pettus Capt. Allen c. imprisoned An account of Oliver Cromwels life Born of an ancient Family at Huntington Married to Elizabeth the Niece of Sir Rob. Steward who settled on him an Estate after he had consumed his Patrimony and intended for New-England Sir Robert Steward declares O. C. his Heir Cromwel gets into favour with the Faction they procure him to wife Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir James Bòwcher and choose him Burgess for Cambridge The Marq. of Newcastle defeated His Lambs excellent Souldiers They are overpowred and destroyed P. Rupert fled to Thursk c. The Parl. Generals march to the Siege at York from whence they rose to fight The loss of men so great on both sides that the Inhabitants were poysoned with the smell of the Dead bodies Marq. Newcastle L. Widrington Gen. King Sir Wil. Vavasor and others pass over to Hamburgh Slain on the K. side the L. Cary and Sir Tho. Metham On the Parl. side the Lord Diddup York yielded by Sir Thomas Glenham The Parliament raise new Lâ—vies A strange Tax laid upon London Easingâ—house besieged by Sir Wil. Waller And relieved by Col. Gage and Col. Sir G. Buncley The besiegers at Last depart The siege of Dennington-Castle The summons by Col. Middleton The Answer from Sir John Boys the Governour The besiegers assault the Castle come off with loss and depart They are met by Sir Francis Dorrington Sir W. Courtney and worsted They afterwards rout a party of the K. Horse neer Sherburn Dennington-castle again Summoned by Col. Horton Manchester comes to his assistance They batter the Castle but in vain they depart The defacing of Churches in City and Country Sir R. Harloe a forward zealot The King sends a Message for peace An Association of Club-men Banbury Siege raised The Earl of Northampton and Col. Gage the Governour of
and gave the Fairfaxians entrance where the Foot first entred and then the Horse who there joyntly charged the enemy drawn up in the Town the Lord Hopton commanding the Rear to make their retreat good in which action he had his Horse shot dead under him Here the Parliament-foot were forced back again to the Barricadoes where Colonel Hammond opposed himself and by the assistance and timely supply of Major Stephens beat Horse and Foot into the Town again from whence the Foot marched away but the Horse made several stands and charged in at several Avenues of the Town and at the Barricadoes which themselves had deserted In fine all their Horse marched over a Bridge and at several other passes of the River and so Westward the Parliamentarians not adventuring to pursue them but contented themselves with those Prisoners whom they took in the Town being disordered and divided from their Body by the darkness of the night who being put into the Church where the Lord Hoptons Magazine of 80 Barrels of Powder was kept and there guarded by some of the Parliaments Forces the said Powder either casually or by design was fired the Church blown into the Air those Prisoners and the Guard killed and the whole Army all over the Town endangered by the stones timber and lead which with the blast were-carried up very high and scattered throughout and beyond the Town so that neer as much mischeif was done by this Powder as by the Powder and Bullet together in the Fight scarce a stone being left standing of the Church which since is raised from its ruines The Royalists fought resolutely here the Cornish not forgetting the reputation they had formerly got during the War For here were not taken in all above 400 Prisoners the chief whereof were Lieutenant-Colonel Wood eight Captains Commissary Boney six Lieutenants one Cornet three Ensignes one Chyrurgion four Serjeants fifty two Troopers one hundred twenty seven Gentlemen and about 150 common Souldiers and six Colours The slain were Major Threave and Captain Fry the Lords Hopton and Capel wounded and the Lord Hopton's Commission to be General under the Prince and 500 pounds in money left in Portmantles came also to the hands of the Victors The Lord Hopton after this Encounter made back into Cornwal where he rendezvouzed his Army again whither the Princes Regiment of eight hundred Horse and some other additional Cavalry of the County not before joyned with them came in and so made up a new entire Body of five thousand Horse able to give Battel again to their enemy on convenient Champion ground or at least in such a condition as to make their own terms And the policy of the Lord Hopton was as eminent as his valour in the late service having thereby given a fair earnest for a Victory and made them consider of his Forces if reduced to a necessity of fighting as of couragious brave spirits to whom Fortune could not but be obliged to a favourable aspect and her least inconstancy would undo the Fairfaxians We will now draw off from those main Bodies this whole Winter in the field and return to the Garrisons who thick and threefold rendred themselves to the Parliament We will begin with Shelford-house where Colonel Stanhop akin to the Earl of Chesterfield was Governour which after Summons refused was stormed by Major-General Poyntz who put all to the Sword they met with some Gentlemen getting within a Seiling till the fury was over found quarter the Governour himself was killed in the defence after the House was entred and the House demolished On the 4 of December the magnanimous Countess of Derby who had endured a Siege off and on for two years last past rendred Latham-house to the Parliament upon very fair terms the Governour Officers and Souldiers to march out either to the Garrison of Tidbury or Ashby de la zouch In this Siege I may not omit one Military neat Stratagem The besiegers at dinner-time were jearing the Garrison with Shoulders of mutton and fresh-meat they shewed them whereupon a Captain sallied out took both the guests and the provision and two Colours and brought them into the House Whereupon the Assaylants took the Alarm both great and small Guns playing on both sides This continuing for a while the Captain caused the Colours he had taken to be set on the Works backward from the Post where he had surprized them which they of that quarter seeing and imagining their men on the other side had entred the House and erected their Ensigns they fell on without fear or wit and were presently cut down in heaps and beaten to their Trenches Bolton-Castle and Beeston-Castle in Lancashire were likewise delivered to the Parliament and Hereford-City surprized by another Stratagem the manner thus The Garrison was strong and well appointed the inlet also for the Kings Welch Forces and therefore much aimed at and to that purpose intelligence had been held by some within from Colonel Birch and Colonel Morgan Governour of Gloucester but their greedy and impatient desire of the present possession abrupted all those practices and put them upon an honester and safer way With 2000 Horse and Foot they came from Gloucester in one day and night where they had provided six men in Country-habits with a seventh like a Constable in pursuance of Warrants directed the day before to the adjacent Villages for some Labourers to be sent in to break the Ice in the Trenches and such other work by morning to present themselves at the Gates and as seconds to them were placed 150 Firelocks which in the covert of the night were lodged as neer as possible out of discovery and next them a Body of men ready at hand to succeed in the attempt and enter with them Accordingly the stratagem took effect the Draw-bridge was let down to the Constable and his crew with their Pickaxes and Spades which they no sooner possessed but the Guard began to suspect and make some resistance but the Reserves powring in upon them after three of them were killed the Town was entred first by Colonel Birch and his Firelocks and then by Morgan The Garrison amazed presently submitted and yeilded themselves Prisoners the chief whereof were the Lord Brudenel fourteen Knights Judge Ienkins of whom more hereafter four Lieutenant-Colonels five Captains Officers and Gentlemen neer a hundred more besides eleven Pieces of Ordnance mounted with Provision sutable to the strength and quality of the place This loss was very much regretted by the Royalists who now perceived that Fortunes right and left hand Valour and Policy were lifted up against them The next place of importance which followed the fate of the Kings declination was the City of Chester which had been long besieged and thrice attempted to be relieved and still rendred worse by the loss and slaughter of their friends that came to its rescue as we have said before