and three Fifteens which were by the late Parliament resolv'd on to have been given to the King setting forth a Declaration to manifest the reasons of his requiring that Loan Soon after which he sent away six thousand Foot-Soldiers under the command of Sir Charles Morgan and others for the service of the Vnited Provinces Moreover to heighten and increase these his wants about this time a most unlucky occasion hapned which in short was this that the French Priests and Domestics of that Nation which came into England with the Queen were grown so insolent and had put so many affronts upon the King that as the French King had sent back all the Spanish Courtiers which his Queen brought with her his Majesty was forc'd to send them home But that King not looking on this Example and knowing upon what ill terms our King stood both at home and abroad first seized on all the Merchants Ships which lay in the River of Bourdeaux and then brake out into open war so that the King was constrain'd to make use of those Forces against the French which were design'd to have been used against the Spaniard and to comply with the desire of the Rochellers who humbly sued for his protection and defence but the Fleet set forth for that purpose being encountred with great Tempests was forc'd to return without doing any thing farther then shewing his Majesties good will and readiness to assist them CHAP. IV. BUT the next year the King having made new Preparations for a war with France to manifest what ground he had for it declared that the House of Austria conspiring the ruin of all those of the Reform'd Religion through Christendom as he said plainly appear'd in the wars of Germany had such an influence upon the Councel of France as to prevail with the French to obstruct the landing of Count Mansfield's Army contrary to promise with whom they should have join'd Forces for the relief of the Palatinate and the German Princes the failure wherein proved the ruin of that Army the greatest part whereof perished Furthermore that having by his mediation prevail'd for a Peace between the French King and his Protestant Subjects and engaged his Word that the Protestants should observe the Articles of Agreement nevertheless the King of France contrary to those Articles block'd up their Towns Garrisons and Forts committing many spoils upon them though they had done nothing in violation of the Edict of Peace Whereupon the Duke of Buckingham in order to the relief of the Palatinate being made Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Land-Forces on the 27th of Iune set out from Portsmouth the Fleet consisting of an hundred Sail whereof ten were of the King 's Royal Navy having aboard six or seven thousand Land-Soldiers and towards the later end of Iuly appear'd before Rochel Where attempting to gain the Isle of Rhee which lay before that Town and imbarr'd their Trade his unskilful conduct therein was such that he was forc'd to a retreat with the loss of many valiant men and not a little of his Honour the more full relation of which ill success I refer to our Historians This Expedition proving thus unhappy his Majesties necessitous condition forc'd him to pawn much of his Lands to the City of London for an hundred and twenty thousand pounds which he then borrowed and also to borrow thirty thousand pounds more of the East-India Company But all this being not sufficient to support the charge of the Fleet notwithstanding these former great discouragements still hoping by a Parliament to obtain some reasonable Supply in these his pressing Necessities he call'd another Parliament to begin on the seventeenth of March next following At the meeting whereof he told them None there but knew that common danger was the cause of that Parliament and Supply at that time the Chief end thereof Likewise that if to maintain their own advices and as the case then stood for the following thereof the true Religion Laws and Liberties of this State and the just defence of its true Friends and Allies were not sufficient then no Eloquence of men and Angels could prevail the particular dangers being laid open by the Lord Keeper Hereupon after some time spent in debate of these things five Subsidies were voted and the Petition of Right assented to by his Majesty After which the Parliament was first prorogued from the 26th of Iune till the 20th of October And then by Proclamation till the 20th of Ianuary At which meeting the Clergy also gave the King as many Subsidies In the interim of which Prorogation the Duke of Buckingham who had formerly been the Darling of that Parliament which made use of him to King Iames for breaking the match with Spain being now grown odious and in this Parliament represented to be the chief cause of all their Grievances not only by reason of the losses at the Isle of Rhee but for many other respects as in the Annals of that time may at large be seen hoping as well to regain the honour he lost in the last year's attempt in that Isle as a better opinion of the People design'd another Expedition to Rochel In order whereunto being Commander of the Royal Fleet ready to set sail from Portsmouth he was there desperately murther'd by one Iohn Felton a discontented Officer of the last years Army upon the 23d of August who gave no other reason for that his barbarous and bloody Act then that the Duke had been declared an Enemy to the Commonwealth in a Remonstrance tendred to the King by the House of Commons in the former Session But I proceed notwithstanding this fair shew of an hopeful accordance there were not a few turbulent-spirited men both in the Parliament and elsewhere who sought all advantages for breaking thereof divers Merchants refusing to pay Tonnage and Poundage in regard it had not been granted to the King by a special Act since the death of his Royal Father King Iames. Whereupon his Majesty first sent for those Merchants to the Council-Table and after by a Speech to both Houses told them he expected they should pass the Bill for it But instead of complying therein the Commons publisht a Declaration concerning Religion alledging that they must prefer it before all other business Whereupon the King whose urgent Necessities for want of the Supply expected pressed hard upon them issuing out a special Commission for taking of Tonnage and Poundage Against which the Commons not only protested but some of their Members behaved themselves therein so disobediently and seditiously to the contempt of his Regal authority that fearing they should be dissolved before they had vented their own passions in that particular they lockt the doors of the House of Commons kept the Key and held the Speaker by strong hand in his Chair till they had thunder'd out their Anathema's not
mouth of their Speaker their carefulness to support the Cause wherein he and his Allies were justly engaged Then he reminded them of their unanimous consent and real intention formerly express'd to supply him in such a measure as should make him safe at home and fear'd abroad and that in the dispatch thereof they would use such diligence as his pressing and present Occasions did require And he observ'd that in two days only of twelve that business was thought of and not begun till by a Message his Majesty did put them in mind of it whilst their Inquisition against his direction proceeded day by day And for the Supply intended he told them the measure thereof was so little that instead of making him safe at home and feared abroad it would both expose him to danger and disesteem in regard that without better help his Allies must presently disband and leave him alone to bear the fury of a provoked and powerful enemy besides the manner of it which was dishonourable and full of distrust viz. that the Bill was not to come into the House till their Grievances were both preferr'd and answer'd And his Majesty himself then farther added he must put them in mind that in the time of his blessed Father they did by their Councel and Perswasion prevail both with his Father and himself to break off the Treaties before-mention'd and told them that now they had all things according to their wishes and that he was so far engaged they thought there was no retreat now they began to set the Dice on him saying moreover that it was not a Parliamentary-way nor a way to deal with their King And to this the Duke of Buckingham by his Majesties Command farther affirm'd that if his Majesty should accept of a less sum then would suffice it would deceive their Expectations disappoint his Allies and consume the Treasure of the Kingdom whereas if they would give largely now the business being at the Crisis it would come so seasonably as that it might give a turn to the affairs of Christendom wishing them therefore to enlarge it but left the augmentation to themselves And to the end the load might not lye on the poorest told them his Majesty did likewise wish that they who were the abettors and councellors of this war would take a greater part of the burthen to themselves Nevertheless all this moved them very little insomuch as the King by a Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons dated upon the ninth of Iune following hoping to quicken them the better did put them in mind how often and earnestly he had press'd them for speeding that Aid which they intended for his great and weighty affairs telling them the time they themselves had prefix'd was so far spent viz. the last day of that month that unless it were presently concluded it would neither bring him money nor credit And that if it were farther deferr'd it would be of little use he being daily advertised from all parts of the great preparations by the Enemy really to assail him and moreover that he held it necessary by those his Letters to give them his last and final admonition as also to let them know that he should account all further Delays and Excuses to be express Denials and therefore did will and require them to bring in their Subsidy-Bill to be pass'd without delay or condition Adding that if by their denial or delay any thing of ill consequence should fall out either at home or abroad he should take God to witness that he had done his part to prevent it by calling his people together to advise with them and opening to them the weight of his occasions as also by requiring their timely help and assistance in those Actions wherein he stood engaged by their Councel But instead of any satisfactory return unto this his Royal Letter wherein he had earnestly prest unto them the speedy and necessary consideration of his present Exigencies they made what haste they could to perfect a Remonstrance against the Duke of Buckingham and concerning Tonnage and Poundage taken by the King since the death of his Father without consent of Parliament Which was no sooner finished but they had intimation that the King would dissolve the Parliament whereupon they forthwith order'd that every Member of their House should have a Copy of that Remonstrance The Parliament being therefore dissolv'd by Commission upon the fifteenth of Iune his Majesty did presently set forth a Declaration manifesting the reasons he had for dissolving thereof as also of the former Parliament whereby he did clearly publish to the world how he became engaged in a war with a potent Enemy upon his Father's death and that he was enforc'd thereto for the necessary defence of himself and his Dominions as also for the support of his Friends and Allies recovering the patrimony of his Sister and her Children and maintenance of the true Religion Moreover that he was invited thereto and encouraged therein by the advice of both Houses of Parliament and by their large Promises and Protestations to his Father to give him full and reall assistance in those Enterprizes which were of so great importance to this Realm and to the general peace and safety of all his Friends and Allies but that instead of making performance of those their undertakings he found them so slow and full of delays and diversions that no fruit came thereof And farther added that tho he had by his Letters bearing date the ninth of Iune press'd them earnestly therein with a clear and gracious manifest of his resolutions they never so much as admitted one Reading to the Bill of Subsidies but instead thereof prepared and voted a Remonstrance which they intended to prefer unto him containing tho palliated with glosing terms as well many dishonourable Aspersions upon himself and upon the memory of his deceased Father as dilatory Excuses for their not proceeding with the Subsidies Adding thereto also colour'd conditions crossing thereby his direction All which his Majesty plainly understanding and esteeming the same to be a denial of the promised Supply finding likewise withall that no admonition could move nor reasons or presumptions prevail the time being so far spent as that they had put an impossibility upon themselves to perform their Promises upon mature advice he dissolv'd the Parliament as hath been already observed Being therefore thus exposed to extreme Necessities he was constrain'd to require a Loan of money from the Nobility the City of London and others as also to lay a Charge upon the Ports and Maritime Towns for the furnishing certain numbers of Ships for the guarding of the Coasts against attempts from Spain or Flanders and likewise upon the Counties adjoining to contribute thereto After which he issued out Privy-Seals unto several persons for borrowing of money and to others proposed a Benevolence according to the proportion of four Subsidies
Laws of the Land and to the Liberties and Properties of the People Whereof one was that he should pass an Act for keeping on Foot their Army during the pleasure of such as they should nominate to be entrusted with the Militia with power from time to time to recruit and continue them to the Number of Forty Thousand Horse and Foot under their present General and Officers and that the Council of War should have power to make choise of new Officers and Generals from time to time as occasion should happen and they think fit as also to settle a Tax upon the People by way of Land-rate for supporting the same Army to be Collected and levyed by the Souldiers themselves And for the establishing a Court-Marshal of extraordinary extent But so soon as His Majesty had read some few of those Tyrannous Proposals he threw them aside saying that he would rather become a Sacrifice for his People than thus betray their Laws Liberties Lives and Estates with the Church the Common-wealth and Honour of the Crown to so intolerable a Bondage of an Armed Faction And such a Sacrifice they really made him upon the Tuesday following which was the Thirtieth of Ianuary having the more to affront and deject him had it been possible built a Scaffold for His Murther before the Great Gate at White-Hall whereunto they fixed several Staples of Iron and prepared Cords to tye him down to the Block had he made any resistance to that Cruel and Bloody stroke To which place they then brought him on Foot from St. Iames's attended by Guards of Souldiers having filled all the Streets from Charing-Cross to Westminster with Troops of Horse and Companies of Foot Whereon being ascended with the Greatest Christian Magnanimity imaginable he told them that they were in a wrong way to the Kingdoms Peace their design being to do it by Conquest in which God would never prosper them Farther declaring to them that the right way thereto would be first to give God his due by regulating rightfully the Church in a National Synod freely call'd and freely debating Secondly the King his Successor his due wherein the Laws of the Land would sufficiently instruct them Thirdly the People theirs in such a Government whereby their Lives and Gods might be most their own It was for that quoth he I come now hither for would I have given way to an Arbitrary sway to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not to have come here Telling them farther but praying God it might not be laid to their Charge that he was the Peoples Martyr And then most Christianly forgiving all praying for His Enemies he meekly submitted to the stroke of the Axe It is not unworthy of Observation and therefore not finding a more proper place for it I have thought fit to insert it here that some of those most Impious Regicides who sate and gave judgment of Death upon this Blessed Martyr when after the happy Restoration of our present Soveraign they were brought to their Tryals for that unparallel'd Murther stuck not in justification of themselves to plead that they were not within the compass of Treason as it is declared by the Statute of 25. E. 3. For that questionless said they must intend private Persons Councilling Compassing or imagining the Death of the King but you know said they that the War was first stated by the Lords and Commons the Parliament of Enlgand and by virtue of their Authority was raised they pretending by the Laws that the right of the Militia was in them whereupon accordingly they rais'd a Force making the Earl of Essex General and after that Sir 〈…〉 This therefore they insisted on for a legal Authority because said they that this Parliament was called by the King 's Writ and that the Members thereof were chosen by the People Adding that the Persons which acted under that Authority ought not therefore to be question'd as Persons Guilty because if that which they acted was Treason then the Lords and Commons in Parliament began the Treason Having thus finisht their Grand and long designed work they permitted the Duke of Richmond the Marquess of Hertford the Earl of Southampton and Earl of Lindsey to Interr his Corps in the Collegiate Chapel within the Castle at 〈◊〉 refusing him Burial with his Ancestors in the Church of Wesâ—minster under colour of preventing such confluence of People which out of a superstitious respect might resort to his Grave reserving that place therein which had been built by King Henry the Seventh purposely for the Sepulture on himself and his Posterity for the Bones of his chiefest Murtherers Some of which being afterwards accordingly there deposited have since been Translated and laid more properly under the Gallows Being thus come to the Period of this incomparable Prince's Life I may not omit to take notice that the time was when these Monsters of men did publickly declare that they would make his Majesty a Glorious King which now we see most truly verifyed though not as they then seem'd to intend it So Glorious indeed as Mortal man never was more First In that he suffered as an Heroick Champion for the Rights of the Church the Laws of the Land the Liberties and Properties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament in stoutly to his utmost withstanding the conjunctive Power of his Rebellious Subjects which under the colour of asserting these most Trayterously assaulted him in divers sharp Battels Next by his cheerful undergoing the many hardships of a destructive War and a tedious Imprisonment Thirdly by his patient enduring the many insolent affronts of this subtile false cruel and most implacable Generation in their Barbarous manner of conventing and Condemning him to Death and to see his most blood-thirsty Enemies then Triumph over him And that no part of true felicity might be wanting to him they have made him Glorious in his Memory throughout of the World by a Great Universal and most durable Fame and Glorious by his enjoyment of an Immortal Crown with the Blessed Saints Martyrs and devout Confessors in the highest Heavens CHAP. XXXI AND here having made a mournful stop for a while to contemplate the unspeakable loss of this excellent Prince and the direful actings of these matchless Conspirators I begin to consider that the Presbyterians may possibly take much exceptions at this Historical Narrative in regard that by the Life of the King was not taken away by them but by that Sect which are usually called Independants Whereunto I answer that it is not denyed but that he was actually put to death by those who in common discourse do pass under that name But whether the Presbyterians can clear themselves from the Guilt of his Murther as I know not how to excuse them so am I somewhat doubtful thereof For in the First place I would ask whether they were not the men which Originally put themselves in Armes
the People of England may now see how by tracing them too far in the forbidden Paths of a conceited Liberty they not long since fell into the known Slavery of the French-Pesant A Misery which some of them felt but a little when for fear of it they first Petitioned to be put into a Posture of Defence but justly brought upon themselves by those undue Courses which they took to prevent it God in his Wisdom thinking it fit to punish this Nation by a real Slavery unto some of their own Fellow Subjects for fancying to themselves an imaginary under their Lawful Sovereign as a ground to justify their Rebellion when there was no cause for it Wherfore I shall now Conclude with the Words of Sr. Edward Coke at the end of this Chapter concerning Treason It appeareth in the Holy Scriptures saith he that Traytors never prospered what good soever they pretended but were most severely and exemplarily punished As Corah Dathan and Abiram by Miracle dirupta est terra sub pedibus eorum aperiens os suum devoravit illos Athalia the Daughter of Amri interfecta est gladio Bagatha and Thara against Assuerus appensus est uterque eorum in patibuto Absolon against David suspensus in arbore and Joab infixit tres lanceas in corde ejus Ahithophel with Absolon against David Suspendio interijt he Hang'd himself Abiathar the Trayterous High-Priest against Solomon Abiathar sacerdoti dixit Rex Et quidem vir mortises sed hodie non interficiam c. Ejecit ergo Solomon Abiathar ut non esset Sacerdos Shimei against David gladio interfectus Zimri against Ela who burnt himself Theudas qui occisus est circiter CCCC qui credebant ei dispersi sunt redacti ad nihilum and Iudas Galilaeus ipse perijt omnes quotquot consenserunt ei dispersi sunt Peruse over all our Books Records and Histories saith he and you shall find a Principle in Law a Rule in Reason and a Tryal in Experience that Treason doth ever produce Fatal and Final Destruction to the Offender and never attained to the desired end two incidents inseparable thereunto and therefore let all Men abandon it as the most Poysonous Bayt of the Devil and follow the Precept in Holy Scripture Fear God Honour the King and have no Company with the Seditious FINIS * See a view of the Government and public Worship of God in the Churches beyond Sea by Dr. Durell impr Lond. 1662. * Guy de Bres contre Perreur des Anabaptists p. 5. Ib. p. 118 119 120. Ib. p. 177. Ib. p. 27. Ib. p. 65 66. Ib. p. 71. Ib. p. 124. Ib. p. 748. Ib. p. 122. Ib. p. 40. Ib. p. 6. Ib. p. 420. Ib. p. 27. Ib. p. 6. An. 1525. Sleidans Comment lib. 5. f. 55. a. b. Ib. f. 56. b. Ib. 59. b. Ib. f. 63. a. Ib. f. 64. b. 65. a. Sleidans Com. f. 57. Thus did the Rebels here in England at the last Battel of Newbery 27. Oct. 1644. An. 1535. Sleidan ut supra lib. 1. f. 131. b. * Agmen tonsile a rotunde detonsis capitibus * Calvin's Comment on the Psalms f. 330. Psal. 71. verse 14. * Calvin advers Anabap. Art 2. Calvin Epist. p. 67. * Dudley Earl of Leicester and Secretary Walsingham The principles of the Puritans R. A. Conf. of Brow p. 113. Corda Angl. prop. 16. Barrow Disc. p. 236. Barrow Ref. p. 244. Christ on his Throne f. 67. Prelacy misery f. 7. Ha'y' any work c. p. 14. 15. 20. 21. Also Mart. Marprel in his Epistle to the terrible priests Sion's plea. 155. Supplic an 29. Eliz. p. 25 Bancroft f. 50. Unlawfulness of unlimited Prelacy f. 12. Bancroft f. 169. Knox to the Commonalty f. 49. 50. T. Cartw. lib. 2. p. 48. Ib. lib. 1. p. 192. Covenanters Inform. for Defensive Arg. 3. Lib. 1. p. 3. Sion's plea. Travers de Discipl Eccl. p. 142. Exhort to Engl. p. 91 92. T. Cartw. lib. 1. p. 6. 48. Knox Exhort p. 35. 43. T. Cartw. p. 220. Epist. before the Supplic 2. Eliz. Christ on his Throne f. 76. Sion's plea. f. 340. 244. Ib. f. 240. Title page to Sion's plea. Sion's plea f. 262. Bancroft's Surv. f. 28. Treatise of applying Gods word to the conscience p. ult Knox app 28. 30. A. D. 1557. A. D. 1558. Knox Hist. p. 217 218. Ib. p. 275 276. Ib. p. 372. 378. Stow's Annal. Holingsh. Chr. p. 1396. * Mr. Isaac Walton Copping and Thacker hang'd at St. Edmunsbury an 1583 for publishing Pamphlets written by Browne against the Book of Common-Prayer Penri hang'd an 1593 for his libellous Book called Mart. Marprelate A. D. 1603. Conference at Hampton Court * Canon 55. * Colonel John Frye a member of the then Parliament Bellarm. de Concil lib. 2. cap. 19. Bellarm. de Cleric lib. 3. p. 6. Philopat 2. p. 109. Bellarm. lib. 3. de Pont. cap. 7. Mariana lib. 2. de Reg. cap. 6. p. 59. Gilby lib. de Obedientia p. 25. 105. Buchanan de jure Regni apud Scotos p. 61. Barrow refut p. 169. Knox App. f. 30. Goodman p. 185. Knox to Engl. Scotl. p. 78. Goodman p. 190. Goodman p. 144. 145. Ibid. 43. 57. 72. Knox Hist. p. 343. Goodman p. 111. in obedience Ib. p. 185. Buchan de jure Regni c. p. 50. 56. Ib. p. 57. Engl. compl against the Canons Goodman p. 99. Buchanan ut supra Knox Hist. f. 78. Goodman p. 110. * Col. Purefoy one of their Council of State Their Practice for reducing the King to Necessities An. 1619. 17. Jac. * Rushw. Hist. Coll. impr Lond. 1659. p. 11. F. * Ib. p. 12. * E. F. An. 1620. 18. Jac. * Ib. p. 14. * Ib. p. 15. E. * Ib. p. 17. A. An. 1620. * Ib. E. A Parliament called 30 Jan. 18 Jac. An. 1621â— 19. Jac. Ib. p. 35. Ib. p. 36. Ib. p. 39. D Ib. p. 40. A. B. Ib. C. â— Dec. Ib. 43. E. Ib. 52. E. 19. Dec. Ib. p. 53. * Dec. 30. Parliament dissolved 6. Jan. Ib. p. 56. Ib. p. 61. Ib. p. 114. An. 1623. 21. Jac. Another Parliament called Ib. p. 115. Ib. p. 128. B. Ib. 129. D. Ib. 131. A. Ib. 135. C. Ib. 136. A. Ib. 137. A. Ib. 138. B. Ib. 139. A. Ib. p. 156. D. An. 1624. 22. Jac. Ib. 158. E. An. 1625. Ib. p. 159. C. The Death of King James Ib. p. 172. B. The first Parliament of King Charles the first 18. Junii Ib. p. 174. Ib. p. 175. C. 176. C. Ib. p. 178. A. Ib. p. 178. E Ib. p. 181. A. Ib. p. 182. A. Ib. p. 183. F. Ib. p. 194. B. Ib. E. Ib. p. 195. A. Parliament dissolved Ib. E. Moneys borrowed by Privy Seal The second Parliament of King Charles the First 6. Februarii Ib. p. 218. E. Ib. p. 220. A. Ib. p. 229. A. Ib. p. 230. B. An. 1625. 9 Junii Ib. p. 402.
the People there 46. his Declaration 284. is beheaded 388. Haselring Sir Arthur his Motion in Parliament 465. Hampden Collonel slain 186. Hewson kills some of the Londoners 482. Conference at Hampton-Court 14. Hewit Dr. John beheaded 456. Mr. Hookers Books corrupted by the Presbyterians 38. Hotham Sir John denies the King entrance into Hull 91. He and his Son beheaded 99. Hypocrisie its Fruits 1. I. JAmes King enters into a War for the recovery of the Palatinate 20. his Death 24. Jesuites Tenets 16. Independency its Original 227. Their Tenets 281. 409. Instrument of Government read to Cromwel at his inauguration 414. K. KIneton Battel 108 109. Kentish Men petition the Parliament in behalf of the King 282. L. LAmbert routed at Daventry 487. Lambeth-house beset 62. Laud Arch-bishop beheaded 194. Holy League and Covenant 119. 121. Solemn League and covenant 128. Schismatical Lecturers planted in London and Corporate Towns 36. Buying in Impropriate Tyths for their support ibid. The absurdity and ill effects of their Doctrine 38. 95. 392. 469. 565. Leicester's Earl may to get the Bishops Lands 14. made Deputy of Ireland 71. Representation of the Ministers of Leicester-shire 471. A Loan required by King Charles I. 31. Londoners their forwardness to promote the Rebellion 99. 119. 123. 234. 286. 584. are dejected upon the approach of Fairfax 's Army 252. Iustice Long committed to the Tower 79. Certain seditious Expressions in Mr. Love 's Sermon at Uxbridge 576. M. BAttel at Marston-Moor 189. Five Members of Parliament demanded by the King 81. General Monk advances towards England 481. his Speech to the Rump Parliament 485. voted Lord General 487. his Descent and variable Fortune 488 Secluded Members re-admitted 487. N. NAmes of the secluded Members 363. of those that subscribed a Protestation against a Treaty with the King at the Isle of Wight 365. of the Persons present at the Treaty 289. of the High Court of Iustice for Trial of the King 367. of the Members who assented not to the Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford 583. of Cromwels Council of State 406. of his House of Lords 455. of the Rumpers 467. of the secluded Members ibid. of the Rumper's Council of State 468. of the Committee of Safety 477. Navesby Fight 200. Newbery first Battle 187. second Battle 197. O. OAth for adjuring the King 471. taken by Members of Parliament 485. Order for raising an Army by the Parliament 98. Ordinance for the Militia 89. Ordinance for calling an Assembly of Divines 121. The Self-denying Ordinance 193. 197. Ordinance for Sale of Bishops Lands 225. Ordinance for Trial of the King 366. P. FIrst Parliament of King Charles I. 2◠dissolved 27. Second Parliament called ibid. dissolved 31. Third Parliament called 34. dissolved 35. The short Parliament called and dissolved 61. Long Parliament began 66. dissolved 487. Bill for perpetuating the Parliament 70. Their Declaration concerning the Five Members 83. Their insolent Propositions to the King after their Victory at Marston-Moore 191. Invite the Scots to their assistance 112. Their Oppressions of the People 112. 114. 124. 127. 129. 130. 131. 391. 474. House of Peers abolished 385. 389. Peters Hugh his Revelation 365. Petition of the County of Norfolk 386. of Grievances 66. for putting the Kingdom into a posture of Defence 85. for putting the Militia into the Hands of the Parliament 86. of the poor Tradesmen in London 87. Petitions for a free Parliament suppressed 482. Popish Priest slain on the Parliament side at Edge-hill Fight 564. Presbyterian Tenets 17. 400. Arts and Devices to raise Rebellion 19. Their actings against the Protestant Religion 554. against the Laws of the Land and Liberty of the Subject 577. Their Doctrine and Practise 565. Their violating the Priviledges of Parliament 582. Their averseness to Peace 588. Their practise for reducing the King to necessities 20. 238. Their Protestations and Declarations 206. Presbytery triumphant 193. 203. Plots and Conspiracies pretended by them 69. 76. 81. 90. 121. 129. Whether the Presbyterian or Independant were the chief Actors in the Murder of the King 375. Proposals of the Parliament for bringing in Money and Plate 95 96. Propositions sent to the King at New-Castle 217. Prides Purge 363. Privy Seals 27. 32. Puckering Speaker of the Commons his Speech against the Puritans 13. Puritans their Principles 10. and Discipline 11. petition King James against the Liturgy of the Church of England 14. R. THe Recognition subscribed 429. The Grand Remonstrance 71. presented to the King 78. Captain Rolfe employed by the Parliament to poison the King 285. Rumper's Declaration 466. are excluded by Lambert 477. are re-admitted 483. S. SAlmatius his Opinion touching the Murder of King Charles 377. Scots put themselves in Arms. 54. raise more Forces 58. Their first Invasion 62. Their second Invasion 189. 132. Their third Invasion 380. Their Letter to the Major c. of the City of London 214. Their Answer to the English Commissioners about delivering up the King 230. Their Letter and Declaration to the two Houses of Parliament 258. 271. Great Seal of England altered 370. Service Book sent into Scotland 42. 58. Sheriffs of London refuse to publish His Majesties Proclamation 72. Ship-money required 32. Inland Parts charged therewith 42. Sir Henry Slingsby beheaded 456. Spencer Earl of Northampton slain 118. Earl of Strafford impeached of Treason 67. his Trial and Death 68. Star-Chamber Court suppressed 70. Earl of Sunderland slain 187. T. TReaty in the Isle of Wight 689. Treaty at Rippon 65. removed to Westminster 66. Tumults at Edenburgh by reason of the Service-Book 44. in St. Pauls Cathedral 65. at Westminster 78 79 82. justified by the Parliament 90. V. VAne Sir Henry being sent into Scotland incites them to Rebellion 60. his sinister dealing with the King 61. Virgin of Hereford-shire her Revelation 367. Uxbridge Treaty 194. 291. 737. Votes of no more Addresses to the King 275. W. WAlsingham a favourer of the Sectaries 9. Walton upon Thames the Sermon of a Soldier there 390. Weever an Independent his Motion in the House of Commons 283. Winchester Cathedral defaced Worchester Cathedral defaced 558. Y. YOrk Grand Council of the Peers there 64 A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS Printed at the Theater in Oxford With several others And sold in London by Moses Pitt at the Angel against the Great North-door of St. Pauls-Church 1681. IN FOLIO BIble for Churches with Chronology and an Index The English Atlas Vol 1st containing the description of the North Pole as also Muscovy Poland Sweden and Denmark The second Vol. of the Atlas containing Germany The third Vol. containing the 17 Provinces both in the Press 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 five Pandectae Canonum S. S. Apostolorum Conciliorum ab Ecclesiâ Graecâ receptorum nec non canonicarum S. S. Patrum Epistolarum una cum Scholiis antiquorum singulis annexis Scriptis aliis huc spectantibus quorum plurima è Bibliothecae Bodleianae aliarumque MSS. codicibus nunc primum edita
the same subject which under colour of a desire to search after his death for some Writings in his Study were by certain Clergy-men who stood disaffected to the Discipline of the Church unhappily lurch'd away they did at length gain those very Books into their hands and not long after the beginning of this late unparallel'd Rebellion for the better accomplishing their long studyed ends most shamefully corrupted them in sundry places omitting divers passages which were unsutable to their purposes and instead thereof inserting what they thought might give countenance to their present evil practises amongst which was this in terminis that though the King were singulis major yet he was universis minor and having so done caus'd them to be publish'd in Print By which fallacy divers well meaning people were miserably captivated and drawn to their Party And at length were not ashamed in that Treaty which they had with his Majesty in the Isle of Wight to vouch the authority of this venerable man in derogation of his Supremacy and to place the Soveraign power in the People that great Antimonarchist William late Vicount Say and Sele being the person who boldly urged it Whereunto the good King answered that though those three Books were not allowed to be Mr. Hookers yet he would admit them so to be and consent to what his Lordship endeavoured to prove out of them in case he would assent to the judgment of Mr. Hooker declared in the other five Books which were unquestionably His. But as to these their indirect dealings in thus corrupting the works of that excellent man whose memory for his profound learning singular piety and most exemplary life will be ever precious to succeeding ages and his necessary vindication therein I shall for more full satisfaction to my Reader refer him to that seasonable Historical discourse lately compiled and published with great judgment and integrity by that much deserving person Mr. Isaac Walton containing a perfect Narrative of the life and death of this right worthy person Of which I hold it necessary that special notice should be taken by reason that since the happy Restauration of our present Soveraign K. Charles II. Dr. Gawden then Bishop of Exeter upon the reprinting those five genuine Books of Mr. Hooker together with the other pretended three taking upon him to write a Preface to the whole and therein to give an account of Mr. Hooker's life hath not only with great confidence used divers Arguments to satisfie the world that those three Books were penn'd by Mr. Hooker notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the Regal power which are to be found therein but much misreported him in the Narrative of his life representing him to have been a single man with many other gross mistakes as whoso compares it with Mr. Walton's History of him may easily see Moreover well knowing that the City of London in respect of its Riches and Populousness must be the principal stage for this Tragic-Action there was no small care taken for fitting all places of Authority therein especially the Common-Council with such active men as might advance this blessed work Wherein having made a fair and succesful progress but discerning that the Sword must at length be made use of they then began to frequent the Artillery-yard and to be diligent Practisers of military Discipline in which they grew in a short time so great Proficients that most of the cheif Officers in that School were men of that stamp and got into their hands the best and choicest Arms. And that they might make the more secure progress in this their long studyed design they laid the Scene at first in Scotland the Subjects of that Realm being most tainted with Presbytery so that in case this their contrivance should speed there they might the more boldly adventure upon the like here The first thing therefore that was made use of towards their Master-piece in Scotland was an exception or rather cavil by divers eminent persons in that Kingdom at his Majesties Revocation of such things as had been passed away in prejudice of that Crown especially by some of his Progenitors in their minorities though not without example This being advised by those that were then his Majesties Privy-Councellers and Officers of State in that Realm whose late Actions have sufficiently manifested what effect they desired it should produce did accordingly occasion much repining by divers principal persons who thereupon infused into his Subjects a distaste of his Government And though the King was pleased to wave his interest therein and to remit as well the Equity as rigour of the Laws in that point the Male-contents would not be satisfyed but still endeavoured to work a disaffection in the people thereto And whereas his Majesty out of his pious care of the Clergy who had been much opprest by the Laity that pay'd Tythes being pleased to grant out Commissions in their behalf had so good issue therein as that both Parties were abundantly satisfyed the maintenance of the Clergy being thereby improv'd and the Laity freed from a dangerous dependance upon Subjects yet the Nobility and Lay-Patrons fretting privately for being rob'd as they conceiv'd of the dependance of the Clergy and Laity bent their envy against the Bishops under pretence that they were the principal causers thereof To quiet therefore these discontents in the year 1633 his Majesty made a progress into Scotland and was there crowned having not been personally there till then since the death of his Royal Father at which time he also held a Parliament in that Realm wherein great suggestions were made of fears that dangerous Innovations in Religion would be attempted as also instead of acceptance of an Act for Ratification of all other Acts concerning the Religion professed and established it was dissented to by divers of the after-chiefest Covenanters And no sooner was he returned back into England but that infinite Libels were disperst abroad to impoyson the People with his Majesties proceedings at that Parliament Of which Libellers amongst others the Lord Balmerino was found guilty by his Peers and accordingly should have receiv'd sentence of death for it nevertheless through his Majesties goodness was not only pardoned but enlarg'd and afterwards became an eminent Covenanter Which Insolency of the Scots did not a little animate and encourage the Puritan-faction here who loudly declaimed against the Discipline of the Church as it then by Law stood establish'd and to beget a greater contempt thereof in the generality of the people represented it to be superstitious and like to usher in Popery dispersing many scandalous seditious and libellous Pamphlets to that purpose infusing likewise into them strange apprehensions that their Liberty and Property were in no little danger and the better to give colour to their pretended fears of these approaching Evils they took ready hold of this following occasion The Soveraignty of the Brittish-Seas by antient right justly appertaining to the Crown
rendred to Prince Rupert by Lieutenant Colonel Russell Subsequent to these I shall onely enumerate the rest in order of time Iames Earl of Northampton routed another stout party of them at Middleton Cheney in Northampton shire And about ten days following Sir Ralph Hopton obtain'd a clear victory over the Dehonshire and Cornish Rebels at Stratton in Cornwall the Earl of Stanford and Major General Chudleigh being Commanders in chief of them In which Battle were taken seventeen hundred Prisoners thirteen brass piece of Ordnance seventy Barrels of powder and store of other provisions by reason whereof the greatest part of the West except Plymouth and some other Port-Towns was reduced to obedience and in consideration of this signal service the said Sir Ralph Hopton soon after viz. 4. Sept. 1643. was advanced to the dignity of Lord Hopton of Stratton aforesaid The next month also ensued Prince Rupert's Victory over the Rebels at Chalgrave-field in Oxfordshire Commanded by Colonell Iohn Hampden who there received his deaths wound that being the very field wherein he first put in Execution the Parliaments Ordinance for the Militia of that County as a president to the rest of England and the Earl of Newcastle taking Howley house in Yorkshire soon after defeated the Lord Fairfax at Adderton Heath in that County At the beginning of Iuly likewise a party of Horse and Dragoons Commanded by Colonel Middleton coming to surprize Sir Charles Lucas in his Quarters at Padbury near Buckingham were by him routed And the Earl of Newcastle valiantly assaulting Bradford in Yorkshire took it by storm Sir Thomas Fairfax who was Governour there fleeing thence by night whereupon Hallifax and Denton house Sir Thomas Fairfax his seat were quitted by the Rebels Burton upon Trent also in Staffordshire was taken by the Lord Iermyn upon the Queens passage from Burlington in Yorkshire towards Oxford Near which time was the great fight at Landsdown in Somerset shire where the Lord Hopton had the better of the Rebels though the Valiant Sir Bevill Grenevill was there slain The Lord Wilmot and Earl of Carnarvon likewise routed Sir William Waller and Sr. Arthur Haselrigg at Roundwaydown in Wiltshire Prince Rupert also having taken Burleigh house in Rutland marcht to Bristol and after a short Siege of that City had a surrender thereof from Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes the then Governour In the next month likewise was Dorchester in Dorset shire rendred to the Earl of Carnarvon and the Isle of Portland reduced to His Majesties obedience Hereupon Weymouth and Melcombe in com Dorset submitted These great successes encouraged the King to come before the City of Gloucester the most considerable Garrison in all that part of the Realm which so startled the Earls of Bedford and Holand and the Lord Paget that they came in to the King but not long after being less apprehensive of danger fell off again to their own party Soon after this Beverley in Yorkshire was taken by the Earl of Newcastle Biddiford◠Appleford and Barnstaple in com Devon were also rendred The City of Exeter was likewise taken by Prince Maurice and Sir William Waller one of their active Generals routed at Winchester Near Auburne also in Wiltshire a strong party of them was worsted by Prince Rupert But soon after this the Earl of Essex with his whole Army met his Majesty near Newbery in Berkshire where after much slaughter neither could boast of the victory though the Earls of Carnarvon and Sunderland with Lucius Viscount Falkland then one of the Kings principal Secretaries of State there lost their lives the noise whereof did not a little avail the Rebels it giving them much reputation with all their party In October the next month Dertmouth in Devon-shire was rendred to Prince Maurice and shortly after Hawarden-Castle in Flint-shire yielded to the King's obedience Arundell-Castle also in Sussex was rendred to the Lord Hopton Beeston castle in Cheshire taken Likewise Lapley house in Stafford-shire Grafton house in Northampton-shire and Crew house in 〈◊〉 shire Towards the end of Ianuary also Sir Thomas fairfax and Colonel Milton were routed by Prince Rupert at Drayton in Shropshire Hopton Castle in Shropshire and Wardour Castle in Wiltshire were likewise taken And upon the relief of Newark in Nottinghamshire besieg'd by Sir Iohn Meldrum a Scot with seven thousand men Gaynesborough Lincolne and Sleford all in Lincolnshire were quitted by the Rebels And Sturton-castle in Staffordshire about this time taken ¶ These being the most remarkable Actions on the King's part for this year 1643. I come now to observe what success the Rebels who were not idle had the same year In April therefore the Earl of Essex came before Reading in Berkshire and soon obtain'd it by surrender Colonel Feilding being then Governour thereof Siege being also laid to Wardour-castle in Wiltshire it was rendred So likewise was Monmouth in Monmouth shire And at Wakefield in Yorkshire His Majesties forces encountring the Rebels were worsted Soon after which Taunton and Bridgwater both in Somersetshire were also delivered up to them But notwithstanding all this they were not without their fears and therefore dispatcht the Lord Grey of Warke together with Mr. Henry Darley and Sir William Armine both trusty Members of their House of Commons by special order into Scotland earnestly to sollicite the dear Brethren of that Realm to their assistance Shortly after this they took Gaynesborough in Lincolnshire and attempted Basing house in Hantshire without effect But in September the Earl of Essex with more help from the zealous Londoners approaching Gloucester with a great strength caused the King to raise the siege which he had laid to that rebellious place In the same month also was Lynne in Norfolk yielded to the Earl of Manchester and shortly after the City of Lincoln taken by him forcibly Arundel-castle in Sussex likewise in Ianuary following yielded to Sir William Waller Whereupon being recruited with more forces he was constituted Major General of Kent Surry Sussex and Hantshire But that which proved to be instar omnium was that grand Invasion of the Scots which on the 22d of Ianuary crossed the River Tine with their numerous Army to the assistance of these Rebels as hath been already observed For at that time all the North of England beyond Trent excepting Hull in York shire and some few inconsiderable places being by the Marquess of Newcastle for so he had been lately made reduced to the King's obedience as also the West by Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice His Majesties Nephews excepting Poole and Lime in Dorset shire and Plymouth in Devonshire the Members sitting at Westminster became so startled that some of the leading-men prepared for quitting the Realm But this great ayd from
to Moral Honesty but wholly guided by those whimsical Fantasies which were by their Ring-leaders called the Revelations and Inspirations of God's Holy Spirit it was referred to a Committee to consider of a way for the Raising of Pensions and allowances out of Deans and Chapters Lands to maintain certain Itinerant Preachers who were Authorized to go up and down and spread abroad their Antimonarchical Doctrine whereby the Rabble might be set up and comply with the Souldiery against the Nobility and Gentry Clergy Lawyers and all orderly Government But upon better consideration fearing that the Liberty might in time overwhelm them with confusion and give such a countenance to the Levellers of whose help they had made no small use for the King's Destruction as would bring upon them inevitable ruine Cromwel moved in their Parliament that the Presbyterian Government might be setled promising his endeavours thereto and that the secured and secluded Members might be again invited to return into the House They likewise imploy'd divers of their Preachers of which Mr. Marshal Mr. Nye Mr. Carrel Mr. Goodwyn and Hugh Peters were the chief to cajole others of their own Coat together with the Citizens and expulsed Members with certain Discourses and Proposals telling them that the Presbyterians did differ with the King in point of Civil Interest which was much more irreconcileable than the Interest of Church Government whatsoever shew was made to the contrary Also that it was the Presbyterians who first made War against the late King brought him low and prepared him to receive his deadly blow from the Independants and therefore that the King would look upon them as equally Guilty with the Independants and endeavour equally to cut them off their design being thereby to cast the Presbyterians into utter despair and so to bring them in point of self Preservation to joyn with their Interests for common defence And to carry on their work with the more shew of Sanctity they ordered that a strict Fast should be kept to humble themselves and implore God's Forgiveness for the Ingratitude of the People who did not sufficiently acknowledge with Thankfulness Gods Great Mercies upon this Land in Freeing them from Monarchy and bestowing Liberty upon them by changing Kingly Government into a Free State or Republick To sweeten likewise the affections of the Vulgar towards them they made most specious pretences of paying all the publick Debts and raising Three Hundred thousand Pounds for supplying the necessities of the Common-wealth as they term'd it without any charge or burthen to the people and to that end passed an Act for abolishing all Deans and Chapters and for sale of their Lands And the better to fortifie themselves and their Usurped Dominion they fram'd another Act whereby they declared certain particulars to be Treason viz. 1. If any man should maliciously affirm their present Government to be Tyrannical usurped or unlawful or that the Commons in Parliament were not the Supream Authority of the Nation or that should endeavour to alter that their Government 2. If any should affirm their Council of State or Parliament to be Tyrannical or unlawful or endeavour to Subvert them or stir up Sedition against them 3. For any Souldiers of their Army to contrive the death of the General or Lieutenant General or endeavour to Raise Mutinies in the Army or to Levy War against the Parliament or to joyn with any to Invade England or Ireland to Counterfeit their Great Seal or kill any Member of their Parliament or any Judge or Minister of Justice in their duty Soon after this they framed and passed another Act declaring England with all the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging to be a Free State and to be Governed by the Representatives of the People in Parliament without any King or House of Lords Which Act was Proclaimed in the City of London by Alderman Andrews then Lord Mayor Alderman Pennington Wollaston Fowkes Kenrick Byde Edmunds Pack Bateman Atkins Viner Avery Wilson Dethick Foote then attending him The Londoners being by that time brought unto so much Vassalage by these insolent Regicides as that in obedience to a Vote made by their servile Parliament they were constrain'd to invite that wicked Conclave to a Thanksgiving Dinner whereat all of them were to rejoyce together for bringing the Grand Delinquent to punishment that is to say for the Murther of the King for the greater honour of that day the Lord Mayor met the Speaker and the other Members of Parliament at Temple-Bar and there resigning the Sword to him received it again and carryed it before him to Christs Church Whence after a Canting Sermon he conducted them to Grocers-Hall and entertain'd them in the quality of a Free State the Cooks having every one of them an Oath to prepare for those Saints nothing but wholsome Food Being therefore thus seeming firmly setled in their Tyrannical Dominion they went on in passing sundry other Acts in their Pseudo-Parliament of which the Ruling Grandees had the chief benefit viz. 1. To encourage the Purchasers of Deans and Chapters Lands by the sale of them at Ten years Purchase in case of ready Money or doubling what was due to those as should so purchase 2. Another for the sale of the Goods and Personal Estate of the King Queen and Prince 3. A Third for sale of the Crown Lands with particular Instructions to sell them at Thirteen years purchase 4. Soon after this they passed another Act for Coyning of new Money with direction for the form of the stamp to be thereon 5. Another declaring what Offences should be thenceforth adjudged Treason viz. to express or publish their Government to be Tyrannical or that the Commons in Parliament were not the Supream Authority 6. And for the quicker riddance of Deans and Chapters Lands they added farther Power and Instructions to the Trustees for the sale of them 7. Next to reward their Bloody President Bradshaw who gave Judgment of Death upon the King they passed another Act for settling Two thousand pounds per annum upon him And that there might be a known mark of distinction betwixt themselves and others they passed an Act for the Subscribing an Engagement whereby every man should promise to be true and Faithful to the Government then established without a King or House of Lords or in case of refusal to have no benefit of the Laws But the Crown-lands so doom'd to be sold went but slowly off they therefore passed another Act to constitute a Committee to remove obstructions in the sale of them Nor was all this sufficient to satisfie their greedy appetites or was evident enough from the aim they had to devour all the Gleabe and Tithes throughout the whole Kingdom To which purpose they passed an Act whereby they nominated certain Commissioners to receive and dispose of all Rents Issues and profits of all Rectories
For a Conclusion In answer to the witness of God upon our solemn Appeal you say you have not so learned Christ to hang the equity of your Cause upon events We could wish that blindness had not been upon your Eyes to all those marvellous Dispensations which God hath wrought lately in England But did not you solemnly Appeal and Pray Did not we do so too And ought not we and you to think with fear and trembling of the Hand of the Great God in this Mighty and strange appearance of his but can slightly call it an event Were not both your and our expectations renewed from time to time whilst we waited on God to see which way he would manifest himself upon our Appeales And shall we after all these our Prayers Fastings Teares Expectations and solemn Appeales call these bare Events The Lord pitty you Surely we fear because it hath been a merciful and gracious deliverance to us I beseech you in the Bowels of Christ search after the mind of the Lord in it towards you and we shall help you by our Prayers that you may find it For yet if we know our Hearts at all our Bowels do in Christ yearne after the Godly in Scotland It is not unworthy of Observation likewise that as this signal dissaster to the Presbyterians did very much raise the Spirits of the Independant Grandees so did it incite them to give all possible encouragement to the rest of that Party and to all other Sectaries of whose help upon occasion they might stand in need They therefore first passed an Act Intituled An Act for the relief of Religious and peaceable People from the rigour of former Acts of Parliament in matter of Religion amongst which those of primo and 35 o Eliz. which concern the Subjects obedient repairing to Church were repealed And shortly after that another Act whereby they directed all proceedings at Law scil Writs Pleadings Patents Books of Reports and other Law Books to be in English Next they imposed a Tax of an hundred and twenty Thousand Pounds a Month for the support of their Army and not long after passed an Act declaring that their new Great Seal Engraven with a Cross and an Harp with this Circumscription The Seal of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England should be the Seal of the Parliament of that Common-wealth and be only used by order of Parliament and that it should be Treason to counterfeit the same Most certain it is that the late wonderful defeat which the Scots received at Dunbar by the English then commanded by Cromwel did not a little startle the whole Godly Party in that Nation For whereas before though it was through the advantage they made of the King's Name whom they had got thither as hath been already observed that they rais'd their Army 't is very well known that His Majesty was not permitted to have any hand in the conduct thereof no not so much as to be Personally in that part of the Realm in which it was lest his presence should have had any influence thereon in reference to his own just Rights so much did their own guilt of Disloyalty terrifie them But the case was now altered For soon after this great overthrow they sent to His Majesty earnestly desiring his presence with them and to Court him with the fairer assurance of their fidelity appointed a certain day for his Coronation which was accordingly perform'd with great Solemnity So that then standing clear with his best Subjects of that Kingdom he began to form an Army upon his own and their Interest Yet not without the assistance and Joynt-help of the Kirk-Party there which in humane reason might have been thought to his advantage In the Head whereof he entred England at Carlisle upon the Seventh of August and marcht to Worcester without any great opposition But whether there was any thing of Treachery in them that then over-perswaded His majesty to make stay there against his own judgment or whether Almighty God would not give his Blessing to the aid of those who had formerly been so false and perfidious to His Royal Father and himself is hard to say Sure we are that so great was the confluence from most parts of England to Cromwell's assistance the Presbyterians then joyning with him and divers of their Preachers Marching with him in a Military way that after a most sharp dispute at and near that City being over-powered with strength and numbers his Army was totally routed and destroy'd himself and some few others being necessitated to escape by flight It may seem strange I presume to some that I should here touch the Presbyterians so near the Quick there being some of opinion that though the most rigid of that Sect were at that time forward against the King yet that His Majesty had many Well-wishers of them in this his adventure But if I be herein censured I desire to know what this expression used by those Thirty six Presbyterian and Independant Ministers which joyn'd together in a Petition for respiting the Execution of Mr. Love one of their own coat of whom I have already given some touch doth mean viz. that in putting him to death the hopes and expectations of the Common Enemy against compliance with whom he had made open protestation at his Tryal will be heightened And that the forbearance of so putting him to death would manifest to the World that you id est the Parliament do put a difference betwixt those who offend from Principles of Enmity against God and his People and others who transgress through the mistakes of an erroneous conscience in the midst of great and various changes Again I would gladly know what construction is to be made of those words Printed in one of the News-books of that year viz. The Presbyterians in Lancashire and parts adjacent have not only declaimed against the late defection in Norfolk but declared against the Conjunction and Proceedings of Iockey and their young King with Middleton Ogilby and the rest of the Royal Party and are resolved to adhere to the present Government and to walk close and stedfast in the ways of Truth and Holiness ¶ Here it will not be impertinent I hope to make a little pause and contemplate the infinite goodness and mercy of God in so wonderful a preservation of the King our present Sovereign after this fatal ruine of his Army at Worcester Who though pursued and sought for with all the art and skill that these Bloody Regicides and their whole Party could devise was through the signal fidelity of some few persons of whom certain Narratives of the particular passages therein which are already made publick do make honourable mention so well secured from their fury and with such admirable contrivance and skill conducted that he Landed safely upon the Fifteenth of October following at New-Haven in France And as so strange and little less than
p. 500. z Compare with this the Propositions to his Majesties Commissioners at Vxbridge concerning the War of Ireland Full Relation c. p. 95. a See the like demands by the Members at Westminster Exact Coll. p. 259. 465. b Ib. p. 502. c Ib. p. 503. d Ib. p. 508. e Compare with this the Expression of the Members at Westminster in their Petition to his Majesty 26. Martij 1642. Exact Coll. p. 123. f Ib. p. 118. g Compare with this the Protestation framed at Westminster 3 Maij. 1641. b Ibid. p. 523. i D'Aubignie Tom. 2. lib. 3. cap. 3. col 828. k Davilaeâ— 548. l Ib. p. 566. m Annal. Eliz. in An. 1589. p. 557. n Davilae p. 561. o Ib. p. 562. p Compare with this his Majesties Answer to the two Papers concerning Ireland Full Relation c. p. 215. Was not his Majesties Statua abused both at the Old Exchange in London and at Wincheâ—ster q Ib. p. 563. r Ib. p. 564. s Ib. p. 565. t Ib. p. 567. u Exact Coll. p. 503. x Davilae p. 568. y Ib. p. 569. z Was not the like done by our Men against his Majesty for Assenting to the Cessation in Ireland a Ib. p. 591. b Ib. p. 593. e Ib. p. 596 d Ib. p. 597. 599. e Ib. p. 601. f Ib. p. 603. g Ib. p. 606. 609. h Ib. p. 612. i Ib. p. 613. k Ib. p. 627. l Ib. p. 6â—8 m Ib. p. 629. n Ib. p. 6â—0 o Ib. p. 662. 663. p Ib. p. 669. q Ib. p. 676. r Ibid. p. 733. Such hath been the Pollicy of the Scots with us Anno. 1. 591. s Ib. p. 679. t Ib. p. 701. u Ib. 742. x Ib. p. 702. y Brigard Ib. p. 742. z Ib. p. 740. a Ib. p. 726. b Ib. p. 733. c Ib. p. 740. d Ib. p. 747. e Ib. p. 761. f Ib. p. 792. 851. g Ib. p. 724. b Ib. p. 811. 821. Thus did Cromwell here i Ib. p. 862. k Ib. p. 865. l Ib. p. 837. m Ib. p. 161. 866. n Ib. p. 867. o Ib. p. 868. p Ib. p. 879. q Ib. p. 845. r Ib. p. 743. s Ib. p. 901. t See their Solemn Leagus and Covenant u See the full Relation of the Treaty at Vxbridge p. 209. x Ib. p. 206. y D'avila p. 943. z Piere Mathew Lib. 2. Narrat 1. Sect. 4. a Du Tillet p. 242. b Davila p. 994. c Duplex Hist. p. 27. d K. Henry the 4th e K. Lewis the 13th Davila p. 629. f Du Tellet p. 263. g Davila p. 936. b Cokes Instit part 3. p. 35. i Numb 16. 31 32. 27. 3. k Reg. 11. 36. l Esther 6. 2 3. m Sam. 2. 18. 9. 14. n Ib. 17. 23. o Reg. 2 21. 26 27. p Sam. 2 16. 5 6. Et Reg. 1 2. 8. 4. 6. q Reg. b 16. 9. 18. r Act. Apost 5. 36 37. s Prov. 24. 21. THE INDEX A. ANabaptists of Germany their Tenets and Progress Page 2. Calvins Character of them 8. Dangerous to Church and State 9. Luthers Request to the Duke of Saxony in favour of them 4. Afterwards exhorts all Men to destroy them 6. St. Antholin 's Church in London made the grand Nursery of seditious Preachers 37. Articles of Pacification with the Scots 55. Articles of the Treaty at Edenburgh for bringing in the Scots Army 131. between General Monk and the Committee of Safety 480. Articles called The Agreement of the People 260. Articles assented to by the King at the Treaty at Uxbridge 291. Assembly at Glasgow dissolved 52. The Impious Saving of one of the Assembly of Divines 225. Apprentices of London force the House of Commons 248. Army marcheth towards London 251. B. BArons War in the time of King Henry the 3d parallel'd with that of King Charles the First 592. A Benevolence proposed for raising Money 32. Bishops voted to have no Voice in Parliament 68. Booth Sir George his Insurrection 470. Brook Lord slain 117. Buckingham Duke his Expedition to the Isle of Rhee 33. murdered by Felton 34. C. CAnterbury and other Cathedrals defaced 557. Carew Sir Alex. his ominous words 198. is beheaded ibid. Carnarvan Earl slain 187. Charles I. King pawns his Lands to the City of London 33. is denied entrance into Hull 91. his Messages to the Parliament for Peace 102 103 134 237 268. his Protestation at the Head of his Army 104. goes from Oxford to the Scots Army 209. is sold by the Scots 232. is brought from Newcastle to Holdenby 234. his Answer to the four dethroning Bills 271. last Scene of his Life 361. rejects the Proposals made to him on the Sunday before his death 372. is murdered 373. his Legacies to his Children and others 382. his Burial 383. Charles II. King his Care when in Exile to preserve the Duke of Glocester in the Protestant Religion 429. marches from Scotland to Worcester 400. proclaimed King at London 488. Cheapside Cross pull'd down 560. Church Livings plurality of them allowed by the Presbyterians 225. Colchester Men petition the Parliament against Bishops c. 85. Common Prayer abolished 193. Commissions of Array 97. Common-Council-men turned out 79. First Covenant by the Scots 46. Conference at Hampton-Court 14. Cromwel Oliver his Extraction and Education 458. his persidious dealing with the King 261. his pretended Revelation 366. his Speech in Parliament ibid. Preaches at White-hall 391. made General of the Army 397. his Answer to a Letter from the Governour of the Castle of Edenburgh 397. turns the Rump Parliament out of doors 405. made Lord Protector 414. The manner of his riding to Grocers-hall in State 418. calls a Parliament 423. The manner of his proceeding to Parliament ibid. his Speech at the opening the Parliament 424 426. dissolves his first Parliament 429. Second Parliament called 450. dissolved 455. his Death 457. Cromwel Richard calls a Parliament 462. is set aside and the Ramp Parliament restored 465. D DEclaration of the City of London 250. Declaration of the Scots Commissioners 258 271. Declaration of the Scots for a publick Fast. 246. of the Committee of Safety 482. Denbigh Earl slain 185. Directory established 193. E. EPiscopal Government abolished in Scotland 52. in England 122. Earl of Essex made Lientenant-General of the Kings Army going against the Scots 54. made Lord Chamberlain 71. made General of the Parliament Forces 98. Essex-Men petition to the Parliament in behalf of the King 282. Excise first began 120 123 127 132. F. FAlkland Lucius Visc. slain 187. Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine elected King of Bohemia 20. French Ambassador's Speech to Cromwel 421. French Holy League parallel'd with the Rebellion in England 600. G. GLoucester Duke the attempts made upon him by the Queen Mother at Paris to turn to the Romish Religion 429. Grenvil Sir Bevil slain 186. Gurney Lord Major of London is deposed by the Rebels 101. H. MArquess of Hamilton sent into Scotland to appease