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A43206	A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland with the intervening affairs of treaties and other occurrences relating thereunto : as also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II : in four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution / by James Heath ... ; to which is added a continuation to this present year 1675 : being a brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forreign parts / by J.P.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.; Phillips, John. A brief account of the most memorable transactions in England, Scotland and Ireland, and forein parts, from the year 1662 to the year 1675.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1321; ESTC R31529	921,693	648

load upon the Parliament through their neglect of paying them when indeed the supernumeraries with which Cromwel daily recruited the Army without any Authority far beyond the pay or number established was the cause of the Arrears and this oppression of Free-quarter for upon complaints thereof made in the House the Army being quartered in several Brigades supernumeraries have been disbanded in one Brigade their Arms taken by their Officers and shortly after they have been listed again in another Brigade and their Arms sold again to the State after a while to new arm them By which means Cromwel had amassed a Magazine of such which being lodged in the City and rumoured by some zealots to be for arming some Reformadoes were now upon examination found to belong unto Him and so the business was husht up which if they could have fastned upon the other Party should have been noised for horrid Treason By this grievance of Free-quarter they were doubly and trebly payed taking it in one place and Composition for it in another perhaps in three or four places at once by false Billets yet nevertheless though by these tricks they owed money to the State they demanded and compelled an Ordinance from the Parliament to secure their Arrears of the 24 of December whereby they had the two thirds of Delinquents Estates mentioned or comprehended in the three first qualifications of them in the Propositions sent to the King at the Isle of Wight and all the money arising out of the remaining part of Bishops Lands appointed to be sold by former Ordinances and the sum of 600000 l. charged on the receipt of EXCISE with the Forrest-Lands and other incomes for the securing of the said Arrears to be issued out to the Treasurers at War to such and such persons for the uses aforesaid in such manner as the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Army or any five of them under their hands would limit and appoint which was by way of Audit and Debentures sold not long after upon doublings on purchases of the Crown and other forfeited Lands for Half a Crown in the pound besides innumerable cheats by counterfeit hands but more to the talk than trouble of the Kingdom whose general Note was Caveat Emptor Wonderful it is since we have now mentioned that Dutch Devil as it was called the Excise what vast sums of money the Parliament had raised by it amounting as by their Ordinance of the 28 of August this year appears to that time from its Commencement some three years before to One million three hundred thirty four thousand five hundred thirty two pounds ten shillings and eleven pence half peny clear and deducted of all charges in the levying of it which defalked not above two shillings in the pound No wonder therefore they did so carefully enjoy and uphold this Tax which had supported and enabled them in all their atchievements and upon this score they made it over to the Souldiers several Uproars and Tumults happening in the refusal of payment particularly at Smithfield-bars London where the Butchers who then paid Excise for the Flesh sold at two shillings in the pound rose and fired the Excise-house neer adjoyning with all the Papers of Books of Account for which several of them were tryed but acquitted thereafter that Duty upon Cattle as likewise upon all Salt made in the Kingdom was wholly laid aside But a most severe injunction was now made for the continuance of the rest and the refractory threatned with exemplary punishments So that while Cromwel could finde Men and Arms at such a rate and the Parliament such heaps of Money by several Revenues it was in vain to think of a Peace when such visible powerful advantages subserved to those wicked designes of inthralling King Parliament City and Kingdom now mainly prosecuted by the Adjutators but so lendly and unseasonably that Cromwel to palliate his secret impiety abandoned one of the Ringleaders one White to his Execution at Ware by a Sentence of a Council of War for mutinous speeches and Papers of the Levelling principle but suspected also to aim at himself among the Common Souldiers Neer the same time one Tompson of the same Crue was seized on in the Lobby of the House of Commons supposed to be ready with some Impeachment or Articles against him and condemned in the same manner by a Council of War They cryed out of the King as useless and had got a Stork of their own making ten times more dangerous who durst crush them to Ruine in the very rise of his Ambition These misdoings and no Government highly displeased and incensed the people who too late Sero sapiunt Phryges saw how they had fool'd themselves into slavery the resentments whereof became so publike and so fearlesly Voyced that the Parliament was constrained to humour it and to personate a serious study to an Accommodation Hereupon the same 24 day of December on which they had Voted Security for the Armies Arrears an ill Omen of what Kindness they had for the King whom they would not bate an ace of their demands their Commissioners present to the King at Carisbrook-Castle four Bills to be Passed as Acts of Parliament with divers other Proposals such or worse than those at Hampton-Court before any Treaty might be admitted The first was an Act with this Title Concerning the raising setling and maintaining Forces by Sea and by Land within the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and Dominion of Wales the Isles of Gernsey and Jersey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed whereby it was to be Declared That the Lords and Commons then Assembled in Parliament or whom they should appoint that was a Council of State of Pickt Grandees should for twenty years have the Militia in their disposal against the King His Heirs and Successors for that term and after that term the same Power to be exercised by the King but with the consent of the Parliament if they shall declare the safety of the Kingdom to be concerned and the Moneys raised for that purpose to be imployed by the same persons in the like manner Which was in effect to take away the Kings Negative Voyce from him and His Heirs for ever Besides it grants an unlimited Power to the two Houses to raise what Forces and of what persons they please and to raise money in what sort and as much and of whom as they shall think fit without any restriction or exception The second was An Act for Iustifying the Proceedings of Parliament in the late War and for Declaring all Oaths Declarations Proclamations and other proceedings against it to be Void whereby they were to b● declared to have stood upon the Defensive part their Conscience prickt them with their Blood-guiltiness and they would fain throw it off and by adding more Guilt to it load it upon the Innocent a wicked shift and be Indempnified still they are tormented for all their past

to that Tribunal he could find no Sanctuary being threatned instantly with death Upon report of this outrage the Earls of Traquair and Wigton came with their followers to his relief where with much ado they got entrance but found themselves in no better case than the Bishop the peoples rage being thereby the more increased The Lords and the Bishop being thus beset sent privately to the Lord Provost and Bailiffs of Edinburgh for relief who sent them word that they themselves were in the same condition if not worse if the Lords attempted not to appease the people who had forced them in their Council-House for fear of their lives to subscribe a Paper then instantly presented them which contained three particulars First that they should joyn with them in opposition to the Service-book and in petitioning to the King Secondly that by their Authority they should restore Mr. Ramsey and Mr. Rolloch two lately silenced Ministers Thirdly that they should restore one Mr. Henderson a silenced Reader which three persons were notable Ringleaders of the faction three most important grounds for so fearful a Commotion Thereupon the Lords resolved to go and confer with the Magistrates and either by their authority or perswasion to reduce the people to obedience and reason but all in vain for at their return re infecta to the Council-Table again they were set upon the Earl of Traquair being troden down losing his white Staff the Ensign of his Office of Treasurer with his Hat and Cloak and so with much ado got back again to the Council who seeing the impendent danger from the fury of the people were forced to apply themselves to some Noblemen who were of the faction by whose influence upon and respects from the people they with the aforesaid Bishops were conveyed to their respective dwellings but the Provost was pursued with threats rayling and danger unto the yard of his own house This Mornings storm being blown over another Proclamation was made against further unlawful Assemblies and meeting in the streets of that City under the most severe pains the Laws in those Cases had provided but so little regard was thereunto given that the next day they demanded of the Lords what they had demanded of their Magistrates and to that purpose two Petitions as well from the Rabble as also now from greater hands the chief Citizens Gentry and Nobility were presently tendred to the Lord Chancellour of that Kingdom which imported the whole substance of the present Commotion the English Service-book still bearing the burthen Withal in this last petition making their greivances swell adding their dislike of the book of Canons to their former distast of the Service-book so one demand ushered in another till they had nothing to ask but what they resolved to take the parallel of our troubles These petitions were afterwards sent up to the King who by a Proclamation resented the injuries and affronts done his Royal Authority by those attemps upon his chief Ministers and also declared his firm intentions to maintain the Protestant Religion commanding also all persons to forbear further meetings and petitions of this nature upon pain of treason But this Proclamation was encountred with a Protestation made by the Earls of Hume and Lindsey two great Covenanters who avowed therein the whole action with a resolution added to adhere to them to the last requiring also some of the Bishops to be removed from his Majesties Councel and such other more unreasonable expostulations which yet came short still of those that they made afterwards their number and power still increasing their peremptory and haughty designes upon the Government Soon after this sedition began to arm it self and assume another name they of the faction took the authority of the Kingdom to themselves erected four Tables as they called them of the four ranks of Noblemen Gentry Burgesses and Ministers out of all which was formed one general Table that was supreme This Table after some consultation and reports from the other resolved upon a Covenant to be taken throughout the Kingdom which for substance was the same with that Solemn League afterwards taken in England onely Bishops in express terms were not therein then abjured but implicitely no doubt included and more plainly their sitting in civil Judicatories The King was most highly incensed against this Usurpation of his Royal Authority especially at the obtruding this Covenant wherewith the greatest part of the Nation were already infected and others through compulsion and force scared into a compliance with it though with a great deal of stir and reluctancy Wherefore to obviate the imminent danger it threatned the King dispatcht away the Marquess of Hamilton as his Commissioner to that Kingdom to apply some present remedy to the distemper he being a person of great honour and influence on that Nation Before his arrival of which the Covenanters had timely notice they made the more hast to engage the people against any accommodation Nor did they with the usual respect entertain the Commissioner but after some few days stay after some overtures by him made on the Kings part towards them and his demands of them particularly their deserting and relinquishing their Covenant he received a slighting answer that they would descend to no particulars of their part till a general Assembly should be called But as for the Covenant they would sooner part with their lives than abate a syllable of it and resolved never to hear more against it And thereupon new guards were by them clapt upon Edinburgh Castle the Watches of the City multiplied and the Ministers began to convert all their Sermons into Libels warning the people to take heed of Crafty Compositions when they were resolved against any These difficulties caused the Commissioner to repair to London having first received order to publish the Kings Declaration against the supposed Popery and removed also the Term for the further satisfying of the City of Edinburgh back thither again which indeed was for a while magnified by the Citizens as an Act of favour but presently was undervalued as a trick to cajole them so instructed by those who grudged the King any esteem or love in the minds of his people The Kings Declaration bearing Date Iune 20. 1638. was soon after published which contained his dispensation of the service-Service-book and Canons with a promise of calling a general Assembly and Parliament with all convenient Expedition requiring his subjects to contain themselves in their duty and not further to hearken to any Rebellious suggestions As soon as the Herauld had proclaimed it the Covenanters were ready upon a Scaffold there erected with a Protestation against it having before possest the People that if this Declaration were hearkened unto it would bring undoubted ruine to their Religion Laws and Liberties which they publiquely read importing some new additions to their former demands and cavils at the