Geoffry VVinchester Sheriffs In his thirty fourth Year Roger Fitz-Roger was Mayor Richard Hardel John Tolason Sheriffs In his thirty fifth Year John Gisors was Mayor Humfrey Bat VVilliam Fitz-Richard Sheriffs In his thirty sixth Year Adam Basing was Mayor Lawrence Frowick Nicholas Bat Sheriffs In his thirty seventh Year John Tolason was Mayor VVilliam Durham Thomas VVimbourn Sheriffs In his thirty eighth Year Richard Hardel was Mayor John Northampton Richard Pichard Sheriffs In his thirty ninth Year Richard Hardel continued Mayor Ralph Ashwy Robert of Limon Sheriffs In his fortieth Year Richard Hardel continued Mayor Stephen Doe Henry VValmond Sheriffs In his forty first Year Richard Hardel continued Mayor Michael Bokerel John the Minor Sheriffs In his forty second Year Richard Hardel continued Mayor Richard Otwel VVilliam Ashwy Sheriffs In his forty third Year Richard Hardel continued Mayor Robert Cornhil John Adrian Sheriffs In his forty fourth Year John Gisors was Mayor John Adrian Robert Cornhil Sheriffs In his forty fifth Year VVilliam Fitz-Richard was Mayor Adam Browning Henry Coventry Sheriffs In his forty sixth Year VVilliam Fitz-Richard continued Mayor John Northampton Richard Pichard Sheriffs In his forty seventh Year Thomas Fitz-Richard was Mayor John Taylor Richard VValbroke Sheriffs In his forty eighth Year Thomas Fitz-Richard continued Mayor Robert de Mountpeter Osbert de Suffolk Sheriffs Yet Fabian saith that from this 48. Year to the end of his Reign there were no Mayors of London but only Guardians of the City In his forty ninth Year Thomas Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Richard was Mayor George Rokesley Thomas de Detford Sheriffs In his fiftieth Year Thomas Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Richard continued Mayor Edward Blunt Peter Anger Sheriffs In his fifty first Year VVilliam Richards was Mayor John Hind John VValraven Sheriffs In his fifty second Year Alen de la Souch was Mayor John Adrian Lucas de Batencourt Sheriffs In his fifty third Year T VVimbourn Custos Sir Stephen Edward VValter Harvey VVilliam Duresme Sheriffs In his fifty fourth Year Hugh Fitz-Ottonis Custos of London and Constable of the Tower Thomas Basing Robert Cornhil Sheriffs To this time the Mayor and Sheriffs had been chosen but now the King grants the choice of them to the City it self In the fifty fifth Year John Adrian was Mayor VValter Potter Philip Taylor Sheriffs In his fifty sixth Year John Adrian continued Mayor Gregory Rochesly Henry VValleis Sheriffs In his fifty seventh Year Sir VValter Harvey was Mayor Richard Harris John de VVodeley Sheriffs EDWARD I. EDWARD sirnamed Long-shanks at his Father Henrys death A.D. 1272 was imployed in the holy Wars wherein he so excellently behaved himself that he gained the repute of a most valiant Souldier At Acon an assasinate wounded him with a poysoned knife which wounds his Queen Eleanor daily licked with her Tongue till therewith the poyson was extracted and the wounds healed her self receiving no harm thereby When the news of his Fathers death came to his ears he grieved much more than for the death of his Son who died a little before saying to the King of Sicily who wondred thereat that the loss of Sons is but light because they are multiplied every day but the death of Parents is irremediable because they can never be had again At his arrival in England he was most joyfully welcomed and with his dearest Eleanor was Crowned at Westminster by Robert Kilwarby Arch-Bishop of Canterbury When for the more royal celebration of the Coronation-feast of so Martial a Prince there were five hundred great horses let loose every one to take them for his own who could The first matter of remark done by King Edward after his Coronation was the subduing of Wales whose Prince Lewelin the last Prince of Britains blood had refused to do him homage but being slain his head crowned with Ivie was set upon the Tower of London In his stead the King created his own son Edward born at Caernarvon Prince of Wales And now Wales being setled in quiet the King repaired into France where he sate in person with the French King in his Parliament at Paris as a Peer of that Realm in respect of such lands as he held in those parts and being returned into England he addressed himself to purge his state from the Oppressions under which it groaned Fifteen thousand of the extorting Jews he banished out of the Land confiscating their goods His corrupt Justiciars he displaced and fined and constrained all his Justices to swear that from that time they would take no Fee Pension or Gift of any man except only a breakfast or like present He also appointed that Justices Itinerants should go their several circuits at such certain times of the year And now the Crown of Scotland by the death of Alexander the third being destitute of any apparent Heir by the umpirage of King Edward it was setled on the head of John Baliol who did homage to Edward against the minds of the Scots for the whole Kingdom of Scotland But shortly after Baliol to regain the affections of his people combined with the French against the English wherefore the King advanced against the Scots with a puissant Army drove the Scots out of the North-parts of England where they had done much mischief took Berwick Town and Castle had Dunbar yielded to him and after a cruel fight obtained a victory of great importance took the Castle of Roxbrow John Peckham A.B. Cant. had Edenbrough rendred to him so brought Baliol to sue for mercy which was granted on condition that the Scots should submit to him as their Soveraign And accordingly the Nobles of Scotland at a Parliament holden at Berwick did swear to be true Subjects to Edward for ever after and hereof a solemn Instrument was there sealed by them John the late King was sent to the Tower of London and the custody of Scotland was committed to John de Warren Earl of Surrey and Sussex Out of Edenbrough Edward took the Crown Scepter and Cloth of State Burnt their Records abrogated their Laws altered the forms of their Divine service transplanted their learnedst men unto Oxford The Marble-chair in the Abby of Schone wherein the Kings of Scotland were wont to be Crowned he sent unto Westminster This is the Chair upon which was ingraven the Famous prophetical Distich Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invenient lapidem regnare tenentur ibidem That the Scots should reign wheresoever that chair should be verified in King James But King Edward drawn beyond the Seas by occasion of wars in Gascoign and for aid of friends in Flanders one William Walleys Captain of the discontented Scots put Earl Warren to flight in Scotland and all the English forces that were with him taking them at an advantage as they were passing over a narrow-bridge near Striveling where the slaughter of the English was not small Hugh de Cressingham Treasurer of Scotland for King Edward was there slain whose dead body the Scots did fley dividing his skin amongst
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D. 1509 April 22. His Issue Arthur dead before himself Henry Edmond Margaret Elizabeth Mary His daughter Margaret was married to James the fourth King of Scotland and after his death unto Archibald Dougles Earl of Angues to whom she bare Margaret who married Matthew Steward Earl of Lenox and had by him Henry Lord Dernly who married Mary Queen of Scots by whom he had King James the sixth King Henry left at his death 1800000 l. in ready mony He founded the Hospital of the Savoy founded six religious houses for Franciscan-Friers built the Palace of Richmond where he died and that Chappel at Westminster called by his name where he was buried He exceedingly Honoured that devout King Henry the sixth whom he laboured to have had canonized for a Saint but Pope Julio held that Honour at too dear a Rate His Mother-in-Law Queen to Edward the fourth he deprived of her Estate and confined to the Monastery of Bermondsey in Southwark one cause pretended for it was for that she had yielded up her daughter into the hand of the Usurper Richard contrary to her faith given to them who were in the plot for bringing in of Henry A. D. 1498 A Cordwainers son was hanged at St. Thomas Waterings for assuming the name and Title of the Earl of Warwick thereby to raise disturbances The Mayors and Sheriffs of London in this Kings time In his first Year Sir Hugh Brice was Mayor John Tate John Swan Sheriffs In his second Year Sir Henry Collet vvas Mayor John Percival Hugh Clopton Sheriffs In his third Year William Horn was Mayor John Eenkel William Remington Sheriffs In his fourth Year Robert Tate was Mayor William Isaac Ralph Tinley Sheriffs In his fifth Year VVilliam White was Mayor William Capel John Brook Sheriffs In his sixth Year John Matthew was Mayor Henry Cote or Coot Robert Revel and he dying Hugh Pembarton Sheriffs In his seventh Year Hugh Clopton was Mayor Thomas Wood VVilliam Brown Sheriffs In his eighth Year Sir William Martin was Mayor William Purchase William Walbeck Sheriffs In his ninth Year Ralph Austry vvas Mayor Robert Fabian John Winget Sheriffs In his tenth Year Richard Chawrie was Mayor Nicholas Alwin John Warner Sheriffs In his eleventh Year Sir Henry Collet was Mayor Thomas Kneesworth Henry Sommer Sheriffs In his Twelfth Year John Tate was Mayor John Shaa Richard Hedon Sheriffs In his Thirteenth year William Purchase was Mayor Bartholomew Rede Thomas Windew or Windouâ— Sheriffs In his fourteenth Year Sir John Percivel was Mayor Thomas Bradbury Stephen Gennings Sheriffs In his fifteenth Year Nicholas Aldmine was Mayor James Wilford Thomas or Richard Brond Sheriffs In his sixteenth Year William Rennington was Mayor John Hawes William Steed Sheriffs In his seventeenth Year Sir John Shaa was Mayor Lawrence Aylmer Henry Hede Sheriffs HENRY VIII A. D. 1509. HENRY the Eighth was born at Greenwich June 22. 1491. His youth was so trained up in literature that he was accounted the most learned Prince of Christendom In A. D. 1509 and June 25 he was Crowned at Westminster together with his Queen Katharine the Relict of his brother Arthur by William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury His Counsellors he chose of the gravest Divines and wisest Nobility with whom he not only often sate to the great increase of his politick experience but would also yield his authority to their wisedomes Empson and Dudley he caused to be imprisoned then to be brought to their Tryal and at last to lose their heads To regain the ancient Rights of England he first sent his Herald Clarencieux into France roughly demanding the Dutchies of Normandy Guyen Main and Anjou and with them the Crown of France Then sent certain Nobles before him thither and afterward followed himself pitching down his Tents before Terwin Where he raised his Royal Standard of the Red-Dragon and begirt the City with a strait Siege To which place Maxmiliâ—n the Emperour repaired and to the great Honour of Henry entred into his pay wearing the Cross of Saint George with a Rose the Kings-Badge as his faithful Souldier The French attempting to relieve the Town with Victuals and men were so encountred by King Henry that many of their chiefest Captains were taken prisoners and six of their standards won and the rest of the Monsieurs for safeguard of life so posted away that this conflict was called the battel of Spurs shortly after which the Town yielded unto the King Then was the siege removed to Tournay which in short time was also surrendred to the King with ten thousand pounds sterling for the Citizens redemption Who to the number of 80000 then took their Oaths to become his true Subjects 1513. The safe keeping of this City the King committed to Sir Edward Poynings Knight of the Garter and Ordained Thomas Wolsey Bishop of Tournay Whilst King Henry was busy in France his Lieutenant Thomas Earl of Surrey marched against the Scots who were entred into Northumberland and at Flodden the Armies engaged in fight and the English won the day In this battel King James of Scotland was slain one Archbishop two Bishops two Abbots twelve Earls seventeen Lords Knights and Gentlemen a great number in all about eight thousand were slain and almost as many taken Prisoners in A. D. 1513. Sep. 9. A. D. 1514 by the procurement of Pope Leo a peace was concluded betwixt the Kings of France and England immediatly after which Mary the sister of King Henry was Honourably conducted into France where aâ—â— Albeville October the ninth she was married unto old King Lewis who died eighty two days after the Marriage A. D. 1517 by reason of the great concourse of strangers at London to the hindrance of trade and their insolency towards the English the youth and vulgar sort of Citizens upon May-day assaulted these strangers doing much harm to their houses substance and some of their persons for which riotous offence John Lincolne the instigator thereof was hanged and four hundred men and youths with eleven women were led in ropes along the City in their Shirts with halters about their necks to Westminster where the King pardoned their offence to the great rejoycing of the Londoners A. D. 1519 was the City of Tourney delivered back to the French on these conditions That they should pay to King Henry six hundred thousand Crowns in twelve years That the Daulphin should marry the Lady Mary King Henries young daughter which marriage if it hapned not to take effect at the years of consent then Tourney should be re-delivered to the English That Cardinal Wolsey should have a thousand Marks paid him yearly for the revenues of the said Bishoprick A. D. 1521 Edward Bohun or Stafford Duke of Buckingham was beheaded on Tower-hill for imagining to destroy the King and to enjoy the Crown himself Wolsey was the Dukes grand adversary because that the Duke had sometime spoken certain words to his disgrace About this time the Pope sent his Legats about to incite the Christian
that he could have no access into the City that way he in the night marched round about by Kingstone thinking that way to have surprized the City on the sudden but staying to remount a great Gun that was dismounted by the way by that means he could not reach the City so soon as he had expected nor till his coming was discovered and preparations on that side the City made against him Cardinal Reginald Pole A.B. Cant. The Earl of Pembroke possessed himself of St. James's which Wiat at his coming perceiving marched a little aside towards Charing-Cross At Charing-Cross the Lord Chamberlain and Sir John Gage stood to resist Wiat but the Kentish-men rushing violently into the Streets forced their opposites into the gates of White-Hall where was a great distraction within and no other voice heard than Treason Treason Mean while Wiat with such small company as he had with him hasted to Ludgate where he knocked to have entrance but was debar'd In the interim those his followers that had turned to White-Hall were dispersed about twenty of which dirty bemired Rebels were slain in the conflict and no other cry heard on the contrary part but Down with the daggle-Tails Wiat returning from Ludgate sate down upon a stall against Bell-Savage-Inne where he mused a while then retired towards the Court and was not opposed till he came to Temple-Bar where began some Bickering but Clarencieux King at Arms coming to him perswaded him to submit to the Queens mercy To whom Sir Thomas Wiat said If I must yield I will yield to a Gentleman and yielded himself to Clarencieux Then was he mounted behind Sir Maurice Berkley and so carried to the Court and in the after-noon to the Tower About fifty of his fellow Rebels were hanged in London and four hundred more were led through the City with Halters about their necks to Westminster where they were all pardoned by the Queen A. D. 1554 and April 11th Sir Thomas Wiat was beheaded on Tower-hill where at his death he warned the people to beware how they took any thing in hand against the higher Powers and excused the Lady Elizabeth and the Lord Courtney of having any hand in his Rebellion Alexander Bret and twenty two Kentish persons more were executed in divers parts of that County These Commotions were the occasions of great troubles to the Lady Elizabeth for the great difference in judgment that was betwixt her sister the Queen and her caused the Queen to suspect that she was a principal mover in them Wherefore the good Princess was in all haste sent for from her Mannor of Ashbridge where she then lay sick and was committed prisoner to the Tower of London at her first coming being kept a close prisoner under locks and bolts but at length the Lord Shandois obtained liberty for her to walk in the Queens Chamber and in the garden About May 19th she was removed to Woodstock where her liberty was not much inlarged In this her confinement as she sate looking out of the window she hap'd to see a maid milking in the Park and merrily singing over her pail which struck this pensive prisoner into a deep muse preferring the Maids fortunes above her own and heartily wishing that her self was a Milk-maid Perhaps this might be the place where Stephen Gardner with intent to insnare her life caused her to be examined what she thought of those words of Christ Hoc est corpus meum This is my body To which after some pause the Princess thus warily and as wittily answered Christ was the word that spake it He took the bread and brake it And what the word did make it That I believe and take it A. D. 1554 and April 16th a disputation began concerning Transubstantiation betwixt certain learned men of the Popish perswasion and Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Nicholas Ridley late Bishop of London and old Father Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester of the Reformed Religion which dispute ended on the 20th of the same month and a year and six months after the aforenamed Bishops gave Testimony to the truth in the flames in the Town-ditch of Oxford A. D. 1554 and July 25th was the marriage betwixt Philip of Spain and Mary Queen of England with great State solemnized and their Titles by Garter King at Arms solemnly proclaimed with these following stiles Philip and Mary by the grace of God King and Queen of England France Naples Jerusalem and Ireland Defenders of the Faith Princes of Spain and Sicily Arch-Dukes of Austrich Dukes of Milain Burgundy and Brabrant Counts of Haspurg Flanders and Tyrol In the November next following this marriage the Queen was reported to be with Child for joy whereof Te Deum was commanded solemnly to be sung and processions and prayers were made for her safe delivery The Queen took her Chamber the Court was full of Midwives all due provisions made against the good hour And so certain it was taken to be that some were punished but for questioning the contrary and the Parliament Enacted That if God should take away Queen Mary this their young Master coming into the world should succeed and that King Philip should be Protector during the Princes minority Howbeit though they had this confidence to trust Philip with the government of England if such a case should happen yet had Philip little confidence in the English first because they would have hindred the marriage betwixt him and the Queen and then because a Nobleman had given his counsel to cut off the Lady Elizabeths head whence he assured himself that those so bad-minded to their natural Princess could not be well-minded to him a stranger A great friend 't is said King Philip was to the said Princess Elizabeth nor would he cease solliciting his Queen till he had gained her some freedom from her close restraint But now the expected time of Queen Maries deliverance being come a rumour was spread that a Prince was born for joy whereof the Bells were rung Bon-fires flamed processions were made and some in their Sermons fondly described the beauty of this young Prince Notwithstanding at last it proved no such matter Some said this rumour was spread in policy and that the Queen to have put the Lady Elizabeth besides the Crown would have mothered another bodies Child but King Philip scorn'd to Father it Others said that the Queen miscarried others that she had a Tympany A. D. 1557 the Queen to take part with the Spaniard and Pope proclaimed Wars against France and King Philip crossed the Seas into Flanders After whom his Queen sent a thousand Horsemen four thousand Foot and two thousand Pioneers under the conduct of the Earl of Pembroke who came with his forces before the Town of St Quintins at that time besieged by the Dukes of Savoy and Brunswick and in short time by their manly courage forced the Town to yield for joy whereof great Triumphs were made in England which lasted not long For
Naesby in Northamptonshire both Armies met on Saturday June 14th 1645. His Majesty commanded the main body Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice the right wing Sir Marmaduke Langdale the left the Lord Ashly the right-hand reserve and Sir George Lisle the left Of the Parliament Army Fairfax and Skippon had the ordering of the main battel Cromwel the right wing and Ireton the left Prince Rupert charged that wing commanded by Ireton so home that he disordered it taking Ireton Prisoner and for a while he followed the Parlimentarians towards Naesby but in the interim Cromwel worsted the Kings right wing and then came into Fairfax his assistance who together charged upon the Kings main body and they no longer able to stand it out retreated out of the Field leaving a compleat Victory to the disloyal party who pursued them within two miles of Leicester killing in their way many Women that had followed the Cavaliers Camp On the Parliaments side were wounded and slain above 1000 On the Kings side were slain 20 Knights Colonels and Officers of note and 600 private Soldiers and of Prisoners were taken six Colonels 8 Lieutenant-Colonels 18 Majors 70 Captains with many other Officers 4500 common Soldiers 13 of the Kings houshold-servants 12 Pieces of Ordinance 8000 Arms 40 Barrels of Powder 200 Carriages store of rich pillage 3000 Horses the Kings Standard one of his Coaches His Cabinet of Letters which the Parliament caused to be made publick April the 16th Leicester was yielded up to Sir Thomas Fairfax which accomplished he marched into the West to relieve Taunton then besieged by the Royal party At Langport he discomfitted the Lord Gorings forces taking 1400 Prisoners Then Bridgwater and Bath yielded to him Then he besieged Sherbourn Castle and sent Cromwel to suppress the Wilts and Dorsetshire Club-men associated about Shaftsbury which he did killing some taking others and dispersing the rest These Club-men declared themselves Nutrals pretending only to secure their own proprieties August the 15th Sherbourn Castle was surrendred upon promise of Quarter At Rowton-heath near Chester Colonel Poyns worsted his Majesties forces In York-shire Collonel Robert Lilburn routed the Royalists commanded by the Lord Digby and Sir Marmaduke Langdale Collonel Birch and Collonel Morgan by a stratagem took Hereford for the Parliament At Boveytracy Oliver Cromwel surprised the Lord Wentworth took three Regiments dispersing two others Fairfax took Dartmouth defeated the Lord Hopton at Torrington and immediately after blocks him up at Truro inforcing him to disband his Army March 21 Jacob Lord Ashly was routed at Stow in the Wold by Sir William Brereton and Colonel Morgan The Loyal Lord himself was taken Prisoner with 1500 others Many of the Kings Garisons fell this year into the hands of the Parlamentarians as Bristol the Devizes Winchester-Castle Basing-House Laycock-House Berkly-Castle Chepstow Westchester Belvoir-Castle Latham-House Monmouth and Welbeck House c. A. D. 1646 All Caveliers were commanded to depart the City of London betwixt the 30 of March and April the 6th and now his Majesty was reduced into a very low Condition His forces beaten out of the field in all places and his Garisons surrendred and taken dayly as St. Michaels-Mount Ruthen-Castle Woodstock Excester and Barnstable and General Fairfax approaching to besiege Oxford the King upon thoughts of providing for himself went in a disguise to the Scotch Camp that was then before Newark May the fourth the Scotch Officers engaging to secure both him and as many of his party as should seek for shelter with them and to stand to him with their lives and fortunes But upon his Majesties departure from Oxford divers of the Noble-men as they had been deserted by the King yielded themselves to Fairfax And June the 24th the most Loyal University and City of Oxford was surrendred upon Honourable Terms by Sir Thomas Glenham After which a number of the Kings Garisons yielded to the Parliament as Banbury Ludlow Borstal Carnarvan Lichfield Worcester Wallingford Gothridge Ragland Pendennis and Newark by the Kings order was delivered up and the Lord Montross in Scotland and Lord Ormond in Ireland by the Kings command desisted their Hostilities After the surrender of Newark the Scotch Army marched back towards their own Country as far as Newcastle upon Tine where when they were come they tendred their Covenant to the King pretending that unless he would take that they durst not bring him into Scotland This the King refused not if they would first satisfy those scruples concerning Church-Government which lay upon his Conscience which to effect Mr. Alexander Henderson a Minister the Oracle of the Kirk was imployed to converse with him His Majesties parts were so great and Cause so good that made all Mr. Hendersons attempts succesless See the Printed papers of their Disputations Whilst these things were acting at Newcastle the bargain was struck at London betwixt the Parliament and Scotch Commissiones and for 200000 l. the Scots delivered the King up to the English Parliament Yet to mask their perfidy the Scots added this caution That there should be no attempt made upon the Kings person but being entertained at one of his own Palaces he should be there treated with upon propositions from both Nations which should be speedily sent unto him February the 6th the Scots left Newcastle and marched homeward and two days after the King set forward with the Parliaments Commissioners for Holmby attended with 900 Horse And now the Parliament because they wanted others to quarrel withall fell to quarrel amongst themselves dividing into two parties Presbyterians and Independents with Anabaptists and the other Sectarists The Presbiterians were then powerful in the House but the other in the Army and were a subtle and resolute people The former of these parties seeing themselves in danger of being supplanted by the other voted in Parliament to have part of the Army disbanded another part of it sent over into Ireland towards the reducing that Countrey and the remainder to be disposed into several places of England to keep the Royallists in awe This put the Army into a heat who to make their part sure sent a party of Horse commanded by Cornet Joyce to seize upon the Kings person and to bring him from Holmby into their own quarters which was done June the 3d 1647 From Holmby they conveyed His Majesty to Childersley and thence to New-market the Grandees of the Army pretending to him how they were grieved for his imprisonment and sufferings professing they would never part with their Arms till they had made his way to his Throne but it must be a Throne in Heaven And the more to palliate their evil meanings they permitted him the service of his own Chaplains which he had been denied at Holmby the commerce of Letters with the Queen the visits of his own party and attendance of his Courtiers The Parliament voted that the General should be required to deliver the King to their Commissioners who were to bring him to Richmond
supply of 18 months Assessement not exceeding 70000 l. a Month but began to be dissatisfied with the Kings indulgence and toleration to Phanaticks though his Majesty by a gracious Answer to an Address of theirs endeavoured to remove that scruple Anno 1673. About the later end of March an Act for a general and free pardon past in Parliament and then both Houses adjourned till the 20th of October following One James Piercy upon the death of the Earl of Northumberland in whom the male race of that ancient Family expired came into England laid claim to the Title and Estate and thereupon petitioned the Parliament but his Petition was rejected and himself looked upon as an Imposter The Island of Tobago was this year taken by the English from the Dutch in exchange whereof the Dutch took St. Helena from the English which might have proved of very bad consequence to the English East-India Trade had it not been re-taken by Captain Monday with three Dutch East-India Merchant Men besides which fully paid the charges of its reprisal For this good service Captain Monday was Knighted The Dutch this year were first at Sea and attempted a vain project of stopping up those narrow Channels that give entry to the River of Thames Prince Rupert who commanded the English Fleet put out to encounter them but they retreating to their own Shoar the Prince stood to the West-ward that he might joyn the French and part of the English Fleets This being shortly after done the whole Fleet made toward the coast of Holland and the Prince finding them before Schonvelt secured by their Banks and the shallowness of the Water on the 28th of May detached a Squadron of Thirty five small Frigots to provoke them to an Engagement The Dutch contrary to expectation came forth in good order and engaged The French and English emulous for honour fought with extraordinary eagerness and somewhat entangled each other but at length after a sharp dispute the magnanimous Prince forced the Enemy to run and followed them as far as the Sands and Water did permit till Night put an end to the conflict and the Dutch regained their former station The English lost but a few common Seamen and not one Ship Captains were slain Fowles Finch Tempest and Woorden On the Dutch side were killed Vice Admiral Schram Rear Admiral Vlugh and six Captains more They lost considerably in Men but onely one Ship called the Deventer On the fourth of June happened another Engagement wherein no great Execution was done on either side it being managed at great distance and most part in the night time And that the Series of this years Warlike Actions may be continued without interruption on the Tenth of August both Fleets met again at Sea and gave the last stroke to this War The Dutch being about the Goree got the Wind of the English and bore briskly down upon them the Fight was obstinate and bloody on both sides especially between Sir Edward Sprague and van Tromp but the French making as if they stood off for the Wind did it in reallity that they might have the conveniency of being Spectators Prince Rupert and de Ruyter who had been engaged together all day finding themselves at distance from their respective Squadrons stood back again to their assistance and de Ruyter designing to have cut off the blew Squadron from the rest of the Fleet was so smartly charged by the Prince that he was fain to give way so that had the French made use of their Wind they had the Dutch had certainly sustained far greater loss then they did and not so easily drawn off by favour of the Night In this Engagement Sir Edward Sprague as he was shifting from one Ship to another had his long Boat by a Random Shot shivered to pieces under him and so to the grief and regret of all that knew him was drowned his Ship strangely disabled was by his valiant Second the Earl of Ossory brought off Captain Neve was slain Reeves and Heywood died of their Wounds and Martel only of the French was killed The loss of common Seamen was not very great on the English side The Dutch lost two Flag Officers several Captains and about a 1000 common Seamen About the middle of June the Lord Clifford resigned his Treasurers Staff and Sir Thomas Osborn created Viscount Osborn of Dumblain in Scotland and afterwards Earl of Danby in England was made Lord High Treasurer The Parliament according to their last Adjournment meeting in October were prorogued till the 27th of the same month then meeting again they were prorogued till the 7th of January following Soon after the King issued out His Proclamation requiring all Judges and Justices of the Peace effectually to prosecute the Laws against all Papists and Popish Recusants About the later end of November his Royal Highness the Duke of York was married to the Princess of Modena Though the Preparations for War went on vigorously both on the English and Dutch sides yet overtures of Peace were still set on foot and His Majesty condescended to a Treaty at Cologne which took no effect The Dutch in the mean time thought it not fit to desist but by another way of Negotiation that is to say by intercourse of Letters they at length prevailed so far as to receive a condescending Letter from the King of England in February 1673 4 which was shortly after followed by a conclusion of the Peace by them so much desired Peace being now concluded Anno 1674. this year affords no great Transactions of importance the Consultations of Government being chiefly directed to the preservation of quietness and unity at home in order to which His Majesty emitted several Proclamations against Papists and Jesuits The Duke of Monmouth upon resignation of the Duke of Buckingham was chosen Chancellour of the University of Cambridge The Earl of St. Albans giving up the Staff of Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold his place was given to the Earl of Arlington to whom Sir Joseph Williamson succeeded as Principal Secretary of State Upon the 22th of September His Majesty by Proclamation prorogued the Parliament which was to have met the 10th of November till the 13th of April ensuing His Majesty having been pleased to accept of the Freedom of the City of London was in December by Sir Robert Vynor Lord Mayor in Name of the City presented with the Copy of his Freedom in a large square Box of Massie Gold the Seal appended being in a Box of Gold set all over with large Diamonds About the beginning of January 1674 5 her Royal Highness was brought to Bed of a Daughter Christened at St. James's by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Katharina Laura the Duke of Monmouth being Godfather and the Lady Mary and Lady Anne Godmothers Anno 1675. The Parliament according to their last Prorogation met on the 13th of April but having sate till a week in June and a difference
the Year John Dethick Sheriffs In his 2d Year 1650. Thomas Andrews was Mayor Robert Tichborn Richard Chiverton Sheriffs In his 3d. Year 1651. John Kendrick was Mayor Andrew Richards John Ireton Sheriffs In his 4th Year 1652. John Fowke was Mayor Stephen Eastwick William Vnderwood Sheriffs In his 5th Year 1653. Thomas Vynor was Mayor James Phillips Walter Bigge Sheriffs In his 6th Year 1654. Christopher Pack was Mayor Edmund Sleigh Thomas Aleyn Sheriffs In his 7th Year 1655. John Dethick was Mayor William Thompson John Frederick Sheriffs In his 8th Year 1656. Robert Tichburn was Mayor Tempest Milner Nathanial Temms Sheriffs In his 9th Year 1657. Richard Chiverton was Mayor John Robinson Thomas Chandler died in the Year Richard King Sheriffs In his 10th Year 1658. John Ireton was Mayor Anthony Bateman John Lawrence Sheriffs In his 11th Year and part of the 12th 1660. Sir Thomas Aleyn Baronet was Mayor Francis Warner William Love Sheriffs In his 12th Year and part of the 13th 1661. Sir Richard Brown Baronet was Mayor Sir William Boulton Sir William Peake Sheriffs In his 13th Year and part of the 14th 1662. Sir John Frederick was Mayor Francis Menill Samuel Starling Sheriffs In his 14th Year and part of the 15th 1663. Sir John Robinson was Mayor Sir Thomas Bludworth Sir William Turner Sheriffs In his 15th Year and part of the 16th 1664. Sir Anthony Bateman was Mayor Sir Richard Ford Sir Richard Rives Sheriffs In his 〈…〉 of the 17th 1665. Sir John 〈…〉 â—ayor Sir George Wâ—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 Charles Doe Sheriffs In his 17th Year and part of the 18th 1666. Sir Thomas Bludworth was Mayor Sir Robert Hanson Sir William Hooker Sheriffs In his 18th Year and part of the 20th 1667. Sir William Boulton was Mayor Sir Robert Vinor Sir Joseph Sheldon Sheriffs In his 18th Year and part of the 20th 1668. Sir William Peak was Mayor Sir Dennis Gauden Sir Thomas Davis Sheriffs In his 20th Year and part of the 21th 1669. Sir VVilliam Turner was Mayor John Forth Esq Sir Francis Chaplain Sheriffs In his 21th Year and part of the 22th 1670. Sir Samuel Starling was Mayor Sir John Smith Sir James Edwards Sheriffs In his 22th Year and part of the 23th 1671. Sir Richard Ford was Mayor Samuel Forth Patience VVard Sheriffs In his 23th Year and part of the 24th 1672. Sir George VVaterman was Mayor Sir Jonathan Daws died in the Year Sheriffs Sir Robert Claiton Sir John Moore Sheriffs In his 24th Year and part of the 25th 1673. Sir Robert Hanson was Mayor Sir William Pritchard Sir James Smith Sheriffs In his 25th Year and part of the 26th 1674. Sir VVilliam Hooker was Mayor Sir Henry Tulse Sir Robert Jeffry Sheriffs In his 26th Year and part of the 27th 1675 Sir Robert Vynor was Mayor Sir Nathaniel Hern Sir John Lethieulier Sheriffs In his 27th Year and part of the 28th 1676. Sir Joseph Sheldon was Mayor Sir Thomas Gold Sir John Shorter Sheriffs In his 28th Year and part of the 29th 1677. Sir Thomas Davis was Mayor Sir John Peak Sir Thomas Stamp Sheriffs In his 29th Year and part of the 30th 1678. Sir Francis Chaplain was Mayor Sir VVilliam Royston Sir Thomas Beckford Sheriffs In his 30th Year and part of the 31th 1679. Sir James Edwards was Mayor Sir William How Sir John Chapmau Sheriffs A LIST Of the Names of the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque-Ports that are Returned to serve in the Parliament of England begun the sixth of March 1678 9. Bedfordshire William Lord Russel Sir Humphrey Munnox Bar. Town of Bedford Pawlet St. John Esq Sir William Franklin Kt. Berks. Sir Humphrey Forster Bar. William Barker Esq Borough of New Windsor Ralph Winwood Esq John Starkey Esq Borough of Reading John Blagrave Esq Nathan Knight Esq Borough of Wallingford John Stone Esq Scory Barker Esq Borough of Abington Sir John Stonehouse Bar. Bucks Thomas Wharton Esq John Hampden Esq Town of Bucks Edward Viscount Latimer Sir Peter Tyrril Bar. Borough of Chipping Wiccomb Sir John Borlase Bar. Thomas Lewes Esq Borough of Aylesbury Sir Thomas Lee Bar. Sir Richard Ingolsby Kt. of the Bath Borough of Agmondesham Sir William Drake Kt. Sir Roger Hill Kt. Borough of Wendover Richard Hampden Esq Edward Backwel Esq Borough of great Marlow Sir Humphrey Winch Bar. John Borlase Esq Cambridge Gerrard Russel Esq Edward Partherich Esq Vniversity of Cambridge Sir Thomas Exton Kt. James Vernon Esq Town of Cambridge William Lord Allington Sir Thomas Chichely Kt. Chester Henry Booth Esq Sir Phillip Egerton Kt. City of Chester William Williams Esq Sir Thomas Grosvenor Bar. Cornwall Francis Roberts Esq Sir Richard Edgcomb Kt. of the Bath Borough of Dunhivid alias Lanceston Bernard Greenvill Esq Sir Charles Harbord Kt. Borough of Leskard John Buller Esq John Connock Esq Borough of Lestwithiel Sir John Carew Bar. Walter Kendall Esq Borough of Truro William Boscawen Esq Edward Boscawen Esq Borough of Bodmyn Hender Roberts Esq Nicholas Glyn Esq Borough of Helston Sir William Godolphin Bar. Sir Viell Vivian Borough of Saltash Bernard Greenvil Esq Nicholas Courtenay Esq Borough of Gamelford Sir James Smith Kt. Russell Esq Borough of Port Pigham alias Westlow John Trelawney Mayor of Westlow Esq John Trelawney Senior Esq Borough of Cram pound Sir Joseph Tredenham Kt. Charles Trevanniam Esq Borough of Eastlow Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bar. Henry Seymour Esq Borough of Penryn Francis Trefusis Esq Sir Robert Southwell Kt. Borough of Tregoney Hugh Boscawen Esq John Tanner Esq Borough of Bossiney William Coriton Esq John Tregegle Esq Borough of St. Ives Edward Noseworthy Senior Esq Edward Noseworthy Junior Esq Borough of Fowey Jonathan Rashley Esq John Trefry Esq Borough of St. Germains Daniel Elliot Esq Richard Elliot Esq Borough of St. Michel Sir John St. Aubin Bar. Walter Vincent Esq Borough of Newport John Coryton Esq Ambrose Manaton Esq Borough of St. Mawes Sidney Godolphin Esq Henry Seymour Junior Esq Borough of Kellington Sir John Coryton Bar. Samuel Roles Esq Cumberland Sir John Lowther of White-haven Bar. Richard Lamplugh Esq City of Carlile Sir Philip Howard Kt. Sir Christopher Musgrave Kt. Borough of Cockermouth Sir Richard Grahme Bar. Orlando Gee Esq Derby William Lord Cavendish William Sacheverell Esq Town of Derby Anchetill Gray Esq George Vernon Esq Devonshire Edward Seymour Esq Sir William Courtenay Bar. City of Exeter William Glyde Esq Malachy Pine Esq Borough of Totnes Sir Edward Seymour Bar. John Kelland Jun. Esq Borough of Plymouth Sir John Maynard Kt. His Majesties Serjeant at Law John Spark Esq Town and Borough of Oke-hampton Sir Arthur Harris Bar. Josias Calmady Jun. Esq Borough of Barnstaple Sir Hugh Acland Bar. John Basset Esq Borough of Plympton George Treby Esq Richard Hillersdon Esq Borough of Honiton Sir Walter Younge Bar. Sir Thomas Put Bar. Borough of Tavistock Sir Francis Drake Bar. Edward Russel Esq Borough of Ashburton Thomas Raynel Esq William Stawell Esq Borough of Clifton Dartmouth and Hardnes John Upton Esq Sir Nathaniel Hern Kt. Borough
of Anjou and Main he fed every day with sufficient sustenance Ten thousand persons from the beginning of April till such time that new Corn was inned He erected and endowed the Sees of Carlisle and Ely and the Abbies of Hide Reading Cyrencester and the Priory of Dunstable His Queen Maud was so devout that she would go to Church barefoot and constantly exercise her self in works of Charity insomuch that when her Brother Prince David came out of Scotland to visit her he found her in her Privy-Chamber washing wiping and kissing poor peoples feet which he disliking said Verily if the King your Husband knew this you should never kiss his lips To which she replied That the feet of the King of Heaven are to be preferred before the lips of an earthly King 'T is reported that when the King was preparing for his last passage into Normandy there hapned a fearful Earth-quake and that out of chinks in the earth arose burning flames which could not be quenched In the year 1111 at Dunmow in Essex the Lady Inga founded a Priory for Black Nuns which afterwards became an House of Monks Which Monks 't is sayd did allow a Gammon of Bacon to such married couples as repented not of their bargain within a year and a day after their Marriage nor made any Nuptial transgression in word or deed This they were to make a solemn Oath of William Curboill A.B. Cant. STEPHEN A.D. 1135 STEPHEN Earl of Bloys Son to Adelicia Daughter of the Conqueror was admitted King by the workings of his Brother Henry Bishop of Winchester and Roger Bishop of Sarum but chiefly through the means of Hugh Bigot who took his Oath that King Henry had on his death-bed upon some distast taken against his Daughter disinherited her and appointed Stephen to succeed him He was Crowned at Westminster on St. Stephens day in A. D. 1135 by William Corbell A. B. of Canterbury the Prelates swearing to obey him as their King so long as he should preserve the Churches rights and the Lay-Barons in like manner swore allegiance to him so long as he should keep his Covenants to them and preserve their rights His right he owned to be by election The Charter containing his peoples Franchises Liberties and Immunities which he bound himself to maintain he Sealed at Oxford Which was that all Liberties Customs and Possessions granted to the Church should be firm and in force That persons and causes Ecclesiastical should appertain only to Ecclesiastical jurisdiction That the vacancies of Churches and Church-mens goods should be at the sole dispose of the Clergy That all bad usages in the Land touching Forrests exactions c. should be extirpate and that the ancient Laws should be restored Many Castles he either caused or suffered to be erected in the Land which he intended for his own security against Maud but they proved greatly to his own detriment His entrance was very peaceable but by little and little civil discords increased to the miserable spoil of the Realm besides the troubles arising from out-parts Baldwin de Redners first began to break the peace but him the King soon quieted Then the Welshmen who gave a great defeat to the English Then David King of Scots set on by some disaffected to Stephen but in a short time peace was concluded with him Then the Welsh again make inrodes into the Land carrying away great spoils Next David King of Scots enters Northumberland in the quarrel of the Empress where his rude Soldiers dealt most barbarously with many of the Inhabitants ripping up the wombs of Women with Child and tossing their Infants upon the points of their Spears slaying the Priests at the Altar and after an inhumane manner dismembring the slain bodies After this the Peers of the Land conspire against the King taking themselves to strong-holds a great cause whereof was because the King shewed extraordinary favour to William de Ypre and his Flemings following their counsels and chiefly relying upon them When David King of Scots taking opportunities from these inbred troubles again entred Northumberland with a great Army against whom the Northern Lords marched at the command of Thurstan Archbishop of York the Kings Lieutenant who himself being then sick appointed Ralph Bishop of Durham for his General Which Bishop of Durham in the close of his invective Oration to his Army against the Scots before the Battel absolved from punishment of sin all such of his side that should dye in the fight whereby the English were made to fight the more desperately so that in a short time they vanquished the Scots driving the King of Scots and his Son out of the Field King Stephen went on also very prosperously against his Barons winning many Castles from them Which done he proceeded against the Scots with whom in short time a Peace was concluded But that Stephen might be kept imployed the Empress Maud landed near to Arundel with but an 140 men Whom Stephen hasted to meet but she colouring her designs with the pretences of amity and peace he over-credulous caused her to be honourably conveyed to Bristol where she remained two Months and then went to Wallingford her base Brother Earl Robert in the mean time gathering aids for her Wallingford King Stephen besieged and his Brother the Bishop of Winchester invited certain of the Nobles to his palace where he kept them as Prisoners till he had gain'd them to resign their Castles to the King Worcester Earl Robert subdued and spoiled Nottingham Ralph Painell burned in favour of the Empress And she for her better security took into Lincoln whither Stephen following her gain'd the City the Empress making an escape Shortly after which Robert Earl of Glocester with Ranulph Earl of Chester encountred the King near to Lincoln where with equal success the fight was maintained a long time till at length the Kings Horsemen not without suspition of Treason gave back and fled and shortly after his Foot began also to faint and fly leaving this valiant King almost alone who with his Battel-Axe drove back whole Troops assailing him maintaining the quarrel against his Foes with an undaunted courage till his Battel-Axe broke and after that till his Sword flew in pieces When now weapenless he was struck down taken and carried to the Empress at Glocester from whence he was sent to Bristol The Empress for a while ruling all London after much perswasion received her with a royal procession but in short time grew discontent because she refused to remit some over-hard Laws made by her Father and to restore those of King Edward Many Nobles also repined as conceiving themselves too much slighted by her The Bishop of Winchester who a while before had accursed all that withstood her now absolves them under pretence that the Barons had kept Faith with her she not with them The discontented Londoners he solicited in his Brother Stephens behalf Divers Castles he stored with munition and men In the mean time
Matilda came to Winchester where sending for the Bishop being then the Popes Legate though he doubted some danger yet not daring to send a flat denyal returned this equivocal answer Ego parabo me I will make ready as though he had meant to follow the Messenger whereas he addressed himself to work her downfall For sending for his Brothers Queen Prince Eustace the Londoners and William Ypre he made strong his party for the King Himself and friends abiding in the City and the Empress keeping in the Castle not daring to adventure forth for about the space of Seven weeks When the Bishop to deceive Matilda commanded peace to be proclaimed and the City Gates to be set open But the Empress and her Friends now leaving the Castle to go to some other place were pursued by the Bishops forces in which pursuit many of her party were wounded and slain Earl Robert taken and others flying into the Nunnery of Warwell were burned together with the place And Winchester City the Bishop caused to be fired for the Citizens affections to the Empress The Empress who had escaped to the Castle of the Devizes and there in hazard to be surprized caused her self to be put into a Coffin as though dead bound fast with Cords and so as if it had been her dead Corps she was carried in a Horse-litter to Glocester King Stephen and Earl Robert being exchanged one for another the King now pursues Matilda and in Oxford besieged her wan the Suburbs thereof and brought her to that streight that for her escape in a great Frost and Snow she was forced in order to the deceiving of the Centinels eyes to cloath her self in white Linen Garments and so on foot to run through Ice and Snow Ditches and Vallies till she came to Abingdon where taking Horse she got the same night to Wallingford Castle After which many bickerings hapned betwixt the two parties with variable successes to and fro Sometimes in one part of the Nation Matilda's side prevailed in another part Stephens to the great ruine of the whole Realm However Stephen to assure the succession to his Son Eustace called a Councel at London commanding Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate his Son King Which he refusing to do and that by the Popes special Mandate was forced to fly into Normandy the King seizing upon all his possessions But Eustace shortly after dying King Stephen inclined to peace and was content to adopt Henry Fitz-Empress for his Son and Successour To whom the Nobles at Oxford did homage as to the undoubted Heir and the Prince yielded Stephen the honour of a Father But King Stephen being afflicted with the Iliack passion together with his old Disease the Hemerhoids gave up the Ghost at Dover A. D. 1154 and was buried at Feversham in Kent Though his body afterward for the Lead-sake wherein it was wrapped was cast into the River He had Issue Balwine Eustace William Maud Mary and two natural Sons His Son Eustace in a rage set fire on the Corn-fields belonging to the Abby of Bury Theobald A.B. Cant. because the Monks denyed to help him to a sum of Money but afterwards sitting down to Dinner at the first morsel of Bread he put into his mouth he fell into a fit of madness and in that fit dyed King Stephen erected the Abbies of Cogshall in Essex of Farness in Lancashire the Nunneries at Carew and Higham an Hospital at York and Monastry at Feversham About the beginning of his Reign a Fire beginning at London-stone consumed Eastward to Aldgate and Westward to St. Pauls HENRY II. A.D. 1154. HENRY PLANTAGINET the Son of Maud the Empress and Earl Geofry of Anjou was Crowned at Westminster by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury And Henry to settle the Realm in quiet demolished certain Castles and fortified others Some Earls unduly created he reduced into a private condition purged the Realm of Foreign Soldiers chiefly of the Flemings Chose himself a Councel out of the most eminent persons spiritual and temporal and restrained the insolencies of some great personages which made some of them discontented especially that arrogant Lord Hugh de Mortimer who raised a Rebellion Against whom the King went in person where in the Siege of Bridge-North he had been shot with an arrow had not Hubert de St. Clare interposed and took the arrow into his own bosome The King having quieted the Rebels he hasted into France and there did homage to King Lewis for his French Provinces setled an accord between himself and Brother Geofry and at his return into England entred into amity with Malcolm King of Scots restoring to him the Earldom of Huntingdon Then he advanced against the Welsh with whom fighting his person was in great danger his Standard-royal cowardly abandoned for the which Henry de Essex Standard-bearer was afterward accused by Robert de Montford who in single combat within lists vanquished him at Reading where the said Essex was shorn a Monk But the King at length overcame the Welsh and returned with triumph into England after which himself and his Queen Eleanor were crowned at Worcester where they both at the Offertory laid their Crowns upon the high Altar vowing never to wear them after This now was the third time in which at three several places Westminster Lincoln and Worcester he had been crowned Then the King crost the seas into his Dukedom of Normandy where he made seizure of some Cities into his hands after his Brother Geofry's death and setled some affairs then returned After which and about the year 1163 began the famous Controversie betwixt the King and his Favourite Beâ—ket whom in the beginning of his reign he had advanced to be Lord Chancellor and upon the death of Theobald to be Archbishop of Canterbury Tho. Becket A.B. Cant. Which Archbishoprick Becket at the Council of Tours secretly delivered up to the Pope and received it again from his hands But the cause of the dissention betwixt the King and this Bishop was the remisness and neglect of Becket's curbing the disorders of the Church-men which then were grown to a dangerous height complaint having been made to the King of above a hundred Murders committed by the Clergy in his reign Which enormities besides many others of other kinds not being punished by Church-censure the King exceedingly displeased brought them under the Civil Power ordering that Justice should be administred to all alike without partiality as well Clergy as Laity appointing Ministers of Justice through all parts of the Land to that purpose against which Becket opposed himself peremptorily defending the pretended Rights of the Clergy and his See of Canterbury yea so far as that he challenged from the Crown the custody of Rochester Castle and other Forts which the King for securing his state had resumed into his own hands Hereupon the King assembling his Bishops at Westminster it was there agreed That none should appeal to the See of Rome in any case
England and Ireland Pandulph now having got what he came for hastens into France there to disswade Philip from proceeding against King John as being become an obedient and reconciled Son to the Church But Philip who was of his holy Fathers mind not caring for K. John's repentance but his Crown in great choler professed That since the Pope himself had so far thrust him on his Legats suggestions no nor his threats of excommunication should not withdraw him from his intentions In which resolution calling his Peers into a consultation they all approved his design save Ferdinand Earl of Flanders who alledged that it was an unreasonable thing to think of invading another mans right inforcing this his judgment with so good arguments that thereby many of the Peers were induced to change their opinion Which so incensed K. Philip that he drew his Forces against Flanders commanding his mighty prepared Fleet to set forward thitherward Of the which K. John having speedy intelligence set forth his Navy and happily surprized the French Fleet at the Port of Damme whilst most of the Soldiers were on Land spoiling the Earls Country taking 300 Vessels laden with Provisions Arms and other costly fraught and burning and sinking above an 100. And now the King thinking to take the advantage of this Victory made ready a great Army for the recovery of his hereditary Provinces lost to the French but when all else was ready then the Barons denied him their attendance till he was assoyled of his Excommunication and that their pristine liberties granted them by Henry the first were restored Stephen Langton animating them herein and promising his faithful assistance to them Hereupon the King makes his appeal to Rome presenting the Pope with rich presents in answer to which the Pope sent his Legate the Bishop of Tusculum who wrought with the King to corroborate the conveyance of his Kingdoms to the Pope unto which the King yielded But the Archbishop of Canterbury opposed himself against it with whom the Peers of the Land joyned avowing it to be an execrable thing to the whole World And in a full Parliament it was Enacted That since the King could not without consent of Parliament bring his Realm and people to such thraldom therefore if the Pope should in the future attempt any such thing again with life and livelihood he should be withstood The Pope hearing of this not only conceived exceeding hatred against the Archbishop but sent also his authentick Letters for repealing the Interdict upon restitution of 1300 Marks more to the Prelates and that but by equal portions of five years payment And now the King passed into Poictou which he reduced thence into Britain where his Poictovins according to their old custome proved false to him to his great detriment The while his Barons they play Rex at home renewing their confederation and binding themselves with an Oath at the High Altar at St. Edmonds bury That they would pursue the King with Arms till he should consent to the Charter of Liberties granted by Henry 1st So that the King was inforced to return into England where when come they challenged this Charter as a part of his Oath made at his Absolution and shortly after they met together at Stamford with a very numerous Army Their General was Robert Fitz-Walter whom they stiled The Marshal of Gods Army and Holy Church London invited them to enter the City by night where when entred by their threatful Letters they not only drew most of the Nobles from the King but had also almost lockt him out of his Royal Seat insomuch that he was necessitated by gentle messages to procure of his factious Barons a place and day of meeting which was Running-Mead betwixt Windsor and Stains since called Councel-Mead whither they came with Armed multitudes out of all the Kingdom numberless Where the King perceiving their so great strength and his own small party he granted them the utmost of their desires not only for liberties specified in Magna Charta and Charta Forestae but also for a kind of rule in the government by 25 selected Peers to whose command all the other Barons were also bound by Oath to be obedient But the King could not long relish this therefore privately sends to his trustiest friends to fortify and victual their Castles and himself secretly retires into the Isle of Wight From whence he dispatched Messengers both to the Pope and his foreign friends to crave the censure of the one and succours of the other against such outragious Rebels In both which his Agents were so sedulous and friends compassionate that at Rome by definitive sentence the Barons Charters were made voyd the King and Barons accursed if either of them observed the composition made at Councel-Mead And from Flanders Goscoin Brabrant and other parts such competent aids came in as incouraged the King after Three Months secrecy to shew himself in the face of his Enemies His Host he divided into two parts with the one conducted by himself Northward he every-where subdued his Rebels as likewise did the Earl of Salisbury Southward Stephen Langton the Pope suspended for abetting the Barons and his Brother Simon Langton Archbishop elect of York had his election made voyd the Pope constituting in his place Walter Gray whose Pall cost him no less than 1000 pounds The Archiepiscopal Pall is a Pontifical Vestment made of Lambs wooll as it comes from the Sheeps back without any other artificial colour and spun by a peculiar order of Nuns cast into St. Peters Tomb and adorned with little black Crosses having two Labells hanging down before and behind which the Archbishops when going to the Altar put about their Necks above their other pontifical Ornaments The disloyal Barons were all excommunicated by name and all their Lands together with the City of London Interdicted But the lofty Barons held those censures in so high contempt that they decreed neither themselves nor Citizens of London should observe them nor the Prelates denounce them And to revive their dying Cause they resolve on a project for betraying the Crown of England unto Lewis the Dauphin of France sending their Letters of Allegiance confirmed with all the Barons Seals to implore K. Philips favour for sending his Son and his Son for the acceptance of the English Crown To prevent a correspondency herein the Pope sends his Apostolical Commands to Philip of France that he should stay his Son from entring upon St. Peters patrimony with a Curse also on all such as should assist the excommunicate Barons To which Philip replied That England was no patrimony of St. Peters no King saith he having power of himself to alienate his Kingdom K. John especially who being never lawful King had no power to dispose thereof and that it was an error and pernicious example in the Pope and an itching lust after a new kind of Domination His Peers swore That they would spend their blood rather than suffer that a King
John Barton John Parvess Sheriffs In his seventh Year Sir Richard Whittington was Mayor Robert Whittington John Butler Sheriffs In his eighth Year William Cambridge was Mayor John Butler John Wells Sheriffs In his ninth Year Sir Robert Chichely was Mayor Richard Gosseline William VVeston Sheriffs HENRY VI. A. D. 1422. HENRY of Windsor was crowned about the Eighth Month of his age The guard and custody of this Royal Infant was committed to Thomas Duke of Excester the Nurture and Education to his Mother the Queen-Dowager the Government of England to Humphrey Duke of Glocester and the Regency of France to John Duke of Bedford The first disadvantage that befel the English Cause after the late King's decease was the death of Charles the French King who survived Henry but 53 days for the imbecilities of this Prince were a strength to the English on the other side the Infancy of young Henry was an advantage to young Charles by them of his party now called King of France though by the English he was called only King of Berry because little else was left unto him Howbeit now he seeks to enlarge his Dominions having received Aids from Italy and Scotland And not far from the Town of Vernoil his and the Regents Forces joined battel when the English inured to the French Wars having born the first heat of their enemies encounter by perseverance utterly broke them and put them to flight The Regent himself fought most fiercely winning unto himself a lasting Honour On the enemies part was slain the Constable and Lieutenant of France the Earls of Wigton and Vantadour with about five thousand others Prisoners taken was the Duke of Alanzon himself with about two hundred others of special account After this Victory the Regent besieged Mants in Main and with Ordnance beat down part of the Walls whereupon it was yeilded this being one of the Articles at the surrender which perhaps might be upon every like occasion That if any person was found within the City which had been consenting to the murder of John Duke of Burgundy Father to Philip Duke of Burgoigne that they should simply be at the Regents mercy Some time after this and not much Thomas Montacute Earl of Salisbury with a dreadful puissance besieged the City of Orleans and so enforced it that the inhabitants were willing to articulate and to yeild themselves to the Duke of Burgundy then being in his company but the Earl highly disdaining thereat said in the English Proverb I will not beat the bush and another shall have the bird Which Proverbial speech 't is said so offended the Duke that it wholly alienated his mind from the English to their great loss in all the French Wars following And now appeared that famous French Shepherdess Joan of Lorrain about 18 years of age daughter to James of Arcke This Maid to comfort Charles of France presented her self to him at Chinon bidding him to be of good courage and constantly affirming that God had sent her to deliver the Realm of France from the English yoak and to restore him to the fulness of his Fortunes Then she armed her self like a man and required to have that Sword which at that time did hang in Saint Katharines Church of Fierebois in Tourain and being warlikely arrayed she gets into Orleans which did greatly animate the fainting French From Orleans this Maid of God for so the French called her sent a Letter to de la Pole Earl of Suffolk in words to this effect King of England do reason to the King of heaven for his blood-royal yeild up to the Virgin the keys of all the good Cities which you have forced c. I am the chief of this War wheresoever I encounter your men in France I will chase them will they nill they c. The Virgin comes from heaven to drive you out of France be not obstinate for you shall not hold France of the King of heaven the Son of St. Mary but Charles shall enjoy it the King and lawful heir to whom God hath given it He shall enter Paris with a goodly train c. Vnderstand these news of God and the Virgin spare innocent blood leave Orleans at liberty This Letter was entertained of the English with laughter and Joan reputed of them no better than a Bedlam or Inchantress But be she what she would yet by her encouragements and conduct the English had Orleans pluckt out of their hopes and with much loss were driven to raise the siege In all Adventures Joan was one and the foremost At one Sally she being shot through the arm said to her followers Come this is a favour let vs go on they cannot escape the hand of God The English lost at this siege the Earl of Salisbury the Lord Moline the Lord Poynings Sir Thomas Gargrave and of all sorts if you believe the enemy were slain in such Sallies as the Martial Maid made 8000 our own Writers say but 600. After the raising of this siege some Towns were took by the English but at a Village called Potay the French coming upon them before the Archers could fortifie their battels with an empalement of stakes the English after three hours bloody resistance were put to the worst The Lords Talbot Scales Hungerford and Sir Thommas Rampstone were taken prisoners Which loss was followed vvith the sudden revolt of sundry Tovvns Nor vvas it long ere Charles recovered Aunerre and Rhiemes in the last of vvhich according to the Maids direction he vvas solemnly crovvned King of France Hitherto the Virgin had been very lucky but coming to the rescue of Champagne distressed by the English and Bâ—rgundians she vvas taken by a Burgundian Knight vvho sold her to the English and they sent her to Roan vvhere she vvas burnt for Sorcery Bloodshed and unnatural use of man-like Apparel and Habiliments contrary to her Sex The rumor of vvhose death and ignominious cause thereof vvas something incommodious to Charles's affairs for a time and it vvas thought that the coming of young King Henry into France vvould be much more vvho Decemb. 7.1431 vvas crovvned King of France in Paris by the Cardinal of Winchester At vvhich time such of the French Nobility as vvere present did their homage to him The Kings Patents and Grants touching French matters passed under the seal and stile of Henry King of the French-men and of England And about this time the English Affairs succeeded pretty fortunately in France The Earl of Arundel and Lord Talbot carry about victorious arms and terrifie Main Anjou and other places vvith their successes A D. 1435 that famous Patriot and General John Duke of Bedford dyed at Paris Upon vvhich many Tovvns voluntarily yeilded and multitudes of the French forsook the English to joyn vvith Charles And though the English Forces then in France vvere not altogether slothful yet through a fatal security or negligence or both at home there vvas not speedy sufficiencies of resistance ministred Richard Duke
murdred body was on the Ascension-Eve laid in an open Coffin and conveyed to St. Pauls in London where it rested uncovered one day and began to bleed afresh thence it was carried to the black Friars Church where it did bleed as before then was buried at Chertsey in Surrey but King Henry the seventh translated it to his Chappel of Windsor A. D. 1474 Was an Interview at Piquigny in France of the two Kings of England and France where falling into complemental conference Lewis told King Edward that he would one day invite him to Paris there to court his fair French Ladies with whom if he committed any sin Lewis merrily told him that Cardinal Bourbon should be his Confessor and to be sure his penance should be the easier for that Bourbon used to kiss fair Ladies himself This was no sooner spoken howsoever meant but Edward was as forward of thanks and acceptance which King Lewis observing rounded Philip Coâ—â—nes his bosome-servant in the ear telling him flatly That he liked not Edwards forwardness to Paris there had been too many English Princes at that City already After King Edwards return into England as he was hunting in Arrow-Park belonging to Thomas Burdet Esquire with the death of much game he slew a white Buck which the Esquire much fancied whereupon he wished the Horns in that persons belly that moved the King to kill that Buck. For which words he was accused and condemned of Treason his words being wrested that he wish'd the Horns in the Kings belly and was beheaded at Tyburne A. D. 1478. George Duke of Clarence by the procurement of his brother Richard Duke of Glocester was accused of Treason and committed to the Tower His accusation was That he had caused divers of his servants to inform the people that Mr. Burdet was wrongfully put to death That upon purpose to exalt himself and Heirs to the regal dignity he had most falsely published that the King his brother was a bastard and therefore not capable to wear the Crown for which and the like crimes charged upon him he was in Parliament Attainted of Treason and found guilty and on the eleventh of March 1478 after he had offered his Mass-peny in the Tower was drowned in a But of Malmsey whose body was buried at Tukesbury But the King was afterwards much grieved that he had consented to his death and would say when any made suit for the life of a condemned person O unfortunate brother for whose life no man would make suit A. D. 1483 King Edward fell into a dangerous and deadly sickness when calling for his Lords into his sick presence and raising his faint body on the pillowes he exhorted and required them all For the love that they had ever born unto him for the love that he had ever born unto them for the love that our Lord beareth unto us all that from that time forward all griefs forgotten each of them would love other Which saith he I verily trust you will If you any thing regard either God or your King affinity or kindred your own Country or your own safety Shortly after which words he departed this life April the ninth and was buried at VVindsor in the New Chappel whose foundation himself had laid 'T is said of him that he was just and merciful in peace sharp and fierce in War and that never any King was more familiar with his Subjects than he In the beginning of his raign he used to sit in person certain days together in his Court of Kings-Bench to see justice and equity done His Issue were Edward Richard George who died an infant Elizabeth Cicely Anne Briget Mary Margret and Catharine His Concubines were Elizabeth Lucy and three others which were of three several humours as himself would say One the merryest which was Shores Wife another the wiliest and the third the holiest for she had wholly devoted her self to his Bed and her Beads His base Issue were Arthur sirnamed Plantaginet and Elizabeth He ordained penal Statutes against excessive pride in apparel especially against long-piked shoes then worn which had grown to such an extream that the Pikes in the toes were turned upwards and with Silver-chains or Silk-laces tied to the knee He gave some Cotswold-sheep to Henry of Castile and John of Arragon 1465 which hath been accounted one of the greatest prejudices that ever hapned to England One VValker a substantial Citizen of London was beheaded in Smithfield for only saying to his Child That he would make him Heir of the Crown meaning his house which had that sign In the fallen estate of King Henry many of the Nobles that had took part with Henry were put to fly for their lives into Forraign Countries and amongst the rest Henry Holland Duke of Excester and Earl of Huntingdon son to the Lady Elizabeth second daughter of John of Gaunt and Husband to the sister of King Edward the fourth was constrained to live in exile in miserable want and penury For saith Philip Comines I once saw the Duke of Excester run on foot bare-leg'd after the Duke of Burgundies Coach and Train begging an Alms for Gods-sake But being known what he was Burgundy gave him a small pension for his maintenance The Mayors and Sheriffs of London in this Kings time In his first Year Sit Hugh Witch was Mayor George Ireland John Lock Sheriffs In his second Year Sir Thomas Cook was Mayor VVilliam Hampton Bartholomew James Sheriffs In his third Year Sir Matthew Philip was Mayor Robert Basset Thomas Muschampt Sheriffs In his fourth Year Sir Ralph Joceline was Mayor John Tate John Stones Sheriffs In his fifth Year Sir Ralph Varney was Mayor Henry Weaver VVilliam Constantine Sheriffs In his sixth Year Sir John Young was Mayor John Brown Henry Brice John Darby Sheriffs In his seventh Year Sir Thomas Oldgrave was Mayor Thomas Stalbrook Humphrey Heyford Sheriffs In his eighth Year Sir VVilliam Taylor was Mayor Simon Smith William Herriot Sheriffs In his ninth Year Sir Richard a Lee was Mayor Richard Gardner Robert Drope Sheriffs In his tenth Year Sir John Stackton was Mayor John Crosby John VVard Sheriffs In his eleventh Year Sir William Edwards was Mayor John Allen John Shelley Sheriffs In his twelfth Year Sir William Hampton was Mayor John Brown Thomas Bledlow Sheriffs In his thirteenth Year Sir John Tate was Mayor Sir VVilliam Stocker Robert Belisdon Sheriffs In his fourteenth Year Sir Robert Drope was Mayor Edmond Shaa Thomas Hill Sheriffs In his fifteenth Year Sir Robert Basset vvas Mayor Hugh Brice Robert Colwich Sheriffs In his sixteenth Year Sir Ralph Joceline was Mayor Richard Rawson William Horn Sheriffs In his seventeenth Year Sir Humfrey Heyford vvas Mayor Henry Collet John Stocker Sheriffs In his eighteenth Year Sir Richard Gardner vvas Mayor Robert Harding Robert Bifield Sheriffs In his nineteenth Year Sir Bartholomew James was Mayor Thomas Ilam John Ward Sheriffs In his twentieth Year Sir John Brown was Mayor Thomas Daniel William Bacon Sheriffs In his
the Dutch General Richard Dean was slain June the 3d the Fleets joined again and the dispute was very hot and bloody till at length the Dutch tacked about and made haste to their own Coasts Of the Dutch were taken Prisoners six Captains 1350 others Eleven men of War were taken and two Hoys six of their best Ships were sunk and two blown up Of the English were slain besides Admiral Dean one Captain and a hundred and twenty others but not one Ship lost or disabled Cromwell this while with some of the leading Officers of the Army had made choice of certain persons not above 150 for the three Nations who were to have the Legislative power and to be stiled a Parliament These Parliament-Gentlemen and Soldiers of the new-fashioned Election met July the 4th at Westminster where they chose Mr. Rouse for their Speaker but not agreeing amongst themselves for about sixty of them contested hard for the taking away of Tythes from the Ministers as Antichristian they fairly re-delivered their power into Oliver's hands December the twelfth after they had Enacted a Law That Justices of the Peace and not Ministers should join persons together in sacred Wedlock But while this cunning thing called a Parliament was doing little or little to the purpose the active Dutch were again put forth to Sea with about 120 Men of War and before the Texel were Encountred by the English July 29th the Fight was vigorously maintained on both parts till the Dutch Admiral Van Trump fighting in the midst of the English Fleet was with a Musket-shot shot into the left-Pap and slain outright whereby the rest of their Fleet was so discouraged that they made to the Texel as speedily as they could The Dutch in this Fight lost 30 Men of War and about 1200 of their Men were taken The English had slain on their part Graves Owen Chapman Newman Taylor Crisp Cox and Peacock Captains and 400 common Seamen The Ship named the Oak was fired and two or three disabled For this eminent piece of service the little Parliament ordered that Chains of Gold should be presented to the Admirals Blake and Col. George Monk Vice-Admiral Pen and Rear-Admiral Lawson and that other Chains likewise should be presented to divers Flag-Captains and Medals of Silver to the Officers of the Fleet. But to return to Oliver who after his patcht Junto had dissolved themselves called a Council of Officers with some others of his Creatures to consult about the settlement of a Government and these at length after great pretences of seeking Gods mind herein concluded to have a single person again to be the head of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging And was accordingly installed with much formality and ceremony in the Chancery-Court at Westminster before the Judges the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London with the chief Officers of the Army on December the 16th Immediately after which all publick Writings changed their stile from that of the Keepers of the Liberties of England to that of Oliver Lord Protector of England c. And the City of London to manifest their good liking of this Government and Governour at least to make shew of it invited the Protector to a magnificent Feast at Grocers-Hall on Febr. 8. and Oliver to gratifie them for this favour Knighted Thomas Viner then Lord Mayor Aspiring Cromwell having thus obtained the Supream Authority in short time yielded to a peace with the Dutch who had been brought exceeding low with the War with England A. D. 1654. and in the Month of May upon an accusation of a Plot to destroy the Protector seize the Tower raise an Army and bring in the King there were divers Royalists apprehended and committed to prison three of whom were condemned by an High Court of Injustice and two of them Executed namely Col. John Gerrard who was Beheaded on Towerhill and Mr. Vowel who was hang'd at Charing-cross on the same day with Col. Gerrard was Beheaded Don Pantaleon Sa Brother to the Portugal Embassador for a Riot made in the New Exchange but death was so terrible to this person that his heart was nigh quite dead within him before his neck came to the Block September the third a pretended Parliament met at Westminster where after they had heard their Master Oliver's Speech and chose William Lenthall for their Speaker they debated Whether the Legislative power should be in a single person and a Parliament or in a Parliament only The Protector 's faction were for the former those called the Commonwealth-party that were for a Democratical Government were for the latter one declaring That as God had made him an Instrument in cutting down Tyranny in one person so now he would not endure to see the Nations Liberties shackled by another whose right to the Government could be measured out no other way than by the length of his Sword But when these things were reported to the Usurper Oliver he hasted from Whitehall to Westminster and there declares to his Parliament that he would have them to take notice of this That the same Government made him a Protector as made them a Parliament That as they were intrusted with some things so was he with others That there were certain Fundamentals which could not be altered as That the Government should be in a single person and Parliament That Parliament's should not be perpetual That in Religious matters there should be liberty of Conscience c. And then he enjoined them to sign this Recognition of the Government viz. I do hereby promise and engage to be true and faithful to the Lord Protector and Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and shall not according to the tenour of the Indenture whereby I am returned to serve in Parliament propose or give my consent to alter the Government as 't is setled in one person and a Parliament The subscription to this was refused by several Members the rest who subscribed it were permitted to sit till January the 24th 1654 at which time Oliver dissolved them because they delayed to settle him in the Government December the 19th Pen and Venables with a Fleet of thirty Ships wherein were three thousand forces put to Sea and in April following arrived at Hispaniola and came within sight of that Golden Town Sancta Domingo upon which their first and chief enterprize was designed but through the excessive heat of the Clime want of fresh-water and some other discouragements great numbers of the Soldiers perished and that design was fruitless therefore they set sail for the Island Jamaica where being arrived they were there so successful as in short time to possess themselves of the chief Town called Ottranto bringing the whole Island into subjection In England the Royal party were busie to take down the Protector 's Greatness but the Plot was discovered before it was ripe for execution and many of the Conspirators in several places seized on by the