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
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
Kt. created Baronet Iuly 23. Thomas Sclator in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Iuly 25. Henry Câ—â—way in Com. Flint Esq. created Baronet Iuly 25. Edward Green in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 26. Iohn Stapley in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Iuly 28. Metcalf Robinson in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Iuly 30. William Dudley in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet August 1. Hugh Smithson in Com. York Esq. created Baronet August 2. Sir Roger Mostyn in Com. Flint Kt. created Baronet August 3. Sir William Willoughby in Com. Nottingham Kt. created Baronet August 4. Anthony Oldfield in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Aug. 6. Peter Leicester in Com. Chester Esq. created Baronet Aug. 10. Sir Willam Wheeler of the City of Westminster Kt. creaâ—â—d Baronet Aug. 11. Thomas Lee in Com. Bucks Esq. created Baronet August 16. Iohn Newton in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Aug. 16. Thomas Smith in Com. Chester Esq. created Baronet Aug. 16. Sir Ralph Ashton in Com. Lancaster Kt. created Baronet Aug. 17. Iâ—hn Rous in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet Aug. 17. Henry Massingbeard in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Aug. 22. Iohn Hales in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Aug. 28. Ralph Bovey in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Aug. 30. Iohn Knightly in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Aug. 30. Sir Iohn Drake in Com. Devon Kt. created Baronet Aug. 30. Sir Oliver St. George in Com. Letrim in Ireland created Baronet Sep. 5. Sir Iohn Cowyâ—r in Com. Stafford Kt. created Baronet Sept. 11. Sir William Wilde Kt. Recorder of London created Baronet Sept. 13. Ioseph Ash in Com. Middlesex Esq. created Baronet Sept. 19. Iohn How in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Sept. 22. Iohn S. â—â—burn in Com. Northumberland Esq. created Baronet Sept. 26. Iohn Trot in Com. Southampton Esq. created Barone Octob. 11. Humphrey Miller in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Octob. 15. Sir Iohn Lewis in Com. York Kt. created Baronet Octob. 16. Iohn Beal in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Octob. 6. Sir Richard Frankline in Com. Hartford Kt. created Baronet October 26. William Russel in Com. Carmarthen Esq. created Baronet November 8. William Barkhouse Esq. Grand-childe of Rowland Barkhouse of the City of London created Baronet Nov. 8. Thomas Boothby in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Nov. 9. Sir Iohn Cutler of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Nov. 9. Giles Mottel of Leige Esq. created Baronet Nov. 16. Henry Gifford in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Nov. 21. Sir Thomas Foot of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Nov. 21. Thomas Manwaring in Com. Palatinate of Chester Esq. created Baronet November 21. Thomas Bennet in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Nov. 22. Iohn Wroth in Com. Kent Esq. created Baronet Nov. 29. George Winn in Com. York Esq. created Baronet December 3. Humphrey Monoux in Com. Bedford Esq. created Baronet Decem. 4. William Gardiner of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Dec. 4. Heneage Fetherston in Com. Hartford Esq. created Baronet Dec. 5. Iohn Peynton in Com. Cambridge Esq. created Baronet Dec. 10. Iohn Fagge in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Dec. 11. Edmund Anderson in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Dec. 12. Matthew Herbert in Com. Salop Esq. created Baronet Dec. 18. Edward Ward in Com. Norfolk Esq. created Baronet Dec. 18. George Marwood in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 21. Ralph Ashton in Com. Northampton Esq. created Baronet Dec. 21. William Killigrew in Com. Cornwal Esq. created Baronet entailed upon the Heirs-Males of his Body for ever and for default of such Issue to Peter Killigrew Son of Sir Peter Killigrew Kt. and the Heirs-Males of his Body for ever by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster December 22. Iohn Keyt in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Dec. 22. Iohn Buck in Com. Lincoln Esq. created Baronet Dec. 22. William Frankland in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 24. Richard Stydalph in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Dec. 24. William Iuxon in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Dec. 28. Iohn Leggard in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 29. Iohn Iackson in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Dec. 31. Sir Henry Pickering in Com. Cambridge Kt. created Baronet Ianuary 2. Henry Bedingfield in Com. Norfolke Esq. created Baronet Ian. 2. Walter Plomer of Inner Temple in London Esq. created Baronet Ian. 4. Herbert Springet in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet Ian. 8. William Powel in Com. Hereford Esq. created Baronet Ian. 23. Robert Newton of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Ian. 23. Nicholas Soughton in Com. Surrey Esq. created Baronet Ian. 29. William Rokeby in Com. York Esq. created Baronet Ian. 29. Baronets made in the 13th year of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second Walter Earnly of New Sarum in the County of Wilts Esq. created Baronet the 2d of February 13. Carol. 2. 1660. Iohn Husbands in Com. Warwick Esq. created Baronet Feb. 2. Thomas Morgan in Com. Moumouth Esq. created Baronet Feb. 7. Iohn Lane in Com. Roscommon in the Kingd of Ireland created Baronet Feb. 9. George Wakefren in Com. Gloucester Esq. created Baronet Feb. 13. Benjamin Wright in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet Feb. 15. Iohn Colleton of the City of London Esq. created Baronet Feb. 18. Sir Iames Modiford of the City of London Kt. created Baronet Feb. 18. Thomas Beaumont in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet Feb. 21. Edward Smith in Com. Durham Esq. created Baronet Feb. 23. Iohn Napier alias Napier alias Sands Esq. created Baronet March 4. Thomas Gifford in Com. Meath in the Province of Lemster in the Kingdom of Ireland Esq. created Baronet March 4. Thomas Clifton in Com. Lancaster Esq. created Baronet March 4. William Wilson in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet March 4. Compton Reed in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet March 4. Sir Brian Broughton in Com. Stafford Kt. created Baronet Mar. 10. Robert Slingsby in Com. Hertford Esq. created Baronet March 16. Sir Ralph Verney in Com. Bucks Kt. created Baronet March 16. Iohn Crofts in Com. Suffolk Esq. created Baronet March 16. Robert Dicer in Com. Hereford Esq. created Baronet March 18. Sir Iohn Bromfield in Com. Surrey Kt. created Baronet March 20. Thomas Rich in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet March 20. Edward Smith in Com. Leicester Esq. created Baronet March 25. Walter Long in Com. Wilts Esq. created Baronet March 26. Iohn Fettiplace in Com. Berks Esq. created Baronet April 8. Walter Henly in Com. Sussex Esq. created Baronet April 8. William Parsons in Com. Bucks Esq. created Baronet April 9. Iohn Cambel in Com. Essex Esq. created Baronet April 9. Sir Charles Gawdy in Com. Suffolk Kt. created Baronet April 20. William Morice in Com. Devon Esq. created Baronet April 20. Sir William Cayly in Com. York Kt. created Baronet April 20. Sir Charles Doyly of the City of London Kt. created Baronet April 26. William Godolphin in Com. Cornwal Esq. created Baronet April 29. Thomas Câ—rson in Com. Oxford Esq. created Baronet April 30.
had faced Petworth and entred Midhurst and at last was clapt down before Aundel-castle the extremest parts of Sussex whose shore before we leave we must conjoyn a short account of the Isle of Iersey which by Sir Peter Osburn was now delivered to Sir Iohn Pennington still Vice-Admiral for the King in the narrow Seas in exchange of which good fortune the Garrison of Pool had received a very great success in an Expedition into the Country and the Earl of Warwick had joyned at Warcham with Col. Earl upon a designe against Câ—rf-castle but that succeeded not Monsieur le Prince de Harcourt came hither a while before as Ambassador Extraordinary to offer the French Kings interposition and arbitrement of the differences between King and Parliament and was convoyed and splendidly received at Oxford but his Coach and Pacquet searched as he passed the London-Fortifications which he highly complained of to the Parliament who to evade his Peace-making errand would not own him as an Ambassador Extraordinary He was followed upon the same account to Oxford whence he went and came twice with a Duch Ambassador but all to no purpose For the Parliament had now two fresh Armies asoot raised by the City and a third the Scots now upon their march though a little before they earnestly beâ—ought an Accommodation It is time here to remember other memorable things which happened a little before the first was that of the two Hothams Sir Iohn and his Son these persons eminent more especially the Father for adherence to the Parliament having first of all men denied the King admittance into his Towns and Magazines by putting themselves into Hull and keeping it by vertue of a power from the Lords and Commons now either touched in conscience for the unlawfulness and the undutifulness of that action or else not so highly regarded and considered as that important and leading piece of service might justly challenge from the Parliament the Queen being also newly arrived in those parts who probably might have dealt with Sir Iohn in the matter he began to falter from that firmness he had professed for the Parliament which being guessed at by some strict observers of him he not being reserved enough in a thing of that consequence a party was made against him in his own Garrison and he too late endeavouring to have secured Hull for the King was in the bustle knockt down in the streets secured with his Son and both sent up prisoners to the Tower whence not long after they were brought to tryal and execution At the same time also returned Sir Hugh Cholmly a Member likewise of the House of Commons and who had secured Scarborough for them which as before was afterwards put into the Kings hands by Brown Bushel The other thing remarkable was the death of Mr. Iohn Pym the great stickler against the King and his Prerogative the Speech-maker of the House of Commons that could wiredraw money with every word he uttered to the City He died when the Kingdom was in a flame which he had chiefly blown up not likely to be extinguished Nothing is reported of his end certainly and though there was a fable of his body being full of Lice sure we may be it was full of worms afterward and let judgment be left to God whether he engaged in the Times and Quarrel out of a misguided or a reclaiming Conscience Insert we here also as matters of State not War that upon the carrying the Great Seal to Oxford by the Lord Keeper Littleton a new great Seal was made by the Parliament which the King declared to be treasonable and soon after sent a Messenger to London one Daniel Kniveton to forbid the holding of the Term by any colour of the said Seal and did therewith adjourn the said Term but the Parliament were so far from giving heed to that Message of the Kings which was according to his duty delivered to the Judges in Westminster hall by the said Kniveton that by a Council of War held at Essex-House they sentenced him to be hanged for a Spy which was accordingly executed upon him at the old Exchange London on 27 November Add we also that in February the King convened the Members of both Houses who had deserted them at Westminster as a Parliament in Oxford They met in the Schools accordingly and proceeded to several Consultations but within a year totally disappeared To conclude this year with Military affairs in Ianuary the Scotch Forces according to compact entred England with a well-accomplisht Army and in February cross'd Tine And to sum up the rendition of places on both sides take this account Scarborough Brimingham Litchfield Howley-house Burton upon Trent Bradford Hallifax Bristol Gainsborough Dorchester Portland Weymouth Melcomb Beverly Bidiford Appleford Barnstable Exeter Dartmouth Howarden-Castle Arundel-Castle taken by the Lord Hopton Beeston-Castle Lapley-House Crew-House Hopton-Castle Warder-Castle regained Sturton-Castle and Newark relieved for the King where Prince Rupert gained a compleat victory against Sir Iohn Meldrum who commanded there with 7000 men against the Town The Parliamentarians were beaten from their entrenchments into a House called the Spittle or Exeter-House where they came to a surrender upon capitulation leaving their Arms and Bag and Bagage behind them and a thousand men slain on their side Reading Wardour-Castle Monmouth Taunton and Bridge-Water Tamworth-Castle Burley-House Glocester relieved Lyn yeilded to the Earl of Manchester Grafton-House and Arundel-House taken by Sir William Waller again being again recruited with a fresh Army and a new Commission given him to be a Major-General of the four Counties of Kent Surry Sussex and Hamp-shire which leads this Chronicle next to some remarkable actions of his which were much in expectation in the ensuing year Anno Dom. 1644. SIr William Waller after his reducement of Arundel-Castle Marched to find out the Lord Hopton to cry quits with him for his defeat at Roundway-Down Both Armies were near one another a good space for his Lordship hovered about Winchester and those parts and at Brandon-Heath near Alsford was drawn up having a little before in his intended March to the relief of Arundel beaten Colonel Norton into Chichester who endeavoured to impede him and stood ready to receive Sir William who had taken the advantage of a Hill from which the Royalists with fury beat him and drove him to another where under the shelter of some Bushes and Trees he so galled the Kings Horse that they were forced in some disorder to retreat to their Foot There was a hollow betwixt both bodies which each endeavouring to gain many men found it for their Graves on both sides The Lord Hopton therefore seeing the slaughter that was made and likely to continue upon his men timely drew off his Artillery and Cannon towards Winchester and then wheeling about Marched for Basing and so presently to Oxford In this fight was killed on the Kings
finde good security and other Royalists were imprisoned and got cleaverly away and in March arrived at Rotterdam in Holland where on the New-bridge he accidently met with Colonel Massey who claiming knowledge of him from Lidbury-fighâ— where they more unhappily encountred each other his Lorâ—ship was civilly and Nobly pleased â—upon the Colonels protestation of a â—â—urn and entire obedience to his Majesties Authority to pass with him in company to the Hague whither this occasion happily directs us The King our Soveraign Charles the second then kept his Court there furnished with Blacks and other mournful Emblâ—â—s of his raâ—â—â—rs Death at the charge of the Prince of Aurange whose moâ—â—â—ignal kindnesses to the Royal Faâ—â—â—y may not pass without a due Commemoration The King was here attended by the Lord Marquess of Montress the Lords Hopton Wilmot Culpeper Weâ—worth and other great Personages Sir Edward Hide Sir Edward Nicholas and a Noble though poor retinue of old Royalists who had vowed to his Majesties Fortunes The Relator was present when the Lord of Loughborough added Colonel Massey to that number both of them kissing the Kings Hand the same morning the Lord in his Majesties Privy-Chamber where he was received by the King with all possible gladness and joy of his escape and other endearments the Colonel was very respectfully and civilly treated and confirmed into the Kings Service and Trust by his Majesties gracious acceptation of his sorrow for his former actions and his resolutions of reparatory Duty The new Estates of England liked not well of his so neer neighbourhood and entertainment in a Commonwealth too and thought their greatness so formidable that it could perswade without any more trouble all places and people to his dereliction and to this purpose they insinuated the same intentions to Myn Heer Pauw the then Dutch Resident here who was sent over by the States as also another Embassador from the French besides the earnest intervention of the Scots Commissioners to intercede for the King with whom they had several discourses about the dangerous greatness of the Prince of Aurange and 't is reported the Man was made by them He departed hence about the middle of March very well pleased with the pronts of his Embassie Though they could not reach the King and though some of his best Subjects had outreached them yet many others could not so escape them Master Beaumount a Minister belonging to the Garison of Pomfret then beleagured by Major-General Lambert in place of Rainsborough who was killed and buried at Wapping neer London as aforesaid was taken for holding correspondence in cypher and by a Council of War Condemned and Hanged before the Castle presently after the Kings Death and deserves to be placed as the Protomartyr for King Charles the second But this was but a puny victime to the ensuing Sacrifices for the old pretence of Justice challenged new does by the evidence of its former administration which would have been thought but a step purposely made to their ambitious Usurpation if other blood not so obnoxious to their grand designe should not in pursuance of their declared impartial bringing to condigne punishment all sorts of Delinquents be offered up to their Idol of Liberty There was also another Reason of State in it for that the House of Lords being so easily laid aside it was requisite while the first violence was yet recent utterly to disanimate the Nobility by another as lawless more bloody infringement of their Priviledges In order to this a new High Court of Iustice was Erected by an Act to that purpose wherein other Drudges were named under the conduct of the former President for that the State-Grandees could not themselves intend such minute matters as the lives of the Peerage Before this Tribunal were brought as in the said Act were named Iames Duke Hamilton as Earl of Cambridge and Naturalized thereby in this Kingdom Henry Rich Earl of Holland George Lord Goring then Earl of Norwich Arthur Lord Capel and Sir Iohn Owen of North-Wales Duke Hamilton was the first of those that came to this Bar where he was soothâ—d by Bradshaw according to instruction in hopes he would be won to discover his partakers in the late Parliament and City and Peters to that purpose gave evidence that Lambert gave him quarter when Colonel Wait who took him denied it to the House but when the Court perceived he was not so free therein offering in lieu of such Treachery 100000 l. for his life and promising to joyn interests with Arguile in Scotland Bradshaw took him up short and for all his plea of quarter and to what he further â—rged against his Naturalization that he himself was never Naturalized but that it was his Father whose right devolved no more to him by the Civil Law than the same Franchise doth to Children in other Countries hastily was answered that in the 15 year of King Charles he was called to Parliament by Writ as Earl of Cambridge They objected against him also his breach of Faith passed to the Governour of Windsor for his true Imprisonment from whence he had escaped and was retaken in Southwark which breach he denied and challenged the Governour of untruth in that particular After much delay which he obtained in hopes of a discovery and several arguments of his Counsel assigned for him Bradshaw at last snapt him up telling him of his Treasons and Murthers and gave final Sentence The Lord Capel likewise after several brave legal Defences as his Peerage c. and his plea of quarter given by Fairfax who in open Court construed that quarter to be but a present saving from the promiscuous slaughter with a reference still to a Judicial proceeding was over-ruled they urged also against him his escape out of the Tower which he proved to amount to no more at the most of it in any other case than a bare Felony and within the benefit of the Clergy His resumed argument when all would not do was the Honour of the Sword which seeing how little those that should have justly asserted it did value he resolved to trouble himself no longer at their Bar but being demanded what he could say more for himself replied nothing but with a chearful resignation of himself to providence expected his Doom then impending over him The Earl of Holland came not to their Bar while they had finished with the other Lords by reason of his indisposition which delayed him at Warwick-Castle but such was their impatient pretensions to Justice that they got him conveyed to their High Court and as they had done by the rest over-ruled his plea which he argued in much weakness taking a spoonful of some Cordial every foot between his words of quarter given and concluded him in the same Sentence The Lord Goring so artificially and wisely pleaded to them in Form Not Guilty and withal insisted upon his Commission and Authority and harmlesness therein that he escaped
discover Van Trump on either Shore he should pass by On the 18th just at break of day the Southermost ships among whom was the Admiral having General Dean aboard also descryed the Dutch Ships being betwixt three and four hundred Vessels close by the Land betwixt them and Portland and immediately the English made what sail they could towards them and Van Trump having recollected his Ships of War did the same About eight a clock in the Morning the Triumph with 12 ships more for all the Fleet could not get up Engaged Board and Board the Triumph was hardly put to it and was as gallantly relieved by Captain Lawson in the Fairfax for which Service he was much looked upon afterwards Both were lamentably shattered and lost 100 men out of each ship it being Trump's resolution and Command if possible to have carried them both the Vantguard plaid her part here again but lost her Captain Mildmay as the Triumph lost her Captain Ball and Mr. Sparrow the General 's Secretary Blake was wounded in the Thigh with a piece of Iron a Shot had driven and Dean's Coat and Breeches torn therewith the Prosperous a ship of 44 Guns was boarded by the Dutch but presently recovered by the Merlin Frigat Commanded by Captain Vessey the Assistance the Vice-Admiral of the Blue Squadron was disabled in the very beginning of the Fight and was brought off to Portsmouth whither followed the Advice being not longer able to keep the Sea The Dutch lost six Men of War taken and sunk the Rigging of those that were taken being besmeared with Brains and Blood in a most terrible manner Night coming on they parted Saturday-morning they were seen again being judged seven Leagues off Weymouth and over against Dungenness whither the English plied and in the afternoon began the Fight again the Frigats fetching upon them while the whole Fleet came up Trump now had put his Merchantmen afore him and fought retreating towards Bulloign in his way whither the English Frigats at large snapt many of his Merchants and Captain Lawson boarded a Dutch Man of War and carried her and brought her to the Downs Sunday-morning the Dutch were at Bulloign where the Fight began again but with little effect and in the dark Trump slipt away having sent his Merchant-men before to Calice-sands where he Anchored that day with forty sail the Wind lying cross at N. N. E. but no further dispute or encounter happened and thence Tyded it home whither a Fleet of 100 sail from Roan Guarded by ten Men of War had slipt through the Channel a little before during the Fight having lost in all eleven Men of War and thirty Merchants 1500 killed and as many wounded On our side we had one ship named the Sampson shot through and through and the Captain Button wounded was sunk by him in the fight the men being saved aboard other Vessels Though it could not be dissembled that the Dutch had the worst of it yet Van Trump was highly magnified for his good conduct especially for his bringing off the Fleet from Calice which argued the English had no more minde to fight as they said in Holland It was a stiff bout especially the first day and both English and Dutch did very gallantly more especially our Red-Coats who were put on board for want of Sea-men did most gallantly and undauntedly behave themselves perpetually firing and keeping their Station in all danger either of Fire or Water so that half of the Victory belonged to them there being little odds on either Side save that we were the cleaner being newly Tallowed and trimmed and just set out to Sea Several Collections were made in the West Country of Money and Linnen for the maimed and wounded Sea-men and Souldiers and Provision made for their Reception into Hospitals The next Encounter we had with this Enemy was off Leghorn for Captain Appleton according to the Duke's Command now put to Sea divers Voluntier English freely adventuring themselves on board for their Countries Honour the whole Coast being filled with Spectators to see the Combate for the second of March was the longest day allowed for their stay in that Port Now it was agreed between Captain Badiley and Appleton that as soon as Appleton should see the Dutch set sail after him for he was come from Porto Ferraio with 9 ships and a Fire-ship that he should come out and make hast to joyn with him Accordingly as soon as Badiley appeared and the Dutch made semblance of making to him the Wind blowing off the Shore he weighed and came out which the Dutch observing they ceased their prosecution of Badiley and turning the Helm sailed directly upon Appleton not any way to be relieved by Badiley as the Wind stood who suspecting the event with all speed got off to Sea and away left when that Encounter was over the whole brunt would fall also on him Nevertheless these six ships resolved to make a stout resistance being in sight of that City and Country where their Reputation had been hitherto nobly maintained in the very first Engagement the Henry Bonadventure was unluckily blown up by a shot from Van Galen the Dutch Admital that came into the Powder the Sampson another of the six was Boarded on both sides and Entred by young Van Trump and afterwards fired by a Fire ship the Peregrine was set upon by four Dutch Men of War and having her Masts shot by the board was entred and taken the Levant having fought four hours side by side with two Dutch Flag-ships one whereof was the Virgin of Enchuysen was likewise taken but the Mary amidst the Smoak and confusion of the fight got clear away there remained only now the Leopard a Navy-ship of 50 Brass Guns who after six hours fight with Van Galen himself and another Flag-ship by Name the Sun and the Iulius Caesar after a great slaughter was commanded by Appleton to be blown up to prevent the coming into the Enemies hands but the Marriners securing the Gunner and forcing him to yield the ship was possest by the Dutch Van Galen having lost one of his Legs in the fight whereof soon after he died There were taken Prisoners in this fight 400 one hundred whereof were wounded among them was Captain Wood of the Peregrine who were set on shore and at liberty and care taken by the English for their return home and recovery Prince Rupert had been Sea-faring about the â—aribbe Islands with seven or eight ships and had taken four or six Prizes but lost his Brother Prince Maurice by a Hurricane either at St. Christophers or neer the Isle of Tortudas whereabouts the Prince had carefully expected him some two Months but not hearing of him for Death had Transported him to farther Regions and left no accompt of that most Excellent Personage eminently beloved for his Conduct Valour and Civility in our late War and whose great Actions well deserve a particular History so
to save themselves which afterward were knockt on the head by Negroes and Molattoes Upon this sad disaster the Army that night drew up nearer the Spanish Fort as if they intended some mighty matters and having planted a Morter-piece in a convenient plot of ground and all things being ready to do Execution on the Fort upon a sudden the Souldiers were ordered to draw off So the Army without doing any thing marched away to their old Watering-place in the Bay To what intent and purpose this was could never yet be comprehended The Army being come into the Bay had not that supply of Victuals from the ships as formerly but were necessitated by parties to go into the Woods to catch Cattle which many times cost them dear for the Negroes instead of hunting Cows would oftentimes change their Game and breathe them back again to their Quarters These things brought the Army to such distress that fearing to fight for Food abroad they exercised their Valour at home upon the Troop-horses belonging to their own Army Thus did they continue for some days till a resolution was taken to Imbarque them and with all speed to make for Iamaica May the third day all the remaining part of the Army being shipped without the least disturbance from the Spaniard the Fleet set sail for the aforesaid Island This disastrous defeat was rightly imputable to these foregoing causes but there were others also as namely the Discipline or rather the Licentiousness and Debauchery of those Auxiliary-Islanders a crue of such dissolute Fellows that were fitter to work and slave in the Mines than to fight for the Gold But they did not alone frustrate the assured hopes of Victory for it is supposed they were not listed but for number and to make Drudges but made the defeat far more miserable by eating up the Provisions designed for the Army who were set on shore very weak and feeble at so strange and unreasonable distance when the advice was they should have landed at the Bay of Domingo while the Spaniard was in his Cups and the Town overflowed with Drink and Gladness for the arrival of their Fleet thither they supposing this Armada of ours to be their own about that time expected There was such a complication of errours and misfortunes through the insufficiency and ill Conduct of the General to say no worse and the faintness of the Souldier caused by the carelessness of their Friends who should better have Provisioned them and the terrour of their Enemies besides the scorching heat of the Sand which made it painful to stand or go that hardly any Expedition in History can parallel it for they were beaten in a manner without a Blow Yet these miseries were not at an end it was not yet easily resolvable what should be done with this frighted and pestering multitude for all the Victual was spent and it was impossible to turn to Windward with such a company and so little sustenance and some thoughts there were of abandoning this impotent wretched Crue and return to the Barbadoes but it was their kinde and undeserved fate that proposed the Island of Iamaica whither on the 3 of May they directed their course and without any opposition Landed there being a resolution made by the Council of War to prevent the like Cowardise that if any man turned his back to the Enemy his Bringer-up should kill him The Spaniards having no intelligence of the late overthrow at Hispaniola nor indeed suspecting any Hostility fled away at the approach of this formidable Army and withdrew their Goods their pretended Governour staving off the English with a Treaty while all was conveyed away into the Woods whither parties were sent to follow and to kill Cattle for the Army of which they found very good and good store without any fighting which no doubt was a great comfort and gave them time to recover their Spirits so that afterwards they dreaded not a Molatto as they lighted upon them in parties in those Forrests of Cedar and other excellent Physical and useful Trees where for a while we leave them At home another Portugal Embassador arrived and brought a Ratification of the Treaty that King having consented to the Damages adjusted in one of the Articles thereof A Commission passed under the Seal likewise for the Tryal of those Western Gentlemen taken at Southmolton two of whom Colonel Penruddock and Iones being brought up from Exeter were Examined here by Cromwel but nothing could be extracted to the prejudice of their Confederates whose Estates he aimed at and so they were re-guarded to their former Custody In the interim whereof Iames the noble Duke of Richmond died of a Quartan Ague that had held him above a year contracted as 't is supposed from a continued and Consumptive grief for the King and his Affairs nor was he ever in any healthful condition since the Martyrdom of King Charles the first An Ordinance now came out for setling the Revenue of the poor Knights of Windsor and the Trust thereof formerly in the Dean and Chapter was now vested in the Lord-Commissioner Whitlock Colonel Montague Sydenham and others and the five Knights Sir Richard Crane and Sir Peter Le Meir had added were incorporated with the rest the Executors being enjoyned to make good the said Testators Wills to this Use and several of Cromwel's old Trojans were now Tituladoed with this Pensionary Honour and none else to be admitted The Commissioners for the Tryal of the Western Insurrectors now fate at Salisbury April 12. Judge Windham President Dove High-Sheriff and the Jury like him there were Condemned six viz. Iohn Lucas a Mercer of a very good Estate at Hungerford who staid in the Town when he might have escaped and fatally lost his Head much ado there was for a Reprieve and expected by the Prisoner but he was basely disappointed Mr. Dean Mr. Kensey Mr. Thorp Iohn Laurence and Iohn Fryer all but Dean Hanged at the Common place of Execution Mr. Henry and Edward Zouch and Mr. Willoughby were acquitted Mack the Apothecary pleaded Guilty and was pardoned Thence they proceeded to Exeter where one of Oliver's Knights Sir Iohn Coppleston was Sheriff and Condemned 26 eleven whereof besides Colonel Penruddock and Grove that were Beheaded where they both Loyally and undauntedly justified their designe and the Kings indubitable Right were Hanged and buried afterwards in a very solemn and decent manner in that City which generally to a great number of people attended their Corps and defrayed the charge thereof extending the same civility to them dead which they afforded liberally to them living providing for them in Prison even to superfluity of the best Provisions to the regret and anger of Cromwelâ— who was contriving how to diminish this plenty of the Royal party or at least to be revenged of them at and by another RATE At Chard in Somerset-shire in their return they Condemned five the principal whereof was Major
out of policy addressed to the captating their good will and favour towards the easier ascent to his designed Soveraignty Cromwel's other Son Henry was also in Progress in Ireland shewing himself to the Army and People these upon the same account that Kingdom being allotted to him for his Inheritance to hold it or this in Fee Fleetwood was intended for Scotland in the same capacity and Command but Hic labor hoc opus General Monke was not easily removed thence fair means were not effectual nor practicable as things stood and a Rupture or Revolt of that Kingdom was not to be ventured on by any open force or declared War against him His third Daughter Mary was likewise promoted to an honourable Match being Married to the Lord-Viscount Faulconbridge on the 18 of November with a great do of State at Hampton-Court the recess and delight of the Usurper whither he went and came always in an hurry and post nor did he dare to be further off from the City of London This Title was conferred on the Family of Bellasis by the King in the War and was taken for valid upon this Wedding His youngest Daughter Francis was soon after Married to Mr. Rich the Earl of Warwick's Grand-son A new Charter constituting a new East-India-Company which Trade had lain in Common for some years now passed the Seal Cromwel being one of them and putting in a Stock which turned to the account of his Majesty as of due some time afterwards Mr. Downing was sent his Envoy into Holland One Colonel Saxby taken at Gravesend on shipboard of Syndercombe's Counsel being a Leveller died as was supposed of Poyson in the Tower of London which rendered Syndercombe's end more plainly suspected The Festival of Christmass which had been abrogated by several Lawless Ordinances and endeavoured to be suppressed revived its head and began to recover its pristine veneration This greatly offended the Usurper who perceived that notwithstanding all his Edicts and Interminations against the Church and her Protestant-Professors the true Religion prevailed against him and with that infallibly the Kings Interest would joyntly rise the thought of which was most grievous and not endurable Notice being given him now of a private Assembly solemnizing the mercy and memory of that day at Dr. Gunning's at Exeter-house in the Strand he sent a Band of Red-coats to seize them who over-and-above Plundered and Stript many of them and carried some away Prisoners to answer this contempt against his Injunction And so without any Blood which was taken for a wonder in this interval we are arrived to the return of the Parliament after the expiration of the Adjournment when according to the 4th Article of the Petition and Advice which provided for the freedom of Parliaments and another for Another House as 't was called Cromwel giving it that Nick-name or Mid-word as bordering upon an Upper-House of Parliament and of the same new coyning as Protectorship which entrencht upon the Soveraignty ut Canis sit Catuli They met together in two Houses that of the Commons to their full number of Elections that of the What do ye call um's in the House of Lords in and according to the usual customs of the Peers These conscious of their own worthlessness and their inconsistency with the English honour like the basest of Upstarts bewrayed their meanness by all manner of abject compliance and fawning upon the Commons their half-Parent who being rightly constituted disowned the spurious Brat as a by-blow of the former Convention and with such scorn and derision did they receive the notice of their meeting there besides the neglect of it as if they had been the most ridiculous fellows in the World a may-game spleen-moving spectacle with What did they there who sent for them what was their business like intruding Fidlers to serious Company Notwithstanding these Imps of the Usurpers Prerogative as instructed persisted in their Courtships and Blandiments of the Commons as aforesaid It should have been mentioned that Oliver in his Speech to them did highly magnifie the Settlement as beyond all expectation that ever such brave things would have been done for England and hinted much of the establishment of Religion the Neck whereof was just then broken as we may say and that if they persevered in that hopeful beginning the Generations to come should call them Blessed That posterity may be fully informed of the Institution Number and Names of the aforesaid fellows of the other House in brief take this account The Parliament left the choice of them to Cromwel by the Humble Petition and he graced with this Dignity most of his superiour Officers some Grandee-Comnonwealths-men some Presbyterians some of the Nobility as the Earl of Manchester Lord Wharton Lord Mulgrave all of his Privy-Council and Relations and one or two private Gentlemen of which Mr. Hambden was one The Nobility prudentially forbore sitting with that riff-raff the Presbyterians with much scruple but Sir Arthur Haslerig utterly abominated it and kept his station with the Commons as so contra-distinguished The whole number named was 62 of which some ten were the worst of Mechanicks such as Pride Hewson Kelsey Cooper Goffe Berry c. whom we refer to the ensuing Catalogue to which the Names of the Judges and Serjeants are added The Members of the other House alias House of Lords Lord Richard Cromwel Lord Henry Cromwel Deputy of Ireland Nath. Fiennes Commis of the Great Seal Iohn Lisle Commis of the Great Seal Hen. Lawrence President of the Council Charles Fleetwood Lieut. Gen. of the Army Robert Earl of Warwick Edmund Earl of Mulgrave Edward Earl of Manchester Will. Ld. Viscount Say and Seal Philip Lord Viscount Lisle Charles Lord Viscount Howard Philip Lord Wharton Thomas Lord Faulconbridge George Lord Evers Iohn Cleypole Esq. Iohn Desbrow Generals at Sea Edw. Montague Generals at Sea Bulst Whitlock Commis of the Treasury Wil. Sydenham Commis of the Treasury Sir Charles Wolsley Sir Gilbert Pickering Walter Strickland Esq. Philip Skippon Esq. Francis Rous Esq. Iohn Iones Esq. Sir William Strickland Iohn Fiennes Esq. Sir Francis Russel Sir Thomas Honywood Sir Arthur Haslerig Sir Iohn Hobart Sir Richard Onslow Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir William Roberts Glyn Chief Justices of both Benches Oli. St. Iohn Chief Justices of both Benches William Pierrepoint Esq. Iohn Crew Esq. Alexander Popham Esq. Philip Iones Esq. Sir Christopher Pack Sir Robert Titchborn Edward Whaley Commis Gen. Sir Iohn Berkstead Lieutenant of the Tower Sir Thomas Pride Sir George Fleetwood Sir Iohn Huson Richard Ingoldsby Esq. Iames Berry Esq. William Goff Esq. Thomas Cooper Esq. George Monke Gen. in Scotland David Earl of Cassils Sir William Lockhart Archibald Iohnson of Wareston William Steel Chancellor of Ireland Roger Lord Broghil Sir Matthew Thomlinson William Lenthal Master of the Rolls Richard Hampden Esq. Commissioners of the Great Seal and their Officers Nathaniel Fiennes Iohn Lisle William Lenthal Master of
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
and inflict the punishment of the Rebellion if they delayed his imbraces In fine it was an Affair in which all the faculties and passions of the Soul Love Fear Hope and Joy were tempered together to a MIRACLE by his skilful hand and art of Government and wherein Reason and Necessity jumpt together and to which the whole frame of Policie officiously humbled and submitted it self at this his Majesties most absolute and uncontroulable disposal of his Empire Tibi numine ab omni Cedetur jurisque tui Natura relinquet Quis Deus esse velis ubi regâ—um ponere mundo All the Heavenly powers yield And Nature as thy right and choice doth leave Where thou wilt reign what Realms shall thee receive But besides those of the first Magnitude there were Illustrious persons and others that rendred themselves conspicuous by their conjunction in this Revolution such were the Lord Chancellour the Earls of Southampton Oxford Bristol S. Albans the two Secretaries of State the old Earl of Norwich Ld. Goring a person whose memory is highly ennobled by such grand Events and Occurrences of State as the Spanish Peace with the Low Countries which owes it self to his Transaction and Accommodation the Earl of Manchester the noble Earl of Sandwich whose hand was engaged with his head and was the excellent General 's second in this Affair the faithful and couragious Lord Ashly Cooper who intrepidly engaged himself among the Usurpers and dreaded not their spies and quicksighted sagacious discovery of designes and intelligence against them which he constantly managed the Lord Annesly now Earl of Anglesey Lord Hollis Lord Booth of Delamere who broke the Ice and endangered his Life and Fortunes in the Attempt but was bravely rescued by his Reserve the General who came time enough to preserve him not to omit the Dii minores persons of lesser Rank but Eminent in their Qualities Sir Samuel Moreland Thurlo's Secretary and Cromwel's Resident in Savoy where he was set as Intelligencer which he proved most punctually to his Majesty and countermined all the designes of his Masters and by which means the King came to have intelligence of those disloyal treacherous and ingrate persons formerly of his side whom we have mentioned He came to the King at Breda where his Majesty Knighted him and made him a Baronet and gave him this Testimony That he had done him very signal Services for some years last passed Neither was Sir George Downing unserviceable to the same designe in his station in Holland as his Majesty's Respects to him at his coming to the Hague with recommendation from the General did sufficiently declare To conclude the whole Mass of the people had a hand at the least in it conspiring the same purposes in their wishes and affections with the effect whereof in a compendious Narrative for the Subject grows upon me to a bulk I am next to indulge and pleasure the Reader The King was yet at Brussels in a setled quiet expectation of the sitting down of the Parliament the results of whose Counsels were not thought so quick by the deliberating and slow Spaniard who had allowed the King yearly the sum of 9000 l. besides the pay of his Forces which his Majesty kept there which money was since repayed by the King soon after his return and therefore upon the King's departure from Breda upon assurance that the Parliament would not fail of sitting down at the appointed time he having traversed to and fro back and again to Antwerp the civil Governour of these Countries gave the King his Complement of departure and honourably conveyed him on his way to the City of Antwerp the Road to Breda aforesaid when it was feared by very many that the slye Spaniard would have put some demur or stay upon him in his Dominions He afterwards indeed sent a Complement to him by an Envoy well attended intreating him to return that way and to take shipping at one of the Ports of Flanders for England and acquainted him that for his greater honour and satisfaction he should see his Souldiers payed as he passed but the King civilly refused that kind proffer The King was no sooner come to Breda the Town and Castle whereof belonged to his Nephew the Prince of Aurange but having notice the Parliament was ready to sit he dispatcht away his Letters by Mr. now made Lord Viscount Mordant the Lord Goring having been sent before to the Council of State and General and Sir Iohn Greenvil now Earl of Bath with his Letters to the Parliament in both Houses respectively to the Lord-General and City which were speedily made publick and the Town in a kind of extasie for two days together the Press never ceasing to print them and all persons having no other thing to do but to read them the substance of which Message with the like Declaration to the House of Commons and his gracious Letters enclosed to his Excellencie the Lord General to be communicated to the Officers of the Army with a Letter likewise and Declaration to the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London was this His Majesty granted a free and general Pardon to all his Subjects whatsoever that shall within forty days after publication thereof lay hold upon that grace and by any publick Act declare their doing so such onely accepted as the Parliament shall think fit to be excepted which he will confirm upon the word of a King And as to tender Consciences none shall be called in question for differences in opinion which disturb not the peace of the Kingdom For Sales Purchases he will refer himself in all matters to the determination of Parliament that he will consent to an Act or Acts of Parliament for paying off and satisfying the Arrears of the Army and Navy and that they shall be received into his Majesty's service upon as good Pay and Conditions as they then enjoyed This gracious Message with the Letter to his Excellencie and the Declaration were read in the House of Commons with most extraordinary Ceremony and Reverence as if some strange awe had seized upon the minds of the Parliament every man at the Speakers naming of the King rising up and uncovering himself desiring the Letters might be forthwith read the like also was done in the House of Lords In the House of Commons remarkable was that of Mr. Luke Robinson who being a great Commonwealths-man first of all spoke to the Letters and acknowledged his conviction Nor was this Declaration less acceptable to all the people who were overjoyed with the news and the infallible hopes of having their gracious Prince and Soveraign restored to them in Peace and Honour The Parliament resolved That they do own and declare that according to the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom the Government is and ought to be by King Lords and Commons And having a deep sense of the Miseries and Distractions in
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
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
enjoy'd the benefit of a general Oblivion Towards the beginning of Autumn dy'd the King of Spain and the Queen-Mother was Confirm'd Regent much to the settlement of that Kingdom Anno Dom. 1666. THE War continuing between the English and the Dutch the beginning of this Year brought Intelligence from America where the Governour of Iamaica resolves to Attaque their American Plantations and accordingly by the Assistance of the Buccaneers or Hunters upon Hispaniola made themselves Masters of Sancta Eastachia Salia St. Martins and Bonaira and took the Island Tabago by Storm At which time a Party sent from the Barbadoes to have done the same being thus prevented fell upon the Dutch Plantations in the Continent where they possess'd themselves of New Zealand taking the Fort with seven Guns upon the River Maccurah and Wina they spoil'd Ten Sugar-works and took 500 Negroes which they sent to Martinego And thus with a handful of Men they Expell'd the Dutch out of all their Plantations in the West-Indies excepting only Curressa being a Fort built by the Dutch in an Island without any Plantation and not worth Attempting At home the Dutch endeavour all they can to strengthen themselves with Alliances and therefore make Peace with the Dane on condition That both Parties absolutely renounce all manner of Pretences whereby Denmark became a gainer of 60 Tun of Gold All disorders in Norway were to be quite taken away which doubled the King's Revenues at that time Lastly the Hollanders were to pay yearly to the Dane 15 Tun of Gold so long as the War with England lasted In lieu whereof the Dane was to maintain 30 Men of War in the Sound to which the Hollander was to add Eight or Ten with some Land-forces This the Swede took ill Declaring to all Publick Ministers his Resolution to stand firm to the League with England in order whereunto Wrangle understanding that some Dutch ships were come into the Elbe where then a Fleet of English Merchants rode commanded a Swedish man of War to Guard them and rather to sink by their sides than see them injur'd the same care being likewise taken to secure the English in Schonen They also sent an Embassadour into Denmark to Expostulate the Reason of their Alliance and to shew their dislike of the whole Transaction and when the Danish Resident in a studied Speech endeavour'd to give the Queen and Regents of Sweden an accompt of his Masters Intentions in that League for the security of the Sound and the Provocations pretended from England which forc'd him to Revenge and offer'd the Crown of Sweden to be included in the same Alliance He was presently Answered That the Procedure of his Master seem'd so fowl and Dishonourable that they knew not how any Prince for the future could Treat with him But the Swedes seeing what the Dane had done resolv'd in no wise to suffer the Sound to be shut up at pleasure reinforc'd their Garrisons in Schonen and prepar'd a sufficient Navy for their Defence However to shew themselves not altogether averse from Peace the Swedes did frame a Project for an Accommodation between the States and them which contain'd so many points of Restitutinos Reparations and amends to be made by the States that they were nothing pleased with it Besides the Swede insisted to be admitted into the Trade of India a point above all the rest which the Dutch were most jealous of The King now taking into consideration the hazardous consequences by the extraordinary resort of People to the Parliament by his Commission directed to the Lord Chancellour Prorogu'd them to the 18 of September next He also Issued out a Proclamation whereby Iohn Desborough Thomas Kelsey and others were requir'd to return into England and render themselves and in case of Disobedience to stand Guilty and be Attainted of High Treason A while after Desborough was brought over from Ostend in the Little Mary and Committed to Dover Castle by the Lord Middleton but at length released by the Kings Order Another Proclamation was issued out Giving all Persons that would liberty till the 25th of December following to export all Woollen Manufactures beyond Sea in regard that the War and Contagion bad caus'd such a deadness of Trade in the Nation But at the Old Baily were Try'd several Malefactors in all Eight Persons formerly Officers or Souldiers in the Rebellion among whom the most noted was Iohn Rathborn an old Army-Colonel Their Indictment was For Conspiring the King's Death and the overthrow of the Government having in the Kings absence from the City laid their Plot and Contrivance for surprisal of the Tower the killing General Monk Sir Iohn Robinson the Lieutenant of the Tower and Sir Richard Brown Major-General of the City and then to have declared for an equal division of Lands The better to effect this Design the City was to have been Fir'd and the Portculâ—â—ces to have been let down to keep out all Assistance the Horse-Guard to have been Surpriz'd in the several Innes where they were quarter'd several Ostlers having been gain'd for that purpose The Tower had been View'd and its Surprisal Order'd by Boats over the Moat and so to Scale the Wall There was in the Conspiracy one Alexander who made his Escape who had distributed several Sâ—â—s of Money to these Conspirators and for the carrying on the Design more effectually they were told of Great Ones that sate constantly in London who issued out all Orders which Council received their Directions from a Council in Holland who sate with the States The Third of September was pitch'd upon for the Attempt as being found by a Scheme Erected for that purpose a Luckie Day a Planet then Ruling which Portended the downfall of Monarchy They were found Guilty of High Treason and Executed at Tyburn The Month of May was without Action only in the beginning thereof the Fleet being ready to set Sail His Majesty and the Duke of York went down to see the Condition thereof and having staid there three days return'd to White-Hall Toward the latter end of May the Earl of Sandwich His Majesties Extraordinary Embassadour Arriv'd at Madrid and the Lord Hollis return'd from his Embassie in France The Fleet was now ready under the Conduct of Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle But while they are searching for the Enemy it will not be amiss to relate a Combate of lesser Note for the Honour of the English Courage abroad as well as at home The Guiny Frigate being in the Port of Lisbon found there a French Man of War the Captain whereof bragg'd what he would do when the Guiny Frigat should dare to put to Sea Which Captain Coite understanding stood out to Sea expecting when the French Champion would follow but he consulting more his own security than his honour was content to let the Guiny Frigat tire her self with attendance so that the Captain having stay'd
of the Parliament Forces departs London 38. Attends the King's motion 39. Fights at Edge-hill retreats to Coventry 40 41. Relieves Gloucester 49. At Newberry 50. At Theal Redding London 52. Marches reduce the West 58. Pounded at Lestithiel and escapes with Lord Roberts by Boat to Plymouth 58. Resignes his Commission 72. Dies 124 Earl of Essex Lord-Deputy 587 Essex County joyns with Lord Goring Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle 174 Estate of the Kingdom in a sad condition after the death of the King 124 125 Everts taken 536. dismist ibid. Exchange Royal finished 574 Exchequer shut 582 Execution of the Kings Iudges 466 Exeter yielded and Articles 98 99. Engagement forced by the Independant-party for the Parliament to live and die with the Army City refuse the Parliaments Orders and Acts 231. Tumults about a free Parliament Excise 157 Exclusion of secluded Members 229. F Fairfax General in Commission 74. Marcheth 75. Is cajoled to manage the seizure of the King Made Generallissimo and Constable of the Tower 141. Marcheth against the Levellers 234. Complemented and graduated at Oxford with Cromwel and Lambert ibid. Magnificently treated and presented by the City ibid. Lays down his Commission 268. Arms against Lambert 434 Faulkland Lord-Viscount slain 51 Fanshaw Sir Richard Embassador in Spain 525 Fatality among the Clergy 504 Farrel Lieutenant-General of Ulster-Army 245. Put into Waterford to defend it 247 Farewel to the Scotch-War Fast general 540 Faulkner perjured 291 Faulconbridge Lord Arms against Lambert sent to Venice 575 Fee-farm Rents 455 Feak Parson 540 Fiennes Lord Commissioner Fifth-Monarchists plot against Cromwel 366 FIGHTS at Newborn with the Scots 13 Worcester in the Lanes 40. Brainford 41. Yarum 42. Wakefield 43. At Liscard ibid. Caversham-bridge ibid. Hopton-heath 44. Bramham-moor ibid. Chalgrave-field 45. Stratton ibid. Middleton-Cheney Lansdown 46. Round-way-down ibid. Adderton-heath and Bradford 47. Stow in the Wold 49. Auburn-chace 50. Newark at the relief of it by Prince Rupert 56. Brandia or Cherington 57. Cropredy 58. Lidbury 74. Sherburn 90. Torrington 93. Saint Fagons 171. Maidstone 174. At Dublin 241. Muscleborough 264. Warrington 295. Wigan 296 Fincher Mayor vide Pye resigned Finch Sir Heneage his Reading 501. Made Lord-Keeper 594 Fire in London 554. In the Horse-Guards 556. In Fleet-street 368. Another at Aberfoyle in Scotland ibid. Another in Thred-needle-street 368. At Lambeth 373. At St. Johnstons in Scotland 381 Fleet sent under Hamilton to the Frith in Scotland 9 Fleet Spanish denied protection and ruined by the Dutch in the Downs 11 Fleet returns to the Prince Earl of Warwick imployed against them as Admiral 175 176. Fleets Dutch and English at Shetland 322 Fleet under Pen from Jamaica accidents of the return 376 Fleet declare their Royal acceptance c. 446 Fleet English 532. Beats the Hollander 538. English Hamburgh-fleet taken 538. Rendezvouz ibid. Fleet ready 250. Divided ibid. Fleets Engage ibid. Engage again 552. Out again 553 Fleets Engaged 584. Fleets Engaged 591 Fleetwood made Deputy of Ireland 366. More of him Forrain Princes how affected to our States 254 Forces from Ireland to assist the King 53. Surprized and defeated 54. Sent by Cromwel to assist the French 391. Vnder Earl Inchiqueen to Portugal 511 Fornication Act 225 Fray likely at Westminster At Tower-hill Fundamentals of the Army French prohibit English Cloath and are prohibited their Wines 255. Conclude a peace with Cromwel 377. Their Fleet taken by Blake 325. At Gigery 533. Embassadors in England 535. King supplies the Dutch 544. Declares against England ibid. Embassadors beaten and Imprisoned in Turkey 558. Lays claim to the Low-Countries breaks with Spain 579. Invades Lorrain 579. Breaks with the Dutch 583 Free Parliament noised 434 Frigats of Brest rove at sea 356 Furstenburgh Count seized 598 G Gates and Portcullices of London pulled down 437 Gayland 522 523. Makes peace 532. Transports himself for Tangier 571 Gell Sir John Sentenced 270 A General required by Officers of the Army 439 Gentry secured over England 373 Gerrard Col. John and Sir Gilbert 538. Col. John beheaded 361 Gibbons Sentenced 290 Glencarn Earl submits to the English 362. Prisoner in Edenburgh 380. Chair-man to the Scotch Convention 432 Gloucester Duke born 13. With the King at Colen from the Iesuits at Paris 365. Dies 456 Gloucester Siege and Summons and Relief by Essex 49. Walls demolished 512. Cathedral begged 381 Godolphin Sir Will. Knighted and sent into Spain 568 Goff Col. friend to Richard Cromwel 417 Goring Col. into France 39 Goring Lord Condemned but saved 228 Goodman Bishop refuseth to subscribe Canons against the Church of Rome 12 Good Old Cause 417 Grace Colonel 324 Graigs Town 245 Grantham Col. killed 380 Grantham Town 44 Granger a Forger 256 Greenvile Sir John 445. Rewarded by the Parliament and City 446 Greenvile Sir Bevil 46 Great Cities and Towns in Ireland refuse to admit Garrisons which proved their ruine 244. Accept of them at last upon condition the English be dismist Cavaliers and others 251 Grey Lord Grooby 291 Groves Col. vide Penruddock Guiny Relation 535 Guernsey-castle stormed 284. A designe uppon it discovered 554 Gunning Dr. in Divinity his Congregation seized and plundred for celebrating Christmass 398 Gurney Lord Mayor in the Tower 34 Guthury and Giffan Hanged 497 H Haberdashers-Hall 129 Hackney-coaches regulated 368 Haddington Earl blown up by Gunpowder in Scotland 14 15 Hamilton Marquiss the Kings Commissioner into Scotland at London 7. Prisoner to Pendennis-castle 52. Defeated and taken Prisoner 178 Hamilton Duke tryed and sentenced 228. Beheaded 229 Hamond Col. secures the Kings person 151. His baseness 163. Shot in Ireland ibid. Hannam the Infamous Thief breaks Prison and escapes 376. Hanged 381 Harman Capt. his Exploit 595. Beats the Dutch 564 Harrisons impudence in bringing the King to London 193. A main man for the little Parliament outed and dissatisfied 353. Apprehended 453 Harris a great Cheat 368 Harvey Sir Daniel sent to Constantinople 568 Hazelrig Sir Arthur seizes Portsmouth 433. returns to Westminster and is thanked by the Rump 435. Dies 474 Healing Parliament 470 Henrietta Princess 469 Henchman Dr. Bishop of London 524 Hertford Marquiss 38 Heresies and Schismes 368 Hewit Dr. seized 404. Tried and Beheaded ibid. Hewson Col. made Master of Arts in Oxford 234 Marcheth into London 433 Hide Sir Henry beheaded 285 Highland-War in Scotland its account 361 362. Hinde the High-way man 303 Hispaniola expedition from 369 to 372 Holland Earl Lieutenant-General of Horse against the Scots 9. Rising at Kingston and defeated 177. Tryed and Sentenced 228. Executed in Palace-yard Westminster 229 Hollis Lord Embassador into France 522. Returns for England 550 Holmes Major Committed 532. Discharged ibid. Enters the Vly 553. Attacques the Dutch Fleet 582. Holstein Duke 255 Honours and Dignities denied to some Male-Contents another cause of the Scotch troubles 4. Honours given by the King vacated 292 Hopton Lord 42. Disbanded honourably after many services and Victories at Truro in Cornwal 96 97 Horse-races and
Elections for the Free-Parliament St. John stickles in the Council of State for Propositions and Terms with the King A Convention in Ireland A Letter sent to the Rump by the King Lambert escapes from the the Tower April 11. Defeated and taken Apr. 22. Lambert proposeth the restoring of Rich. Protector Lambert dismayed and taken Apr. 22. A Free-Parliament April 22. The Restitution of the King and Kingdom The renowned General the happy instrument of the Restitution The Duke of Ormond the next The King the great Agent All the Loyal Nobility and Gentry And of some formerly engaged against it The King departs to Breda from Brussels Complemented upon his departure Dispatches the L. Mordaunt and Sir John Greenvil from Breda His Majesty's Letter and Declaration was brought Contents of the Declaration Received most hoâ—ourably by the Parliament Parliament resolves thereupon Sir John Greenvil rewarded with a 500 l. Iewel The City of London express the like The Army the same The Fleet also and Dunkirk The Rump's Arms defaced Parliament Resolves towards the King's Restitution Commissioners arrived at the Hague The King prepares to dâ—part King Charles the Second Solemnly Proclaimed The Dutch magnificent Treatment of the King Sir Samuel Moreland and Sir George Downing Duke of York aboard the Fleet. The King departs for England The Speech of the States thereupon The King departs and embarques The King Embarques for England May 23. Lands at Dover May 25. The General meets him at his arrival The King rides to Canterbury The King rides to Canterbury To Rochester at Col. Gibbons To Dartford receives the Declaration of the Army The manner of His Majesties entrance into London The Earl of Manchester's Speech to the King The joy of the City Affairs 〈◊〉 home And in Ireland The King and the Dukes to the House of Lords The King comes to the Parliament and passeth several Acts. A Proclamation for the King's Iudges to render themselves Other persons excepted out of the Act of Oblivion Hutchinson and Lassels crave Pardon Parliament lay hold on his Majesties Declaration from Breda The General dignified with the Title of D. of Albemarle Several Dignities and Offices conferred Fee-farm rents resigned Lord Jermyn Earl of St. Albans Embassador into France Prince de Ligne Count de Soissons Embassador hither Act oâ— Oblivion passed Duke of Gloucester dies Sept. 13. Princess of Orange arrives Sept. Episcopacy re-established The Kings Iudges brought to Tryal Oct. 9. Harrison Waller Heveningham with Adrian Scroop c. Harrison tried Oct. 11. Sir Heneage Finch opens the Indictment The Sentence Col. Adrian Scroop Carew tryed Scot tryed Octob. 12. Gregory Clement Colonel Iones Cook October â—3 Peters Octob. 13. Daniâ—l Axtel Colonel Hacker William Hewlet Daniel Harvey Isaac Pennington Henry Marten Gilbert Millington Alderman Tichburn Owen Roe Robert Lilburn Mr. Smith Downs Potter Garland c. Vincent Potter August Garland Simon Meyn James and Peter Temple Tho. Wayt. Sir Hardress Waller Harrison Executed Carew Executed John Cook Hugh Peters Executed Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Adrian Scroop and John Jones Executed Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel Executed Toâ— dye impinitent as to the Fact * Cook the Solicitor Hugh Peters 's stupidity Prisoners that came in upon Proclamation respited Queen Mother arrives in England The Parliament re-assemble Argyle committed Princess of Aurange dies Decemb 24. Parliament Dissolved Princess of Aurange her Funeral Decemb. 26. Sejanus ducitur unco spectandus gaudent omnes quae labra quis illis vultus erat Cromwel Ireton and Bradshaw dig'd up and hang'd c. Venner 's Insurrection There were two Executed in Cheap-side the same day Prichard the Cow-keeper and another of them Sir Arthur Hazelrig dies Mr. Crofton committed The Kingâ—s passage through London to his Coronation The Oath of the Knights of the Bath Creation of Earls and Barons at the same time The Kings procession to the Abbey The Dukes of Norfolk and Somerset were restored by Act of Parliament 12 year Caroli Secundi * James Butler Duke of Ormond was Created Earl of Brecnock Baron Butler of Lawthy A new Parliament May 8. Portugal Match mentioned by the King to the Parliament The Queen of Bohemia returns into England The Marquess of Montross enterred in State May 11. Arguile beheaded May aâ— and Guthrey and Giffâ—n Hang'd June 1 Plots and Designes laid by the Fanaticks Sir Charles Lucas re-interred with Solemnity Jun. 7. Several Laws confirmed and made c. Mr. Pryn questioned c. Mr. Pryn questioned by the House Acts against Bishops repealed Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Wallop sentenced Parliament adjourned July 30 to Nov. 02. The King is entertained at the Inner Temple by Sir Heneage Finch The Lords Spiritual restored Regicides before the House of Lords November John James Hanged and Quartered Novemb. 27. Sir Charles Coot died December A Council of the Principality of Wales re-established at Ludlow Episcopacy established in Scotland The King reflects on the ruine of St. Pauls London Fatality among the Clergy Another Fleet for Portugal and Tangier Queen of Bohemia dies Feb. 13. A Storm Feb. 18. An unfortunate Accident happened to the Lord Buckhurst and others Lambert and Vane ordered to Tryal The General honoured c. Miles Corbet Colonel Okey and Barkstead taken in Holland sent over to the Tower Sentenced and Executed Ap. 2. Col. Okey 's body giâ—en to his Friends Acts of Parliament passed An account of the Marriage of the King c. The Queen reReimbarques April 13. The Duke of York at Sea to attend the Queens Arrival with the Duke oâ— Osmond c. Queen Arrives May 13. The King stays to give his consent to Bills Preparing The Nature of several private Bills King at Portsmouth Queen at Hampton-Court Lord Lorn pardoned by the King Tangiers condition Sir Henry Vane and Colonel Lambert Condemned Sir Henry Vane Executed June 1â— A Proclamation for Twenty miles againt Rump Officers Presbyterians endeavours for Toleration Forces sent under the Earl of Inchequeen to Assist the King of Portugal Duke of Ormond arrived in Ireland Gloucester Walls c. Demolished Dunkirk returned to the French King October Dr. John Berkerhead Knighted A Plot discovered Philips Tongue Gibs and Stubs Executed December 22. Embassadors with Presents from Russia Mr. Calamy Committed Lord Warreston in the Tower Declaration of the King and Resolutions of the Parliament Parliament begins esuits banish Campeach takâ—â— Irish Plot. Earl of â—otâ—es Commissioner in Scotland Bills passed by Commission Mr. Rycaut comes from Constantinople Jersey a new 〈◊〉 Northern Plot discovered Plotters â—ri'd Executed Turner tryed and hanged A Printer tried and executed Others Pillori'd and Fined A remarkable proviâ—ence A barbarous murther committed by a Portugueze Servant upon his Master The Lord Holles Embassador to the French King June Iudge Mallet by reason of his age dispenced with and Sir John Keeling sworn in his place Dr. Bramhal departs this life Gayland assaults Tangier Reâ—reats with 〈◊〉 Makes another Attack but is forc'd to
retire with great loss Makes peace Duke of Yorks Son Christened Parliament Proroguâ—d August The manner of the Translation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Kings Progress Scotch Parliament Bishop of London one of the Kings Council Iudge Jenkins dies Dutch surpriz'd by the Turk Pope and K. of France differ They come to an Agreement The Turks Bâ—siege New-hausel New-hausel surrender'd Count Serini beats the Turks at the River Mur. The Portugals take Ginaldo in Galicia and totally rout the Spaniards The Protestants of Piedmont defeat the Forces of the Duke of Savoy Traytors executed Disorders at Newbury Sir Thomas Doleman seiseth upon the chief sticklers Jews expell'd Tangier Sir Richard Fanshaw Embassador in Spain English Complaints against the Dutch Resolves of the Houses therein The King declares himself Sir John Lawson with a Fleet for the Streights Buchanans Bank burned in Scotland A Proclamation agâ—inâ—t Contributions c. 〈…〉 rous Tartar Barbado's â—eâ—â—ir Sir John Lawson proclaims War against Argier A Memorandum deliver'd the States Parâ—iaâ—â—â—t Proâ—ogâ—ed The King sends to the City for Mony Granted Earl of Teviot kill'd Turks defeated Turks a second time defeated Lawson callâ—d home Capt. Allen in his room Embassadors sent abroad Sir G. Downing sent into Holland Naval preparations A second Loan by the City Dutch Bravado Prince Rupert at Sâ—a The D. of York set forth to Sea Opdam dares not adventure out The Dutch lay up their Fleet. Dutch Burdeaux-Fleet taken Duke of York returns to London Earl of Sandwich keeps the Sea Royal Katherine and Royal Oak Launched The States disappointed by the English Dutch Scandalous Libel Dutch Desâ—gnes The Condition 〈◊〉 the Dutch with other Kingdoms De Ruyter Sayls for Guiny Smyrna Fleet Encountr'd by Cap. Allen. Sir Tho. Modeford Arrives at Iamaica Act for the Royal Ayd Parliament Prorogu'd Seamen Encourag'd Reprisals granted against the Dutch Feb. 1664 5 Declaration of War against the Dutch Another Dutch Libel Dutch Embassies prove frâ—â—â—less Earl of Morpeth affronted by the Hollander Major Holms committed Dischargâ—d Forein Ministers complain in Holland Capt. Allen returns Dutch Manufactures prohibited Peace with Gayland Sir C Cotterel sent to Bruxels English Fleet ready to set sail Duke of York goes aboard English Fleet upon the Dutch Coast. English Officers cashier'd in Holland Cessation of Arms between the Turk and Emperor Grand Seignior leaves Constantinople Sireni kill'd The French at Gigery Portugals Victory Sedition in Avignon Lisle killâ—d April 1655. English Fleet at Sea French Embassador expostulates with the Dutch Embargo in France upon the Dutch Embargo in Holland upon the English Dutch endeavour to amuse the Common people French Embassadors to England Dutch Libel against the English Valkenburghs Letter Guinee Relation Dutch ill treated in Russia General Fast. Ships taken by the English Everts taken Dismiss'd Order and Discipline of the English Fleet. Two Dutch East-India Ships taken Duke of York makes for the Coast of Holland Several Holland Merchant-Men taken Smyrna Ships sunk Lord Bellasis Governour of Tangier The Moors shew themselves without Effect English Merchants return safe home De Ruyter attempts the Barbadoes Lord Willoughby wounded by Allen. Duch at Sea Their Numbers Captain Nixon Executed June 1664. Parl. Proroguâ—d A Curiosity A Loss The Duke of York Ingaging the Dutch Fleet gain'd a very â—â—cal Victory July 1665. The Sickness Queen Mother returns for France The King at Oxford Duke of Albemarle stays in London Disaffected Officers order'd to depart the City English Fleet Rendezvouse Bankert returns De Ruyter Sails for New-found-Land The Stroaker Casualty in Norfolk A General Fast King goes to Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight and returns for Sallsbury Parl. Prorogu'd De Ruyter returns into Holland and is made Admiral Dutch loss in China Bishop of Munster threatens Holland August Dutch Assayl'd by Tyddeman in Bergen East-Indie Ships taken Sept. 4. Parliament sits in the Schools at Oxford Octob. 10. His Majesty's Speech The Commons Answer Parliament Prorogu'd Thanks of the House given to the University Duke of Ormond returns into Ireland November 1665. Term at Oxford Captain Howard 's Valour against the Dutch Dutch Embassador recall'd out of England The King's Letter to the Dutch Munster active against the Dutch King of France supplies the Dutch Munster 's Success in Holland Lunenburg excuses himself to the King of England French King declares war against England January 1665. February the King of England declares War with France Sir Christopher Mimms Chases the Dutch Pestilence abates and the King returns to White-Hall Parl. Prorogu'd Earl of Sandwich sent Embassadour into Spain Peace made with the Moors in Africa General Wrangle comes aboard Sir Jeremy Smith Nonconformist Ministers suppress'd in Scotland Parliament in Ireland Irish Traytors there examin'd King of Poland 's ill success Lubomirsky revolts German Princes quarrel Beaufort encounters the Argier Pyrates in Argier Portugals defeat the Spaniards English bravery in Portugal The Emperour's Brother deceased Peace made between the Empâ—â—oâ— and the Turk Turkish Embassadâ—r's present to the Emperor Savoy and Genoua at odds Mentz and Collen Electors reconcil'd Portugueses make an inroad into Spain Brandenburg takes Arms and expostulates with the Dutch Queen-Mother of France dies The Venetian and the Pope differ A counterfeit Messiah appears among the Jews Another Jewish Prophet in Arabia Foelix Turkish Embassadour's Secretary turns Christian. Palaffi Imbre revolts from the Emperour King of Spain dy'd March Governor of Jamaica assaults the Ducth Plantations in America Dutch conclude Peace with the Dane Swede stands firm to England April 6. Parliament Prorogu'd A Proclamation requiring Desborough and others to return into England Plotters Try'd at the Old-Baily Condemned and Executed Earl of Sandwich Arrives at Madrid Lord Hollis returns from France The Fleet ready A French Drag came to nothing Iune The Fleet divided A Fight for two days together maintain'd by the Duke of Albemarie The Fight renew'd Prince Rupert appears Sir George Ayscue Prisoner July The City furnish the King with 100000 l. The Dutch out again The English at their hâ—els Another Engagement English Loss Dutch Loss Sir Robert Holmes enters the Vly Burns 160 sail of ships He lands on the Schelling and burns a Town The Dutch at Sea again The English follow them close but stormy Weather hinders any attempt Monsiâ—ur de la Roche taken in the Ruby Tromp and De Ruyter fall out A designe upon Guernsey discovered Spies hanged The dreadful Fire of London The King and the Duke of York take great pains to prevent it Suspected persons Imprisoned An Observation The King takes care to relieve the distressed A General Fast. His Majesties Declaration concerning the Re-building of the City Val. Knight committed for dangerous advice about it Parliament reassembles They thank the King for his care in the War Vote a Supply of 1800000 l. Another Supply of 1250000 l. A Court of Iudicature Erected for deciding differences in the City His Majesties Horse-Guard burn'd Proclamation prohibiting Importation of Canary The Parliaments