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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31743	Numerus infaustus a short view of the unfortunate reigns of William the Second, Henry the Second, Edward the Second, Richard the Second, Charles the Second, James the Second.	Caesar, Charles, 1636-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing C203; ESTC R20386	35,156	134

Norman Followers he promised a restitution of their Ancient Laws and an indulgence to some Priviledges which were much valued by the people of those times but with the necessity the obligation ceased and he became a Bankrupt of his Word and Promise As little did he regard his Promises to God his Creator for being dangerously sick at Gloucester and despairing of Recovery he made a Solemn Vow that if he were restored to his Health he would lead a New Life and give over all his disorderly Courses but the restoration of his strength was accompanied with the return of his former vicious inclinations and he became ten times more the child of wrath than he was before He is reported to be very lascivious and incontinent but in regard he did not defraud his own Wife having never been married and was not observed to debauch the Wives of other Men he only passeth for a simple Fornicator and even in that not at all curious not entertaining a select Concubine but promiscuously trucking with any Woman that came in his way To shew how conscientious he was in matters of Religion take the words of Sir Richard Baker in his Chronicle of England p. 35. He appointed a Disputation to be held between Christians and Jews and before the day came the Jews brought the King a present to the end they might have an indifferent hearing the King took the present encouraging them to quit themselves like Men And swore by St. Lukes face his usual Oath that if they prevailed by Disputation he would himself turn Jew and be of their Religion A young Jew on a time was converted to the Christian Faith whose Father being much troubled at it presented the King sixty Mark intreating him to make his Son to return to his Judaism whereupon the King sent for his Son commanding him without more ado to return to the Religion of his Nation But the young Man answered he wondred his Majesty would use such Words for being a Christian he should rather perswade him to Christianity With which Answer the King was so confounded that he commanded the young Man to get him out of his sight But his Father finding the King could do no good upon his Son required his Mony again Nay saith the King I have taken pains enough for it and yet that thou mayst see how kindly I will deal you shall have one half and the other half you cannot in Conscience deny me In one Act he shew'd himself a Tyrant and an Atheist for fifty Gentlemen being accused for Hunting and killing the Kings Deer he caused them to be condemned to the Trial by Fire which they escaping untouch'd by the miraculous Providence of God and he thereby defeated of his greedy expectation by the Confiscation of their Estates fell into an outragious Passion and cry'd out How happens this is God a just Judg in suffering it Now a Murrain take him that believes it But vengeance from Heaven soon overtook him that did not believe it for the King though warned by Dreams and other uncommon Presages of some approaching Disaster appointed a Hunting in the new Forest upon the second of August When the day came he began to be perplexed with the remembrance of those ominous Bodings and stay'd within till Noon But having at Dinner driven away all care and fear by drinking himself into hardiness and security he mounled his Horse and eagerly folowed the Chase shortly after Sir Walter Tyrrel a Knight of Normandy to whom the King at their going out had given two Arrows very strong and sharp telling him That he knew how to shoot to purpose having a very fat Buck in view and at a convenient distance to be struck let fly an Arrow which glancing on a Tree or else grazing on the Back of the Deer reach'd the King hit him in the Breast and he immediately dropt down dead Thus fell Nimrod the mighty Norman Hunter destroy'd by that very sport in which he took such excessive delight violently brought to death on that occasion by which he had deliberately design'd the destruction of many others and in that very place where his Father had depopulated so many Town and ruined so many Religious Houses for the accommodation of wild Beasts and to gratifie his own inordinate pleasures THE LIFE and REIGN OF HENRY the Second THO' the Accession of Henry the Son of Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke of Anjou to the Crown of England be not branded with the unsavory Terms of Intrusion or Usurpation yet whosoever will impartially revolve the Chronicles of those Times may modestly conclude that he jumpt into the Throne over the back of his Mother Maud commonly styled the Empress was the only Daughter and Heir of Henry the first and tho she was an Empress and afterward a Dutchess yet she could never arrive at the Station of a Queen Stephen usurp'd the Crown and kept it from her and Henry her Son confirm'd the Disseisin by compounding for his own Succession without any regard to his Mothers Title Whether she was lockt up in an unknown Prison or estranged by Banishment or secretly made away it were a great Presumption in me to assert since the Writers and Historians of those days make no positive Determination in the matter But that she was civilly dead that no Notice was taken of her Right and Legal Claim to the Government after she had so unsuccessfully contended with King Stephen nothing can be more manifest Henry her Son was a young active and Valiant Prince very potent endow'd with great possessions and in expectation of greater Additions He was in his own Right Duke of Anjou in Right of his Wife Duke of Guyen and Earl of Poietou and in Right of his Mother Duke of Normandy and presumptive Heir to the Kingdom of England This greatness of Estate added to the Greatness of his Spirit and buoy'd up by the Hopes of a far greater augmentation of his Fortunes push'd him on to set up for himself in a competition for the Crown of England to the Achievement of which many accidents concurring as the untimely Death of Eustace the Son of King Stophen the melancholick despair of his Mother the Empress upon her improsperous contest with Stephen and the Loss of her Brother and other her fast Friends he came to a composition with King Stephen and a perfect Reconciliation was made between them choosing rather to succeed him by Adoption than to wait the natural Descent of his Inheritance by the Death of his Mother Whether a Prophetick foresight of the short Period prescribed to the Reign of King Stephen or a secret design to catch some opportunity to accelerate His own Investiture prompted Him on to this Accommodation lies only within the compass of conjecture but so it fell out that his Possession by Survivership was not long Prorogued the Agreement being made in January by mutual consent and consummated in October following by the Death of King Stephen Henry the Second being

having got matter enough against the King at least to justifie their taking up Armes march'd directly to London with forty thousand men and some of them going to the King in the Tower they shew'd him the very Letter which he had writ to the Duke of Ireland to levy an Army for their destruction as also the Letters writ to him by the French King importing a safe Conduct for him to come into France there to do Acts tending to his own dishonour and the prejudice of the Kingdom which being done they civilly retreated upon the Kings promise to come next day to Westminster to concert all matters but the fickle King alter'd his mind before he went to Bed and discover'd his purpose to avoid the meeting next day The Lords being advertis'd of this sent a peremptory message to him That if he did not come according to his promise they would choose another King that should hearken to the faithful Counsel of his Lords The King sensibly touch'd with this sharp message gave them a meeting and they positively insisting that the Traytors so often complain'd of should be removed from the Court he at last with much reluctancy consented to their Desires and so the whole Nest of Vipers was dissipated some expell'd the Court some bound by good Sureties to appear and answer and some committed to Prison When the Parliament met they proceeded roundly the corrupt Judges were arrested in their Seats of Judicature and carried to the Tower for acting contrary to the Agreement made in the preceding Parliament the Duke of Ireland and the rest of that Crew cited to appear and answer to certain Articles of High Treason and for non-appearance banish'd and their Lands and Goods seized to the Kings use Sir Robert Tresilian was hang'd Sir Nicholas Brember beheaded several others executed and the Judges condemned to die and the King obliged by Oath to stand to such order as the Lords should set down Some years after upon a Riot committed in London the King seised on their Liberties and took away their Charter which could not be restored till they paid a Fine of ten thousand pounds I intend a compendious Abstract and not a compleat History therefore I studiously omit the recital of many Transactions and Occurrences coincident with this relation as not having a direct and principal concernment in the Estate and Life of King Richard. Unstable Fortune had the Ascendent over all the Affairs of the poor King and the course of his Reign was imbroiled with a strange Vicissitude of prosperous and adverse Accidents The Duke of Gloucester and other Lords entring into a combination to seise upon the King the Plot was detected and their lives taken away for the assurance of his safety A Parliament was call'd wholly conformable to the Kings will they that opposed him were banish'd confiscated and executed and the whole power of it devolved on a certain select number of Commissioners to the great prejudice of the State and a dangerous example to future Times a Pardon was granted to all the Subjects except fifty whose Names not being expressed he kept the Nobility under an awe that if any of them offended him they might come under the notion of exempted persons and thus the King seem'd secure against all mischances But an unforeseen Accident grounded on a very slight occasion produced an extraordinàry Revolution by which the whole frame of Government was unhinged and that Cloud which at first appear'd but of the bigness of a hand soon overspread the sky and dissolved in a tempestuous shower of Blood. The Duke of Hereford was banish'd the Kingdom for six years and several Persons of Note and Quality either by voluntary withdrawing or a compulsory Exile went beyond the Seas The Duke within a short time was advertis'd that his Father was dead and thereby he became Duke of Lancaster and that King Richard had seised into his hands all the Estate descended to him by his Fathers death And meeting often with the Archbishop of Canterbury then in Exile and mutually lamenting the deplorable condition of England the enormous actions of the King and the Impossibllity of ever reclaiming him they began to enter into Consulation by what means best to get him removed and in the very Nick Solicitations came from several Parts of England to urge the Duke to hasten over and to take the Government upon him promising all ready Assistance to that work The Duke presently grasp'd the Opportunity and without further Deliberation prepared for his Return and with a very few Lords and Gentlemen and about threescore Persons presently put to Sea and landed in York-shire which was no sooner known but several Lords and great Numbers of the Gentry and Common sort flockt into him And tho he was invited to come and take the Government upon him yet he pretended no other cause but to take Possession of the Inheritance descended from his Father and most unjustly seized and detain'd by King Richard. His Forces increased dayly and a mighty Army was got together and all the Kings Castles forthwith surrendred to him many of the Kings Friends were Arrested and some put to death All this while King Richard was in Ireland and for six weeks by reason of contrary Winds had no Notice of the Dukes Landing After which time wasting many daies in a dilatory Preparation he landed in Wales but hearing that all the Castles from the Borders of Scotland and Bristol were delivered up to the Duke of Lancaster that the greatest Part of the Nobility and Commons were joynd with him and his principal Counsellors taken and executed he fell into absolute Despair dismissed his Army bidding every one to shift for himself and the next Night stole away and got to the Castle of Couwey The Duke proceeded on his March and every day some Lords and Gentlemen of account came in to him and having proferred Conditions to the King with which he seem'd to be content he agreed to meet the Duke but upon his Journy was seis'd by an Ambush laid for him and carried to Flint-Castle Thither the Duke came and carri'd the King with him by easie Journeys to London and the next Day lodged him in the Tower. Presently a Parliament was called by the Duke but in the Name of King Richard aad many heynous Crimes laid to his Charge ingrost and sum'd up in three and thirty Articles for which the Parliament adjudg'd him to be deposed from all Kingly Honour and Princely Government thereupon the King by a formal Instrument made a Solemn Resignation of his Crown and Authority making it his Request that the Duke of Lancaster might be his Successor and in token thereof taking the signet from his Finger and puting it upon that of the Dukes Which being reported to the Parliament they approved of it and appointed the Sentence of his Deposition to be publickly proclamed We have followed this most unfortunate Prince to the last Scene of his Life but the manner

of his death is so variously reported that it is hard to pitch upon that Author on whose credit we may safely rely It is most certain that he did not long Survive his Resignation but being carried to Leeds and from thence to Pomfret soon after a Period was put to his Life and Miseryes together in the three and thirtieth year of his Age. If he did not imitate his Father yet he resembled His Mother and was the Goodliest Person alive His Disposition was good but corrupted by Education his Inclinations prompted him to Vertue but were perverted by Flatterrers and Evil Counsellors Crafty men made Advantage of his Credulity and he was ruined by too strict a Constancy If he had not been deficient to himself his Opposer had not so easily prevail'd his Timidity apeared in not fighting for his Crown his Moderation in the Surrendred of it and his Courage in surviving the Loss THE LIFE and REIGN OF CHARLES the Second IAm now ingaged in a difficult Task divided between Truth and Respect being to describe the Life of a Prince who contrary to the custom of the World was better spoken of while he lived than he has been since his Death His Fame had suffer'd a great diminution by succeeding so admirable a Father had it not recover'd by the prospect of such a Brother who was to be his Successor If in the Lives of former Kings any mistake was committed the Records and Ancient Writers must vouch the Relation and the present Age cannot confute it But to give an Account of a Life so lately ended requires an exactness beyond my Reach wherein the least Trip overthrows the Credit of the Reporter To enumerate the Vertues of a Prince without taking notice of his Failings is but to flatter his memory and deceive Posterity to reckon up his Vices without intermingling the mention of his laudable Actions is but so sully his Fame and deduce no Benefit to the Curiosity of Observers I resolve to tread lightly on his Grave and not press too hard upon the Heels of Truth I may pursue my Topic in recounting the Instances which justly denominate him unfortunate and Note the Errors of his Government without reflection on his Person That he was of extraordinary Parts that he had a quick mercurial Wit a great insight into the liberal Sciences and even the mechanical Arts no man will deny He had a piercing if not a solid Judgment his intellect was comprehensive if not profound His Lenity and Clemency were very conspicuous and recommended him to the Love and Praise of the Spectators yet it so fell out that such egregious Acts of Severity and Injustice were exercised upon all sorts of men as will puzzle Posterity to comprehend the meaning In his time no Man had the Reason to set a Value on himself for any promotion nor no man had cause to despair of a preferment The Cards were daily shuffled and unexpected chance turn'd up the Trump Upon all occasions he profest a great Zeal for the Protestant Religion yet every day that profession lost ground Popery was not allow'd yet it hover'd among us The Frogs did not cover the Land yet the Jesuitical Vermin swarm'd in every Corner Tho' the Papists were not shelter'd by a legal Indemnity yet they grew numerous and confident upon the expectation of an approaching Jublie His Brother and Successour had a mighty Ascendent over his Genius catching at all opportunities to gratifie his Ambition and propagate the Faith while the other indulged himself in pleasure and avoided the fatigue of Government There are so many living Monuments of his Incontinency that if I forbear to mention it I shall render the Truth and Impartiality of my other Remarks suspected It is usual with Kings and Princes to prosecute prohibited Amours but so great was his generosity that he thought it a disparagment to manage a secret Intrigue His Liberality was so extraordinary that he spared not to give a Thousand years purchase for a Moments Fruition He lost the Love of his Friends by too fond a Love of his Brother and by too stiff a Refusal to consent to his Exclusion he endanger'd the Interest of his Family and gave a shock to Monarchy it self The first and greatest misfortune that befell Charles the Second was the Cruel and Ignominious Death of his Father that incomparable Charles the First Sentenced to die and publickly Executed before his own Palace by a Jancto of flagitious men garbled out of a Parliament by the Usurper From his Fathers Martyrdom to his own Restauration was one continued Scene of misery and sorrow In the year 1648 Charles the First was deprived of Life by his Evil Subjests his Friends looking on and not able to prevent it In the year 1660. Charles the Second was brought to the Throne by his Good Subjects his Enemies looking on and not able to hinder it The one an inhumane Action and unparallel'd the other wholly surprising and miraculous In the one no Blood shed but that of the King himself in the other not one Drop of Blood drawn even of the meanest Subject Charles the second was then beyond the Seas and succeeded immediately to the Right of three Kingdoms but did not actually possess them for many years And now behold a King truly unfortunate His Father barbarously destroy'd and he in no capacity to call to account the bloody Actors of that Tragedy three potent Kingdoms usurped by violence and by force detain'd from him and he not able to put in a claim for his Right or contend for the recovery His Enemies insulting in their success abjuring his Title and metamorphosing a glorious Monarchy into an Anarchical Commonwealth His Friends harassed imprison'd plunder'd sequestred executed no man daring to own his Allegiance or capable to contribute advice or aid toward his Restoration Himself a deserted Exile wandring from one Princes Court to another to seek for shelter and subsistence while the subtle machinations of the Usurpers did not more sensibly aggravate and advance his unhappiness than the improsperous Attempts of his loyal Subjects to compass his Restitution In Scotland the Heroick Acts of the most renown'd Marquis of Montross who with an inconsiderable handful of men traversed the Kingdom and performed such Exploits as may justly denominate his History the Moral of a Romance only ended in his destruction while he became a sacrifice to his Enemies implacable malice and a glorious Martyr for Loyalty but with an irreparable detriment to his Masters cause In Ireland the most Noble Duke then Marquis of Ormond was so successful in his Undertakings that he had reduced the whole Kingdom to the obedience of the King except Dublin and London-Derry to the first of which having laid a close Siege and beleagured it with a Royal Camp he was disarry'd by a fatal Sally from the Town his Army totally routed and himself obliged to a hasty and hazardous escape which disaster was follow'd by the Rendition of Drogheda