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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

and many other considerable Towns and after a faint Resistance the whole Kingdom was subjected to the Triumphant Conqueror and the Interest of the King wholly exterminated England was so manacled with the Chains of an armed Power that they could not budge the Royal Party than call'd the Cavaliers were debar'd the liberty of meeting at home or stirring abroad their persons were disarm'd their Houses ransackt and their Estates brought into the unmerciful Inquisition at Goldsmiths Hall in some corners of the Land small Parties started up now and then to exert their Loyalty and manifest their Allegiance and the King was received into the Island of Jersey but by a Fleet sent thither by the Usurping power soon compell'd to forsake it so that these weak struglings like the last efforts of Nature tended only to diminish the number of the Kings Friends and to heighten his Infelicity In the year 1650 the King was invited into Scotland landed there safely received with all the demonstrations of joy and satisfaction and solemnly proclaimed King. But to disturb his Tranquillity and interrupt the calm fruition of his new acquired Soveraignty Cromwell that victorious Rebel who in the space of one year had reduced almost all the Garrisons in Ireland and Caesar-like made a compleat conquest of that Kingdom only by walking through it is dispatcht into Scotland who in July entred that Country with an Army of sixteen thousand men effective the Scots were not idle on their side but form'd an Army consisting of six thousand Horse and Dragoons and fifteen thousand Foot a party of whom attempting to beat up the Enemies Quarters about Musleburgh surprised the Out guards and routed the first Regiment that opposed them but were so warmly received by the rest that the Commander being wounded the whole party was disorder'd and pursu'd to the Army and the whole Camp in danger of a surprisal had not the King himself unexpectedly appear'd in person and stemm'd the Torrent But in September following hapned a fatal decision of the dispute at Dunbar where the Scots Army reinforced to above twenty thousand men and presuming on a certain Victory having inclosed their Enemies beyond a probability of an escape encountred the English Army then decreased to the number of twelve thousand and with much courage and gallantry charged them but the hand of God was in it their whole Army was routed four thousand slain and nine thousand taken Prisoners with the loss of three hundred on the Invaders side After which the Kings Interest in Scotland declined daily the Enemy getting advantage by the Dissention between the Court and the Kirk-party and Cromwel by springing of Mines but more by corrupting the Governour with money had Edinburgh-Castle surrendred to him the taking of which was follow'd with the loss of many more Garrisons Nevertheless the Scots were neither daunted in their Courage nor deficient in their Allegiance but proceeded to the Coronation of the King and he to the calling of a Parliament and having got together a good Body of an Army it was thought best that the King should give Cromwell the slip and make a sudden descent into England leaving him to take his swing and range through Scotland to make this Enterprise the more hopeful the Earl of Darby and many other Loyal persons began to peep out of their Recesses and to use all Expedition to joyn but a malignant Constellation still influenced K. Charles his Affairs some of his Abettors were intercepted some routed and the Earl of Darby discomfited and many Persons of Quality and resolution taken Prisoners At last came on the dismal Ingagement at Worster that critical Arbiter of the Kings cause from whence we may date the depression of the Monarchy the exaltation of Anarchy and Confusion of Governments I take no Pleasure in descanting too long on so unpleasant a Theme in a word the King was defeted his whole Army given up to death or captivity except a very few with whom he made his Escape and after some weeks spent in lurking disguising shifting and un-easy travelling he arrived safe in France The King was now actually devested of his three Kingdoms his Enemies victorious in Possession of his Right and usurping the Regal Authority under the Disguise of other Appellations how soever the grand Apostates from Loyalty dayly crumbled into Factions and Divisions and the Supream Authority frequently changed its Dress and put on a new Face yet all concur'd in the detestation of King-Ship and an abjuring the Family of Stuart To recount the transactions of the Junto at London or the Exploits of their Legions through all the Dominions subjected to the Common wealth of England might prove a tollerable Entertainment for the Reader but I have no Inclination to admire their Policy or cry up the Fame of the Protector My Business is to observe the disastrous Fate of an Exil'd King and there being yet no exact Memoirs transmitted to us of his Forrein Adventures to Sum up his Misfortune in a nine years Banishment by noting how miserably he was abandond ' thurst and kept out from the Possession of England Scotland and Ireland and all the Dominions and Territories belonging to them a Pensioner to Strangers and all Designs of his Friends at home or his Allies abroad frustrated and baffled But when the Almighty Governor of the World had so long scourged the Royal Family as to his wisdom seem'd sufficient and all the Practices of human Strength and Invention were rendred ineffectual in a sudden and unexpected manner without Means without Contrivance without the Success of a Battle or the operation of any Stratagem the Repulican Babel was over turned the King restored and peaceably seated in the Throne of his Ancestors From his Restoration he Reign'd more than twenty four years and I wish I could say happily But not being blest with a legitimate Issue he was continually teas'd with the Incroachments of an impatient Heir Having misapplied his Revenues which were vastly increased beyond all that was given to his predecessors he was by his Necessities induced frequently to call Parliaments and by his evil Councils as often prompted to dissolve them his gentle Disposition inclined him to an universal Indulgence but the malevolent Insinuations of self-interested men misled him to a Connivence at extraordinary Severities The Papists hated him for avowing so much Favor to the Church of England and Dissenters blamed him for a suspected Propension to the Church of Rome His constitution was happy but by his irregular courses he rais'd Batteries against his own Health and he might have lived longer if he had not lived so fast The Indowments of his mind were admirable but his immersion in Pleasures over-shadow'd his Reputation The prolonging of his Life had given an Adjournment to the Mischeifs that quickly assaulted both Church and State but one Sort of Men thought he lived too long whether any hand but his own contributed to the accelarating of his Death I

proclaimed her and the Prince who was at that time also in France Enemies to the Kingdom banish'd them and their Adherents and strongly guarded the Seas with three Fleets to intercept their passage The Queen by the help of Foreign Friends got together a considerable Army and landed near Harwich and was presently reinforced by the conjunction of the Earl Marshal the Earl of Lancaster the Earl of Leicester and many other Lords and Bishops The King was astonish'd at the News being utterly irresolute what course to take He had no Counsellors about him but the Spencers London was not to be trusted his Army was wavering the people from all Counties flocking in to the Queen In this perplexity he secretly withdraws from the Court attended by the two Spencers and a very few others and being disappointed of his Retreat to the Isle of Lundy He hides himself in the Abby of Nethe where within a short time he was taken his Followers all apprehended and the two Spencers publickly and ignominiously executed and himself committed to the custody of the Earl of Leicester After Christmas a Parliament was call'd wherein it was agreed to Depose the King and set up his Son who refusing to take the Crown unless his Father would freely resign it the poor King as tamely surrender'd the Scepter as he had before unworthily weilded it and having formally renounced and abdicated the Government and the Speaker of the Parliament renounced all Allegiance to him in the Name of the whole Kingdom he was taken from the Earl of Leicester from whom his Enemies thought he had too kind usage and being hurried from place to place and wearied with all manner of severity and indignity wasted by starving tormented by noisome stinks and attempted by Poyson he was at last barbarously and inhumanely stifled to death between two Pillows The Murder being disavow'd by the Queen the Executioners of it fled and died miserably THE LIFE and REIGN OF RICHARD the Second IF Magnanimity Valour Piety Gentleness Liberty and other Heroick and Princely Qualities were communicable by Generation if vertue could be intayl'd If the gifts of the mind descended by Inheritance or were demisable hy Will or inseparably annex'd to the Body no man could ever have a juster Pretension to Glory and Fame than Richard the Second the only Son of that incomparable Hero Edward the black Prince and grand Son of that most illustrious and victorious Edward the Third But Children do not always resemble the Features of the Father to the great shame and scandal of the Mother Wit and Vigor are seated in the Brain and Children are not begotten by the Head. Richard was a Child at the death of his Father and never acted like a man during his own Life A Crown was too heavy a Load for his tender Brows and the Reflection of its Brightness daizled his Eyes The Transactions of State during his Minority are not to be the Subject of my Recital since the Event of all Affairs that were prosperous is to be imputed to the Conduct of his Guardians and where any Accidents interrupted his Prosperity it ought not to be attributed to his misfortune I shall therefore pass over such Occurrences as are recounted by Historians during his pupillage and begin my Remarks at that Period when he assumed the Regal Government And first he deposed the Lord Scroop from his Chancellor-Ship because he refused to seal some extravagant grants made by the King and receiving the Seal from his Hands he kept it for a certain Time and with it seal'd such Grants and Writings as he thought fit at his own absolute will and pleasure His Army sent against France commanded by the Bishop of Norwich was not very prosperous but laying Seige to Ypres as they past through Flanders were forced by the Power of a French Army coming to their Relief to raise the Seige and retreat And tho the Bishop advised the King to lay hold on that Opportunity to try the Fortune of a Battle with the French and he pretended over Night to be in a mighty hast and Eagerness to ingage in that enterprise yet in the Morning the Humor was off and consulting his own ease and safety he appointed the Duke of Lancaster to go on that Inployment who spinning out the Time with dilatory Preparations till the Bishop was return'd the Project was disappointed the undertaking came to Nothing and the Dispute was ended in a short lived Truce Neither did the Expedition into Scotland tend to the Honour of the King or Advantage of the Kingdom for the Scots having made Incursions into England taken and burnt divers Towns upon the Borders and enriched themselves by a general depredation of the Country The Duke of Lancaster with the Earl of Buckingham was dispatcht with a mighty Army to repress them but having entred Scotland and not being able by any Art or Stratagem to provoke the Scots to Battel they returned without obtaining any further Satisfaction then a suitable Revenge in burning and destroying many Towns there And tho a truce was made with the Scots yet without any Regard to the Stipulation they again entred the Borders and took Berwick But now the unfortunate King began to form Plots against his own honour and Quiet for being incensed against the Duke of Lancaster whether upon real or upon imaginary Provocations a design was laid to have that great man Arrested and arraign'd of Treason before Sir Robert Tresilian chief Justice tho by the Law of the Land his Tryal ought to have been by his Peers and it is easie to imagin what would have been the Issue of such irregular Proceedings but the Duke having timely intimation of the mischief and contrivance against him withdrew himself opportunely to his Castle of Pomfret where he stood upon his guard till by the laborious travel and powerful intercession of the Kings Mother tho by reason of her Corpulency she was most un-fit for such an Imployment the King was pacified and reconciled to the Duke The Scots still meditating Revenge and the French King still ready to foment the quarrel prepared for a fresh Invasion of England and receiving auxiliary Ayds of great Number and strength from the French once more entred the English Borders King Richard receiving Advertisement of it with great Speed rais'd a mighty Army and marching in Person at the Head of them entered Scotland burnt Edingburgh proceeding without Control but could by no means draw the Scots to Battle they in the mean Time to divert the Kings progress made a descent into Cumberland and Besieged Carlisle to the relief of which the King approaching with so formidable an Army obliged the Scots to retreat into their own Country and upon their Recess the King returned into England bringing with him neither Honour nor Advantage by so fruitless an Expedition After these things and some other passages not so directly appertaining to the History of his Life King Richard began to hasten his own