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.
that the King was well rewarded for his lenity and sparing of blood which was at this place plenteously drawn from his own Army Of which of men of note were slain fewer than in any Battel whatsoever there being reckoned but three Colonel Sir William St. Leger Lieutenant-Colonel Topping and Lieutenant-Colonel Leak There were wounded Sir Iohn Greenvile the General the Earl of Brainford in the head and Sir Richard Campfield Colonel of the Queens Regiment of Horse of Common Souldiers a greater quantity than of the Parliaments neer three thousand But of their side not any person of note above a Captain and some five and twenty hundred killed The Earl of Essex had indubitably the honour as he had the pillage of the Field on which he lay all that night and having buried the Dead marched to Besiege Demington-castle where the Kings Artillery was secured by the care of the aforesaid Colonel Boys who intended not to part with them at any Rates though encompassed with so great and powerful an Army which after three several Summons three several days together assaulted it The King having marched his Army through Oxford on the thirtieth of the same month on the sixth of October Rendezvouzed them on Burlington-Green within a Mile Eastward of Oxford and so marched by Dorchester to Wallingford and forward for the relief of Dennington-castle which yet stifly defended it self Upon his approach and some resolute attempts upon their out-Guards over-night which passed with sundry Skirmishes the Enemy drew off next day and departed although they were two for one Hereabout and in this matter appears the first dissatisfaction of the Parliament as to the good management of their Arms the Earl of Essex being now suspected as careless or discontent And therefore they fell to debate concerning the Army in the House For Colonel Norton had writ a Letter to them that he had received a Warrant from a chief Commander in the Army to withdraw from Basing which was a thing to him unexpected but yet he obeyed and besides the commands of the Committee of both Kingdoms to the Army were lately much neglected and complained of This debate flew so high as it came to this question How chance the Parliament-forces permitted the Enemy to relieve Dennington-castle when they were two for one and why the Town of Newbery was quitted before the Enemy was marched away as the pretence of not fighting was because they would not quit Newbery It seems it was first resolved by the Council of State that Essex his Forces should not quit Newbery or draw out into the Field lest the King should take it for Winter-quarters but when the King should retreat from the relief of Dennington to fall upon his Rear But no such matter was prosecuted for the King possest himself of that Town as a good covert and quarter for his Army while the Parliaments Forces lay in the open Fields who being by the Kings approach to them at Hungerford and one thousand Horse sent under the same Colonel Gage from thence hastily dislodged also from the Siege of Basing where Manchester and his whole Army had shewed themselves onely departed to their Winter-quarters in Reading Henly Abington and Farnham and the King 's to Basing Odiam Newbery Blewbury and Marlborough Whilst they thus are lodged in their quarters there will be respite to look upon the Counsels and debates of the Parliament and the consultations of the King and the debates likewise in his Court and Parliament at Oxford And first the Earl of Manchester made his relation concerning the management of the business at Dennington-castle of great length in Writing which was in the nature of a Charge against his Lieutenant-General Cromwel who had fought so Fortunately for the Parliament He thereupon made answer to several particulars therein mentioned and pleaded first point of Priviledge because of the transmitting of that business from the Lords before any Charge was brought into the House of Commons This private Quarrel was presently quashed but the Publike disgusts were not so soon laid For the Independent Faction began now to appear and to be powerful in the House of Commons so that a suspicion was raised and somented by them that the Earl of Essex was more Royal than the Parliament ever intended when they gave him his Commission Upon this pretence and after several discourses it came at last to a debate wherein it was resolved to new model their Army and so by degrees to quit themselves of their General and to bethink of a new one that should not be of that dangerous greatness and honour who might not well be disputed with but to chuse one of a middle Estate betwixt the Peers and the People and so to be at last rid of all the Lords which afterwards they brought to pass To this end they began with a subtle Order That no Member of either House shall during this War enjoy and execute any Office or Command military or civil which hath been granted or conferred on any Member of either House or by any Authority derived from either House The Reasons published for this Order were these fine ones That all Commissions to Parliament-men being void the new modeling the Army may be carried on with the less exception when all are concerned alike That Military differences among the great Commanders being Parliament-men which might retard the work will hereby cease Those that shall be new elected Officers being of lesser quality and sooner subject to question and punishment and the Army also maintained at a lesser charge Forty days were limited from this Order by which all such Commissions and Commands were in the Army declared void with a resolution nevertheless expressed to pay off their Arrears which was meanly performed and at the same rate that the Earl of Essex had the Ten thousand pounds a year assigned him for the good service he had done the State out of the Lands of the Lord Capel whose Heirs now have his Honour and other Delinquents punctually paid him This Ordinance for new modelling the Army met notwithstanding with great opposition and as much after it was received into the House of alteration The Lords being instructed to soresee the evil consequences nor would they plenarily consent before the old trick of Petitions from City and Country compelled them to pass it The Title whereof was An Ordinance for the raising and maintaining of Forces for the defence of the Kingdom under the comand of Sir Thomas Fairfax He thereupon is sent for and privately comes out of the North and on the nineteenth of February was brought by four Members into the House of Commons where a Chair was set and he desired to sit therein the Speaker telling him of the great confidence and trust the Kingdom had put upon him in the Command of this Army from a sence of his Valour and Fidelity for the defence of the Laws and
business of Ireland wholly to the two Houses and will make no Peace but with their consent And further in order to this desired Personal Treaty he offers the Militia for seven years with such limitations as were expressed at Uxbridge the 6 of February 1644 all Forces disbanded and Garrisons dismantled and then all things to be in Statu quo That the Houses shall nominate the Admiral Officers of State and Iudges to hold their places during life or quamdiu se bene gessâ—rint which shall be best liked And likewise liberty to Tender Consciences behaving themselves peaceably with a general Act of Oblivion in both his Parliaments of both Kingdoms respectievly These Concessions extending likewise to his native Realm of Scotland And now his Majesty having so fully and clearly expressed his intentions and desires of making a happy and well-grounded Peace if any person shall decline that happiness by opposing of so apparent a way to attain it he will sufficiently demonstrate to all the World his intention and design can be no other than the total subversion and change of the ancient and happy Government of this Kingdom under which this Nation hath so long flourished This was followed with two Messages more the first of the 26 of February where he saith that he needs make no excuse though he sent no more Messages unto them for he very will knows he ought not to do it if he either stood upon punctilio's of honour or his own private interest but nothing being equally dear unto him as the preservation of his People he passeth by many scruples neglects and delays and once more desires a speedy Answer which he provokes by a second Message of the 3 of March complayning of their unexpected silence and offering upon the faith of both Houses for the preservation of his honour person and estate and liberty given to all who adhered to him to go quietly to their houses without any manner of Sequestration and not to be compelled to take any Oath save what was warranted by the Laws of the Land to disband his Forces and dismantle his Garrisons and with no Martial but Royal attendance return to his two Houses and there reside with them And Concludes with a tender of an Act of General Pardon and Oblivion Yet notwithstanding all these forcible and reasonable perswasions and as many obliging Caresses and Condescentions with which never Subjects or Parliaments of England were so treated they continue inflexible and rather the worse and more arrogant than at his first overture for they resolved to proceed in their own method spending their spare time in wrangling and debating their most quarrelsome Propositions and on purpose totally to obviate and preclude the Kings designe if he should so resolve of coming to London they throw these rubs in the way thither by this Ordinance in the first place That in case the King shall contrary to the advice of Parliament already given him come or attempt to come within the Lines of Communication that then the Committee of the Militia of the City of London shall have Power and are hereby enjoyned to raise such Forces as they shall think fit to prevent any Tumult that may arise by his coming and to Suppress any that shall so happen and to apprehend and secure any such as shall come with him and to secure his Person from danger That all persons whatsoever that have born Arms against the Parliament are to depart the City and Lines of Communication by the 6 of April or to be taken for Spies and proceeded against according to the Rules of War in such cases This Order to continue for a month and no longer Which shewed it was a sudden Legislative by-blow made temporary according to their present apprehension fear and occasion And then to bear the people in hand and to seem to intend their satisfaction they promise to dispatch their Propositions with all speed and to make this shew to appear more real as if they were about a Settlement they resolve to vouchsafe to give the Prince a like account of it That Commissioners shall forthwith be sent c. Which Letters and Cajole were turned afterwards into another deeper fetch or invitation upon his Majesties going to the Scotch Army of the Prince to the Parliament whom it was spread by the Faction if the King should by his complyance prevail upon the Scots to take upon them his Interest they would set up as a balance to his Majesties Authority having the Scale of indubitable Succession on their side against the quarrelled and perplexed possession of the Crown and the Person of the King on the Scots But these were but sudden emergent thoughts pro re nata and to be used onely if the Rebellion came to such extremity And here we may wonder how through so many patches of policy and the changes of designes one single Usurper attained the compleat intire result of so many inconsistent devices and practices The Prince was then departing for France when this sollicitation was intended and we shall see how soon their mind changed Exeter being delivered while the General was before Barnstable with the other part of the Army that Town and Fort also rendred it self upon Terms so that now there was nothing left the King in the West and very few places elsewhere the Garrisons that were yeilded this month being no less than six and those considerable viz. Ruthen-Castle Exeter Barnstable St. Michaels Mount Woodstock and Dunster-Castle to Major-General Mitton the General Colonel Hammond Colonel Rainsborough and Colonel Blake And this Iune also the Arch-Bishop of York declared himself for the Parliament and maintained his House for them at Purin in Wales Dudly-Castle May the thirteenth Surrendred by Colonel Levison to Sir William Brereton General Fairfax having done here marched now East-ward and on the 19 of April came to Newbury and advanced directly to Oxford from whence the King as before escaped Upon his approach he summoned a Council of War to advise which way to proceed by whom it was agreed that considering the strength of the place they should make a Line and Starve them for that it would be very hazardous to attempt it by Storm to which was added another reason pretence of their Civility lest by Batteries they should demolish the Colledges and destroy the Library by their Shot and Granadoes preceding the assault To this purpose a regular Circumvallation was finished and a great Fort raised upon Hedington hill within half a mile and less of the City Eastward thereof and a Battery likewise but to little effect Sir Thomas Glemham was Governour who to his everlasting Honour had so well defâ—nded York and made very honourable Conditions but to the wonder of Valour and Gallantry had defended the City of Carlile against the Scots which was forgot to be mentioned in its place other Actâ—ons câ—owding it out for nine moneths and upward against Sickness Famine
Souldiers and double Files clean through Westminster-hall up to the stairs of the House of Common and so through the Court of Requests to the Lords House the Souldiers looking scornfully upon many of these Members as they were instructed to know them that had sate in the absence of the Speakers and seated the Speakers respectively in their Chairs and was by them in return placed in a Chair of State where they gave him special thanks for his service to the Parliament and likewise appointed to signalize his desert a solemn day of Thanksgiving for the re-settlement of the Parliament their usual prophane and impious practice of mocking God to which they now added the abuse of the Creature at a Dinner provided for the Parliament and chief Officers of the Army by the City at whose costs they sâ—râ—eited while the Poor thereof starved through want of Trade which decayed sensibly in a short time no Bullion likewise being afterwards brought to the Mint Sir Thomas Fairfax was now likewise constituted Generalissimo so sudden their favour and so great their confidence of all the Forces and Forts in England to dispose of them at his pleasure and Constable of the Tower of London The Common Souldiers were likewise ordered a Months gratuity and the General remitted to his own discretion for what Guards he should please to set upon both Houses in such a servile fear were those Members that sate in the absence of the Speakers that they durst not dissent from any thing propounded by the contrary Faction The effect of this was that the Independents displaced immediately all Governours though placed by Ordinance of Parliament and put in men of their own party which they could not so currantly do before and by vertue of the same the Militia's of London Westminster and Southwark from whence was their sole danger which were all united before were now divided to make them the weaker the Lines of Communication dismantled that the Parliament and City mightly open to any sudden invasion that so they might have a perpetual and easie awe upon their Counsels and actions The Eleven Impeached Members before mentioned who had superseded themselves and were newly re-admitted the Army not being able to produce their Charge upon pretence of more weighty affairs now altogether withdrew and had Passes though some staid in London some for beyond Sea and other for their homes in the way whither one of them Mr. Nichols was seized on and basely abused by Cromwel another Sir Philip Stapleton one who had done them very good service passed over to Calice where falling sick as suspected of the Plauge he was turned out of the Town and perished in the way near to Graveling whose end was inhumanely commented on by our Mamaluke like Saints who inscribed it to the Divine Vengeance Having thus Levelled all things before them they proceed to an abrogation of all those Votes Orders and Ordinances that had passed in the absence of the said Speakers This was first carried in the Lords House without any trouble the Peers that sate there that time absenting themselves so that there was not more than seven Lords to make up their House By these an Ordinance was sent to the Commons for their concurrence to make all Acts Orders and Ordinances passed from the 26 of Iuly to the sixth of August following when the Members did return Void and Null ab initio This was five or six days severally and fully debated and as often put to the question and carried in the Negative yet the Lords still renewed the same Message to them being prompted and instigated by the Army rejecting their Votes nor would acquiesce but put them to Vote again contrary to the priviledge of the House of Commons nor could it pass for all the threats of the Sollicitour-General Saint Iohn one mancipated to the Faction nor the fury of Hazelrigg when he used these words Some Heads must fly off and he feared the Parliament of England would not save the Kingdom of England but that they must look another way for safety To which sence spoke Sir Henry Vane junior Thomas Scot Cornelius Holland Prideaux Gourdon Sir Iohn Evelin junior and Henry Mildway all Regicides and Contrivers of it until the Speaker perceiving some plain apparent enforcements must be used pulled a Letter out of his pocket from the General and General Council of the Army for that was now their stileâ— pretending he then received it which soon terrified the Members either by withdrawing themselves or sitting mute as if they had been Planet-struck into a compliance so that the next morning August the 20. in a thin House the Ordinance passed the procuring thereof being palpably and notoriously forced and Arbitrary This Letter to the Speaker was received by him over-night as was conceived with directions to conceal it if the Question had passed in the Affirmative But that not fadging it was was produced in the nick accompanied with a Remonstrance full of villanous language against those that continued sitting while the two Speakers were with the Army calling them pretended Members and taxing them in General with Treason Treachery and Breach of Trust declaring that if they shall presume to come there before they have cleared themselves that they did not give their assents to such and such Votes they should sit at their Peril and he would take them as Prisoners of War and try them at a Council of War Having thus invalidated or annihilated those Laws the Law-makers could not think to escape untouched Iudgement began with the House of Lords whose degenerate remnant upon an Impeachment carried up by Sir Iohn Evelin the younger of High Treason in the name of the Commons of England for their levying War against the King Parliament and Kingdom committed the Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Middlesex the Lords Berkley Willoughby of Parham Hunsdon and Maynard to the Black Rod. Then divers of the House of Commons were suspended as Mr. Boynton others committed to the Tower as Recorder Glyn and Sir Iohn Maynard but the wrath of the Army â—ell principally on the Citizens the chief of whom were viz. the Lod Mayor Sir Iohn Gayre Alderman Adams Alderman Langham Alderman Bunch and Sheriff Culham with others these without any more ado than an Impeachment preferred against them by Miles Corbet one of the Regicides and Chair-man to the Close-Committee of Examinations to the House of Lords were never being called to any Bar sent Prisoners to the Tower of London where they lay a long time and could never obtain a Trial but at last sued out a precious and precarious liberty so that by this means the Spirit of Presbytery was quite daunted and the Independent Faction absolutely ruled the roast and were paramount Poyntz and Massey fled over to Holland and so escaped Having concluded this Contrast or Feud betwixt them we will see with what aspect they regard their Soveraign upon whom
Cromwel and his Complices and out of commiseration to those Noble persons that suffered this persecution who though perhaps the Commonwealth may recover this loss by timely recruits of Literature do no doubt irremediably rue this their violent Revulsion out of that Bosome where they might and ought to have been cherished to a competent vigour enabling them to serve the Commonwealth and their own thus enforced necessities Sed quo vehor By these and the like distempers and pains in every part of it England began now to be Heart-sick and those ambulatory running Humours which spread through the whole mass of the people to Center at last in the Metropolis the City of London which had more successfully broke out but for the opposition it met with from the then Lord Mayor Alderman Warner Pennington's own second a Factious and Seditious person who discountenanced it by the Authority of his place appearing at the first hubbub thereof openly against it The manner was as followeth On the 9 of April being the Lords-day a number of Apprentices as was usual were playing in Moor-fields in the afternoon for the Parliament had abrogated all Hâ—lydays and by a venerable Order had appointed one day in every Month for their Recreation in lieu of those Festivals after much coil and many elaborate Petitions and reference to and reports from Committees of both Houses concerning them which being told to a Company of Trained-Bands then upon the Guards whose Officers were some precise Schismaticks they came into the Fields and commanded them to depart which they refusing or delaying they fired some Pieces at them whereupon the Boys incensed took up Stones and couragiously fell upon them and routed them taking from them their Ensign which in a tumultuous and childish bravery they marched with into the City and being increased with additions like themselves affronted the Mayor and made him hastily retire to his own House for Sanctuary whither they followed him and seized on one of the Drakes he had planted for his defence and thence marched to the several Gates which they likewise secured more especially Ludgate which lay neerest their Enemy the Army who were then quartered at White-Hall and the Mews they guarded with the same Drake The City remaining the rest of that day and night in great terrour and confusion the Rabblé crying out for God and King Charles but no Person of Quality undertaking their Conduct or to bring them into Order and Discipline In the mean while the Army-Guards take the Alarm and conceiving it dangerous to venture into the City by night kept themselves in a readiness for the morning when Sir Thomas Fairfax himself entred by Aldersgate with Horse and Foot who fell a scouring the Streets and driving this unarmed and ungoverned Multitude before them wounding and killing divers innocent persons Men Women and Children in a cruel and hostile manner until they came to Leaden-hall where the Apprentices entred and endeavoured to maintain it But the avenues thereof being found defenceless and themselves not strong enough besides want of necessaries requisite thereunto they wisely and more prudently than any thing they did before slipt away and shifted for themselves few or none falling into the Armies hand but some upon enquiry afterward in the beginning of the Commonwealth were discovered and arrained of High Treason for levying War c. Two of whom a Vintner and a Meal-man Kensey and Matthews were convicted and condemned but by the mediation of Alderman Tichborn one of the best deeds likewise he ever did were reprieved and by the same means at last pardoned and assumed by him for a demonstration of his goodness to be the guard to his person on publike Trayning days This Insurrection or Riot rather was quickly noised to the uttermost parts of the Nation where it was reported and received with great advantage as we usually fancy and credit what we expect to the encouraging of all honest people to rise now and follow this example and redeem and rescue their Religion Laws Lives and Liberties now at stake for neither the several nor united practices of Parliament and Army Presbyterian nor Independents could impose upon them any longer Nor was there an easie belief given to this check of that Tumult but was supposed an Artifice and one of their old Lies with which they stuffed their News-Books since the whole Nation saw how they had irritated the City by their insolent carriage towards them in changing their Militia c. so that it was undoubtable they would embrace and improve the first opportunity Whereupon as the next Scene of this years Tragedy Colonel Laughorn Poyer and Powel who had done notable service for the Parliament in Wales rose in Pembroke-shire and Flint-shire to neer the number of 8000 men They had been by the Council of the Army which was Authorized always by the Parliament ordered to disband as being men of better and surer principles than they durst confide in in order to their subsequent designs which they understanding the drift of refused and flew to their Arms and for the strengthening of their Party Declare for the settlement of the King and Kingdom and gave notice to the Prince who then issued out Commissions as General for his Father of their intentions and present posture having secured â—enby-Castle and the Town and Castle of Pembroke to the same end This sudden and threatning defection put the Juncto at Derby-house to their dumps when another Express brought news that the like effects were to be looked for from North-Wales where Sir Iohn Owen was risen with a Force and had defâ—ated and taken Prisoner the High-Sheriff that opposed him and that Sir Nicholas Kemish an eminent Cavalier had likewise surprized Chepstow-Castle so thaâ— all Wales was like to be lost without a blow strucken from the late Conquerors who therefore hastened away Forces to re-establish their Dominion and suppress these dangerous beginnings Over these Colonel Horton was now Commissioned for the reducing those new and old Royalists Cromwel being if occasion should require preparing to second him Horton with the Stafford and Worcester-Forces and part of the Army quartering thereabouts advanceth against Laughorne his whole power consisting of not above 3000 men with whom making more hast than good speed a party thereof being under the Command of Colonel Fleming fell unawares into an Ambuscado and were most of them cut off the rest sheltring themselves in a neighbouring Church were forced to render at discretion which Fleming seeing and despairing that he should be able to answer this oversight at a Council of War or for some other cause laid violent hands upon himself and so dyed Horton no way daunted with this inauspicious entrance marched up and faced the Enemy who shewed themselves upon the hills and places of advantage making their Hubbubs to call the Country to their assistance In their descent whence into more even ground the Parliamentarians
the Execution of the like Condemnation as also did Sir Iohn Owen who with a Britain confidence denied every tittle of the Charge against him especially that part relating to the death or Master Loyd the Sheriff of Cardigan and came off with the same danger and the like success as the Lord preceding whose Fate being referred to the Parliament proved fortunate but by the decision of one Vote 24 to 24 being divided in the question of his life and as I Remember it was the saving double voice of Lenthall the Speaker Sir Iohn Owen was carried more affirmatively the rest all in the Negative being turned off with their Ladies and their Relations Petitions to the same High Court who to shew their civility more than their mercy were pleased to gratifie the Ladies with a respit of two days as long as their Commission and power lasted On the 9th of March the Duke the Earl of Holland and Lord Capel being guarded from Saint Iames's to Sir Robert Cottons House the next fatal Stage of late to the Scaffold were severally brought to the Palace-Yard through the Hall their Judges then sitting and looking fore-right upon their Execution The Duke ascended first and to give him his due he kept a good seeming decorum in his last words and actions The Earl of Holland succeeded to this bloody Theatre who very Christianly penitently and compassionately enough prepared him for his end justifying his honest intentions in that his first and last action for the King and intimating that Duty we all owed to our present Soveraign and so suffered for him But the Lord Capel like a true Christian Heroe as he came last so did he sum up all both in his Speech Countenance and Gestures that was good praise-worthy and generous in them both resolutely asserting his own actions his late Soveraigns Cause and his present Majesties Rights recommending him to his people as the great example of true English worth and as the onely hope of the Kingdom So as with Sampson he may be said to have done these Philistins more harm at his Death than in all his Life raising and renewing the desires of the people after so deserving a Prince This Tragedy being over they resume afresh the debate of what persons were yet within their Clutches any way obnoxious to their Cannibal-Idol of Justice who could not be pleased but with whole Hecatombs and therefore the Noble Sir Iohn Stowel and Judge Ienkins those Champions of Law and Loyalty with Captain Brown Bushell were next ordered to be put in that fatal List of Traytors against their Commonwealth the Marquess of Winchester and Bishop Wren who had lain prisoner from the beginning of our Troubles hardly escaping the like dangerous qualification which was upon a â—orged information intended likewise against Major-General Brown and Sir Iohn Clotworthy and to that purpose the Case of all those secluded and thereafter imprisoned Members was ordered to a Committee to make a discrimination of their offences and render those two the most liable to their severity As for those who had escaped their hands by departing the Kingdom they satisfied their indignation by a decree of perpetual Banishment and present death upon the return of any so sentenced The chief of these besides the Kings Majesty whom God long preserve and the Duke of York c. were the Earl of Bristol the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marquesses of Newcastle and Worcester Sir Edward Hide Lord Culpeper Lord Widdrington and some others who were very well satisfied they could do no more to them and were then following â—he hopeful fortunes of the King The rest of that unfortunate party were put to Ransome a Fine being set upon their Heads proportionable to their Estates to be paid within such times or else to be in the same predicament with the condemned Having thus made good their Conspiracy or by them stiled Agreement of bringing Delinquents to Justice that the exactness of their dire performances might credit thâ—ir intentions and resolutions and make them seem to the Vulgar the most impartial lovers of their Lives and Liberties but rather of their Estates they proceeded in the political part of Government by filling up their Committee of Estates to the number of 41. who were ordered particularly to enter their Assent to whatsoever the Juncto had done in reference to the King and Lords before they should act in that Committee and Cromwel thereupon reported to the House being impowered by them that of that just number 22 had refused to engage as to what was past but would joyn with them for the future and acknowledge the Supreme Power to be vested in them There could no expedient be found to salve this sore so they were contented to cicatrize it and gently lay aside all disputes or further contrasts about it but though they past it without doors they would not so within but totally precluded any further pretences of the Members of taking their places in Parliament who in some numbers returned to Westminster for they Voted That all such as â—ad absented themselves from the 5 of December should not sit till further order which was never vouchsafed till such claimers had given evidence of their adherence and closing with them In this same Month to take away the same dignity and priviledge as the House of Lords was to them from the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and to make the Government of London à la mode Democratical they ordered a Quorum of the Common-Council to act without the Lord Mayor or the said Aldermen if they should refuse to joyn with them and not long after to put another affront though distant some space of time being the 24 of March ensuing upon the Mayor they order him to proclaim their Act for abolishing Kingly Government which he disdainfully and generously refusing his Lady likewise not suffering their Messenger that brought it to drink in her House but bidding him return to his Masters for his Wages upon the report thereof by Alderman Atkins a Member of their House they Voted him Imprisonment in the Tower for two Months and to be degraded of his Honour and disfranchised and to pay 2000 l. to be distributed among the Poor of Westminster the Hamlets and Southwark which was rigidly levied and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Judges was Elected in his place for whose choice at his presentment for their approbation the House gave the City thanks and ordered the Barons of the Exchequer to swear him in these words That he should be faithful to the Commonwealth as it was now established in the Government of the City where he in state Proclaimed the said Act though the people hooted and reviled it and cryed aloud God save the King and would have made worse work but that the Guards of Horse awed them Alderman Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Chambers for absenting themselves and justifying their conscientious refusal
an Address from the Leicester-shire Levites of gratulation upon this their success and a disclaiming and renouncing of any hand in that business which was feared would prove most Fatal to the whole Presbytery whose designe this was vogued to be by the insulting Sectary who could not endure to hear of Tithes which the Rump in policy had lately Voted pro tempore But Lambert's ambition interposed betwixt them and danger for a Paper sent to Colonel Ashfield Cobbet and Lieutenant-Colonel Duckenfield from other of Lambert's Officers coming to the notice of the Rump they sent to demand it and having it delivered presently understood the device of it and after a quick debate of this Petition Address and Proposals angrily Voted That to have any more General Officers in the Army than are already setled by the Parliament was unnecessary burdensome and dangerous to the Commonwealth Notwithstanding the Officers met in solemn Council about it Lambert being come to Town and sitting there in person and acting his own designe among them and bidding fair for it among the Rump the ablest of whom he had made sure to himself and What need was there of the other Haslerig who was the most formidable being known to dare and say more than he would do as Cromwel's carriage towards him had sufficiently evidenced At this Council the Petition was concluded on and ordered to be presented to the Parliament on the 4 of October by Major-General Desborough which he accordingly delivered to the Speaker as the sense of the Army which coming in such attendance and the countenance and awe of their Masters made them put on another face and very fairly answer the Sword-Grandee with a Complement of taking it into their first Consideration nothing to intervene save the Dinner the City gave them both Parliament and Army-Officers after a Sermon preached at Christ-Church upon their Thanksgiving October the sixth at Grocers-Hall for the Cheshire-Victory where they eat in spite and would have better become a Fray than a Feast though the Army-friends in London designed this Treat to conciliate the Rump by their surfeiting on the Memory of this day which they owed to Lambert as he that freed them from a worser danger than his whatsoever designements but the result was they fed heartily and thanked the City next day heartily by Members whereof Atkins was one sent to take the other repast and Bottle of this high Entertainment and withal the City obtained the favour of having liberty to chuse a new Lord Mayor which was Sir Thomas Alleyn which had been before denied and Ireton Voted to continue it again so that the City-Cost was well expended An Answer was now again required to be given to this Representation as it was now called and thereupon the Members who had had under their consideration an Act for Assessment of 120000 l. per mensem which they had perfected some while before and let it rest as being informed of this device of Lambert on purpose to leave him Moneyless and without any support to his Ambition very closely and as cunningly applied themselves to the debate of the Representation which consisting of seven or eight immaterial desires concerning maimed Souldiers Widows the Militia-pay Lambert's Officers rewards and such like had this onely substantial Article that the Parliament would Commission a General whom they named viz. Charles Fleetwood The Rump answered readily in the affirmative to the rest but to this Choak-pear they by Resolve stoutly declared That the Army as other Free-men have right to Petition but must take care both in the manner and matter of it and that the Wisdom of the Parliament is to be referred to in all matters and what they had or should decree and this for answer to their demand of a General and withal Voted hereupon as knowing they were betrayed by some of their own selves That it is the duty of every Member to inform to his knowledge of any thing that concerns the publick safety and foreseeing the imminent danger of a force ordered the Council of State to seize all publick Papers whatsoever and at the same instant passed an Act which did the feat that it should be Treason for any person or persons to levy Money without the consent of Parliament Before the whole answer could be framed Lambert not liking a word of that about the General which was the main caused his Representation to be Printed that the equity and justice of it might be publick and justifie his future Actions for though Fleetwood was mentioned to that Supreme Command it was resolved as easie a thing to supplant him as Richard if the Rump had consented to the Proposals This no sooner appeared together with a Letter delivered by Okey a friend to his fellow-Regicides to the House that was sent him from some Officers of the Army to the same purpose but the Rump Voted October the 12 that the several Commissions of Colonels Iohn Lambert Iohn Desborough Iames Berry Thomas Kelsey Richard Ashfield Ralph Cobbet William Packer Robert Barrow and Major Richard Creed who subscribed the same Letter should be vacated Resolved also that the Government of the Army should be managed by Commissioners That an Act be brought in for repealing the Act whereby Fleetwood was constituted Lieutenant-General and Commander in chief and that Fleetwood Ludlow General Monke Haslerig Walton Morly and Overton do execute the powers granted to Fleetwood until the 12 of February four months from the date of this Resolve as also the next Officers in the respective Regiments of these Colonels do succeed in their places Lieutenant-Colonel Campfield to Lambert and so in the rest and the Serjeant at Arms was ordered to attend these Cashiered Officers with these Orders and Resolutions In the mean while Haslerig in a great heat and Herbert Morley his Son-in-law and other the Commissioners then present for the Army by Order sare up all night in the Speakers Chamber adjoyning to the House and issued out several Commands to such Forces and Commanders as they thought would stand by them resolving to oppose Force to Force and be baffled no more with this Legionary Spirit that had haunted and plagued them so often But Lambert was awake also and at the same time marched several Regiments into King-street Westminster and possessed himself of all the avenues to the Palace such Forces as these Commissioners had got to their side being forced to march round St. Iames Wall in the night time and so through Tuttle-street into the Abby and St. Margarets Westminster Church-yard both parties standing upon their Guard till the Morning October 13. at which time about eleven a Clock the Speaker coming to the House in his Coach was stopped neer the Gate that leads into the Palace by Lieutenant Col. Duckenfield and his Coach turned and sent back Lambert on Horseback then faced the Regiment of Morley and Mosse in the said Church-yard and much stiffness and ill looks there passed between
of Fact will sufficiently shew this Transaction of the General with the several Counties and the Commissioners of the Rump Scot and Robinson appointed to wait on him meerly to sift out and discover his intentions I will give the Reader a bare Journal of the Affairs as they passed But before I proceed the Reader is to take notice That our Soveraign having been highly treated at his return from St. Iean de Luz at Paris by the Duke of Orleans and regarded now as the Monarch of great Britain such assured confidence there was of his Restitution passed in great State publiquely to Brussels where His return was no less magnificently welcomed and there abode till the dissolution of this Parliament the Rump which now as their last Engine and dying Efforts are most vigorous against Monarchy and its fortress of Loyalty had under their consideration an Act for Renuntiation and Abjuration of the Title and Right of the King and the whole Line of King Iames. Oliver had proceeded to the disanulling it this to the damning of the Nation who had sworn to maintain it But rather than sink as they plainly saw the King would at last be too hard for them by the late Commotions and Insurrections in his behalf therefore they bethought themselves of this Italian revenge to ruine the Bodies and Souls together of their Enemies this was afterwards prosecuted while the General was among them and a Petition delivered by Barebones and other Good-Old-Cause-men and Fanaticks and they most abominably thanked for this their love and care of the Common-wealth At the same time Sir Iohn Roll and other Devonshire Gentlemen listed and engaged all that Country upon the account of a Free-Parliament according to the Cabal betwixt the General and him Mr. Morrice now Secretary and others And this strength the General relyed on upon all events as his own Country-men and doubtless this resolution of that County was of very great influence in the ensuing Affairs Scot and Robinson were sent to cajole the General with another Letter of thanks to him as also another was sent to Major-General Morgan Col. Sydenham a Member of the Committee of Safety and of Oliver Cromwels's Council discharged the House A tumult at Exeter about a Free-Parliament Commissioners and Judges appointed for the several Courts Alderman Fouk Vincent and Colonel Bromfield ordered by the City to meet and congratulate the General The General at Nottingham came our a Declaration of the Parliament against Kingship but not a word of Dâ—ssolving themselves or filling up the House Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher for tendring a Declaration of the County of Berk-shire for a Free-Parliament were committed to the Tower which fored a Vote for Qualifications c. The Lady Monck arrived at White-hall the Minerva and great Patroness of this grand design General Monck arrived at Leicester and was met there by Scot and Robinson who sent the Parliament a copy of his Letter to the Devonshire Gentlemen great seeming kindness past between them An Act passed the House being a Bill of Assessment of One hundred thousand pounds a Moneth for six Moneths throughout England Scotland and Ireland they had made it at first for Twelve but it passed at last for Six At Harborough the General was met with the London-Commissioners to whom he speaks fair the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire and the Major of the Town congratulate him The Lord Falkland came thither also with the Oxfordshire Address for a Free-Parliament attended by the Gentry of that County and had a fair reception at Stony Stratford the Gentlemen of Bucks the like at Dunstable and at St. Albans he received more of the same nature from the County of Norfolk by the hands of the Lord Richardson and Sir Horatio Townsend and other places to which he answered ambiguously and fairly giving them all civil and most obliging Reception even to the Apprentices of London who came thither with a Petition of the same nature the General parting with the expressions of his care and endeavour for their and the Cities good and was uncovered all the while Thence he desired the Parliament that the Army in Town for fear of Infection be distributed into the Country to make room for his own Forces about which Tumults arose in the Guards at St. Pauls and more pertinaciously at Somerset-house which caused the General being invited also by the Rump to make extraordinary hast thither Several Reports made to the House concerning Qualifications and Elections On the second of February he Rendezvouzed that morning at Finchly-heath where he drew up his Army having marched from Barnet and by St. Iohns-street and Holborn down Chancery-lane came with his Army into the Strand where at Somerset-house he was met by the Speaker They saluted each other with the Title of Lord-General The General afterwards waited on him to his Coach and then to refresh but he refused White-hall for his Quarters Next day after he was conducted to his audience at the House where he had a Speech made to him by the Speaker being a thankful Commemoration of his services to which he modestly replied refusing to sit in the Chair placed for him by their order declining all the praises given him as he never intended any service for them but desiring them to be very tender of the Gentry of this Kingdom which would prove their Interest and of Oaths and Engagements c. so was with great respects reconducted and attended to his Lodging where he continued in good intelligence with them till their politick Revenge put him upon this Adventure to make a Feud between him and the City for the City refusing to pay the money assessed upon them by the late Act of 100000 l. per mensem the Rump order the Gates and Portcullices to be pulled down by the General and several Citizens to be apprehended viz. Sir William Vincent Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir Laurence Bromfield Sir Richard Ford Major Cox Mr. Penning Lieutenant-colonel Iackson Mr. Spencer Major Chamberlain and Mr. Brown a Grocer in Wood-street and sent to the Tower which the General performed They likewise ordered the discontinuance of the Common Council for that year and proceeded to nominate another and to settle a new Militia The Gates were accordingly pulled down the thumps of the Hammers even piercing the hearts of the Citizens Such an affront and revenge never any of our Princes in his greatest rage did to this place where likewise the Army was perforce Quartered But after the pulling down of the Gates the General sent a Letter to the Parliament acquainting them how grievous and distastful the action was to his nature intimating also the great Merit of the City towards them throughout the War and on Friday after several Conferences managed before him by some of the secluded Members and City and others of the Rump He pretending his desire of satisfaction for their Exclusion of the evidence of danger of their readmission
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
in private in all Duties we owe to God and Man to amend our lives and each other to go before another in the Example of a real Reformation that the Lord may turn away his Wrath and heavy Indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdoms in Truth and Peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighâ—y God the Searcher of all Hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all Hearts shall he disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end And to bless our desires and proceedings with such success as may be deliverance and safety to his People and encouragement to the Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the York of Antichristian Tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant to the Glory of God the Inlargement of the Kingdom of Iesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths It consisted just of 666 Words as some curious Criticks observed the number of the Beast in the Revelations Most certain it is the baiting and disputing of it made the Field the Pulpit and the Press a sad Theatre The good Progress was made by this Parliament in this way to return us where we were did highly urge the discontents of the late Anarchy and their anger suggested to them some hopes of undoing all again and in this revenge they parted themselves because they saw the Presbyterians concerned who either must comply or equally Suffer with them by such proceedings and therefore new designs were meditated and divers Conspiracies framed and Councels and Meetings had by several of that Party who afterward were seized into custody after they had vainly endeavoured and projected new troubles such were Praise God Barebone Samuel Moyer Colonel Salmon Major Wildman late Alderman Ireton since secured in a remote Castle Major Hains and others some of them since released and discharged by the Kings favour In the like manner as the renowned Montross had been interred so with proportionable solemnity the two most Loyal Commanders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were re-interred at Colchester the Seventh of Iune the same day thirteen year they took up Arms for the King in that Town which extremity they nobly defended the vicine Gentry and Townsmen in Arms and Mourning attending their Hearses both Corps being laid in the Vault set apart for the Sepulchry of Sir Charles his Family The Earl of Sandwich the Streights and the Levant-seas being infested with the Pirats of Algier Tunis and Tripoly notwithstanding our late League by the â—right of Porta Ferino for since the departure of Captain Stoaks who was left by Blake in 1657. with eight Ships and returned in 1659. the old Piâ—â—y was frequently exercised was sent with a Fleet of War to reduce them 〈◊〉 better 〈◊〉 He set sail with his Vice-Admiral Sir Iohn Lawson leaving 〈…〉 Admiral Sir Richard Stayner on the 19 of Iune and the 29 of Iuly câ—me before that Port of Algier sending in a civil Message to the Dy or Bashaw 〈◊〉 the place that he came to confirm the League made formerly between us 〈…〉 and a Treaty accordingly ensued but they refusing to deliver the â—â—pâ—ves except upon hard conditions and not to be brooked by those who had made them feel the smart of their former Insolence the General weighed and stood into the Harbour but they ever since their former disaster had with new Fortifications and a Mole with Forts so secured themselves that after the firing of some of their Ships and doing some Execution on them it was advised the Fleet should make out again which they did with the loss of some men and the Wounding and maiming of others as also of their Yards Sails and Rigging After which Enterprize the Earl leaving Sir Sohn Lawson to block them up and their Thieving-trade being stopt departed with part of his Fleet to the Coast of Spain to Tangier and so at length to Lisbon according to his Orders In the mean time the Parliament at the special instance desire of the King had passed an Act for Confirmation of the Act of Oblivion which being done by the Free Parliament not called by his Majesties Writ was not thought by the guilty valid and security enough to them They likewise ratified most or all of the other Laws Enacted by the same Authority They framed another for Regulating Corporations Impowring Commissioners to displace such as bore Offices and were any way suspected as Ill-willers to the Government and his Majesties Authority or should refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy or finally which was the onely Test if they would not renounce the Solemn League and Covenant as unlawful in it self and illegally imposed the Wisdom of the Parliament knowing what Seeds were sown of that Thistle and how untractable it was During this Debate of the House Mr. Pryn could not refrain against the priviledge of the House of which he was a Member from publishing of certain Reasons against the said Bill as contrary to Magna Charta which the House being informed of the Serjeant at Arms was ordered to seize the Printer and Mr. Pryn owning of it he was brought to the Bar and rebuked by the Speaker but upon his submission and the Houses favourable reflection on his great endeavours to the Restitution of the King he was remitted the censure and punishment he had by this oversight incurred not considering the necessity and Peace of the Kingdom required this course and how usual and constant it was with the Usurpers whereas now the Supreme Legislative Power who may and do substitute Repeal and Enact such Laws as the times require had thought fit to establish this There passed also another Act repealing that of the 1 Caroli 7. against the Prelacy and the Bishopâ— medling in civil Judicature and Affairs debarring them also from their Priviledges to fit as Peers in the House of Lords to all which Honours they were by this Repeal restored to all purposes as if the same had never been Enacted a little before which the whole Order of them were magnificently feasted at Sir Richard Brown's the Lord-Mayor his house the 25 of Iune The Free-Parliament having respited the punishments of several of the Regicides as well those that lay under Condemnation as others not so fully guilty of that Crime the Houses resumed the matter and caused the Lord Munson Sir Henry Mildmay and Mr. Robert Wallop to be brought to the Bar where their Estates were declared confiscate and they degraded from all Titles and Arms of Gentility and farther Sentenced to be drawn from the Tower through the City of London to Tyburn on the 30 of Ianuary next and so back again with Halters about their Necks upon Sledges and to suffer perpetual Imprisonment Sir Iames Harrington was to have been in this
and that he did not receive the profits of it But the Emperour denied he knew of his being a Plenipotentiary and that it was not for one of his Subjects to take up Interests contrary to the Interest of his Soveraign and would not hear of his Release During these Treaties the King of France had possess'd himself of a great part of the Palatinate and had put a Garrison into Germerstein of 300 Souldiers yet proffered the Elector if he would stand Neuter to satisfie him for all his Damages and to withdraw his Souldiers out of Gemerstein and put it into the Hands of any Neutral Prince of the Empire which he refus'd upon Caprara's coming to his Succour The Switzers to hinder the King of France from coming into Burgundy offered that Burgundy might stand Neutur proffering themselves security that that Province should punctually observe the Neutrality and that they would guard the Avenues into it against any Forces of the Empire And thus stood Affairs at the end of this year Anno Dom. 1674. PEace being now concluded between the English and the Dutch this Year was not memorable for much at home The first motion of the Court this Moneth was to Windsor where the Earl of Mulgrave was Install'd Knight of the Garter This Moneth also the King by his Embassador the Lord Lockhart offer'd his Mediation between the King of France and the Queen of Spain to compose the differences betwixt them And to the end he might be no way concern'd in their differences by publick Proclamation forbid any of his Subjects to enter into the Service of any forrain Prince He also set forth a Proclamation forbidding the broaching and uttering false and scandalous News as also against any that should talk impertinently of the Government or the Governours In May Sir Lionel Ienkins and Sir Ioseph Williamson return'd to London from Cologne Who were followed into England by the Baron de Reed Van Benninghen and Van Haren Extraordinary Embassadors from the States of Holland In Iune came a strict Proclamation against the Jesuites and Friests Commanding their discovery and apprehension and promising five pounds for every one that should be discovered and taken Toward the beginning of September upon Resignation of the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Mâ—nmouth was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge The Ceremony was performed with all its circumstances at Worcester-house in London Not long after the Right Honourable the Earl of St. Albans having resign'd into his Majesty's Hands the Staff of Office of Lord-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold his Majesty was pleas'd to give it to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arlington in recompence of his long and faithful Services and particularly for having performed to his Majesties satisfaction for the space of twelve years the Offiâ—e of Principal Secretary of State which his Majesty was pleas'd to conâ—er at the same time upon the Right Honourable Sir Ioseph Williamson Knight one of the Clerks then of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council for his long and faithful service in the said Office under Sir Edward Nicholas and the Earl of Arlington and in his place Philip Lloyd Esq was sworn one of the Clerks of the Privy-Council Upon the 22 of September his Majesty was pleas'd to cause a Proclamation to be published for the further prorogation of the Parliament from the 10 th of November till the 13 th of April ensuing In the beginning of December the Earls of Ossory and Arlington together with the Heer Odike not long before Extraordinary Embassador in England arrived at the Hagne where they went to pay their Respects to the Prince of Orange About the same time was concluded between his Majesties Commissioners and those of the States General of the Vnited Provinces a Treaty Marine for all parts of the World in pursuance of the 8 th and 9 th Articles of the late Treaty of Peace made at Westminster the February before and was after ratifi'd by the States in the beginning of February following Presently after His Majesty having been graciously pleased to Translate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Crew Bishop of Oxford and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty to the Sea of Durham made choice of the Honourable Dr. Compton Brother to the Right Honourable the Earl of Northampton to succeed in his place Toward the middle of December His Majesty having been pleased at his entertainment at Guild-Hall when Sir Robert Viner was newly Lord-Mayor of the City graciously and freely to condescend to the acceptance of the Freedom of London in the Chamberlains Office from the Hands of Sir Thomas Player Chamberlain beyond the Example of any of his Predecessors The said Sir Robert Viner Lord-Mayor thereupon having first obtained his Majesties leave presented his Majesty in the Name of the City with the Copy of the Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal of the Freedom hanging at it enclosed in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds Toward the beginning of Ianuary Her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christen'd at St. Iames's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Catherina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being God-father and the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne God-mothers The Term begining at the latter end of Ianuary Sir Francis North the King's Attorney-General was sworn Lord Chief-Justice of the Common-Pleas in the room of Sir Iohn Vaughan deceased In the beginning of February his Majesty caused several Orders and Resolutions concerning Papists to be publish'd That the Conviction of Popish Recusants should be encouraged quickned and made Effectual That no Person of what Condition or Quality soever should presume to say Mass in any part of this Kingdom That all Persons born within His Majesties Dominions being in Orders by Authority deriv'd from the Church of Rome should depart the Kingdom by a short time prefix'd That none of His Majesties Subjects should presume to send their Children to be Educated in any Popish Colledges or Seminaries upon a strict Penalty That none of his Majesties Subjects being Popists or so reputed should presume to come into His Majesties Presence into White Hall St. James's or any place where His Majesties Court should be And Lastly That care should be taken for the suppression of Conventicles Forrein Affairs 1674. The first thing that presented it self of most Importance beyond Sea this Year was that the King of France gave order to quit all his Conquests in the Netherlands belonging to the States of Holland except Maestricht The States also to be rid of so great a trouble as the Bishop of Munsteri makes Peace with him the Baron D' Issola signing the Articles on the behalf of the Emperor The chief Articles whereof were That the Bishop should restore all places taken during the War That the Treaty of Cleves should be punctually observ'd And that the King of
to attend him Cromwel the chief conspirator in seizing the King Cromwel sets up the Levellers They designe to lay all things in common Sir Thomas Fairfax his Leter to the Parliament The Kings Message concerning it The perplexed thoughts of the Parliament and City about it The Duke of Richmond Dr. Sheldon and Dr. Hammond suffered to have access to the King The Army declare The Parliament demur to the suspending of their Members They forbeare sitting of themselves The Army quote thâ— Cases of the Earl of Strafford Archâ—B of Canterbury and Ld. Keeper Finch The King and Parliament over-awâ—d by Cromwel his remarkable expression His Majesties Meditation on the designes of the several factions His Majesty desires his Childrens company Sir Thomas Fairfax his Letter to the Parliament concerning the Kings desire of seeing his Children A Letter from the King to the Duke of York inclosed The King enjoy his Children company two days His Nephew the Prince Elector Palatine visits him The Armies designe upon the City of London The Citizens Petition the Lord Mayor in behalf of the King and the Army The solemn â—nâ—agement of the City A Declaration of the Lords and Commons forbidding subscriptions to the Engagement The rashness and precipetancy of the City The Preâ—tices and Râ—â—â—le Tumult the Parliament-House The Parl. 〈…〉 Speakâ—rs The former Speaker to the Commons mâ—naced by Cromwel Both the old Speakers go to the Army The Lord Grey of Wark châ—â—en Speaker to the Lords Mr. Hen. Pelham Speaker for the Commons The Parl. Vote the re-admission of the 11 Membeâ—s The Committee of Safety set up Tumults in London about listing of Forces The Army approach within 10 miles of London The Kings Declaration clearing himself of any designâ— of war He as a Neuter attends the Issue of Divine Providence 〈◊〉 Fugitive Members sit in Council with the Army The Armies Declaration Fairfax sends warrants for the Trained-Bands to march against the City The City submits on dishonourable Conditions The Fugitive Members reseated Aug. 6. and the former Speakers placed by the General The Parl. appoint a day of Thanksgiving for their reâ—settlement The Army feasâ—ed by the City Sir Thomas Fairfax made Generalissimo and Constable of the Tower The Souldiers ordered a months gratuity The 11 imâ—eachâ—d Membâ—rs withâ—raâ— One of them viz. Mr. Nichols sâ—ized on by Cromwel and abâ—â—ed Sir Philip Stapleton passeth over to Calice and dyes miserablâ— All Votes Ordâ—â—s anâ— Oâ—â—inances passed in the 〈◊〉 of the Speakers aâ—togateâ— The Sollicitour-General St. John Hazelrigg Sir Hen. Vane Junior Tho. Scot Cornelius Holland Prideaux Gourdon Sir John Evelin â—unior and Henry Mildway all Regicides and busie contrivers of the Armies designes The Ordinance of Null and Void passed August 20. 〈…〉 Citizens of London impeacheâ— and comâ—â—â—tâ—d The impeachment 〈◊〉 by Sir John Evelin junior and Miles Corbet Poyntz and Massey 〈◊〉 to Holland The King brought to Hampton Court Commissioners sent to him from the Parliament with Propositions The Preface thereunto His Majesties Answer to them Sept. 9. Those Propâ—siâ—tiâ—â—s 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 a Newcastle His Majesty 〈◊〉 the Army Proposaâ— Cromwel iâ—gâ—glâ—s with his Majesty A abstract of the Armies Proposals Money enough be sure this they intended for a Law no doubt and might have been put first the other being meerly subâ—â—rvient to it They indulge the King in not abrogating the Common-Prayer and claw with the Papist Life to the Royalist and death to the Presbyter The rarest Article in the Pack Divers pretences in favour of the Cavaliers Cromwel designes to please all Parties by Proposing to regulate the Law and Assesstments Asserting the peopleâ— rights in Peâ—â—â—ioning agâ—â—â—st Forrest-Lands Excise Monopolies c. Cromwel and other Grandees of the Army frequently with the King Cromwel hasfleth with the King and is discovered The King still kept at Hampton Court with the publike use of Common-prayer in great State his friends and Chaplains about him The Faction and Cromwel suspect and fear â—he Kings neerness to London Colonel Whaley pretends to the King that the Adjutators designe to Murther him They fright the King from Hampton Court who by the advice of Sir John Berkley and Mr. John Ashburnham escapes to the Isle of Wight Colonel Hammond Governour thereof 〈…〉 Dowagers of South-hampton Nov. 11. The King is misled Whaley takes â—he Kings â—apers left behind him in his Chamber The First directed to the Lord Mountague The second to Colonel Whaley His Majesties Message left behinde Him at Hampton-Court to both Houses of Parliament The King seized by Col. Hamond in the Isle of Wight and conveyed to Carlsbrook Castle Nove. 14. The Parl. make it High Treason for any to conceal the King They command Col. Hamond to send the Kings attendants up to London he refuseth The King pleads in their behalf The Parliament vote that no Cavalier or Papists be admitted into the Island The Gen. hath the command of his person The King allowed 5000 l. for the â—xpences of his Court. The Kings Message to the Parliament from his inprisonment in Carisbrook-Castle He professeth as he is a Christian and a King to defend the Government of the Church by Arch-bishops Bishops c. Their Order being placed in the Church by the Apostles And he and His Predecessors having Sworn to maintain it Bâ—t agrees that their Power may be so limited as not to be grievous to tender Consciences The King consâ—nts that the power of the Militia both by Land and Sea shall be ordered by the Parliament during his Raign He promiseth to pay the Army their Arrears Consenteth that the great Offices of State and naming of Privy Counsellors shall be in the Power of the two Houses during his raign He 〈…〉 at London with 〈…〉 Several scurrilous Pamphlets published to defame His Majesty Especially Needham's â—atitulâ—d a Hue and Cry after the King Iudge Jenkins sloutly vindicates the King's Cause and Party Iudge Jenkins imprisoned and enlarged at the Restauration of King Charles the second The burden of Free-quarter Cromwel and his supernumeraries the cause thereof Vast sums of money raised for the Souldiery Debentures sold. The Excise an excessive Tax and carefully upheld Several refuse to pay it and tumults happen The Butchers at Smithfield-bars London fire the Excise-house several of them tryed but acqitted White a Leveller Executed at Ware And Thompson condemned by a Council of War The Parliament constrained to humour a Treaty Four Bills tendred to the King at the Isle of Wight before the Treaty should begin Their Proposals to the King The Scotch Commissioners declare their dissent from the Proposals and Bills His Majesties Answer to the Bills c. His Majesty again presseth for a personal Treaty Sir Thomas Wroth flies high and inveighs against the King in the House of Commons * The History of Indâ—pendency p. 70. He is seconded by Commisary Ireton And both of them backed by Cromwel Who laid his Hand upon his Sword not long before baffled by Sir Philip
gives the Signal He is Executed The Corps committed to the care of his servants Carriâ—d to Windsor Some Lords get an order for the burial of the King They desire it might be in St. Gorge 's Chappel by Common-prayer are denyed They expostulate but prevail not Seeking a place for Burial they finde Hen. 8 's Vault The Funeral England had not been without Regal Government from the begininng It had change of Governours not change of Government The Royal race had continued 562 years in ouâ— Regality Now clouds aâ—â— darknâ—â—â— blackâ—ess and 〈…〉 Horrour and Amazemâ—nt 〈…〉 dissolution His Majesty might have lived very long The Prince abâ—â—â—t but in safety In the night of confusion Bats and Scritch-owles rule They make an Act forbidding the Proclamation of a King c. Jan. 30. A Proclamation thrown about streets The Procclamation They Vote the Exclusion of the Members the Army had secluded The House of Lords Voted useless Feb. 5. The protestation of the Nobility against it The Kingly Power Voted Useless Feb. 7. A Council of Sate in Force Iudges Commissioned They declare to preserve and maintain the Laws A new stamp for Coyn Voted Agents and Envoys designed to Forrain Princes The monthly Fast Nulled Several escapes of the Cavalier party viz. Col. Massey Sir Lewis Dives Mr Holden and Lord Capel the last of them betrayed by Davis a Water-man and retaken Lord Loughborough escapes from Windsor-Castle with several others The King at the Hague Feb. c. The Prince of Aâ—range a friend to the Royal Family Mr. Beaumont Executed at Pomfret Feb. 7. A new High Court of Iustice erected Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Lorâ— Capel Trâ—ed by the High Court of Iustiâ—â— The Lord Capel ' s legal Defences The Lord Goring and Sir John Owen reprieved Dâ—ke Hamilton E. of Holland and Lord Capel beheaded Mar. 9. Other capital Delinquents in nomination As Sir John Stowell Iudge Jenkins and Cap. Brown Bushell Marq. of Winchester Bâ— Wren Ma. Gen Brown and Sir John Cloâ—worthy hardly escaping Several qualifications of Delinquents to life and Eâ—tate Tâ—e chief of whom were the Kings Majesty the D. of York E. of Britol D. of Buckingham Lord Digby Lord Cottington Marq of New-castle Marq of Worcester Sir Ed. Hide Lâ—rd Culpepeâ— and Lord Wâ—ddrington Secluded Members totally Excluded The Parliaments proceâ—dings in reference to the City Alderman Reynoldson the Lord Mayor outed and fined and Alderman Andrews one of the Kings Iudges placed in his stead He proclaims the Act for abolishing Kingly Government Sir Thomas Soams and Alderman Culham degraded Col. Poyer Executed April 25. Col. Laughorn and Col. Powel condemned Pomfret-Castle delivered Mar. 24 to Maj. Gen. Lambert John Lilburn and some of his party secured An account of the state of Scotland Charles the second proclaimed King at Edingburgh The English 〈◊〉 State tampers with the Scotch Parliament Sir Jos. Douglas is sent from the Scots to the King at the Hague Innerness seized for the King Lord 〈…〉 Lockier the Leveller shot to death in Saint Paul 's Church-yard Eleven Regiments designed by Cromwel for the Irish service Thompson a corneâ— with 2 Troâ—ps enters Northampton and declares his and the Armies resolution against that Expedition Several Regiments confederate in the same designe Cromwel by treachery surprizeth them Levellers defeated at Burford in May. Thompson and two more Executed Their Chieftain slain in Wellingborough wood Fairfax complemented at Oxford and treated at Dinner in the City of London They present Fairfax and Cromwel with Gold and Plate England made a Free-State Iune A new Mace made 4000 l. a year out of the D. of Buckinghams Estate given to Fairfax Lord Cottington's Estate to Bradshaw Several Acts to raise money Several Castles demolished A short account of the King at the Hague Salmasius 〈◊〉 in the Kings defenâ—e Is 〈◊〉 by Miltoâ— the likâ—wise answerâ— His Majâ—â—ties Meditations which Answer was since burned by the common Hang-maâ— The condition his Majâ—sty was in at the Hague Dr. Dorislaus their Envâ—r to the Estates General killed at the Hague May. Ascham their Envoy to Spain killed by one Sparks â—ho was therefore Executed King Charles the second departs for France Iune The King magnificently treated by the Arch-Duke The Dutchess of Savoy assignes him 50000 crowns per Ann. Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Eliz. at Penshurst with the Countess of Leicester The affairs of Ireland summed up together Note they taxed the King with what themselves were guilty Lieut. Gen. Cromwel Voted Lord-Governour of Ireland The Parl. Army hiâ—â— from Milford-Haven to Wales Cromwel lands at Dublin The State of the Kingdom â—f Ireâ—and The English Roman Catholikes declare for the King and desire the Marq. of Ormond may be their General An Association with O Neal by Sir Charles Coot and Col. Monke then in Arms for the Parliament The Câ—nfederates aâ—d the Lord Inchiqueens Forces do not brook one another thâ—y with the Marq. of Clanrickard and the E. of Castlehaven designe to reduce Dublin Lord Inchiqueen Lieâ— Gen. for the King O Neal joyns with the Independent party Col. Monke agrees with him O Neal Relieves London-Derry The ill consequence thereof to the Kings affairs The Marquess of Ormond comes before Dublin Aug. Sir Thomas Armstrong Col. Trevors and the Lord Moor declare for the King O Neal defeated Drogheda taken Dundalke surrendred to the King His Majâ—sties Presence most necessary and most desired in Ireland The Siege of Dublin by the Kings Forces Aug. Dublin Relieved by a sally the Forces of the Gairison made Aug. 22. The Marq of Ormond 〈…〉 Dâ—blin Aug. â— Sir William Vaughan 〈…〉 Wogan 〈◊〉 pâ—isoners Marq. oâ— Ormond â—akes Bâ—llâ—sannon for the Kiâ—g A â—ust deploration of this calamity O Neal relieveâ— Coot The Plaguâ— in the Loyal Provinces of Ireland The Marq. of Ormond not able to punish the cowardise and treachery of the Parties The Marq. of Ormond recruits his Forces Drogheda Garrisoned with the flower of the Army Sir Arthur Aston made Governour of Drogheda Col. Daniel O Neal Governour of Trim dispatched to treat with Owen O Neal. Sir Richard Barnwell and 〈◊〉 Nicholas Plunkett sent to assist him and conclude an Agreement Drogheda besieged by Cromwel The Masâ—â—â—â— at Drogheda Sir Arthur Aston c. kiliâ— Sep. 16. 3000 Souldiers put to Sword The Marquess of Ormond endeavours to strengthen other places Sir Edmund Butler Governour of Wexford for the K. It is besieged by Cromwel surprised and stormed 2000 put to the Sword Several Troops of the Lord Inchiqueens Revolt Luke 〈…〉 Rosâ—e 〈…〉 Rosâ—e surrâ—â—dred Litu Geâ— Farrâ—ll 〈…〉 of Oâ—mond Lord Inchiqueen 's Officers are treachâ—rour They are discovered and taken and no conditions Released Cromwel baâ—â—â—ed by Colonel Wogan at Duncannon Corke Youhall and all the English Towns of Munster revolt Lord Inchiqueen suspected accused by the Marq. of Antrim Carrick taken by Lieu. Gen. Jones The Marq. of Ormond deâ—â—â—â— to sight Cromwel Lieu. General Farrel made Governour of Waterford Cromwel
throughout England particularly the third of this moneth Cheapside-Cross was demolished And for the better carrying on of the work of Reformation Mr. Henry Martin a Member of Parliament enters violently into the Abby-Church at Westminster defaces the Ornaments of the Church and breaking open two doors makes his way to a private place where the Crowns Scepters and other Utensils of State used by Kings on their day of Coronation were but Mr. Wheeler perswaded him to be more moderate he only secured them by sealing up the Doors After this beginning of Reformation the Parliament took the Solemn League and Covenant at Westminster It was first framed in Scotland and was generally taken by them in the Year 1639. The main drift of it was against the Episcopal Dignity and was now for the mutual indearment of the two Nations assurance being promised the Parliament from Scotland pressed upon all in England where the Parliaments power was Paramount being taken throughout London the fifth of this moneth The Earl of Essex advanceth from Reading to Tame where a general sickness seized upon the Army during their quartering there about Prince Rupert fell into part of their quarters but the Essexians taking the Alarm and drawing out the business came to a Fight in Chalgrave field where Colonel Hambden that great stickler against Shipmoney was mortally wounded It was observable that in this place the said Colonel Hambden first Listed and Trained his men in the beginning of the War The Lord Keeper Littleton having departed with the Great Seal to Oxford according to the Kings Command the Parliament voted a new Great Seal to be made To cast an eye to the affairs of the West Sir Ralph Hopton after his little victory at Liskard having made sure of the County of Cornwal and established all things to the advantage of the Kings affairs there marched into Devonshire to oppose the Earl of Stamford and Major-General Chudleigh for the Parliament with whom on Tuesday May 16 a Battel happened at Stratton in that County The Kings Forces had the disadvantage both in want of Ammunition and being necessitated to March up a steâ—p Hill open to all oppositions to come to fight being in number not above 3000 the sixth part whereof was Horse and Dragoons The Enemy were above 5000 with the same quantity of Horse but supplied that defect with the strength of the Hill on which they were fortified The Royalists attempted their ascent four several ways and were as resolutely beaten down the fight continuing from five in the morning till three in the after-noon without any certainty of event or success on either party Major General Chudleigh charged stoutly against a stand of Pikes commanded by Sir Bevil Greenvile to the disordering of his Party and the overthrowing of his Person but in time came Sir Iohn Berkley and restored the fortune of the day by taking Major-General Chudleigh Prisoner Towards the end of the day the several parties met at the top of the Hill with great shouts of joy which the routed Enemy confusedly forsook and fled There were taken seventeen hundred Prisoners all their Cannon and Ammunition being thirteen brass Pieces of Ordnance seventy barrels of Powder with a Magazine of Bisket and other provisions proportionable By this opportune Victory all that Nook of the West was reduced to the Kings entire obedience except Plymouth and for which important service the King presently honoured Sir Ralph with the Title of Baron Hopton of Stratton from the place where he atchieved his honour The Parliament had appointed first Colonel Thomas Essex then Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes to be Governour of Bristol of which in the beginning of the troubles they had possest themselves and having discovered a Plot of delivering the City to Prince Rupert who accordingly was drawn down near the place expecting the Signal which was ringing of a Bell and opening a gate surprized and secured the intelligencers viz. Mr. Robert Yeomans and Mr. George Bourcher two of the Citizens and soon after notwithstanding the King and his Generals mandates and threats of retaliation disloyally executed them in that City Iames Earl of Northampton defeats a body of Parliamentarians in Middleton Cheiny Town-field under Colonel Iohn Fiennes killed 200 took 300 more with their Arms while the rest fled to Northampton and brought them into Banbury his Garison At this time also Wardour-Castle in Wilt-shire was taken by the Parliaments Forces and not long after retaken by Sir Francis Dorrington But enough to be said of such petty places Sir William Waller was now advanced into the West with a well-furnished Army to prevent those dangers which the growing Fortunes of the Lord Hopton threatned to the Cause and the well-affected in those Counties By force partly and partly by perswasion he had screwed himself into a great many Towns chiefly Taunton and Bridge-water which he Garisoned whereupon the Lord Hâ—mpton joyning with Prince Maurice and the Marquess of Hartford advanced East-ward and at a place called Landsdown met with Sir William drawn up in a place of great advantage with Forlorns Sir Bevil Greenvil and Sir Nicolas Slanning advanced first upon them and some Horse but Sir William had so lined the Hedges and the Horse were so galled with Musquet-shot that they were forced to retreat disorderly towards the Rear of their Foot when the Cornish-men came on with resolution and beat them out of their Hedges and pursued them up an ascent where they had almost regularly fortified themselves by Hedges and laid Stone-walls From hence Waller charged with a body of Horse and again disordered them yet they rallied and received another Repulse in one of which Major Lowre that commanded part of the Horse was slain in the Head of them as also that noble person Sir Bevil Greenvil in the Head of his stand of Pikes with which he had done signal Service so oâ—ten divers Gentlemen of less note falling with him until in conclusion night drawing on nay quite spent for it was one of the clock in the morning and past before they gave over the Battel might be said or a continued Skirmish it was to be drawn betwixt them the Royalists continuing in the Field all â—ight having possession of the Field dead and of 300 Arms and nine barrels of Powder leâ—t by the Enemy which by some accident or treachery was fired and the Lord Hopton thereby hurt and endangered Here were slain besides on the Kings part Mr. Leak son to my Lord Deincourt now Earl of Scars-dale Mr. Barker Lieutenant-Colonel Wall Capt. Iames Capt. Cholwel and Mr. Bostard That which on the other side seems to say that Sir William Waller had the better of it is that within two days after he had cooped up my Lord Hopton in the Devises this again is imputed to the want of Ammunition the Royalists being forced as they were taught by