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The historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seuenth VVritten by the Right Hon: Francis Lo: Virulam, Viscount S. Alban. Whereunto is now added a very vsefull and necessary table.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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1629
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true Degree as it was and saw plainly that his Kingdome must againe be put to the Stake and that he must fight for it And first he did conceiue before he vnderstood of the Earle of Lincolnes sayling into Ireland out of Flanders that he should be assailed both vpon the East-parts of the Kingdome of England by some impression from Flanders and vpon the North-west out of Ireland And therefore hauing ordered Musters to be made in both Parts and hauing prouisionally designed two Generals IASPER Earle of Bedford and IOHN Earle of Oxford meaning himselfe also to goe in person where the Affaires should most require it and neuerthelesse not expecting any actuall Inuasion at that time the Winter being farre on he tooke his iourney himselfe towards Suffolke and Northfolke for the confirming of those parts And being come to S. Edmonds-bury hee vnderstood that THOMAS Marquesse Dorset who had beene one of the Pledges in France was hasting towards him to purge himselfe of some Accusations which had beene made against him But the King though hee kept an Eare for him yet was the time so doubtfull that hee sent the Earle of Oxford to meet him and forth with to carry him to the Tower with a faire Message neuerthelesse that hee should beare that disgrace with patience for that the King meant not his hurt but onely to preserue him from doing hurt either to the Kings seruice or to himselfe and that the King should alwayes be able when hee had cleared himselfe to make him reparation From S. Edmonds-bury he went to Norwich where he kept his Christmas And from thence he went in a manner of Pilgrimage to Walsingham where hee visited our Ladies Church famous for miracles and made his Prayers and Vowes for helpe and deliuerance And from thence he returned by Cambridge to London Not long after the Rebels with their King vnder the Leading of the Earle of Lincolne the Earle of Kildare the Lord LOVEL and Colonell SWART landed at Fouldrey in Lancashire whither there repaired to them Sir THOMAS BROVGHTON with some small companie of English The King by that time knowing now the Storme would not diuide but fall in one place had leuied Forces in good number And in person taking with him his two designed Generals the Duke of Bedford and the Earle of Oxford was come on his way towards them as farre as Couentry whence he sent forth a troupe of Light-Horsemen for discouerie and to intercept some straglers of the Enemies by whom he might the better vnderstand the particulars of their Progresse and purposes which was accordingly done though the King otherwise was not without intelligence from Espials in the Campe. The Rebels tooke their way towards Yorke without spoyling the Countrie or any act of Hostilitie the better to put themselues into fauour of the people and to personate their King who no doubt out of a princely feeling was sparing and compassionate towards his Subiects But their Snow-ball did not gather as it went For the people came not in to them Neither did any rise or declare themselues in other parts of the Kingdome for them which was caused partly by the good taste that the King had giuen his People of his Gouernement ioyned with the reputation of his Felicitie and partly for that it was an odious thing to the people of England to haue a King brought in to them vpon the shoulders of Irish and Dutch of which their Armie was in substance compounded Neither was it a thing done with any great iudgement on the Party of the Rebels for them to take their way towards Yorke Considering that howsoeuer those parts had formerly beene a Nurserie of their friends yet it was there where the Lord LOVEL had so lately disbanded and where the Kings presence had a little before qualified discontents The Earle of Lincolne deceiued of his hopes of the Countries concourse vnto him in which case he would haue temporized and seeing the businesse past Retract resolued to make on where the King was and to giue him battaile and therupon marched towards Newarke thinking to haue surprized the Towne But the King was somewhat before this time come to Nottingham where he called a Councell of Warre at which was consulted whether it were best to protract time or speedily to set vpon the Rebels In which Councell the King himselfe whose continuall vigilancie did sucke in sometimes causelesse suspitions which few else knew inclined to the accelerating a Battaile But this was presently put out of doubt by the great aides that came in to him in the instant of this Consultation partly vpon Missiues and partly Voluntaries from many parts of the Kingdome The principall persons that came then to the Kings aide were the Earle of Shrewesburie and the Lord STRANGE of the Nobilitie and of Knights and Gentlemen to the number of at least threescore and tenne persons with their Companies making in the whole at the least six thousand fighting men besides the Forces that were with the King before Wherupon the King finding his Armie so brauely re-enforced and a great alacritie in all his men to fight was confirmed in his former resolution and marched speedily so as hee put himselfe betweene the Enemies Campe and Newarke being loth their Armie should get the commoditie of that Towne The Earle nothing dismayed came forwards that day vnto a little Village called Stoke and there encamped that night vpon the Brow or hanging of a hill The King the next day presented him Battaile vpon the Plaine the fields there being open and champion The Earle couragiously came downe and ioyned Battaile with him Concerning which Battaile the relations that are left vnto vs are so naked and negligent though it be an action of so recent memorie as they rather declare the Successe of the day then the Manner of the fight They say that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes whereof the vant-guard onely well strengthened with wings came to fight That the Fight was fierce and obstinate and lasted three houres before the victorie inclined either way saue that Iudgement might be made by that the Kings Vant-guard of it selfe maintained fight against the whole Power of the Enemies the other two Battailes remaining out of action what the successe was like to bee in the end That MARTIN SWART with his Germanes performed brauely and so did those few English that were on that side neither did the Irish faile in courage or fiercenesse but being almost naked men only armed with Darts and Skeines it was rather an Execution then a fight vpon them insomuch as the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appalement to the rest That there died vpon the place all the Chiefetaines That is the Earle of Lincolne the Earle of Kildare FRANCIS Lord LOVEL MARTIN SWART and Sir THOMAS BROVGHTON all making good the fight without any ground giuen Onely of the Lord LOVEL there went a report that he fled and swam ouer Trent on
with this course For that Insurrections of base People are commonly more furious in their Beginnings And by this meanes also hee had them the more at Vantage beeing tyred and harrassed with a long march and more at Mercie being cut off farre from their Countrey and therefore not able by any sudden flight to get to Retrait and to renew the Troubles When therefore the Rebels were encamped on Blacke-Heath vpon the Hill whence they might behold the Citie of London and the faire Valley about it the King knowing well that it stood him vpon by how much the more hee had hitherto protracted the time in not encountring them by so much the sooner to dispatch with them that it might appeare to haue beene no Coldnesse in foreslowing but Wisedome in choosing his time resolued with all speede to assayle them and yet with that Prouidence and Suretie as should leaue little to Venture or Fortune And hauing very great and puissant Forces about him the better to master all Euents and Accidents hee diuided them into three parts The first was ledde by the Earle of Oxford in chiefe assisted by the Earles of Essex and Suffolke These Noblemen were appointed with some Cornets of Horse and Bands of Foot and good store of Artillerie wheeling about to put themselues beyond the Hill where the Rebels were encamped and to beset all the Skirts and Descents thereof except those that lay towards London whereby to haue these Wilde Beasts as it were in a Toyle The second part of his Forces which were those that were to bee most in Action and vpon which hee relyed most for the Fortune of the Day hee did assigne to bee ledde by the Lord Chamberlaine who was appointed to set vpon the Rebels in Front from that side which is toward London The third part of his Forces beeing likewise great and braue Forces hee retained about himselfe to bee ready vpon all Euents to restore the Fight or consummate the Victorie and meane while to secure the Citie And for that purpose hee encamped in Person in Saint GEORGES Fields putting himselfe betweene the Citie and the Rebels But the Citie of London specially at the first vpon the neare encamping of the Rebels was in great Tumult As it vseth to bee with wealthy and populous Cities especially those which for greatnesse and fortune are Queenes of their Regions who seldome see out of their Windowes or from their Towers an Armie of enemies But that which troubled them most was the conceit that they dealt with a Rout of People with whom there was no Composition or Condition or orderly Treating if neede were but likely to bee bent altogether vpon Rapine and Spoyle And although they had heard that the Rebels had behaued themselues quietly and modestly by the way as they went yet they doubted much That would not last but rather make them more hungry and more in appetite to fall vpon spoyle in the end Wherefore there was great running to and fro of People some to the Gates some to the Walles some to the Water-side giuing themselues Alarmes and Panick feares continually Neuerthelesse both TATE the Lord Maior and SHAW and HADDON the Sheriffs did their parts stoutly and well in arming and ordering the People And the King likewise did adioyne some Captaines of experience in the Wartes to aduise and assist the Citizens But soone after when they vnderstood that the King had so ordered the matter that the Rebels must winne three Battells before they could approach the Citie and that hee had put his own Person betweene the Rebels and them and that the great care was rather how to impound the Rebels that none of them might escape than that any doubt was made to vanquish them they grew to bee quiet and out of feare The rather for the confidence they reposed which was not small in the three Leaders OXFORD ESSEX and DAWBENEY All men famed and loued amongst the People As for IASPER Duke of Bedford whom the King vsed to employ with the first in his Wars he was then sicke and dyed soone after It was the two and twentieth of Iune and a Saturday which was the Day of the weeke the King fansied when the Battaile was fought though the King had by all the Art hee could deuise giuen out a false Day as if hee prepared to giue the Rebells Battaile on the Monday following the better to find them vnprouided and in disarray The Lords that were appointed to circle the Hill had some daies before planted themselues as at the Receipt in places conuenient In the afternoone towards the decline of the day which was done the better to keepe the Rebells in opinion that they should not fight that day the Lord DAWBENEY marched on towards them and first beat some Troups of them from Detford-bridge where they fought manfully But beeing in no great number were soone driuen backe and fled vp to their maine Armie vpon the Hill The Armie at that time hearing of the approach of the Kings Forces were putting themselues in Array not without much Confusion But neither had they placed vpon the first high-ground towards the Bridge any Forces to second the Troupes below that kept the Bridge neither had they brought forwards their Maine Battaile which stood in array farre into the Heath neare to the ascent of the Hill So that the Earle with his Forces mounted the Hill and recouered the Plaine without resistance The Lord DAWBENEY charged them with great furie Insomuch as it had like by accident to haue brandled the Fortune of the Day For by inconsiderate Forwardnesse in fighting in the head of his Troupes he was taken by the Rebells but immediately rescued and deliuered The Rebells maintained the Fight for a small time and for their Persons shewed no want of courage but beeing ill armed and ill led and without Horse or Artillerie they were with no great difficultie cut in peeces and put to flight And for their three Leaders the Lord AVDLEY the Black-smith and FLAMMOCKE as commonly the Captaines of Commotions are but halfe-couraged Men suffered themselues to bee taken aliue The number slaine on the Rebells part were some two thousand Men their Armie amounting as it is said vnto the number of sixteene thousand The rest were in effect all taken for that the Hill as was said was encompassed with the Kings Forces round about On the Kings part there dyed about three hundred most of them shot with Arrowes which were reported to bee of the length of a Taylors yard So strong and mighty a Bow the Cornish-men were said to draw The Victorie thus obtained the King created diuers Bannerets as well vpon Black-heath where his Lieutenant had wonne the Fielde whither hee rode in Person to performe the said Creation as in Saint GEORGES Fieldes where his owne Person had bin encamped And for matter of Liberalitie he did by open Edict giue the goods of all the Prisoners vnto those that had taken them either to take them