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A95888	Gods arke overtopping the worlds waves, or The third part of the Parliamentary chronicle. Containing a successive continuation and exact and faithful narration of all the most materiall parliamentary proceedings & memorable mercies wherewith God hath crowned this famous present Parliament and their armies in all the severall parts of the land; ... Collected and published for Gods high honour and the great encouragement of all that are zealous for God and lovers of their country. / By the most unworthy admirer of them, John Vicars.; God in the mount. Part 3	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing V309; Thomason E312_3; ESTC R200473	307,400	332

of them labouring and tugging like so many Galley-slaves of Satan in vain which is their greatest miserie ever glorified and praised be the free grace of God therein as now wee shall most lively delineat and set forth by Gods gracious assistance in this our third Voyage through this vaste and various Ocean And having now I say by the good hand of Gods gracious providence made two former voyages through this our English-Ocean and twice safely and I hope successfully arrived at the desired Haven and brought my vessell thither fully and fairly fraught with such mercifull Merchandizes as I hope may help my Christian brethren to trade withall for the enriching of their hearts and soules with copious expressions of bounden gratitude and infinitely obliged thankfulness to our almighty Jehovah-jireh our most glorious and gracious Elohim God All-sufficient for the highest improvement of his all-deserving praise and glorie which indeed is and ought to be the pious Alpha and Omega the originall and ultimate ayme and end of his free and gracious Giving and of our so undeserved receiving of such and so rich rare and manifold mercies and deliverances from the hands and hatred of our so raging and roaring enemies Now I ●ay I am resolved by Gods guide and my Readers accustomed candor and experienced patience to set sayl again into this our English Main-Ocean and to enter upon a third voyage therein Onely beseeching thee good Reader to assist me with thy holy prayers that our good God will graciously breath upon our sayles and give us a prosperous gale which may carry us on comfortably to the end of this Voyage and reduce us safely to our desired Haven And now therefore plainly and pertinently to begin and goe on in this our intended Parliamentarie-History But heer before I proceed to the narration of the ensuing Parliamentarie-mercies which immediately succeeded the most happie and holy entring into the League or Covenant with God and our Brethren of Scotland and Ireland for the prosecution of a pure and perfect Reformation in all the three Kingdomes with which Covenant wee closed and shut up our former Continuation or Second Part of this our Parliamentarie-Chronicle Give me leave now good Reader in the first place to premise and set down a few very memorable mercies pretermitted by too much haste to finish the former Part at the importunitie of the Stationer in our said Second Continuation wherein I was I say by the Stationers over-much haste to publish that second part enforced to omit many memorable passages or if not to omit yet to misplace many between the Moneths of June July August and September then next following my orderly Conclusion of that second part being about the midst of June renowned Sir William Waller being then victorious in the Western parts of the kingdome with his faithfull and courageous Achates Sir Arthur Haslerig as you may see clearly about page 380 381 82 c. Give me leave now I say in the first place to make a fuller supply of the deficiencies of those foresaid Moneths with divers memorable passages there omitted but yet which fell out in order and came to my knowledge before some of those last mentioned Parliamentarie Mercies wherewith I say I concluded that Second Part and which now I thought fit heer to make mention of rather than to suffer them to be raked up in the ashes of oblivion which briefly are these that follow The happy and blessed Assembly of Divines being Convened at Westminster for the rectifying and setling of things amiss in the Church both touching Doctrine and Discipline as hath been mentioned in the former Narrations of this our Parliamentarie Chronicle pag. 352. It pleased the Lord immediately after the setling of their said Convocation or Assembly namely July the 19th 1643 to put into the hearts of our said venerable Assembly among many other sacred and serious matters to exhibite a Petition to both Houses of Parliament which Petition coming to my hands I thought fit to give the godly Reader a sight and sense of the sweet and fragrant sent thereof together with both the Houses comfortable answer thereunto the happie and holesome effects whereof have since that time dropped and distilled like so many honey-dewes upon our Church already and is like to be more and more by Gods gracious assistance and blessing on their pious endeavours manifested among us in Gods due time as in their proper places we shall have occasion to make mention of as in good measure we have had former opportunities hereunto Which Petition I say for the excellencie and singular sweetness thereof and for the high honour of God and the heart-reviving comfort of his children yea and for the just and eternall credit of the pious Petitioners themselves I have heer I say thought fit to insert which was as followeth To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in PAR●IAMENT The humble Petition of divers Ministers of Christ in the Name of themselves and of divers others Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioners upon serious consideration and deep sense of Gods heavy wrath lying on us and hanging over our heads and the whole Nation and manifested particularly by the two la●e sad and unexpected defeates of our forces in the North and in the West doe apprehend it to be our dutie as Watchmen for the good of the Church and Kingdome to present to your religious and prudent Consideration these ensuing requests in the name of Jesus Christ your Lord and ours First That you would be pleased to command a publike and extraordinary day of humiliation this weeke throughout the Cities of London Westminster the Suburbs of both and places adjacent within the weekly bills of mortalitie that every one may bitterly bewaile his own sinnes and ●ny mightily to God for Christs sake to remove his wrath and to heal the Land with professed and renewed resolutions of more full performance of the late Covenant for the amendment of our wayes Secondly That you would vouchsafe instantly to tale into your more than ordinary serious Consideration how you may most speedily set up Christ more gloriously in all his Ordinances within this Kingdome and reform all things amiss throughout the Land wherein God is more immediately dishonoured Among which wee humbly lay before you these particulars First That the brutish ignorance and palpable darkness possessing the greatest part of the people in all places of the Kingdome wherby they are utterly unfit to wait upon God in any holy datie to the great disgrace of the Gospel and the everlasting endangering of their poore soules may be remedied by a speedy strict charge to all Ministers constantly to Catechize all the youth and ignorant people they being cammanded to be subject to it and all sorts to be present at it and information to be given of all persons who shall withstand or neglect it That the grievous and hainous pollution of the

before were a nominating fit persons to be presented to his Majestie to be entrusted with the places of strength within the Kingdome But for further observations upon this Commission and the probability of the truth thereof for works in tenebris must come to light by circumstances be pleased to read the Booke entituled The Mystery of Iniquitie where this Commission is at large set down and you will finde Endymion Porter had the great Seal of Scotland in his custody when the Commission to begin the Rebellion in Ireland was sealed as he had the great Seal of England in custody when the Commission to make a Cessation with those bloudy Rebells called by his Majestie Subjects was sealed But see now as was touched before how the most wise God graciously ordered the effects of all these most wicked plots to fall out exceeding contrary to the wicked hopes and aymes of the Jesuiticall incendiaries and Atheisticall projectors of them turning their counsell into folly and blasting these their high or rather hellish hopes even at the first springing and sprouting of them into execution witness I say that forementioned example thereof in the Irish Souldiers transported out of Ireland to Bristoll yea and that of one Arundell Master of Pendennis-Castle in the West who as it was credibly informed by Letters to London discharged two pieces of Ordnance against two ships fraughted with Irish-Rebells notwithstanding that they produced the Kings Warrant for their landing there and that he also sent a Poste to Oxford to know his Majesties pleasure signifying withall that if they landed the Gentrie of all those parts would forsake the King Witness also that remarkable piece of State-policie and providence whereunto our most prudent Parliamentary Worthies were now at last inevitably necessitated to have recourse by this most odious Cessation and divers other such like destructive designes of the Oxonian adversaries of the Kingdome I mean the establishment and setting on foot a New-broad Seal of England to be resident in the Parliament a piece of great and high concernment for the better advancing and forwarding of the future great and waightie affaires of the Kingdome A Copie of which Declaration and Ordinance of Parliament I have heer thought fit for the Readers better content and satisfaction to insert verbatim as it was printed and published by order of Parliament Novemb. 11. 1643. A Declaration and Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT Touching the Great Seal of England WHereas the Great Seal of England which by the Laws of this Realm ought to attend the Parliament being the Supreme Court of Justice and Judicature within this Realm for the dispatch of the great and weighty affaires of the Common-wealth which is especially interessed and concerned therein was above a yeer last past that is to say the two and twentieth day of May An. 1642. by the then Lord-Keeper thereof Edward Lord Littleton then a Member and Speaker of the House of Peers in Parliament contrary to the great trust in him reposed and duty of his place secretly and perfidiously conveyed away from the Parliament into the Kings Army raised against the Parliament the said Lord-Keeper departing therewith into the said Army without the leave or privity of the said House By means whereof great mischiefs and inconveniences have ensued to this Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ireland And whereas the said Great Seal ought constantly to remain in the hands and custody of one or more Officer or Officers sworn for that service and to be used and imployed for the weal and safety of His Majesties People which notwithstanding hath been divers times sithence the conveying away thereof as aforesaid put into the hands of other persons not sworn and Popishly and dangerously affected who have had the disposing and managing thereof at their own wills and pleasures and hath been trayterously and perniciously abused to the ruine and destruction of the Parliament and Kingdom by granting and issuing out divers illegall Commissions of Array and ●other unlawfull Commissions for raising of Forces against the Parliament by issuing out of most foul and scandalous Papers under the Name and Title of Proclamations against both Houses of Parliament and divers Members thereof and others adhering to them and proclaming them Traytors and Rebells Commissions of Oyer and Terminer to proceed against divers of them as Traytors and other Commissions to seize and confiscate their Estates for no other cause but for doing their duties and services to the Common-wealth as likewise by granting that horrid Commission for executing of that most bloudy and detestable designe of Waller Tomkins and others for the destruction of the Parliament and Citie of London and of the Army raised for their just defence and as if Massacres and Assasinations had been but light and veniall crimes another Commission hath been granted under the same Seale for a Cessation of Armes with the barbarous and bloudy Rebels in Ireland after the effusion of so much innocent bloud and slaughter of above one hundred thousand Protestants Men Women and Children by their mercilesse and bloudy hands whereupon a Cessation of Armes is accordingly concluded and those brutish Rebels thereby imboldned to prepare themselves not onely for a totall Extirpation of the Protestants remaining there but for a Conquest also of this Kingdome And further by granting of severall Commissions and Offices of Trust and Command to notorious Papists who by the Laws and Statutes of this R●alm are made uncapable thereof and by conferring of Honours and Dignities and granting of Lands and Estates to divers exorbitant Delinquents who stand legally impeached of high Treason and other high Crimes and misdemeanours in Parliament All which and many other unlawfull and enormous Acts have passed under the said Great Seale since the removall thereof from the Parliament as aforesaid Which the Lords and Commons taking into their consideration and finding all wayes and means obstructed for the procuring of any redresse from his Majestie in the Premisses notwithstanding their long hopes and uncessant Labours for the obtaining thereof are bound in duty and of necessitie to provide some speedy Remedy for these insupportable mischiefes BE it therefore Declared and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that as well all and every the said acts formerly mentioned which have passed under the said Great Seal as also all Letters Patents and Grants of any Lands Goods or Estates of any person or persons whatsoever for adhering to the Parliament all Compositions or Grants of any Wardships or Leases of any Wards Lands Liveries Primer seizins Ouster le maines since the said 22. of May 1642. which have not according to the due course of Law passed through the Court of Wards and Liveries established by Law All grants since the said 22. of May 1642. of any Honours Dignities Mannors Lands Hereditaments or other thing whatsoever to any person or persons which have voluntarily contributed or shall voluntarily contribute

some intention to walk in his accustomed way of plundring robbing and spoyling the Country about him Whereupon the truely noble and valiant Lord Gray of 〈◊〉 hearing of this partee of the Enemy drew out of Leicester with all expedition thirsting to give his old Antagonist battell supposing this gallant partee which Hastings had gathered together would have put some valour into him But as soon as the Lord Gr●y drew neer unto him he presently retreated to As●●by de la Zouch his old den and kennell of refuge to be there an onely spectator of the Lord Grey and Sir John Gells meeting who no sooner were joyned together but they fell upon Wilne-Ferry and Fort which had been Hastings chief trap to take the Carriers in their passage between D●rby and Leicester with such resolution and courage that after 3 dayes siege giving the Enemy continuall Alarms with notable thunder-claps of Cannon both their Forces drew up close to the Ferry and Fort and immediately with admirable brave gallantry they stormed it kill'd 8 or 9 men took the Governour prisoner with 2 Captains 3 Lieutenants 3 Ensignes with their 〈◊〉 and Colours 2 Drakes 80 Souldiers neer an 100 Gentlemen and others which came in to their assistance with all their Armes and brought them all into Leicester In all which businesse the Lord Grey lost but one man and some few hurt but thanks be to God not mortally As soon as this businesse was thus successefully finished my Lord presently slighted the Works pull'd down the Fort and burn'd the House in its own rubbish 〈…〉 to L●icester the Enemy never so much as attempting to 〈…〉 Charge Now during this time the prudent Lord Grey ever desirous to preserve his asso●iation hearing that a party of Newarke and Belvoir Horse was come up as farre as Melton Mowbray to plunder the Country in his absence he immediately sent Colonell Wa●t with a party of Horse to drive the Enemy out of the Country or fight with them which was accordingly done and the Country thereby in the interim safely protected And here now I cannot I may not passe over without a great 〈…〉 of impious ingratitude the happy remembrance of that most sweet and Solemn-day of Thankesgiving to the Lord our all-good-giving and forgiving God which was rarely and religiously celebrated on Thursday the 18th of this instant July 1644. for that late and most admirable yea even miraculous Victory which the Lord our God gave unto our forces under the command of those three most renowned Generalls in the North neer the City of York And yet which happy day our impious and heaven-out-daring Adversaries the wretched Royalists had laboured as was before mentioned at the end of the description of that famous victory to cloud and to take off the Edge of our thankfulnes by spreading abroad false rumours and presuming I say most audaciously to mock God by outward appearances of their pretended and false joy whereas they had no salvation wrought for them in the thing wherein they seemed to rejoyce and one main argument which our Malignant-Enemies used to discourage and discountenance us and if it could have been to have infused into us to believe that there was some truth in their outward flourishes that so I say they might have cast ashes upon our heads in the day of our triumph was because the City of Yorke was not yeilded to us which said they would not nay could not hold out if Prince Ro. had beene routed But our most wise and mercifull God would not suffer them hereby to rob him of his honour and therefore it is most worthy our observation that the newes of Yorkes being certainly surrendred unto the Parliaments forces arived at London the very thankesgiving-Thankesgiving-day before the time set a part for the duties of our Solemn-Thankesgiving Which now I say comes here next to be spoken of namely That on Thursday July the 18th 1644. The Lords and Commons of Parliament joyned together at Westminster in the cheerful solemnization of this day and every parish in and about London Assembling together both forenoone and afternoone to hear Sermons preached in their Churches and prayers and praises proclaimed to our so great and good God the Wonder-working God of this our Israel and in a speciall manner this was performed by the Right Honourable prudent and pious Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir John Wolaston together with the most worthy Aldermen and Sheriffs his Brethren as also all the Companies of the City of London in their Gownes and Liveries at Pauls-Church where after the morning Sermon was ended a volley of small shot was triumphantly discharged and two Ensignes or Colours were flourished and displayed on the toppe of Pauls-steeple which gave notice to the severall Forts in the fields and thereupon the Ordnance went off round about the City and after the afternoones Sermon great outward joy and thankesgiving was expressed both first in liberall summes of money collected in the Churches to refresh the loynes of the poore and afterward in ringing of Bells and making Bonefires in the streets that night yea and the neighbours and parishoners of divers parishes in London both Husbands and Wives supped altogether in extraordinary solemn-manner especially in the parish of Christs-Church in London where I my selfe was an unworthy part and present eye-witnesse of the same All or the greatest part of the said whole parish both men and women especially of the best sort and quality Knights Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen yea all well-affected persons of fashion and ability assembled together in the great Hall of Christs-Hospitall to the number of about 200 men and their wives who being all very gravely and cheerfully met together and supper made ready their reverend pious and painfull Pastor Mr. Jenkins who indeed was the first mover of this so solemn meeting an act worthy a godly Divine indeed he I say began A Psalme of David as sweet heavenly musicke which all the Company sang together whiles the dishes of meat were brought in and set on the tables Then a blessing on the creatures craved and supper ended the said reverend Pastor as hee piously began so hee religiously concluded with thankesgiving and another Psalme sung by them all at their tables ere they rose all done in a most grave and reverend manner And here also I desire the godly Reader to take notice of one remarkable passage of Gods providence about this worke which happily pre●eded this solemn-meeting in the foresaid place viz That upon the Wednesday the very immediate day before this meeting it pleased the Lord so to order and dispose it That that most worthy and most deservedly ever to be honoured religious and zealous Nehemiah of our dayes Sir Robert Harlow Knight of the Bathe came himselfe to the said Hospitall and caused by the power and authority of Parliament most happily invested on him a mighty great and most